Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 435-436

Real World Microsoft 365 Governance in the Age of AI

In a time where everyone is expected to innovate faster, deliver more value, and do it all under tight budget constraints, effective governance is more critical than ever. Microsoft is at the forefront of driving this innovation with their Copilot “GenAI-as-a-Service” offering and creating custom agents with Copilot Studio & Azure AI Foundry. However, these benefits are not without their challenges, including:

• Ensuring AI doesn’t expose sensitive data to those who should not have access to it • Improving data quality to ensure AI returns accurate answers • Balancing operational costs while embracing innovation

Join us for a deep dive into best practices for governing Microsoft 365 in this new world of AI & Copilots. We’ll explore some of the tools that Microsoft makes available while also pointing out some gaps. Whether you’re facing complex compliance requirements, struggling with data sprawl, or simply looking for ways to do more with less, this session will provide the real-world strategies needed to thrive in today’s AI-driven landscape.

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 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM · Collab Studio

When AI Inherits Everything: Closing the Oversharing Gap in Microsoft 365

AI does not break your permissions. It reads them faster than any user ever could. The day you switch on AI in Microsoft 365, every legacy "Everyone except external users" link, every broken inheritance, and every orphaned site becomes a one-prompt path to data nobody meant to share. This session is for the admins who own that cleanup.

We explain how agents gain access to content through the oversharing that happens natively in SharePoint and Microsoft 365, then show how Orchestry surfaces what you cannot see from the admin center, remediates sharing links, external access, and broken inheritance across thousands of workspaces in bulk, and governs agent inventory and lifecycle so the gap stays closed.

You leave with a clear picture of how Orchestry takes a tenant from discovery to remediation to ongoing control.

Thursday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 437-439

How Does OneDrive Change in the AI Era?

What used to be “my files, my work” now fuels search, discovery, and AI-powered experiences across Microsoft 365. That shift changes everything about how OneDrive needs to be governed, managed, and maintained.

Handled well, OneDrive gives people a flexible, intuitive way to work with their files while staying within IT policy guidelines.

Handled poorly, in the AI era, that chaos scales quickly.

OneDrive governance, visibility, and control Join Mark Kashman and Joy Apple for a practical, real-world look at how OneDrive’s role is evolving and what organizations need to do to keep it useful, governable, and AI-ready.

OneDrive is no longer just personal storage and files.

In an AI-powered environment, it is part of your content strategy whether you planned for it or not. This session will help you make that role intentional instead of accidental.

You'll learn how to: ✅ Define a governance model for OneDrive that works in the real world ✅ Understand where OneDrive fits in the underlying information architecture of the AI content service ✅ Empower users to self-review, clean up, and take action on their files and shared links

Thursday 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM · Insight Studio

Agentic Governance in Action: Inside the AvePoint Confidence Platform

AI agents are no longer a future consideration. They're already in your tenant, and they're multiplying. In this 20-minute session, get a practical look at how AvePoint's Confidence Platform and AgentPulse deliver end-to-end governance for the agentic era: discovery, ownership, permissions, behavioral monitoring, and lifecycle management across Copilot, Power Platform, and custom agents. Leave with a concrete framework for governing what your AI is doing, not just what it can access.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 335-336

Stop Feeding AI Your Corporate Junk Drawer

Your storage bill has a dirty secret, and your AI has a stale-content problem. They're connected, and that connection might just be your biggest opportunity.

Your M365 storage quota didn't die in one dramatic moment. Slowly, over time it was overrun by abandoned workspaces, sites that outlived their project by three years, content that multiplied faster than anyone could govern it. And underneath all of it, version history quietly doing its thing; every draft, every minor edit, every "just in case" save still sitting there, stacking up against your quota, unmanaged and unloved. Most organizations have no idea how bad it is until the bill arrives.

The AI problem is different. Copilot and other AI tools are grounding on whatever's still sitting in active storage. Inactive workspaces, orphaned sites, outdated content nobody's reviewed in years. If it's active, it's fair game.

M365 Archive solves both. Move stale content out of active storage and out of your AI's grounding scope in one move. And because not every problem can be solved at the site level, file-level archival gives admins the precision to go after exactly what's causing the bloat without disrupting the workspaces still doing real work.

Two problems. One strategy. Zero excuses for that storage bill.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 421-422

How Microsoft Does IT: Microsoft 365 Governance in the age of Copilot & agents

M365 Copilot and Agents are incredibly powerful tools, but without proper governance, you could be putting your company at risk. In this session, Microsoft Digital's Principal PM Architect David Johnson will share how Microsoft Digital, Microsoft's own IT team, protects our enterprise while enabling employee innovation with M365 Copilot and Agents.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 433-434

Scaling Agentic AI Governance with Agent 365

The rapid proliferation of agents poses a critical challenge to enterprise IT: how do you manage and govern a growing fleet of digital workers without risking data leakage, compliance violations, or agent sprawl? This session moves past the theory of "Responsible AI" and delivers a practical blueprint for using Agent 365 as the unified control plane to scale agentic AI safely.

We will explore its core governance pillars of Registry, Access Control, and Security. We will step through how Agent 365 ties together Microsoft's Security suite of Purview, Entra ID, and Defender to provide governance guardrails to enable safe adoption of agents at scale.