Washington, D.C.

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room 149a

How to get what you deserve at work through self-advocacy

Rima Reyes

Rima Reyes

Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Teams Engineering at Microsoft

Are you the one unintentionally holding yourself back from the career you want?

Join Roxy Ndebumadu and Rima Reyes as they share about their career progressions and offer tangible ways you can grow your career while being your most authentic self.

We will cover everything from building a personal brand to refining your stakeholder strategy to getting a promotion.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 147b

Lights, camera, action with Microsoft Teams

William Huneycutt

William Huneycutt

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Teams meetings are core to collaboration in the hybrid workplace.

In this session, we'll take a deep dive into how you can make the most of your meeting experience with video, screen sharing, and meeting recordings.

Topics include:

  • How to manage meeting recordings
  • Setting meeting options for presenters, attendees, and guests
  • Spotlight, pin, and focus on presenters
  • Together mode
  • Presenter modes for standout, side-by-side, and reporter views
  • PowerPoint live for a better PowerPoint experience
  • Customizing your background
  • Share your screen, window, or whiteboard
  • Use your phones camera as a web cam or secondary camera

and more!

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 152b

Get the most out of Microsoft Lists

Mike Maadarani

Mike Maadarani

Microsoft MVP

Microsoft Lists is a real solution for any person or organization wishing to structure and improve their organization.

You can use Microsoft Lists for simple tasks such as tracking tasks, projects, inventory, but also for more advanced use such as managing your business trips, your content calendar or your events coming.

In this session we will show you how to customize lists to meet your needs and how we can elevate your lists to the next level.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 152a

Getting Started with Information Architecture for Microsoft 365 Intranets

Susan Hanley

Susan Hanley

Microsoft MVP & MBA

This session will help you get started with planning and organizing your intranet in SharePoint and Viva Connections. You will learn considerations for navigation and site architecture, designing and organizing pages, connecting content with metadata, and planning great search experiences.

You will also learn things to consider when bringing your intranet into Microsoft Teams with Viva Connections, including best practices for your home site, overall governance, and how to think about leveraging audiences to create personalized experiences.

You will take away practical ideas to help you get started and tips and best practices to optimize your existing experiences.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 150b

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

Tamara Bredemus

Tamara Bredemus

Learning Strategist Manager & Adoption Specialist at Planet Technologies

Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy.

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:

  1. Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
  2. Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
  3. Add conditional formatting to a calendar

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 149b

Microsoft 365 PnP for SharePoint Framework Developer

Alex Terentiev

Alex Terentiev

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development model for building solutions across Microsoft 365 suite. It allows building applications for SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections.

But the additional beauty of SPFx is the community support!

This session will cover resources that Microsoft 365 PnP Community provides for SPFx developers.