Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S104a

From Portal to Partner: AI-Ready Information Architecture for Microsoft 365 Intranets

With AI reshaping the digital workplace, how should you think about your intranet? This full day workshop provides a roadmap to transform your intranet from a static portal into an intelligent workplace partner. Designed for intranet managers, digital workplace strategists, IT leaders, and communications professionals, the workshop will show you how to architect content for AI and search readiness, design inclusive experiences that drive adoption, and implement governance strategies that ensure long term value. You’ll also see how AI can act as your copilot for content management, creation, and personalized employee experiences.

Whether you’re just starting out or refining your current design, you’ll leave with practical strategies, templates, and examples to guide your journey. By the end of the day, you’ll understand how information architecture drives both usability and AI success—and be equipped to build an intranet that meets organizational goals and delights your users.

You will take away actionable strategies and frameworks to: • Architect content for AI and search readiness • Design inclusive, user centered experiences that drive adoption and ensure accessibility • Implement governance strategies that balance innovation with compliance • Leverage AI as a copilot for content management, creation, and personalized employee experiences • Apply practical strategies, templates, and examples to transform intranets from static portals into intelligent workplace partners aligned with organizational goals

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room S106b

From Guidelines to Gorgeous: The Beautiful SharePoint Portal Playbook

Beautiful portals don’t happen by accident—they’re built with intention, consistency, and the right foundation. In this session, you'll gain a clear understanding of how the SharePoint Brand Center centralizes your organization’s brand assets and enables you to deliver cohesive, visually compelling experiences across your sites. We’ll walk through the essential components of site branding, including logos, themes, fonts, and color palettes, and show how to apply them effectively and sustainably.

From there, we’ll shift into what truly brings a portal to life: beautiful, purposeful content. You’ll learn practical techniques for designing pages that feel modern and polished—leveraging page layouts, imagery, web parts, and content patterns that elevate both usability and aesthetics. Whether you're refreshing an existing intranet or launching something new, you’ll leave with a playbook of best practices, creative approaches, and governance tips to ensure every page looks and feels on brand. Perfect for designers, site owners, intranet managers, and anyone looking to transform their SharePoint experiences from functional to exceptional.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room S106b

SharePoint Automation Deep Dive

You know the basics of "Create Item," but are you ready to automate the full lifecycle of your SharePoint content? Join Microsoft MVPs Heidi Jordan and Norm Young for a solution-focused workshop designed specifically for SharePoint enthusiasts.

As experts in the field, we believe that "Fundamental skills pay the bills." This session focuses 80% of the time on the essential logic every maker needs, and 20% on the "New School" future of SharePoint automation. We move beyond simple notifications to build robust solutions that manage structured intake, govern data cleanliness, and handle complex document conversions.

The Takeaway: Every attendee will receive our exclusive "Automation Field Guide," containing the exact demo scripts, OData snippets, and step-by-step instructions used in the session so you can recreate these solutions the moment you get back to the office.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room S102d

SharePoint That Looks as Good as It Works

Learn how to keep your brand consistent and take advantage of the SharePoint brand center and site branding experiences to customize your SharePoint and Viva Connections portals.

This session explores best practices for creating themes and font packages as well as tips and tricks for creating beautiful sites and pages with design-centric techniques while keeping your sites accessible.

Wednesday 1:40 PM - 2:50 PM · Room S102d

Intranets Reimagined: Practical Strategies for a Future-Ready Microsoft 365 Intranet

Your intranet can be more than a static portal-it can become a dynamic workplace partner. This session explores some practical steps you can do today to modernize your intranet with the latest Microsoft 365 capabilities and AI powered tools, including the Knowledge Agent for SharePoint. You will learn how Copilot can accelerate content creation, how branding and personalization features align the intranet with your culture, and how page design capabilities can balance creativity with consistency for great user experiences. You will take away practical strategies to build an intranet that drives communication, collaboration, and engagement today while preparing for the future.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S102d

SharePoint Automation: 4 Design Patterns to Stop the Chaos

Are your SharePoint flows causing more noise than value? Many organizations struggle with "Spam-bots" - automated processes that dump unstructured data and overwhelm users with notifications. In this session, Microsoft MVPs Norm Young and Heidi Jordan will move beyond the basics of "When an item is created" to show you four proven architectural patterns for SharePoint automation.

We will demonstrate how to transition from flat lists to structured Document Sets, how to kill the "notification storm" with OData-driven digests, and how to automate the document lifecycle from draft to PDF. Whether you are a Site Owner or a Power User, you will leave with a blueprint for building smarter, cleaner, and more professional SharePoint solutions.

Thursday 12:50 PM - 2:00 PM · Room S102d

Reimagining Internal Communications with Microsoft 365 and Copilot

In today’s fast-paced business environment, delivering consistent, engaging corporate communications across multiple channels is more critical—and more complex—than ever. This session explores how Microsoft 365, including SharePoint News, Viva Engage, Viva Amplify, and Copilot, can help you streamline and elevate your internal communications strategy. Discover how AI-powered tools can assist with content creation, targeting, and amplification, while enabling communicators to focus on storytelling and impact. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, you'll gain practical tips, fresh ideas, and a forward-looking perspective on the future of communications in the age of Copilot.

Thursday 2:10 PM - 3:20 PM · Room S102d

Permissions Impossible: A SharePoint Site Owner's Survival Guide to Access Management

Your mission, should you choose to accept/attend it: Master SharePoint permissions before they master your collaborative workspaces. This session delivers the spy-worthy tactics you need to manage access across SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365 Groups—while minimizing governance headaches. Learn best practices and discover what to avoid (subsites, the "Share this site" trap, and poorly managed access requests) to keep your collaborative content secure and well-organized. Master these practices and you'll confidently control who accesses what, when, and why. This session will self-destruct in 70 minutes.

Thursday 2:10 PM - 3:20 PM · Room S106a

OneDrive, SharePoint, Viva Engage, and Teams… Oh My! Understanding the Many Collaboration Solutions

Microsoft 365 is a vast platform that every organization uses a little differently. The available options to meet your team's needs are endless, offering so many ways to communicate, collaborate, and store your data that finding the right solution for you can be daunting.

With more and more organizations moving into the cloud and adopting a hybrid working model, understanding which tool best meets your needs is paramount for an efficient transition to this modern way of working.

In this session, your expert presenter will break down the key collaboration tools within Microsoft 365 and align each tool to common and useful business scenarios and situations so you can intrinsically understand which tool is best for each situation.

With so much more work moving to and starting right within the cloud, you don't miss this opportunity to learn how to get things right from the beginning.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room S102d

News That Works: What to Share, Where to Share It, and Why It Matters

With so many ways to communicate—SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage, and Outlook—it can be hard to know which channel to use. This session breaks down the strengths of each platform and helps you match the right message to the right place. Learn how to deliver clearer, more effective organizational news that reaches your audience where they’re most likely to engage.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S105a

Become a SharePoint Agents Rockstar

Have you ever wondered how to make your SharePoint sites feel more dynamic and intuitive? We’re all about to discover how SharePoint Agents are completely changing the game. Join us as we explore what these intelligent, AI-powered assistants can do—whether you're using a built-in agent or a custom one. Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, you'll see how these agents can help you transform your business by boosting efficiency and reducing manual work, making collaboration more intuitive than ever before. This session is a must-attend for Makers and information workers. Still, it's also designed for IT teams, administrators, and business leaders who want to build a more innovative and responsive SharePoint environment.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room S103d

Forms, Forms, and More Forms: Data Gathering for the Copilot-Assisted Info Worker

Microsoft Lists (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Learn to navigate "what to use when" for your data collection needs.

This session will walk through Copilot-enabled and the latest capabilities and the options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room S102a

Designing Modern Portals with SharePoint: Leveraging the Latest Features for Impactful Experiences

SharePoint’s latest innovations make it easier than ever to build portals that are not only functional but visually compelling and deeply engaging. This session explores how to use new design elements—like Flexible Sections, custom fonts, and enhanced branding tools—to create modern, user-friendly portals that reflect your organization’s identity. We’ll also cover how to integrate AI-powered features such as Copilot and SharePoint Agents to personalize content delivery and streamline user interactions. Whether you're refreshing an intranet or launching a new digital workspace, this session will equip you with the strategies and tools to build portals that are not only functional—but transformative.