Scottish Summit 2020 Sessions

"Kubernetify" your Containers

We have all now had a play around with Docker and Containers or at least heard about them. This demo heavy session will walk through some of the challenges around managing container environments...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

3 simple solutions to use in any organisation to increase the user adoption for Dynamics.

All examples are documentet on blog, and give a step by step walktrough how to perform 1. Integration of free data provider with Flow Sub task: Cleaning of data regular basis with Flow 2. Power...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

3 ways to bring Power BI under Source Control

People love creating content in Power BI but how do we track changes or backup all these new reports? We’ll look at 3 different ways to bring your reports under source control and how to automate t...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

30% tech v 70% PEOPLE = Success of your project

In must technology projects the makeup of success is 70% people - That covers things like : organisation culture, process change, stakeholder engagement, everyone's personal change journeys, resist...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Accessibility in M365 - A Whistlestop Tour

Moving to Microsoft 365 delivers significant productivity and capability benefits to workforces, and provides them with technology which can truly transform and modernise their ways of working. How...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

AI Builder Deep dive

AI Builder is here! The Citizen Developer style tool to easily add Artificial Intelligence to your PowerApps and Flows. In this session we will take a deep dive into this great new tool in the ...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Am I An Imposter

A Session talking about Imposter Syndrome and how to battle it
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Applying DevOps practices to Machine Learning

DevOps practices range from continuous integration to continuous delivery from ensuring production is always online or easy to rollback to measuring all the things, from ensuring code and knowledge...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Automate Security Policy Compliance in Azure

Automate Security Policy Compliance in Azure
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Automation in the cloud using Terraform

Automation of Azure deployments using Terraform (and why it's easier to use over ARM) along with enabling multi-cloud deployments
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Azure and Dynamics and AI, Oh My!

“You have plenty of courage, I am sure. All you need is confidence in yourself.” How to harness the power of AI using Dynamics 365 and Azure.
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Azure DevOps for the IT Pro

Azure DevOps is a great tool for software development processes and deployment. But what about the IT Pro? Azure DevOps has been developed into a product that can provide great use for teams of IT ...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Azure machine learning for the absolute beginner

Machine learning is one of the hottest trends on the market. According to the popular belief, machine learning will help you do everything from water your plants to running your multi-million dolla...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Azure SQL Datawarehouse - The complete introduction

Azure SQL Datawarehouse is not really the standard SQL Server that you could point your existing SSIS packages and reporting queries at and expect the same behaviour and performance. So why is tha...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Azure Stack Masterclass : Answering the What, Why, and How?

Azure Stack is marketed as an extension of Azure, but what does that mean? Why would you want to implement Azure Stack? Once you know the answers to these questions, there's still a huge one left t...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Being Active In The Community

Interested in blogging? Want to know how to get set up and start interacting on social media? Keen to begin presenting at events? Business Applications MVP, Megan Walker, will talk you through t...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Better Integration between D365 and SharePoint using Power Automate

In this session I will demonstrate how we can improve upon the out of the box integration between Dynamics 365 and SharePoint by using Power Automate to enable better site creation, synchronise per...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Boost user experience in your business processes with Adaptive Cards

Cards are in Office 365 for some time already. Originally created as Message Cards after some time rebuilt from nearly a scratch to become Adaptive Cards. Today they can be used in Microsoft Teams ...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Build your own Azure Monitor solution

With Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, Microsoft provides a platform service for processing large to very large amounts of data. The compute power and visualization are also part of this service. ...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Building a bullet proof Office 365 environment

During the last two years, we have witnessed the rising number of compromised Office 365 accounts due to lost credentials. These could have been prevented not only by rising security awareness but ...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Building the Perfect Microsoft 365 Tenant

Microsoft 365 has come a long way with tons of productivity apps and tools and enticing features to help businesses stay ahead of their competitors with two-speed IT providers. There is a lot of in...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Chris' Secret Session

You'll find out
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:30

Cloud ETL with Azure Data Factory & Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

In today’s fast-moving cloud world, it can be difficult sometimes to evaluate new solutions on the marketplace that can satisfy Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) scenarios or data integration needs...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Connect to the Microsoft Graph from a SharePoint Framework solution

After this session, an attendee will be able to utilize the SharePoint Framework to securely connect to Microsoft Graph. The attendee will learn how to call the Microsoft Graph using out-of-the-box...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Connectors - the nerves of the Power Platform

In the world where Power Platform is a living organism, connectors most certainly represent the nervous system. They carry the signals, they carry the data. They are the glue that brings all Power ...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Control your Teams noise: regain your focus

Teams can create a lots of notifications and alerts when it is in active use inside a organisation. Join my session to learn how to keep it under your control and what can you do about it and how t...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Data quality doesn't have to be difficult.

Data8 are industry leaders in data quality and have a wide range of tools across the Power Platform and within Dynamics to help you improve the quality of your data. Join Data8 as they show how to ...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Deep Space in Power Platform - exploring integration possibilities with open API's

How to make use of the integration possibilities within the Power Platform in order to find out more about space. Get ready for a session filled with demos and new insights for data integration.
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Demonstrating the 'One Microsoft Vision' with D365 Business Central

An opportunity to understand how Dynamics 365 Business Central can connect with Office 365 to create a 'One Microsoft Vision'. Learn how the Business Central capabilities can be further enhanced by...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Developing XrmToolbox Plugins

Build a new XrmToolbox plugin from scratch: Implementing the base plugin interfaces, designing your user control, testing, and sharing with the world through NuGet.
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Dynamic 365 Certification

Update of exams and certification for Dynamics 365. Resources for learning and tips for taking Dynamics exams. Why you should get certified
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Dynamics Pub Quiz

Andrew will bring his unique Pub Quiz to Scotland for the post event party
  • Sat 18:00 - 20:00

Exploiting Artificial Intelligence within Power BI

Artificial Intelligence is dominating the world and not most of them had any chance to experience these features, due to various complicated reasons. How about if this can be made very easy and to ...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Field Service - Understanding the Business

Understand how the business of Field Service is changing and how to meet the needs of our clients in a increasingly complex environment.
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Finally! Proactive Performance Monitoring for Dynamics FinOps

Probably the most important session you will attend if you have ever been asked the question “Why is Dynamics slow again today?”. I’m not even going to ask if you love LCS, because I already know t...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

FLOW: Patterns to Accelerate Automation

A dive into Power Automate patterns to help any business accelerate automation deployment by citizen developers.
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

GER - The MSDyn365FO Swiss Army Knife

In this session, I will demonstrate the versatility of GER (General Electronic Reporting) and demonstrate how it can solve multiple problems that previously required customizations. Participants w...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Heathrow PowerApps Framework

How is Heathrow using PowerApps how we are empowering others to do the same. Created a framework and Governance to visualise how many apps are being created. The aim is that to empower everyone but...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

How customer experience is enhanced using CTI inside Dynamics 365 CE

Join Jon for a session which outlines how to provide meaningful customer service…effortlessly. By considering new ways of serving customers and enabling employees through technology, your business ...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

How Microsoft Teams will bring SharePoint back to life

Having a hard time increasing user adoption of your SharePoint Intranet? Microsoft Teams will help you promote collaboration and teamwork while leveraging the use of SharePoint. Smooth the modern...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

How to hack (and secure) serverless apps on Azure

Serverless Applications give you a head start from a security perspective, as the cloud provider takes care of more of the stack than ever before. However, it's not all in the cloud providers hands...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

How to spot Agile BS!

There are soo many branded agile frameworks, methodologies, and white papers it's hard to really understand what is and is not agile. The reality is that while 81% of all development shops say that...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

HR killed Talent!

Dynamics 365 Talent is now dead. Dynamics 365 Human Resources is the new HR solution from Microsoft. You probably have questions, I'll answer them in this session. This session will go through: ...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Inclusion by Design

Technology is a tool for all people. That's why Microsoft's products are built to empower everyone, everywhere. Office 365 is accessible by design to help people and organisations be more product...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Integrate Power Platform with SharePoint : an end-to-end real life scenario

In this session we will demonstrate how we can use the Power Platform (Power BI, Flow, PowerApps) to build a complete business solution with data store on SharePoint lists. We will use as exampl...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Integrating Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations with CDS to create accelerators through Canvas App

In this session we will go into full beast mode and build an accelerator; creating integrations between F&O and the CDS (customer entities, views, duplication settings the lot, integrations the cor...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Introduction to the Omni Channel Engagement Hub

This session will provide: - An overview (and demo) of the omni channel engagement hub including - live chat and sms features - cds and flow - supervisor experience - reporting feature...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

It’s not about tools, stupid! – Digitalisation offline

There are hundreds of pieces of advice on how to be innovative as a company, prepare for the future, become more agile, leaner and faster. With Microsoft's Office 365 approach and what is often ref...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Lessons From The API Management Trenches

Azure API Management has a lot of functionality, but it's not always clear when to use what. In this session we will go into setting up an API Management architecture, inspired by real life use cas...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Let's Build a Responsive Canvas App!

Long gone are the days of creating device specific apps. Even Canvas Apps can be created with a "build once, deploy everywhere" approach. This is a demo filled session with lots of live coding (I ...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

ListView CommandSet, the unsung hero of SPFx

Demo heavy deep dive session into using ListView CommandSets in your SPFx solutions using my experience from a number of real world implementations. Topics covered will include - Building your ...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Managing and Marketing Scottish Summit using ClickDimensions?

In this session we will explore how the ClickDimensions platform was used to market and manage the Scottish Summit 2020 Event! We’ll look a how we kept speakers organized using Forms and Charts to ...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Managing Power Apps and Power Automate at scale

Learn how administrators and IT-Pros can manage the enterprise adoption of Power Apps and Power Automate. Discover the features, tools and practices to monitor, protect and support your organizatio...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Mental Health - Work Life Balance

Understanding that when it’s ok not to be ok how do we cope. Moses explains simple methods to add fun and enjoyment back to your life
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Microsoft Store Runs on Microsoft

Microsoft Store's ability to create amazing customer experiences and to evolve our employee culture are enabled by Microsoft technology. In this session, we will share the 10 year digital transfor...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Microsoft Teams and Power Automate are Rocking on stage!

Microsoft Teams is growing fast and he decided to meet Power Automate and ask for some help. Power Automate is helpful to everyone and is always open and free to help each other’s, no matter what t...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Mixed Reality - Extending D365 on the next frontier

Mixed Reality facilitates a handsfree way to provide information in 3D context of the workplace. Further, Microsoft and the Power Platform provide a truly unique way to empower 80% of “firstline wo...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Modernise and scale your SharePoint event handling with Webhooks

This session will give developers an overview of why you may want to consider implementing web hooks instead of alternatives like Flow, the pros and cons of different approaches, a deep dive into t...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Non-Standard Use Cases for Power Platform

Measuring non-financial performance indicators by customising the Power Platform; leveraging Flow, PowerApps and Power BI. Use cases from Charity, 3rd Sector and at Home
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Participant 2 Presenter - Our First Talk, How to Prep for Your First Talk

A discussion exploring the journey of being a "novice" in a profession and setting a personal goal to lead a session to inform and educate peers that if I can do it anyone in the room can too also ...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

PCF = Web resources v2.0?

Professional developers finally got the right tool to do the frontend magic on the platform. Since the day one of the preview release it made a huge impact on the Dynamics developer community which...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Personalise your marketing with D365 Marketing

Successful marketing is now very focused on adding that personal touch to everything you do with regards to your customers. Generic messaging will not cut it anymore when it comes to your customers...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Power BI Dataflows? Why you need to implement it!

Not so long ago, Power BI Dataflows have been added to the Power BI landscape. It is showing great promise, as they have the potential of becoming key in every (large) implementation of a Power BI ...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Power Query in Flow

In September 2018 Microsoft introduced the Power Query Online integration for Microsoft Flow. This opens up the possibility of transforming and shaping data within Flow without having to understand...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Power Virtual Agent– Talk to the Bot 'cos the face ain't listening!

Power Virtual Agent– Talk to the Bot 'cos the face ain't listening!
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

PowerApps for the People

A technical session to look at how IT Pros and End Users can use PowerApps to help increase efficiency. Looking at real world examples of PowerApps (SharePoint site automation with PowerApps and Az...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

PowerPlatform and Azure Functions a match made in Azure Heaven

Are you having performance issues in your PowerPlatform/Dynamics 365 instance? Long running plugins and/or custom workflow activities? Have you embraced PowerApps and are wondering how to reuse you...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

PowerPlatform and Azure Functions a match made in Azure Heaven

Are you having performance issues in your PowerPlatform/Dynamics 365 instance? Long running plugins and/or custom workflow activities? Have you embraced PowerApps and are wondering how to reuse you...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Presenting yourself to potential employers

How to improve your current situation, or how to brush up your CV how to perform well at interviews and get the offer you want.
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Real Case Scenario Implementation - Build your own Office 365 PDF Generator with Microsoft Flow , Po

Office 365 is indeed a powerful cloud-based collaboration platform with ready to use productive services. Driven by the Azure ever-expanding set of cloud services we can easily meet business challe...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Replacing plugins using the Power Platform

The Power Platform is a powerful tool. Learn how it can be used to reduce your technical debt, increase productivity and extend your functionality in Dynamics 365 Customer engagement. This sessi...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

SharePoint and Azure Information Protection

Azure Information Protection is Microsoft's solution for classifying and protecting documents, regardless of their location. As many documents are stored in SharePoint (either on-premise or Online)...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

Should you be a storyteller?

This session is from a 'talks' addict. In my career I've attended hundreds of sessions: technical and otherwise. This session shares ideas on what makes some speakers more engaging than others. Fro...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Soft Skills for Success

We developers spend a lot of time developing our computer / programming / data skills. These skills are only part of what developers need to be successful. In this session I would like to talk abo...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Star Trek: A journey into the future of Web Parts

When we think of technological processes that provide intellectual devices to machines, we usually think of Artificial Intelligence. In short, the ability of machines to "think for themselves" and ...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

Start your datacentre transformation journey with Azure Migrate

Have you ever wondered what your environment would look like in the Cloud? How much would it cost? What would be the migration path? With Azure Migrate you and start to answer those questions. T...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Storytelling & interactive reports with Power BI Bookmarks & Drillthrough

How to make sure that the end-user of your Power BI report understands the information well? There is way more involved in presenting your data then only a chart. Think about interaction, presentin...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Super Charge your learning of Azure

Are you looking to get started learning Azure and not sure where to begin, join me as I take you on a journey of how to get moving with learning Azure, I'll cover how to get started and also dive i...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

Ten Best Practices for No-Code / Low-Code Development on Power Platform

It's time that we create some best practices for developing on the Power Platform! This session overviews some of the current favorites picked up from colleagues and experts around the world. Where...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

The Accidental SharePoint Online Administrator

Should you use PowerShell to help you administer SharePoint Online? YES - In this session, Penny will introduce how to use Windows PowerShell. This session targets SharePoint Online administrators ...
  • Sat 12:00 - 12:45

The Channel Integration Framework - Power Up Your Communications

Solgari CTO, Vance Harris, will walk you through the many benefits of using the Channel Integration Framework inside Dynamics 365 to deliver a truly integrated & all-channel communications experien...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

The Diary of a CRM migration

Moving from Dynamics CRM 2011 to Dynamics 365 through the diary of a "fictional" consultant. A humorous look at the planning, processes, activity, and pitfalls of the whole process - but with some...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

The new Project for the web and how to extend it

The new Project is here! Experience firsthand what the new Project is, what it looks and feels like and how projects are run with it. Built on the Power Platform's Common Data Service, the new Proj...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

The Power of Project Accounting in D365 Finance

Take a deep dive into the Project Management and Accounting module of D365 Finance and how versatile the module is to not only support your financial reporting needs but also operational tasks, inc...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Things I've learned while building a product on SharePoint Modern

Building a product is an awesome thing to do. You can look at it as a never-ending project. Each day, you try to make the product better, implement new features and functionality, but that comes wi...
  • Sat 10:00 - 10:45

This is more than just technology...

The Power Platform is more than just a technology platform... It is a platform that is truly changing how people are doing business, and more importantly though, its changing peoples lives... C...
  • Sat 09:00 - 09:55

To Code or not to Code - That is the Question

The low-code no-code revolution is taking the world of the PowerPlatform by storm. Implementing functionality without writing code is reducing the total cost of ownership but where does that leave ...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

To Code or not to Code - That is the Question

The low-code no-code revolution is taking the world of the PowerPlatform by storm. Implementing functionality without writing code is reducing the total cost of ownership but where does that leave ...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Top 10 tools for Functional Consultants and CRM Admins

These tools are free and you don't know they exist. You are going to wish you knew about these since the day you started working with Dynamics 365/CRM. 90% of this session is demo-based.
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

Top 20 Tips for Surviving Networking at Events

You want to get more involved in the community, you want to learn from the sessions but.... You arrive alone. Your heart is beating a little faster than normal and suddenly all of your charisma ...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Turn your project plans into compelling story maps that win projects almost every time

You'll learn how to stop wasting time on requirements specifications and project plans that mask the uncertainty at the start of a project. Instead, you'll learn an alternative technique for visual...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

UI Flows & RPA 101

Recently, the Power Automate team announced a new type of Flow called UI Flows! This is Microsoft's take on Robotic Process Automation (RPA). What can you do with RPA? How does this compare to the ...
  • Sat 11:00 - 11:45

Understanding the opportunity with Dynamics and Teams

Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business app in Microsoft history, and now there is a long-awaited integration with Dynamics. In this session, Peter will explore the preview features for in...
  • Sat 13:30 - 14:15

Unf*ck User Experience and Simplify IT processes with Power Virtual Agent & Power Platform

In this session, Luise Freese will guide you through two topics to solve both IT and Business pains. 1. Learn how to implement a Chat Bot to interact more efficiently with your users in order to...
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

Using AI to write conference session submissions

Deep learning has been used to write new Shakespearean sonnets, to imagine new delicious recipes, write hilarious Harry Potter novels and even come up with new names for beer! In this session we wi...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

What does DevOps mean to PowerApps / Dynamics 365

A session on DevOps development and deployment on the Dynamics 365 / PowerPlatform
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

What is the Power Platform Anyway?

Microsoft has radically changed the business application development story over the last couple of years. These great innovations have unfortunately caused a lot of confusion for customers, consul...
  • Sat 14:30 - 15:15

WOW your coworkers with awesome looking lists: conditional formatting in SharePoint

One of the coolest features that was introduced at MS Ignite last year was conditional formatting for SharePoint lists: A new way to make your data in lists look prettier and more useful. In this s...
  • Sat 16:30 - 17:15

WVD - Set up your environment in the blink of an eye

Windows Virtual Desktop is hot! In this session I'll show you how easy it is to set it up, but I'll also give you some advice and guidelines on what can go wrong. Session full of tips and tricks.
  • Sat 15:30 - 16:15

About Scottish Summit

Scottish Summit started in 2019 as a way to showcase Microsoft Dynamics 365 in Scotland. The first event gathered 370 Dynamics professionals to Glasgow to watch 38 sessions. In 2020 the full Microsoft Cloud Community was invited to showcase all the Microsoft Cloud stack and over 1,100 people attended. Fast Forward to 2021 and world events allow the event to go Global to over 3,400 attendees who took in 365 sessions.

Back in person in 2022 we returned to the Strathclyde Unit with 1,000 people attend in person and online, while the team decided there would not be an event in Scotland in 2023 they did the show on the road to UA92 in Manchester to open to a new audience.