SPS Events - SPS Va Beach 2019

Geoff Ables (MCT)

Managing Partner | C5 Insight

Bestselling author and global keynote speaker, Geoff Ables is a thought leader on digital customer and employee engagement. Geoff's most recent book, "The LUCK Principle: Business Results at the Intersection of People and Profit," delivers fresh insight and inspiration into creating people-centric digital workplaces. As a leading expert on customer and employee engagement, Geoff has delivered keynotes and articles for: Summit EMEA, Customer Experience South Africa, Engage, EuroForum, BusinessWeek, USA Today, CRM Evolution, Smart Call Center and many others. His firm, C5 Insight, has twice been named an Inc 5000 company, and advises clients on digital customer and employee experience projects. Geoff is also an avid motorcycle and wine enthusiast and has appeared as a guest on TruTVs's, "The Impractical Jokers."

Sessions

- Demystifying Governance
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Deliver a governance strategy that drives adoption, and leads to innovation, engagement and better customer experiences. Learn how to convince your leadership team to understand the value of governance and their role in the process.
  
  Governance. It's something that most companies talk about, but few know where to start. In fact, if we're being honest, most companies don't know exactly what governance is, especially as it relates to an Intranet or Digital Workplace. How critical is governance? It is one of the 3 key reasons why 60% - 80% of digital workplace projects are failing today.
  
  What is governance and how do we apply this in our company? Where do we start? What's in a governance plan? How do we build a governance plan? Who do we involve in the process? Is it technology, policies, procedures, or all of the above?
  
  In this session, we'll answer these questions and more, taking a fresh look at governance as it relates to your digital workplace. In fact, we'll start by going back to basics, understanding the purpose of governance, and then work our way up to developing a usable governance strategy - the keyword being usable. After all, governance is only good if it actually helps your company, right?
  
      * Have a Digital Workplace Governance Workbook full of ideas to implement
      * Know where to get started on your governance plan, and how it will evolve with your digital workplace project
      * Have insights on getting your leadership on board with a governance plan that drives adoption and innovation

Brian Alderman (MCT, MVP)

Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSE, Speaker, and Author | MicroTechPoint

Brian Alderman is a Microsoft MVP, and since 1995 he has held several Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCSE for SharePoint, MCSA for Office 365, MCITP for SQL Server(R), MCSA and MCSE for Windows Server(R), and also his PMP certification. As a Senior Technical Instructor and Consultant he has 30 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, and project management. Brian's publications include Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000 Administration, SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out. He is an active speaker at SharePoint Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's, SPLive, DevIntersection, SharePoint Fest, Microsoft Ignite and several international SharePoint conferences including London, Milan, and Madrid. Brian has a BS and MS in Computer Information Systems where he graduated summa cum laude from Regis University of Colorado Springs and now lives in Scottsdale, AZ where he enjoys playing golf year round and traveling around the world.

Sessions

- Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  A vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint. In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made in SQL Server at both the instance and database level to improve the performance of SharePoint. This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint.
- Managing Data Recovery in SharePoint
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User
  
  SharePoint Server includes several content recovery options for SharePoint administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your users, and site collections and lighten the burden on your SharePoint farm administrators. Using Central Administration or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire farm or components of your farm. You can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and list. SharePoint also provides the option of recovering site collections, sites, list and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of the SharePoint farm. With a vast majority of your SharePoint content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible. This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator to configure SharePoint and SQL Server for quick content recovery minimizing the downtime and providing shorter yet achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

Chad Berg

Microsoft Premier Field Engineer | Microsoft

Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) supporting US Army in many of their SharePoint, Office, Project and Business Process improvement initiatives. Multiple customers across the CONUS. Will often find me helping a customer upgrading a production SharePoint platform, helping restore operation to a server or application after the integration of a STIG security update or helping a technical team manage or plan an organizations enterprise IT integration.

Sessions

- Assessing SharePoint Environments Proactively and for Migration
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Assessing SharePoint Environments Proactively and for Migration is a session to review a current farm. We will cover a number of different tools and processes to evaluate a current SharePoint environment and collect insight on it's architecture, size and pain points. Most importantly,. we will review how to use the output of several of these tools, SMAT tool, scripts and SQL queries to gather multiple perspectives into an environments function, use and challenges. This insight is priceless when assessing an integration for performance and preparing for a migration, upgrade or transfer into the cloud.
- Desired State Configruation (DSC)
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a PowerShell toolset that allows an administrator to script and specify the configuration of the machine using a declarative model in a simple standard. This is way that is easy to maintain and configure a platform. In this session we are going to illustrate and give the attendees a jump start on how this tool can be leveraged in a SharePoint environment.

Christian Buckley (MVP)

Founder & CEO | CollabTalk LLC

Christian is a 7-time Office Servers and Services MVP, internationally-recognized technology evangelist and collaboration expert, and the Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, an independent research and technical marketing services firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find him online at www.buckleyplanet.com and @buckleyplanet

Sessions

- How Personality and Culture Determine Collaboration Success
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for collaboration and communication – and yet with the rate of innovation coming from Microsoft these days, many organisations are struggling to understand which tools and capabilities to use, and when to use them. The fact is: different teams work in different ways. Within the modern digital workplace, there are many different “modalities” of collaboration — and the companies that understand and meet the evolving needs of their end users will have a competitive advantage.
  
  In this keynote session by Microsoft RD & MVP Christian Buckley, we'll discuss how identifying and understanding your individual personality traits works best within your own organization can improve team dynamics -- and how individual personality and team culture impact the “Inner Loops” and “Outer Loops” workloads in Office 365.
  
  By attending this session, you will better understand:
  
  1. Microsoft’s “intelligent communications” messaging
  2. How each workload works alone and together within key scenarios
  3. Which tool to use when inside your own organization

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 Intelligent Solutions with Azure and Microsoft's Cognitive Services
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  As organizations continue their digital transformation to the cloud, they are faced with the challenge of making more and more sense out of an ever-increasing amount of data. Join this session to learn how we can use Azure and Microsoft’s Cognitive services to build truly intelligent serverless applications with Azure Functions. You’ll be introduced to a set of Artificial Intelligence APIs that allow you to create intelligent applications that can see, hear, speak, and understand people in their own language and also implement image recognition. You’ll discover how you can use REST APIs, .Net Client Libraries, and Azure Functions Bindings to achieve all of this with just a few lines of code within an Azure Function.

Nikkia Carter

WW Modern Workplace Tech Lead | Microsoft

Nikkia T. Carter is the Worldwide Modern Workplace Tech Lead at Microsoft. She is a Microsoft strategist, solutions developer, consultant, and trainer specializing in Office 365, SharePoint, and related technology. Nikkia has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and a Master’s in IT Project Management and is a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer. She has industry experience since 2001 starting with applications then adding in intranet development. In 2009, Nikkia changed her technology focus to SharePoint and adding in Office 365 in 2009. She has worked with clients in the government, DoD, commercial, and non-profit spaces. Nikkia is a Microsoft MVP in Office Apps and Services, is an accomplished speaker and has spoken at and organized technical and non-technical events. She has authored two video courses, has coauthored one book, and is currently writing another. She is the former President of SharePoint User Group of DC, has organized community events, served on the Microsoft’s VFI (Voices for Innovation) taskforce and is a former board member of the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) DC chapter. Nikkia also served on the Microsoft Partner Engagement Board for Microsoft's Inspire Conference.

Sessions

- Intro to the Office 365 Admin Center
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  You got Office 365 and you need to use it. You need to let others in your organization use it because you were designated the admin but you can't spell Office 365... yet. Where do you start? In this session, you will learn about the basics of administering Office 365 through the Admin Centers.
- Powerapps vs InfoPath: Battle between the up and comer and the heavy weight champion of the world
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer, Business
  
  If you are like me, you love InfoPath. Even if you don't love it, you probably have respect for it (even if grudgingly). It had been around for a long time and we have done some amazing things with it but it could be a bit decrepit at times. Along comes Powerapps and it is awesome and continually getting better but it's no InfoPath... Yet. In this session, we will look at the differences between the two and when to use each.

Daniel Christian (MVP)

Enterprise 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

- Take content moderation to the next level using Flow and Cognitive Services
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  The potential of SharePoint is abundant and now with Flow you can do even more. However, with more power comes more responsibility and this is where Cognitive Service's can help. In this session we'll see how the Computer Vision and Content Moderator connectors can help monitor the images that are uploaded to SharePoint libraries by tagging them and also identifying those that are either racy or adult.
- Sleek and Professional Mobile PowerApps using no-code
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  In this session Daniel will present how eye-catching User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) mobile apps can be built using PowerApps. Daniel has been an early adopter for PowerApps ever since the preview days. He has earned his Business Solutions Microsoft MVP title focusing on PowerApps and his passion is leveraging the Canvas model to build some custom design mobile apps. Daniel will demonstrate how a combination of simple formulas and existing controls can help you build some awesome mobile apps that equivalent to if not better than existing mobile apps available.

Walter Cohn

Senior Business Technology Consultant | Marathon Consulting, LLC

I am an experienced SharePoint Engineer, Business Analyst and Project Manager who has worked with SharePoint off and on for more than a decade. Currently I am working on a SharePoint migration project for a large local school system.

Sessions

- How to successfully Migrate or Upgrade a SharePoint Environment
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  If you'll looking to Upgrade your SharePoint On-Premise Environment or migrate to SharePoint Online, this is a session you want to be at. This session covers ways be to successfully in Migrate or Upgrade a SharePoint Environment. SharePoint migration and upgrades can be tricky and cause major headaches and downtime, but with the correct approach, you can have a successfully migration or upgrade and reduce downtime. We will also review Migration tools (including the new Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool) and useful PowerShell Scripts to help with a successfully transition.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Shawn Fagan
  
  Senior Information Technology Consultant
  Marathon Consulting, LLC
  
  @FaganSC
  Blog

Thomas Daly (MVP)

SharePoint Team Lead | SoHo Dragon

Thomas Daly - is the SharePoint Team Lead @ SoHo Dragon. He specializes in implementing custom SharePoint branding as well as delivering custom UI solutions. He is an expert in web technologies and highly proficient in many languages including C#, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, XSLT. His educational background is composed of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering. Tom is also heavily involved in the SharePoint community speaking on branding at community events. He currently runs the Central Jersey SharePoint & Office 365 User Group at Microsoft - Iselin, NJ as well as the SharePoint Saturday New York & New Jersey.

Sessions

- Building Cross Site Navigation for Modern Sites Using SPFx Application Customizer, PnP JS & PnP PowerShell
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  In this session we will discuss a real world example of building a cross-site collection navigation solution for modern pages. We'll walk through creating an application customizer in SPFx in React. The solution will contain the necessary list schema and PowerShell scripts to provision itself using PowerShell PnP. It will also use the PnP JS library to make REST call to SharePoint for the data.

Stacy Deere-Strole (MVP)

Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect - Business Owner | Focal Point Solutions, LLC

Stacy Deere-Strole is the Owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy led a rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engaged in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry, Stacy has mainly focused on Collaboration Solutions such as IBM’s Lotus Notes\Domino and Microsoft’s Messaging and Collaboration Solutions including deployments and SharePoint upgrades.

Within the SharePoint community, Stacy is a SharePoint MVP and is actively sharing her real world expertise through authoring in the blog http://www.spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co, http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog, http://infogovcon.com/ and speaking at various SharePoint Saturday's, Collab365, ITUnity, SPTechCon, SharePoint Fest, SharePoint Engage, and User Group events. She also co-authored two books called SharePoint 2013 and 2010 Using Managed Metadata.

Sessions

- Taking User Profiles to New Heights!
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  How many of you know what User Profiles can do? When I typically ask that question I get responses such as: It connects to Active Directory so that properties can be synced into SharePoint so we can use that info (but not sure how), or the most popular, we can add pictures to our profile and other information that others can see. Both of those answers are true but only scratch the surface of what User Profiles can do in SharePoint and most importantly for your organization. I could talk for hours about all the great things that User Profiles can do, but, in addition to talking about it I’m going to show you all the things that a User Profile can do and how the functionality can improve meeting preparation, company bonding and getting to know more about the organization you work for. I won’t stop there either as we will also venture down the path of application integration and how it can streamline processes and limit human error in day to day processes. With the user of User Profiles you can be on your way to building that one stop shop for company information.
  
  Areas that will be covered in this session:
  · Deep Dive into a Profile
  · Custom User Properties
  · Active Directory Integration
  · Search
  · Social
  · Building Moral & Bonding
  · Get to know your Company
- Some Quick Wins to Jump Start Your SharePoint Implementation
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  The determination of success vs failure for all projects is whether or not what you have implemented is being utilized by the users. Better well known as User Adoption!! However, many wonder what can I do to make sure I’m giving the users what they want, what they didn’t know they needed but will make their job easier and something I like to call the “Plus A Little” and\or the WOW Factor! Quick wins are identified as things that are quick to do, take very little time to implement (low cost), and have a HUGE impact within the organization. In this session we are going to explore & build out different features within your SharePoint (O365 & OnPrem) environment that will make your SharePoint implementation the Rock Star of all projects ever implemented.
  · Promoted Links
  · Corporate Directory
  · Global Navigation
  · Collaboration
  · Search
  · Automation
  · Social
  · Dashboards

Chris Douglas

Senior SharePoint Developer | ECS

I have been a SharePoint Developer, Admin, and Evangelist for years. I love learning new technology and how to apply it to SharePoint and web applications.

Sessions

- AngularJS and SharePoint I
  Documents:
  
  AngularJS and SharePoint I.pptx
  
  Level: 400
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  With the trend toward application and front-end development and away from Visual Studio and .wsp deployments, it's critical to learn new ways to customize SharePoint. I will demonstrate how to create a single page application in AngularJS to show, add, and edit items in a SharePoint list with no installation of additional tools. Part I of II.
- AngularJS and SharePoint II
  Documents:
  
  AngularJS and SharePoint II.pptx
  
  Level: 400
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  With the trend toward application and front-end development and away from Visual Studio and .wsp deployments, it's critical to learn new ways to customize SharePoint. I will demonstrate how to create a single page application in AngularJS to show, add, and edit items in a SharePoint list with no installation of additional tools. Part II of II.

Shadeed Eleazer

Principal Consultant, Founder | Managed Path Solutions

I am a US Navy Veteran and leading Reputation Management and Social Selling thought leader who is the
architect of the official state websites of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which are powered by Microsoft SharePoint technologies. I served a key technical advisory role in the successful re-election campaign of a US governor.

I am an Amazon Best Selling Author and Business Mentor with Small Business Administration.
In 2017, I managed 577 businesses and helped them boost revenue leveraging Microsoft LinkedIn and Social Selling strategies.

I am the leader of the longest running Microsoft training and User group community in Maryland and
host of Microsoft SharePoint Saturday, an annual one day conference which is currently in its 10th year

I specialize in high visibility, public-facing consulting engagements with a key focus on information and platfrom architecture
on-premises to cloud migrations, enterprise social media, governance, instructional systems design, and information worker training

I am the founder of Managed Path Solutions, a Microsoft partner which focused on post deployment support of Microsoft technology and
integrated platforms.

Sessions

- 2019 Reputation Management Blueprint with Microsoft LinkedIn
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Business
  
  Is your reputation opening doors for your career or are you stuck in place?
  In the second half of the LinkedIn Masterclass workshop, Shadeed Eleazer will teach you how to leverage your career opportunities in 2019 via introduction to his "Network as a Service" process which will transform Microsoft LinkedIn into a tool that will enhance your career as a senior professional or self-employed professional. This session is geared towards aspiring speakers, bloggers, current MVPs and thought leaders seeking to establish a powerful personal brand.
  
  What You Will Learn:
  The simple mindset shift to boost LinkedIn connections
  Simple strategies to get on the radar of the top influencers in your industry
  The key detail that your profile photo needs to stand out
  What I learned about LinkedIn groups that will expand your network overnight
  A little known hack to build a power network using your profile
  How to utilize Advanced People Search for new positions and freelancing
  How to leverage LinkedIn Premium Features to supercharge your networking
  
  Key Result:
  Network as a Service roadmap and action plan
  Premium LinkedIn features understanding
  LinkedIn integration for reputation management success
  
  Workshop Requirements:
  Bring your current resumes
  Laptop or smartphone
  
  Session Gift:
  Download the LinkedIn Reputation Manager worksheet: http://bit.ly/reputationmanagerworksheet

Shawn Fagan

Senior Information Technology Consultant | Marathon Consulting, LLC

Shawn Fagan is a Senior Information Technology Consultant focusing in on SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. Shawn has over 13 years of experience in SharePoint.

Sessions

- How to successfully Migrate or Upgrade a SharePoint Environment
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  If you'll looking to Upgrade your SharePoint On-Premise Environment or migrate to SharePoint Online, this is a session you want to be at. This session covers ways be to successfully in Migrate or Upgrade a SharePoint Environment. SharePoint migration and upgrades can be tricky and cause major headaches and downtime, but with the correct approach, you can have a successfully migration or upgrade and reduce downtime. We will also review Migration tools (including the new Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool) and useful PowerShell Scripts to help with a successfully transition.
  
  Co-Presenter(s)
  
  Walter Cohn
  
  Senior Business Technology Consultant
  Marathon Consulting, LLC

Nicolas Georgeault (MVP)

Founder - Enteprise Solutions Architect - SharePoint Senior Architect | MuBrain Inc.

"For 30 years we have been building systems that enable human intelligence to collaborate and build collective intelligence together. It is now time to combine also the know-how of artificial intelligence."
With more than 20 years of experience in knowledge management and in the design of portals and information architectures, particularly in the context of corporate social networks, Nicolas Georgeault specializes today In the capitalization of the collective intelligence of its customers. Through the MuBrain research center specialized in collective intelligence also extended to artificial intelligence and in the development of It4.Me tools, it focuses today on analysis and automated writing of meeting content And conversations.
SharePoint Server MVP for 8 years, it is now honored to be Office Server and Services MVP for 2 years.
His vision of the future and his qualities as speakers regularly brings him to share his knowledge in several books and web publications and regularly at several conferences and user groups in Canada but also in Europe and the United States.

Sessions

- SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid configuration from A to Z
  Documents:
  
  SPSVB-2019-NGeorgeault-SharePoint and Office 365 Hybrid Configuration from A to Z.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Even if you use SharePoint On premices, Hybrid is more and more in the DNA of Microsoft product. In SharePoint 2016, this way to consume and integrate external services will be part of the default architecture. If you don’t look at that yet or if you want to be sure to get all the details about new configuration option, we will give you a fully detailed configuration trail from Azure Services to SharePoint On Premices and Online. During this session you will:
  - Learn why Hybrid is so important
  - Discover how to setup Azure AD Services and be sure to get all the details about Identity management
  - Learn how to setup Office 365 Hybrid using the new Hybrid Picker option
  - Learn how to connect correctly SharePoint 2013 and 2016 to get Sites and hybrid services
  - Speculate with us what will be the next step in Hybrid RoadMap
- You're not a developer? Me Neither. Build your first PowerApps in 30 minutes.
  Documents:
  
  PowerApps from SharePoint List - Advanced scenario.zip
  PowerApps from SharePoint List - Simple scenario.zip
  SPSVB-2019-NGeorgeault-Your First PowerApps in 30 Minutes.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  15 minutes to introduce PowerApps and 30 minutes to achieve your first application that lets you fill your project timesheet in SharePoint.
  Simple! And without a line of code.
  Login and register on powerapps.com order to realize yourself this application during the session.
  As a bonus, we will use Microsoft PowerBI to get a quick dashboard as well.
  No more need of developers ?! Of course not, finally, we will also discuss the possibilities of supplementing our application with advanced code.

Erin Glenn

SharePoint Solutions Architect | Goodwill of Central & Coastal Virginia

Erin Glenn is a passionate SharePoint SME who focuses on business solutions in SharePoint. In the early 2000’s, she asked her software development manager how she could get into “web stuff” when she didn’t want to write code and is certainly not a graphic designer. Little did she know that SharePoint was that “web stuff” she wanted to do!

She has been working with SharePoint since 2005 (SPS 2003) which included two large Virginia law firms (Hunton & Williams and McGuireWoods), an IT consulting company, and the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Today, she is the SharePoint Solutions Architect for Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia. She has co-led the Richmond SharePoint User Group since 2009 and is the current president of the group. She has been a speaker a various SharePoint Saturday events, SharePoint User Group meetings, as well as national conferences.

She is passionate about the end user, focusing on not over complicating solutions, such as providing a phased approach. She also focuses on just in time training – giving just enough information to perform the actions. She performs her own requirements gathering/business analysis sessions and builds the solutions herself with out-of-the-box tools, including browser-based, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, SSRS, and some third-party applications (Nintex). She also creates her own user documentation and facilitates training.

Outside of SharePoint, she’s a Corvette enthusiast who enjoys boating in the summer with her parents and horseback riding in Richmond, Virginia. She also holds the MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010 certification.

Sessions

- Innovating SharePoint to Engage Your Employees and Improve Business Processes
  Documents:
  
  Innovating SharePoint to Engage Your Employees and Improve Business Processes.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Business
  
  Now that you're past the initial SharePoint phobias, how do you begin to innovate your SharePoint intranet to engage and retain your employees, and create operational efficiencies? View effective practices that demonstrate how to address pain points in your organization through business process automation (BPA) using forms and workflows (out-of-the-box and third party tools).
  
  Some examples that will be provided are:
  
  -Master Locations list
  -Position Requisition Form & Workflows
  -Trailer Tracking System
  -Learning Management System “Lite”
  -Billing System (Funding Sources Billing)

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

- Microsoft Flow Approvals 101
  Documents:
  
  Microsoft Flow Approvals 101.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User
  
  In day to day business, there are many scenarios that involve the approval of requests, documents, and other content. At times a simple sign-off from a manager or team member is all that is required. Other times, there is a complex approval process with multiple approvers. Automating these scenarios using the Microsoft Flow approvals feature can help you centralize approvals and save a significant amount of time.
  In this session we will cover:
  - How to create Flows to automate your approval processes
  - Approval Flows that are natively built into SharePoint and how to configure them
  - Ways you can review your approval requests, whether you are in the office or on the go
  - The Flow Approval Center capabilities

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

- When to Use What in Office 365
  Documents:
  
  When to Use What in Office 365 - SPSVB19.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Many users may struggle with which Office 365 tool to use when connecting with people, learning something or just collaborating work files.
  
  In this session, Johnny Lopez will help you understand and maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing best practices of when to use what, when.
- SharePoint Migration Case Study - The good, the bad and the what the ......
  Documents:
  
  Case Study - Migration to Office 365 from SharePoint 2010 SPSVB19.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track:
  
  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

Mike Maadarani (MVP)

Enterprise Architect | MCM Consulting

Mike is an Office 365 productivity specialist focusing on SharePoint implementation and deployment. As an Office Apps & Services MVP, Mike’s areas of expertise in Content Services, Business Process Automation, Migration, Intranet deployment, end user adoption, governance and OneDrive deployments. With over 20 years of experience, he has worked for the past 17 years deploying SharePoint and Office 365 solutions to medium to large clients.He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects.

When he is not working, Mike enjoys traveling and speaking at various SharePoint events and conferences, where he can share his experience, insights, and advice on the digital workplace, migration, collaborations, and end-user adoption.

Sessions

- OneDrive for Business - Modern Collaboration
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  The Next Gen Sync Client for OneDrive offers a lot more features allowing you to synchronize files between your local machine and SharePoint Team Sites, Groups and OneDrive for Business within your Office 365 tenant. This session will provide real life collaboration scenarios e.g. sharing (internal/external), co-authoring, file preview, files on-demand, and many other new features to get most out of your OneDrive for Business.
- What's new in SharePoint Content Services
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Modern content management is essential in today’s world for organizations to increase the workforce collaboration and drive productivity. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is rapidly evolving into modern content services, where SharePoint Online and OneDrive are the center of the collaboration and content management. In this session, we will review the new feature of content services and the information management lifecycle, through creating, collaboration and securing your data in Office 365. This includes demoing ECM capabilities in modern SharePoint such as content types, bulk editing, retention policies, intake, etc., to make sure content management is easier than ever in the modern lists.

Toby McGrail

Senior SharePoint Architect | Perspecta

Toby McGrail is a Senior Software Engineer with experience in SharePoint 2003, 2007,2010 ,and 2013. He has been working in IT since 1995 and extensively with SharePoint since 2006. He specializes in the Administrative and Architecture side of the house. Toby has provided many applications within SharePoint. Not only OOB Solutions but Custom Built Applications. He has worked with many clients but mostly in the Federal Space. Toby has a grasp in what many Administrators face on a day to day basis. Twitter sptoby1

Sessions

- GCC Government Private Cloud - A RoadMap for Success
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  So many of us are already in the cloud but want a more secure cloud presence or your corporation has decided they want to go to the Office 365 Private Cloud for a More Secure Platform.
  
  In this session we will discuss the Pros and Cons of going into the GCC High and the different levels. As well we will go over a migration strategy, best practices and pain points you may encounter. We have just finished going into the GCC High Ring and we will talk about the Lessons Learned and How you can have a successful migration whether going from the cloud to cloud or on-prem to cloud.

John S. Moh

Principal Consultant | Microsoft

John's curiosity and passion is all about driving adoption of cloud services in large Federal Organizations 🏛 using the PSL Pattern (Personas, Scenarios, and Learning Events). Currently, he is a Principal Consultant in Microsoft Services.

⭐ Jumping over from Avanade in early 2005, John started out as an Enterprise Strategy Consultant in Microsoft Services in the Washington DC Area. His desire to be more technical led him to complete the Exchange “Ranger" Program (Microsoft Certified Master), landing him on some of the most politically and technically challenging projects in Public Sector. Eventually, John's desire to be more impactful led him to Redmond WA where he shipped Xbox Live as a Senior Program Manager.

⭐ Today, he is back in the Washington DC Area working on service adoption, Teams, and SharePoint Online solutions, creating cookbooks of RSPIs (Reusable SharePoint Ideas – pronounced "recipes"). His work can be summed up in this statement: focus not on use but the usefulness of cloud services!

Sessions

- Use Teams to drive adoption of Teams!
  Documents:
  
  Use Teams to drive adoption of Teams.pdf
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  Using the technology you’re driving adoption on… to drive adoption is a best practice! But how is that done? Stop by for a helicopter ride on how to use Teams to drive adoption of Teams and SharePoint Online (SPO). We will “show and tell” how we deployed Teams in incremental releases, how we addressed learning and support, and how we handled governance etc. Expect an insight-packed learning experience based on a real-world case study (based on the GCC version of Teams and O365). Note: we will land that helicopter several times to show details of what capabilities and features of SPO and Teams were used to create the adoption solutions.

Brandon Murray

Sr. Solutions Architect | Synergy Technical

Solutions architect with a focus on SharePoint and other collaboration technologies. Consultant, administrator, designer, developer, and creative problem solver with years of experience creating solutions to customers’ needs, providing front-line support for business units, and bridging the gap between the business and technology worlds—helping each understand the realities of the other. Highly regarded among clients, managers, and colleagues as one who achieves objectives and empowers customers.

Sessions

- The future of SharePoint is the Modern UX
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business
  
  The game has changed and SharePoint's Modern user experience is here to stay. Companies using SharePoint Online may have found it frustrating over the past three years as Microsoft has slowly built a completely and dramatically new user interface for SharePoint, and deployed it piecemeal alongside the old Classic user experience. But today, the Modern UX is complete and ready for business, and it continues to get better and better, offering features and experiences that users of the Classic UX can only dream of. It's also no longer just for the cloud version of SharePoint, as SharePoint Server 2019 brings the Modern UX to the on-prem world as well. Classic isn't going anywhere—in the near future, at least—but Modern is here and it's the future, so if your company uses SharePoint, you need to know what the Modern UX is, how it's different from Classic, and what you'll need to do to begin taking advantage of it.

David Patrick (MCT, MVP)

Trainer | DSA, Inc.

Dave has been developing database applications for over 25 years. An MCT since 2001, he has taught many classes from Intro to Visual Interdev to Advanced SharePoint Development. Dave attained MVP status in 2009-2010 and runs two user groups, the Maryland and Pennsylvania Microsoft Developer's User Group, www.mapamdug.com, and MAD SharePoint, www.madsharepoint.com. Dave also does SharePoint training and development for DSA, Inc., a DoD contractor that does great work for the Army over at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Dave has a bunch of certifications, including the new MCSD SharePoint Apps Developer and MCP DEAD certifications.

Sessions

- 3 Ways for Getting Data from SharePoint : SSIS, Excel and Access
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  Need to report on some data from SharePoint? We will look at three different techniques to pull data from a SharePoint Server. We will start with SSIS and the SharePoint List Source and Destinations. Next, We will use Excel to connect to various SharePoint lists (both online and on premise), and finally We will use Microsoft Access to do the same thing (and throw in the capability to do updates as well). At the end of the talk, We will have three different ways to get data from SharePoint.
- Microsoft and Big Data - An Overview of the Power Tools and more!
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  Come see Microsoft's Power tools demonstrated for advanced analytics and hear about Microsoft's embrace of Open Source and the Hadoop platform. We'll present on Microsoft's "power" tools for Business Intelligence, Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View, and Power Map presenting using Power Point (and lots of demos!).

Sarah Patrick

Student

Sarah has presented at several TechGirlz workshops for the Boys and Girls Club of Harford County, as an advocate for women in STEM. Sarah graduated from the Science and Mathematics Academy in Aberdeen, MD this past spring, where she presented her senior capstone project "Engineering peer credibility via mastery of roles," where she designed roles for an ad hoc team. She worked with an army professional from CERDEC. She is currently attending the University of Maryland - College Park to major in Information Science. Sarah recently completed an internship with the Project Management Institute, helping them with their Professional Development Event.

Sessions

- Case Study: How I used SharePoint, Flow, Power Apps, and Forms to build a Speaker Database
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  In this case study, I detail how I went about designing and implementing a Speaker Database for the Project Management Institute using SharePoint, Flow, Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. We will do a brief intro of what each technology is and it's pros and cons, and then dive into what I learned about each, each strengths and weaknesses, and how I was able to build a functional Speaker Database.

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

- Super Charge your SharePoint Web Parts with the Microsoft Graph.
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: Developer
  
  In this session we will use the Microsoft Graph to display information in our sites, and also provide functionality that is not yet supported in Office 365. We will use the graph to talk to the various apps in Office 365 such as Teams and Planner. If you want to empower users in new and cool ways this is the session for you.

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

- Real World Flow
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: End-User, Business
  
  Looking for practical solutions to common issues encountered when writing Flows for SharePoint? Then this session is for you. Our time will be devoted to working through actual questions asked and problems encountered by Flow developers in the real world. We will explain the issues and look at each solution in detail.
- Take Your Flow Skills to the Next Level!
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track:
  
  his session will take your Flow skills to the next level. This demo intensive session will cover such topics as approval escalation, parallel branches, expressions, using variables and more. Flow is improving all the time and you'll see the latest enhancements. Finally, you'll see how to accomplish automation tasks that you now do in Designer workflows through Flow.

Justin Snyder

Office 365 & SharePoint Consultant | Core BTS

Justin is an Office 365 & SharePoint Solutions Consultant with SADA Systems. Focusing on Office 365 strategy, Justin helps enterprise customers engage in the Digital Workplace through designing and building customer-centric functionality in Office 365.

Sessions

- Eat our own dog food: Using Planner, Teams and Flow as a Content Aggregator for Office 365 News and Updates
  Documents:
  
  SPS_Session_Justin_Snyder.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business
  
  Office 365 is ever changing, and as IT professionals we need to be in the know the second news drops. What better way to keep up to date than using our own tools to do it? In this walk-through session we will showcase the power of Flow, Teams and Yammer to help surface updates from The Office 365 Roadmap, SharePoint Technical Communities, User Voice and more!

Benjamin Steinhauser

SharePoint Solutions Architect | B&R Business Solutions

Benjamin Steinhauser, SharePoint Solutions Architect at B&R Business Solutions (Colts Neck, NJ) has over 15 year of experience building Microsoft centric solutions for the modern web including SharePoint, Office 365, Azure and .NET. His credentials include a BS and MS in Computer Science from NJIT and multiple Microsoft Certifications in SharePoint (MCTS). He has been a senior developer at NJIT and Rutgers University before joining the B&R team in 2011. As a big fan of SharePoint, he has dedicated significant time in creating and maintaining many free open source projects including popular SPCAMLQueryHelper, SPFileZilla, SPMMDNavigator and more. He also enjoys the occasional conference as both attendee and speaker at various SharePoint User Groups and SharePoint Saturday events.

Sessions

- Modern SharePoint Workflows: Webhooks, Flow, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Storage
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer
  
  There are many ways to implement a "workflow" in Office 365 SharePoint Online these days. This session will help you familiarize yourself with the current options available, their strengths and weaknesses, and practical demonstrations. Together we will create and configure modern SharePoint List workflows for SharePoint Online using Webhooks, MS Flow, MS Logic Apps, Azure Functions (HTTPTriggers, QueueTriggers), and Azure Storage (tables, queues). We’ll also compare new workflow approaches to classic SharePoint Designer solutions. This will be 1/3 slides and 2/3 demo, as much code and real-world usage as possible! Plus, you’ll get a crash course on building and deploying Azure Functions in real time and deploying them to Azure directly from Visual Studio. As a bonus, several amazing Chrome Extensions will be shown that you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them!

Dux Raymond Sy (MVP)

Chief Technology Officer | AvePoint

Dux Raymond is Chief Technology Officer of AvePoint Public Sector. He is responsible for leading the development and delivery of strategic customer solutions that drives positive business transformation and enables organizations to achieve their overall mission.

With over 15 years of business & technology management experience, he has successfully facilitated the implementation of various business transformation solutions for commercial, educational and public sector organizations.

Dux is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP), he has authored various white papers, articles and the book "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media.

A sought after trusted adviser and renowned speaker, Dux has delivered interactive presentations in various events worldwide. Learn more about Dux at http://meetdux.com and connect with him on http://twitter.com/meetdux

Sessions

- Accelerate Your Modern Workplace Success with Microsoft 365
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business
  
  Microsoft is on a mission to help organizations modernize. Government and enterprises need to upgrade legacy infrastructure while reducing costs and shrinking data center footprints. Using cloud based collaboration services and productivity applications, you can enable seamless communication and let users work the ways that they want in the cloud or in a hybrid environment – without sacrificing security!
  
  Join AvePoint CMO and Microsoft Regional Director & MVP, Dux Raymond Sy for an interactive keynote on how you can accelerate Your modern workplace success with Microsoft 365

Paul Telkamp

SharePoint user for over 15 years holding every role in the spectrum.

Sessions

- Understanding where to start on SharePoint Development
  Documents:
  
  Understanding where to start on SharePoint Development.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: Developer, Business
  
  SharePoint development can include a lot of solutions and implentations. The key is understanding how to plan your strategy for development and what it will mean. Single-page apps, web part, app store and other solutions and how to pick the right one. There are many degrees of development and how it can be done.

Dan Usher (MVP)

Senior Associate | Booz Allen Hamilton

Dan Usher is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is a lead Cloud and Office 365 Solutions Manager and Architect. He has extensive experience with the Microsoft Windows Networking Infrastructure and has been implementing, customizing, architecting and deploying Enterprise collaboration solutions utilizing the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, Office 365 and Azure over the past 10 years. Dan is an MVP for Office Server and Services, maintains several certifications to include MCSA Office 365 MCSE for SharePoint 2013, and Certified Scrum Master.

Sessions

- Getting Started with Office 365
  
  Level: 200
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Are you taking on the job of being the Office 365 Administrator? Come to this session where we walk through the core capabilities of Office 365, experiences to be aware of and how to help your users make use of them as well as directory synchronization to ensure that your users are able to access with a single identity and set of information.

Daniel Walker

SharePoint Developer

Working in SharePoint for over 10 years in both government and commerical capacities. Currently working on a government contract with RMC

Sessions

- Creating Single Page "Web Parts" using NodeJS and VueJS
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  In this session we will go over how to use Nodejs and Vuejs to create custom web parts or apps that consume the SharePoint REST framework to display information in a dashboard like view. We will cover how this can be used in SharePoint 2010 and higher and the reasons you may want to use this approach. We will cover the start to finish steps of creating a "web part" and also how this technique can be used for other scenarios including add-ins or just as an addition to you SharePoint site..

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

- Building SharePoint Server 2019 in Azure -- Its a great and cheap place for development and testing
  Documents:
  
  Building SharePoint Server on AZURE-V6.pptx
  
  Level: 100
  
  Track: IT Pro
  
  Developing and testing SharePoint application can require a lot of hardware, licenses, money and time. Why not build a SharePoint Farm in Azure and spin it up when its needed. This session covers a some key concepts in getting started in Azure, and then shows how to setup SharePoint Server in Azure using Azure Portal or PowerShell. A few small steps into Azure may be all you need to take off your career.

Fabian Williams (MVP)

Microsoft Solutions Architect | Adotob/Withum Digital

FABIAN WILLIAMS is a Microsoft Office Server & Services, Microsoft Visual Studio & Development Technologies MVP, Xamarin MVP, and a Microsoft Solutions Architect / Azure Technical Evangelist. His work with the SharePoint product line dates back to the 2003 release. Fabian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information System “Magna-Cum-Laude” from Strayer University, Washington D.C. and his Masters in Computer Information Technology studies at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School for Business in Columbia, Maryland. He holds the following Microsoft Certifications MCSE, MCSD and MCDBA. You may find him on twitter at the @fabianwilliams handle and his blog is http://www.fabiangwilliams.com

Sessions

- Develop SharePoint solutions with Azure Functions and CSOM
  
  Level: 300
  
  Track: Developer
  
  Developers Developer Developers. If we can find a way to do something once and repeat that process in a simplified manner, we will do that. Serverless with Azure Functions takes that to another level. In this session I will show you how to use an Azure Function, registering that Function in Azure AD, delegating permission, and then using CSOM directly in your function to manage just about anything CSOM can do.. and the kicker...its portable because its a web call. Demos All Ove

Speakers

Geoff Ables

Brian Alderman

Chad Berg

Christian Buckley

Joshua Carlisle

Nikkia Carter

Daniel Christian

Walter Cohn

Thomas Daly

Stacy Deere-Strole

Chris Douglas

Shadeed Eleazer

Shawn Fagan

Nicolas Georgeault

Erin Glenn

Melissa Hubbard

Johnny Lopez

Mike Maadarani

Toby McGrail

John S. Moh

Brandon Murray

David Patrick

Sarah Patrick

John Ramminger

Scott Shearer

Justin Snyder

Benjamin Steinhauser

Dux Raymond Sy

Paul Telkamp

Dan Usher

Daniel Walker

Michael Wharton

Fabian Williams

Managing Partner | C5 Insight

Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSE, Speaker, and Author | MicroTechPoint

Microsoft Premier Field Engineer | Microsoft

Founder & CEO | CollabTalk LLC

Engineer | AppDynamics

WW Modern Workplace Tech Lead | Microsoft

Enterprise Architect | Speaker | Blogger | MVP

Senior Business Technology Consultant | Marathon Consulting, LLC

Co-Presenter(s)

SharePoint Team Lead | SoHo Dragon

Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect - Business Owner | Focal Point Solutions, LLC

Senior SharePoint Developer | ECS

Principal Consultant, Founder | Managed Path Solutions

Senior Information Technology Consultant | Marathon Consulting, LLC

Co-Presenter(s)

Founder - Enteprise Solutions Architect - SharePoint Senior Architect | MuBrain Inc.

SharePoint Solutions Architect | Goodwill of Central & Coastal Virginia

Project Manager | WithumSmith+Brown, PC

Office 365 & SharePoint Community Leader

Enterprise Architect | MCM Consulting

Senior SharePoint Architect | Perspecta

Principal Consultant | Microsoft

Sr. Solutions Architect | Synergy Technical

Trainer | DSA, Inc.

Student

Solution Architect | RammWare Solutions

SharePoint and Office Evangelist | Haystax Technology

Office 365 & SharePoint Consultant | Core BTS

SharePoint Solutions Architect | B&R Business Solutions

Chief Technology Officer | AvePoint

Senior Associate | Booz Allen Hamilton

SharePoint Developer

Project/sharePoint | Wharton Computer Consulting

Microsoft Solutions Architect | Adotob/Withum Digital

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