Oh to be a dev at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Vesa Juvonen

Fabian Williams

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We are excited to invite you to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference at Orlando, FL, April 30 – May 2, 2024. It is a wonderful event dedicated to Copilot and AI, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Viva, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 apps and services. In this blog post we will focus on the developer and extensibility sessions from Microsoft within the upcoming conference.

Developers are resilient, find ways to adapt, and create amazing applications while having fun and helping everyone. Microsoft is unique in the industry and provides the world’s most comprehensive developer toolkit and platform to support your journey as a developer, no matter where you are. The conference sessions give you insights and guidance for extending Copilot, SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, and Teams – along with benefits of our core frameworks, methods, and opportunities.

😎 Register today | Note: Use the MSCMTY discount code to save $100 USD.

Why attend?

Discover the latest innovations in AI and learn best practices from Microsoft’s product makers to boost your productivity, creativity, and collaboration.
Build your Microsoft 365 skills and knowledge through hands-on demos and workshops that will equip you with the tools you need to take your work to the next level.
Network with thousands of Microsoft experts, MVPs, industry leaders, and the best community in tech.

Jeff Teper (President of Collaboration Apps and Platforms at Microsoft) shares his ideas and thoughts on the value of the Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2024:

Hybrid community calls

While the conference sessions are in-person and on-site within the Orlando, we will be having our typical weekly community calls broadcasted live for anyone to attend also remotely with presenters from the conference. This will give you a sneak peak on the covered topics and all in-person attendees are more than welcome to join the live sessions also at the conference for a great hybrid experience.

Tuesday 30th of April – 11:00 am EDT – 12:00am EDT – Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly community call with Microsoft presenters (each Tuesday at 8 AM PT)
Thursday 2nd of May – 10:00 am EDT – 11:00am EDT – Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework bi-weekly community call (bi-weekly Thursday’s at 7 AM PT)

We have weekly community calls with live demos which are open for all community members and published in the YouTube after the call. See the list of the community calls at https://aka.ms/community/calls.

Developer sessions

Hear the latest from the Microsoft around the different topics across the Microsoft 365 extensibility areas.

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Extensibility Dev 101 – Cameron Parker and Jeremy Thake | Wednesday, May 1, 10:00am – 11:00am EDT
Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot Extensibility via Microsoft Graph connectors – Brian T. Jackett and Gladys Alvarez Jimenez | Wednesday, May 1, 8:00am – 9:00am EDT
Building intelligent experiences in SharePoint Embedded applications – Diego Luces and Marc Windle | Tuesday, April 30, 11:30am – 12:30pm EDT
SharePoint Embedded: Build custom content apps with Microsoft 365” – Marc Windle | Wednesday, May 1, 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT
How to pitch and build a custom state-of-the-art Intranet and Viva Connections to work together” – Ed Averett, Tejas Mehta, and Vesa Juvonen | Wednesday, May 1, 11:20am – 12:20pm EDT
Building state-of-the-art Viva Connections cards, no matter the platform you are starting from” – Luca Bandinelli and Vesa Juvonen | Tuesday, April 30, 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT
Creating Solutions via Copilot with Plugins and Message Extensions – Eu Nice Loh, Fabian Williams, and Matt Krause | Wednesday, May 1, 11:20am – 12:20pm EDT
Building collaborative apps in Teams to bring people together – Loki Meyburg | Thursday, May 2, 8:00am – 9:00am EDT

On top of these Microsoft lead developer and extensibility sessions, there are numerous awesome community powered sessions which are all listed in the conference site.

Developer and extensibility workshops

As an in-person attendee, you can also join us with the pre-event and one post-event workshop days. Here’s a list of the developer workshops within the conference:

AI & Copilot: Preparing, Piloting, Paths To Success/Scale, & Plugins – Richard Harbridge (2toLead) | Sunday, April 28
Power Apps Fundamentals: Extending SharePoint into Low-Code Apps and Forms (2024 edition) – Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | Sunday, April 28
Beginner SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Bootcamp – Beau Cameron (DMI), Chris Kent (Takeda), David Warner (Microsoft), Hugo Bernier (Takeda), Paolo Pialorsi (Piasys) & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | Sunday, April 28
From Low Code to Pro Code: A Power Class on Building Solutions for Microsoft 365 – Beau Cameron (DMI), Chris Kent (Takeda), David Warner (Microsoft), Hugo Bernier (Takeda), Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting), Paolo Pialorsi (Piasys) & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | Monday, April 29
Power Automate Cloud Flows Hands-on Workshop for Microsoft 365 Power Users – Gokan Ozcifci (Neoxy) & Vlad Catrinescu (Syskit) | Monday, April 29
Accelerate Your Teams App Development Journey: Build High-Quality Apps with Confidence – Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | Friday, May 3
Build and Extend Your Own Copilot Using Microsoft Copilot Studio – Henry Jammes (Microsoft), Dewain Robinson (Microsoft), Matt Jimison (Takeda) & Neetu Srivastava (Microsoft) | Friday, May 3
Extending The Power Platform Using Azure Services and AI – Ahmad Najjar (Avanade) | Friday, May 3

There’s also following awesome MVP powered workshops which you might be interested:

Guard and Protect: Microsoft 365 Security Unleashed – Liam Cleary (SharePlicity) | Sunday, April 28
Best Practices for Intranet Information Architecture: The Key to Unlocking AI’s Full Potential – Susan Hanley (Susan Hanley LLC) | Monday, April 29
Collaboration 201: Enhance Teams and SharePoint with Power Apps and Power Automate – Matt Wade (jumpto365) & Sean Bugler (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) | Monday, April 29
Governance for Microsoft 365, the Power Platform and Your Copilots – Martina Grom (atwork) & Toni Pohl (atwork) | Monday, April 29
Deep Dive into Data Protection with Microsoft Purview – Antonio Maio (Protiviti) | Friday, May 3
Driving Employee Engagement: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams – Sarah Haase (U.S. Bank) | Friday, May 3
SharePoint Premium Fundamentals Workshop: Realizing AI Content Management in Your Daily Work Life – Eric Overfield (Creospark & Cloudspark) & Noorez Khamis (CreoSpark) | Friday, May 3
The Ultimate Copilot for Microsoft 365 Workshop for End Users and Power Users – Gokan Ozcifci (Neoxy) & Mike Maadarani (MCM Consulting)

Microsoft keynote, general sessions, and AMA (Ask Microsoft Anything)

Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future.

OPENING KEYNOTE | “The Age of Copilots” with Jeff Teper (President of Collaboration Apps and Platforms) | Tuesday, April 30^th, 8:00am – 9:30am (Pacific Hall)
GENERAL SESSIONS
- “Reshaping productivity with Copilot for Microsoft 365” with Bobby Kishore and Dan Parish | Tuesday, April 30^th, 9:30am – 10:30am EDT (Pacific Hall)
- “The future of work with Microsoft Teams” with Sumi Sing, Manik Gupta, and Mark Swift | Tuesday, April 30^th, 11:30am – 12:30pm EDT (Pacific Hall – Room 1)
- “Transform workplace experience: Strategies and best practices” with Steve Clayton [part of the Transformation track] | Tuesday, April 30^th, 11:30am – 12:30pm EDT (Room 4 – Transformation)
- “Content Management and Collaboration for the AI Era” with Zach Rosenfield, Lincoln DeMaris, Melissa Torres, Sesha Mani, and Ashu Rawat | Tuesday, April 30^th, 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT (Pacific Hall – Room 1)
- “What’s new and next for Microsoft Viva and the employee experience” with Kirk Gregersen, Kristi Kelly, Michael Holste, and Nick DeFalco | Tuesday, April 30^th, 3:15pm – 4:15pm EDT (Pacific Hall – Room 1)
“Microsoft AMA” with Jeff Teper and numerous product leaders | Thursday, May 2nd, 1:30pm – 2:30pm [MSAMA]
CLOSING KEYNOTE | “Delivering Business Value and User Satisfaction in the Era of AI” with Karuana Gatimu | Thursday, May 2nd, 2:45pm – 3:45pm