Issue 14: One Week Till M365 Below Chicago

Adam Deltinger

Atea Sweden

I have for several years been working as a consultant mostly focusing on Microsoft products and cloud Technologies. Today I work to empower businesses with the help of Microsoft 365 and modern tools - helping customers collaborate better, work more efficient and to be more productive.

I'm also a Microsoft MVP with Office Apps and Services

Welcome to the jungle - Managing your tasks in Microsoft 365

Beau Cameron

Microsoft MVP and Practice Lead

Beau is an Office 365 MVP and a member of the Microsoft 365 PnP Team. He works as a Practice Lead & Enterprise Architect, building integrations in the Office 365 environment. Beau has an ardent appreciation for Office 365’s capabilities for improving collaboration in the enterprise. For over a decade, he has designed and implemented SharePoint solutions for public and private sectors, both large and small. He has deep knowledge in Information Architecture & SharePoint Development and you'll often find him on various SharePoint support forums on Reddit, Facebook & TechCommunity. 

#SharingIsCaring

Mission Impossible: Deliver a feature-rich SharePoint solution with PnP community assets

Charlotte Journel

Data Analyst , Expert Power BI et Agilité

Consultante Power Bi depuis 2015, j'ai pu accompagner mes clients, de différents secteurs, dans la compréhension et l'exploitation de leurs données.

How we improved Microsoft 365 incident management with PowerBI.

Edward Watson

Veeam Software, Product Marketing Manager

Edward Watson is a Global Product Marketing Manager at Veeam Software. In his role, Edward leads the launch and adoption of Veeam’s cloud solutions with a focus on Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Prior to Veeam, Edward worked at a global IT service provider where he helped bring numerous cloud offerings to market. With cloud weaved heavily throughout his career, Edward has a passion for communicating the value of the cloud and inspiring businesses to protect data wherever it resides. 

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Fátima Jaydith Blancas

CEO, iTProve Corporation

Fátima Blancas is the founder and CEO of iTProve Corporation. For the last fourteen years, she has been a consultant on Microsoft Technology, from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Online, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams.

She was born and raised, and continues to live, in Mexico City. Fátima is a graduate of the La Salle University, Mexico City Campus. She believes in sharing knowledge to make this world a better place to live in.

She loves to speak about Technology and Education. She has participated as a Guest Speaker at several conferences. She also created the Office 365 Academia Community.

Join her at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

LinkedIn: fatimablancas

Facebook: /fatimablancasv

Twitter: JaydithBV

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Galen Keene

Butterfly Technologies - Managing Partner | Collaboration Architect

Galen Keene is a managing partner and collaboration architect for Butterfly Technologies with over 20 years in the Information Technology industry. Galen has focused on collaboration technologies since 2007, with an emphasis on SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and the Microsoft 365 platform. He architects and leads projects that focus on digital, cultural, and process transformations enabling enterprises to become more efficient and maximize their investment in technology.

During Galen's career, he's delivered solutions used by enterprises with over 115K users, successfully created global solutions spanning countries as far as Africa, and designed information architectures with sensitive defense data under strict international regulations.

As a Collaboration Architect, Galen believes in unifying people, communications, and data using processes and methods that meet his clients where they are, aligning with their strategic goals, and taking them to their desired state.

Level Up Your Microsoft Teams Meetings, Live Events, and Webinars

Hans Brender

MVP Office Apps and Services

For more than 25 years, I'm on the road with Microsoft technologies. Starting as a developer (SQL), then as PreSales consultant , later on as a coach for Office. For Microsoft (Germany and Switzerland), I have work as a consultant and CIE (customer immersion experience) Coach. Now I'm working as a IT Influencer and Cloud Productivity Evangelist in Europe. I am specialized in Next Generation Sync Client, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive and all offline scenarios. Since 2013, I have been honored in an uninterrupted series by Microsoft with the MVP Award for Office Apps and Services. People around the globe called me Mr.OneDrive

OneDrive - Tips and Tricks

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Indira Bandari

Data Platform MVP | Senior Data and BI Consultant

I have a Masters degree in Statistics and have over 18 years of experience in designing and developing datawarehouses and analytical solutions. 

I am a co-organiser of the NZ Business Intelligence - Power BI User Group and Auckland Artificial Intelligence Meetups. I am also an international Speaker at various events and conferences.

Volunteering and sharing my knowledge is my passion. In my pass time I teach game development for primary school kids. I have started teaching about databases and Power BI to 10 -15 year old kids and amaze myself at the creativity the younger generation is capable of

Power BI and Power Automate Together -- What you need to know

Jennifer Buchholz

MCT, Engaging Geek

Best-selling author, entrepreneur, coach, and engaging geek Jennifer Buchholz has worked in higher education, training, and development for over 20-years. When she realized that traditional methods weren’t helping her students thrive—she founded Excel & Flourish in 2012. Based in Milwaukee, Excel & Flourish helps organizations and teams improve productivity and reduce frustration with Microsoft products through fun technical skills training. The result? Amped-up collaboration and better success across every aspect of their business and work. 

Her background includes a Masters in Human Resource Development and a Microsoft? Teams Adoption Specialist and is a Microsoft? Certified MOS Expert and Master as well as a Microsoft? Certified Trainer.

Jennifer is an award-winning connector who consistently goes out of her way to help others succeed. Her passion is bringing people together so they have the tools, support, and resources they need to be successful. She is actively involved in numerous organizations including eWomen Network, NAWBO and more. 

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Kanwal Khipple

Chief Executive Officer

Kanwal Khipple is the CEO and Founder of 2toLead, a one of a kind consulting services firm. Kanwal is a thought leader within the SharePoint industry, experienced in building engaging and award winning solutions; most recently awarded Nielsen Norman award for the Top 10 Intranets for 2014 & 2015. He continues to push for innovation and disruption in tackling business problems by leveraging the right blend of design and technology. Kanwal has been recognized as a SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft (2009 to Present) for his impact to SharePoint & Office 365 community.

Building external web sites with Power Apps Portals.

Leon Armston

M365 Solutions Consultant - Intelogy

Leon is a M365 solutions consultant at Intelogy based in London UK and has been working with SharePoint (my first love!) for well over a decade. Now working over the whole stack of M365 and Azure. He enjoys seeing in the workplace how technology can drive improvement and efficiency. 

Leon specialises in helping clients match the best tool for the job from the Microsoft technological swiss army knife. He works with Microsoft 365 with a big focus of SharePoint (document management, migrations, provisioning, automation, administration, Syntex), PowerShell (second love!), Power Platform and the Viva employee experience Platform.

Passionate about learning and sharing knowledge with others. I enjoy contributing to the PnP (Patterns & Practices) community especially PnP PowerShell. I also try and blog on my personal blog at leonarmston.com 

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Marcin Siewnicki

Office 365 Consultant and Architect

I am Office 365 consultant and architect. I create applications and solutions that improve and facilitate work using Power Platform, SharePoint, and Teams.

My adventure in IT began in 2005. Since then I have been creating and implementing business applications based on SharePoint and Office 365 platforms. I am a big fan of task and process automation (Power Automate) and Modern Workplace platforms (Microsoft Teams).

Privately a husband, father of 2 sons. Fan of science fiction and cyberpunk, futurist. I co-organize the SharePoint Saturday Warsaw conference, speaker at Microsoft social events.

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Nanddeep Nachan

Microsoft MVP, MCT, O365 Consultant

Microsoft MVP (Office Apps & Services), MCT. A results oriented Technology Architect with experience in Microsoft Technologies especially with SharePoint, Microsoft 365, MS Azure, and Power Platform. 

Author of Amazon best seller book "Mastering SharePoint Framework"

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Olajumoke Toriola

CTO, Ha-Shem Limited | Microsoft MVP: OAS | MCT | MS Exchange & M365 SME 

Olajumoke Toriola is a seasoned IT professional and a Microsoft MVP: Office Apps & Services. An experienced Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 17+ years in the tech industry. She is a Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft 365 SME. She enjoys traveling and singing.

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Pam DeGraffenreid

Senior SharePoint Developer

Pam DeGraffenreid is the author of The Low-code Series (https://bluecollab.com), taking on the challenge of adapting traditional development practices to the low-code world. She has been in the IT industry for twenty years, focused primarily on SharePoint/O365 solution development for the last ten years.

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Rafael Delacruz

SharePoint and Cloud Architect

Rafael Delacruz is an Information Technology professional From Houston, Texas with over 25 years of experience in the IT field. The last 15 years working as a SharePoint and Cloud Architect focusing on migrations and process automation. 

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Sandro Pereira

Head of integration @ DevScope | Azure MVP

Currently, Sandro is working as Integration Team Lead at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premise and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size and criticality, using Microsoft Azure (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, PowerApps, Flow, …), Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO and so on. 

Sandro is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger at his blog (https://blog.sandropereira.com), as a member and a moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, a TechNet Wiki author, GitHub contributor, a member of the several Integration communities, guest author at BizTalk360 (https://blogs.biztalk360.com/author/sandro) and Serverless360 (https://www.serverless360.com/blog/author/sandro), public speaker and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices” (https://www.biztalk360.com/biztalk-mapping-patterns). 

He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since January 2011 for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community (https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4030655) and currently holds MCTS: BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010 certifications. 

You can contact Sandro at [email protected] (Twitter: @sandro_asp) 

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Thomas Goelles

Head of Modern Workplace Solutions @ Solvion

Thomas G?lles works as Team Lead for Modern Workplace Solutions at Solvion. He has worked as a developer, architect, consultant and team lead through his career. As an active member of the Microsoft365 community and Microsoft MVP, he is co-organiser of SharePoint Saturday Vienna, Office 365 Meetup Graz, Office 365 Meetup Vienna. 

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Vanessa Toves

Shift Your Thiniking

When I was young I wanted to be an architect. As it turns out, I'm a different type of architect. I am a Microsoft 365 Solution Architect. What does that mean? I help companies to solve business problems using Microsoft 365. 

Align your security requirements to Microsoft 365 services

Yves Habersaat

Business Applications Consultant | MCT | Microsoft 365 & Azure Developer

Building applications and solutions with Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform. Passionate about modern development technologies and applications lifecycles.

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Zoe Wilson

Director of Innovation & Customer Success, Agilisys Ltd

Zoe is the Director of Innovation & Customer Success at Agilisys, which is a UK based MS Gold Partner who operate typically in the public sector. In this role, Zoe is the strategy lead for modern work, working closely with partners like Microsoft on technology innovations, and helping customers maximise the potential of Microsoft 365. For the last two years, Zoe has worked closely with the product engineering teams at Microsoft through the content services partner program, on Project Cortex and SharePoint Syntex. Zoe brings together a customer-focused solution background with leadership experience and over a decade of experience working with SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies. She is passionate about solving business problems in an innovative and exciting way, and leads a highly-skilled large technical delivery team who provide cutting-edge professional services to our customers across the UK. The Modern Work practice deliver technology and solutions across the full Microsoft 365 stack and extend into Azure and other technologies. Zoe is particularly passionate about modern teamwork, the Power Platform, SharePoint Online and accessibility in Microsoft 365. 

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