This session on Microsoft Security consists of a high-level overview of our security product strategy across the company. This session discusses how Microsoft leverages a foundation of world-class security operations capability to build security technology and partner with industry and policy makers. It also explores how our security solutions across Azure and Microsoft 365 provide comprehensive Identity and Access Management, Threat Protection, Information Protection, Security Management, and Infrastructure Security capabilities to help customers improve their security posture. 

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility+Security is the comprehensive solution offering that encompasses Identity and access management, mobile device and application management, information protection, and advanced threat analytics on-premises along with a full set of cloud app security capability. Specific products include Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics and Azure Information Protection. Key customer use cases are BYOD/CYOD and other device policies, unified access to diversified app portfolios, Conditional access, secure collaboration, app level security analysis and remediation, on-premises threat analytics and more.

This session provides an overview of the integrated Extended Detection & Response (XDR) solution; Microsoft 365 Defender. Modern attacks are evolving and security resources are stretched and often overwhelmed in signal data. XDR provides a cross-domain automated detection and remediation solution that analyzes all M365 alert data. With context across the organization, coordinated detection and remediation can be executed to stop attacks in their tracks.

Meeting your business and budget needs has always been a priority for us. We make this possible through unique offers, transparent and competitive pricing, and free cost management tools. Azure is the most cost-effective cloud for Windows Server and SQL Server with offers like Azure Hybrid Benefit and free extended security updates. Lower your migration costs and risk through best practice guidance with the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, expert assistance with the Azure Migration Program, and free cost optimization tools.

Standalone services can address a wide range of top IT business needs. These range from analytics, meetings & calling, compliance, security, and include many others. No matter if your organization has been using a service for years—or even for just a few months—you may be asking yourself, “why force change?” One of the biggest reasons is that Microsoft regularly introduces new services in the cloud. Without access to these innovations, customers using add-on services can quickly fall behind their competitors, Consolidating standalone cloud services into a single platform can help drive competitive edge by improving productivity, supporting employee efficiency, and by driving down user costs.

From sales, to finance, to talent management and more, customers need a deep understanding of their business in order to succeed – not just in one department, but across everything. With Dynamics 365, we have the unique ability to bring together data from virtually any source, whether it’s a Microsoft system or not and bring it into this connected digital feedback loop.
 

To continue leading digital transformation globally, Microsoft is transforming, adopting a Growth Mindset, rethinking its people processes and practices, and driving positive change across its diverse, multi-generational global workforce. In this session, customers will learn the top 10 takeaways we’ve learned about culture change, so they can directly or indirectly apply these insights to their own transformation efforts. The session will cover how Microsoft is evolving its culture to navigate the company’s own digital transformation in the context of overall digital economy and society.

Microsoft is committed as a company to making public health our first priority and doing what we can to address the economic and societal impact of COVID-19. We also recognize the vital role that our technology plays in supporting people and organizations each day, today and in the long term. This session provides an overview of topics that most immediately help our customers enable their workforce to work from home: Meetings, collaboration, virtual events & productivity with Teams & Office, Secure remote access  (Identity & access, endpoint management) and Desktop virtualization with Windows Virtual Desktop.

Since General Availability (GA) in March 2017, Microsoft Teams is now being used by more than 125k of our customers in 181 markets and 25 languages as the hub for teamwork within Microsoft 365. Easily create a team, chat in channels, 1:1 and in small groups, share files, conduct meetings and soon use as your enterprise voice system. This Executive Briefing session includes an introduction to Teams, live product demonstrations, and optional case studies. 

A modern data estate is crucial for digital transformation. This session covers the value of a modern data estate and factors organizations should consider as they modernize on-premises, modernize to Azure, or modernize their analytics. This session provides an overview of Azure data services at every stage of an organization’s data journey. You will find customer stories embedded throughout each scenario to provide relevant scenarios per industry.

This session provides an overview of Microsoft Azure AI and demonstrates Microsoft tools, services and infrastructure that can help make AI real for your organization whether you are looking to build AI apps and agents, unlock latent data with knowledge mining or develop your own AI models with Machine Learning.

In this session, you will learn how you can convert any kind of data into insights using BI & Reporting, Advanced Analytics and Real Time Analytics, depending on where you are in their data journey. It will help customers understand how they can build a modern data warehouse for all their structured and unstructured data to support current and future workloads and ensure concurrency without performance contention, enabling the flexibility and agility needed to adapt to evolving demands. The session will help customers understand the right path for their big data warehouse – and key use cases: BI & Reporting, Advanced Analytics & Real Time Analytics.

This session provides an overview of the Azure migration journey to move apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure. The session covers the range of migration strategies to migrate and modernize apps and what to expect after the migration. The session will highlight recommended process and tools to successfully migrate to Azure.

This session explores the economics of Azure solutions and articulates the potential customer value/benefits that customers can achieve from their Azure investments/initiatives

In this session you will learn how to take a cloud-centric approach to address traditional SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) challenges and modernize your security operations. Learn how Azure Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM, empowers organizations to be more secure and more productive, and the unique benefits Microsoft provides with built-in AI capabilities.  

This session provides an overview of Microsoft Azure AI and demonstrates Microsoft tools, services and infrastructure that can help make AI real for your organization whether you are looking to build AI apps and agents, unlock latent data with knowledge mining or develop your own AI models with Machine Learning.

This session covers a high-level overview of IoT and demonstrates how Microsoft is the industry leader in IoT and offers the best and most comprehensive portfolio to enable digital transformation. This session explains the complexities of IoT and how Microsoft is simplifying the approach to realizing the business benefits from IoT and how to get started on the journey, no matter where you are.

Discover Microsoft’s unique point of view on intelligent manufacturing and how we are enabling manufacturers to grow their business by focusing on four key topics – empowering their workforce, delivering new services, optimizing digital operations and reimagining the future of manufacturing focused on customer, employee, and social outcomes.

Business success increasingly depends on custom applications to power essential business processes and interact with customers, employees and partners. Developers are at the center of digital transformation. Unleashing the creative energy of development teams requires a deep focus on making developers more productive, fostering collaboration, and removing barriers to innovation. In this session, attendees will learn how the Azure cloud platform, best in class developer tools, GitHub and DevOps services integrate tightly to form a streamlined environment that enables developers to build next-generation applications and seamless digital experiences.

This session provides an overview of the technical capabilities of Microsoft Power Apps. Attendees will learn how Power Apps allows citizen and pro developers alike to enable low-code innovation in their organization and transform processes faster than ever before.

Microsoft Power Automate is an intelligent automation solution that brings together robotic process automation (RPA) and digital process automation (DPA) into a single cloud-based offering. It enables end users and developers alike to build workflows that automate highly repetitive, manual, time-consuming tasks. Power Automate enables automation across legacy, on-prem, and cloud apps and services, offering automation for your entire IT landscape.

Microsoft Executives share insights on Microsoft sales transformation journey as the company shifted from a licensed-based to a cloud consumption based core business. The core challenge was – how to increase velocity and scale of sales in a cloud world? They will highlight the AI technologies being used including Dynamics 365 Sales Insights which will revolutionize the way companies sell in a digital-first way.

Develop distinct brand identities and omnichannel customer experiences by combining new mobility services with existing automotive retail practices. Create omnichannel customer experiences, Differentiate with distinct brand identity and consumer experiences. Develop customer insights, transform marketing, sales and service activities with customer insights and mobility services

Learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales automates sales processes to better understand customer needs, engage more effectively, and win more deals, featuring a highly intuitive interface and deep LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Microsoft Office integrations, allowing customers to stay focused, win faster, and build trust.

This session will cover the SAP-Microsoft preferred cloud partnership, a joint initiative to give our customers a well-defined path to migrate their SAP landscape to the SAP certified infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Customer will learn how to optimize their SAP infrastructure on Any DB (HANA, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2) and how to use Azure Data Services to speed up business insights with SAP and non-SAP data. Finally, we’ll discuss how to use SAP Cloud Platform and Azure cloud services to drive even greater innovation for ongoing digital transformation.

This session covers a high-level overview of IoT and demonstrates how Microsoft is the industry leader in IoT and offers the best and most comprehensive portfolio to enable digital transformation. This session explains the complexities of IoT and how Microsoft is simplifying the approach to realizing the business benefits from IoT and how to get started on the journey, no matter where you are.

In this session, you’ll see first-hand how organizations use HoloLens 2, mobile devices, and tablets with Mixed Reality apps and solutions to empower a new dimension of work—transforming business operations, and providing solutions to help employees work smarter, more collaboratively, and more efficiently with information they can access in the context of their work. Learn what we are working on now, and in the future and help shape the next generation of computing. It's the culmination of breakthroughs in hardware design, artificial intelligence (AI), and mixed reality development from Microsoft, designed to help you lead your industry into the future—starting today.

As many CFOs face what could be the toughest test of their careers, critical topics around managing talent, rebuilding operations, forecasting and scenario planning, risk management and accelerating digital transformation will be top of mind as they navigate organizations beyond Covid-19. Hear what Microsoft believes will be top of CFO agendas as the world exits COVID and builds for the future.

Learn about the three core benefits of moving to cloud: economic benefits (shift from on-prem to a cloud architecture), financial benefits (reducing fixed costs), and IT business transformation benefits (increased productivity and business value).

COVID has the potential to accelerate the Future of Finance. Hear how PWC defines Future Finance, covering topics including using Advanced Analytics and Insights, the future Finance workforce, Process Excellence and Automation.

Microsoft’s own Finance team’s embrace of digital transformation: Four key areas of Finance that have been modernized, including Financial Analysis & Reporting, Strategy and Forecasting, Business Process Automation and Risk Management.

Innovation does not occur at once nor is it defined by a single decision, it is a journey, and it is important you choose a platform from a company who can bring years of first-hand experience in helping customers navigate this path. Microsoft runs many of the largest Software as a Service solutions on the planet and supporting customers with the same platform we run our solutions on is part of the ethos driven directly from our CEO. Let us help you define, build, and expand your business with the best of Microsoft.

For many customers, the business model is changing, and it requires new or different revenue streams to succeed. This discussion will encompass how companies are utilizing this new model to strengthen their current revenue streams and build new revenue streams for additional customer value. The content will be at a high level from a technical standpoint but will dive into several technical areas of which business leaders should be aware as they will be key to the products they drive. We’ll discuss how architecture decisions impact unit-economics, how to plan for the unexpected, how to control costs at scale, monetization of data, and many others key topics critical for companies on this journey.

Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help provide business and technical value to companies looking to build and scale cloud-native solutions through our direct Azure Engineering support for ISVs, our global teams of Cloud Solution Architects, and our worldwide Microsoft One Commercial Partner organization.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations helps enterprises increase the speed of doing business by enabling people to make smarter decisions with access to real-time insights and intelligence on nearly any device, anywhere. Business can design their processes faster so they can innovate and get quick time value, while also being flexible in scaling operations to meet their business needs.

Manage Financial Risk & Reduce Fraud enables organizations to optimize financial operations by predicting future cash flow trends and make data-driven decisions with AI-powered cash flow forecasting. Organizations are able to protect their revenue by minimizing loss in revenue due to payment fraud, associated operations costs and wrongful rejections with purchase protection capability. Further, it can help protect their business reputation and impact to revenue because of account creation/takeover fraud using account protection capability in an AI powered Fraud Protection solution. By proactively managing credit and collections, streamlining processes, and ensuring continued regulatory compliance, organizations can adapt quickly and reduce costs in the current business climate.

Build a Resilient Supply Chain enables organizations to adapt to disruptions successfully. It ensures business continuity during distress. It provides them end to end visibility of their supply chain to make data driven decisions as supposed to emotionally driven decisions on demand and supply in a crisis. Companies can return to normal and ramp up faster due to the agility in planning, sourcing and distribution processes driven by non-monolithic business solutions and de-risk from future disruptions. With a resilient supply chain, organizations are better equipped to generate positive cash flow by optimizing resources, stay profitable, retain market share, and remain competitive.

Microsoft Executives share insights on Microsoft sales transformation journey as the company shifted from a license-based to a cloud consumption-based core business. The core challenge was – how to increase velocity and scale of sales in a cloud world? They will highlight the AI technologies being used including Dynamics 365 Sales Insights which will revolutionize the way companies sell in a digital-first way.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing is a marketing automation solution that helps businesses turn prospects into business relationships. This is more suited for companies that want to expand beyond basic email marketing and need capabilities like multi-channel campaigns with personalized buyers’ journey, lead management, event management, and marketing insights. These growing businesses don’t need enterprise level marketing capabilities to run advertisements, global high-volume campaigns to more than 1M contacts, video marketing or need highly advanced analytics. Dynamics 365 for Marketing is built on the same platform as Dynamics 365 for Sales which helps connect sales and marketing with common information, connected business processes and Office 365 Collaboration. This helps businesses nurture more sales-ready leads, align sales and marketing, make smarter decisions and grow with an adaptable platform.

Successful organizations today must be proactive when assessing the current market opportunity and economic climate. Proactivity allows for decision makers to take advantage of key insights and forecasts to help anticipate customer needs and demand. The combination of Power BI and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights allows companies to take advantage of data unification, the ability to glean more from their data, and to gather intuitive insights.

Dynamics 365 Commerce provides a complete omni-channel solution that unifies back-office, in-store, and digital experiences to personalize customer engagement, increase employee productivity, optimize operations, and deliver better business outcomes. This topic provides an executive overview of the ecommerce solution that will provide an understanding of how the system is designed to work in an omni-channel manner with our headless commerce engine to provide dynamic and engaging ecommerce websites.

This session demos an “end-to-end” retail scenario showcasing the benefits of connected retail environment from HQ office to the store associates highlighting collaboration, 360 view, and assisted-selling tools. We will show how to digitally transform the workforce to increase communication, visibility, teamwork, manage inventory operations, clienteling and how to incentivize store associates to provide exceptional customer service. The demo demonstrates 1st party technologies across the three Microsoft clouds with focus on Teams/O365, Dynamics 365 for Retail, Finance and Operations, PowerApps, Azure AI, ML, IoT, Bot and PowerBI.

Successful organizations today must be proactive when assessing the current market opportunity and economic climate. Proactivity allows for decision makers to take advantage of key insights and forecasts to help anticipate customer needs and demand. The combination of Power BI and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights allows companies to take advantage of data unification, the ability to glean more from their data, and to gather intuitive insights.

The coronavirus has accelerated enduring trends, such as the growing reliance on sales technology, data insights, and building trusted virtual relationships. Based on LinkedIn’s recent ‘The State of Sales’ research, we will examine emerging trends driven by Covid, such as the move to digital selling, a preference for digital over traditional interactions by customers and the intent to ‘remain digital’ by many organisations once Covid has passed.

Senior Microsoft Executives will discuss how Microsoft has pivoted from a traditional salesforce to a virtual salesforce in its mid-market customer segment. Senior Executives will cover how Microsoft has developed Digital Sales from the ground up in three years using a combination of technology and change management to drive a high performing Sales culture.

As a result of its own Sales transformation, Microsoft is increasingly leveraging data insights and artificial intelligence to drastically change the way sellers use data-driven insights to understand and engage customers.
We will take a look into the technologies that Microsoft has built and provides to Sales teams to underpin a successful virtual sales engine as well as ‘Daily Recommender’, an AI-based tool which combines marketing and sales insights to enable sellers to prioritise customer conversations in ‘real time’

Hear from Senior Executives from our Data & AI business how Microsoft can support you on your data driven transformation. They are sharing their perspective on what they see as Top of Mind for CDO’s and how to think about leveraging data to drive the next evolution of your business.

Microsoft has undergone its own transformation, leveraging Data & AI to drastically change the way our sales force use datadriven insights to change the way we understand and engage our customers. We will share our efforts in this area, why we undertook this transformation, the technologies we deployed to make it possible and the outcomes this change benefitted the
way we do business.

Governance and Data Security is a key concern as we enrich and extend our data foot-print into the Cloud. Senior leaders from our WW Engineering team will share our perspective on how to navigate governance and security as you transform.

Microsoft’s own Finance team’s embrace of digital transformation: Four key areas of Finance that have been modernized, including Financial Analysis & Reporting, Strategy and Forecasting, Business Process Automation and Risk Management.

What’s top of mind for CHRO’s during this tumultuous time? COVID-19, remote working, industry changes all come together to make this the most challenging phases of any HR Leader’s career. Hear from Microsoft HR Leaders on how we have tackled this internally, the lessons learned and the tools we use to manage over 166,000 employees achieve more.

At a daily execution level how do HR Leaders help teams drive impact? What new innovations is Microsoft introducing to help employees thrive and maintain balance? Hear from senior HR business partners on their day to day as well as some new innovations coming to market.

Microsoft has transformed itself from a “know it all” to a “learn it all” organization, making learning a cornerstone of all we do. Talent development and hiring are increasingly viewed as equally viable paths to acquiring the skills required for your future workforce. In this session, we'll explore how learning and development teams around the world are re-skilling and upskilling their teams to fuel digital transformation and meet changing demands.