SPS Events - SPS Charlotte 2017

Matthew Bailey (MCT, MVP)

Independent Microsoft Consultant & Trainer | Noteworthy Technology Training

Matthew J. Bailey is a Microsoft Certified Trainer for Noteworthy Technology Training specializing in SharePoint, Office 365, Teams, Azure & Power BI. He is a MVP and certified as a MCT, MCSE, MCP & MCSA. Utilizing a mixture of consulting experience at major corporations with teaching, he loves to share skills learned as a SharePoint business analyst, administrator, trainer & developer obtained from over 10 years of working with Microsoft technologies. He enjoys speaking at conferences, from Ignite to local community events and user groups, and is also an avid blogger and author.

Sessions

- The SharePoint Business Analyst
  Documents:
  
  SharePointBusinessAnalyst.pptx
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  The session for the SharePoint guy or gal who doesn't quite fit in anywhere else in the world of SharePoint. You may work with end users, manage sites, help others or meet with users discussing their business needs and documenting how to build a SharePoint project that fulfills their needs. Perhaps you have to test, assist others with figuring out what they want from SharePoint or help manage a project move along and coordinate everything happening among all stakeholders. Requirements, improvements, architecting, possibilities, UAT, support, governance, security, basic administration, support and power-user development all seem to fall into this new "job title" that is one step short of a "SharePoint jack of all trades". After working with SharePoint for over 10 years, I am happy to share a remarkable accumulation of tips that will give you a jump start in making every project SharePoint project or site you work on a success.

Scott Brewster

SharePoint Solutions Consultant | DAn Solutions

Scott Brewster is a certified knowledge manager through the Knowledge Management Institute and a SharePoint solutions architect who focuses primarily on no-code solutions, information architecture, and permission architecture. He speaks to these topics at various SharePoint conferences on the east coast from New York City down to Atlanta. He also shares his knowledge to all of the local SharePoint and Office 365 user groups in the Baltimore and DC area. Highly valued, SharePoint analysts, administrators, and developers in other agencies call into the SharePoint Community of Interest meetings he hosts with his client.

Sessions

- Creating a SharePoint Permission Architecture
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  Before you begin building your environment in SharePoint, you should have a very good understanding of who will be using it, the roles and the responsibilities. Scott will show you how to craft the permission architecture that will correspond to your site and information architecture to have as light of a management burden as possible. He will also show you how to create workarounds for managing complex permissions, how to document this architecture, and what do to for existing environments that have gotten ugly. Very few people have the luxury of starting over from scratch, so that is the bigger problem to tackle.

David Broussard

Principal Consultant | Catapult Systems

David Broussard has been working with SharePoint for over a decade now. His focus has increasingly been on how to drive user adoption and how to focus on business solutions that leverage SharePoint and other platforms. He is a Portals and Office 365 Evangelist for Catapult Systems.

Sessions

- Hidden Gems in Office 365
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  Office 365 is Microsoft’s innovation laboratory and new features are rolling out all the time. When you implement Office 365 you also get exciting new features that combine features from Exchange, SharePoint and other workloads.
  
  This session will cover some of the hidden features and show you how your organization can leverage them to become more productive. Whether it is Office 365 Groups, Flow and Power Apps, or co-authoring in Office Online and Desktop, after attending this session you will be the power user that everyone looks to for help.

David Wilson Brown

Senior Consultant | Cardinal Solutions

SharePoint Developer/Designer since 2005

Sessions

- How to explain ECM and get buy-in
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Business
  
  We know that an organization can get more from SharePoint when Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is properly set up but how do you sell a client on embracing implementation? I will discuss how to make that sale of ideas successful and make a good ECM plan that reflects the organizations needs.

Joshua Carlisle (MVP)

Engineer | AppDynamics

Josh Carlisle is a full stack & cloud solutions software developer and advocate based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Josh has been engaging with the developer community for more then half of his professional career and with almost 20 years of development and consulting experience he is currently focused on developing cloud based solutions on Microsoft Azure. Having worked with SharePoint for well over a decade Office 365 often has a significant place in many of those solutions. He is a advocate for Microsoft's Serverless offerings including Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and CosmosDB which often play a large role in his solutions. His framework of choice on the client side is Angular. He currently co-organizes the Raleigh Serverless Usergroup and he enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience at usergroups and community events throughout the country.

Sessions

- Building Well Performing, Highly Available, and Resilient Azure Solutions for Office 365
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Microsoft Azure is a natural fit for building enhanced solutions for Office 365 but simply deploying your application to Azure does not necessarily ensure that the application will always be available and perform well. In this session we'll be making use of a very common application architecture using Azure Traffic Manager, Azure API Apps, Storage Queues, and Cosmos DB to build a highly resilient API that can both consume and provide data to Office 365 application and components. We'll cover how to monitor and ensure your application can remain available despite data center failures, regional failures, or even application deployment failures. Lastly we'll discuss the new roll of serverless in modern applications.

Daniel Christian (MVP)

Architect | Speaker | Blogger | MVP

Daniel Christian has over 15 years of SharePoint experience starting with SharePoint Portal 2003 . His area of expertise includes SharePoint On-Premises architecture, maintenance and administration, SharePoint Online administration. He is a big fan of building no-code solutions and reporting. Currently, he is focused on PowerApps, Flow and Power BI and its integration using Gateway with SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016.

Sessions

- InfoPath and SharePoint Designer Vs. PowerApps and Flow
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  SharePoint welcomes PowerApps and Flow. They are the successors to InfoPath and SharePoint Designer for many common business scenarios, especially custom forms used on SharePoint lists. This session will finally prove that an advanced InfoPath Designer form and SharePoint Designer workflow can not only be rebuilt in PowerApps and Flow but also enhanced. We will also be looking at using On-Premise Gateway and Power BI.
- Real-world scenario where physical buttons are used to trigger Flow
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  On April 2017 the Microsoft Flow team announced the integration of physical buttons with Flow! This session demonstrates a real-world, deep-dive scenario of how a physical button's one-click process can help make repetitive and important tasks automated.

Andrew Connell (MVP)

Founder, Chief Course Artisan, Developer | Voitanos, LLC

Andrew Connell is a full stack web developer with a focus on Microsoft Azure & Office 365, specifically the Office 365 APIs, SharePoint, Microsoft's .NET Framework / .NET Core, Angular, Node.js and Docker that enjoys development, writing & teaching… if it’s cutting edge web you will find Andrew there! He has received Microsoft’s MVP award every year since 2005 and has helped thousands of developers through the various courses he’s authored & taught both in-person & in online courses. Recently he launched his own on-demand video platform, Voitanos (https://www.voitanos.io) to deliver his on-demand video training. Throughout the years Andrew has been fortunate enough to share what he has learned at conferences like Microsoft’s TechEd, Build, Ignite & SharePoint conferences, Angular’s ngConf & AngularU, SPTechCon, SP Live 360, Techorama among many others all around the world in North America, Europe, Asia & Australia. You can find Andrew on his popular blog (http://www.andrewconnell.com), follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell, check out some of the numerous projects he’s involved in on GitHub (http://www.github.com/andrewconnell) or listen to his popular weekly podcast, The Microsoft Cloud Show (http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com), which is focused on Microsoft cloud services such as Azure and Office 365 as well as the competitive cloud landscape.

Sessions

- Modern UI Extensions with the SharePoint Framework – Command Sets, Application and Field Customizers
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Microsoft has extended the SharePoint Framework from the initial release of introducing client-side web parts to provide ways to extend the user experience. These new additions enable customizations available in previous development model options in SharePoint. In this session you will learn about command sets (what you knew as custom actions), field customizers (what you knew as JSLink) and application customizers (which are similar to what you knew as delegate controls). You will see how to use the SharePoint Framework to not just deploy client-side web parts, but also extend the SharePoint user experience with these new capabilities!
- SharePoint Development - Where are We and Where are We Going?
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  If you have been doing SharePoint development for a few years or for many years, you know the story and guidance changes every so often. Going back to the beginning of SharePoint in early 2000's, developers have been told to do things differently roughly four different times, even as recently as last year with the SharePoint Framework! How do you make sense of this? How do you best align yourself and skillset to be as marketable, future-proof or future-ready as possible? In this keynote hear Andrew Connell, long time SharePoint developer and MVP share his thoughts with you

Kent Del Castillo

Senior Consultant | B&R Business Solutions

Kent Del Castillo is Senior Consultant at B&R Business Solutions based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a man of many hats doing everything from training on all things Office 365 to migrations to custom workflow development. Kent began working with SharePoint in 2004 and has continued ever since. He is an expert in web technologies in the cloud and on premises although most of the time, Kent is developing Nintex forms and workflows to operationalize business processes for clients. His eclectic educational background includes Bachelor's degrees in Music and Psychology plus a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology which makes him great with clients as well as a drum set.

Sessions

- Workflows - 7 Best Practices for Development
  Documents:
  
  Workflows-7_Best_Practices-Kent_Del_Castillo.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  In this session we will discuss seven best practices for workflow development for both on premises and Office 365. Planning, architecture, performance, and much more will be discussed with techniques and concepts that can apply to both SharePoint workflows and other 3rd-party workflow packages.
- Nintex Workflows - Best Practices for Development
  Documents:
  
  Nintex_Workflows-Best_Practices-Kent_Del_Castillo.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  In this session we will discuss best practices for workflow development as recommended by Nintex vTE's and others for both on premises and Office 365. Planning, architecture, performance, and much more will be discussed with techniques and concepts applying to Nintex Workflows but can also apply to SharePoint workflows and other 3rd-party workflow packages.

Kim Frehe

Manager | Avanade

Kim Frehe is a SharePoint Solutions Specialist who has been solving complex business problems in innovative ways since 2001. She is very passionate about SharePoint and prides herself on building solutions with the end users’ perspective in mind. Her specialties include workflows, content types, out-of-the-box web parts and making SharePoint as user-friendly as possible to help users be more productive, efficient and get the most of SharePoint.

Sessions

- Content Management Using the Power of Search
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User
  
  Calling all Content Owners: SharePoint Search has been all the buzz lately, , but most people assume that if they're not an Admin or Developer they shouldn't care. Not true!
  
  This session will show you examples of collaboration and content management solutions based on Content By Search and Search Results Web Parts. First we'll get the creative juices flowing with examples, and then Kim will show you what you need to know to get started.
  
  Things we'll cover:
  • Managed Metadata Navigation - how it works to create one page to show what you need.
  • Search Settings that can improve what is displayed when and where and how people find your content
  • Managed Properties - what they are, why they're important and how to work with them, even as a site owner.
  • Display Templates - What they are, where to find them and what to do with them - and how to get started with your own customizations
  • Refiners - How to work with them and why you should
- SharePoint Workflow Basics in Plain English for Business Users
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User
  
  This session is an introduction for Business Users to SharePoint 2013 Workflow using SharePoint Designer (SPD). We’ll review terminology, what is new in 2013, what has been removed that was available in 2010, and how you can still run your SPD 2010 workflows in 2013.
  
  We won’t talk about the how the backend works, but will focus on all the cool stuff you can do once workflow is up and running in your 2013 or Office 365 environment. We'll also review some examples of workflows and when you should choose between 2010 or 2013 workflows. Whether you are a power user looking to solve a problem by creating a workflow, or an end user that is working with someone who is creating your workflow on your behalf, this session will give you the knowledge and terminology to know where to begin.

Daniel Glenn (MVP)

Practice Lead | InfoWorks, Inc.

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP and has been building technology solutions for more than 14 years. As Practice Leader for InfoWorks, a total business solutions provider, he has helped organizations large and small solve complex challenges using every version of SharePoint throughout his career.
Daniel is passionate about building technical community with his leadership roles in local user groups, SharePoint Saturday Nashville, and co-hosting the "RE:Office 365 The Week That Was" show. Follow him on https://DanielGlenn.com and @DanielGlenn on Twitter.

Sessions

- Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps are powerful cloud tools that can take your on-premises data to new heights. Using your data where it is now gives you the ability to invest in improving processes, instead of focusing on a data migration strategy.
  
  In this session, we will discover the benefits of using the cloud tools, how those benefits translate to being on-premises, and how we can use the data in Office 365 as well. We will setup a data gateway, connect to on-premises data sources, and use that data in Office 365 and SharePoint Server 2016.

Dean Gross

SharePoint Consultant | Cardinal Solutions

Over 20 years of diverse business experience encompassing all aspects of system architecture and administration, application development and business process improvement.
Responsible for planning, implementing and maintaining multiple SharePoint farms to support large, global workforces. Planned and upgraded systems to meet business goals while decreasing operating costs and increasing system usage.

Currently, planning and implementing the migration of over 30,000 users from SharePoint 2010 to Office 365.

Sessions

- Keeping SharePoint Content Secure in Office 365
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  There are many features in the Office 365 suite that can be used to provide additional security capabilities to those that are provided by SharePoint Online. This presentation will explain how the Security and Compliance Center, Secure Score, and Advanced Security Management tools can be used to help ensure that content stored in SharePoint sites is maintained in accordance with an organizations security requirements. I will also demonstrate how the Enterprise Mobility + Security tools (Azure Active Directory, Intune and Azure Information Protection) can be used to provide extra levels of security.

William Huneycutt (MCT, MVP)

IT Trainer, Consultant, Courseware Developer | ASPE Training | Upskill Tech, Inc.

William (Andy) Huneycutt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) specializing in Office 365 and SharePoint. He has worked as a training instructor, courseware developer, and consultant for ASPE Training since 2011.

As a courseware developer for ASPE, he develops custom training and coaching solutions for Office 365 and SharePoint. His primary focuses are Business Process Automation, SharePoint for Business Analysts, and Workflows for SharePoint. Business Process Automation is centered on out-of-the-box solutions for content services, form services, business automation processes through workflows, and no code solutions.

Andy currently serves on the advisory board for the SharePoint Institute, an organization dedicated to the advancement of professionals through real-world SharePoint certification. He also serves on the leadership committee of the Charlotte Area SharePoint User Group and SharePoint Saturday for Charlotte, NC.

Sessions

- Business Process Automation: Advanced Workflow Solutions for SharePoint
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  SharePoint ships with several workflows designed to address common business scenarios such as document approval, document feedback, and collecting digital signatures. Although the predefined workflows can be customized to meet different organizational requirements, the need to develop workflows for unique organizational business challenges still exists. In this advanced session, you will learn about creating custom workflows using SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Flow.
  
  Using real world examples, we will demonstrate how to design workflow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s professionals. We'll break down the out-of-the-box workflows and discuss how to customize them to meet your requirements. We'll also cover how to create dynamic workflows from scratch, such as using SharePoint data for variables in the workflow model, how to assign a task or start a task process with users, how to create and apply an Initiation Form for manually declared workflows, and how to declare local variables in a workflow instance. We'll also cover best practices for workflow management.
  
  Finally, this session will compare and contrast custom workflows built in SharePoint Designer with workflows in Microsoft Flow.
- Introducing Communication Sites
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Come learn about Microsoft's newest site template Communiction Sites.

Matt Jimison

Director, Platform Solutions | DMI

Matt Jimison is a Solution Architect from Indianapolis, IN, that specializes in SharePoint Design and Development. He is dedicated to harnessing the full power of out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality, and developing customized applications when appropriate. Matt has been involved in a variety of Intranet, Internet, and Extranet projects, and brings over 10 years of web development experience with an emphasis on user experience.

Sessions

- Understanding SharePoint Framework Extensions
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  SharePoint Framework Extensions are being touted as the replacement for Custom Actions, JS Link, and more - but what are they really? Whether you've started experimenting with the SharePoint Framework or not, come find out exactly what the Extensions are, when to use them, limitations, and advantages. SharePoint Framework Extensions are not only powerful and flexible tools to customize SharePoint, when it comes to modern pages, they're the only way.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Chris Kent (MVP)
  
  Office 365 Practice Lead
  DMI
  
  @thechriskent
  Blog

Kelly Jones

IS Director, Office 365 | Atrium Health

Kelly D. Jones has over twenty years of IT experience, the last ten focused on SharePoint. He’s one of two directors responsible for Office 365 at Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System), with his teams focusing on SharePoint, OneDrive, Office 365 Groups, and App Development.

Before moving to Waxhaw, North Carolina in 2010, he and his family (wife and two children) lived in Columbus, Ohio. They enjoyed Columbus (especially The Ohio State University), but not the weather, so they moved south to be closer to the sun.

Sessions

- How Office 365 has transformed Carolinas HealthCare System
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) is one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the US, with over 60,000 employees. In the last four years, CHS has upgraded Exchange and SharePoint to Office 365, which has introduced changes for both end users and the IT department. This session will cover the CHS upgrade / migration, how governance changed, and what operational changes have occurred along the way. Attendees will walk away from this session with both specific governance tactics they can implement, as well as, the reasoning behind them.

Chris Kent (MVP)

Office 365 Practice Lead | DMI

Chris Kent is an O365 Development MVP and Architect currently serving as the Office 365 Practice Lead for DMI. His experience spans across multiple platforms, industries, languages, and approaches. Chris is a contributor to SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) and a member of the PnP Core team. He is passionate about mapping technology to real-world solutions.

Chris is a highly-rated speaker and has presented at user groups, SharePoint Saturdays, webinars, and conferences. Every session focuses on practical advice and takeaways. He also posts regularly to his blog, thechriskent.com.

Sessions

- Understanding SharePoint Framework Extensions
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  SharePoint Framework Extensions are being touted as the replacement for Custom Actions, JS Link, and more - but what are they really? Whether you've started experimenting with the SharePoint Framework or not, come find out exactly what the Extensions are, when to use them, limitations, and advantages. SharePoint Framework Extensions are not only powerful and flexible tools to customize SharePoint, when it comes to modern pages, they're the only way.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Matt Jimison
  
  Director, Platform Solutions
  DMI
  
  @mjimison
  Blog

Bhakthi Liyanage (MCT, MVP)

Sr. SharePoint Architect, Tech Lead | Bank of America Merril Lynch

I am a hands-on technical Solutions Architect primarily focused on delivering efficient and competitive business solutions on SharePoint Technology platform. I’m passionate about the relationship between business and technology and how the latest technology can be leveraged to solve business problems.

I am also engaged in providing strategy, implementation and support guidance to clients in various industries including Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Health and Manufacturing.

I have been in the industry for well over 16+ years and have been working with SharePoint technologies for more than 10+ years.

Sessions

- Introduction to Serverless Computing with Azure Functional Apps
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Serverless computing came into lime light recently and along with all the excitement is a lot of questions. Of course there will always be servers, be it in the cloud or in your own datacenter. Serverless computing merely adds another layer of abstraction atop cloud infrastructure, so developers no longer need to worry about servers, including virtual ones in the cloud. Heavy code demo based session attempts to answer some of the questions using one of Microsoft's recent additions to it's cloud offering, Azure Functions, aka Functional Apps.
- Build Intelligent Applications with Azure Cognitive Service API
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track:
  
  Microsoft Cognitive Services provides developers with powerful set of APIs that can be used to develop intelligent apps with powerful algorithms, using just a few lines of code.The API enables developers to easily add intelligent features – such as emotion and video detection; facial, speech and vision recognition; and speech and language understanding – into their applications with minimum effort. This session will show case how to get started with the API and how it can be integrated with your application.

Johnny Lopez

Office 365 & SharePoint Community Leader

Office 365 and SharePoint Evangelist educating and supporting organizations on the productivity of Microsoft Services. I served 10 years in the U.S. Navy serving on 2 Aircraft Carriers (USS Eisenhower & USS Nimitz) as an Electrical Work Center Supervisor. I graduated from the University of Phoenix of Houston in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems. I have been working in SharePoint for the last 10 years.

Sessions

- SharePoint Migration Case Study - The good, the bad and the what the ......
  Documents:
  
  Case Study - Migration to Office 365 from SharePoint 2010 SPSCLT17.pptx
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  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  Are you one of the companies the keeps using the outdated technology which hinges their work despite new platforms and solutions? This Case Study will walk you through Best Practices and lessons learned when Migrating from SharePoint 2010 to Office 365 SharePoint Online, Delve and OneDrive for Business using Sharegate.
  
  The following items will be covered below:
  -Why Migrate
  -Understanding your environment
  -Approach and Activities
  -Migration Tool Selection
  -Governance
  -Migration Planning Phases
  -Training and Adoption

Jared Matfess (MVP)

Practice Area Lead | Slalom Consulting

Jared is a Practice Area Lead working for Slalom Consulting, a Microsoft Managed Partner providing national Business & IT solutions headquartered in Seattle, Washington. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and has over a decade of experience building technical solutions, and solving business problems. He is a regular speaker at user groups & SharePoint Saturdays all up and down the East Coast. Jared is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Office Servers and Services category. He can be reached through his blog or on Twitter (@jaredmatfess).

Sessions

- The Definitive Guide for When to Use What In Office 365
  Documents:
  
  Matfess Definitive Guide.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Microsoft has been full pedal to the metal with introducing new features & services in Office 365, making the decision for when to use what quite difficult for organizations. Come explore different business use cases and how they align with core services such as Teams, Groups, and Yammer. We will talk about concepts such as audience, tone, and impact to help make informed decisions when recommending Office 365 solutions to solve business problems. Finally, we will talk about ways to help enable your business customers to adopt these services and ultimately realize the benefit of your organization's Office 365 investment.
- Designing & Building Chatbots with the Microsoft Bot Framework
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Bots have been around for decades but why are they so popular now? With advances in artificial intelligence software, & machine learning, bots are becoming the new trendy technology to learn. Come hear about the Microsoft Bot Framework and learn how to build your first "Hello World Bot". From there we will explore Language Understanding Intelligence Service and how it can help you with decoding a user's intent for a request. Finally, we'll kick things up a notch connect your bot to Office 365 services opening up some amazing possibilities for next generation collaboration.

Rishabh Mathur

PFE | Microsoft

I have been working at Microsoft as Premier Field Engineer since 2011 with SharePoint as my primary focus technology.

Sessions

- Hybrid Taxonomy & Content Types
  Documents:
  
  Hybrid_Tax_CT.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Session on Hybrid Taxonomy & Hybrid Content Types.
  In this Session will Cover Why Hybrid Taxonomy, Benefits of Hybrid Taxonomy & Hybrid Content Types for it Admin as well as users who are creating taxonmy fields and Enterprise Content types.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Hiran Salvi
  
  Sr. Support Escalation Engineer
  Microsoft Corporation

Joe McShea

Senior Software Architect | IntelliPoint Solutions LLC

Joe McShea is an independent SharePoint consultant and founder of IntelliPoint Solutions LLC in northern Virginia. He has been developing enterprise software solutions using the Microsoft stack for over 20 years and focusing on collaborative and content-driven applications on SharePoint/Office 365 since 2007. He is the author of SPEasyForms, an open source No Code Sandbox Solution for SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 and SharePoint Online available on CodePlex. SPEasyForms is a GUI form builder that allows non-developers to apply jQueryUI constructs like tabs and accordions, plus conditional visibility for fields, cascading drop downs, and more to OOTB SharePoint forms through a drag and drop browser based user interface.

Sessions

- Customizing SharePoint with Knockout and TypeScript
  Documents:
  
  TKOSharePoint_SPSCTL.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  If you’ve been building SharePoint customizations for any length of time, you probably already know that the landscape for building custom solutions is changing…again. Microsoft is pushing all customizations towards the client, and most of us need to develop new skills to keep up. In this session, we’ll look at how to customize SharePoint using KnockoutJS and TypeScript. Whether you are on premises or online, KnockoutJS and TypeScript can provide a powerful toolkit for all manner of SharePoint customizations.

Jeremy Minich

Director of Sales Engineering | DocAuto

I have been working with SharePoint in different roles since SharePoint was 'WSS' way back in 2003. For the past 10 years I have worked as a Sales Engineer focused on 3rd party solution selling and driving end user adoption for SharePoint.

Sessions

- Hold my beer while I provision your SharePoint environment!
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  If you’ve tried point solutions that only solve some of your SharePoint challenges and cost you thousands of wasted dollars, you need to look at DocAuto’s fresh approach to SharePoint management. DocAuto has built SPorganizer™ to deliver the most comprehensive, yet simple SharePoint offering on the market today.
  How did we do it? We began with the end in mind and we built SPorganizer based on the capabilities of the entire platform. Our team dissected every component of SharePoint and built a software solution that makes SharePoint easy to use, less expensive to manage, and allows you to make enterprise-wide changes in minutes. And the best part is, our experts can get you up and running within hours. Attend this session to find out how SPorganizer is helping organizations take control of their SharePoint environments!

Adam Ochs

Cloud Architech | Planet Technologies

Adam Ochs is a cloud architect within Planet Technologies focusing on Managed Services. He has worked in the Microsoft product stack for the last eight years and has been a technology enthusiast well before that. His primary work background is with Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 and has expanded in recent years to the entire Microsoft Cloud product stack. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional with an MCSA in O365. Adam prides himself on being fanatical for his partners and works closely with some of the industry's largest enterprise customers to deploy and adopt complex Office 365 and Cloud based solutions.

Sessions

- So you've been asked to perform a mail migration. What a SharePoint admin needs to know to pull it off.
  Documents:
  
  Exchange Migration.pptx
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  In today's increasing integrated world of productivity software, IT professionals are asked to wear many hats. We will explore what the options and process is to move mail data from your existing solution into Office 365, and do so in a way that can be understood by a professional without a large Exchange background. In the talk we will discuss all options from the most simplistic of a mail migration, designed for small simple solutions, all the way to the most robust hybrid configurations.
- The 10 things I wish I had known about Office 365 Groups
  Documents:
  
  SPSH.pptx
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Office 365 Groups are becoming an increasingly major component of the Office 365 stack. Come learn from someone who has been working with them since preview. If I could go back and time and teach my past self 10 things about Groups, this would be it! Save yourself time and heartache by learning from my mistakes and best practices. This session is great for someone just starting out in Groups, or even someone who has been using them actively in their own organization, there is something for everyone.
- Transform your companies communication through collaborative chat with Office 365 Teams
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Office 365 Teams is Microsoft's newest application launch, and one that is still being actively developed. Come learn about how teams work, and where the development path is going forward from someone who is working with them everyday in their own organization, as well as advising Enterprises around the world on how to adopt and role out Microsoft Teams in order to achieve the best success.

Mike Oryszak

Managing Director | B&R Business Solutions

A SharePoint consultant, author, and frequent speaker at community and industry conference events. A 5x Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP (2010-2014) and actively involved both online and throughout the southeast United States. I have been living in the Raleigh-Durham area since 1998 and have held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries. I have a strong background in both technology and process having held both strategic and tactical roles. I strive to innovate while bringing incremental change that provides a quick return on investment.

Sessions

- Making Automation Personal: The Next Step in Digital Transformation
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help reframe the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization's capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.

Craig Pilkenton

Managing Consultant | Cardinal Solutions

As an experienced SharePoint, .NET, and SQL developer/engineer I am accomplished at using my years of experience to analyze, develop, & deploy business solutions with excellent customer service and attention to detail. I use my solution delivery skills along with other toolsets such as Windows Powershell and JavaScript/JQuery, to increase the customer experience with SharePoint.

Sessions

- GET-ting Your Office 365 Data Using the Microsoft Graph API
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  In almost every project these days, 'The Cloud' is part of a client's needs or wants. Whether this is around helping to migrate their data up (Exchange, OneDrive, Planner, and/or SharePoint), or leveraging their existing usage of Office 365 better. One of the latest asks that comes up is how to help their employees access their digital work and digital life data across all of Office 365 in one place.
  
  In this session, I'll walk through showing how we can access the rich data of a user's mail/calendar and documents in one interface to help with critical work and productivity questions.

John Ramminger

Solution Architect | RammWare Solutions

A proven, results-oriented technology and support professional with more than 20 years of IT experience ranging from system administration, to application development, to support. Possess a wide range of experience in developing applications, overseeing complex systems, and providing consultation to management on the use of technology to improve processes.

Sessions

- Building Re-usable SharePoint Framework Components
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  In this session we will walk through building a re-usable component for SharePoint online. From web part properties to making the most of what the framework gives us. This will be an information packed session with downloadable examples afterwards.

Eric Rhodes

SharePoint Developer/Administrator and Nintex vTE | Fulton County Schools

Eric Rhodes is a SharePoint/Nintex Developer and Administrator at Fulton County Schools and a Nintex Virtual Technical Evangelist (vTE). With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Eric has specialized in the SharePoint platform since 2005 and is focused on developing applications using SharePoint, Office 365, Nintex Workflow, and Nintex Forms. Born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Eric is a proud graduate of the University of Alabama.

Sessions

- Empower Your Mobile Workforce with Nintex Mobile and Nintex App Studio
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Employees today are increasingly on the move and expect to have access to the tools they need to get their work done. Nowhere is this more crucial than on the devices they carry and the mobile apps they use. Nintex provides the tools necessary to enable your mobile workforce to be more efficient and productive. This session will cover features of Nintex Mobile and Nintex App Studio that you can utilize to build dynamic mobile forms and apps with little or no code. You will learn how to leverage Nintex Mobile and Nintex App Studio to create powerful, easy-to-customize mobile forms and apps to empower your organization.

Hiran Salvi

Sr. Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft Corporation

I have been working at Microsoft as Sr. Support Escalation Engineer Since 2008 with SharePoint as a Product. When it comes to working with SharePoint I started working on SharePoint since SharePoint 2001. Prior to Joining Microsoft I worked as Solution's Architect Deploying SharePoint solutions for large customer's.

Sessions

- Hybrid Taxonomy & Content Types
  Documents:
  
  Hybrid_Tax_CT.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Session on Hybrid Taxonomy & Hybrid Content Types.
  In this Session will Cover Why Hybrid Taxonomy, Benefits of Hybrid Taxonomy & Hybrid Content Types for it Admin as well as users who are creating taxonmy fields and Enterprise Content types.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Rishabh Mathur
  
  PFE
  Microsoft
  
  @rishabhymathur
- Deployment and provisioning best practices with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016
  Documents:
  
  SP2016.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 provides a new suite of IT capabilities to drive improvements in both scale and resiliency. Learn the best practices to deploying and provisioning SharePoint Server 2016 with these capabilities in mind.

Scott Shearer (MCT, MVP)

SharePoint and Office Evangelist | Haystax Technology

Scott Shearer is a Microsoft MVP, MCT and Office 2016 Specialist Master with a special interest in Flow and SharePoint. Scott has over 20 years' experience implementing Microsoft products and technologies. He has held positions ranging from systems administrator to developer to trainer. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint events and a regular contributor to the Microsoft Flow Power Users Community site.

Sessions

- Flow - The Future of Automation in SharePoint
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  What is Flow? Use Flow to create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more. Flow is tightly integrated with the new "modern" list and library experience in Office 365. One click is all it takes to begin creating your first Flow.
  
  Learn to use the Flow web interface to start automating Office 365 SharePoint processes. See how you can start using Flow instead of SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows. Step into the future of automation with Flow.

Mack Sigman

Senior SharePoint Architect and SME | Nationwide IT Services

Mack Sigman is a senior architect specializing in Microsoft Collaboration tools with over two decade of experience in designing, managing, and deploying Microsoft technology products but is focused primarily on SharePoint and Office 365. He has held several leadership positions includin Senior Director of Professional Services at Coras, Senior SharePoint Architect and Practice lead at Accenture Federal Services, the Regional Service Line Lead for Collaboration Service Line in the Mid Atlantic Region at Avanade, Public Sector SharePoint Practice lead at CSC. He has also biult and led some of the more successful SharePoint and Collaboration Practices in the DC Metro region including InfoReliance, Microlink, ActionNet, Amyx. He is a retired US Naval Officer, graduate of of Tulane University in New Orleans and the Naval War College in Newport RI and grandfather of the Navy's IT21 program. In his free time he runs the nations largest SharePoint users group as well as the largest Women in Tech organization in the region (Federal and DoD SharePoint Users Group / Women in SharePoint DC) Multiple time nominee for the MSFT MVP program and named to the Global top 50 most influential people in SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint events and users groups on several topics. Mack currently lives in Fairfax and Norfolk Va

Sessions

- Powerful Enterprise Apps for SharePoint and Office 365 with no code Provider Hosted Applications
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  With CorasWorks, you can build and deploy solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 faster, easier, and more cost effectively. We deliver rapid value that allows you to increase the ROI of your SharePoint or Office 365 investment.
  
  Since 2003, CorasWorks has been providing applications on Microsoft SharePoint. As SharePoint has evolved over the years—and with the advent and growth of Office 365—CorasWorks has evolved, too.
  
  We now focus on provider-hosted apps, which is the recommended method for building and using apps for SharePoint and Office 365. Basically, you build apps “outside” of SharePoint/O365 and then “embed” them into your SharePoint/O365 interface. You already have users in SharePoint/O365 and the goal is to keep them there. Plus, you can leverage a more powerful set of tools when building the apps than if you built them in SharePoint/O365.
  
  Join us for a webcast on Thursday, July 13, at 2pm EDT to learn more about our provider-hosted apps for SharePoint and Office 365, including:
  
  What is a provider-hosted app
  How you can integrate your SharePoint and Office 365 data and documents into the apps
  Using our rapid solution delivery platform to build your own provider-hosted apps
  Using our pre-built provider-hosted apps, like CorasManage for your PMO

Michael Wharton (MVP)

Project/sharePoint | Wharton Computer Consulting

Michael Wharton is a Project/SharePoint Consultant and Trainer. Michael’s career started as a software developer before moving into project management. His passion to improve project management processes begin in 2003 using tools like project professional and project server. Since then he has trained hundreds of project managers and implemented project server in over twenty-five PMOs. He has passed over forty Microsoft certification exams giving him a solid technical background with Project and SharePoint Server.

Sessions

- Configuring Project Server to meet Project Management Office (PMO) Requirements
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Business
  
  SharePoint server and Office 365 provide project management. And just like any other service, it needs to be configure to meet the PMO (Project Management Office) needs. This session looks at the various configuration options that are available with configuring project server and a deep dive of what they mean. Each PMO has a different purpose and reason for its existent. This session can provide you insight on how to configure project server to meet their requirements. If your organization is looking to implement project server or your PMO has issues about how processes are working, this session will be a good session to hammer out your issues.
- Managing Projects using Project Server or Project Online
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Project Server / Project Online is a very robust tool for managing projects within SharePoint. The session covers provides a big picture of how a PMO (project management office) using project server/online. The session cover the following
  1) Building and Publishing Project
  2) Managing Resource Loads
  3) Managing Project Documentation and Artifacts using Project Sites
  4) Reporting and Custom Reports
  5) Portfolio Management for project selection

Christina Wheeler (MVP)

SharePoint Trainer & Consultant | Independent

Christina is an Independent Consultant and SharePoint Trainer who focuses on SharePoint development, administration, branding, and training. She is a highly respected SharePoint consultant who is extremely active in the SharePoint community. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has knowledge in graphic design, Web development, and custom development with her work primarily targeted toward educational and financial institutions.

As a trainer, Christina brings her real-world experience to the classroom. Christina was the tech editor of "SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog" and co-author of the "SharePoint 2010 Field Guide" and “SharePoint 2013 Inside Out.” She enjoys contributing articles to technical websites and often speaks at SharePoint community events and conferences. Christina has a strong passion for technology and photography, and enjoys sharing and learning with the community.

Sessions

- Power BI, the New Cool Kid on the Block
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Business Intelligence has come a long way and Microsoft has made it even cooler and easier with the integration of Power BI. Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that enables the ability to connect users to a broad range of data through dashboards, interactive reports, and visualizations that bring data to life. Power BI is capable of creating quick insights from a excel spreadsheets, cloud-based data, and on-premises hybrid data. This session will cover an overview of Power BI as well as demonstrate the features of Power BI Desktop to build cool, interactive reports and dashboards for your business.

Cory Williams

Collaboration TSP | Microsoft

Cory is a Collaboration TSP working with various Microsoft Collaboration Technologies in the Modern Workplace. He has been working with SharePoint since 2004 and is now splitting time between SharePoint, Office 365, Yammer and more. He is also a SharePoint MCSE, Office 365 MCSA and Yammer guru. Collaboration is his thing.

Sessions

- Office 365 Governance
  Documents:
  
  Office 365 Governance.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  SharePoint Online has been undergoing a lot of change over the last year. Not only for the user experience but also as a supporting component for a lot of other Office 365 services. It either helps support or integrates with at least ten other services. That can affect your storage, naming conventions, needing to work with other supporting teams, and various other aspects of your environment. This session will cover at a high level, or it would take numerous days, each of those services and things to consider as an administrator and things to understand as a user interacting with these services.
- SharePoint Online Roadmap
  Documents:
  
  SharePoint Updates.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  SharePoint Online is constantly undergoing changes. Come to this session to gain insight into the features that are currently rolling out and discuss what is in development.