SPS Events - SPS Detroit 2017

Joe Baeza

Customer Success Manager - Modern Workplace | Microsoft

I've been with Microsoft for 20 years. I've done dev work, strategy consulting, and even desktop deployment. The last 10 years I've been focused on SharePoint which has evolved into a focus on the breadth of capabilities that make up Office 365.

But I love SharePoint most... :-)

Sessions

- Hub Sites - The Newest Addition to Your SharePoint Intranet
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Learn how hub sites fit into your SharePoint intranet. Modern communication sites and team sites are the building blocks that you're familiar with. Hub sites bring these together and allow you to organize them the way your company is organized.
  
  Consistent navigation across all of your sites, scoped search, and an "out of the box" integration with news and activities make building a more capable intranet easier than ever.

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:
  
  SharePointBusinessAnalystURL.txt
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: 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.

Vincent BIRET (MVP)

Office 365 and Azure developer | 2toLead

SharePoint Geek for many years, I'm thrilled to share a bit of SharePoint Knowledge with you!

Sessions

- Improving DevOps using Microsoft's Business Productivity Tools and more
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has long been one of the favourite tools for managing everything related to development. DevOps has increased the needs for other tools to streamline the communication and collaboration between product management, software development, operations, and clients.
  
  This session will provide you with real-life examples on how some of the latest technologies introduced by Microsoft, including Teams, Forms, Flow, and PowerApps fit into the DevOps picture. We will look at the specific benefits that each of these tools provides to the overall process to help enhance the way we automate and monitor the process of software integration, testing, deployment, and product release.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Haniel Croitoru (MVP)
  
  Enterprise Architect
  Protiviti
  
  @hcroitoru
  Blog

Robert Bogue (MCT, MVP)

President | Thor Projects

Robert Bogue is a thought leader on all things SharePoint and an engaging presenter who speaks at events around the world. Rob has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation fifteen times, and earned recognition as a Microsoft patterns & practices Champion. Rob holds certifications from Microsoft: MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA: Security, MCSE as well as CompTia: A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+. Rob also served as a team member for the SharePoint Guidance.

He is the author of 25 books, including The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users: 2016, which is also available as a Corporate Edition. Robert is committed to “making the complicated, simple.” Find out more about SharePoint made simple at www.SharePointShepherd.com and follow Rob’s blog at www.ThorProjects.com/blog/. You can also email Rob at Rob.Bogue@ThorProjects.com.

Sessions

- Do This, Not That (and Why) for SharePoint End User Adoption
  Documents:
  
  Do This Not That And Why For SharePoint Adoption.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Business
  
  Are you tired of hearing the same tired story of get executive support for your SharePoint adoption with no guidance on how to do that? Are you tired of talks that tell you all the things that you should be doing? Instead of looking at the things that you should be doing, we’ll look at the things that you should stop doing. We’ll talk about what doesn’t work and why. We’ll show you how you can change what you’re doing and get better results – not increase what you’re doing.

Haniel Croitoru (MVP)

Enterprise Architect | Protiviti

Senior SharePoint consultant with over 15 years of experience with a strong focus on project management and business analysis in public and private sector verticals including healthcare, financial services, utilities, non-profit organizations, and consulting. Since 2003 he has been focusing on SharePoint, delivering solutions and contributing as a SharePoint consultant, project manager, business analyst, and trainer.
In addition to his professional tenure Haniel has always been a big proponent of sharing knowledge and giving back to the community through presenting at numerous conferences and networking meetings on the topics of utilizing SharePoint for various business verticals, accessibility as well as managing projects. Prior to entering the SharePoint arena, Haniel has spent a number of years in the medical imaging industry where he was a key member of the orthopedic marketing division and published four patents and numerous articles.
Haniel has completed his Masters of Science in Computer Science with a specialty in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery from Queen’s University and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from the York Schulich School of Business. He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

Sessions

- Improving DevOps using Microsoft's Business Productivity Tools and more
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has long been one of the favourite tools for managing everything related to development. DevOps has increased the needs for other tools to streamline the communication and collaboration between product management, software development, operations, and clients.
  
  This session will provide you with real-life examples on how some of the latest technologies introduced by Microsoft, including Teams, Forms, Flow, and PowerApps fit into the DevOps picture. We will look at the specific benefits that each of these tools provides to the overall process to help enhance the way we automate and monitor the process of software integration, testing, deployment, and product release.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Vincent BIRET (MVP)
  
  Office 365 and Azure developer
  2toLead
  
  @baywet
  Facebook
  Blog
  RSS Feed

Theresa Eller

Premier Field Engineer | Microsoft

Theresa Eller is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer specializing in SharePoint and related technologies, such as OneDrive for Business, PowerApps, Flow, Power BI, and Teams. Her work focuses on SharePoint implementations, adoption, support, and training. Theresa shares her knowledge and experience through blogging and speaking in the international SharePoint and Microsoft 365 community. With a Master of Arts degree in Teaching and Learning with Technology, Theresa spent 11 years as a corporate trainer. Now she is pursuing a degree in cybersecurity to assist organizations with their security and compliance strategies.

Sessions

- Introduction to SharePoint PnP PowerShell
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  SharePoint Practices and Patterns (PnP) is a community driven initiative that provides PowerShell cmdlets for many uses, most commonly provisioning. It can be used with SharePoint Online or SharePoint on-premises (2016 and 2013). In this introductory session, we'll review the requirements and installation steps for SharePoint PnP PowerShell Online, learn how to extract the site template from a Publishing site, create a new subsite, and apply the site template. We’ll wrap up with some tips for troubleshooting errors and modifying the template XML file.

Bill Fleszar

Founder of Total Solutions

Sessions

- App Modernization the Right Way
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Business
  
  By now, everyone is aware of the need to modernize their apps to take advantage of the new technology that has sprouted over the past few years. The main question now, is how? Come listen to TSI's senior application developers discuss the different ways of modernizing applications with today's technology and when to choose which of the methods to most effectively and efficiently modernize your applications.

Christine Geluk

Principal & Founder | Librarian At Your Service LLC

Chrissy Geluk is a mathematician and information scientist (aka librarian) who has been working with SharePoint since SP2010. Chrissy is enjoying working with her clients since opening her own information services business in July 2015. Follow her on Twitter @cmgeluk.

Sessions

- Let's continue to Sway your audience
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  A version of this session was presented at SPS NYC 2017 on 28 Jul. The New England session would continue with tips and techniques on Sway.
  
  Microsoft introduced Sway as a preview on Halloween 2014 and officially launched it for general release in 2015. In simple terms, Sway provides an innovative way to present your ideas, thoughts, and even results. Think of Sway as PowerPoint on steroids! Whether you want to promote your company, product or project to an audience of ten or thousands, this session can provide the foundation on how to do that using Sway. Tips, techniques and some real world examples will be presented so that you can leave the session ready to create and broadcast your own Sway newsletter! Are you ready to Sway?

D'arce Hess (MVP)

President | DH Consulting

D’arce Hess is the founder and President of DH Consulting LLC. For more than eight years, D’arce has specialized in the creation of custom portals and experiences in SharePoint and Office365. As a UI/UX Designer and Developer, D’arce uses industry and Microsoft best practices as a base for creating solutions that simplifying processes and drive user adoption and governance from the start. As a recognized Microsoft MVP, D’arce has had the opportunity to work with Fortune 500 companies and has become a trusted partner to her clients in the industries of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, legal, travel & tourism and entertainment.

Sessions

- Your Road to Modern Communication Sites
  Documents:
  
  Communication Site Presentation.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Modern Communication sites are the future of publishing capabilities in SharePoint. In this session, we will review the new capabilities with you. Come learn how new SharePoint Framework web parts work, canvases, and how to leverage the new layouts to successfully communicate with your teams throughout your organization.

Melissa Hubbard (MVP)

Project Manager | WithumSmith+Brown, PC

Melissa is a Business Applications Microsoft MVP and Office 365 consultant who specializes in simplifying and automating business processes using Flow and SharePoint Designer. She is the author of Mastering Microsoft Teams, an end user guide. She is experienced in managing projects throughout the entire lifecycle as well as developing and implementing solutions. User adoption, governance, and training are topics she is especially passionate about!

Sessions

- Automate Processes for Every Department in an Organization Using Flow
  Documents:
  
  SharePoint_Saturday_Detroit.docx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track:
  
  Microsoft Flow is a cloud based business process management service that can be used with SharePoint 2013, 2016 and Online and connect to many other services. This session will walk through practical examples on how Flow can be used to automate processes in every department of an organization by connecting to Office 365 Business and Business Premium services. The basics of Flow will be discussed along with demonstrations.

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

- Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The SharePoint Framework is a radical shift in SharePoint development. The approach, tools, and opportunities are significantly different than anything we’ve had in the past. From Web Parts to Modern UI Extensions, this is a powerful new model that you need to understand. Bring your laptop and we’ll help you get a development environment setup. You’ll leave this session knowing not only what the SharePoint Framework is, what it can do, and when to use it - but you’ll be ready to start experimenting immediately!
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Chris Kent (MVP)
  
  Office 365 Practice Lead
  DMI
  
  @thechriskent
  Blog

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

- Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The SharePoint Framework is a radical shift in SharePoint development. The approach, tools, and opportunities are significantly different than anything we’ve had in the past. From Web Parts to Modern UI Extensions, this is a powerful new model that you need to understand. Bring your laptop and we’ll help you get a development environment setup. You’ll leave this session knowing not only what the SharePoint Framework is, what it can do, and when to use it - but you’ll be ready to start experimenting immediately!
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Matt Jimison
  
  Director, Platform Solutions
  DMI
  
  @mjimison
  Blog

Luc Labelle

Founder and Consultant (SharePoint / Office 365) | Kabesa

Luc Labelle has been working in IT for the past 15 years. With now close to a decade of experience as a consultant, playing different roles, he's been involved in countless SharePoint and office 365 projects. The context of intervention he has worked in has allowed him to recognize how to avoid pitfalls when it comes down to deploying SharePoint from both business and technical perspectives.

Passionate about his work, Luc lately founded his own consulting firm, Kabesa. He tries to stay as implicated as possible in the SharePoint and Office 365 community and contributes in the promotion of the SharePoint and Office 365 user groups in Montreal by attending a speaking at local events.

Sessions

- Introduction to PowerApps
  Documents:
  
  Luc Labelle - Introduction to PowerApps.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track:
  
  This session is aimed at decision makers, users / super user and has for objective to demonstrate the value and the functionalities offered by Power Apps.
  
  In this session, the attendees will be exposed to the challenges posed by the "digital transformation" in organizations as well as some of the tools offered by Microsoft to address these challenges such as PowerApps.
  
  After attending this session, participants will be able to better understand why and how to use PowerApps to create and publish business applications.
  
  Topics include: Digital transformation of businesses, introduction to PowerApps, creation and publication of basic 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

- Creating a knowledge community across your organization.
  Documents:
  
  Knowledge Sharing through Communities SPS Detroit.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Inner organization communication is the source of your company knowledge. During this session, we will talk about Knowledge Management and particularly how to capitalize on all your organizational content.
  
  By the end of this workshop you will learn:
  1. Successful approaches to improve user engagement
  2. Strategies for content organization and findability
  3. Top knowledge management challenges and how to overcome them

Donald Miller

Director | BA Insight

I have been building intranet and web based solutions since 1996. I started focusing on SharePoint in 2003. In addition to having a deep knowledge base of SharePoint, I have focused on search and building out methodologies for to auto tag content and reduce the effort for end users, but dramatically improve the performance of search, intranets and the end user experience.

Sessions

- 4 Strategic Must Dos for Business Users to build an Intelligent Search and Intranet.
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  This session will help non-developers and those new to SharePoint to understand how search works and how they can take advantage of best practices to get the most out of your out of the box SharePoint search and intranet investment. In addition, we will provide the core 4 concepts on what you need to know to make search intelligent. Lastly, we will provide a layman’s introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with a demonstration of Microsoft’s new darling “Cognitive Services”. This session should provide an excellent blue print on how to build a next generation dynamic and personalized search and intranet platform for both non-coders and developers alike.

Jesse Murray

VP & Managing Director, Detroit | Rightpoint

Jesse, an experienced leader with equal parts business leadership and technical competency, is responsible for the operation and growth of the Rightpoint heartland business, in addition to being the trusted adviser for customer digital transformation initiatives, and VP of Technology for employee productivity and cloud solutions.

Sessions

- Microsoft Teams – Bots in your Workspace
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  “Will Bots kill the intranet?” With every new technology comes a good deal of hyperbole, and AI/Bots are certainly getting more than their fair share. Join me as I discuss how impactful Bots can be to your workspace, see how a Bot inside Microsoft Teams has made my day more productive and then we’ll get our hands dirty and walk through creating a simple Bot!

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

- Learning to go with the Flow
  Documents:
  
  Flow.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  An introduction, overview, and practical demonstration of Microsoft Flow. From looking at the basic idea, pricing models, and theory; to showing flows in action and production systems. Come learn about one of the new and excited products in the Microsoft Suite.

Louis Simonetti

Technology Architect Delievery Senior Analyst | Accenture

Louis has been an Information Systems professional for 10 years. The past five years he has been specializing in SharePoint Server Architecture and Development patterns, and the last 3 years been focussed on Office 365, Azure AD, and all things Enterprise Mobility and Security in the Microsoft Stack. The last year, he has been strongly specializing in Azure AD Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams services.

Sessions

- Leverage the Microsoft Graph to Manage Your Office 365
  Documents:
  
  sps saturday graph.ppsx
  sps saturday graph.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  As more and more organizations migrate to Office 365 and Azure AD, administration patterns and practices are changing ever rapidly in these services. This session will be an introduction to the Microsoft Graph for administrator and developers alike. We will cover the Microsoft Graph and some real world scenarios where utilizing the Graph is more efficient than other options. By the end of this session the audience will have a solid foundation for the Graph, and some demos for real world business applications using the Graph.

Steve Smith

CDH

Sessions

- Intelligent SharePoint Search
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Providing the keyes to unlock your your organization knowledge using Bayes theorem and Neutral Net Technologies

Paul Stork (MCSM, MVP)

Owner/Principal Architect | Don't Pa..Panic Consulting

Paul is the Owner/Principal Architect at Don't Pa..Panic Consulting. He has been working in the information technology industry for over 30 years, and has played key roles in several enterprise SharePoint architectural design review, Intranet deployment, application development, and migration projects. he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the last 10 consecutive years and earned his Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters (MCSM) certification in 2013.
His core skills include architecting and customizing SharePoint environments both on-premises and in the cloud. He has significant experience leading SharePoint migration teams, troubleshooting infrastructure issues, and evaluating SharePoint environments for adherence to “Best Practices” and industry standards. He's authored several books and is a frequent contributor to the Microsoft forums.

Sessions

- Protecting your Content: Demystifying Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint
  Documents:
  
  Protecting your Content with DLP.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  Keeping content safe has always been a challenge in SharePoint. Many companies are afraid to decentralize security administration for fear that confidential material will inadvertently get into the wrong hands. But centralizing security can slow down the pace of information sharing in your organization while users wait for security permissions to be approved. Even if security administration is controlled that still doesn't guarantee that someone won't save the wrong kind of information in the wrong place and share it with the wrong people. The New Compliance Center in SharePoint lets you create Data Loss Prevention (DLP) queries and policies that can be used to identify and protect sharing of documents that contain sensitive information in both SharePoint and OneDrive. This functionality is available both on-premises and in Office 365. In this talk we'll explore the following topics:
  - What is a DLP Policy
  - What common DLP templates are available in SharePoint
  - How can DLP templates be used in queries to identify sensitive content
  - How can DLP Policies be used to inform users and prevent sharing of sensitive content
  - How can I create custom DLP Templates, Queries, and Policies
  - How is DLP different in SharePoint 2016 and Office 365

Amit Vasu (MVP)

Senior Consultant - Office 365/SharePoint | Independant

Amit Vasu is Sr. SharePoint consultant, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 10 years Amit is working at MS Partner Momentum Digital Solutions Inc. Amit's main area of focus is creating business process automation with SharePoint and related technologies. He also has several years of experience building dashboards using Reporting Services. Amit also frequently participates in the SharePoint community events including SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint code camp and local user groups.

Sessions

- Microsoft Teams integration with SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Planner
  Documents:
  
  SPSDetroit_2017_AmitVasu.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  Microsoft Teams is a persistant chat based workspace in Office 365. It allows team members to have access to people, conversations, files etc. This session is for users who would be interested knowing innner details on how MS Teams work with Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Planner. In this session you will learn things to consider and plan before creating your first team with the demos on how Teams work with OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and Planner. This session will also cover Office 365 Groups consideration when creating new MS Teams.

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 for your business.