Wednesday 14 October

09:30 - 10:00

Conference Introduction

10:00 - 10:45

KEYNOTE: Build Agile Business Processes with the Microsoft Power Platform

 

Charles Lamanna - Corporate Vice President, Low Code Platform, Microsoft, USA  

 

10:45 - 11:30

Sessions

W1

IT Pro

Transforming your Existing Classic SharePoint Sites into Modern Sites [2020]

Level 300

SharePoint

 

Bert Jansen, Microsoft, Belgium  

 

W2

Dev

Implementing Customizations for Microsoft Teams with Azure PaaS services

Level 300

Microsoft Teams

 

Laura Kokkarinen, MVP, Sulava, Finland  

 

W4

Dev

Developing Solutions across Microsoft 365 with SharePoint Framework

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

Luca Bandinelli, Microsoft, USA  

 

W5

Dev

Teams Tabs Inside Out

Level 400

Microsoft Teams

 

Rick Van Rousselt, MVP, Advantive, Belgium  

 

11:30 - 12:15

Sessions

W6

IT Pro

Azure Arc for Servers: The Future of On-Premises Configuration Management

Level 300

Azure Arc

 

Aleksandar Nikolic, MVP, M.O.3.A.K. IT Consulting, Serbia  

 

W7

Dev

Office 365 and Self Service Provisioning

Level 200

Enterprise Collaboration

 

Albert-Jan Schot, MVP, BLIS.digital, Netherlands  

 

W8

Business

Microsoft Information Protection Getting Started, Keep in Control of your Content

Level 100

Microsoft Information Protection

 

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

 

W9

IT Pro

OneDrive Group Policies - User Adoption from Admins Perspective

Level 300

OneDrive

 

Hans Brender, MVP, HBsoft, Germany  

 

W10

IT Pro

Role-Based Access Control in Microsoft 365

Level 300

Microsoft 365

 

Timothy Heeney, Microsoft, USA  

 

12:15 - 13:00

Sessions

W11

IT Pro

Governance for Microsoft Teams: A to Z

Level 200

Microsoft Teams

 

Jasper Oosterveld, MVP, InSpark , Netherlands  

 

W12

Dev

PnP PowerShell: A Must-Have in your Toolkit

Level 200

PowerShell

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, Rencore, Sweden  

 

W13

End User

Microsoft Stream Live Events Deep Dive

Level 300

Microsoft Stream

 

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

 

W14

IT Pro

Secure Azure Network Architecture

Level 400

AI and Azure

 

Aidan Finn, MVP, Innofactor, Ireland  

 

W15

Dev

Hello Adaptive Cards

Level 300

Adaptive Cards

 

Edin Kapic, MVP, isolutions, Spain  

 

13:00 - 13:45

Sessions

W16

IT Pro

Intranet with Teams: Dos and Don'ts from a Real Life Customer Case

Level 200

Microsoft Teams

 

Karoliina Kettukari, MVP, Meltlake, Finland  

 

W17

Dev

Want to Learn the Key "Building Blocks" for Developing Office Add-ins?

Level 300

Office 365

 

Cameron Dwyer, MVP, OnePlace Solutions, Australia  

 

W18

End User

Microsoft Project is Dead, Long Live Microsoft Project!

Level 200

Microsoft Project

 

Ben Howard, MVP, Applepark Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

W19

IT Pro

A Practical Guide to Azure Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Level 300

AI and Azure

 

Sasha Kranjac, MVP, MCT, Kloudatech OÜ, Croatia  

 

W20

Dev

Improving the Performance of your SharePoint Framework Solutions

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium  

 

13:45 - 14:30

Sessions

W21

IT Pro

Azure AD Identity Governance - What do your users do with their access

Level 300

Azure AD

 

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

 

W22

Dev

Deep Dive on Azure Cognitive Services Vision APIs

Level 300

Azure Cognitive Services

 

Donald Hessing, Capgemini, Netherlands  

 

W23

Business / IT Pro

Moving Classic SharePoint search to Microsoft Search

Level 300

SharePoint

 

Jyoti Pal, Microsoft, India Mikael Svenson, Microsoft, Norway  

 

W24

IT Pro

Why Office 365 Backup is Essential

Level 200

Office 365

 

Edward Watson, Veeam, USA Karinne Bessette, Veeam, USA  

 

W25

Dev

Developing The Next Big Thing By Streamlining Microservices With DAPR

Level 300

Distributed Application Runtime (DAPR)

 

Alex Mang, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, KeyTicket Solutions, Romania  

 

14:30 - 15:15

Sessions

W26

Dev / IT Pro

Azure Automation Ramp Up

Level 300

Azure Automation

 

Magnus Mårtensson, Microsoft RD, MVP, Loftysoft, Sweden  

 

W27

Business / End User

Virtual Health and Collaboration with Microsoft Teams in Healthcare

Level 200

Microsoft Teams

 

Evan Westenberger, Microsoft, USA Daniel Canning, Microsoft, USA Kristina Behr, Microsoft, USA Tom McGuinness, Microsoft, USA  

 

W28

Business / End User

Customizing SharePoint Using the Column Formatter

Level 100

SharePoint

 

Mark Rackley, MVP, Avanade, USA  

 

W29

Business / IT Pro

​Cortana – What’s New with your Personal Productivity Assistant in Microsoft 365

Level 100

Microsoft 365

 

A.J. Brush, Microsoft, USA Srikanth Sridhar, Microsoft, United Kingdom Saurabh Choudhury, Microsoft, USA Malavika Rewari, Microsoft, USA  

 

W30

Microsoft 365 Cloud Data Center Strategy​

Level 200

Microsoft 365

 

Sean Emam, Microsoft, USA Sesha Mani, Microsoft, USA  

 

15:15 - 16:00

Sessions

W31

Deployment and Configuration of OneDrive Sync

OneDrive

 

Carter Green, Microsoft, USA Gaia Carini, Microsoft, USA  

 

W32

5 Things to Plan for During a Migration

Level 100

Migration

 

Chris Thorpe, Quest Software Ltd, United Kingdom  

 

W33

Business

Case Study: Successful Records Management in Canadian Federal Government

Level 100

SharePoint

 

Ed Musters, Avanade, Canada  

 

W34

IT Pro

10 Ways to Apply Office 365 Retention Labels to Meet your Retention Needs

Level 200

Office 365

 

Joanne Klein, MVP, NexNovus Consulting, Canada  

 

W35

Business

Rethinking Citizen Development

Level 100

Citizen Development

 

Mike Fitzmaurice, WEBCON, USA  

 

16:00 - 16:45

KEYNOTE: Microsoft 365 Collaboration Update

 

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

 

16:45 - 17:30

Sessions

W36

IT Pro

The Ultimate Office 365 "Sharing" Breakdown

Level 300

Office 365

 

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

 

W37

What is the Microsoft Graph?

Microsoft Graph

 

Jeremy Thake, Microsoft, USA  

 

W38

Business

Integrating Robotics Process Automation (RPA) into Workflows

Level 100

Robotic Process Automation

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA  

 

W39

IT Pro

6 Ways to Gain Insights on your Microsoft 365 Usage

Level 200

Microsoft 365

 

John P. White, MVP, tyGraph, Canada  

 

W40

IT Pro

Project Cortex: Knowledge Discovery and Content Intelligence in Microsoft 365

Level 200

Project Cortex

 

Naomi Moneypenny, Microsoft, USA Chris McNulty, Microsoft, USA  

 

W41

IT Pro

Customize Productivity Apps with Lists and Libraries, Power Apps and Power Automate

Level 300

Power Platform

 

Chakkaradeep Chinnakonda Chandran, Microsoft, USA  

 

17:30 - 18:15

Sessions

W42

IT Pro

Use Office 365 eDiscovery for Internal Investigations

Level 200

Office 365

 

Erica Toelle, MVP, Erica Toelle, LLC, USA  

 

W43

Dev

Introduction to Microsoft Teams App Development

Level 200

Microsoft Teams

 

Andrew Connell, MVP, Voitanos, USA  

 

W44

Business / IT Pro

Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer...What Should I Use and When?

Level 200

Microsoft 365

 

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

 

W45

IT Pro

Infrastructure As Code (IaC) vs Configuration As Code (CaC)

Level 200

Azure DevOps

 

Richard Taylor, CARVANA, LLC, USA  

 

W47

Dev

Kick-Start your Solution Development with Microsoft 365 PnP

Level 300

PnP

 

Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

18:30 - 18:50

Social Mixer

Business / Dev / End User

Microsoft 365 Champion Mixer

 

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

 



Thursday 15 October

09:00 - 09:45

KEYNOTE: Balancing Productivity and Employee Wellness with Microsoft 365

 

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

 

10:00 - 10:45

Sessions

Th1

IT Pro

I Know What You Did Last Project (Common Mistakes We Make in Azure)

Level 200

Azure

 

Mustafa Toroman, MVP, MCT, Authority Partners , Bosnia and Herzegovina  

 

Th2

Dev

Building Solutions for Teams, SharePoint and Office with the SharePoint Framework

Level 300

SharePoint Framework

 

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

 

Th3

Business

Don't Bother your Users with Mobile Device Management, Embrace Modern!

Level 200

Mobile

 

Peter Daalmans, MVP, Daalmans Consulting, Netherlands  

 

Th4

IT Pro

Hardening Hybrid Identity in the Real World

Level 400

Azure AD

 

Sander Berkouwer, MVP, MCT, SCCT, Netherlands  

 

Th5

Dev

Real World Logic Apps for Organisations Large and Small

Level 200

Azure

 

Rik Hepworth, MVP, Microsoft RD, Black Marble, United Kingdom  

 

10:45 - 11:30

Sessions

Th6

IT Pro

Building Tailored Search Experiences in Modern SharePoint

Level 200

Microsoft Search

 

Sébastien Levert, MVP, Valo Intranet, Canada  

 

Th7

Dev

Connect me to the Graph: Build your own Graph Connector for Microsoft Search

Level 300

Microsoft Graph

 

Markus Hintner, MCM, ENTOS IT-Solutions, Austria  

 

Th8

Dev

Best Practices on Azure DevOps Boards & Pipelines

Level 200

Azure

 

Pascal Strassl, Miba AG, Austria  

 

Th9

IT Pro

The Great Azure Networking Tour 2020

Level 400

Azure Infrastructure

 

Morgan Simonsen, MVP, NBIM, Norway  

 

Th10

IT Pro

How to Use PowerShell to Become a Windows Management SuperHero - 2020 Edition

Level 300

PowerShell

 

Petri Paavola, MVP, Yodamiitti Oy, Finland  

 

11:30 - 12:15

Sessions

Th11

IT Pro

Automation in the Cloud for the Reluctant IT Pro

Level 200

Automation

 

Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium  

 

Th12

Dev

How to Overcome the Chaos Teams Causes in SharePoint Document Libraries

Level 300

Microsoft Teams

 

Melanie Culver, International Organisation, Austria  

 

Th13

Business

Overview of the Common Data Service (CDS) in the Power Platform with Doctor Flow

Level 200

Power Apps

 

Serge Luca, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium  

 

Th14

IT Pro

Azure Hybrid - Learn about Hybrid Cloud Management with Azure

Level 300

Azure Arc

 

Thomas Maurer, Microsoft, Switzerland  

 

Th15

Dev

Introducing the New PnP .NET Graph First Library

Level 300

PnP

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

12:15 - 13:00

Sessions

Th16

IT Pro

Transforming the City of London Corporation

Level 200

 

Zoe Wilson, MVP, Agilisys Ltd, United Kingdom  

 

Th17

Dev

3 Real World Azure PaaS Cases: From a Startup App to an API Platform

Level 200

Azure PaaS

 

Sakari Nahi, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Zure, Finland  

 

Th18

End User

Zero to Hero: Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks that Empower Everyone

Level 100

Microsoft Teams

 

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

 

Th19

IT Pro

Decoding Audit Events in Office 365

Level 300

Office 365 Auditing

 

Tony Redmond, MVP, Office 365 for IT Pros, Ireland  

 

Th20

Enabling Rich Communication Experiences with Azure Communication Services

Azure

 

Jussi Roine, MVP, Not Bad Security, Finland  

 

13:00 - 13:45

Sessions

Th21

IT Pro

Infuse AI Into Your Power Apps and Power Automate Solutions

Level 300

Power Platform

 

Chris O'Brien, MVP, Content+Cloud, United Kingdom  

 

Th22

Dev

Azure AD B2C: Application Security Made Easy

Level 300

Azure AD

 

Sjoukje Zaal, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Capgemini, Netherlands  

 

Th23

Business / End User

Top 5 Cognitive Services for Microsoft 365

Level 100

Microsoft 365

 

Thomas Göelles, MVP, Solvion Information Management, Austria Stephan Bisser, MVP, Solvion, Austria  

 

Th24

Business / IT Pro

Teams to Teams and Multi-Workload Migrations

Level 300

Microsoft Teams

 

Kelsey Epps, BitTitan, Canada  

 

Th25

Dev

I Find your Lack of Azure Functions Disturbing

Level 300

Azure Functions

 

Tiago Costa, MVP, MCT, Independent Contractor, Portugal  

 

13:45 - 14:30

Sessions

Th26

IT Pro

OneDrive Mass Migration on a Large Scale

Level 300

OneDrive

 

Dennis Hobmaier, Insight Technology Solutions GmbH, Austria  

 

Th27

Dev

Serverless Workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service with KEDA

Level 300

Azure Functions

 

Thorsten Hans, MVP, Thinktecture AG, Germany  

 

Th28

IT Pro

Azure Sentinel – a Hitchhikers Guide to the Cybersecurity Galaxy

Level 300

Azure

 

Maarten Goet, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Wortell, Netherlands  

 

Th29

IT Pro

Improve your Change Management and Adoption Program with with Microsoft Adoption Resources

Level 100

Change Management

 

Tracy Van der Schyff, MVP, The Guid Stuff, South Africa  

 

Th30

Dev

ALM and the Power Platform - a Match (to be) Made in Heaven

Level 300

ALM

 

Jonas Rapp, MVP, CRM-Konsulterna, Sweden  

 

14:30 - 15:15

Sessions

Th31

What’s New in Security & Compliance in SharePoint and OneDrive

Level 200

Security and Compliance

 

Sesha Mani, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th32

Business / Dev / End User

The Value of Diversity During Challenging Times

Diversity and Inclusion

 

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

 

Th33

End User

Creating Approval Flows with Microsoft Power Automate

Level 200

Power Automate

 

Vlad Catrinescu, MVP, MCT, vNext Solutions, Canada  

 

Th34

Search Where You’re Already Working with Microsoft Search: Vision, Strategy, Roadmap

Level 200

Microsoft Search

 

Robin Thomas, Microsoft, USA Kathrine Hammervold, Microsoft, Norway  

 

Th35

Business / IT Pro

Complete Protection for your SharePoint and Teams Data

Level 200

 

Rune Hauberg Brimer, Keepit, Denmark  

 

15:15 - 16:00

Sessions

Th36

Business / IT Pro

Expertise & Knowledge Networks: Microsoft's Vision For a Successful Knowledge System In Your Organization

Level 300

Knowledge Network

 

Naomi Moneypenny, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th37

SharePoint Communication Sites & the Modern Intranet: What's New

Level 200

SharePoint

 

Debjani Mitra, Microsoft, USA Andy Haon, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th38

Business

Intelligent Document Processing and Robotic Process Automation

Level 100

Document Processing

 

Jeff Willinger, MVP, USA  

 

Th39

Business

Practical Approaches Integrating and Extending Microsoft 365 Digital Workspaces

Level 200

Microsoft 365

 

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

 

Th40

Business / IT Pro

Working with Files and Lists in Microsoft Teams

Level 100

Microsoft Teams

 

Mark Kashman, Microsoft, USA  

 

16:00 - 16:45

KEYNOTE: Low Code and the Microsoft Cloud

 

Scott Guthrie - Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud + AI Group  

 

16:45 - 17:30

Sessions

16.50

Ask Me Anything Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu

Microsoft Teams

 

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

 

Th41

IT Pro

The Intranet is Dead. Long Live the Intranet. The SharePoint Intranet Vision and Strategy

Level 200

Intranet

 

Adam Harmetz, VP, Microsoft, USA Tejas Mehta, Microsoft , USA  

 

Th42

ARCHITECT / Dev / IT Pro

Connecting to Microsoft Graph Services from Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Graph

 

Bob German, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th43

Business

Making Sense of All that's Included with Office 365

Level 100

Office 365

 

Asif Rehmani, MVP, MCT, VisualSP, USA  

 

Th44

Dev

Build Responsive Applications at Scale using Microsoft Graph Change Notifications with Resource Data

Level 300

Microsoft Graph

 

Vincent Biret, Microsoft, Canada  

 

Th45

Business / IT Pro

Employee Engagement and Communities in Microsoft 365

Level 200

Microsoft 365

 

Dan Holme, Microsoft, USA Murali Sitaram, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th46

Business

Organize Business Information with Microsoft Lists

Level 200

Microsoft Lists

 

Niket Jain, Microsoft, India Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA  

 

17:30 - 18:15

Sessions

Th47

Business / IT Pro

Get Started with Microsoft Lists [2020]

Level 200

Microsoft Lists

 

Lincoln DeMaris, Microsoft , USA Bharath Manoj Manda, Microsoft  

 

Th48

IT Pro

Monitor and Manage SharePoint in Microsoft 365

Level 300

Microsoft 365

 

Dave Minasyan, Microsoft, USA Rk Menon, Microsoft, India Trent Green, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th49

Business / IT Pro

Governance and Management Best Practices for Microsoft 365 Groups

Level 300

Governance

 

Vinay Jagannatha Rao, Microsoft, India  

 

Th50

Business

Engaging Employees with Yammer and Microsoft 365 [2020]

Yammer

 

Mike Holste, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th51

Business / IT Pro

Personal Productivity Insights in Microsoft 365 – Enhancing Employee Wellbeing​

Level 200

 

Malavika Rewari, Microsoft, USA Sumati Ahuja, Microsoft , USA  

 

Th52

Business

Your Intranet Shopping List: Must Have Capabilities for Your Modern, Intelligent Intranet

Level 200

Intranet

 

Susan Hanley, MVP, Susan Hanley LLC, USA