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Hacker’s Perspective on New Risks: Revising the Cybersecurity Priorities for 2026
The transformation is gaining momentum! Over the last tumultuous years, the investments in the digital transformation have been growing, with companies worldwide exploring its potential by introducing new technologies, approaches and social changes. As more data than ever is put online, cybersecurity is now a major concern for everyone – large corporations, governments, and companies of all sizes. The transformation, however, also has its dark side. Thanks to it, the hackers are able to exploit vulnerabilities in the infrastructure with even greater precision than before. As the financial, operational, legal, and reputational implications of neglecting cybersecurity risks could be considerable, well-known analysis & protection methods should be developed and complemented.
During this presentation, the most serious risks of 2026 will be explored and explained. Paula Januszkiewicz will demonstrate how hackers and cybercriminals identify and exploit threats using the most up-to-date techniques, so that you are able to observe them on your monitoring system and prevent them in the future. You will also become familiar with the most advanced phishing attacks, credential theft techniques, ransomware distribution methods, and ways of gaining access to vendor-controlled systems.
Join Paula to understand what actually is possible in the year of 2026. As the cyber transformation leads to better effectiveness of hackers' activities, there is no time to lose!Black Box - 1st floorThu 8:30 am - 9:15 am -
Building Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: EU AI Act Essentials for Developers and IT Leaders
The European AI Act is here to protect human integrity, privacy, and more while building solutions with AI. The EU AI Act is not just for organizations but also relevant to any use and integration with artificial intelligence (AI) in application development.
In this session, you will learn the relevance of the European AI Act through the lens of IT project leadership, cloud development, AI engineering, cloud security, and cloud compliance when integrating existing applications or systems with AI technologies, particularly if you are working with projects in European-based organizations or users that need to comply with the new act.
This session combines learning the basics with a focus on what developers, IT architects, and IT business decision-makers need to consider. Learn how to build and leverage the good features of AI technologies while designing and building secure and robust systems responsibly without breaking the rules that come with the EU AI Act, Responsible AI, by utilizing the tools and resources available within the cloud platform such for example, Microsoft Azure, regardless if it is a new project and enhancing your existing applications on the cloud with AI technologies available for you and your team today.Black Box - 1st floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
10 security settings you must configure in Windows 11 - 2026 edition
Windows 11 is the most secure Windows version built so far, and there are differences between securing a W10 and a W11-device.
In the times we live in with constant cyber threats we must learn and know about new security features to keep our devices protected, regardless if they are physical or virtual.
During this session we will cover our top 10 configurations we must configure in Windows 11, using Microsoft Intune. We will have a look at what they do and how they affect our devices. I
Join for great tips on how to take your Windows security posture to the next level
This session has been updated with the latest features, promising takeaways to bring back home.Small hall - BasementThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Anatomy of a cloud based, multi tenant, SaaS product!
In this session, I’ll walk through the real-world process of designing and building a cloud-based, multi-tenant SaaS product using Azure. From managing multi-tenant architectures and backend services to integrating the frontend, you'll get a detailed look at the challenges I faced and the solutions we implemented. This is a technical, no-fluff breakdown of what it takes to build a scalable, maintainable system in the cloud, with lessons learned and practical advice you can apply directly to your own projects.
Terrace hall - 1st floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
2 Power BI Storage Modes, 1 Dataverse: Tips and Tricks to Optimize your Reports
It's common that we need to integrate Power BI alongside Dataverse and our model-driven apps (hey, that's the beauty of the Power Platform, right?), to help present our key business data in the most effective manner. But confusion can sometime arise when it comes to the best storage mode to use. Real-time reports sounds great in theory, but if approached in the incorrect manner, those spinning wheels will drive your users crazy. Import mode can get around these issues, but what if our users are impatient or if we need to refresh more than 8 or 48 times a day? For a poor person working with all of this for the first time, it's a true minefield to navigate.
To help you through this or the preserve your sanity (maybe both!), join our two Dataverse and Power BI experts for a deep-dive session on how to build the most effective, highly performant reports, that surface your Dataverse data, while also dealing with those pesky end-user requirements for having everything real-time. In this session, you'll learn:
- The key differences between Import, Direct Query and composite storage modes.
- How both the underlying model and visualization layer impact the performance of your reports.
- The steps involved to build a highly performant underlying model when using DirectQuery mode.
- What tools are available to help us benchmark performance, identify potential problems and resolve them.
If you're a functional consultant or system customizer who works frequently with Power BI, then this is the ideal session for you!Stalker hall - Ground floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
🔥Generative Pages - from Tech to Adoption 🚀
The new Generative Pages feature is set to revolutionise how organisations craft custom, enterprise-grade apps—at speed and scale ⚡✨. With just a prompt, your team can turn ideas into powerful tools tailored precisely to your needs. But building the future isn’t just about the tech—it’s about adoption, quality, and impact 📈.
💡 How do you make the most of your investment? 🧠 How do you architect a robust, secure, and intuitive app from a single spark of imagination?
Join James and Carl as they guide you through this transformational journey:
🎶Live Demos & Real-Life Scenarios — Watch as Generative Pages come to life in real business contexts
🔬 Iterate with Intention — Learn how to evolve your pages through edge cases and testing, making AI your co-creator
🛠️ Know When to Go Manual — Explore when to step away from the prompt and write clean, purposeful code for precision and performance
🔐 Build with Enterprise Principles — Structure your prompts with security, usability, and accessibility in mind ♿
🎯 Drive Real ROI — Define your use cases clearly and design with intention, so your pages deliver real results
🐕🦺 Assist in Workshops — Utilise Generative apps in the brainstorming process, shaping UI/UX in real time
Whether you're a Power Platform veteran or just stepping into the low-code revolution, this session will ignite your inspiration and equip you with practical strategies to elevate your development game
Ready to reimagine app creation—from prompt to production? Let's build the future together 💪✨Woodblock hall - 1st floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
WTF is MCP? (I’ll explain)
If you've spent anytime around AI and Copilot recently you will have seen MCP being talked about. A lot.
But what is MCP? It stands for Model Context Protocol - yeah, that doesn’t help much.
Come along to this session where I will break down what MCP is, why you should understand it, and how you can make use of it in your Copilot or Azure AI Agents.
Expect some MCP in theory, MCP in practice and to make MCP as easy as 1-2-3.
There will be some dev-speak, but I’ll keep it brief.Trafo 2 - Ground floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
From Zero to Hero: How M365 Copilot Can Make You the Office Superstar
Congratulations! You've got a shiny new AI assistant – it’s like having your very own Miss Moneypenny.
Now, will you a) use M365 Copilot to attend even more meetings for you to multitask on and continue your usual work-around-the-clock-routine, or will you b) embrace M365 Copilot to become a more present and compassionate leader/colleague, changing your digital habits for you and your teams better mental health?
If you chose option b, you're in luck! Join this session where Caroline Kallin, MVP in M365 Copilot, will reveal the magical use cases that will help you, as a leader and collague, free up precious time and brainpower. This will not only boost your team's spirit but also make you look like a rockstar.
Examples include: figuring out who spoke the least in meetings (introverts unite!), sending well-deserved praise to a colleague with just the right amount of motivation, finding collaboration time with that elusive colleague, getting Copilot to coach you before a tough conversation, boosting your serotonin by reflecting on the good things you've done during the week, and asking Copilot to detect if someone’s having a rough day so you can cheer them up.Atrium hall - Ground floorThu 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Empower Your Workforce with SharePoint Agents: Creating, Curating, and Collaborating with AI
Step into the future of intelligent collaboration with SharePoint Agents. This session introduces both custom agents and the new SharePoint Knowledge Agent - your AI-powered content curator designed to keep information fresh, relevant, and actionable. Learn how organizations can empower employees by transforming SharePoint sites and documents into scoped agents that serve as subject matter experts, automate workflows, and enhance Copilot responses.
We’ll explore the end-user experience, admin setup, and real-world business scenarios that demonstrate how agents streamline content management, reduce manual effort, and improve decision-making. Whether you're building tailored solutions or leveraging the Knowledge Agent to maintain content quality and governance, this session will show you how SharePoint is leading the way in agentic productivity.Black Box - 1st floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Attack on Token: Why post-auth attacks are the next frontier
According to Microsoft 99% of identity attacks in Entra ID are still passwords attacks, but with about 39.000 token theft attempts per day it’s clear that attackers adapt to more secure authentication methods like MFA, Passkeys or certificate based authentication.
If you want to know how such attacks can unfold, which methods attackers use and how to protect your users, you came to the right session.
As always there is not THE one solution, but we already have a lot of tools available to us defenders and correctly deployed we can mitigate these attacks.Small hall - BasementThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Write Drunk, Edit Sober: Creating Generative Content Responsibly
Let's examine the growing concern over low-quality generative AI content and explore how we can build automated systems that produce high-quality output. You’ll learn to identify the signs of 'AI Slop' and implement strategies that counteract our automation bias, ensuring that the content we create meets the standards we expect. Using session abstract generation as a case study, I will provide practical guidelines to elevate the quality of your AI-generated content.
This talk is designed for developers and IT professionals who are dedicated to improving the quality of AI-driven content in their organisations. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and discover how a little effort can lead to significant improvements in the content we create.Terrace hall - 1st floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Unlocking M365 Copilot with Power Platform custom connectors
Discover how to enhance M365 Copilot capabilities using Power Platform custom connectors!
In this session, you'll learn how to create and secure custom connectors and integrate them into M365 Copilot. We'll explore a real-world scenario, diving deep into the extensibility of M365 Copilot. From creating and securing the custom connector to publishing it as part of an Agent as a connector Action, you'll see all the concepts in practice through a step-by-step demo.
Join us to uncover the potential of Power Platform in transforming your M365 Copilot experience and gain actionable insights to drive innovation within your organization.Stalker hall - Ground floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Building External MCP Servers with Azure Functions
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is redefining how large language models interact with the outside world, enabling them to securely call external tools and APIs. In this session, we’ll explore how Azure Functions — enhanced with the new mcpTool trigger — can act as scalable, cloud-hosted MCP servers.
You’ll learn how to:
• Deploy a Python-based Azure Functions MCP server in minutes using Microsoft’s public sample.
• Define custom MCP tools that allow AI clients (like VS Code Agent Mode) to take real-world actions.
• Implement a practical scenario where MCP tools interact with Azure DevOps to fetch data, automate workflows, and respond to natural language prompts.
• Extend the pattern to integrate with any API or service, from cloud management to enterprise systems.
We’ll cover both the technical setup and real-world use cases, showing how this approach unlocks a new generation of AI-driven automation. By the end, you’ll see how to turn Azure Functions into a powerful bridge between LLMs and the tools your business runs on.Woodblock hall - 1st floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Build Once, Reuse Forever: Practical Power BI Templates for Scalable Reporting
Are you tired of reinventing the wheel every time you start a new Power BI report? When used wisely, templates can transform how you build reports, saving hours of repetitive work. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to create reusable Power BI templates that not only save time but also enforce consistency and deliver a great user experience.
We’ll start with the key benefits of using templates and walk through how to build one from scratch. You'll see practical Power Query examples commonly used in templates, such as capturing the report refresh timestamp, creating a centralized empty table for DAX measures, and other reusable elements that speed up your workflow.
Next, we’ll explore the perfect DAX-based calendar table and dive into layout and navigation design. You'll learn how to create clean, multi-page structures, use buttons for guided navigation, and leverage grouped elements, bookmarks, and hidden panels for tooltips or contextual info.
Before finally packaging everything into a Power BI template (.PBIT), we'll generate Power BI theme using no-code web tool and take it further by editing the JSON metadata to make template creation even faster and more flexible.
Perfect for Power BI users who want to work smarter, not harder, this session will help you build once, and reuse with confidence!Trafo 2 - Ground floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
The 45-Minute Networking Dare (for Techies)
Most conference sessions are about listening and taking notes. This one is different.
In 45 minutes, I’ll challenge you to do something many of us find tricky: actually get to know people during a session. No long lectures, no heavy slides. Instead, we’ll run quick, practical exercises that make it easier to start conversations, share experiences, and build real connections.
You’ll walk out with:
- New contacts you’ve already met in the room
- Simple techniques to make networking feel natural, not forced
- Confidence to keep the conversations going after the session ends
It’s not about collecting LinkedIn connections. It’s about practicing the art of turning strangers into peers - and maybe even future collaborators - right here, right now.Atrium hall - Ground floorThu 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
How I Run My Business with 15 Copilot Agents: A Practical Look Into the Future of Solo Work
Running a consulting and training business alone means wearing many hats — from sales and marketing to content creation and admin. Instead of building a team, I’ve built a system of over 15 Copilot agents that help me manage and scale my work more efficiently.
In this session, I’ll walk you through how I’ve designed and integrated AI agents into my daily operations. These agents support me with research, idea development, proposal writing, course material generation, and even social media content — allowing me to focus on the work that really needs a human.
You’ll also see how I combine Microsoft Copilot with other tools like Make.com, Canva, Notion, and ChatGPT to create connected workflows that save time and reduce repetitive tasks.
This talk is based on real-life usage — not demos or slides from vendor decks. I’ll share what’s working well, what I’ve had to change, and where AI still needs human oversight. If you’re curious how AI can support individual professionals and small businesses in a meaningful and practical way, this session is for you.Black Box - 1st floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Ask Like Socrates: How Street Epistemology Can Make Tech Talks Easier
Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone is stuck in their opinion, and the harder you argue, the less anyone changes their mind? There’s a better way.
This session introduces Street Epistemology – a modern version of the Socratic method. It’s a simple approach where you ask calm, curious questions to understand why someone believes what they believe. It’s often used in conversations where opinions are strong, and arguments don’t work – like tech debates, stakeholder discussions, or team disagreements.
I discovered Street Epistemology this year and found it so interesting that I started using it in my work and daily life. Now I want to share it with you!
You’ll learn:
- What Street Epistemology is and why it works
- How to use it in real situations like “We must use Technology X” or “Feature Y will never work”
- A beginner-friendly toolkit of questions and techniques you can apply right awaySmall hall - BasementThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Platform engineering with Azure DevOps: implementation and lessons learned
Platform engineering is all hype, so this talk is about a practical implementation on Azure DevOps, specifically how to enrich it with software catalog, add reusable templates and guardrails that will be applied to all existing and new repositories.
- What: Building components like software catalog, reusable repo/pipeline templates, and guardrails to Azure DevOps using Backstage and plugins
- Why: Reduce onboarding time and effort, standardize delivery, and improve release safety
- How: Architecture and steps from developer and leadership perspectives; YAML template library, service connections, approvals/Checks with a live demo
- Takeaways: A reference design, implementation checklist and lessons learned
Join this session to learn about Platform Engineering with Azure DevOps so you will be ready for building faster with your existing environments.Terrace hall - 1st floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Mastering Custom Agents for M365 Copilot: Copilot Studio & M365 Agents Toolkit
Discover insights into how you can create intelligent, purpose-built agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using two powerful - but radically different - approaches: Copilot Studio and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. In this session, you’ll understand what each platform excels at, how they complement each other, and how to choose the right path for your specific business needs.
We’ll dive deep into real-world scenarios and demonstrate both low-code and pro-code agent-building experiences through live demos. You’ll see how Copilot Studio can accelerate rapid solution creation with conversational logic, connectors, and integrations; and how the M365 Agents Toolkit empowers developers to craft flexible, highly personalized agents that tap directly into enterprise-grade code, APIs, and business workflows.
This session is specifically designed for a conference audience: expect architectural breakdowns, hands-on examples, and interactive moments you won’t find in documentation or blog posts. Whether you're a power user, solution architect, or developer, you'll walk away with clear decision frameworks, practical implementation strategies, and the confidence to build agents that transform productivity inside your Microsoft 365 environment.
Come unleash the full potential of Copilot extensibility - and get inspired to build your own intelligent agents that make a meaningful impact in your organisation.Stalker hall - Ground floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
So… my client just bought Fabric capacity. Now what?!
Welcome to wild world of Microsoft Fabric—where cloudy buzzwords, massive dreams, and even greater expectations meet! Perhaps your client has heard Fabric can save them money. Perhaps they just want to be hip and hop on the newest tech. Or perhaps they’re moving from legacy Azure services and heard that Fabric is the new buzz.
Regardless of how they arrived, the question is: Now what?
Whether you are the one deploying the solution or your company is the one owning that brand new Fabric capacity, this session is your beginning. We will demystify what services you may actually want, how to select a suitable architecture, what integration makes sense, and help you drive down the sometimes murky road ahead.
Don't worry - this is not theory.We're going to use actual examples from recent projects to demonstrate how these decisions actually work out in practice (spoiler: surprises are in store).
If you've ever found yourself gazing at Fabric unsure of where to start, this session can be your guide map and compass.Woodblock hall - 1st floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Don't Just "Trust Me, Bro" with Your AI
In today's world of fast moving LLMs and generative AI, "trust me" isn't a strategy—it's a liability. AI outputs are inherently non‑deterministic, especially given the factors of different models, temperature settings, provider switches and more. So, “it worked on my AI” is not a sustainable approach. This is why you need AI-aware observability, not just classic logging.
What really defines a working AI solution? At least, it has to be measurable, monitorable, and reliable. We'll cut through some important tracking metrics, including latency, throughput, error rates and token usage.
Since AI is probabilistic, not deterministic like traditional software, we need robust evaluation frameworks. We'll need things like automated evals, human-in-the-loop assessment, user-feedback, or even LLM-driven judging, to confirm expected behavior and detect regressions.
You wouldn't ship a classic app without telemetry, so why treat AI differently? This talk equips developers with the mindset and tools to build AI systems that are intelligent and production-ready: traceable, testable, monitored, and trustworthy.Trafo 2 - Ground floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Impersonate Entra ID during API testing
You built this API for your new product and it is protected with tokens from Entra ID (or any other IDP). To truly test your API, you don't want to disable the authentication part.
How do you actually run your (mandatory) integration tests without disabling authentication? Using a man-in-the-middle attack on your api, you can create tokens that, for the application, appear to be from Entra ID and actually get validated.
Do you want to run your integration tests on your api, without compromising the integrity of your API?
Want to test if the role-based-access-control is working as expected?
Broken access control and Identification and Authentication failures are both in the OWASP top 10, let's make sure you don't make these mistakes.
And while we are at it, I'll show you how you can protect your API against these forged tokensAtrium hall - Ground floorThu 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Running Microsoft 365 and Intune at Scale
Managing Microsoft 365 and Intune works well until your environment grows beyond a single, simple setup.
As organizations expand across regions, business units, or customer tenants, teams start to struggle with inconsistent configurations, undocumented changes, security drift, and limited visibility. What begins as flexibility quickly turns into manual work, increased risk, and uncertainty. This applies to internal IT teams running global environments and to service providers managing Intune across multiple customers.
In this session, Andrew Taylor takes a practical look at the real operational challenges of running Intune and Microsoft 365 at scale and shows how Tenant Manager is used to bring structure, consistency, and clarity across environments, whether you manage one complex organization or many tenants.
You will learn how to:
Standardize onboarding and policy setup across environments using templates and reusable baselines
Detect and report configuration drift against a gold tenant or CIS baseline before it becomes a security or compliance issue
Compare configurations, document differences, and track what changed, who changed it, and why
Roll out policy changes with approval flows, audit logging, and the ability to restore if something goes wrong
Back up critical configurations and restore quickly using versioned restore points
This session is designed for enterprise IT teams, cloud architects, consultants, and Microsoft partners who need governance and visibility, not more scripts to maintain or disconnected portals to keep in sync.Black Box - 1st floorThu 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
Why Your Data Isn’t Ready for AI (And How to Fix It)
Your unstructured data is currently a black box to your AI ambitions. Let’s crack it open. We are pulling back the curtain on a 2-year development journey with top-tier enterprises to show you exactly how to prep, pipeline, and prune your data for Microsoft Copilot and AI Foundry. Forget the marketing fluff—we will demonstrate the concrete engineering steps required to transform "swamp" data into high-fidelity vector context. Stop guessing at your architecture and start building on a proven foundation.
Small hall - BasementThu 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
Standardize your application packaging workflow for Microsoft Intune
Fast, demo‑first session that shows how to prepare, validate, and deliver applications reliably through Intune. See live demonstrations of creating Intune‑ready installers for predictable rollouts. The session uses both free and paid tools from Master Packager to illustrate practical steps you can apply immediately, with real‑world tips for reducing deployment failures and simplifying ongoing app maintenance. Ideal for Intune administrators and endpoint teams who need scalable, repeatable processes for cloud‑first application delivery.
Stalker hall - Ground floorThu 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
From Likes to Insights: Measuring real User Experience in Conversational AI
In conversational AI, it’s unclear whether long dialogues mean users are engaged or simply stuck, and whether short ones indicate efficiency or frustration. Likes and dislikes don’t solve the mystery - most users skip feedback, and when they do, it rarely reflects the whole session.
Without understanding the real user experience, teams risk optimizing blindly. Bots might look successful on paper but fail in practice, frustrating customers and wasting investment. A reliable, scalable way to interpret conversations is critical for improving both satisfaction and ROI.
We’ll embed an AI prompt directly in Copilot Studio to classify user messages and configure memory to preserve conversation context. All telemetry is then streamed into Azure Application Insights as the single source of truth for behavior and performance data. From there, we extend the solution with Power Automate Process Mining, feeding in the classified dialogues to generate a DNA map and dialogue tree. This uncovers bottlenecks, reveals user paths, and enables truly data-driven decision making.
Key takeaways:
✅ How to move beyond likes/dislikes and finally measure real conversational experience with AI-powered classification.
✅ How to use Azure Application Insights and Process Mining together to uncover the DNA of user journeys and pinpoint hidden bottlenecks.
✅ How to turn raw chat telemetry into data-driven decisions that improve both user satisfaction and bot performance at scale.Black Box - 1st floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Cybersecurity Unplugged: AMA with Sami Laiho & Paula Januszkiewicz
Join us for an exclusive Ask Me Anything session with two of the most respected voices in the cybersecurity world—Sami Laiho and Paula Januszkiewicz.
With decades of combined experience in threat mitigation, system hardening, and enterprise security architecture, Sami and Paula bring deep insights into the evolving landscape of cyber defense. Whether you're curious about zero trust, endpoint protection, identity security, or the latest attack vectors, this is your chance to ask the experts directly.
No slides, no scripts—just raw, real answers from two of the best in the business.Small hall - BasementThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Bring Your Own Intelligence: Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents with Azure AI and Ms Graph
What if your Copilot agent could reason over enterprise data and external intelligence at the same time? In this session, we’ll explore how to build declarative agents using the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit and TypeSpec that integrate Azure AI Services (like OpenAI and AI Search) and Microsoft Graph API. You’ll learn how to overcome authentication challenges, define multi-source actions, and create agents that deliver context-rich, secure, and scalable experiences across Microsoft 365.
Key Topics:
- Building declarative agents with TypeSpec and the M365 Agents Toolkit
- Integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search using API key authentication
- Connecting to Microsoft Graph API for CRUD operations and user context
- Handling multi-auth scenarios (API key + OAuth2/Entra ID)Terrace hall - 1st floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Pixel, Purpose, Power: Minecraft as a Playground for Real Teamwork
Minecraft is a game. But at the same time, it’s one hell of a mirror for team behavior.
In this session, I’ll show how you can use Minecraft to create real team challenges in the context of Modern Work and why our brains are wired to love these game mechanics.
Together, we’ll take a look behind the scenes:
What happens in our brains when teams play?
How can gamification principles like feedback loops, reward systems, and progression be harnessed for team growth?
Which challenge formats work best, from scavenger hunts to adventure scenarios to capture-the-flag?
And of course:
How to put all of this into practice in Minecraft, without needing a massive dev team but with Fun and Learnings.
This session is an invitation to rethink teamwork in a playful, powerful way.Stalker hall - Ground floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
From Data to AI: Copilot Studio + Fabric Data Agents
Discover how to turn raw business data into intelligent, conversational experiences without writing code. In this session, you’ll see how Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric provide governed, real-time access to your datasets while Copilot Studio turns those insights into natural, task-driven interactions for users in Teams, web, or mobile. Learn how to go from “Where’s my data?” to “Show me this quarter’s margin by region and draft an action plan” in minutes - securely and at scale.
We’ll walk through an end-to-end blueprint: connecting Fabric items (Lakehouse/Warehouse) to a Data Agent, shaping a semantic context, and exposing it to Copilot Studio as a no-code capability. You’ll understand how to enforce governance, security, and data filters (RLS), how to ground responses to trustworthy sources, and how to chain actions (approvals, notifications, or record updates) so your Copilot doesn’t just answer - it gets work done. Real business scenarios - finance flash reports, sales pipeline health, and operations KPIs - anchor the discussion.
A live demo builds a working solution on stage: wire a Fabric Data Agent, plug it into Copilot Studio, add guardrails, and publish a conversational Copilot that can analyze data, produce summaries, and trigger next steps. You’ll leave with a practical checklist, architecture patterns, and templates to replicate the approach in your tenant, moving your org from dashboards to decisioning with a no-code AI stack.Woodblock hall - 1st floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Get Creative with Power BI: Make these core visuals shine!
Creating reports with Power BI may seem easy at first. However, many people eventually discover that their reports are not being viewed, end-users are confused about navigation, and the whole development process is more complicated than anticipated. This session will address these challenges and provide you with the skills to create visually appealing and actionable data visualizations that serve a clear purpose and effectively guide end-users to take action.
In this session, I will show how to create data visualizations that are visually appealing, intuitive, and actionable, only using Power BI core visuals. Since many of us are creating reports for others who eventually need to maintain them themselves, I think it is important not to involve too many external tools and additional code and instead focussing on keeping it simple and insightful.
The techniques you will learn are practical and can be immediately applied to your work. You will learn how to:
- Ask the right questions to get to know your audience.
- Use DAX to Enhance Visuals: Learn how to modify your visuals using DAX, such as changing colors and highlighting important information, to make critical insights stand out.
- Focus on Key Information: Learn techniques to refine your visuals so they display the most critical data, making sure users can quickly see what matters most.
Join me as we explore how to create insightful, user-friendly visualizations using only Power BI's core visuals, no SVGs or external tools required.Trafo 2 - Ground floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Zero-Downtime Migration: Migrating a live API Management instance to the new v2 SKU
Ever wondered how to migrate your Azure API Management instance from the Premium SKU to the new v2 SKU without any service interruptions? In this fast-paced, demo-rich session, we’ll walk step by step through a real-world migration project that moved production APIs with zero downtime, while modernizing the deployment process.
You’ll see how APIOps, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and Bicep templates come together to:
- Automate provisioning and configuration of API Management v2 instances
- Seamlessly redirect traffic while preserving custom domains, policies, and secrets
- Validate APIs against custom quality gates and avoid breaking changes before the cutover
- Deploy reliably with full rollback strategies
I’ll share lessons learned, gotchas, and proven techniques to help you plan your own migration confidently. Whether you’re running mission-critical APIs or just curious about what’s the improvements in the v2 SKUs, you’ll leave with practical guidance to take back to your team.Atrium hall - Ground floorThu 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Agentic Engineering for Azure-Dataverse Integration: AI-Built Functions and APIs That Actually Work
Transform your Azure-Dataverse integration development from manual coding marathons into systematic, AI-driven engineering. This session demonstrates how to leverage agentic engineering to build professional Azure Functions and Web APIs that seamlessly integrate with Dataverse - all while maintaining enterprise-grade quality and local testability.
Since August 2025, I've been successfully deploying AI-written Azure integrations to production environments. Moving beyond simple AI code suggestions, I'll showcase my proven approach where AI agents write complete, production-ready Azure Functions and Web APIs. These aren't just snippets that compile - they're fully architected services with proper dependency injection, comprehensive error handling, and extensive test coverage that runs flawlessly on your local machine.
What You'll Learn:
* Live demonstration of AI building complete Azure Functions and Web APIs that integrate with Dataverse, including authentication, data operations, and business logic.
* Architecture patterns that enable true local testing without touching cloud resources.
* How to structure your prompts and frameworks to ensure AI generates properly layered code with separation of concerns.
Why This Matters:
The biggest pain point in Azure-Dataverse development isn't writing the code—it's ensuring it works before deployment. By combining agentic engineering with robust local testing strategies, we eliminate the "deploy and pray" cycle. If you're skeptical that AI can write production-quality integration code, this session will change your mind. The technology and techniques are here today - not in some distant future. With the right framework and approach, AI can generate Azure Functions and APIs that are indistinguishable from those written by senior developers, complete with comprehensive test suites that run entirely on your local machine.
Key Takeaways:
* Complete framework for local development and testing of Azure-Dataverse integrations, battle-tested in real customer environments.
* Patterns for AI-generated code that respects Azure best practices.
* Strategies for mocking Dataverse operations and Azure services in local environments.
* Access to open-source templates and frameworks refined through months of actual use.
Stop debugging in production. Join me to discover how agentic engineering makes Azure-Dataverse integration development faster, safer, and surprisingly enjoyable.Black Box - 1st floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Building AI Customer Clones: How to create products people actually use
Your personas are fiction. Beautiful, well-researched fiction – but fiction nonetheless.
They tell you Sarah is a "tech-savvy marketing manager who values efficiency" but can't explain why she abandoned your onboarding flow at step 3. Surveys tell you what people claim they want, not what actually drives their decisions or stops them cold.
Here's what actually works: Digital customer clones built with AI that think, respond, and behave like your real users. Not avatars or chatbots – actual reasoning agents you can interrogate about edge cases, test controversial ideas with, and explore the messy reality of customer behavior.
In this session, I'll demonstrate how to build these clones and use them to make product decisions that actually stick. You'll see a live build: from training data to having real conversations.
What you'll walk away with:
-> Why your current personas are sabotaging product decisions
-> A practical framework for building AI customer clones that actually work
-> How to surface the hidden "why" behind user behavior and requests
-> A new approach to validating ideas, prioritizing features, and shipping products people actually use
Live demo included: Watch me build a customer clone from scratch and interrogate it about a real product decision.Small hall - BasementThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
SharePoint is a full-blooded document management system—now smarter than ever with AI!
Many organizations still struggle with outdated perceptions of SharePoint, seeing it as difficult, limited, or stuck in the past. Meanwhile, their document management needs are growing more complex, and AI is reshaping the way we work with information. The result? Missed opportunities to modernize and streamline knowledge management.
Despite persistent myths, SharePoint has long been a powerful platform for document management—and today, it's evolving faster than ever thanks to innovations in AI. In this updated session, I’ll show you why SharePoint is not only still a valid document management system, but why it's becoming one of the smartest ones out there.
With over ten years of hands-on experience in building real-world knowledge management solutions with SharePoint, I’ll walk you through & demo the key features - both familiar and new - that make it a strong foundation for managing information with AI features.
We'll explore
• Metadata & AI: smarter tagging and classification
• M365 Copilot & agents: how AI supports document tasks and governance
• Secure external sharing & M365 Copilot access to your files
• Search that understands intent.
If you're ready to challenge outdated perceptions and see what modern document management in SharePoint really looks like, this session is for you.Terrace hall - 1st floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Building SOLID PCF controls with Github Copilot 🤖
Tired of messy Typescript and inconsistent PCF projects? Want to speed up your delivery, improve code quality and transform your custom projects? Need a standard way of working across all your components?
This lab will take a novice React developer 🧑💻to the next level, allowing them to provide enhanced user interfaces beyond the standard, utilising themes common with full-stack developers. It will also provide you with approaches to utlising Gen AI across your development and user interfaces, whether Copilot, Claude or others. It will also highlight some common mistakes to watch out for, particularly with new devs (or new AI tooling)
In this lab, we’ll build PCF controls together, using a robust, reusable architecture that brings clarity and structure to every solution.
We’ll dive into how output properties supercharge your controls, enabling dynamic interactions across the form and unlocking powerful, responsive behaviours. By working through a living example and creating code together, this session will enable you for the next wave user interfaces.
If you want to build PCF controls that are not just functional but future-proof, this session is your next step.
Agenda
1. Intros and setting up your environment.
2. What is mobx - building your first view
3. Defining interactions and improving performance
4. Github Copilot in action
5. Reviewing Generated AppsStalker hall - Ground floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Entra Backup? Think You Have One? Think Again!
Data backup has always been a fundamental aspect of IT.
So why is this principle so often neglected when it comes to Microsoft Entra ID?
We’re asking some essential questions: What happens if changes are made to Conditional Access (CA) policies and you suddenly need the version from two days ago? Or more fundamentally: What can actually be backed up at all?
We’ll examine how deleted objects behave and how they can be restored, because unfortunately, this works differently across various Entra resources. We’ll also discuss backup strategies without relying on commercial software.
The session concludes with a discussion of preventive safeguards that, when used smartly, can help avoid losing critical configurations in the first place. Unfortunately, a few of these features are well hidden.
The goal of this presentation is to show you what truly matters in this contextWoodblock hall - 1st floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Unlocking Collective Brilliance: The Human Side of High Performance
High-performing teams aren’t just efficient—they’re the most rewarding, engaging & energizing environments to be part of. When people feel seen, supported, and empowered, they don’t just deliver results—they thrive.
In this session, we’ll explore the human dynamics that fuel exceptional team performance, focusing on how understanding and meeting the real needs of your team members creates a culture of trust, fun, and shared success.
Whether you’re leading a team or part of one, you’ll learn:
- How to foster a culture of shared accountability and psychological safety
- What motivates individuals—and how to tap into it
- How empathy, clarity, and emotional intelligence drive performance
- Practical strategies to build teams that are not only effective, but deeply enjoyable to work in
This session is for anyone who believes that great teams should feel great to be part of. You’ll leave with actionable insights to help your team not just perform, but become the kind of team people are proud to belong to—and excited to show up for.Trafo 2 - Ground floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
DevOps for Power BI: ensuring best practices compliance with Tabular Editor and PBI Inspector
In this session, I will demonstrate why and how to leverage Tabular Editor's Best Practice Analyzer and PBI Inspector within an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline to automate and scale the enforcement of best practices compliance in your organization when developing tabular models and Power BI reports.
The session will consist of two parts:
-The What and the Why: An overview of the tools, the concept of CI/CD, and the reason why integrating these practices is important in the scope of a PowerBI/SSAS project
-Demo: A demonstration showcasing a simple example of how to implement these tools in a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOpsAtrium hall - Ground floorThu 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
When AI Starts Acting: Securing and Governing Agent Fleets
Abstract (WHAT, WHY, HOW, WHO)
AI, Security & M365
WHAT: AI, Security & M365
AI is moving from copilots that draft to agents that execute. This session shows how to design, secure, and govern an enterprise “agent fleet” across Microsoft 365, Security, and AI, using a practical blueprint and a real-world scenario.
WHY: The biggest enterprise risk is not model capability, it’s what happens when an agent’s output turns into action under pressure. Without explicit decision rights, auditability, and a control plane, governance becomes visible only after something goes wrong.
HOW: We will walk through a concrete end-to-end example: an AI agent resolves an IT Ticket. You’ll see how agent identity and least privilege are enforced, how sensitive data access is governed, how tool calls are controlled, and how monitoring and incident response work for agent actions.
WHO: Built for M365 admins, security professionals, architects, and developers who want actionable patterns to move from pilots to production (level 200–300).Black Box - 1st floorThu 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm -
AI Leap - Human intelligence alongside artificial in Estonian schools
Join Linnar Viik, an Estonian information technology scientist, entrepreneur and IT visionary. Also one of the founders of AI Leap (TI-Hüpe) - an initiative to integrate AI into the national education system.
Bringing together the country, systems, AI and most importantly, the people.Black Box - 1st floorFri 8:30 am - 9:15 am -
The 2026 Intune Night Train - Your Fast Track to the Future
Is your Intune environment quietly falling behind? Are you worried your policies, apps, and security measures aren’t keeping pace with the latest in cloud endpoint management? You’re not alone, but you don’t have to stay stuck on the platform.
Climb aboard the Intune Night Train for a fast-track journey from your current setup to the cutting-edge of 2026. Our conductor will guide you through each major stop, showing exactly what needs to be modernized, automated, and secured so you arrive fully equipped for the future.
You’ll go to sleep with concerns about your environment, and wake up with a roadmap to the latest and greatest. The whistle’s blowing, it’s time to catch the train.Black Box - 1st floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Get to the Cloud! Lessons from Ramirent’s Azure Migration
Lifting code to the cloud is easy.
But cloud migration is more than just a technical challenge.
How do you make sure that the migration actually accelerates your business?
How do you avoid turning the journey into maintenance hell?
Should you even migrate at all?
Join us for a chat on Ramirent’s move of 200+ integrations across 9 countries from on-prem to Azure.
In this practical, interview-style session, we try get answers to questions such as:
What are some obvious (and non-obvious) mistakes to avoid in migrating to the cloud?
How to prioritize when everything feels urgent?
How to align migration decisions with business value?
This session may or may not contain humour, in addition to being educational.Small hall - BasementFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Building Production-Ready Dataverse Code with AI
Stop crossing your fingers and hoping AI-generated code works. In this session, we'll move beyond "vibe coding" and into the world of agentic engineering, where AI doesn't just write code that works - it writes code you'd be proud to ship to production.
Since August 2025, I've been successfully deploying AI-written code to real customer environments. The secret? An open-source framework that transforms AI from a coding assistant into a professional developer who writes safe, maintainable, and thoroughly tested Dataverse and Azure code.
What You'll Learn:
* Live demonstration of AI writing production-quality Dataverse plugins, custom APIs, and business logic that looks exactly like senior developer code.
* Deep dive into the framework architecture that enforces coding standards, security patterns, and comprehensive test coverage.
* How agentic engineering differs from typical AI coding: focusing on long-term maintainability, not just immediate functionality.
* Practical strategies to implement this approach in your organization—either by adopting my open-source framework or building your own.
Why This Matters:
While everyone's talking about AI and Copilot, we're actually shipping AI-written code to production. This isn't about prompting tricks or hoping for the best - it's about systematic engineering practices that make AI a reliable member of your development team. The agent even writes more unit tests than most developers (myself included) because it never gets lazy.
Key Takeaways:
* Understanding the shift from ad-hoc AI assistance to systematic agentic engineering.
* Concrete patterns for ensuring AI-generated code meets enterprise standards.
* Access to the open-source framework and implementation guidance.
* Real-world examples from months of production deployments.
Join me to discover how professional Dataverse development with AI isn't just possible - it's already happening, and you can start implementing it tomorrow.Terrace hall - 1st floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Digital Sovereignty on the Azure Cloud
For organizations in the EU, moving to the cloud raises important questions about control, data protection, and compliance with European laws like the GDPR. In this session, we’ll explore what digital sovereignty means in the context of Microsoft Azure.
We’ll look at how to keep control over your data by classifying it based on sensitivity and securing it with tools like Azure Information Protection and Managed HSM. We’ll also cover how Azure supports compliance through data residency guarantees, policies, confidential compute, and the EU Data Boundary. Finally, we’ll examine Azure Local to check if it can help us in this context? We will learn if all that is enough to ensure that personal data stays within Europe.Stalker hall - Ground floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Reimagining Intranet with SharePoint, Engage and Copilot!
Many organisations have a SharePoint intranet, but not everyone uses it. That is often because it is hard to find the right information or it feels like just another place to search.
In this session, you will learn how to turn your intranet into a helpful and smart platform using SharePoint, Viva Engage and Microsoft 365 Copilot. I will show you how Viva Engage helps with clear communication and connection across teams. You will see how SharePoint can bring structure to your content and how Copilot and SharePoint Agents can make your intranet easier to use.
By showcasing practical examples, like using Copilot-powered web parts to answer questions about policies or projects, and SharePoint Agents that help users find what they need without needing to ask a colleague. You will also learn how to set up your content so that Copilot understands it and gives useful answers.
This session is for IT admins and decision makers who want to improve the way people use the intranet. You will leave with practical tips on setup, permissions, and content quality to make your intranet more helpful and more used.
What you will learn:
How to combine SharePoint, Viva Engage and Copilot in your intranet
How to use SharePoint Agents in your intranet
How Copilot powered webparts can help users find and understand information
What you need to prepare to get the best results from AIWoodblock hall - 1st floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
When Dashboards Fail: Automating Power BI Monitoring and Recovery with Power Automate
Failed Power BI refreshes and broken reports can derail decision making. This session shows how to build an automated monitoring and recovery system using Power Automate,and Copilot. We will walk through detecting refresh failures, alerting stakeholders, diagnosing the root cause, and triggering fixes without manual intervention. Perfect for data analysts and BI teams who want to reduce downtime and keep stakeholders informed with minimal firefighting.
Trafo 2 - Ground floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
Building the Ultimate AI Assistant for Customer Service: Choosing the Best Tools and Platforms
Delivering exceptional customer service requires more than just human effort—it demands intelligent automation and AI-driven assistance. But with so many tools, apps and services available, how do you choose the right solution for your needs?
In this session, we’ll explore how to design and implement a customer service AI assistant using Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. You'll learn how to combine a chatbot on your public-facing website for customer inquiries with a personal assistant in Microsoft Teams, empowering you with real-time insights and automation.
Join me to discover best practices and real-world examples that will help you build an AI-driven solution that enhances both customer experience and operational efficiency.Atrium hall - Ground floorFri 9:30 am - 10:15 am -
🧠 Model Context Protocol vs. Connectors: Rethinking Integration in the Power Platform 💡
Model Context Protocol (MCP) quickly became the thing everybody talks about who is doing AI in the moment and its adoption rate across different tech providers is rapid. Microsoft has embraced it as well and is combining it with an old friend of ours: (Custom) Connectors.
In this session, Mats & Daniel will break down the differences between Model Context Protocol (MCP) and traditional connectors in the Power Platform. Attendees will learn how each works, where they fit best, and how they compare. The session includes practical demos showing how to get started with MCP and how it can work alongside connectors—not replace them. It’s aimed at solution architects, developers, and IT leaders looking to modernize how they build integrations.
Do not miss this session if you want to get your AI solutions to the next level which will be increasingly connected to other system and working with your data. We will discuss if connectors together with MCP will get us to the true agentification which was promised.Black Box - 1st floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Become a Maester in Microsoft 365 Security
Is your Microsoft tenant secured correctly? Do you know all the right switches to turn and what checkboxes to tic?
What if there was a free tool you can setup to automatically scan your Microsoft tenant configuration and provide you with a beautiful actionable reports on a daily bases?
We will show you how to get started with Maester, and as the actual reports start rolling in, we will fix some of the (intentional) misconfigurations.
Measter is an open-source powershell module you can run on (free) Github Actions, and if you're not using it just yet, this will be the perfect session to get you started.Small hall - BasementFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Dear Copilot, Please Do The Thing - Mastering The Art Of Instructions
Let's face it - AI doesn't read our minds (yet). But what it can do, it does follow instructions. Pretty well even. If you know how to talk to it.
Or should I say: how you instruct it to do so.
We'll dive into the magical world of telling Copilot and your agents exactly what you want, without sounding like a robot yourself.
Learn how to charm your agent with just the right words, handy commands, and helpful tricks to reach your implementation goals.Terrace hall - 1st floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
SharePoint Advanced Management - Mastering Data Governance and Oversharing for Copilot and Agents
This session is all around the now essential feature from the "SharePoint Advanced Management"-Suite. We'll discover what great possibilities we will have with it to bolster our data governance and get ahead of oversharing.
We'll delve into how this feature can improve IT governance, enhance security and compliance, and provide AI-powered insights. I will show about policies, lifecycle management, mitigation actions and strategies to prevent content sprawl. We'll also explore optimizing access control for Copilot and Agents, managing inactive sites, and redefining data governance. By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how SharePoint Advanced Management can help your daily IT operations and address key concerns in oversharing of IT administrators, data stewards, and IT leaders.
Key takeaways include:
- How to get data governance with SharePoint Advanced Management implemented quickly
- Enhancing security and compliance
- Leveraging AI-powered insights for better decision-making
- Use Access Review, Restricted Content Discover and Restricted Site Access to limit access for sensitive sites
Perfectly suitable if you are planning an Copilot Pilot or Implementation OR if you already using it and want to stay ahead and develop processes to permanently manage your data and oversharing risks.Stalker hall - Ground floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
It Matters Who Builds Our Technology
Technology isn't neutral. It shows the perspectives and biases of the people who build it. When development teams lack diversity, the products they create often exclude, marginalize, or even harm users who don't share their experiences and assumptions.
This talk challenges the idea that "code doesn't discriminate". It will look into examples of how homogeneous teams have created products with problematic assumptions embedded in their core functionality. But this talk isn't just about pointing out problems. We will explore how bias enters the development process in different stages, and discuss successful examples of what happens when diverse perspectives are included.
This talk will give the attendees some tools for self-reflection, and practical strategies for pushing for more inclusive development practices. After listening to this talk, you will be able to build better products, and understand, how your actions can affect the users, and not discriminate them.Woodblock hall - 1st floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Mastering Power BI Documentation System – Not Just an Afterthought
“You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
We all have a vision for great documented Power BI solutions - but well to often we push it at the end, forget it or can't remember it.
This session will suggest a well-designed Power BI documentation systems that lead to progress, even when motivation is low.
In this session, you'll get hands-on methods for making documentation a natural part of your Power BI workflow.
We'll explore Power Query metadata, Table Groups and scripting in Tabular Editor, INFO.VIEW DAX functions, external tools, model layout views, TMDL view documentation, VertiPaq Analyzer in DAX Query views, Semantic Link Labs, and JSON theme documentation.
Everything is tied together in a user-friendly, accessible app – where the end user meets the documentation directly.
This isn’t just inspiration – it’s a system you can take home and apply.
A Power BI documentation system – not just an afterthoughtTrafo 2 - Ground floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Azure Networking - A love story between a Hub and a Spoke
Join my session on Azure Networking as we explore the creation of virtual networks, VPN connections, and network peering. This hands-on session will guide you through the process of building virtual networks and establishing secure connections. Learn how to configure VPN gateways, for seamless connectivity between on-premises networks and Azure virtual networks. Discover the power of network peering to connect virtual networks within Azure and enable secure communication across different network boundaries. Gain practical skills and knowledge to enhance your Azure Networking projects and unlock the true potential of cloud networking.
Atrium hall - Ground floorFri 10:30 am - 11:15 am -
Mastering Multi-Agent Madness With Microsoft Agent Framework
Let's discover how to effectively combine pre-built orchestrations with custom workflows to create sophisticated multi-agent applications. Learn how agents can communicate to achieve greater results or when a more deterministic approach is necessary to prevent communication breakdowns. We will also cover adding tools to your agents, recognising when to solicit human input, and leveraging Microsoft Agent Framework with the Azure AI Agent Service.
This talk is perfect for software engineers eager to dive into the world of agents. Expect many demos that will pave the way for you to build your first multi-agent application confidently!Black Box - 1st floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Supercharge Your Copilot-Driven Collaboration with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
Ready to geek out and supercharge your productivity? Join us for a hands-on session tailored for code-curious Teams power users!
Discover how to build smart, AI-driven agents using the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. We'll guide you through creating agents that handle routine tasks - automating away the tedious tasks and making you more efficient.
If you're eager to boost your coding skills and dive into advanced automation, this is your chance to see just how intuitive - and occasionally, surprisingly tricky - it can be.
Who knows, by the end of the session, you might even be able to hack together a bot that saves you from having to talk to your coworkers...
Key Takeaways:
1. Microsoft 365 Agents SDK Basics: Dive into the fundamentals of building self-hosted agents with ease.
2. Effortless AI Integration: Uncover how to seamlessly integrate AI services for smarter, more efficient agents.
3. Real-World Applications: See in real time how a simple agent can transform team collaboration, and learn from the bumps we hit along the way!
So what are you waiting for? Let's dive in and make Teams collaboration more seamless and exciting!Small hall - BasementFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Write it Back: Enhancing Power BI with Data Writebacks and Translytical Workflows
Unlock the next level of business intelligence by integrating application workflows using write-back capabilities, enabling seamless data entry and powerful interactions directly within the dashboards. Learn about technical implementation, licensing considerations, and potential use cases of writebacks, all including implementation snippets.
The session incorporates insights from market research on existing writeback solutions. Participants will gain an understanding of leading writeback solutions such as Insightsoftware's Power ON and Inforiver’s Writeback, learning about their pricing models, key features, and how they compare to custom implementations using Microsoft’s Power Apps, Power Automate, or Translytical Workflows. By addressing the strengths and limitations of these solutions, the workshop equips attendees with the tools to assess and implement the right approach for their organization.Terrace hall - 1st floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Getting Started with Microsoft Purview: Data Protection and Labeling Best Practices
Getting started with data protection in Microsoft 365 doesn't have to be overwhelming. In this session you’ll learn how to lay a solid foundation for data security and compliance using Microsoft Purview combining built-in capabilities with advanced techniques like custom sensitive information types and regular expressions. We'll align with Microsoft’s best practices while drawing on real-world experience to help you protect what matters most.
We’ll walk through how to classify your data using sensitivity labels, apply policies for protection and governance, and start small with scalable implementation strategies. You’ll also see how to engage users directly through Policy Tips, for example by alerting them when they attempt to share sensitive data like Social Security Numbers (SSNs), helping build awareness and drive a culture of security.
This session is ideal for organizations beginning their data protection journey or looking to structure their approach more effectively. Expect practical demos, a clear roadmap, and actionable insights to help you kick off or refine your data protection strategy in Microsoft Purview.Stalker hall - Ground floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Streamlining Power Platform environment access and security role management with Entra ID
Does the complexity and clumsiness of access and security role management in Power Platform and Dataverse leave you feeling unsure of how to keep things under control at scale? Do you find yourself wishing you could bring in the familiar and powerful access management and governance functionalities of Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) to Power Platform and Dataverse?
If so, this is the right session for you!
Through demos and insights, I will walk you through a proven, repeatable and easy-to-understand strategy for managing access to Power Platform environments and the Dataverse security roles in them - all powered by familiar Entra ID capabilities and only utilizing native Microsoft features.
During the session, I will show you how to..
* Manage Dataverse security roles with Entra ID groups
* Control access to Power Platform environments in Entra ID
* Clean up security role assignments from stale user accounts
* Enable easy an self-service access and role management for environment owners - no admin permissions required!
* Implement just-in-time activation (with optional business justification requirements) for System Administrator and other roles - and monitor the use of these roles over time
The end-to-end approach I share and demonstrate in this session is based on a set of solutions I've researched, developed, validated and implemented for real organizations over the last years. I will equip you with a set of patterns you can start implementing immediately in your own (or a customer's) organization.Woodblock hall - 1st floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
How 2 mad scientists career switched to change the UK AI scene
How a Chemist and Biologist career switched to tech and started multi-cloud AI communities for thousands...let us share our stories. AI is all about experimentation and rapid learning...last year the CTT keynote inspired us to launch UK wide and now our inclusive AI communities help us learn faster with friends.
Trafo 2 - Ground floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Event-Driven DevOps: Automating Azure with Event Grid System Topics
Modern DevOps on Azure isn’t just about pipelines, it’s about making your platform reactive. With Event Grid system topics, you can automatically respond to changes in your Azure environment, triggering workflows the moment resources are created, updated, or deleted.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- How system topics work and how they fit into DevOps workflows
- Connecting Event Grid to various automation and orchestration tools
- Different practical use cases for event-driven automation
- A live demo where a resource change triggers a deployment-related automation
After this session, you’ll walk away with practical techniques to make your Azure platform more event-driven, reducing manual steps, closing feedback loops, and bringing DevOps automation to the next level.Atrium hall - Ground floorFri 11:45 am - 12:30 pm -
Modern Third-Party Patching in Intune
Keeping third-party applications up to date in Intune sounds simple, until you are the one responsible for making it work in production.
In reality, teams spend time rebuilding packages, maintaining detection logic, managing rollout waves, and reacting when updates fail. At scale, this quickly becomes manual, fragile, and hard to sustain, especially as security expectations and patch frequency continue to increase.
In this session, Dean Ellerby shows how Robopack takes a different approach to third-party patching in Intune. Instead of relying on custom scripts and constant repackaging, Robopack focuses on automated discovery, tested packaging, and controlled rollout that you can trust.
You will see how to:
• Discover unmanaged third-party applications already installed across your Intune environment
• Automatically build and maintain application packages with reliable detection logic
• Roll out updates in staged deployment waves with clear visibility and control
• Pause or roll back updates safely when something does not go as planned
• Keep patching consistent as you move from Configuration Manager to Intune, or operate in both
This session is designed for Intune admins, cloud architects, security-focused teams, and Microsoft partners who want to reduce patching effort without giving up control.
Clear. Practical. Built for real-world Intune environments.Black Box - 1st floorFri 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
Patch My PC: Saving IT Pros Time, Sanity, and Security Since 2011
The problems are ones you know: Ransomware is a global threat that costs businesses hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Since 2011, we’ve been here to help companies automate software patching, saving them time, hassle and stress that exposures could turn into damaging and expensive incidents.
Our customers have spoken: Patch My PC just works, and we intend to keep it that way.
We recently released a few new features in our stack that help keep our product fresh and functional in an ever-changing tech landscape (We welcome our AI overlords).
We can confidently say that our product is:
Your go-to analytics platform: Advanced Insights for Intune is coming to give you more visibility and control than ever before.
Your trusted security partner: Get notified when a problem impacts you, and we’ll help you remediate it ASAP.
Your ally in future-proofing: We created the first realistic solution to migrate your ecosystem from ConfigMgr to Intune.
Your almost-invisible morale booster: IT pros, security teams, and users agree, our product improves their on-the-job experience.
So, come out and see us at Cloud Tech Tallinn and get a front-row seat to the future.Small hall - BasementFri 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
Backup importance in the heart of the Baltics
Data loss, cyber attacks, or system failures. How to backup modern environments in 2026. How to build a resilient recovery plan that ensures business continuity.
Stalker hall - Ground floorFri 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm -
Congratulations, you are agile. Your product is still late.
Agile was supposed to fix everything. Faster delivery. Better collaboration. Happier customers. That’s what the consultants promised. That’s what the slide decks still say.
And yet… your product is still late. Still not what the customer asked for. Still somehow worse than last quarter.
Companies are still burning millions on "Agile transformations" that never end. Teams are drowning in meetings, sprint boards, and Jira tickets. Leadership still doesn’t know what’s going on, but now they have new words for it.
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe: They were meant to be tools, not religions. But somewhere along the way, companies stopped solving problems and started worshiping the process itself.
I’ve seen teams spend more time debating backlog grooming than improving the product. I’ve watched companies mistake motion for progress, convinced that sprinting fast and often enough will somehow fix their broken foundation.
If your organization is chaotic, misaligned or hiding behind process, Agile won’t save you. Customers don’t care what framework you use. They care if you solve their problems and too many teams forgot how to do that.
What You’ll Walk Away With...
... how to stop Agile from getting in the way of actual work.
... how to fix your product development process without another Agile coach.
... the questions leadership should ask before jumping on agile.
... how to tell if your Agile setup is making things better or just making things busier.Black Box - 1st floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Privileged Access Strategy: Best Practices and Common Mistakes when Tiering Cloud and AD
Gain insights from real-life experiences on how to craft an effective privileged access strategy that supports "Just Enough, Just In Time" access while maintaining control and avoiding potential security breaches.
Explore the various use-cases, potential pitfalls, and limitations inherent in implementing privileged access using the Microsoft Enterprise Access Model, tailored to scale across multi-cloud environments and on-premise Active Directory setups.
Discover how to manage delegations to IT personnel and end-users using Entra Privileged Identity Management. This session will showcase specific examples of privileged access designs for platforms like Power BI, Azure Landing Zones, Intune, and more.
Still using legacy Active Directory, but would like to get PIM for AD, then come to this session to see it - based on PIM for Entra ID combined with AD TTL group membership.
By the session's conclusion, you'll also have learned about various useful (and free) community add-ons developed by the speaker, including tools like PIM Assignment Revoker, PIM Assignment Wizard, PIM Assignment Exporter, and PIM Baseline Automation.Small hall - BasementFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
UX Lessons from Gaming: Building a Power App for Copilot Adoption
What if we could take the captivating principles of gaming and apply them to solve real business challenges? In this session, you’ll discover how to use Game UX principles—like progression systems, feedback loops, and rewards—to create engaging experiences in Power Apps. We’ll focus on the example of a Copilot Adoption App, showcasing how a gamified learning path can guide users to explore and master new tools step by step.
Through practical demonstrations, you’ll learn how Power Apps can leverage gaming-inspired design to boost user engagement and drive adoption of complex processes like Copilot. Whether you’re looking to simplify user onboarding, make workflows fun, or increase engagement in any business scenario, this session will equip you with actionable insights to get started.Terrace hall - 1st floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
The Copilot Control System explained - settings you need to know
Copilot offers powerful features—but do you know which settings truly matter? And where to find them? The answer is: Copilot Control System
In this 45-minute session, you’ll get a concise yet comprehensive overview of the most important admin controls, along with my best practice recommendations. We’ll walk through key configuration options, discuss their impact on end users, and ensure you know how to optimize Copilot for your organization.
Topics include:
✅ Access to website content & Bing Web Plugin
✅ Copilot licensing & user pinning
✅ Copilot in Edge – configuration & limitations
✅ Loop sites & Copilot
✅ DLP & SharePoint control
✅ Copilot agent management
Additional topics may be covered depending on the latest releases. This session isn’t just for admins—it’s for anyone working with Copilot who wants to maximize its potential.Stalker hall - Ground floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Help, my Azure Databricks is too expensive! Some tips and tricks.
Azure Databricks is expensive. Running a cluster can cost thousands, if not 10s of thousands of Euros per month. Therefore, Databricks is only suitable for the biggest of datasets. Seems to be common knowledge… right?
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t need to be this way. With some tips and tricks, Azure Databricks can be suitable for processing any kind of dataset. Without breaking the bank.
Not convinced? During this talk, I will show you how. Together, we follow several scenarios that unnecessarily increase your monthly spend. By understanding what these scenarios are, and how to solve them, we will get a grip on that Azure bill.
By the end of this talk, you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of “DBU”
- Create an Azure Databricks cluster in a cost-effective manner
- Stream data and run batch jobs in a way that doesn’t break the bank
- Use the Azure cost-calculator effectively
- Set budgets and alerts on your Azure subscriptionsWoodblock hall - 1st floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Welcome to Copilot Park: Bringing AI to Life for Customer Insights
Welcome to Jurassic Park, where the dinosaurs are back, but the visitors aren’t. After the recent “incidents,” the park needs a bold marketing strategy to win back trust and boost ticket sales.
In this interactive session, you’ll step into the role of the park’s marketing team. Your mission: use Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to create smarter campaigns that bring visitors roaring back.
We’ll show you how to enhance the default Copilot, making it more powerful and fun, and demonstrate real marketing use cases that go far beyond text generation. Together, we’ll build custom Copilot features live, automate processes, and design campaigns that even a T-Rex would love. Maybe we even see one of these rare autonomous agents.
What you’ll take away:
- How to customize Copilot with Copilot Studio for real-world marketing scenarios
- Ways to integrate it with Customer Insights for smarter workflows
- Practical examples of AI-driven marketing beyond content creation
- A creative approach to making AI tools engaging and useful for your teamTrafo 2 - Ground floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Why you and your business should be vibe coding
This is an interactive session so bring your big voices and be expected to engage.
In this session, I’ll show you why you and your business should be 100% invested in vibe coding.
I will break down what vibe coding really means, why it changes the way we build, and how you can put it into practice immediately.
Bring your ideas we will build them live. Along the way, we’ll explore VS Code, GitHub Spark, and the tools that make vibe coding not just possible, but powerful.
Developers may leave a little frustrated (and maybe even hate me for making it look this easy), but business leaders will see the bigger opportunity: how vibe coding can accelerate delivery, reduce friction, and transform innovation at pace.
I’ll also share lessons learned from implementing this approach in real world scenarios, so you leave not just inspired, but ready to act.Atrium hall - Ground floorFri 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm -
Building Your Azure Arc Foundation: Strategy, Security, and Scale
This session covers Azure Arc for Servers implementation from planning to production. We'll start with defining your hybrid strategy and what you actually want Arc to accomplish before deploying any agents. You'll learn the key configuration decisions including agent modes, extension management, and permission inheritance through management groups. I'll also cover cost planning for the Azure services that make Arc useful and how to monitor your Arc infrastructure health. By the end, you'll have a clear implementation approach that works beyond the demo environment.
Black Box - 1st floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
The Fake IT Support – How Black Basta Masters Social Engineering
Imagine getting a message on Microsoft Teams:
“Hi, this is IT support – we noticed some suspicious activity in your inbox.”
What sounds like help is actually the start of a targeted ransomware attack.
Black Basta now impersonates internal IT staff via Teams to trick employees into installing remote access tools like AnyDesk or Quick Assist — gaining a foothold into enterprise networks.
In this session, we walk through the anatomy of this attack: from initial access and user manipulation to full-blown ransomware deployment. We’ll close with lessons from leaked internal chat logs of Black Basta operators — offering rare insights into their mindset, structure, and how they run their extortion business. At the end I'll provide some good lessons learned, that you can prepare your organization with.Small hall - BasementFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Spark joy in Microsoft 365: Marie Kondo your data
Join us for an engaging, life-changing, and sometimes “on no do I need to delete things” session where we apply the principles of Marie Kondo's KonMari Method™ to declutter and organize your Microsoft 365. In this session we will guide you through a step-by-step process to tidy up your digital workspace, ensuring that every email, document, folder, site, and Team sparks joy and serves a clear purpose.
Objectives:
• Understand the core principles of the KonMari Method™ and how they can be applied to digital spaces.
• Learn practical techniques for assessing and organizing your content.
• Develop a personalized plan to maintain a tidy and efficient place to store your and your team's data.
By the end of this session, you'll have a clear and actionable plan to transform your workplace into a well-organized, efficient, and joyful digital workspace. Say goodbye to clutter and hello to productivity!Terrace hall - 1st floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Copilot Strategy & Business Value
Microsoft has announced many Copilots across their entire range of products, which provide generative AI capabilities embedded in our every day tools and systems. Copilot is already starting to revolutionise how people work - how they write code, manage security, build apps and even how they work day-to-day in their office apps.
Yet for enterprise organisations embarking on this Copilot and AI journey, there are many questions about the strategy for deploying and adopting Copilots, and due to the premium price tag, a significant focus on driving business value and realising return on investment.
In this session, I will share:
- an overview of learnings and observations gained through almost 2 years of deploying Copilot for enterprise organisations
- the role that Copilot plays within a broader AI strategy
- the foundations that the most successful organisations have in place
- the importance of a robust change enablement and adoption strategy
- the roadmap from personal productivity to business value
- the role of role-based Copilots and extensibility in unlocking business valueStalker hall - Ground floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Power Platform Pipelines done right!
I have spent the last two years working with Power Platform Pipelines on a customer project - and MAN have I learned a thing or two. And now I want to share them with you.
In this session, you will learn the basics, and I will share with you all the mistakes I made, the way we should have done it, and the very important fine print from Microsoft Docs that you need to know about.
Deploying packages downstream with Power Platform Pipelines seems simple enough, but some best practices and strategies go all the way back to data modelling and the planning phase of your project - and that's why thinking about ALM at the start of your project will save you time and effort at the finish line.
What we will cover is
- What is Power Platform Pipelines
- Environment Strategy
- Solution Strategy
- Development Practices
- Basic pipeline setup
- Service Principals
- Connection References, Custom Connectors, and other Gotcha's!
You will take back practical tips and tricks, know about the pitfalls, and have a proven set of best practices from a real-life customer project from this session,Woodblock hall - 1st floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Power Through the Overload: Building a Sustainable Career in Power Platform
Do you ever feel like you are struggling to keep up?
The rapid evolution of the Power Platform can lead to a flood of information, leaving even the most driven professionals feeling overwhelmed.
This session explores the practical strategies to prioritize learning, manage information overload, and focus on the skills that matter most. We'll share actionable advice on maintaining a balanced approach to career development whilst safeguarding personal wellbeing.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to level up sustainably, this session will equip you with the tools to thrive, not just survive.Trafo 2 - Ground floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Dashboards are Dead, Talk to your Data!
I have spent the better part of my career designing, refining, and maintaining dashboards in Power BI to help my clients answer business questions. Until now.
In this session, we will break free from predefined visuals and fixed dashboards. It is time to talk to your data!
Over the past years, everybody has been exposed to AI LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
What if I told you that you could chat with your data, just like you can chat with your AI?
With Fabric Data Agents, you can! You get a chat interface that understands the context of your data. You can ask questions in natural language (no need to learn SQL or DAX!) and get answers, fast.
In this session we will start by explaining some of the basics behind the Fabric Data Agents.
Then we'll jump into the prerequisites in order to start using the Data Agents.
After all the boring stuff is done I will take you into a live demo of setting up the Agent, tuning it to get accurate responses, and will show how we can chat with our own data to generate insights and drive decision making.
You'll walk away from this session understanding the following:
- Why this shift from dashboards to chatting matters for you and your organisation
- How Fabric Data Agents actually work "under the hood"
- How to build, configure, and use your first Fabric Data Agent
If you are involved in building modern data platforms, please consider Data Agents as an amazing tool to help users find insights faster!Atrium hall - Ground floorFri 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm -
Cybersecurity - from Disabler to Enabler
What if security didn’t slow you down—it made you faster? In this high-energy keynote, Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer of Adminize, reframes cybersecurity from “cost center and blocker” to “strategic accelerator.” - an Enabler. Drawing on real-world cases from enterprises of all sizes, Sami shows how strong identity, least privilege, secure-by-default endpoints, and trustworthy Privileged Access Workstations, don’t just reduce risk—they unlock safer innovation, quicker onboarding, smoother audits, and more productive users. Expect pragmatic patterns you can apply next week and cutting attack surface without cutting velocity. You’ll leave with a playbook to align CISOs, IT, and the business around outcomes that matter: resilience, speed, and user joy.
Black Box - 1st floorFri 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm