South Coast User Group - 6th Aug 2024

South Coast User Group - 6th Aug 2024

19:00 - 19:30 - Data Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Purview in Microsoft Teams, Chirag Patel, Microsoft MVP.

Microsoft is a powerful teamwork collaboration solution and retains your data forever. The challenge arises when you need to dispose your data and be in line with your compliance policies and regulatory frameworks, especially when your data is everywhere in chats & channel messages, emails, documents and recordings.

This session will focus on Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management with real world experience, ensuring you can successfully implement retention and records management with your organisation.

19:30 - 20:00 - Tech Intensity - how to enable an Organisation in the era of AI & technological innovation, William Dorrington, Microsoft MVP.

20:00 - 20:30 - Food/Drink

20:30 - 21:00 - Joining (and Staying in) the IT Industry: 9 Myths Deterring Women, Areti Iles.

How diverse is your IT team? The Tech Industry often carries misconceptions as to who it consists of with the stereotype being geeky introverts and mainly male.

But the reality really is quite different - the IT industry and particularly the world of Microsoft partners, the Microsoft Community and those working within Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform is diverse, global and full of individuals from different backgrounds and age groups.
And yet there are myths that deter women from joining (and staying) within the IT Industry when they really are not true at all. Join me as I share my own experiences and go through the 9 myths I've seen hold us back , why they shouldn't and what we can all do to dispel them.

21:00 - Close.