ESPC - Microsoft 365 and AI Conference

ESPC - Microsoft 365 and AI Conference takes place on 30 November – 3 December 2026 at RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam. B2DB lists 160 speakers and 187 sessions announced so far.

ESPC is a Microsoft 365 and AI conference for IT professionals, developers, architects, Microsoft partners and business leaders, held at RAI Amsterdam from 30 November to 3 December 2026. It covers Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Fabric, Entra and Azure through expert-led sessions, full-day tutorials, keynotes and networking with Microsoft experts and the wider community.

Key facts

Keynote speakers

• Karuana Gatimu Director, Scale Experience Group, Microsoft
• Jeff Teper Executive Vice President, Microsoft
• Vesa Juvonen Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Jussi Roine Senior Security Architect at Not Bad Security, Not Bad Security

Speakers (160)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

• Heather Cook Principal PM Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft
• Femke Cornelissen Chief AI Transformation Officer, Wortell
• Kevin McDonnell Associate Director, Avanade
• Luise Freese Changing the world one app at a time, M365Princess
• Ulrikke Akerbæk Power Platform Practice Lead, Itera
• April Dunnam Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Daniel Laskewitz Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Karuana Gatimu Director, Scale Experience Group, Microsoft
• Paolo Pialorsi Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft
• Dona Sarkar Chief Troublemaker - Copilot and AI Extensibility, Microsoft
• Edine Olijve-Watkinson M365 & Security MVP, InSpark | Innovate to Accelerate
• Rick Van Rousselt Managing Consultant \ Technical Evangelist, Advantive - Belgium
• Garry Trinder Advocate, Microsoft
• Benjamin Niaulin VP Product, ShareGate
• Kendra Springer Microsoft
• Bryan Wofford Principal Customer Experience PM, Microsoft
• Jeff Teper Executive Vice President, Microsoft
• John Mighell Director of Product Marketing (SharePoint and OneDrive), Microsoft
• John Bergin Director of Federal, Microsoft Digital Security and Risk, Microsoft
• Vesa Juvonen Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Sharon Breeze Manager, Sales Engineering, EMEA, CoreView
• Vlad Catrinescu Technology Evangelist, SysKit
• Danielle Moon Founder, Women in Power (Platform) | Sr. Specialist- AI Business Process, Microsoft, Microsoft
• Jayshree Ostwal MVP|Power Platform Solutions Architect |Modern Workplace |MCT | Power Platform/GenAI Product Lead|Microsoft365 Copilot | Azure |, Avanade
• Reshmee Auckloo Software Developer, Avanade
• Paula Januszkiewicz CEO and Founder, CQURE Inc.
• Onyinye Madubuko Microsoft MVP | Modern Workplace | Employee Experience, Ergo
• Jussi Roine Senior Security Architect at Not Bad Security, Not Bad Security
• Matt Slomka Microsoft Teams Customer Engagement PM, Microsoft
• Mikko Koskinen MVP Copilot Studio, Principal Consultant - Copilot and Power Platform, Forward Forever
• Sakari Nahi Group CEO, Zure
• Shanna Bosmans Solution Specialist Lead, AI Workforce, Microsoft
• Karinne Bessette Microsoft MVP, Veeam
• Vinod Kurpad Product Manager, Azure AI, Microsoft
• Lindsay Shelton Digital Workplace Advisor, Epiq
• Merethe Stave Chief Customer Officer (CCO) and Senior Cloud Architect, CloudWay
• Akash Malhotra Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
• Albert-Jan Schot CTO & MVP, Blis Digital
• Barbara Forbes Azure Architect @ Zure | Azure MVP | GitHub Star, Zure
• Bram de Jager Microsoft 365 & Security Architect | Freelancer | Owner, Advice Matters
• Chris O’Brien Products and Services Director, Advania UK, Advania United Kingdom
• David Warner II Principal Consultant @Quisitive & PnP Team Member, Warner Digital
• Ejaz Hussain Copilot Lead Architect, Analysys Mason
• Emily Mancini Founder & Director, Left Uncharted
• Jake Harvey Automation & Analytics Lead, Advania
• Jill McClenahan Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Joanne Klein Microsoft 365 Consultant | Advanced Compliance, NexNovus Consulting Inc.
• Kaan Uyduran Technical Consultant, Advania
• Laura Graham-Brown MVP, Power Platform Consultant and Agony Aunt, Hat Full of Data
• Lee Ford Associate Manager, Avanade | Microsoft MVP, Avanade
• Manas Biswas AI and Copilot-focused Principal Onboarding Manager skilled in extensibility, analytics, and employee experience., Microsoft
• Mats Necker Co-Founder, dhino
• Melissa Hale Power Platform Consultant, Kerv
• Michael Durkan Microsoft Azure MVP - Azure Cloud Architect, Accenture
• Negar Shahbaz Power Platform Community Sweden South, Co-organizer, Power Platform Community Sweden (PPCS)
• Sara Fennah M365 Consultant/Trainer, MCT, MVP (M365 & Security), MCT Regional Lead, Znrgy Ltd
• Sara Lagerquist Microsoft Business Application MVP, CRMK
• Scott Durow Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Stephan Bisser Microsoft MVP (AI) | Book Author, Solvion
• Susan Hanley Information Architect/Business Analyst, Susan Hanley LLC
• Tatu Seppälä Blogger & speaker | Microsoft MVP | MCT | Security & Compliance, Insider Risk, Power Platform, IAM, Context&
• Thomas Gölles Head of Consulting & Engineering Services, Solvion Information Management
• Hanna Engel Cloud Solution Architect | Azure & AI, Microsoft
• Jessie Hwang Customer Experience PM II - Microsoft 365, Microsoft
• Brad Gussin Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
• Adam Harmetz Corporate Vice President of Product, OneDrive & SharePoint, Microsoft
• Agnius Bartninkas CEO at Herexis | Microsoft Business Applications MVP, Herexis
• Ahmad Najjar Managing Solution Architect, Capgemini
• Aleksandar Nikolić Microsoft Azure and PowerShell Trainer, M.O.3.A.K. IT Consulting
• Allen Smith Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
• Andy Malone Managing Director, Quality Training (Scotland) Ltd & Dive Deeper Events UK
• Arjun Tomar Senior Product Manager, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft
• Åsne Holtklimpen Senior Architect - Microsoft AI and Compliance Lead | Microsoft Copilot MVP | Microsoft MCT, Crayon (merging with SoftwareOne)
• Bill Ayers Technical Director, Flow Simulation Ltd
• Brett Lonsdale Lightning Tools
• Bruno Gulin Syskit
• Bülent Altinsoy Microsoft MVP & MCT | Power Platform & Copilot Studio Senior Expert @ Avanade | International Speaker | Community Leader | Content Creator | Trainer | Mentor, Avanade
• Caroline Kallin MVP, Change and adoption driver @, Exobe
• Chiara Carbone Power Platform Architect, AI & Digital Solutions Lead, Female Community Leader in the Microsoft Power Platform Community, microtom ag
• Claire Edgson Microsoft Digital Customer Experience CTO, Europe, Capgemini
• Craig White Principal Architect, Co-host, ANS Group
• Domen Oblak Comtrade System Integration
• Drew Madelung MS Solutions Architect | Microsoft MVP, Protiviti
• Elio Struyf Award winning Solutions Architect, Struyf Consulting
• Elisabeth Niemeyer Laursen Senior Consultant @ Context&, Context&
• Emma-Claire Shaw Senior Power Platform Governance & Enablement Consultant, Capgemini
• Eric Overfield Chief Innovation Officer, Creospark
• Erwin Staal Independent Solution Architect, Author of 'Azure Infrastructure as Code', Staal IT
• Ewelina Paczkowska Microsoft Security MVP | Solution Architect at Threatscape, Threatscape
• Fabio Franzini CEO @ Apvee Solutions | Providing innovative solutions for business success | Microsoft MVP | PnP Team Member, Apvee Solutions Italy
• Feline Parein Power Platform Consultant, Capgemini Belgium
• Florent Aonon BitTitan
• Florian Piaszyk-Hensen fme
• Freddie MacDonald Orchestry
• Geert van der Cruijsen CEO Zure Netherlands, Zure
• Gitta Bleijendaal Creative by nature. Functional by trade. Adoptrion at heart. Curious and bold enough to try anything, PQR
• Glenn Colpaert CTO and Founder Zure Belgium, Zure
• Heiko Brenn BCC
• Ioana Cristina Sbiera Integrated Marketing Manager | AI Business Solutions, Microsoft
• James Corbishley Sharegate
• James Eccles Senior Customer Experience Program Manager, Microsoft
• Jasper Oosterveld Microsoft 365 and Data Security Consultant, Rubicon
• Jeppe Schäfer Keepit
• Jérémy Marsalik Senior Solutions Engineer, CoreView
• Jon Vöge Senior Consultant at Inspari - a valantic company, Inspari
• Josh Leporati Principal Customer Experience Program Manager | SCALE Experience Group, Microsoft
• Kartik Pullabhotla Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Katerina Chernevskaya Power Platform & AI Architect, KPMG IT Service OOD
• Kimberley Morrison Digital Transformation Leader of the Year 2024 | Operational Efficiency Leader | Dynamics 365 Product Owner, Aurecon
• Laura Luisa Rosenberg Manager - Microsoft BizApps Lead, PwC Deutschland
• Leo Visser Microsoft MVP | Consultant & Product Lead Automation @ OGD, OGD ICT-diensten
• Lilian Stenholt Master (Power Platform), Context&
• Lincoln DeMaris Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
• Lisanne Brons Global Solution Advisor AI (Copilot), Microsoft
• Louis Börner BCC
• Maarten Eekels
• Mark Rackley Copilot Extensibility Practice Lead @ Protiviti, Protiviti
• Miceile Barrett Group Product Manager, Microsoft
• Michael Paul Senior Sales Systems Engineer, VDC M365 EID, Veeam Software
• Michel Bouman AI Powered Workplace Lead EMEA, India and SEA - Teams Engineering, Microsoft
• Mika Vilpo IT geek building clouds, MVP, Netox Oy
• Pasi Huuhka DevOps Architect at Zure, DevTech MVP, Zure Oy
• Paul Robichaux Senior Product Director, Keepit
• Rachel Nambi Senior Product Marketing Manager - Copilot, Microsoft
• Rakesh Chenchery Proventeq
• Renato Romão de Souza Microsoft MVP, Copilot Studio Super User & Senior M365/Power Platform Developer, Storm Technology
• Rik Hepworth CEO & Founder Zure UK, Zure
• Robert Mulsow Head of AI EMEA, AvePoint
• Saeid Dahl Microsoft MVP & Microsoft MCT Leader |Microsoft Learning Expert | Azure Team Technical leader at Upheads, Upheads
• Sanjoyan Mustafi Principal PM Architect, Microsoft
• Sari Soinoja Lead Consultant, Meltlake
• Sašo Pašič Director of Productivity Enhancement through Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence at Petrol Group, Petrol Group
• Sergey Chubarov Cloud Security | Identity & Access, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
• Sesha Mani Director of Product - Partner Director of PM - Microsoft 365 Copilot & Agent 365 Security, Microsoft
• Shari Oswald Microsoft MVP | MCT Community Lead | Productivity and O365 Adoption Expert | Technology Evangelist | SharePoint Consultant | eLearning Author | International Speaker, PowerUP!Learning
• Sheila Shahpari Chief Technology Officer, Paritta Group
• Shreyas Saravanan Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
• Shyam Narayan Partner Group Product Manager, Content Intelligence Platform for Microsoft 365, Microsoft
• Simon Szczesniak CodeTwo
• Sonja Wagenbichler Copilot and Change & Adoption Enthusiast, Power Manufaktur Gmbh
• Stacy Cashmore Tech Explorer DevOps, Omniplan, Netherlands, Omniplan
• Ståle Hansen Founder, CEO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay
• Thomas Vochten Workplace Solution Lead, Sopra Steria
• Tony Redmond Office 365 for IT Pros, Redmond & Associates
• Traci Sewell Tech-Adjacent Mind Fixer, Sewells Consulting
• Walter Van Hecke Involv
• Yogesh Ratnaparkhi Principal PM Architect, at SharePoint AI Platform, Microsoft
• Zach Rosenfield PVP of Product, Content AI, Microsoft
• Miguel Verweij Founder | Power Platform Consultant | Low-code Strategist, Powerbouwer
• Myrthe Scholte Product Owner Power Platform at Schiphol Group, Royal Schiphol Group
• Nate Hutchinson Microsoft Solutions Architect, Threatscape
• Aditi Gangwar Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Amy Hemingway Project Delivery Team Lead, Delaware
• Bryan Hart Senior Customer Exp PM, Microsoft
• Dave Minasyan Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Emily Hove Program and Community Manager, Microsoft
• João Ferreira Microsoft MVP, Appspace
• Nikita Bandyopadhyay Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Sam Kabue Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
• Sharon Smith Founder, The Community Hub

Most represented companies

• Microsoft — 48 speakers
• Avanade — 5 speakers
• Zure — 5 speakers
• Capgemini — 3 speakers
• Context& — 3 speakers
• Advania — 2 speakers
• BCC — 2 speakers
• CloudWay — 2 speakers
• CoreView — 2 speakers
• Keepit — 2 speakers

Agenda (187 sessions)

Day 1 — Monday 30 November 2026

• Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with Custom Agents: Copilot Studio and the Agents Toolkit Side-by-Side Copilot, Agents, and AI — Mark Rackley
• Building an AI-Ready Analytics Platform with Microsoft Fabric Data, AI, and Analytics
• Using AI to Simplify Azure Scripting and Management Operations, Admin, and Management — Aleksandar Nikolić
• The AI-era SharePoint administrator: governance, skills, and agents for the modern admin Operations, Admin, and Management — Vlad Catrinescu, Drew Madelung
• Agent Governance for the Real World: End-to-End Security with Defender, Entra, Purview & Agent 365 Security, Compliance, and Governance — Mikko Koskinen, Tatu Seppälä, Claire Edgson
• From Portal to Partner: AI-Ready Information Architecture for Microsoft 365 Intranets Modern Work and Collaboration — Susan Hanley
• Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, or Both? Choosing the Right Architecture for Intelligent Agents Developer and AI Innovation — Bülent Altinsoy, Katerina Chernevskaya, Laura Luisa Rosenberg
• When Things Go Wrong: Managing Risk, Compliance, and Investigations with Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Governance — Joanne Klein
• Brick by Brick: Building Reusable Power Platform Solutions for Apps, Copilot & More Automation and Business Solutions — April Dunnam, David Warner II
• Accelerating Copilot Adoption by using the ADKAR & Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist Frameworks Copilot, Agents, and AI — Merethe Stave, Ståle Hansen
• Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot Extensibility: When to Use What Copilot, Agents, and AI — Paolo Pialorsi, Vesa Juvonen

Day 2 — Tuesday 1 December 2026

• The AI-Powered Enterprise 09:00–10:00 · Keynote — Jeff Teper
• Microsoft Teams: Harnessing agents where work gets done 10:15–11:15 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Matt Slomka
• Two truths and AI – Scott builds with the Copilot Managed Runtime 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Scott Durow
• Rethinking Microsoft 365 governance: How to assess and stay in control in an AI and Agent world 10:15–11:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Jasper Oosterveld
• Full-Tenant Restoration: How Do You Eat an Elephant? 10:15–11:15 · Microsoft 365 — Paul Robichaux
• Frontier transformation with Microsoft Copilot and Work IQ 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — John Mighell, Shanna Bosmans
• From Vibecoding to Team Coding 10:15–11:15 · Developer and AI Innovation — Sakari Nahi
• Copilot Credits: Understanding the Billing and the Benefits 10:15–10:35 · Lightning Talk — Paolo Pialorsi
• MCP: not just for Developers 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Mats Necker, Sara Lagerquist
• The Architect’s Warehouse: Building a Global, Self-Healing Infrastructure from Scratch 10:15–11:15 · Azure Platform
• Essential, Desirable, Optional: The Copilot Admin Framework for Readiness 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Sara Fennah
• The Brain‑Friendly Workday: How AI in M365 Helps You Beat Chaos 10:15–11:15 · Inspire Stage — Caroline Kallin
• Measuring What Matters: Copilot Analytics and ROI for Enterprise 10:40–11:00 · Lightning Talk — Manas Biswas
• From systems of record to systems of action: content migration as a strategic enabler for Agentic AI 11:25–11:31 · Sponsor Demos (fme) — Florian Piaszyk-Hensen
• The simplest IT win hiding in plain sight – and why Marketing, Sales and Legal will thank you 11:33–11:39 · Sponsor Demos (CodeTwo) — Simon Szczesniak
• Why your AI demos don’t survive production 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Luise Freese
• Women Shaping Microsoft 365 & AI – Lifting as we Climb 11:45–12:45 · Inspire Stage — Heather Cook, Femke Cornelissen, Jayshree Ostwal, Reshmee Auckloo +3 more
• Why Your DLP Strategy Is Failing (And How to Fix It) 11:45–12:45 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Bram de Jager
• One Size Fits None: Make Azure best practices work for your organization 11:45–12:45 · Azure Platform — Barbara Forbes
• Which Card would you Play? Designing Better Power Platform Solutions 11:45–12:45 · Automation and Business Solutions — Elisabeth Niemeyer Laursen, Lilian Stenholt
• The Future of DevOps with Azure & ADO MCP Servers 11:45–12:45 · Developer and AI Innovation — Negar Shahbaz
• Extending Microsoft Copilot: Understanding Your Options 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Paolo Pialorsi, Vesa Juvonen
• Find Your Community: Connect, Learn, and Grow with Microsoft Tech Community 11:45–12:05 · Lightning Talk — Allen Smith, Josh Leporati
• Gain Control of Your Microsoft 365 Data Before AI Does 11:45–12:45 · Microsoft 365 — Karinne Bessette, Michael Paul
• Mastering Large-Scale Events in Microsoft Teams Events: What’s New, What’s Possible, and What’s Next 11:45–12:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration
• OneDrive: Your Hub for Productivity and Collaboration Excellence (Product Team Overview) 11:45–12:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Arjun Tomar, Lincoln DeMaris
• The Next Generation of Community Storytelling with AI 12:10–12:30 · Lightning Talk
• Reclaiming AI Visibility: M365 SharePoint Permissions 12:55–13:01 · Sponsor Demos (Sharegate) — James Corbishley
• Consulting in the AI era: pricing, positioning and delivery models 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab — Luise Freese
• Future Community Leaders: Mentorship and Career Growth 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab — Ulrikke Akerbæk
• Government and Public Sector: Secure AI for Citizen Services 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Building and Governing Agents at Enterprise Scale 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab — Kevin McDonnell
• Control for Sharepoint 13:03–13:09 · Sponsor Demos (Coreview) — Sharon Breeze
• Truly Immutable data protection in the age of Agentic AI 13:11–13:17 · Sponsor Demos (Keepit) — Jeppe Schäfer
• How to Track and Undo AI Agent Mistakes in Microsoft 365 13:27–13:33 · Sponsor Demos (Veeam) — Karinne Bessette
• [CASE STUDY] Lessons from the Trenches: Guerrilla-Style M365 Copilot Adoption 14:00–15:00 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Lindsay Shelton
• Power Platform Governance Reloaded: Leveling Up for the Age of Copilot Agents 14:00–15:00 · Automation and Business Solutions — Craig White, Emma-Claire Shaw
• From Ethical Hacking to Responsible AI: What Went Wrong? 14:00–15:00 · Inspire Stage — Ahmad Najjar
• Turn Infrastructure Complexity into Strategic Advantage 14:00–15:00 · Azure Platform — Saeid Dahl
• From Alerts to Business Outcomes – Microsoft Security Exposure Management for Security Leaders 14:00–15:00 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Jussi Roine
• Beyond Chat: Using Agent Flows & Computer Use to Fix SharePoint Processes 14:00–15:00 · Automation and Business Solutions — Jayshree Ostwal, Mikko Koskinen
• Agent 365: Securing, Governing, and Managing the Agentic Enterprise 14:00–15:00 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Vinod Kurpad, Sesha Mani
• SPFx Across Borders: Building Multi-Geo Aware Solutions That Actually Work 14:00–15:00 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Ejaz Hussain
• From Data to AI: Copilot Studio + Fabric Data Agents 15:15–16:15 · Data, AI, and Analytics — Renato Romão de Souza
• Copilot Cowork in Action: What It Is, How to Get It & What You Can Do With It 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Daniel Laskewitz, Melissa Hale
• SharePoints of Interest: Building a Modern, Copilot-ready and user-friendly Intranet in SharePoint 15:15–16:15 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Gitta Bleijendaal
• Build Once, Use Everywhere: Designing Copilot Component Collections for Scalable Agent Experiences 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — David Warner II, Emily Mancini
• Modernize Legacy Systems for the Copilot Era with SharePoint Embedded 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — James Eccles, Shreyas Saravanan
• Beyond Chatbots: Bad AI Is Worse Than No AI 15:15–16:15 · Inspire Stage — Stacy Cashmore
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud: What Do You Actually Get When You Pay? 15:15–16:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Mika Vilpo
• Start your adoption journey with adoption.microsoft.com 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Jessie Hwang
• Sovereign Cloud on Azure: Reducing Risk and Staying in Control 15:15–16:15 · Azure Platform — Geert van der Cruijsen
• Created, Forgotten, Dangerous: How to Stop Microsoft 365 Agent Sprawl 16:25–16:31 · Sponsor Demos (BCC) — Heiko Brenn, Louis Börner
• Migrate the Whole Tenant, Not Just the Sites 16:33–16:39 · Sponsor Demos (BitTitan) — Florent Aonon
• Giving your office eyes, ears and a brain 16:45–17:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Matt Slomka, Michel Bouman
• Build Once, Ground Everywhere: Developing Agents with the WorkIQ API 16:45–17:45 · Developer and AI Innovation — Shyam Narayan, Yogesh Ratnaparkhi
• SharePoint Advanced Management 2026 Deep Dive 16:45–17:45 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Vlad Catrinescu
• AI-Assisted Development Live 16:45–17:45 · Inspire Stage — Sakari Nahi
• Agents in 90 Days: Your Action Plan to Roll-Out Agents Without Chaos 16:45–17:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Kimberley Morrison
• Teaching Copilot Cowork about your Company Skills, MCP Servers, and your Clever Ideas 16:45–17:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Chris O’Brien
• The Signal Economy: Why Cybersecurity Is No Longer About Prevention 16:45–17:45 · Security | Compliance | Governance — Paula Januszkiewicz
• Live: Engineering with AI (Developers Are Stronger Than Ever) 16:45–17:45 · AI & Data Agents — Sakari Nahi
• Architecting Multi-Agent Solutions with Copilot Studio vs. M365 Agents Toolkit 16:45–17:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Reshmee Auckloo, Lee Ford
• Accelerating Innovation with an AI Centre of Excellence 16:45–17:45 · Automation and Business Solutions — Jake Harvey, Kaan Uyduran
• Managing Updates on Windows 16:45–17:05 · Lightning Talk — Akash Malhotra
• ESPC Inspire Awards Ceremony 18:15–18:45 · Inspire Stage
• Agent Governance in the lens of Microsoft 365 Resources Lightning Talk — Vinod Kurpad, Jill McClenahan
• Copilot, You Had One Job: Building Skills and Plugins for Microsoft 365 Ideation Lab — Dona Sarkar, Garry Trinder

Day 3 — Wednesday 2 December 2026

• Leading Through Change: Fireside Conversations on AI, Productivity, and Business Transformation 09:00–10:00 · Keynote — Karuana Gatimu
• Next Generation of Teams Administration 10:15–10:35 · Lightning Talk — Matt Slomka
• Building Agents, Breaking Rules! Securing what you should know about the OWASP LLM Top 10 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Albert-Jan Schot
• Declarative vs. Custom Engine Agents: The Decision Framework 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Stephan Bisser, Thomas Gölles
• Stronger Together: Building Inclusive Communities in the Age of AI 10:15–11:15 · Inspire Stage — Heather Cook, Femke Cornelissen, Jayshree Ostwal, Reshmee Auckloo +3 more
• Simplifying Windows Management and Security 10:15–11:15 · Admin — Akash Malhotra
• SharePoint: The Knowledge Platform for Copilot & Agents (Product Team Overview) 10:15–11:15 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Miceile Barrett, Zach Rosenfield
• Shadow AI: Find It. Control It. 10:15–11:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Åsne Holtklimpen
• Responsible AI in plain English 10:15–11:15 · AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance — Sheila Shahpari
• Building Smarter: Bringing AI into your Developer Workflow 10:15–11:15 · Developer and AI Innovation — Elio Struyf
• [CASE STUDY] RAG or GraphRAG, that is the Question! 10:15–11:15 · Azure Platform — Negar Shahbaz
• Get Recognized in Teams Meetings with Voice and Face Enrollment 10:40–11:00 · Lightning Talk
• Myth-busting AI Governance: The Truth Behind the Buzzword 11:20–11:40 · Lightning Talk — Robert Mulsow
• The SharePoint Intranet Out-of-the-Box Lie (and How You Can Fix It). 11:25–11:31 · Sponsor Demos (Involv) — Walter Van Hecke
• Nobody’s files. Everybody’s bill. A six-minute inspection of a SharePoint tenant. 11:33–11:39 · Sponsor Demos (Proventeq) — Rakesh Chenchery
• Your Copilot readiness expired last Tuesday: Keeping Microsoft 365 Agent-ready after day one 11:45–12:45 · Copilot — Jérémy Marsalik
• M365 data governance: the what, the how, and the gotchas 11:45–12:45 · Microsoft 365 — Benjamin Niaulin
• AI-Powered Document Processing in Microsoft 365 11:45–12:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Vlad Catrinescu
• Microsoft Fabric for the Power Platform Maker 11:45–12:45 · Data, AI, and Analytics — Laura Graham-Brown
• Digital Sovereignty on the Azure Cloud 11:45–12:45 · Azure Platform — Erwin Staal
• Build AI-ready teams with Microsoft 365 Copilot workforce intelligence 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — John Mighell, Rachel Nambi
• Migrating Hybrid Active Directory to Entra ID Cloud Native – A Technical Deep Dive 11:45–12:45 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Andy Malone
• Powered by Community: Inside the Microsoft Global Community Initiative 11:45–12:05 · Lightning Talk
• Tokenomics – Controlling the Bill for M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Foundry Agents 11:45–12:45 · AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance — Chris O’Brien
• I Gave My Team Agents. Then I Had to Relearn How to Lead. The part of AI transformation nobody talks about. 11:45–12:45 · Inspire Stage — Shanna Bosmans
• Agent Flows and Power Automate Flows That Perform: Error‑Handling, Efficiency & Flow Management 11:45–12:45 · Automation and Business Solutions — Feline Parein
• Shaping the Future Together: Women in Tech and Allies Driving Change 12:45–14:00 · Inspire Stage — Heather Cook, Karuana Gatimu, Dona Sarkar, Danielle Moon +3 more
• Microsoft Teams: Agents Where Work Gets Done 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Adoption Specialists and Champions: Scaling Copilot Adoption 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Upskilling: building capability in a fast-changing world 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Build an agent with the GitHub Copilot Harness in Copilot Studio 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab — April Dunnam
• Small and Medium Business: Practical AI with Limited Resources 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Get SharePoint Ready for Copilot: Let Site Owners Find and Fix Oversharing 13:03–13:09 · Sponsor Demos (Lightning Tools) — Brett Lonsdale
• 1 My AI is oversharing and out of control. Now what? 13:11–13:17 · Sponsor Demos (Syskit) — Bruno Gulin
• Can You Fix Microsoft 365 Governance in 6 Minutes? 13:19–13:25 · Sponsor Demos (Orchestry) — Freddie MacDonald
• The AI Bill Nobody Owns. 13:27–13:33 · Sponsor Demos (Rencore)
• The Last Consultant Standing – Staying Relevant When AI Can And Will Do Your Job 14:00–15:00 · Keynote — Jussi Roine
• Agent Skills, Tools, Plugins, MCP, RAG, Agent2Agent – A Definitive Guide On What To Use 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Reshmee Auckloo, Lee Ford
• Sheep Herding with Agent 365 15:15–16:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Kevin McDonnell, Edine Olijve-Watkinson
• Learn to Create Three Types of Low-Code Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Extensions with Power Apps 15:15–16:15 · Data, AI, and Analytics — Jon Vöge
• Secure your Copilot Era: 3Rs you should care: Readiness-Relevancy-Resiliency 15:15–16:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Brad Gussin, Kartik Pullabhotla
• Fixing Broken Project Governance with an AI Agent (Lessons from a Real Customer Implementation) 15:15–16:15 · AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance — Chiara Carbone
• Powering Search, Copilot, and Content Delivery with Custom Search Experiences 15:15–16:15 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Emily Mancini
• No One Lit the Path. So I Became the Light 15:15–16:15 · Inspire Stage — Jayshree Ostwal
• Cost, Requirements, Functionality – The Solution Architect’s Circle of Hell 15:15–16:15 · Azure Platform — Michael Durkan
• Can AI Build Your Copilot Studio Agent? Let’s Test the Limits 15:15–16:15 · Automation and Business Solutions — Mikko Koskinen
• From Pumps to Platforms: How PETROL is turning AI Adoption into Business Value 16:45–17:45 · Inspire Stage — Domen Oblak, Sašo Pašič
• Stop Prompting. Start Delegating. What Frontier Firms know about re-inventing work with AI 16:45–17:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Danielle Moon, Lisanne Brons
• From RAG to Riches: Building Production-Grade Agentic Knowledge Bases with Azure AI Search and MCP 16:45–17:45 · Developer and AI Innovation — Ejaz Hussain
• Promises, Prompts, and Plot Twists: The Reality of AI-Generated Apps 16:45–17:45 · Automation and Business Solutions — Sara Lagerquist
• Transforming Knowledge Management with M365 and Copilot: Strategies for the AI-Enhanced Workplace 16:45–17:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Susan Hanley
• Responsible AI, Responsible Planet: The New Blueprint for Sustainable Business Growth 16:45–17:45 · AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance — Onyinye Madubuko, Leo Visser
• Data Hygiene for AI: What Records Management Fixes That Security Can’t 16:45–17:45 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Joanne Klein
• M365 Content Governing Agent powered by SAM. Governing Content at the Speed of AI 16:45–17:45 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Jill McClenahan, Sanjoyan Mustafi
• How a Microsoft Product Team Uses AI & Agentic Harnesses to Build Products 16:45–17:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Adam Harmetz
• We Hacked Security Defaults (Safely): Designing the Modern Zero Trust Baseline for Microsoft 365 16:45–17:45 · Security, Compliance, and Governance
• Stop Asking AI Questions. Start Hiring AI Teammates Lightning Talk — Danielle Moon

Day 4 — Thursday 3 December 2026

• Crafting the next era of work with AI and empathy 09:00–10:00 · Keynote — Vesa Juvonen
• Your On-Prem Estate: Act Now. Reduce Risk. 10:15–11:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — John Bergin
• My Copilot Brings All the Extensibility To the Yard 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Dona Sarkar, Garry Trinder
• Securing Modern Workloads with Entra Agent ID 10:15–11:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Sergey Chubarov
• Harnessing Connectors to Power Intelligent Agents in Microsoft 365 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Manas Biswas
• Talking about Mental Health for you and for them 10:15–11:15 · Inspire Stage — Traci Sewell
• The Copilot Tax: Why Your Company is Burning Millions on AI Licenses. And how to fix it! 10:15–11:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Sonja Wagenbichler
• The No-Slop Engineer 10:15–11:15 · Developer and AI Innovation — Pasi Huuhka
• Copilot Cowork Extensibility for Developers 10:15–10:35 · Lightning Talk — Paolo Pialorsi
• Catch Configuration Drift in Microsoft 365 before it Catches You 10:15–11:15 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Thomas Vochten
• Building a Cloud Vending Machine: One-Click Environments with Azure + GitHub 10:15–11:15 · Azure Platform — Glenn Colpaert
• Anything You Can Code, I Can Code Better: Copilot Managed Runtime Apps vs Power Pages SPA 10:15–11:15 · Dev & AI Innovation — Ulrikke Akerbæk, Scott Durow
• The Admin’s Guide to Copilot in SharePoint 11:45–12:45 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Eric Overfield
• How to avoid “(fin)Ooops” in AI: practical tokenomics for Copilot agents 11:45–12:45 · AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance — Danielle Moon, Hanna Engel
• It’s a trap! Stuff a developer needs to know about Azure networking 11:45–12:45 · Azure Platform — Rik Hepworth
• Managing Your Brand for Career Advancement 11:45–12:45 · Inspire Stage — Karuana Gatimu
• Mastering Purview Data Security Solution Design: Lessons from Years of Deployments 11:45–12:45 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Tatu Seppälä
• Agent 365 101: Observe, Govern, and Secure your Agents at Scale 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Kendra Springer
• Responsible AI after the demo: evaluating and observing agents in Microsoft Foundry 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Maarten Eekels
• MCP in Power Platform: One Year Later – Building Custom MCP Servers with Low Code 11:45–12:45 · Automation and Business Solutions — Daniel Laskewitz, Mats Necker
• Building AI-Powered SPFx Experiences Across Microsoft 365 11:45–12:45 · Developer and AI Innovation — Fabio Franzini
• From “Try It Once” to “Use It Daily”: A Copilot Adoption Blueprint 11:45–12:45 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Shari Oswald
• Governance: governing Copilot without hurting adoption 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Women in Tech and Allies: Turning Allyship into Action 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Secure and Responsible AI: Readiness, Relevancy, and Resiliency 13:00–13:50 · Ideation Lab
• Ten Critical Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Skills to Master 14:00–15:00 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Tony Redmond
• So you’ve got an Agent – Now what? 14:00–15:00 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Sari Soinoja
• Wreck It Before You Ship It 14:00–15:00 · Automation and Business Solutions — Melissa Hale
• Power Automate at Lightspeed: Supercharge Your Flows with Performance Hacks! 14:00–15:00 · Automation and Business Solutions — Agnius Bartninkas
• Forging AI Solutions with Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework 14:00–15:00 · Developer and AI Innovation — Bill Ayers
• Taming the SharePoint Lifecycle: Archiving, Governance, and Copilot problems 14:00–15:00 · Modern Work and Collaboration — Rick Van Rousselt
• Architecting Azure Integration Environments: Comparing AKS vs Azure PaaS 14:00–15:00 · Azure Platform — Michael Durkan
• Unlocking Business Value with Copilot, Agents, and Content Automation 14:00–15:00 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Karuana Gatimu, Bryan Wofford
• When Users Leave: The Ripple Effect Across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform 14:00–15:00 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Laura Graham-Brown, Sara Fennah
• Windows 365 for Agents: Building, Securing, and Operating AI-Driven Cloud PCs 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI
• The Tenant Whisperer: Custom Skills and the CLI for Microsoft 365 15:15–16:15 · Developer and AI Innovation — Albert-Jan Schot
• From Conversation to Action: Building Copilot Apps That Transform Work 15:15–16:15 · Developer and AI Innovation — Vesa Juvonen
• Bringing Declarative Agents to Life with the SharePoint Framework 15:15–16:15 · Developer and AI Innovation
• Power Automate to Autonomous Agents 15:15–16:15 · Automation and Business Solutions — Jake Harvey, Kaan Uyduran
• Beyond Sensitivity Labels: Building a Real Data Protection Architecture in M365 15:15–16:15 · Security, Compliance, and Governance — Bram de Jager
• Beyond Agents: Building an Agentic Organization 15:15–16:15 · Copilot, Agents, and AI — Stephan Bisser, Thomas Gölles
• Not Secure by Default: 20+ Microsoft 365 Settings you Must Fix Immediately 15:15–16:15 · Operations, Admin, and Management — Ewelina Paczkowska
• Implementing Azure Policies: Before the Portal 15:15–16:15 · Azure Platform — Barbara Forbes
• From Busy to Brilliant: #Cowork Hacks to Uplevel Your Role, Skills and Outcomes Lightning Talk — Shanna Bosmans, Ioana Cristina Sbiera
• Your Next Developer Is an AI Agent. Are You Ready? Lightning Talk — Garry Trinder
• The Road to MVP: Real Stories, Real Advice Lightning Talk — Bryan Wofford

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• Dude, Where’s My Career Lightning Talk — Dona Sarkar
• Mind the Guest List: B2B Access at Scale with Entitlement Management Operations, Admin, and Management — Nate Hutchinson
• Your Next Breach Is an App: Detecting and Containing Supply Chain Attacks with App Governance Security, Compliance, and Governance — Nate Hutchinson
• Cleared for Takeoff: Scaling Low‑Code Across Schiphol, One of Europe’s Busiest Airports Security, Compliance, and Governance — Miguel Verweij, Myrthe Scholte
• The foundation of Trusted AI: SharePoint security and resiliency Lightning Talk — Brad Gussin

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