Events on Thomy Gölles

SharePoint Saturday Helsinki 2019

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:27:28 +0000

Last weekend Stephan and I had the pleasure to be part of this years SPS Helsinki. Another perfect run event by the local community represented by the two Jussis everyone doing SharePoint knows.

Here are our slides and a couple of pictures we took during our days in Finnland! A big thank you to all the helping hands organizing this event and to all the friends we had the opportunity to share time with. Yes, this also includes Jasper & Bunny ;)

SelectedTech Webinar 5 - Interview with Anna Chu about Ignite 2019

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:05:58 +0000

The SelectedTech Webinar 005 is a special episode. We got a chance to catch up with Anna Chu from Microsoft. We talked about the upcoming Ignite conference and why you should be in Orlando in November.

At Ignite you learn innovative ways to build solutions and migrate and manage your infrastructure. Connect with over 25,000 individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT. Explore new hands-on experiences that will help you innovate in areas such as security, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure and development.

SelectedTech Webinar 4 - QnA Maker Postman Collection

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:27:35 +0000

The SelectedTech Webinar 004 is about how to use Postman to talk to the QnA maker API. Postman streamlines the development process and captures a single source of truth about your APIs while also simplifying collaboration across your teams and organisations.

QnA Maker is a cloud-based API service that creates a conversational, question and answer layer over your data. QnA Maker enables you to create a knowledge-base(KB) from your semi-structured content such as Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) URLs, product manuals, support documents and custom questions and answers. The QnA Maker service answers your users’ natural language questions by matching it with the best possible answer from the QnAs in your Knowledge base.

Thrive Konferenz 3.-5. Dezember 2018, Ljubljana

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:08:14 +0000

Anfang Dezember ist es wieder so weit und die Thrive Konferenz öffnet ihre Pforten. Seit Jahren schon schafft es das Organisationsteam nicht nur eine exztellente Konferenz zu organisieren sondern auch ein unfassbar spektakuläres Speaker LineUp nach Slowenien zu bekommen. Den Startpunkt setzt ein Workshop Tag der je nach Thema gewählt werden kann:

Gorana Konevska Jankoska: Enable your Teams Collab Space from dreams

More info
John P White: Everything You Wanted to Know About Power BI (But Were Afraid To Ask)

SharePoint Saturday Warsaw 2018

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:50:04 +0000

Last weekend Stephan (cloudguy.pro) and I had the pleasure to present at SharePoint Saturday Warsaw. The local crew around Edyta managed to get one of the best locations ever. The whole event took place in the local football stadium of Legia Warsaw. Our session was in their press conference room where on a regular day the coach or the players answer questions from the press. [ngg_images source=“galleries” container_ids=“2” display_type=“photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=“0” thumbnail_width=“240” thumbnail_height=“160” thumbnail_crop=“1” images_per_page=“6” number_of_columns=“3” ajax_pagination=“1” show_all_in_lightbox=“0” use_imagebrowser_effect=“0” show_slideshow_link=“1” slideshow_link_text="[Show slideshow]" order_by=“sortorder” order_direction=“ASC” returns=“included” maximum_entity_count=“500”] In our session, we once again showcased how AI in the modern workplace can help in creating an engaging environment for users. In addition to the end user value, we also focus on how a creative idea can be used to learn new things in the fields of Office365 or Azure in a natural way. Our use case of the food truck monitor probably will never be sold to a customer, but you can imagine how much we learned about the technology included during the setup of the demo. Since a few weeks, we try to record all our sessions on video (Go check out our Youtube channel). If you are interested, start watching, for those with a smaller time budget the slides are also available here.

SharePoint Saturday Madrid 2018

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:54:19 +0000

Next weekend, next SharePoint Saturday. This time we had the pleasure to enjoy some days in Madrid. On Friday before the official SPS start, Stephan (cloudguy.pro) and I visited the home of Real Madrid and the tour inside the stadium. You may or may not like the club, but you must respect them for their success over decades. For us football nerds an impressive tour with lots of small details in such a professional environment. In Spain, there is always a speaker activity on Friday before the event. Last year I learned how to handle a Segway in the crowded city centre of Madrid or enjoyed a couple of laps at a cart race in Barcelona. But what Juan Carlos and the crew pulled off for this year was just mind-blowing. Maybe influenced by the recent announcement of SharePoint Spheres and its virtual reality they booked us a slot at Zero Latency. They offer a virtual zombie hunt for a group of people. Can you imagine? A group of SharePoint nerds with guns in their hands out in the VR to defend the base against attacking zombies. We had a lot of fun and once again a certain Finn proofed resourceful with his broad skill set. [ngg_images source=“galleries” container_ids=“3” display_type=“photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=“0” thumbnail_width=“240” thumbnail_height=“160” thumbnail_crop=“1” images_per_page=“20” number_of_columns=“0” ajax_pagination=“0” show_all_in_lightbox=“0” use_imagebrowser_effect=“0” show_slideshow_link=“1” slideshow_link_text="[Show slideshow]" order_by=“sortorder” order_direction=“ASC” returns=“included” maximum_entity_count=“500”] The sessions were recorded and are available on Youtube -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWdwEW5bKLhrfBdYbS_0C-w/videos Here our talk: And our slides:

SharePoint Saturday Zurich 2018

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 16:52:05 +0000

Last Saturday we (Stephan Bisser and myself) had the pleasure to be part of SharePoint Saturday Zurich. Jussi Mori, Samuel Zürcher and Stefano Tempesta did a great job in organizing once more an epic event packed with the latest and greatest on SharePoint, Office365 and the relating Azure areas. In his keynote, Vesa Juvonen from Microsoft took us on a brief journey through the history of SharePoint. The screenshots from the portal landing pages of version 2007 and 2010 took some of us in the audience way back in time. Somehow later in the day or to be more precise in the evening, some of the speakers realized how long they have been around SharePoint and what conclusion can be drawn out from this fact. Sorry Maarten & Vesa ;) Stephan and I showed our 21st-century lunch bell with a live demo in Zurich. The lunch bell recognizes a special food truck daily at our driveway and notifies our users in Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business. As we use Cognitive Services for our system with pictures of our office back home it’s actually not that easy to demo the system on the go. To still be able to show the features of Azure we decided to make a mobile version. This means during the session we are trying to detect this little food truck: In terms of preparing the demo, we need to take sample pictures in the actual room of the session to train the model. That means instead of lunch break Stephan and I took the opportunity to take around 60 images of the table on the main stage to later on demo the system within the environment. This type of demo is always special and time intensive to prepare, but when the deadline gets closer and closer the fun starts, right? Thanks again to the super hero organizer of the event, you did an awesome job and we are already looking forward to next year!

Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2018

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:13:35 +0000

Today I had the pleasure of co-presenting with my Colleague Stephan at the Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland in Zürich. As there has been a recent addition to Stephan’s family he wasn’t able to come to Zürich this time, but in today’s world you just take a tiny Jabra USB speaker on the go and ready is the remote presenting interface in Skype for Business. This post is a little follow up on the session, sharing some background links. Also, there were some questions afterwards and instead of writing different emails in private, I decided to blog about it and just share the link. Bringing the spirit of “sharing is caring” from SharePoint / Office Dev Patterns and Practices to the Azure community, right? The session was about Stephan’s project called “Homie” – A language understanding bot for smart homes. We talked about how you can use a chatbot based on the Microsoft Bot Framework and LUIS and wire it up to use AzureIoT Hub for communication with a RaspberryPi. The idea is that you tell the chatbot to turn the lights on or off in a given room. The bot uses LUIS to identify your intent, recognises commands and objects and triggers a command flow in AzureIoT Hub. From there it’s only a small step to actually get the command to the RaspberryPi and switch on the lights on our demo led module. The whole setup looked something like this: This was our test run before the session. And here the working system: Everything turned out good, the demo gods were kind and even the remote setup was flawless. As there were some questions afterwards, I just do a little list of links here pointing to different articles for further reading: A comparison of the different cognitive services out there Tech Showcase: Custom Vision Service Computer vision made easy: From pre-trained models to Custom Vision, Microsoft Cognitive Services ha Custom Vision from Cognitive Services: easily build a custom image classifier Building image classification using the Microsoft AI platform - BRK3334 <– The one with the background info on machine learning Sonya Koptyev’s tweet on what demos to expect from Build on AI (drones!!!11!!) A complete guide on the solution on Stephans’ blog and a German version here Azure Sphere announcement from April 16th, 2018 Jeremy Thake’s post on the chatbots and how they don’t replace apps And of course our slides: Big thanks and kudos to the Azure Zürich User Group for setting this up and let’s hope for more events in the future.

North American Collaboration Summit March 2-3, 2018

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:34:56 +0000

The North American Collaboration Summit (NACS), also known by its hashtag #collabsummit, and formerly known as SharePointalooza, is a premium community-driven conference in Branson, Missouri in 2018 with a focus on Microsoft’s products Office 365 and SharePoint. Its aim is to bring together business and technology in order to help delegates make sound decisions in the rapidly changing world of digital transformation. NACS is a two-day community event, based on the traditions of SharePoint Saturday Ozarks, SharePoint and our sister conference the European Collaboration Summit. World-leading experts and speakers will deliver a range of “what is new” and “best practices” sessions for these technologies. NACS 2018 will focus on all topics based on Microsoft’s collaboration products stack, such as Office 365 cloud platforms, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype for Business and Project (both in the cloud and on-premises), and cloud-only services such as Microsoft Teams, PowerApps, Logic Apps, Flow, Planner, and Yammer. These products and services will be approached from all sides: business, organizational, and technical. We will see a range of planning, adoption and strategy sessions focused on deciders and business users, as well as deep-dive technology sessions focused on administrators and developers. Please take a look at the list of focus topics. As part of a journey combining a business trip to Canada and attending the MVP Summit later in March in Seattle, I’m honoured to be part of the amazing speaker line up von NACS. My session is called “OFFICE 365, AZURE AND A RASPBERRY PI: A 21ST CENTURY LUNCH BELL” and combines the work I’ve done over the last 10 months in the fields of custom vision API, Microsoft Teams and some minor IoT related work and is based on the project posted here: http://www.modernworkplacesolutions.rocks/raspberry-pi-cognitive-services-microsoft-teams-how-a-pi-informs-us-about-lunch/ The hardest part this time is the demo part. Based on the time difference a live view of the system isn’t possible. It’s already dark back home by the time my session starts. This means we had to come up with some ideas for a travel setup. As my colleague Stephan Bisser and myself are very happy about being picked at other conferences as well, we decided it’s time to create a mobile-ready demo environment. Here a sneak preview of what to expect: And a short video:

1#SPS Vienna, Office365 Meetups Graz & Wien

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:23:28 +0000

On the 11.11.2017 the first SharePoint Saturday will happen at the Microsoft Headquarters in Vienna. I’m pretty excited to announce that the registration is now open. To see the lineup and program, you will find a complete listing of the sessions on our home page. To keep up-to-date you can follow our twitter account (@spsvie) or join our Facebook Page. Join our first SharePoint Saturday in Vienna and I hope to see you in November! Also on this day at the SharePoint Saturday Vienna we will kick off the Office365 Meetup Wien: https://www.meetup.com/Office365-Wien-Meetup/ Office365 Meetup Wien will join forces with Office365 Meetup Graz. With that, the two biggest cities in Austria have their very own Office365 User Group The next meetup in Graz will take place on Octobesr 19th and will be around all news from Ignite and Homie, the language understanding bot by Stephan Bisser.

European Collaboration Summit 2017

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:20:05 +0000

The last couple of days a group of eleven Solvion team members had the chance to attend this year European Collaboration Summit in Zagreb. Like in the last years the speaker line up was superb. We even got a chance of a full day pre-conference workshop with awesome speakers. Of course, out of over 60 speakers, it is really hard and sort of unfair to pick and choose, but just based on the discussions we had on our way back home, that would be our list of speakers with the sessions that mattered the most. So shout out to: Paolo Pialorsi, Dan Holme, Bill Ayers, Eric Schupps, Sahil Malik, Waldek Mastykarz, Vesa Juvonen, Spencer Harbar, Mark Rackley, Benjamin Niaulin, Sebastian Levert, Marc D Anderson, Jussi Mori. This list does not reflect any scoring, just out of memory and some notes I took. Thanks again to the ECS team for organising such a great event and see you all again next year in Mainz! [ngg_images source=“galleries” container_ids=“1” display_type=“photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=“0” thumbnail_width=“240” thumbnail_height=“160” thumbnail_crop=“1” images_per_page=“20” number_of_columns=“0” ajax_pagination=“0” show_all_in_lightbox=“0” use_imagebrowser_effect=“0” show_slideshow_link=“1” slideshow_link_text="[Show slideshow]" order_by=“sortorder” order_direction=“ASC” returns=“included” maximum_entity_count=“500”]

SharePoint Saturday Madrid 2017

Tue, 16 May 2017 07:34:10 +0000

SharePoint administrators, end users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies will meet for the 2 nd SharePoint Saturday Madrid event on May 20th 201 7 at Microsoft Ibérica headquarters and I’m more than happy to join them. I’m looking forward meeting the Spanish community and I’m pretty sure SharePoint and Office365 will give us something to talk about. In my session, I will talk about what the PnP, the SharePoint Patterns and Practices initiative, has done to make all our lives easier. Of course, one hour just covers the basics, but we all need to start somewhere. If you interested in what is going on next Saturday make sure to follow @sps_mad and#spsmad.

Event News: SharePoint Konferenz München, SPS Zürich, SPS Vienna

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:54:50 +0000

Today I’m very proud to announce some event news for the upcoming weeks and also for later this year. In around two weeks I will be part of the SharePoint Konferenz 2017 in Munich. My two sessions are about the current state of the intranet with Office365 and the second about Staffhub. I’m looking forward to spent some time with all the local SharePoint peeps and also plan to connect at the Global Azure Bootcamp that is held on the weekend right before the event. Second, in terms of news, I’m proud to be part of SharePoint Saturday Zürich 2017. The conference takes place on May 13 and I will talk about how to connect SharePoint to public forms with Angular and AzureFunctions. Last but not least I’m super excited about our first SharePoint Saturday Vienna 2017 that got announced earlier this week. On November 11 we will open the doors at the Microsoft office in Vienna and welcome the local crowd of SharePoint and Office365 people. In terms of the team behind the event, I’m more than happy to join the creative and vibrant group that Melanie Culver, Stefan Bauer and Florian Lutz are. We have thought of this for some time now and decided that 2017 is the right year to put Vienna on the map of the SharePoint Saturday event series. This is also part of a greater plan to re-engage the local Austrian SharePoint and Office365 user group scene. There will be additional Meetups through the year in Vienna and Graz organised by the same team. So stay tuned, more to come!