Jan 28 2026, 9AM
Activate 365: The SharePoint intelligence summit
Every organization has Microsoft 365 licenses. Few are using them to their full potential. Join us for three focused sessions showing how to turn SharePoint and Outlook into engines for compliance, productivity and competitive advantage, building on the infrastructure you already have.
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From infrastructure to intelligence
Speaker: Dominic Kent, Independent Microsoft and collaboration consultant
Microsoft's Ignite announcements made one thing clear: the future of work is built on SharePoint as the home for your content and collaboration, supported by a new wave of SharePoint agents and intelligent services. But while Microsoft provides the infrastructure and the foundation, most organizations still struggle to turn these capabilities into meaningful, operational outcomes.
This keynote explores the shift from simply deploying Microsoft 365 to optimising it - transforming governance, compliance and productivity from reactive processes into proactive, intelligent workflows. We'll demystify what the new SharePoint agents can and can't do, highlight where their automation ends and show why organizations still need an intelligence layer to make Microsoft's vision a reality in their environment.
Beyond the inbox: transforming email into organizational knowledge
Duration: 45 minutes
Speaker: Cam Thrower, Email Management Team Lead, Ideagen
Every day, critical business information disappears into email inboxes. Project decisions, client approvals, compliance documentation and institutional knowledge remain trapped where no one else can find them. This 45-minute session reveals how organizations of all sizes are transforming their biggest information silo into a searchable, shareable knowledge asset within their Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Discover why email chaos is costing your organization time, money and critical knowledge, with teams losing hours weekly to email searches while compliance gaps and project delays multiply in disconnected inboxes. Learn practical strategies for connecting Outlook to SharePoint, creating a single source of truth that makes every email an organizational asset rather than a personal filing cabinet.
Key takeaways:
- Calculate your email inefficiency cost: Discover how email chaos wastes hours of productivity weekly and creates compliance gaps that put your business at risk.
- Transform email into searchable knowledge: Connect Outlook to SharePoint to turn trapped emails into findable records without changing how teams work.
- Achieve ROI in 30 days: See real examples of dramatic reductions in search time and seamless project handovers through simple integration
Are you a Project Managers struggling with email overload and project documentation? Work in a legal team needing to preserve and discover email records? Or an IT department solving organization-wide email management challenges? Then this session could be for you.
Struggling with email overload and project documentation?
Compliance by design: Building the governance layer SharePoint needs
Duration: 45 minutes
SharePoint has untapped compliance capabilities - but they need intelligent activation. Discover how to transform your existing Microsoft 365 infrastructure into a proactive compliance command center with purpose-built governance tools. This 45-minute session reveals why having SharePoint's foundation isn't enough and how the right intelligence layer turns potential into performance.
Learn why 80% of SharePoint's compliance-related features remain unused in most organizations, not because they don't exist, but because they lack the workflows, automation and intelligence to make them operational. See how leading organizations are building comprehensive compliance programs within their familiar SharePoint environment, achieving enterprise-grade governance without the complexity and cost of standalone platforms.
Key takeaways:
- The 80/20 compliance reality: Understand why most SharePoint compliance features sit dormant and how intelligent tools activate them for policy management, contract lifecycle and incident tracking.
- From features to functioning system: Learn the critical difference between having compliance capabilities and having a compliance program that actually works at scale.
- 45-day transformation roadmap: See real examples of organizations achieving enterprise compliance within SharePoint in weeks using purpose-built governance layers.
Are you a Chief Compliance Officer seeking to reduce compliance costs by 50%, or a SharePoint Administrator maximizing your platform value and ROI? Then this is a session you can not miss.
Looking to reduce compliance costs by up to 50%?
The connected workplace: Breaking down Microsoft 365 silos
Duration: 45 minutes
Speaker: Patrick Gibson, Productivity Apps Director, Ideagen
Stop losing productivity to app-switching. Start working smarter.
Your organization has invested in Microsoft 365, but are your teams really using it as an integrated platform, or just juggling a collection of disconnected apps?
Join us for this session exploring how forward-thinking organizations are eliminating the 'context-switching tax' that drains productivity every time employees jump between SharePoint, Outlook, Teams and their desktop applications. After all, the companies that are actually using 365 as an integrated platform as intended have the competitive edge.
Key takeaways:
- Quantify the hidden cost of application silos and discover why seamless integration is now a competitive advantage.
- Practical strategies for embedding SharePoint functionality directly into your team's daily workflows - regardless of where they work.
- Real-world approaches to creating unified experiences that meet users in Teams, Outlook and at their desktop.
- The business case for workplace consolidation - reducing app fatigue, improving adoption rates and maximising your 365 ROI.
If you are an IT Director responsible for your technology strategy and ROI, a Business Process Owner looking to streamlining departmental workflows or a SharePoint Administrator seeking better user engagement, then this is your ticket to success.
Want to increase adoption & user experience with Microsoft 365?
Ready to get more from Microsoft 365?
Register now to join compliance and productivity leaders on January 28th. Three sessions. Practical strategies. Immediate takeaways.