Washington, D.C.

Thursday 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room 145b

Understanding the Modern Work Employee Experience Architecture

Michelle Gilbert

Michelle Gilbert

Microsoft Director Modern Work Customer Success | President MN M365 User Group | Former MVP

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core of what you care about, to the personal and team productivity needs, beyond to how you connect to community and leaders, and building your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room 147a

Synology Data Backup for Microsoft 365: How to Protect Yourself From Data Loss & Disasters

Sadaf Sherwani

Sadaf Sherwani

Technical Account Manager at Synology

Microsoft’s policies on M365 data backup are focused on the infrastructure of M365 and the ability to access their interface. When it comes to backing up your critical data and protecting it from potential threats such as disasters, ransomware, and human error; that clearly lies on the shoulders of the owner of the data. Synology has built a robust array of hardware options and software innovations that will protect all of your organization’s sensitive data to keep downtime to a minimum. Join our session to learn more about Synology’s data protection solutions as well as take a deep dive into our backend to see how setting up a data retention policy could save you from potential disasters and downtime.

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room 149b

Whats new in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit

Fabian Williams

Fabian Williams

Microsoft, Senior Product Manager on the Graph team

Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) has versioned up as well as made investments in new components such as Files, Search, and Teams/ACS Chat. In this session come and share your feedback as well as see how these new investments can enrich your next (or current) SaaS application building on Microsoft 365. This session will illustrate through a sample App all that you can do in a few minutes to go from idea to an application ready.

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room 145b

Setting up and Administering M365 for Education

Max Fritz

Max Fritz

Microsoft Product Manager

This session will give you a headstart to setting up Microsoft 365 for Education. We will go through everything from Identity & Security, productivity apps like Teams & SharePoint, and automation by integrating with Learning Management Systems and Student Information Systems.

Then, we'll go through the tasks you need to keep up on, including communication, support of faculty, and governance of student content and information.

Thursday 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room 151b

💡TaaP in a Snap for Project/Program Management

Steven Storey

Steven Storey

Customer Success Director, Microsoft

TaaP (Teams as a Platform) for managing your programs/projects from concept to completion within Microsoft Teams.

You'll walk away with actionable insights to streamline your workload(s) in Teams!

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room 151b

How AI Changes the Threats to Your Organization’s Data What to do About it

Shyam Oza

Shyam Oza

Director of Product Management

Having fun with ChatGPT? It might not all be fun and games. Join Shyam Oza to understand how Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks will evolve in 2023 and beyond. Learn from the experts on how to defend your organization and have a response plan ready for when things go wrong. Hear real world war stories, see how Spanning’s rich integrations across products really strengthen your data protection posture in Microsoft 365 and beyond.