Wednesday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 431-432

Make Content Copilot‑Ready: From ROT to ART with Purview, PowerShell & SharePoint

Copilot success isn’t a license problem—it’s a content readiness problem. In this fast, real‑world session, we’ll show you the same patterns we used to script and build our own multi‑tenant content governance system for Copilot: how to discover what Copilot can “see,” reduce oversharing surprises, and apply guardrails that scale—using tools you already have: SharePoint, Microsoft Purview, and PowerShell.

We'll show you how we built our own internal app to prepare and manage your content for Copilot - and other AI systems. Why we built it, how we built it, and how to make sure your content stays high-quality AFTER rollout too.

You’ll learn how to move your content from ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) to ART (accurate, relevant, trusted)—so Copilot produces better answers, users trust what they get back, and the business sees measurable value.

And you'll leave with free tools to help jumpstart your own content readiness program.

We’ll cover practical readiness moves like policy‑driven controls that automatically adjust as sites change (including governance approaches that shape what Copilot can and cannot access), plus simple scripting strategies to inventory risk signals and prioritize fixes—without paralyzing everyday collaboration.

Thursday 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM · Solution Studio

Master Data Light with Clarity Databook:

Launch Power BI transformations that work. We know BI reporting has two hard-to-crack dependencies: clean data on the back-end and governed customization on the front-end.

Clarity Databook takes the pain out of keeping your data consistent. Think of it as data management without the enterprise price tag or the six-month implementation. Clean up your data where it starts

1. Give non-technical users a safe way to manage reference data with table creation, form input and access
2. Data security at scale with control access at the row, object, or role level
3. Custom hierarchies on the fly: shared across your organization instantly

Clarity Reportbook is a Power BI enhancement that simplifies building and distributing presentations by customizing and grouping the reports you already have. Your data can be fit for purpose

1. One click away: enable fast customization to help owners, builders and users
2. Filter once, explore everywhere with global filters across pages and workspaces
3. Cross workspace app building: a single dashboard from multiple workspace domains without the complexity
4. Snapshot reports for key moments to freeze and capture a point-in-time view and push it straight to PowerPoint

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 423-424

Practical Applications of SharePoint AI in Page Creation

Copilot is being integrated into our everyday life. It helps us take meeting notes, pull together daily to do lists and creating memes. Copilot is now part of the SharePoint page creation process with the introduction of Copilot enabled page and section templates. We can also use it as an option to help us write our content on the page. Does it create good, usable, content or is it more hassle than it is worth?

In this session we’ll discuss • What are the options for using Copilot for page design and creation • The better practices around usability design and accessibility for the web • Benefits and pitfalls of using AI when it comes to usability and accessibility • Building your own templates • Copilot prompts to help create more usable and accessible page

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 433-434

Locked Down, Leaking Out: Why Blocking External Sharing in Microsoft 365 Can Be More Dangerous

In today’s hybrid and hyper-connected workplace, collaboration rarely stops at the organization's borders. Employees work with external partners, vendors, contractors, and clients daily. Yet, in the name of security, many organizations take the drastic step of blocking external sharing in Microsoft 365 altogether. It seems safe on the surface. If you don’t let people share externally, your data stays inside, right? Not quite.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 447-448

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world? This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites. We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 445-446

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot

Learn how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 423-424

How Copilot and AI are Evolving Intranets and How Our Users Interact with Them

different that we consume it today. Users have expectations on what answers they should get when they search or how an agent should react to their prompts. Copilot and other agentic experiences are changing the way users interact with information and their expectations. How do we evolve our intranets to meet these changing expectations and do it in a way that doesn’t hurt usability and accessibility? In this session we’ll cover

• The changes AI has brought to finding and searching for information • How AI can be used for creating content and design • What stays he same even with the use of Copilot and what may change • The added value of human-centered design

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 445-446

Let AI in SharePoint Do the Site Maintenance You Keep Putting Off

Every site manager has a list of things they know they should fix. Broken links, pages that haven't been updated in two years, content gaps nobody has time to fill. AI in SharePoint's evolution directly impacts these problems. It can scan your sites, surface what's broken or outdated, suggest improvements, and even help you create new pages and rewrite old ones using natural language prompts.

In this demo-heavy session, we'll work through a realistic site maintenance scenario from discovery to resolution, showing how AI identifies issues, how you act on its recommendations, and where it still needs a human in the loop. You'll walk out with a repeatable approach to keeping your sites healthy without adding hours to your week.

• How to use AI in SharePoint to find and fix broken links, stale pages, and content gaps
• Where the AI helps and where it falls short for site maintenance
• A sustainable rhythm for AI-assisted site health that fits into your existing workload