Breakfast Breakout: Realising the Secure, Data-Driven and Productive Enterprise

Friday, 28th April 8:30am - 10:45am

Telstra Customer Insights Centre (CIC)
Level 2, 400 George St
Sydney, NSW

In collaboration with Microsoft & Telstra, The Cloud Collective is delighted to invite you to our Breakfast Breakout event, “Realising the Secure, Data-Driven and Productive Enterprise”.

With breakfast served from 8:30am, a keynote from Microsoft and the choice of 4 breakout workshops over two 45 minute time slots, you will leave with a clear direction about “where next” with the Microsoft cloud solutions stack to deliver a Modern Workplace within your organisation across workloads that include:

• Skype for Business
• PowerBI
• SharePoint/Yammer/Teams/Groups
• Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

The agenda for the Breakfast Breakout is as follows:

8:30am – 9:00am – Breakfast

A selection of hot and cold canapes will be served along with tea, coffee and juices.

9:00am – 9:15am: Keynote – Ian Heard, Modern Workplace, Collaboration & UC Lead, Microsoft

What does a Modern Workplace look like, and how to begin your journey today.

9:15am – 10:00am: Session 1 (select one option):

Workshop 1: Skype for Business – Moving towards Cloud Communications

Increasing staff productivity by simplifying the communications experience is high on the agenda of a lot of CIOs. Meetings and voice tools are all too often fragmented across the enterprise, leading to confusion and productivity loss, not to mention unnecessary expense. Hear how cloud communications is eliminating those business problems along with customer success stories and roll-out best practices.

• Presenter: Justin Morris, Country Manager, Modality Systems (5 time Microsoft MVP)

Workshop 2: Realise the Power of Analytics with PowerBI

Learn how Power BI enables you and your organisation to create, analyse and share your data with incredible detail. With PowerBI, you will learn how to build iterative dashboards in minutes, allowing you to make better, timelier decisions based facts. Finally, you will learn how to share and collaborate your findings with others so that you can improve your operations and increase your bottom line.

• Presenter: Julio Acuna, Practice Manager – Data Solutions, Antares Solutions

10:00am – 10:45am: Session 2 (select one option):

Workshop 1: Digesting the Microsoft Productivity stack: SharePoint, Yammer, Teams and O365 Groups

It’s not OR, but AND. Microsoft have given our staff the power to select the productivity “tools” be suited to their tasks. In this session we will make sense of the Productivity platform, and discuss the relevant of the corporate intrant in the Modern Workplace. We will focus on the recent release of Teams, Yammer and O365 groups to empower productivity, collaboration and communication.

• Presenter: Aaron Cunnington, Director, Antares Solutions

Workshop 2: Identity-driven innovations to stay secure and productive with Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

Learn how Microsoft’s identity driven security solutions can provide your organisation with productivity without compromise. Focusing on identity, devices, apps and information, we will show you how to keep pace with today’s security challenges. Learn how Microsoft’s technologies not only help you protect your organisation but also identify breaches before they cause damage.

• Presenter: John Filippis, Strategic Engagement Manager, Quorum

Join us for Breakfast from 8:30am and the Keynote from 9:00am, followed by your choice of four breakout workshops across two time slots (select two).

Please register for TWO workshops only, one for each time slot. For more detail about each workshop, please read below.