Understanding Office 365 (Modern) Groups

Featured Speaker: John P. White
John P White is the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of UnlimitedViz, the makers of tyGraph. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Guelph and has been a Microsoft SharePoint MVP since 2010. He has spent far too long (since 1990) in the Information Technology space, and possesses a skill set that spans both architecture and development. He has been instrumental in delivering projects and applications that have been recognized with both local and global awards from Microsoft and IBM.
John has accumulated a plethora of legacy technologies like Novell, Lotus Notes and Java. This experience has proven invaluable when architecting systems alongside legacy applications. Over the past decade, he has been focused on the Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence platforms and is a frequent speaker on these topics. He blogs as actively as possible at http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com. John lives in the country just outside of Guelph, Canada. He is the father of 3 boys, is an avid scuba diver, gardener, and photographer, both under and above the water (but mostly under). Samples of his work can be found at http://www.flickr.com/wpages.

Topic: Understanding Office 365 (Modern) Groups

Abstract:
One of the most important developments to have emerged in the Office 365 space in the last few years is Groups. The unfortunate thing is that Groups are probably one of the poorest understood things. Groups are central to the Office 365 experiencing, touching all of the core products in the stack - SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, Yammer, Planner and even Power BI. In some cases (Teams, Planner) Groups are essential for the use of these products. What is unclear is how users interact with Groups. Each of the products have different ways of interacting with them, and in some cases managing them, and they all have different mobile experiences as well. This session will break down exactly what Groups are, and go into detail on how the various products interact with them. There are a tremendous number of productivity gains to be had with groups, and this session will help you understand how to realize them.

Schedule:
6:00pm – Pizza and social
6:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
7:00pm – Feature Presentation
8:30pm – Prizes and closing