SPS Events - Helsinki 2018

Bill Ayers (MCSM, MCT, MVP)

Technical Director | Flow Simulation Ltd.

I am a consultant developer and solution architect who has been working on SharePoint since the 2003 version of the product, and I am a Microsoft Certified Master, MCSM Charter SharePoint, MCT and Office Development MVP. I specialize in Intranet portals and mobile solutions with a particular focus on Agile software development practices. I have over 20 years’ experience in the software industry, and speak regularly at international conferences and user groups. I am also a moderator on SharePoint.StackExchange.com, and I blog occasionally at http://SPDoctor.net/. I am based in Sheffield, UK.

Sessions

- Reach for the Cloud: Extend your SPFx Solutions with the Power of Microsoft Graph
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Microsoft Graph is the single REST API endpoint that gives us access to the whole of Office 365 and the power of Search and AI. We'll look at how Microsoft Graph works, and how we can use it to build intelligent applications that give us access to users' mail, calendars, groups, tasks and intelligent insights as well as SharePoint. Then we'll see how we can use the SharePoint Framework's built-in GraphHttpClient class to reach out to the Microsoft Graph and Office 365 data for the user. We'll also look at the PnP-JS-Core library which gives us a fluent-style strongly-typed wrapper library for the SharePoint REST API and see how it is being extended to support Microsoft Graph.

Stefan Bauer (MCT, MVP)

Information Architect | N8D

I am an information architect based in Vienna / Austria. With a strong background in web design and development for more than fifteen year I started to brand and enhance SharePoint back in 2005.
I am also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for SharePoint.

Sessions

- SASSy webparts with SPFx
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  For more than one decade no other SASS revulotionised the way we write CSS nowadays. In modern SharePoint development this is the core ingredient to deliver optimised and well architectured.
  SASS is also one of the core inredients to develop new customisations for SharePoint through SPFX.
  
  This session will give you an overview of the most important concepts in SASS. In addition you will get to know some limitations in SPFX and how to handle those properly.
  
  After this session you will be able to:
  • Sketch and develop web parts faster
  • Create your own reusable CSS
  • Apply themes to your web parts
  • Handle external CSS properly in SPFX

Henrik Blåfield

Senior Consultant | Blue Meteorite / Valo Intranet

Henrik is a jack-of-all trades working with all aspects of Office 365 and SharePoint, as well as Valo-teams supporting information systems. Aspiring long-distance runner during his free time.

Sessions

- Valo Intranet - The rationale for Intranet-in-a-box Solutions in Office 365 era
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Valo Intranet was born when intranet and SharePoint experts at Blue Meteorite decided to stop re-inventing the intranet wheel over and over again.
  
  We're present in more than 30 countries, with more than 110 partners, over 250 customers and 600k+ happy users. We've also won the 'Best Intranet / Extranet award' at ESPC in 2017 and 2016, and been chosen as the only product in 'Intranet Choice – Value 2018' category by ClearBox Consulting's annual report of SharePoint Intranets.
  
  In this session we will demonstrate Valo Intranet, highlight some of its most popular features including the Intranet, Teamwork and Idea Management modules and of course answer any and all questions you may have.

Vlad Catrinescu (MCT, MVP)

Product Evangelist | Valo Intranet

Vlad is a SharePoint and Office 365 Consultant specializing in SharePoint and SharePoint Online deployments as well as hybrid scenarios. As a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped thousands of users and IT Pros across the globe to better understand and to get the most out of SharePoint.

Sessions

- Getting Started with PowerShell for Office 365
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  The Office 365 admin center has a lot of options, but not all the settings of your tenant can be seen or changed trough the User Interface, you need to learn how to use PowerShell! In this session we will learn how to use PowerShell to manage SharePoint Online, Exchange Online as well as your users and licenses in Azure AD!
  
  A basic understanding of PowerShell is recommended to get the most out of this session!

Maarten Eekels (MVP)

CTO | Portiva

Maarten Eekels is CTO of Portiva, one of the larger SharePoint and Office 365 implementation partners in the Netherlands. In that role he is responsible for all knowledge and technology related matters.

Maarten is an experienced all-round Office 365 specialist who likes a challenge and who is perfectly capable of translating the business needs of the customer into technical solutions. Already since version 2003 he is involved in implementing SharePoint (and later Office 365) in areas like web content management, document management, knowledge management, business process support, business intelligence and search.

Also, Maarten is a regular speaker on both national and international events, like conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, and user group meetings. In September 2015 he started a video blog series called Maarten’s Cloud Journaal, specifically targeted at Dutch speaking Office 365 users.

Sessions

- Microsoft Teams Deep Dive
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  According to Microsoft, Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. Well, I agree, but it takes more of the advanced capabilities of Teams to really achieve that effectiveness. In this session we will take a deep dive into these capabilities and into the management and governance aspects of Teams.
  
  First up is meeting through Teams. The meeting and video conferencing capabilities are quite powerful. I’ll show you how to leverage these capabilities in your daily work.
  
  Second, we’ll discuss Office 365 Connectors for Teams. Office 365 Connectors are a great way to get useful information and content into your Office 365 Group or Team. Any user can connect their group to services like Trello, Bing News, Twitter, etc., and get notified of the group’s activity in that service. I’ll demonstrate how to use Connectors in your organisation, and how to hook up your own web services to Connectors.
  
  Last but not least, we’ll talk about manageability of Microsoft Teams. Teams in Office 365 are intended to be created and managed by end users. Still, there are quite some configuration options from an admin perspective, which I'll explain. Also, I’ll show you how to set up some policies and create some quick reports through PowerShell to manage your environment when it comes to Teams.
- Modern News Publishing with SharePoint
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer, End-User, Business
  
  One of the key features of SharePoint has always been news publishing. Whether you’d be using the simple announcement lists or the more advanced publishing infrastructure with its page layouts, there have always been news-sharing scenarios that we built on top of SharePoint. And now there is a “modern” way of news publishing.
  
  In this session, we will dive into the different options the new modern SharePoint provides us for news sharing. Of course, there are the modern Team Sites, with their news publishing features, but only a few months ago, Microsoft released the modern successor of the classic publishing infrastructure as well: Communication Sites. What are the differences between these options? When would you choose what? And how are we able to customise both type of sites?
  
  All these questions will be answered, and more! We’ll also dive into customising your news publishing experience. We’ll cover a bit of branding, look & feel, but also the brand new Site Designs, which you can leverage to customise your site templates without code (it does involve a bit of JSON though). And of course we’ll be demoing all of the features too.

João Ferreira

SharePoint Team Lead | BindTuning

SharePoint Team Lead, blogger, tech enthusiast. Travelling and sports are my addictions, knowledge and success are my daily motivations.

Sessions

- Optimize your time with PNP Provisioning Engine
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Save a site as a template was never a good option to replicate your content across your intranet, and sooner or later you will find its limitations.
  
  In this session you will find how easy is to create and deploy your site templates using PNP provisioning and also tips and tricks to extend the default functionality of the engine.
  
  The Provisioning engine covers on premises and online versions of SharePoint and its game changing that will accelerate the implementation of new sites in your organization.

Mike Fitzmaurice

Chief Technology Officer | skybow

Mike Fitzmaurice is the Chief Technology Officer for skybow, and is a widely recognized thought leader in citizen development, workflow/business processes, and low-code/no-code solution platforms and strategies. Mike has more than 25 years of product, consulting, evangelism, engineering, and IT management expertise. He spent a decade at Microsoft and was the original technical product manager for SharePoint, helping launch and shepherd its first three releases; it was Mike who birthed, developed, and led developer evangelism on SharePoint, positioning it as a development platform. Other gigs included a decade at Nintex as Vice-President of Workflow Technology and five years as IT Director at the National Association of Broadcasters.

Sessions

- Workflow Best Practices: Product-Independent Project and Design Advice
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  It doesn’t matter if you use SharePoint Designer, Flow, Logic Apps, Nintex, WEBCON, K2, or anything else: several truths are common to how to design processes, how to measure them, and more. Of particular importance is remembering that it's the process that informs what data is needed and what users need to see/do. Data-centric and process-centric apps each have their places, but process apps are different, and this session will clarify how and why. This session will pack as much advice as possible to the allotted time to give you take-away advice on how to succeed in process automation.

Marcel Haas (MCT)

Digital Workplace Architect | CNEXT

Marcel is a Digital Workplace Architect getting up in the morning to support customers to be more successful in what they are doing.

The Microsoft Collaboration Technologies (aka. SharePoint) and Marcel made their acquaintance back in 2006 and this friendship is still getting deeper every day. Those were the days, when SharePoint was the center of the enterprise universe. Mike Fitzmaurice was on stage wearing his Scottish Kilt (I know it happened again in 2018!) and SharePoint Designer was just about to replace Frontpage Designer. In retro perspective a wonderful episode of his career.

Marcel made all the way up to the “cloud” from on-premises SharePoint to BPOS to Office 365 and thinks SharePoint is still the center of the universe, maybe a bit more hidden and dedicated one. In 2012 he was awarded with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award (MCC) for Office 365 Forums, which at this time already showed his deep commitment to the Community and sharing of knowledge and experience.

Nowadays, Marcel is an active member of the international SharePoint Community, speaking and co-speaking at various international conferences like SPSEvents, Thrive Conference, AIBootcamps, UserGroups and more.

With the shift of the computing model to the cloud-based approach, Marcel specialized in the Microsoft Citizen Developer technologies. The Microsoft Power Platform gives his team, his customers and himself, the power they were dreaming of. Sometimes they challenge “real developers” with their “citizen dev” capabilities, sometimes they win. The future is bright in this space and Marcel thinks that giving power to the people will help to make technology more inclusive.

Deep passion for technology, broad experience and guaranteed fun factor in live demos, make him a must have speaker at your next conference. He works best as co-speaker of Jussi Mori (MVP), so let’s book both.

Topics:

#Azure, #Office 365, #SharePoint, #Microsoft Teams, #MSFlow, #PowerApps, #Po

Sessions

- Hyperfish - Bring your directory to Life!
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  Hyperfish helps bring your company directory to life by ensuring directory and profile information is always complete and up-to-date. Hyperfish improves IT Service Delivery, increases employee engagement, and helps unlock the value of your technology investments.
  
  Hyperfish understands what's missing or incorrect, and automatically starts a conversation with employees to collect and validate their information.
  
  Hyperfish uses AI and Bot technology to automate the collection of profile information. The secure service supports on-premises, hybrid, and online environments.
  
  Come to this session to get an overview of what HyperFish can do for you and learn more about people profiles in Office 365 in general.

Spencer Harbar (MCSM, MVP)

Spencer Harbar is widely recognised as one of the world’s foremost Office 365 and SharePoint authorities. With over twenty years of commercial experience in the architecture, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables the world’s largest organizations to succeed with Office 365 and SharePoint.

Spencer is the only person to hold all four of the advanced certifications for SharePoint; one of only five people worldwide to hold the prestigious Microsoft Certified Architect, one of a dozen to hold the Microsoft Certified Solutions Master for SharePoint, and the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certifications

He was the content owner, author and instructor for one third of the SharePoint MCSM and MCM programs. Spencer also works with Microsoft on delivering field readiness material and documentation for SharePoint.

In his spare time (not much of it) he enjoys photography, reading, tennis cricket, golf and Scotch whisky. He listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland, his home town of Manchester, England, and Zoetermeer, the Netherlands.

Sessions

- State of the SharePoint PowerShell Nation 2018
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  This session provides all up coverage of the current state of scripting and automation for
  SharePoint Server and Office 365 using PowerShell and its related technologies. Coverage of the practical reality of automating SharePoint and Office 365 versus the desired state, along with real world examples will be provided. Learn the fundamentals of where automation capabilities fall down and what steps can be taken to deliver end to end solutions for automation and configuration management.

Kristian Hentula

Senior Consultant | Sininen Meteoriitti Oy

Kristian has seen the Office 365 service design and heavy-use on both sides of the table. As an experienced Office 365 main-user and concept designer he went nuts along the possibilities of Teams and PowerApps. “Light processes will be the next black”

Sessions

- Why business process owners will looove the combination of Teams, PowerApps and Flow
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Business
  
  A fierce dialogue and loads of examples about the new era of digital work. A new era, again? It's time for business owners to get comfortable with easy-to-develop business tools while Office 365 empowers main users with Teams, PowerApps and Flow.
  
  Key takeaways:
  1 - Role-based Teams
  2 - Typical everyday business processes supported by PowerApps and Flow
  3 - Combining Teams and PowerApps
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Sari Soinoja
  
  O365 Artist
  Sininen Meteoriitti Oy
  
  @SariSoinoja

Olli Jääskeläinen (MCSM, MCT, MVP)

Lead Architect, Collaboration & AI | Sulava

A Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Master as well as Microsoft Certified Trainer, Olli has been working on the field for over 15 years. He knows the SharePoint inside out, and is currently focusing on digitizing modern workplace with Office 365.

Olli is working as Lead Architect, Collaboration & AI for Sulava and Onsight Helsinki with 3 fellow MVPs and dozens of greatly skilled professionals.

He has co-authored the book 'SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework' and has been giving breakout sessions since 2013 on TechDays Finland, European SharePoint Conference, Office 365 Unity, TechTalks as well in other conferences.

Sessions

- Practical Microsoft Bot Framework for Office 365 developers
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The tool-set to build AI components as part of digital transformation of work is here. In this presentation we are going to dive into Microsoft Bot Framework with very down to earth approach. You will learn how to build bots and how to surface the them in Office 365. All the showcased code will be available in GitHub after the presentation.

Adis Jugo (MVP)

Trusted advisor, leader, and software/solution architect with over 25 years of experience in solution delivery and information technologies. Specialized in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. Speaker at various technology conferences world-wide for the last 15 years. Awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in two categories: Office Apps and Services, and Office Development. Director of Product Technology at skybow, company that makes platform for rapid business apps development on top of Office 365 and SharePoint. Founder and spiritus movens of the European Collaboration Summit, the largest European Microsoft 365/Azure/SharePoint event, with over 1600 attendees. Strongly believes in leading people by example and motivation.

Lives besides the oldest vineyard in the Rhine valley. Prefers collecting stories to collecting possessions. Can make his wife and kids laugh anytime.

Sessions

- skybow Solution Studio – rapid development of business solutions on top of SharePoint Online
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer, End-User
  
  SharePoint Online is a platform for business solutions, but the development of those solutions can be a painful and long lasting process. Not so with skybow Solution Studio: this platform for citizen and professional developers cuts down the development time up to 85%. Data modelling, advanced UI, business processes, background calculations, timer jobs, reports, and much more, all tightly integrated with Office 365 and with full support for packaging and deployment methods, including the full ALM cycle.
  
  In this session, we will build a fully functional inventory management solution from a scratch, in less then an hour, using nothing but SharePoint Online and skybow Solution Studio.
- Back to architecture: Creating scalable cloud solutions with SharePoint Online and Microsoft Azure
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The SharePoint development has been in a huge turmoil in the past few years. In only 2-3 years we have witnessed the decline of SharePoint Farm Solutions, birth of the SharePoint AddIns (ex Apps), and client side code solutions in general. The most recently, we have witnessed the birth of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and new things like webhooks which further more open the possibilities and steer the water in the same time. The SharePoint development has moved from .NET-centric to JavaScript centric discipline faster than one could pronounce "Don't use Feature Framework anymore".
  This session is bringing some order in this fast-moving chaos. Just because we are using JavaScript and SPFx, it doesn't mean we should forget solution architecture altogether: the good practices, things we have learned from past, still apply. We will see how to apply practical multi-tier architecture and domain driven design with SharePoint on the back, things like Azure API Apps, Azure Web Jobs and Microsoft Service Bus in the middle, and yes, SPFx - or any other client technology for that matter - on the front. Let's be nice developers, and develop sustainable, manageable and developer-after-me-friendly code.

Vesa Juvonen (MCSM)

Senior Program Manager | Microsoft

Vesa Juvonen is a Senior Program Manager within SharePoint engineering. Prior this, he worked as a SharePoint CAT team member in CXP and as a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for 8 years before moving to product group. Vesa was also SharePoint MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) instructor for the life cycle of the program and is considered an industry expert on the use of the app/add-in model and more specifically on the transformation from farm solutions to the app/add-in model.

Vesa leads the virtual team which created the Office 365 Developer and SharePoint Patterns and Practice (PnP) to help customers to learn how to use SharePoint add-in model and other Office 365 related technologies. Vesa is also a frequent speaker at SharePoint conference and events.

Sessions

- SharePoint Developer Landscape - Roadmap and latest announcements
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track:
  
  SharePoint Development Landscape is moving extremely fast and Microsoft is pushing new content and capabilities on weekly basis. In this session, SharePoint engineering will share the latest guidance and updates around the SharePoint development. We'll cover latest announcements and also upcoming new capabilities in SharePoint development. Get up to date on what's happening and what will be released soon.

Sebastien Levert (MVP)

Product Evangelist & Partner Manager | Office Development MVP | Valo Intranet

Seb is an Office Development MVP, a Microsoft Certified Software Developer and works at Valo Intranet, the product that will make you fall in love with your intranet. He is a Product Evangelist & Partner Manager for North America and is helping his partners & customers reaching their business and technology goals by ensuring that quality and simplicity are always the focus in Valo Intranet deployments around the world. Seb is speaking regularly at conferences around the world like SharePoint Saturdays, European SharePoint Conference and European Collaboration Summit. Even though he loves travelling, he loves his local community where he is an organizer of the Quebec SharePoint User Group, an organizer of MSDEVMTL and an organizer of 2 SharePoint Saturdays (Quebec & Montreal). You can read Seb's blog at www.sebastienlevert.com and you can follow his tweets at @sebastienlevert.

Sessions

- Everything you need to know about the Microsoft Graph as a SharePoint Developer
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Since the launch of the Microsoft Graph, a ton of new possibilities are being made available to the Office 365 and SharePoint Developers. The unified API of all the Office 365 is one of the greatest Microsoft innovation of the last few years and is changing the way that solutions are built on Office 365 and SharePoint Online. The launch of the SharePoint endpoints on the Microsoft Graph will enhance our development story and lead to amazing cloud solutions.
  
  This session is a deep-dive into the Microsoft Graph by analyzing the current /v1.0 version of the API and what is coming on the future /beta endpoint. The focus of the session will be on the SharePoint-specific features that the Graph is now offering to the SharePoint developers.
  
  This very demo-intensive session will make sure that at the end you get those 3 key takeaways :
  
  - Understand the role of the Microsoft Graph in the Office 365 ecosystem
  - Leverage and interact with your SharePoint data from the Microsoft Graph
  - Change the way you will think for your next SharePoint Online solution

serge Luca (MCT, MVP)

ShareQL Managing partner & SharePoint MVP | ShareQL

Serge Luca is a Belgian 12 times SharePoint MVP, international speaker, co-author a book in SharePoint 2013 and author for SharePoint Pro Magazine. Serge has executed several assignments for the Microsoft SharePoint team (Redmond) across the world and has worked for Microsoft Learning as a Subject Matter Expert in SharePoint and in Workflow Foundation. He has trained more than a thousand developers in SharePoint.He is based in Brussels and is managing Partner of ShareQL (specialized in SharePoint and SQ Server www.shareql.com)

Sessions

- Microsoft Flow advanced: tips, pitfalls, problems and warnings to be known before starting a real project
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  You have started using Microsoft flow, you have attended a Flow introduction presentation but you feel that before doing real projects you need to know more. Much more.
  After working with Microsoft Flow almost every day since the begining of the product, we faced some situations and traps that require more advanced skills.
  This is what this session is all about.
  We will show you different real problems and the way we solved it
  You will learn about the workflow definition language , creating custom connectors, webhooks, how to extend Flows, how to use it from existing applications,
  the very latest features, and if the well known "Workflow best practices" can be applied to Microsoft Flow today or in the future.
  This will be a demo-heavy session.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (MVP)
  
  sql mvp
  ShareQL
  
  @thesqlgrrrl

Robert Mulsow (MCT, MVP)

VP of TSP EMEA | AvePoint

At AvePoint I'm VP of the Pre-Sales organization EMEA. I'm also awarded as Microsoft MVP and certified as Microsoft P-TSP. All three roles are focusing on driving business through modern collaboration solutions and new ways to work.

Based on my experience as a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, I help large companies with their SharePoint Infrastructure challenges and aligned technologies like SQL, Windows Server and Active Directory. I focused in several projects on topics like Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategies, Performance and Storage Optimization, Information Governance as well as GDPR across all industries in EMEA.

Sessions

- Cloud Backup and How to Control Your Data
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  For IT administrators, current threats like ransomware raise many concerns. For example, if an attack infects a colleague’s OneDrive data, is that infection now replicated in the cloud? The good news is that with Microsoft Office 365, we have the capability to eliminate those threats. However, we also have to ask ourselves new questions about our cloud data:
  1. Do I have a backup strategy in Office 365, and if so, how does it differ from my on-premises strategy?
  2. How do I restore a single item, Exchange mailbox, or Office 365 Group from a one year-old backup?
  3. How do I recover important files from a user's OneDrive for Business, who left the company?
  If you don’t have immediate answers to these questions, this session is for you! Robert Mulsow, Director of TSPs EMEA at AvePoint, will provide real-life examples to show how customers have gained back control over their data in the cloud.

Ahmad Najjar (MVP)

Senior Consultant, MVP, MCTS & MCP | Infoworker

I'm an enthusiastic developer heart and soul and a senior consultant based in Oslo at Infoworker. I'm also an active co-organizer for SPS Oslo.

During my 14 years of experience I have mainly worked with Microsoft based technologies, like ASP.NET, C#, SQL and (of course) SharePoint, which is my main focus area, whereas I have worked with SharePoint since the beta version of MOSS 2007!

Microsoft Flow and PowerApps are "more and more" becoming my full-time focus areas when I'm not doing SharePoint! I'm always exploring them in many ways from basic to advanced scenarios...

I'm also fascinated with some of the cloud services/technologies in Azure; such as Machine Learning and Logic Apps; I'm always exploring them in the context of SharePoint/O365, in a way to take whatever we are doing to the next level.

Sessions

- Building LEGO style applications with Microsoft Flow
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  There are countless scenarios where we could consider using Flow as a service for automating workflows across a variety of apps and SaaS services, but what if we are planning to build a fully or semi-customized application?
  Still! Leveraging Microsoft Flow and utilizing its functionalities is a visible option!
  Join me into a happy hour on how we can leverage Flow with fully and semi-custom applications, minimizing the efforts needed for development and adding scalablity to the mix... Flow could be your "LEGO" building block for almost every application!

Benjamin Niaulin (MCT, MVP)

Product Manager | Sharegate

Benjamin Niaulin is an Office Servers and Services MVP and Microsoft Regional Director, recognized as one of the Top SharePoint and Office 365 influencers. Being a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2008 has allowed him to become proficient in simplifying complex technologies, making him an expert in SharePoint & Office 365 vulgarization. He's even gone as far as co-authoring a book on Responsive Design for SharePoint. Thanks to his expertise and passion in the field, he can easily talk to you for hours and still find something new to say! This has allowed him to speak at over 200 conferences around the world.
Benjamin works for Sharegate, a SharePoint & Office 365 Migration & Management tool, based in Montreal. Every day he follows the latest trends with the team of Geeks in order to craft the best possible tool for Sharegate's customers.

Sessions

- Transforming your team and how you work
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Change is a fundamental part of IT and our industry. As we make our move to the next decade of productivity and collaboration work, it’s time to review our past and make those changes where it’s needed.
  
  At Microsoft Ignite, Satya Nadella mentioned that all companies were now a software company providing a service, but what does that mean for you? And how do you make that transformation?
  
  We can no longer expect products like SharePoint to stand alone and fit all of our business requirements and needs. To survive, your team will need to change and start thinking like a software company, providing Productivity or Collaboration as a Service for your own end users.
  
  Are you ready to lead the transformation?

Beatriz Oliveira

CEO & Founder | BindTuning

Beatriz Oliveira is an entrepreneur, speaker, and visionary in the web design industry. Beatriz currently is the founder and CEO of BindTuning, the leading platform for building connected and engaging workplaces for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint.

Before BindTuning, Beatriz was a founder of CentralBiz, a successful Portuguese development company where she spent 4 years as the creative director.

Beatriz graduated at the top of her class in IT Engineering, completed her master’s in Design and Communication, is a Microsoft Certified Professional, wife and mother of two beautiful daughters.

Sessions

- Project management on SharePoint using automated provisioning - The Nokia Case Study
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  The Nokia Project Management Center provides specialised project management services to companies all across Europe, using a self-developed methodology. Despite the excellence of their service, they needed a unified communications channel between Nokia and all managed customers, working on Office 365.
  BindTuning, partnering with DevScope, developed an automated provisioning engine, based on Microsoft's PnP provisioning framework, centralising project information and deploying new Office 365 project portals in just a few minutes.

Gokan Ozcifci (MCT, MVP)

Entrepreneur | Neoxy

Gokan is an independent SharePoint and Office365 consultant for Neoxy where he assists customers with building innovative, intelligent and responsive cloud driven solutions. With the Mobile first, Cloud first ideology, his is to empower every person and organization to do more with the Microsoft cloud and the ecosystem is perfectly aligned to accelerate this. Creativity, automation and perspectives is what he loves the most when using the Microsoft cloud, so every customer can be more agile, responsive and competitive. Gokan is a frequent –and funny conference speaker. He presented at numerous national and international conferences - and is actively involved in the European as American conferences: Microsoft Techdays, Microsoft Experiences, European SharePoint Conferences, SharePoint Days and SharePoint Fest are a few major ones.

A proud author of books that reached the half million of downloads and founder of several communities, Gokan is a real community warrior. Due to his active contributions in these domains, he has been honoured with Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Additionally, he is an active Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a Microsoft Regional Lead for all MCTs in Belgium.

Sessions

- Rocking the collaboration experience in Office365: The good, bad and ugly for your Digital Workplace!
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Office 365 is becoming more and more indispensable for all kind of companies. Moving to Office 365 comes with multiple key benefits and key features like Hub sites, Groups, Microsoft Teams, Flow and/or PowerApps. Everybody’s focal points are on the benefits: Generate greater productivity with Office 365, Access from anywhere with Office 365, Robust security… But the challenges are being omitted. In this session you'll see advantages but also the challenges of "modern experiences" in Office365. This session focalizes on all interested parties who might be interested in the whole Office365 suit.

Paolo Pialorsi (MCSM, MVP)

Senior Consultant | PiaSys

Paolo Pialorsi is a consultant, trainer, and author who specializes in developing distributed applications architectures and Microsoft Office 365 enterprise solutions. Paolo has a great deal of experience on SharePoint and Office 365, and he is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master – Charter SharePoint. He has been awarded as Office 365 MVP.
He is also a regular speaker at international IT conferences. He spoke at Microsoft TechEd Europe, the European SharePoint Conference, the SharePoint Conference in USA, and many other IT conferences.
Paolo is the author for Microsoft Press of many books about .NET, Windows 8, and SharePoint. The latest books published are the Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Developer Reference, Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic Step by Step, and Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET 4.0. He also wrote some Italian-language books about .NET, XML and Web Services.
In 2014 he was Co-Programme Chair of the European SharePoint Conference 2014, and is member of the Core Team of the Office 365 Developer Pattern and Pratcites project.

Sessions

- Understanding SharePoint Framework Extensions
  Documents:
  
  SPSHEL2018-PaoloPia-SPFx-Extensions.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The "modern" UI of SharePoint Online is really powerful and user friendly. However, you cannot extend it using user CustomActions, JavaScript Embedding, and custom Master Pages, as like as you were used to do with the "classic" experience.
  Luckily, in late September 2017 Microsoft released an updated version of the SharePoint Framework, which includes the capability to create SharePoint Framework Extensions in order to extend and customize the modern UI of pages and lists/libraries.
  In this session you will understand the architecture of the SPFx Extensions, what the available extensions flavors there are, and how to create each of them. Moreover, you will learn how to leverage frameworks like React, Office UI Fabric, and PnP-JS to build real-life extensions. The session will show samples from the SharePoint PnP project, as well as concrete examples based on the real-life experience of the speaker.

Konstantin Riegel

Senior Technical Specialist | K2 Europe

After three years as a SharePoint Consultant and Project Manager, I joined the pre-sales team of K2 Europe in 2015.
Since then I am helping prospective customers to kick off their digital transformation journey.

Sessions

- IOT driven process automation in O365
  Documents:
  
  IOT driven process automation.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  Do you like to know how you can bring IOT, O365 and process automation together? In this session, you will see a live demo of a ‘Defect Resolution’ process, based on IOT data. See how to start off powerful workflows and help your mobile workers with easy to use mobile-ready forms. For analytics use the gathered process and business information to create meaningful reports and dashboards with Power BI for your management.

Sari Soinoja

O365 Artist | Sininen Meteoriitti Oy

Blue Meteorite's Sari Soinoja is a technical consultant, who specializes in Office 365 and SharePoint environments. Sari aims to be a technical evangelist, who encourages people and companies to make the most out of their digital tools and to embrace digitalizations benefits, that make our our (working) lives easier.

Sessions

- Why business process owners will looove the combination of Teams, PowerApps and Flow
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Business
  
  A fierce dialogue and loads of examples about the new era of digital work. A new era, again? It's time for business owners to get comfortable with easy-to-develop business tools while Office 365 empowers main users with Teams, PowerApps and Flow.
  
  Key takeaways:
  1 - Role-based Teams
  2 - Typical everyday business processes supported by PowerApps and Flow
  3 - Combining Teams and PowerApps
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Kristian Hentula
  
  Senior Consultant
  Sininen Meteoriitti Oy
  
  @hentula

Elio Struyf (MVP)

Senior Developer & Architect | Struyf Consulting

Elio is an Office Servers and Services MVP and board member of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group). He works as a senior developer & architect at Valo Intranet. He likes to stay up-to-date with Office 365, SharePoint, Web and Azure development. Elio loves to share his knowledge via his blog (https://www.eliostruyf.com) or at various community events and conferences.

Sessions

- Extending SharePoint Framework tasks to automate releases of your projects
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  If you already started developing with SharePoint Framework, you know that you have to run a certain set of gulp tasks to get everything ready for your next release. All of this requires some manual interaction, but did you know that you can also automate the process? In this session, you will see how you can extend the default gulp tasks that are in place, and how you can fully automate your SPFx releases with a build and release pipelines in Visual Studio Team Services.

Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (MVP)

sql mvp | ShareQL

Isabelle Van Campenhoudt is a senior/consultant/speaker/author/trainer and Microsoft MVP SQL Server. Isabelle is also specialized in Business Intelligence but also in SQL Server migrations and performance tuning. She has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and is now focusing on SQL Server 2014. With Serge Luca, Isabelle co-founded www.ShareQL.com

Sessions

- Microsoft Flow advanced: tips, pitfalls, problems and warnings to be known before starting a real project
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  You have started using Microsoft flow, you have attended a Flow introduction presentation but you feel that before doing real projects you need to know more. Much more.
  After working with Microsoft Flow almost every day since the begining of the product, we faced some situations and traps that require more advanced skills.
  This is what this session is all about.
  We will show you different real problems and the way we solved it
  You will learn about the workflow definition language , creating custom connectors, webhooks, how to extend Flows, how to use it from existing applications,
  the very latest features, and if the well known "Workflow best practices" can be applied to Microsoft Flow today or in the future.
  This will be a demo-heavy session.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  serge Luca (MCT, MVP)
  
  ShareQL Managing partner & SharePoint MVP
  ShareQL
  
  @sergeluca
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Tracy Van der Schyff (MVP)

Office 365 Coach & Catalyst | The Guid Stuff (Pty) Ltd.

My passion is to empower people and therefore training and change management lie close to my heart. My Mission is to positively impact WHAT and HOW people create, as I believe that what we design / create, designs / creates us back (Ontological Design). It is about enabling others to serve themselves better, expand their possibilities, increase their capacity to learn, act more effectively and better design their future.

Sessions

- How does Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Hub Sites impact your Intranet planning and architecture?
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track:
  
  When Microsoft Teams was launched in 2016, many of the ‘die hard hierarchical subsite builders’ had cause for concern. How would we stop site collection sprawl and what were the options to restore calm in the midst of the chaos. As Teams create site collections, duplicate ‘sites’ became an obstacle. The launch of SharePoint Hub Sites at the 2017 Ignite conference changed everything.
  In my session we’ll take a look at:
      1. Reverse engineering your site provisioning through Microsoft Teams
      2. Using SharePoint Hub Sites as a catalyst to join your organizational structures and bring common pockets of interest together
      3. Features provided by SharePoint Hub Sites: Search Scope, global navigation, theme & information roll-up
      4. Features provided by Microsoft Teams to facilitate collaboration and communication in your company
  Knowledge is power and equipped with the above facts you will make better informed decisions around your Intranet.

Erwin van Hunen (MCSM, MCT, MVP)

Product Owner - Tranformation Tooling | Rencore

Erwin is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Master and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master and works at Rencore, the company behind the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework (SPCAF) www.spcaf.com.

He is a product owner for transformation tooling, helping customers to successfully migrate from on-premises solutions and traditional solution packages to the new add-in model for SharePoint.
Erwin is a core member of the Office 365 Patterns and Practices team (https://dev.office.com) helping developers worldwide with code samples, scenarios, solutions and guidance to successfully implement customizations for Office 365.

Erwin is speaking regularly at SharePoint conferences around the world, like Ignite 2015, and is one of the organizers of SharePoint Saturday Stockholm, the largest SharePoint focused conference in Scandinavia.

Blog: www.erwinmcm.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwinvanhunen
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/erwinvanhunen

Sessions

- Provisioning SPFx Solutions to SharePoint Online using PnP, ALM APIs and more!
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  If you want to see the future of provisioning, make sure to attend this session! You will get an overview on how to provision your shiny new SPFx solutions with PnP. We will dive into the options you have with the PnP Provisioning Engine, the new ALM APIs and we also touch SPFx asset packaging. And yes, there will be code.

Rick Van Rousselt (MVP)

SharePoint/Office365 Consultant | Rivaro Consultancy

Rick works as senior SharePoint/O365 Consultant and is founder of
Rivaro Consultancy. He has been working with SharePoint since 2007
and has now made the transition to Office 365. With a strong focus on
development this job pushed him to become a versatile expert in both
SharePoint, Office 365 and all related technologies. His inquisitive
disposition encourages him to continuously gain knowledge and share
insights with everyone that shares the same interests.

Sessions

- Building an intelligent SharePoint Bot
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  The Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) is one of the Cognitive Services Microsoft now offers. We can now use these services and API's to take the SharePoint and Office 365 experience we offer to the next level. When combined with the Microsoft Graph a whole new world of collaboration will open up. Let users interact with Office 365 like they do with a co-worker and let them communicate in an interactive manner.

Thomas Vochten (MCT, MVP)

SharePoint Architect

Thomas is a SharePoint and Office 365 consultant focusing on the infrastructure side of things. As a platform architect he supports his customers in planning, deploying and maintaining their SharePoint infrastructures, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Thomas is also a trainer and a frequent speaker at various SharePoint community events. Thomas works as a SharePoint architect at Xylos, a Belgian consultancy company where he specializes in SharePoint and Office365 deployments.

Sessions

- Hybrid SharePoint deep dive & troubleshooting
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Hybrid is all the rage nowadays and “coexistence” seems to be the latest buzzword as organizations realize their on-premises infrastructures won’t be abandoned as fast as they thought. Configuring a hybrid setup involves much more than just following through a wizard to get up and running: you quickly realize that your setup might be slightly more complicated than the one at Contoso or Fabrikam. In this session, we’ll look at what you need to know before you embark on your hybrid journey, the changes that are made to your precious SharePoint farm, the problems you might encounter and how to troubleshoot and fix them - in the real world.