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1,500 DELEGATES.


Monday 14 November

09:00 - 17:00

Monday 14th Nov: Conference Programme

A

Dev

Office 365 Developers Patterns & Practices in Real Business Solutions

Level 300

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

B

IT Pro

Building the Perfect Hybrid SharePoint Farm; Infrastructure Best Practices Workshop

Level 300

 

Michael Noel, MVP, Convergent Computing, USA  

 

C

Dev

It’s PowerShell that Does It. Everywhere

Level 200

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden  

 

D

IT Pro

Heirlooms and Hybrid SharePoint - Governance and Design Practices for Business Scenarios

Level 200

Cloud

 

Michelle Caldwell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Avanade, USA Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

E

Dev

Lean-Agile Development with SharePoint and Office 365 - A One-day Sprint!

Level 300

 

Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

F

Dev / IT Pro

Modern SharePoint Development using SharePoint Framework, Webhooks, and Beyond

Level 300

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA Eric Overfield, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, Creospark, USA Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

G

IT Pro

From the Ground to the Cloud with SharePoint & Business Intelligence

Level 300

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

H

Business

10 Steps to be Successful with Enterprise Search

Level 200

 

Agnes Molnar, Microsoft RD, MVP, Search Explained, Netherlands  

 

PA

Dev

PowerApps and Microsoft Flow

Level 200

 

Jade Naaman, Microsoft, USA David Nissimoff, Microsoft, USA  

 



Tuesday 15 November

09:00 - 09:15

Conference Introduction by Programme Team

09:15 - 11:15

KEYNOTE: ESPC16 Keynote 1: The Future of SharePoint is Now, Reinventing Content Collaboration

 

Dan Holme, Microsoft, USA Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

11:15 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Tuesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

T1

Business

Start Managing and Governing your Projects TODAY with Project Online

Level 200

Project Server

 

Ben Howard, MVP, Applepark Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

T2

IT Pro

A Deep Dive into SharePoint 2016 Architecture and Deployment

Level 300

Architecture

 

Jussi Roine, MVP, Not Bad Security, Finland  

 

T3

Dev

Welcome to the Brave New World of SharePoint and Office 365 Development

Level 200

Add-in

 

Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

T4

Dev

From SharePoint to Office 365 Development: The Path to your New Playground

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Sébastien Levert, MVP, Valo Intranet, Canada  

 

T5

Dev

Integrating SharePoint with Dynamics CRM

Level 400

CRM

 

Melanie Culver, International Organisation, Austria Wolfgang Weidmann, ORBIS Austria GmbH, Austria  

 

T6

Business

A German Cloud – Microsoft & German Telekom Better Together?!

Level 200

Azure

 

Nicki Borell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Experts Inside, Germany  

 

T7

IT Pro

SharePoint 2016 Unbreakable with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

Level 300

SharePoint

 

Serge Luca, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium Isabelle Van Campenhoudt, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium  

 

T8

IT Pro

SharePoint 2016 User Profile Synchronisation with Microsoft Identity Manager 2016

Level 300

User Management

 

Markus Hintner, MCM, ENTOS IT-Solutions, Austria  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo

14:00 - 15:00

Tuesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

T9

IT Pro

Discover what's New and what's Coming for Office Delve

Level 200

Delve

 

Aaron Rimmer, Microsoft, USA  

 

T10

IT Pro

Data Efficiency Using PowerApps

Level 200

Power Apps

 

Alan Richards, MVP, Cloud Jigsaw, United Kingdom  

 

T11

Dev

Azure Active Directory for Developers from A to Z

Level 400

Azure

 

Stephane Eyskens, MVP, silver-it.com, Belgium  

 

T12

Dev

PowerApps, the Developer Story: Build an API to Integrate Corporate Data

Level 300

Power Apps

 

Bram de Jager, MVP, MCM, Advice Matters, Netherlands  

 

T13

Business

SharePoint 2016 Records Management - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Level 200

Compliance

 

Ben Henderson, RecordPoint, Canada Anthony Woodward, RecordPoint, Canada  

 

T14

Business

SharePoint and Dynamics CRM: A Match Made in Heaven?

Level 200

CRM

 

Peter Baddeley, ProvisionPoint, United Kingdom  

 

T15

IT Pro

Practical Guide for SharePoint Online Migrations - Assess, Prepare, Migrate, Validate

Level 300

Migration

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands  

 

T16

Business

Decision Time: Choose your Workflow & Forms Platform Wisely

Level 200

Workflow and Document Management

 

Michal Rykiert, WEBCON, Poland  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Tuesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

T17

Dev

Discover the Future of SharePoint Development

Level 200

SharePoint Development

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA  

 

T18

IT Pro

MinRole - Simplifying Deployment

Level 300

Deployment

 

Shannon Koh, Microsoft, China Sanjoyan Mustafi, Microsoft, China  

 

T19

Dev

One Endpoint to Rule Them All – Microsoft Graph

Level 300

Microsoft Graph

 

Simon Jäger, Microsoft, Sweden  

 

T20

Dev

Release Management Using Continuous Deploy with VSTS and Office Dev PnP

Level 300

ALM

 

Petter Skodvin-Hvammen, Puzzlepart, Norway  

 

T21

IT Pro

Discover Enterprise Content Management (ECM) powered by SharePoint

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

T22

Business

What's New in SharePoint 2016 for Business Users

Level 100

Collaboration

 

Vlad Catrinescu, MVP, MCT, Syskit, Canada  

 

T23

Dev

Take your Display Template Skills to the Next Level

Level 300

Search and Discovery

 

Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium  

 

T24

Business / IT Pro

No Expertise Required: How Kapsch Drives Business Value with SharePoint

Level 100

SharePoint

 

Paul Olenick, MVP, AvePoint, USA Leeroy Chaplin, Kapsch Group Beteiligungs GmbH, Austria  

 

16:15 - 16:45

Afternoon Break - Visit the Expo

16:45 - 17:45

Tuesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

T25

IT Pro

Explore OneDrive for Business Key Features and Roadmap

Level 200

OneDrive

 

Aaron Rimmer, Microsoft, USA  

 

T26

IT Pro

Office365 User Admin with PowerShell

Level 400

Administration

 

Thorbjørn Værp, Point Taken, Norway  

 

T27

Dev

Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications for SharePoint

Level 300

Add-in

 

Daniel Wyss, skybow AG, Switzerland  

 

T28

Dev

Coded UI Test Automation of SharePoint Applications with Microsoft Edge WebDriver

Level 400

Testing Automation

 

Stefano Tempesta, EF Education First, Switzerland  

 

T29

Business

The Workplace As A Strategic Asset: Building The Digital Workplace

Level 300

Collaboration

 

Symon Garfield, Microsoft, UK  

 

T30

Business

Governing Business Processes

Level 200

ECM

 

Mike Fitzmaurice, WEBCON, USA Gonzalo Marcos, Nintex, Spain  

 

T31

IT Pro

Data Loss Prevention in Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Level 200

Compliance

 

Jethro Seghers, Microsoft, USA  

 

T32

IT Pro

Take Back your Time with Microsoft Office MyAnalytics

Level 200

MyAnalytics

 

Nick Robinson, Microsoft, USA  

 

17:45 -

Expo Drinks - Networking



Wednesday 16 November

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: ESPC16 Keynote 2: Where Form Meets Function: Understanding Collaboration’s Cultural Fit

 

Christian Buckley, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, Rencore, USA Benjamin Niaulin, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, GSoft, Canada  

 

10:15 - 11:15

Wednesday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

W1

IT Pro

Explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and Beyond

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

W2

Dev

Understanding the Azure AD Authentication Library for Office 365 Development

Level 300

Office 365 API

 

Radi Atanassov, MCM, MVP, OneBit Software, Bulgaria  

 

W3

Dev

Developing Modular SharePoint Solutions using TypeScript

Level 300

Client Side Development

 

Arto Kaitosaari, Affecto Finland Oy, Finland  

 

W4

IT Pro

Next Generation Sync Client : 1 Year After First Release

Level 300

OneDrive

 

Hans Brender, MVP, HBsoft, Germany  

 

W5

IT Pro

Understanding Office 365 Authentication and Federation

Level 300

Architecture

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

W6

Business

Office 365 and Internet of Things

Level 200

Internet of Things

 

Michael Greth, MVP, SharePointCommunity.de, Germany  

 

W7

Business / End User

What Project Management Strategy is Right for You?

Level 200

Project Management

 

Erica Toelle, MVP, Erica Toelle, LLC, USA  

 

W8

IT Pro

Building Intelligent Apps Using Microsoft Graph

Level 200

Microsoft Graph

 

Roy Sheinfeld, harmon.ie, Israel  

 

11:15 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Wednesday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

W9

IT Pro

Keep your OneDrive and SharePoint Content Safe

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

W10

Dev

Office 365 Microsoft Graph API Deep Dive

Level 300

Microsoft Graph

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands  

 

W11

IT Pro

A Deep Dive to Performance Optimisation for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

Level 300

Optimisation

 

Gokan Ozcifci, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, Valo Intranet, Belgium  

 

W12

IT Pro

Mobile Apps and Services for the Digital Workspace

Level 200

Mobility

 

Patrick Hosch, Nintex, Austria  

 

W13

IT Pro

The New SharePoint Server 2016 for IT Pros

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Samuel Zuercher, MVP, Experts Inside GmbH, Switzerland  

 

W14

Business

Understanding Delve & the Office Graph

Level 200

Search and Discovery

 

Paul Olenick, MVP, AvePoint, USA  

 

W15

Business

How to Break the Zombification of the Enterprise!

Level 100

Enterprise Social

 

Jussi Mori, MVP, Peaches Industries, Switzerland Christian Buckley, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, Rencore, USA  

 

W16

Business

Go Fully Digital and Accelerate your Business Processes with Electronic Signature

Level 100

Business Productivity

 

Charlie Weijer, DocuSign, Ireland  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo / Women in Technology Lunch – Make Moments That Matter: The Impact of Embracing What Moves You

14:00 - 15:00

Wednesday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

W17

Dev

Introducing the Office 365 Dev PnP Partner Pack

Level 300

PnP

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

W18

Dev

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Building Office Add-ins

Level 200

Office 365 API

 

Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

W19

Dev

Extending the SharePoint Search Experience with SharePoint Add-ins

Level 200

Add-in

 

Robrecht Van Caenegem, U2U, Belgium  

 

W20

IT Pro

When Your Tower of Babel Reaches the Cloud: Languages and Office 365

Level 200

Architecture

 

Martin Laplante, PointFire, Canada  

 

W21

IT Pro

Designing your SharePoint 2016 Platform with MinRole

Level 300

Architecture

 

Gokan Ozcifci, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, Valo Intranet, Belgium  

 

W22

Business

OneDrive, TwoDrive, White Drive, Blue Drive

Level 100

OneDrive

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

W23

Business

Office 365 Groups Deep Dive

Level 300

Collaboration

 

Maarten Eekels, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Rapid Circle, Netherlands  

 

W24

Business

Unlocking the Power of your Business Processes with Nintex

Level 200

BI

 

Patrick Hosch, Nintex, Austria Alexandre Joly, Nintex, France  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Wednesday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

W25

Dev

Explore the SharePoint Framework

Level 200

SharePoint Development

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA  

 

W26

Dev

Office Command Add-ins - New generation of Add-ins

Level 200

Office Development

 

Dragan Panjkov, MVP, K2, Germany  

 

W27

Dev

How do you Build a Modern Portal on Office 365?

Level 200

Portals

 

Elaine Van Bergen, MCM, Microsoft, Australia  

 

W28

IT Pro

Lotus Notes Transition to Office 365

Level 200

Migration

 

Thuan Nguyen, MVP, FPT Software, Japan  

 

W29

IT Pro

How to Provision Artifacts to SharePoint Online without being a Developer

Level 200

PnP

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden  

 

W30

Business

Why Enterprises Should use MS Access

Level 200

Business Productivity

 

Carlo van der Zon, Access IT, Netherlands Martin Veen, Rotterdam Harbour Holding, Netherlands  

 

W31

IT Pro

Information Policy Options in SharePoint

Level 200

Compliance

 

Ashish Ranjan, Microsoft, Sweden  

 

W32

IT Pro

Make your Apps Intelligent by Using the Office Graph

Level 200

Office Graph

 

Maximo Castagno, Beezy, Spain Christian Ruiz, Beezy, Spain  

 

16:15 - 16:45

Afternoon Break - Visit the Expo

16:45 - 17:45

Wednesday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

W33

IT Pro

Build business apps for Office 365 - InfoPath, PowerApps, Flow and more

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

W34

Dev

Workflow: What You Might Be Doing Wrong and What To Do Instead

Level 200

Workflow and Document Management

 

Mike Fitzmaurice, WEBCON, USA  

 

W35

Dev

Beyond Bootstrap: Building a Ridiculously Lightweight Cross-platform Responsive Framework

Level 300

Client Side Development

 

Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

W36

IT Pro

Use Delve to Drive Collaboration in Modern Workplace

Level 200

Collaboration

 

Adeel Ahmed, Microsoft, Norway Usman Afzal, Microsoft, Sweden  

 

W37

IT Pro

Plan to Migrate to SharePoint Online

Level 300

Migration

 

Erica Toelle, MVP, Erica Toelle, LLC, USA  

 

W38

Business

Resource Engagements – Resource Managers and Project Managers Working Together

Level 100

Project Server

 

Barbara Henhapl, MVP, Austria  

 

W39

Business

Impact of Weather on English Premier League Matches – Power BI Analysis

Level 200

Data Insight

 

Ásgeir Gunnarsson, MVP, North Insights ApS, Denmark  

 

W40

IT Pro

SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid Configuration from A to Z

Level 200

Hybrid

 

Nicolas Georgeault, MVP, MuBrain Inc., Canada  

 

17:45 -

Conference Day Ends



Thursday 17 November

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: ESPC16 Keynote 3: What is the Future of SharePoint Customisations?

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

10:15 - 11:15

Thursday 17th Nov: Conference Programme

Th1

MCM/MVP Panel Session - Transitions – How to Adapt to Changing Requirements

 

Benjamin Niaulin, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, GSoft, Canada Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom Elaine Van Bergen, MCM, Microsoft, Australia Michelle Caldwell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Avanade, USA Nicki Borell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Experts Inside, Germany Symon Garfield, Microsoft, UK  

 

Th2

Dev

Remote Provisioning Sites in a Templated Way

Level 300

PnP

 

Robert Schouten, MVP, Wortell, Netherlands  

 

Th3

Dev

Extending Office Add-ins with Azure Container Service

Level 300

Office 365 API

 

Rick Van Rousselt, MVP, Advantive, Belgium  

 

Th4

IT Pro

SharePoint Online & Azure - Better Together

Level 300

User Management

 

Nuno Oliveira Costa, Microsoft, Portugal João Oliveira, Microsoft, Portugal  

 

Th5

IT Pro

Prepare for SharePoint 2016 - IT Pro Best Practices for Managing Your SharePoint

Level 300

SharePoint 2016

 

Toni Frankola, MVP, SysKit Ltd., Croatia  

 

Th6

IT Pro

What’s New for Business Intelligence in SharePoint and SQL Server 2016

Level 300

Data Insight

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

Th7

Business

The Network Science Behind 'Working Like a Network'

Level 100

Enterprise Social

 

Christian Buckley, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, Rencore, USA  

 

Th8

Business

How Real-life Experience Shapes your SharePoint’s Today and Tomorrow

Level 200

Workflow and Document Management

 

Lukasz Wrobel, WEBCON, Poland  

 

11:15 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Thursday 17th Nov: Conference Programme

Th9

IT Pro

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Hybrid SharePoint Apps with K2

Level 200

Add-in

 

Moises Tavira, K2, United Kingdom  

 

Th10

Dev

Why you should NOT use feature Framework in your Customisations? – What are the options?

Level 300

Customisations

 

Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

Th11

Dev

Building Office 365 Apps with AngularJS and TypeScript

Level 300

Client Side Development

 

Radi Atanassov, MCM, MVP, OneBit Software, Bulgaria  

 

Th12

Business

Accelerate SharePoint Success: How to Best Plan, Manage and Control Migration Projects

Level 200

Migration

 

Dux Raymond Sy, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, AvePoint, USA  

 

Th13

IT Pro

Delve and the Office Graph for IT-Pros & Admins

Level 200

Search and Discovery

 

Nicki Borell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Experts Inside, Germany  

 

Th14

IT Pro

Evolving Information Protection in SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business

Level 200

Compliance

 

Shoshanna Budzianowski, Microsoft, China  

 

Th15

Business

How Microsoft Sees the Intranet of the Future with SharePoint and O365

Level 200

Portals

 

Thomas Göelles, MVP, Solvion Information Management, Austria  

 

Th16

Dev

Introducing the New SharePoint PnP Templates Gallery

Level 200

PnP

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo

14:00 - 15:00

Thursday 17th Nov: Conference Programme

Th17

Dev

Office 365 Planner Deep Dive

Level 300

Office 365 API

 

André Vala, MVP, Everis Portugal, Portugal  

 

Th18

Dev

Transform Your Full-Trust Solutions to the Add-In Model

Level 300

Add-in

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden Matthias Einig, MVP, Rencore, Germany  

 

Th19

Dev

Getting Started with Office 365 Groups and Tasks API

Level 200

Office 365 API

 

Dragan Panjkov, MVP, K2, Germany  

 

Th20

IT Pro

Migration to SharePoint Online Using the PowerShell "MigrationPackage“

Level 300

Migration

 

Dennis Hobmaier, Insight Technology Solutions GmbH, Austria  

 

Th21

Dev

ESPC16 Hackathon Results

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th23

Business

Deliver Cloud Success: Drive Business Value with Winning Data Governance and Compliance Strategies

Level 200

Compliance

 

Dux Raymond Sy, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, AvePoint, USA  

 

Th24

Business

What is Sway and How it will Change the Publication Process Forever?

Level 200

ECM

 

Nicolas Georgeault, MVP, MuBrain Inc., Canada  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Thursday 17th Nov: Conference Programme

Th25

Dev / IT Pro

DevOps with PowerShell for Office 365 and SharePoint Online, Real World Scenarios

Level 300

Business Productivity

 

Gilles Pommier, MVP, Freelance, France  

 

Th27

Dev

Build Your First SharePoint Framework Webpart

Level 300

SharePoint

 

Eric Overfield, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, Creospark, USA  

 

Th29

IT Pro

Connecting to External Data with SharePoint On-Premises and Office 365 with BCS

Level 200

Business Connectivity Services

 

Brett Lonsdale, Lightning Tools, UK  

 

Th30

IT Pro

SharePoint 2016 Hybrid Search: “One Search to Rule Them All”

Level 300

Search and Discovery

 

Francesco Sodano, MCM, Novadia Sàrl, Switzerland  

 

Th31

Business

Discover PowerApps with SharePoint - Is it a Good Fit?

Level 200

Power Apps

 

Benjamin Niaulin, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, GSoft, Canada  

 

Th32

Business

6 Pillars of Proving the Business Value of Social

Level 100

Enterprise Social

 

Michelle Caldwell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Avanade, USA  

 

16:15 -

Conference Closes