SharePoint administrators, end users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies and Office 365 will meet for the 2nd annual SharePoint Saturday Vancouver on April 8, 2017 at UBC Robson Square located at 800 Robson St.
Attendees will be able to register for a variety of sessions presented by seasoned speakers and Microsoft MVP's presenting a wide range of SharePoint and Office 365 topics.
Our Call for Sponsors and General Registration are CURRENTLY OPEN, so sign up for this FREE event today! We look forward to welcoming you all to another great day of learning, networking and fun!
Location:
UBC Robson Square located at 800 Robson St, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Top 10 Digital Workplace design patterns
Level: 100
Track: End-User, Business
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today. For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Speaker(s)
Coming Up with a Content Management Strategy for the New Digital Workplace
Level: 100
Track: End-User, Business
How often have you heard "I can't find anything in our organization" or “Can you send me X, I can’t find it” echo within your IMs and meetings? Chances are you are hearing this loud and clear from organizations of all sizes and structures. Planning content management in the new age digital workplace can seem like a daunting task – but it isn’t. In this session, I will lead you through a real life project with a global resource organization where I helped them plan a global content management strategy, by consolidating their content sprawl and aligning this strategy with the tools available with Office 365.
Speaker(s)
BA Lead Softlanding Solutions
Develop, complete and submit forms on your phone, and you can go anywhere.
Level: 200
Track: End-User, Business
Today’s workforce is mobile, and if you want to get the best work out of your people, you need to give them every tool it takes to be productive on the go.
You’ll learn how to bring forms and mobile together in your Nintex Workflow platform, helping you cut costs, save time, eliminate manual processes and boost productivity. You’ll also see how to:
Give your team access to content from everywhere.
Make it easier for your employees to collaborate.
Keep your people productive when they’re not behind their desks.
Any form. Any device. Anywhere.
Demo/presentation illustrating how Nintex Workflow, Forms and Nintex Mobile lets you:
1. Design forms quickly and easily.
2. Generate forms for browsers, including tablets and mobile.
3. Publish to the cloud in one click.
4. Build comprehensive mobile business applications.
5. Create and manage auditable workflows to automate and standardize your business processes
Speaker(s)
Director SharePoint Services
How Expedia Deployed a Global Intranet to 20,000 users on SharePoint 2016
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Join Perry Underdown, Manager of SharePoint and Web Tools at Expedia and Michal Pisarek, Director of Product at Bonzai Intranet, to learn how Expedia recently launched a SharePoint Intranet to over 27,000 employees worldwide. Utilizing SharePoint 2016 and Bonzai Intranet, the travel-tech giant quickly deployed their new intranet across multiple continents to unite the organization and over 17 of its subsidiaries.
In this engaging and interactive session, you will learn about the challenges Expedia faced in this massive undertaking. Specifically, Perry and Michal will focus in on the learnings that made the project a major success including governance, change management, and strategic execution. They will also uncover the technology and methods they used to cut costs and decrease the project's time-to-delivery.
This session is a must for anyone who wants to successfully deploy an Intranet on SharePoint or Office 365 or understand how to better leverage the platform for communication, collaboration and engagement.
Speaker(s)
Founder Bonzai Intranet
Mobile Era of Knowledge Management – Controlled Distribution is Vital!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Mobile device use is here, and today’s enterprise must be agile enough to respond to rapidly evolving employee, client, industry and regulatory demands. In this new digital workplace, mobility plays a crucial role in enabling a highly productive workforce. The millennial workforce is mobile across geographies, time zones and devices. Mobile information governance involves securely enabling the right content to be available to the right people at the right time. Attend this session to learn how to distribute enterprise content in a controlled way – to both empower mobile collaboration, while governing mobile activity and content.
Speaker(s)
New Dawn of SharePoint Apps or "How I Learned to Love No-Code Apps"
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
As we move to the cloud with Azure and Office 365, the world of SharePoint development has changed. No longer are developers using server-side or Sandbox solutions on the servers. Instead, they are building cloud apps that either run on other providers like Azure or AWS or the apps run on the client-side, in your browser. However, with new systems like Flow, Power Apps, and Logic Apps within Azure, many systems that people relied on developers to create are now being built by power users. We will actually go through some simple apps and workflows in Power Apps, Flow and Azure Logic Apps.
Speaker(s)
O365: Learn to Fly
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Learn to Fly. Although one of my favourite Foo Fighters songs, its also a sentiment I really like when talking about end-user adoption. O365 is being rolled out worldwide to organizations of all sizes. Although each is unique and has different needs, they all have one thing in common: the need for end-user adoption. One of the key aspects of O365 is collaboration and the numerous services that are deployed to support it. Ironically, although many of the features are built with ease of use in mind, if you’ve ever watched a first-time user of O365 you’ll soon realize it’s not always intuitive for end-users to know how it all works together. To realize the benefits of O365, we need to ensure it is fully adopted across the organization and second-nature in users’ day-to-day collaborative work processes. Although you can take the “wing it/organic” approach, you may not get the results you are hoping for. What are some strategies and tactics you can use to stack the odds in your favour for a high degree of adoption in your organization? I’ll share my 3-step strategy and some specific tactics for each so your end-users can fly with O365!
Speaker(s)
SharePoint/O365 Consultant NexNovus
Office 365 Groups Boot Camp
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
The introduction of Office 365 Groups has created waves in recent months. As the adoption of Groups begins to grow and the offering matures, numerous individuals have begun to ask: “How do I manage groups?” “Are groups different from Teams?” “Is Yammer obsolete?” Excitement about new features comes mixed with concerns on how to incorporate Groups, combining Groups with existing business workloads and the other functionality of Office 365.
This is a 100-200 level session focusing on everything you need to know to get started with Groups and how to avoid the top pitfalls in the early stages of adoption.
Speaker(s)
Senior Solutions Architect, AvePoint Client Services AvePoint Canada
Power BI for the Faint of Heart - Building an Interactive Report Step-by-Step!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
You've heard about Power BI, and you've seen it, but you haven't yet rolled up your sleeves and got your hands dirty. It looks like it is really easy, but sometimes it helps to have someone step you through it the first time to help you hit the ground running. We will grab various public data sources, join them together in a model and build an interactive pièce de ré·sis·tance on the visual design surface!
Speaker(s)
Quick! Build me an intranet ... and make it so that everyone loves it
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Many of us are familiar with this part "Build me an intranet" Many hope that everyone will love it, but how do you make sure? This session will focus on tools and techniques to effectively engage your stakeholders in prototyping of your own brilliant intranet
Speaker(s)
SharePoint and the Story of the Mutant Frog
Level: 100
Track: Developer, End-User, Business
Once upon a time, there lived a sad mutant frog who felt he had no purpose in life. Until one day, he was discovered by the SharePoint team to give magical High Fives to employees throughout the land. Everyone rejoiced about how simple it was to recognize their fellow workers and everyone lived happily ever after using SharePoint.
Follow Tom as he tells the story of how they used SharePoint to develop a recognition and rewards program for their company. They took a stated need from the business and brainstormed a solution from concept to theme to functionality in 30 minutes. Less than 24 hours later, they were demoing the site for the business owners. With our mutant frog giving out "High Fives", the feedback was overwhelming positive, and the site is now available for use to over 5000 employees.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to set up your team and the mindset you need to have to be able to effectively brainstorm
- How to develop a theme for your site that helps drive adoption
- How to build the initial recognition list and custom form using out-of-the-box SharePoint components
- How to set up the workflows and dashboards
- How to keep the site fresh by delivering continual incremental improvements
Delivering business value doesn't have to take months and be dull or boring. With SharePoint and a bit of magic, you can have fun and find your own mutant frog.
Speaker(s)
Software Engineer Cambia Health
App Modernization: Get your business apps cloud-ready
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Business
Many enterprises which are using SharePoint as their corporate intranet have spent a lot of effort in creating custom business applications to support their internal workflows. Many of those custom business applications were created using Server-side code. As long as SharePoint 'on-premises' is used, those custom business applications work fine, but more and more enterprises are thinking about moving to the cloud, and when checking their options, they realize that Server-side code can not be used in Office365 anymore. This session provides a detailed overview on the options enterprises have when moving their custom business applications to the cloud and it also provides guidance on choosing the right option.
Speaker(s)
Senior SharePoint Consultant Softlanding Solutions Inc.
Coming Up with a Content Management Strategy for the New Digital Workplace
Level: 100
Track: End-User, Business
How often have you heard "I can't find anything in our organization" or “Can you send me X, I can’t find it” echo within your IMs and meetings? Chances are you are hearing this loud and clear from organizations of all sizes and structures. Planning content management in the new age digital workplace can seem like a daunting task – but it isn’t. In this session, I will lead you through a real life project with a global resource organization where I helped them plan a global content management strategy, by consolidating their content sprawl and aligning this strategy with the tools available with Office 365.
Speaker(s)
BA Lead Softlanding Solutions
Develop, complete and submit forms on your phone, and you can go anywhere.
Level: 200
Track: End-User, Business
Today’s workforce is mobile, and if you want to get the best work out of your people, you need to give them every tool it takes to be productive on the go.
You’ll learn how to bring forms and mobile together in your Nintex Workflow platform, helping you cut costs, save time, eliminate manual processes and boost productivity. You’ll also see how to:
Give your team access to content from everywhere.
Make it easier for your employees to collaborate.
Keep your people productive when they’re not behind their desks.
Any form. Any device. Anywhere.
Demo/presentation illustrating how Nintex Workflow, Forms and Nintex Mobile lets you:
1. Design forms quickly and easily.
2. Generate forms for browsers, including tablets and mobile.
3. Publish to the cloud in one click.
4. Build comprehensive mobile business applications.
5. Create and manage auditable workflows to automate and standardize your business processes
Speaker(s)
Director SharePoint Services
Dive into PowerApps, building apps that mean business without writing code
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Business
Building business applications is never easy. There are always conflicting priorities between IT and business and most apps don’t merit the time and cost of traditional software development. PowerApps is an enterprise application platform for delivering line-of-business apps without writing code. It fundamentally transforms and accelerates how organizations provide employees seamless access to business apps and information. PowerApps now features built-in support for the common data model, enhanced connectivity, support for more devices and integrations with other Microsoft business offerings. Learn how you can leverage PowerApps today and a sneak peek at what’s coming next.
Speaker(s)
How Expedia Deployed a Global Intranet to 20,000 users on SharePoint 2016
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Join Perry Underdown, Manager of SharePoint and Web Tools at Expedia and Michal Pisarek, Director of Product at Bonzai Intranet, to learn how Expedia recently launched a SharePoint Intranet to over 27,000 employees worldwide. Utilizing SharePoint 2016 and Bonzai Intranet, the travel-tech giant quickly deployed their new intranet across multiple continents to unite the organization and over 17 of its subsidiaries.
In this engaging and interactive session, you will learn about the challenges Expedia faced in this massive undertaking. Specifically, Perry and Michal will focus in on the learnings that made the project a major success including governance, change management, and strategic execution. They will also uncover the technology and methods they used to cut costs and decrease the project's time-to-delivery.
This session is a must for anyone who wants to successfully deploy an Intranet on SharePoint or Office 365 or understand how to better leverage the platform for communication, collaboration and engagement.
Speaker(s)
Founder Bonzai Intranet
Mobile Era of Knowledge Management – Controlled Distribution is Vital!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Mobile device use is here, and today’s enterprise must be agile enough to respond to rapidly evolving employee, client, industry and regulatory demands. In this new digital workplace, mobility plays a crucial role in enabling a highly productive workforce. The millennial workforce is mobile across geographies, time zones and devices. Mobile information governance involves securely enabling the right content to be available to the right people at the right time. Attend this session to learn how to distribute enterprise content in a controlled way – to both empower mobile collaboration, while governing mobile activity and content.
Speaker(s)
New Dawn of SharePoint Apps or "How I Learned to Love No-Code Apps"
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
As we move to the cloud with Azure and Office 365, the world of SharePoint development has changed. No longer are developers using server-side or Sandbox solutions on the servers. Instead, they are building cloud apps that either run on other providers like Azure or AWS or the apps run on the client-side, in your browser. However, with new systems like Flow, Power Apps, and Logic Apps within Azure, many systems that people relied on developers to create are now being built by power users. We will actually go through some simple apps and workflows in Power Apps, Flow and Azure Logic Apps.
Speaker(s)
O365: Learn to Fly
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Learn to Fly. Although one of my favourite Foo Fighters songs, its also a sentiment I really like when talking about end-user adoption. O365 is being rolled out worldwide to organizations of all sizes. Although each is unique and has different needs, they all have one thing in common: the need for end-user adoption. One of the key aspects of O365 is collaboration and the numerous services that are deployed to support it. Ironically, although many of the features are built with ease of use in mind, if you’ve ever watched a first-time user of O365 you’ll soon realize it’s not always intuitive for end-users to know how it all works together. To realize the benefits of O365, we need to ensure it is fully adopted across the organization and second-nature in users’ day-to-day collaborative work processes. Although you can take the “wing it/organic” approach, you may not get the results you are hoping for. What are some strategies and tactics you can use to stack the odds in your favour for a high degree of adoption in your organization? I’ll share my 3-step strategy and some specific tactics for each so your end-users can fly with O365!
Speaker(s)
SharePoint/O365 Consultant NexNovus
Office 365 Groups Boot Camp
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
The introduction of Office 365 Groups has created waves in recent months. As the adoption of Groups begins to grow and the offering matures, numerous individuals have begun to ask: “How do I manage groups?” “Are groups different from Teams?” “Is Yammer obsolete?” Excitement about new features comes mixed with concerns on how to incorporate Groups, combining Groups with existing business workloads and the other functionality of Office 365.
This is a 100-200 level session focusing on everything you need to know to get started with Groups and how to avoid the top pitfalls in the early stages of adoption.
Speaker(s)
Senior Solutions Architect, AvePoint Client Services AvePoint Canada
Power BI for the Faint of Heart - Building an Interactive Report Step-by-Step!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
You've heard about Power BI, and you've seen it, but you haven't yet rolled up your sleeves and got your hands dirty. It looks like it is really easy, but sometimes it helps to have someone step you through it the first time to help you hit the ground running. We will grab various public data sources, join them together in a model and build an interactive pièce de ré·sis·tance on the visual design surface!
Speaker(s)
Product Management in SharePoint and Office 365 end to end process
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Business
Introduction - What is Product Management in most of the organizations? Business Need - Where is the pain? What is not connected? Where is the data overflow? Process Flow - How can we do it in SharePoint and other O365 tools? Demo IT Product Management life-cycle and SharePoint
Speaker(s)
BI, BA, SharePoint and O365 expert BCHousing
Quick! Build me an intranet ... and make it so that everyone loves it
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Many of us are familiar with this part "Build me an intranet" Many hope that everyone will love it, but how do you make sure? This session will focus on tools and techniques to effectively engage your stakeholders in prototyping of your own brilliant intranet
Speaker(s)
SharePoint and the Story of the Mutant Frog
Level: 100
Track: Developer, End-User, Business
Once upon a time, there lived a sad mutant frog who felt he had no purpose in life. Until one day, he was discovered by the SharePoint team to give magical High Fives to employees throughout the land. Everyone rejoiced about how simple it was to recognize their fellow workers and everyone lived happily ever after using SharePoint.
Follow Tom as he tells the story of how they used SharePoint to develop a recognition and rewards program for their company. They took a stated need from the business and brainstormed a solution from concept to theme to functionality in 30 minutes. Less than 24 hours later, they were demoing the site for the business owners. With our mutant frog giving out "High Fives", the feedback was overwhelming positive, and the site is now available for use to over 5000 employees.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to set up your team and the mindset you need to have to be able to effectively brainstorm
- How to develop a theme for your site that helps drive adoption
- How to build the initial recognition list and custom form using out-of-the-box SharePoint components
- How to set up the workflows and dashboards
- How to keep the site fresh by delivering continual incremental improvements
Delivering business value doesn't have to take months and be dull or boring. With SharePoint and a bit of magic, you can have fun and find your own mutant frog.
Speaker(s)
Software Engineer Cambia Health
Taking the Fun out of SharePoint: Governance 101
Level: 100
Track: Business
This session will explore team site and intranet governance; where they are the same, where they are different, how to document, how to display, and how to enforce.
Speaker(s)
Solutions Delivery Specialist Dynamic Owl Consulting
Top 10 Digital Workplace design patterns
Level: 100
Track: End-User, Business
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today. For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Speaker(s)
App Modernization: Get your business apps cloud-ready
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Business
Many enterprises which are using SharePoint as their corporate intranet have spent a lot of effort in creating custom business applications to support their internal workflows. Many of those custom business applications were created using Server-side code. As long as SharePoint 'on-premises' is used, those custom business applications work fine, but more and more enterprises are thinking about moving to the cloud, and when checking their options, they realize that Server-side code can not be used in Office365 anymore. This session provides a detailed overview on the options enterprises have when moving their custom business applications to the cloud and it also provides guidance on choosing the right option.
Speaker(s)
Senior SharePoint Consultant Softlanding Solutions Inc.
Dealing with slow performance in SharePoint Server
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro
SharePoint is slow. Pages take ages to load. The throbber spins forever. "Working on it..." becomes the SharePoint motto.
How can you tell if your SharePoint farm is under-performing? Why is it slow? What can you do to improve SharePoint's performance?
In this talk we'll look at tools available to SharePoint and IT administrators to help them assess the performance of their SharePoint farm to come up with a plan for improvement.
Speaker(s)
SharePoint Infrastructure Architect Dynamic Owl Consulting
Dive into PowerApps, building apps that mean business without writing code
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Business
Building business applications is never easy. There are always conflicting priorities between IT and business and most apps don’t merit the time and cost of traditional software development. PowerApps is an enterprise application platform for delivering line-of-business apps without writing code. It fundamentally transforms and accelerates how organizations provide employees seamless access to business apps and information. PowerApps now features built-in support for the common data model, enhanced connectivity, support for more devices and integrations with other Microsoft business offerings. Learn how you can leverage PowerApps today and a sneak peek at what’s coming next.
Speaker(s)
Finding a Needle in a Haystack SharePoint Style: Search Concepts and Content Quality
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro
So you have this shiny new SharePoint environment built inside your enterprise. You have added tons of content and have lots of users adding, modifying and deleting content all the time. You've got your system purring like a kitten and everyone loves it except for one minor detail. Your users can't find any of the content they are looking for. Search is just not working for them. If they don't know exactly where to find a file they need to reference or work on, they are spending their precious time looking for it. Join us in this session where we will discuss the concepts that SharePoint Search is built on, why it likely isn't working for you and what you can do to improve you ability to find the needle in your haystack - your content.
Speaker(s)
SharePoint Services Lead Solvera Solutions
SharePoint/O365 Consultant NexNovus
How Expedia Deployed a Global Intranet to 20,000 users on SharePoint 2016
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Join Perry Underdown, Manager of SharePoint and Web Tools at Expedia and Michal Pisarek, Director of Product at Bonzai Intranet, to learn how Expedia recently launched a SharePoint Intranet to over 27,000 employees worldwide. Utilizing SharePoint 2016 and Bonzai Intranet, the travel-tech giant quickly deployed their new intranet across multiple continents to unite the organization and over 17 of its subsidiaries.
In this engaging and interactive session, you will learn about the challenges Expedia faced in this massive undertaking. Specifically, Perry and Michal will focus in on the learnings that made the project a major success including governance, change management, and strategic execution. They will also uncover the technology and methods they used to cut costs and decrease the project's time-to-delivery.
This session is a must for anyone who wants to successfully deploy an Intranet on SharePoint or Office 365 or understand how to better leverage the platform for communication, collaboration and engagement.
Speaker(s)
Founder Bonzai Intranet
Mobile Era of Knowledge Management – Controlled Distribution is Vital!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Mobile device use is here, and today’s enterprise must be agile enough to respond to rapidly evolving employee, client, industry and regulatory demands. In this new digital workplace, mobility plays a crucial role in enabling a highly productive workforce. The millennial workforce is mobile across geographies, time zones and devices. Mobile information governance involves securely enabling the right content to be available to the right people at the right time. Attend this session to learn how to distribute enterprise content in a controlled way – to both empower mobile collaboration, while governing mobile activity and content.
Speaker(s)
New Dawn of SharePoint Apps or "How I Learned to Love No-Code Apps"
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
As we move to the cloud with Azure and Office 365, the world of SharePoint development has changed. No longer are developers using server-side or Sandbox solutions on the servers. Instead, they are building cloud apps that either run on other providers like Azure or AWS or the apps run on the client-side, in your browser. However, with new systems like Flow, Power Apps, and Logic Apps within Azure, many systems that people relied on developers to create are now being built by power users. We will actually go through some simple apps and workflows in Power Apps, Flow and Azure Logic Apps.
Speaker(s)
O365: Learn to Fly
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
Learn to Fly. Although one of my favourite Foo Fighters songs, its also a sentiment I really like when talking about end-user adoption. O365 is being rolled out worldwide to organizations of all sizes. Although each is unique and has different needs, they all have one thing in common: the need for end-user adoption. One of the key aspects of O365 is collaboration and the numerous services that are deployed to support it. Ironically, although many of the features are built with ease of use in mind, if you’ve ever watched a first-time user of O365 you’ll soon realize it’s not always intuitive for end-users to know how it all works together. To realize the benefits of O365, we need to ensure it is fully adopted across the organization and second-nature in users’ day-to-day collaborative work processes. Although you can take the “wing it/organic” approach, you may not get the results you are hoping for. What are some strategies and tactics you can use to stack the odds in your favour for a high degree of adoption in your organization? I’ll share my 3-step strategy and some specific tactics for each so your end-users can fly with O365!
Speaker(s)
SharePoint/O365 Consultant NexNovus
Office 365 Groups Boot Camp
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
The introduction of Office 365 Groups has created waves in recent months. As the adoption of Groups begins to grow and the offering matures, numerous individuals have begun to ask: “How do I manage groups?” “Are groups different from Teams?” “Is Yammer obsolete?” Excitement about new features comes mixed with concerns on how to incorporate Groups, combining Groups with existing business workloads and the other functionality of Office 365.
This is a 100-200 level session focusing on everything you need to know to get started with Groups and how to avoid the top pitfalls in the early stages of adoption.
Speaker(s)
Senior Solutions Architect, AvePoint Client Services AvePoint Canada
Power BI for the Faint of Heart - Building an Interactive Report Step-by-Step!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
You've heard about Power BI, and you've seen it, but you haven't yet rolled up your sleeves and got your hands dirty. It looks like it is really easy, but sometimes it helps to have someone step you through it the first time to help you hit the ground running. We will grab various public data sources, join them together in a model and build an interactive pièce de ré·sis·tance on the visual design surface!
Speaker(s)
Product Management in SharePoint and Office 365 end to end process
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Business
Introduction - What is Product Management in most of the organizations? Business Need - Where is the pain? What is not connected? Where is the data overflow? Process Flow - How can we do it in SharePoint and other O365 tools? Demo IT Product Management life-cycle and SharePoint
Speaker(s)
BI, BA, SharePoint and O365 expert BCHousing
Quick! Build me an intranet ... and make it so that everyone loves it
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Many of us are familiar with this part "Build me an intranet" Many hope that everyone will love it, but how do you make sure? This session will focus on tools and techniques to effectively engage your stakeholders in prototyping of your own brilliant intranet
Speaker(s)
SharePoint, DevOps and you.
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer
Perhaps you've been hearing this DevOps buzzword and wondering "What the heck is that", maybe the boss wants you to "do DevOps". Maybe you just need to be able to do more with less in your day to day. Come listen to Gavin share some of his insights from running long term customer engagements and let him share some of the tools his team uses in their projects.
Speaker(s)
Is it possible to do devops with the SharePoint framework ?
Level: 200
Track: Developer
You had it all right with solutions and add-ins. Your release pipeline was set up. Do new technologies and methodologies mean starting over? Don’t panic I’m here to help! Together we’ll see how to set up a devops pipeline for SPFX developments with: - Automated builds - Automated deployments - Automated tests - Code quality checks There will be a lot of demonstrations during this session and we’ll be mostly using Visual Studio Team Services/Team Foundation Server. This session is mostly meant for develops, architects, quality assurance people…
Speaker(s)
An Introduction to Azure Functions for SharePoint/Office 365 developers
Level: 300
Track: Developer
Heard the hype around serverless architectures and Azure Functions? Come to this session to hear about what they are, how to get started, and understand the scenarios where they are most powerful.
This session will show scenarios that will be extremely useful for SharePoint/Office 365 developers around Microsoft Graph webhooks, scheduled timer jobs, and much more!
Speaker(s)
New Dawn of SharePoint Apps or "How I Learned to Love No-Code Apps"
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
As we move to the cloud with Azure and Office 365, the world of SharePoint development has changed. No longer are developers using server-side or Sandbox solutions on the servers. Instead, they are building cloud apps that either run on other providers like Azure or AWS or the apps run on the client-side, in your browser. However, with new systems like Flow, Power Apps, and Logic Apps within Azure, many systems that people relied on developers to create are now being built by power users. We will actually go through some simple apps and workflows in Power Apps, Flow and Azure Logic Apps.
Speaker(s)
Power BI for the Faint of Heart - Building an Interactive Report Step-by-Step!
Level: 100
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
You've heard about Power BI, and you've seen it, but you haven't yet rolled up your sleeves and got your hands dirty. It looks like it is really easy, but sometimes it helps to have someone step you through it the first time to help you hit the ground running. We will grab various public data sources, join them together in a model and build an interactive pièce de ré·sis·tance on the visual design surface!
Speaker(s)
Quick! Build me an intranet ... and make it so that everyone loves it
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
Many of us are familiar with this part "Build me an intranet" Many hope that everyone will love it, but how do you make sure? This session will focus on tools and techniques to effectively engage your stakeholders in prototyping of your own brilliant intranet
Speaker(s)
SharePoint and the Story of the Mutant Frog
Level: 100
Track: Developer, End-User, Business
Once upon a time, there lived a sad mutant frog who felt he had no purpose in life. Until one day, he was discovered by the SharePoint team to give magical High Fives to employees throughout the land. Everyone rejoiced about how simple it was to recognize their fellow workers and everyone lived happily ever after using SharePoint.
Follow Tom as he tells the story of how they used SharePoint to develop a recognition and rewards program for their company. They took a stated need from the business and brainstormed a solution from concept to theme to functionality in 30 minutes. Less than 24 hours later, they were demoing the site for the business owners. With our mutant frog giving out "High Fives", the feedback was overwhelming positive, and the site is now available for use to over 5000 employees.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to set up your team and the mindset you need to have to be able to effectively brainstorm
- How to develop a theme for your site that helps drive adoption
- How to build the initial recognition list and custom form using out-of-the-box SharePoint components
- How to set up the workflows and dashboards
- How to keep the site fresh by delivering continual incremental improvements
Delivering business value doesn't have to take months and be dull or boring. With SharePoint and a bit of magic, you can have fun and find your own mutant frog.
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Software Engineer Cambia Health
SharePoint Framework, Angular & Azure Functions : The modern SharePoint developer tool belt.
Level: 300
Track: Developer
Things are moving fast. Sometimes you might even feel that you own comfort zone is getting of control. But in a Mobile-First, Cloud-First world, things are changing to a crazy pace and to stay on the top of your game, you need keep up with the latest and greatest technologies that are available out there. By staying up to date, you will give to yourself new options that will let you be more productive, write better code and push you in a more open and more collaborative world.
With the official shipment of Angular 2 and the current preview release of the SharePoint Framework, it is now the time to start moving towards those new technologies in your SharePoint Solutions.
In this session, we will cover the modern tool belt of the SharePoint developer by covering the SharePoint Framework as the new surface to express yourself, Angular as a Framework to enable you to build complete applications within your SharePoint modern experiences and Azure Function as the perfect server-side companion for all your Office 365 & Azure development.
This very demo-intensive session will make sure that at the end you get those 3 key takeaways :
- Understand the role of the SharePoint Framework, Angular and Azure Functions in this Cloud-First, Mobile-First world
- Have a complete sample where the modern tool belt is relevant and useful in a real-world scenario
- Change the way you will think for your next SharePoint project
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Product Evangelist & Partner Manager | Office Servers & Services MVP Valo Intranet
SharePoint, DevOps and you.
Level: 200
Track: IT Pro, Developer
Perhaps you've been hearing this DevOps buzzword and wondering "What the heck is that", maybe the boss wants you to "do DevOps". Maybe you just need to be able to do more with less in your day to day. Come listen to Gavin share some of his insights from running long term customer engagements and let him share some of the tools his team uses in their projects.
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So you want to be a SharePoint Developer, In ~60 minutes you can become a SharePoint Padawan.
Level: 100
Track: Developer
In this session we will dive into the information that you will need to be a successful developer for SharePoint. Whether you are a seasoned .Net developer or a Web developer of any sort we will cover the basics of SharePoint Development and all the options available to you. By the end of this session you will have a firm understanding of how to get started developing on SharePoint and you will be, a SharePoint Padawan.
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The New World of Branding: Creating Beautiful UI in SharePoint Online without MasterPages
Level: 200
Track: Developer
Gone are the days of creating MasterPages to transform SharePoint Sites with beautiful branding. In this session we'll explore Microsoft's best practices of using client side development to manipulate your site. Go beyond basic colours and logos and look at how we can ensure SharePoint reflects the organizations brand and stands out with a glossy look that will satisfy any Communications team.
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Managing Consultant itgroove Professional Services
Blog
Use Office UI Fabric React to Build Beauty with SharePoint
Level: 200
Track: Developer
When Microsoft released the Office UI Fabric, they enabled SharePoint developers to quickly build custom webparts, controls and applications that could inherit the innate look and feel of Office 365 and SharePoint with simple to use structured code. With Office UI Fabric React, we can quickly build sophisticated controls, tightly bound to SharePoint, such as command bars, color pickers, people pickers, panels, buttons and much more all tied in with React, the default rendering engine for the SharePoint Framework.
In this session we will introduce the Office UI Fabric and learn how to use include it in our current or next SharePoint projects. After a quick introduction of the basics and how to get started, we will dig into code samples so as to see we can build our own applications that look to be a part of SharePoint.
Benefits of this Session:
• Overview of Office UI Fabric
• Learn how to use Office UI Fabric with React to leverage repeatable components and controls.
• See how you can begin using Office UI Fabric React now
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