Archives: Speakers

Laura Dark
Laura Dark
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Laura plays a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and strategic alignment across Microsoft’s leadership teams. As a trusted advisor and chief-of-staff partner, she ensures priorities are executed flawlessly—managing budgets, streamlining processes, and enabling leaders to focus on high-impact decisions. Her ability to connect strategy with execution makes her an invaluable force behind Microsoft’s most… READ MORE

Edward Willis
Edward Willis
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Analytics and Insight leader – turning data and insight into strategy and action. Passionate about leading and delivering customer and client focused data strategies that drive business value. A track record of leading B2B and B2C marketing, analytics and insight projects. Strong communicator and leader with a commercial focus and an ability to use data… READ MORE

Jeevantika Lingalwar
Jeevantika Lingalwar
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Jeevantika Lingalwar is the Head of AI Business Applications at HCS, where she leads strategic AI initiatives that drive innovation and business transformation. A former Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft, she has helped organizations across Ireland unlock the full potential of Microsoft technologies. Jeevantika is a TEDx speaker, Microsoft Certified Trainer, mentor, founder, podcast host,… READ MORE

Benjamin Niaulin
Benjamin Niaulin
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Benjamin Niaulin is VP of Product at ShareGate, the go-to solution for Microsoft 365 migration and governance. ShareGate empowers IT teams with powerful tools that enable end users to excel in their work. Focused on solving complex productivity challenges, Benjamin’s team creates software experiences informed by insights from millions of users worldwide, driving smarter, data-based… READ MORE

Joel Frauenheim
Joel Frauenheim
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Joel Frauenheim is a Principal Software Architect on Microsoft’s Windows Servicing and Delivery team. His work focuses on the infrastructure that keeps Windows secure and reliable at global scale—update servicing, hotpatching, and build automation. He collaborates with engineering and customer teams to shorten build times, strengthen quality signals, and simplify release readiness. At the European… READ MORE

Patrick Eustace
Patrick Eustace
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A senior product leader with over 15 years industry knowledge, Patrick has extensive experience across Product Management, Sales & Market Acceleration, Engineering, Strategic Partnerships, & Go-to-Market initiatives. Patrick has held strategic roles within global teams as Product Manager and Strategy Lead for multiple Collaboration products. Passionate about the customer experience & end to end customer… READ MORE

Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones
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Jonathan is a Customer Experience Program Manager on the Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy team within the Collaborative Applications and Platform Group at Microsoft, where he leads content and engagement at scale across global communities. Previously, Jonathan was part of Microsoft’s Creative Events Experiential team, driving corporate event planning and building large-scale, repeatable community experiences—from Connection… READ MORE

Jeff McDowell
Jeff McDowell
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Jeff McDowell is a Principal PM Manager who has been with Microsoft for 17+ years, working with Microsoft 365 Copilot & Agents Security & Governance, App Insights and Governance, and Enterprise Lifecycle solutions such as M365 Multi-Geo and Mergers & Acquisitions. His team drives platform work across SharePoint’s Authentication, Directory, Tenant Provisioning, and Compliance. 

Duane Bolick
Duane Bolick
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I lead the OneDrive and SharePoint Online Authorization team at Microsoft. The team and I are responsible for the identity and authorization model for the service and we deliver compliance solutions like M365 Information Barriers. I’ve spent over 15 years with SharePoint, and I’m passionate about creating clear, expressive, and powerful access control solutions that… READ MORE