ESPC17 Conference Schedule

 


Tuesday 14 November

08:45 - 09:15

Conference Introduction by Programme Team

09:15 - 10:15

KEYNOTE: Accelerate your digital transformation with SharePoint and OneDrive

 

Jeff Teper, President - Collaborative Apps & Platforms, Microsoft, USA  

 

10:20 - 11:20

KEYNOTE: Transforming Your Team to Deliver Productivity as a Service

 

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

 

11:20 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Tuesday 14th Nov: Conference Programme

T1

Dev

Flying With Machines - How Machine Learning & SharePoint Are a Game Changer

Level 100

BI

 

Trevor Hellebuyck, Metalogix, USA  

 

T2

Dev

What's New with Xamarin: Forms, Azure App Services, Visual Studio and More

Level 200

Mobile

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA  

 

T3

Business

Use Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to Jump Start Your Next Project!

Level 200

PowerApps and Flow

 

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

 

T4

Business

Share with Confidence: Powering Collaboration on the Intranet with SharePoint Team Sites

Level 200

Collaboration

 

Dan Holme, Microsoft, USA  

 

T5

Dev

SharePoint Development in the Enterprise (What’s New, What’s Coming)

Level 200

Development

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA  

 

T6

IT Pro

Working with OneDrive for Business

Level 300

OneDrive

 

Hans Brender, MVP, HBsoft, Germany  

 

T7

IT Pro

The Self-healing Environment - PowerShell DSC for Your SharePoint Ecosystem

Level 300

PowerShell

 

Andreas Krüger, COMPAREX AG, Germany  

 

T8

Business

Why Your Company Needs Microsoft Teams

Level 100

Teams and Groups

 

Karuana Gatimu - Principal Manager, M365 Customer Advocacy in Collaborative Apps and Platform, Microsoft, Microsoft, USA  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo

14:00 - 15:00

Tuesday 14th Nov: Conference Programme

T9

Dev

Understanding the Microsoft Graph API

Level 300

Microsoft Graph

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

T10

Dev

Understanding the SharePoint Framework and How it Affects Your Customisations

Level 100

SharePoint Framework

 

Mark Rackley, MVP, Avanade, USA  

 

T11

IT Pro

Complete Overview of the SharePoint Hybrid Features

Level 200

Hybrid

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium  

 

T12

Business

Transform Business Processes with SharePoint, PowerApps, and Flow for Biz Apps, Forms, and Automation

Level 200

WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

T13

Business

Share with Confidence: See, Sync, and Collaborate Securely on All Your Files with Microsoft OneDrive

Level 200

OneDrive

 

 

 

T14

Gen

Overcoming the Barriers to Hybrid SharePoint

Hybrid

 

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

 

T15

IT Pro

Learn How SharePoint Online Safeguards Your Data in the Cloud

Level 300

Security

 

Matt Swann, Microsoft, USA  

 

T16

Business / End User

PowerApps: Build the Next Level PowerApp

Level 300

PowerApps and Flow

 

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

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Tuesday 14th Nov: Conference Programme

T17

Dev

Azure for Office 365 and SharePoint Developers - The Best Bits

Level 400

Azure

 

Chris O'Brien, MVP, Advania UK, United Kingdom  

 

T18

Dev

Customising the "Modern" Experiences in SharePoint Online

Level 300

PnP

 

Bert Jansen, Microsoft, Belgium  

 

T19

Business

How to Create a Successful Governance Framework for SharePoint and Office 365

Level 200

Governance

 

Susan Hanley, MVP, Susan Hanley LLC, USA  

 

T20

Bing for business - Intelligent search for the Modern Workplace and Web

Level 100

Search

 

Deen King-Smith, Microsoft, USA  

 

T21

Business

Accelerate Productivity with Intelligent Search and Discovery

Level 200

Search

 

Naomi Moneypenny, Microsoft, USA Kathrine Hammervold, Microsoft, Norway  

 

T22

IT Pro

Securing Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Like a Rock Star

Level 300

Security

 

Jussi Roine, MVP, Not Bad Security, Finland  

 

T23

IT Pro

Considering Compliance in Office 365 and Azure

Level 100

Governance

 

John Timney, MVP, DXC, UK  

 

T24

Business

Managing Your Digital Workplace with Automation Tools

Level 100

Governance

 

Robert Mulsow, AvePoint, UK Anand Jaju, AvePoint, UK Roberto Delgado, AvePoint, UK  

 

16:15 - 16:45

Afternoon Break - Visit the Expo

16:45 - 17:45

Afternoon Break - Visit the Expo

T25

Dev

Branding SharePoint: Out with the Old and in with the New

Level 300

Branding

 

Christina Wheeler, MVP, Blue Dog Tech Solutions, USA  

 

T26

Dev

SharePoint Framework, Angular & Azure Functions: The Modern SharePoint Developer Tool Belt

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

Sébastien Levert, MVP, Valo Intranet, Canada  

 

T27

Business

High Value Scenarios for Microsoft Teams

Level 100

Teams and Groups

 

Erica Toelle, MVP, Erica Toelle, LLC, USA  

 

T28

End User

What is the Cost of Migrating to SharePoint 2016 or Office 365?

Level 100

Hybrid

 

Jill Hannemann, WithumSmith+Brown, USA  

 

T29

IT Pro

How Graph Powers Intelligent Experiences in SharePoint and Office 365

Level 200

Search

 

Kathrine Hammervold, Microsoft, Norway Torbjorn Helvik , Microsoft, Norway  

 

T30

IT Pro

What's New for the BI Workload in SharePoint 2016 and SQL Server V.Next

Level 300

BI

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

T31

IT Pro

Managing Data Recovery in SharePoint

Level 100

Disaster Recovery

 

Brian Alderman, MVP, MicroTechPoint, USA  

 

T32

Business

The Future Workplace

Level 100

Artificial Intelligence

 

George Muir, LiveTiles, USA  

 

17:45 - 18:45

Expo Drinks - Networking

18:00 -

ESPC17 Annual Hackathon - Pre-registration Required



Wednesday 15 November

08:50 - 09:00

Daily Conference Updates

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: Machine Learning in Practice: Avoid the Hype and Make it Work for You

 

Rafal Lukawiecki, Project Botticelli Ltd, Ireland  

 

10:15 - 10:20

Change Rooms

10:20 - 11:20

Wednesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

W1

Dev

A Walk Through the Web-stack Development Landscape

Level 200

SharePoint Framework

 

Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium  

 

W2

Dev

Boost Office Productivity by Building Add-ins for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

Level 300

Office

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

W3

Business / End User

Power BI - What's the Fuss All About

Level 100

BI

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

W4

Business

Harness Collective Knowledge with SharePoint and OneDrive Content Services (ECM)

Level 200

WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

 

Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

W5

IT Pro

The Power of Microsoft Teams & Data Governance using the Security & Compliance Centre

Level 200

Security

 

Karuana Gatimu - Principal Manager, M365 Customer Advocacy in Collaborative Apps and Platform, Microsoft, Microsoft, USA John Deters, Microsoft, USA  

 

W6

IT Pro

Design your Topology with MinRole for SharePoint Server 2016

Level 300

Infrastructure

 

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

 

W7

IT Pro

Understanding SharePoint Permissions for Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators

Level 100

Security

 

Brett Lonsdale, Lightning Tools, UK  

 

W8

Business

Journey to the Cloud and Back – Looking Beyond the Horizon

Level 100

WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

 

Michal Rykiert, WEBCON, Poland  

 

W8b

Deploying Real World Workloads to Azure

Level 100

 

Dave Northey, Ireland Mark Mulvany, Ireland Vikas Sahni, Cloud Computing & CRM Consultant, Ireland  

 

11:20 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Wednesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

W9

Dev

Getting up to Speed with React

Level 200

SharePoint Framework

 

Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium  

 

W10

Dev

Blockchain: What's all the Fuss about?

Level 200

Infrastructure

 

Maarten Boender, sphereon.com, Netherlands  

 

W11

Business

The Secrets of Adoption and Change Management in the Digital Workplace

Level 100

Governance

 

Symon Garfield, Microsoft, UK  

 

W12

Business

Seamlessly Add Video into Office 365 Apps or Other Apps with Microsoft Stream

Level 200

Video

 

Vishal Sood, Microsoft, USA  

 

W13

Business

Rethinking Document Management in Office 365

Level 100

ECM

 

Peter Baddeley, ProvisionPoint, United Kingdom  

 

W14

IT Pro

Modern External and Third Party Access Scenarios with Azure AD

Level 300

Azure AD

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands Pascal Strassl, Miba AG, Austria  

 

W15

IT Pro

IKON - Our Journey to Organisational Change while Surviving a Total SAN Failure

Level 100

Governance

 

Barry Byrne, Irish Defence Forces, Ireland Frank Hickey, Irish Defence Forces, Ireland  

 

W16

Business / Dev / End User

What is an Intelligent Workplace?

Level 100

Artificial Intelligence

 

Maximo Castagno, Beezy, Spain  

 

W16b

Business

Connect and Engage your Organisation with Yammer

Level 200

Yammer

 

Naomi Moneypenny, Microsoft, USA  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo / Women in Technology Lunch - 5 Steps of Empowering Female Leadership with Karuana Gatimu, Microsoft, USA

14:00 - 15:00

Wednesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

W17

Dev

Cross Platform Office365 Apps with Electron and Cordova

Level 200

Mobile

 

Sahil Malik, MVP, Winsmarts.com, USA  

 

W18

Dev

Getting Started with TypeScript and the SharePoint Framework

Level 200

SharePoint Framework

 

Lieven Iliano, U2U, Belgium  

 

W19

Business

The Big Question of "What to Use When?"

Level 200

Collaboration

 

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

 

W20

Business

Inform and Engage Employees with SharePoint Communications Sites and News

Level 200

Collaboration

 

Dave Cohen, Microsoft, USA  

 

W21

End User

Take Project Online from 0-60 in 1 Hour

Level 200

Project Management

 

Ben Howard, MVP, Applepark Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

W22

IT Pro

The Microsoft On-premises Data Gateway – Hybrid PowerBI, PowerApps, Flow and Logic Apps

Level 300

Hybrid

 

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

 

W23

IT Pro

Deep Dive into Designing a SharePoint 2016 Physical Architecture

Level 300

Infrastructure

 

Vlad Catrinescu, MVP, MCT, Syskit, Canada  

 

W24

Business / IT Pro

Put Business Critical Functionality into Office 365 Without Coding

Level 200

WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

 

Andy Karamallakis, WorkPoint, Denmark  

 

W24b

IT Pro

Learn how Microsoft FastTrack can help drive value from Microsoft 365

Level 200

FastTrack

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA Jon Maunder, Microsoft, UK  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Wednesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

W25

Dev

Extending PowerApps and Microsoft Flow with Custom Code

Level 300

PowerApps and Flow

 

Adis Jugo, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, European Collaboration Summit, Germany  

 

W26

Dev

Making Things Deployable - Ways to Get Your Stuff to its Destination

Level 300

ALM

 

Melanie Culver, International Organisation, Austria  

 

W27

Business / End User

No-Code Forms and Workflow Tools of the SharePoint Trade

Level 200

PowerApps and Flow

 

Asif Rehmani, MVP, MCT, VisualSP, USA  

 

W28

Dev

Advancing the SharePoint Developer Community (PnP)

Level 300

PnP

 

Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

W29

IT Pro

Take Cloud Hybrid Search to the Next Level

Level 400

Search

 

Jeff Fried, BA Insight, USA  

 

W30

Business

Boost Your Productivity with Microsoft Flow: Power to the People

Level 200

PowerApps and Flow

 

Serge Luca, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium  

 

W31

IT Pro

Is Your SharePoint Healthy and How Do You Know?

Level 300

Infrastructure

 

Hilton Giesenow, MVP, Experts Inside, South Africa  

 

W32

Business

Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionise SharePoint-based Collaboration and Compliance – Are You Ready?

Level 200

Artificial Intelligence

 

David Lavenda, harmon.ie, Israel  

 

16:15 - 16:45

Afternoon Break - Visit the Expo

16:45 - 17:45

Wednesday 15th Nov: Conference Programme

W33

Dev

Understanding SharePoint and Microsoft Graph Webhooks

Level 200

Webhooks

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

W34

Dev

From Design to a Modern Style Guide - Branding Strategies for SP, Addins and SPFx

Level 200

Branding

 

Stefan Bauer, MVP, N8D, Austria  

 

W35

Dev

Explore Microservices Solutions and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

Level 200

Azure

 

Evilazaro Alves, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Lambda3, Brazil  

 

W36

IT Pro

Discover SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 and Beyond

Level 200

Infrastructure

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium Spencer Harbar, MVP, MCM, ClearPeople, UK  

 

W37

Business

Winning Workflow Solutions: Principles of Design, Adoption, and Measurement

Level 200

Hybrid

 

Mike Fitzmaurice, WEBCON, USA  

 

W38

Business

Governance, Branding & Provisioning Competition

Level 200

Governance

 

Nicki Borell, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Experts Inside, Germany Kevin Mees, Experts Inside GmbH, Germany  

 

W39

Dev

Azure for Office 365 and SharePoint Developers - The Best Bits

Level 400

Azure

 

Chris O'Brien, MVP, Advania UK, United Kingdom  

 

W40

Hackathon Results Session 2017

 

Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft, USA  

 

17:45 -

Conference Day Closes

19:30 -

ESPC17 Black and White Party - Pre-registration Required



Thursday 16 November

08:50 - 09:00

Daily Conference Updates

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: SharePoint as an Application Platform: Building Engaging Solutions

 

Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

10:15 - 10:20

Change Rooms

10:20 - 11:20

Thursday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

Th1

Dev

Don't Miss Out on Microsoft Powerful NoSQL SaaS Offering DocumentDB

Level 200

Azure

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th2

Dev

Get Started with TypeScript Now

Level 200

SharePoint Framework

 

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

 

Th3

Dev

SharePoint & Angular Elements

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Rob Wormald, Google, USA  

 

Th4

Business

Create Communities to Harness Collective Knowledge with SharePoint & Yammer

Level 200

Yammer

 

Naomi Moneypenny, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th5

IT Pro

Designing Workflows & Forms – How to Avoid Change Management Backfire

Level 100

WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

 

Lukasz Wrobel, WEBCON, Poland  

 

Th6

IT Pro

When Disaster Strikes

Level 200

Disaster Recovery

 

Aidan Finn, MVP, Innofactor, Ireland  

 

Th7

IT Pro

SharePoint Hybrid Auditing and Administrative Actions Logging

Level 300

Hybrid

 

Toni Frankola, MVP, SysKit Ltd., Croatia  

 

Th8

Business

How to Deal with GDPR in Office 365 & SharePoint

Level 200

Governance

 

Anders Skjønaa, Procurati, Denmark  

 

11:20 - 11:45

Morning Break - Visit the Expo

11:45 - 12:45

Thursday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

Th9

Dev

Deep-Dive Building Solutions on the SharePoint Framework

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

Waldek Mastykarz, MVP, Microsoft, Netherlands  

 

Th10

Dev

Building an Intelligent SharePoint Bot

Level 300

Bots

 

Rick Van Rousselt, MVP, Advantive, Belgium  

 

Th11

Dev

Azure Functions and the Microsoft Graph...Better Together

Level 200

Microsoft Graph

 

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

 

Th12

IT Pro

Deploy and Manage OneDrive for Business

Level 300

OneDrive

 

Tony East, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th13

Dev

Building SharePoint Add-ins with PnP-JS-Core on a Client AND Server Side

Level 300

Add-ins

 

Sergei Sergeev, MVP, mastaq, Belarus  

 

Th14

IT Pro

"Quick Win" Features vs. Long Term Strategy in Search

Level 200

Search

 

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

 

Th15

IT Pro

Make your SharePoint 2013/2016 Fly by Tuning & Optimising SQL Server

Level 300

Infrastructure

 

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

 

Th16

Business

Getting The Most out of Microsoft and FastTrack

Level 100

Hybrid

 

Steve Marsh, Metalogix, UK  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break - Visit the Expo

14:00 - 15:00

Thursday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

Th17

Dev

How to Take Control of Your Office 365 Groups – Using Technology to Solve Business Processes

Level 300

Office 365 Groups

 

Mikael Svenson, MVP, Puzzlepart, Norway  

 

Th18

Dev

Integrating Microsoft Teams with Office 365 and SharePoint; Bots, Connectors and Tabs

Level 300

Teams and Groups

 

Wes Hackett, MVP, AddIn365, United Kingdom  

 

Th19

Dev

Development Best Practices for a New Development World

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

Hugh Wood, Rencore, UK  

 

Th20

 

 

 

Th21

Business

Against All Odds – We’re in the Cloud and We’re Hybrid

Level 200

Hybrid

 

Petter Skodvin-Hvammen, Puzzlepart, Norway Roger Skauen, Yara International ASA, Norway  

 

Th22

IT Pro

Organisational Considerations for Customising SharePoint and Office 365

Level 100

Governance

 

Matthias Einig, MVP, Rencore, Germany  

 

Th23

IT Pro

Search Clinic with the Experts

Level 300

Search

 

Jeff Fried, BA Insight, USA  

 

Th24

Business

Integrating Bots into Your Digital Workplace Strategy

Level 100

Bots

 

Kanwal Khipple, MVP, 2toLead, Canada  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Thursday 16th Nov: Conference Programme

Th25

Dev

Avoiding Common Pitfalls when Developing with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

Level 400

SharePoint Framework

 

Chris O'Brien, MVP, Advania UK, United Kingdom  

 

Th26

Dev

Provisioning Artifacts to Office 365 and SharePoint On-Premises using PowerShell

Level 300

PowerShell

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden  

 

Th27

End User

An End User’s Guide to Working with Power BI

Level 100

BI

 

Christina Wheeler, MVP, Blue Dog Tech Solutions, USA  

 

Th28

IT Pro

Dive into Office 365 and SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios

Level 300

Hybrid

 

Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium  

 

Th29

Business

The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation-as-a-Service

Level 200

Teams and Groups

 

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

 

Th30

IT Pro

SharePoint DSC and Patterns and Practices Libraries (PnP) to Provision Farms and Assets

Level 300

DSC

 

Rodrigo Pinto, MVP, Storm, Portugal  

 

Th31

Dev

Running Containerised Workloads on Azure

Level 300

Azure

 

Loek Duys, MVP, Xpirit, Netherlands  

 

Th32

Business

One Card at a Time - Leverage Office 365 Planner to Plan your SharePoint End User Adoption

Level 100

Collaboration

 

Heather Cook, Microsoft, USA  

 

16:15 -

Conference Closes