Mondays at Microsoft | Episode 69
Join Karuana Gatimu, Heather Cook, and special guest Vesa Juvonen as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 69 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on LinkedIn on Monday, February 23rd at 8:00 AM PT! Links from Today's Episode: Big Rocks & Product Updates: Register for Microsoft 365 Community Conference, use SAVE150 for $150 USD off — https://aka.ms/M365ConfWebsite Register for SharePoint at 25 digital celebration event — https://aka.ms/SPat25; https://aka.ms/spat25/hackathon Join the SharePoint Hackathon, March 2-16, 2026 — https://aka.ms/spat25/hackathon "From beards to bytes: How AI is empowering small business owners in Kenya" by Catherine Bolgar — https://aka.ms/AISmallBizKenya Asha Sharma named EVP and CEO, Microsoft Gaming — https://aka.ms/AshaSharmaCEOxBox Kantar reduces storage costs with Microsoft 365 Archive — https://aka.ms/KantarStorage Episode 8 of "Keeping It Real with Power Platform" series — https://aka.ms/KeepingItRealEp8 Events Community Days | Knoxville Microsoft Community Days | February 26-27 | Maryville, Tennessee, USA - Daniel Glenn, Neil, and Pam DeGraffenreid West Michigan M365 Community Day | March 19 | Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Dynamics Con Regional: Pacific Northtwest | March 20 | Vancouver BC, Canada Community Days | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 31 - April 2 | Las Vegas, Nevada Community Days | Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 21 - 23 | Orlando, Florida Community Days | TechCon365 and PWRCON Seattle 2025 | June 23-27 | Seattle, Washington Our Show Links: 📅 Mondays at Microsoft Links including a download for calendar: https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 📝 Our Microsoft Tech Community News Desk for Monday's recaps, Meet the Makers show and more: https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk 🎙️ Listen to Mondays at Microsoft on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 🌍 Discover the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) — https://aka.ms/MGCI Microsoft Community page on Facebook: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityFB 🔔Microsoft Community on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM MSFT Adoption on Twitter: https://x.com/MSFTAdoptionMondays at Microsoft | Episode 68
Join Heather Cook as she takes you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 66 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, February 9th at 8:00 AM PT! #MondaysAtMicrosoft #MicrosoftCommunity #MicrosoftEvents #AI #Microsoft365 Links from Today's Episode: Big Rocks & Product Updates: Enhancing Teams video quality with Super Resolution — https://aka.ms/Teams/SuperResolution "GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens" by Thomas Dohmke — https://aka.ms/GitHubAwakens "Use Microsoft 365 Copilot to drive growth for businesses of all sizes" by Brenna Robinson — https://aka.ms/Copilot/SMBgrowth "What's new in Power Apps: January 2025 Feature Update" by Clay Wesener — https://aka.ms/PowerApps/Jan2025updates Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together 2025 — https://aka.ms/PowerfulDevsConference "New Security Features for Desktop flows" by Quentin Sele Barancy & Ken Seong Tan — https://aka.ms/PowerPlatform/NewSecurityFeatures Events: Community Days | Exchange Summit 2025 | Feb 17-19 | Wurzburg, Germany Community Days | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference | March 31 - April 2 | Las Vegas, Nevada Community Days | Microsoft 365 Community Conference | April 21 - 23 | Orlando, Florida Community Days | TechCon365 and PWRCON Seattle 2025 | June 23-27 | Seattle, Washington Our Show Links: 📅 Mondays at Microsoft Links including a download for calendar: https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 📝 Our Microsoft Tech Community News Desk for Monday's recaps, Meet the Makers show and more: https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk 🎙️ Listen to Mondays at Microsoft on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 🌍 Discover the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) — https://aka.ms/MGCI Microsoft Community page on Facebook: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityFB 🔔Microsoft Community on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM MSFT Adoption on Twitter: https://x.com/MSFTAdoptionMondays at Microsoft | Episode 67
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 67 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, January 26th at 8:00 AM PT! Links from Today's Episode: Big Rocks & Product Updates: A Conversation with Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella at World Economic Forum: https://aka.ms/SatyaWOF "Exploring what AI means for education and the next generation" by Paul Nyhan — https://aka.ms/AIHigherEducation Microsoft AI Tour schedule — https://aka.ms/MicrosoftAITour2026List "Every Child applies data, digital marketing – and most of all, empathy – to recruit and support foster families" by Deborah Bach —https://aka.ms/EveryChildArticle Issue 3 of Signal Magazine: "Trevor Noah’s reasons to be cheerful" — https://aka.ms/SignalsTrevorNoah Issue 2 of Signal Magazine: "You have to innovate because the cybercriminal is always innovating" — https://aka.ms/DCUSignalArticle 🔴 Live AMA: Purview Data Security Investigations (Part 2) | February 5, 2026 at 10:00AM PT — https://aka.ms/AMAPurviewSecurity 💡 "Five Reasons to attend SQLCon" by Anna Hoffman — https://aka.ms/5ReasonsSQLCon Episode 4 of "Keeping It Real with Power Platform" with Host Leon Welicki, VP Power Platform Core — https://aka.ms/KeepingItRealSeries Events: Community Days | Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 | January 29-30 | Tallinn, Estonia Community Days | M365 Community Days DC 2026 | January 29-30, 2026 | Washington DC thank you Pat McGown, Jay Leask, Scott Brewster and Jaime Willis-Rose for organizing Super excited as we have keynotes in place for the Microsoft 365 Community Conference - April 21-23, Jeff, Charles, Vasu and Rohan. Our Show Links: 📅 Mondays at Microsoft Links including a download for calendar: https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 📝 Our Microsoft Tech Community News Desk for Monday's recaps, Meet the Makers show and more: https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk 🎙️ Listen to Mondays at Microsoft on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 🌍 Discover the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) — https://aka.ms/MGCI Microsoft Community page on Facebook: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityFB 🔔Microsoft Community on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM MSFT Adoption on Twitter: https://x.com/MSFTAdoptionMondays at Microsoft | Episode 66
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 66 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, January 12th at 8:00 AM PT! #MondaysAtMicrosoft #MicrosoftCommunity #MicrosoftEvents #Microsoft365 #AI Links from Today's Episode: Big Rocks & Product Updates: "A new perspective on AI" from Signal Magazine: https://aka.ms/PerspectivesonAI "CES 2026: Powering the next frontier in automotive" by Aaron Lee — aka.ms/CES2026Automotive Microsoft propels retail forward with agentic AI capabilities that power intelligent automation for every retail function — aka.ms/MicrosoftatNRF2026Blog "With Microsoft Agent 365, one startup furthers goal of making AI agents more intuitive" by Lim Ai Leen — https://aka.ms/Agent365MoreIntuitive Explore the latest Microsoft Incident Response proactive services for enhanced resilience" by Andrew Rapp— https://aka.ms/ProactiveServicesblog Microsoft OneDrive, a year in review: AI-powered file management and smarter collaboration" by Alyse Maguire — https://aka.ms/OneDriveInsiderBlog Microsoft announces acquisition of Osmos to accelerate autonomous data engineering in Fabric" by Bogdan Crivat — aka.ms/AcquisitionofOsmos Listen to multimedia thought leadership series PartnerTalks — parterntalks.com Events: NRF '26: Retail's Big Show | January 11-13, 2026 in NYC — aka.ms/NRF2026 Microsoft AI Tour: New York City | January 21, 2026 — aka.ms/MicrosoftAITourNYC2026 Live AMA: Demystifying Azure pricing | January 22, 2026S — aka.ms/AzurePricingAMA Community Days | CollabDays Bremen | January 23-24 | Bremen, Germany Community Days | Vibe 2026 | January 28-30 | South Padre Island, Texas, USA (for Microsoft Partners) Community Events — https://communitydays.org Our Show Links: 📅 Mondays at Microsoft Links including a download for calendar: https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 📝 Our Microsoft Tech Community News Desk for Monday's recaps, Meet the Makers show and more: https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk 🎙️ Listen to Mondays at Microsoft on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 🌍 Discover the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) — https://aka.ms/MGCI Microsoft Community page on Facebook: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityFB 🔔Microsoft Community on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM MSFT Adoption on Twitter: https://x.com/MSFTAdoptionMondays at Microsoft | Episode 65
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 65 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, December 29th at 8:00 AM PT! #MondaysAtMicrosoft #MicrosoftCommunity #MicrosoftEvents #AI #Microsoft365Mondays at Microsoft | Episode 64
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 64 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, December 15th at 8:00 AM PT! See you on Dec 29th at 8am Pacific. Give us feedback at http://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft/survey Links from Today's Episode: Big Rocks & Product Updates: GPT-5.2 comes to Microsoft 365 Copilot by Jared Spataro - https://aka.ms/GPT52BlogAnnouncement 7 AI Trends for 2026 — https://aka.ms/7AITrendsfor2026 10 scientific breakthroughs from Microsoft researchers" by Sally Beatty https://aka.ms/10scientificbreakthroughs How India's giant database is helping over 300 million informal workers step up, with AI" by Lim Ai Leen — https://aka.ms/IndiasGiantDatabase It's About Time: The Copilot Usage Report 2025" by researcher Bea Costa-Gomes, Seth Spielman— https://aka.ms/CopilotUsageReportDec2025 GigaTIME AI tool advances cancer research and could unlock access to better treatment" by Paul Nyhan — https://aka.ms/GigatimeAITool Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: The future of work for small businesses" by Jared Spataro — https://aka.ms/CopilotforSmallBusiness Microsoft 365 Copilot for Small and Medium Business Adoption Hub — https://aka.ms/Copilot/SMB A Leap of faith with Copilot: Vodafone’s success story — https://aka.ms/VodaphoneCopilotStory Events: FABCon & SQLCon is now under the same roof! 2 conferences, 1 location! https://fabriccon.com/ Community Events - https://communitydays.org Our Show Links: 📅 Mondays at Microsoft Links including a download for calendar: https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 📝 Our Microsoft Tech Community News Desk for Monday's recaps, Meet the Makers show and more: https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk 🎙️ Listen to Mondays at Microsoft on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft 🌍 Discover the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) — https://aka.ms/MGCI Microsoft Community page on Facebook: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityFB 🔔Microsoft Community on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM MSFT Adoption on Twitter: https://x.com/MSFTAdoptionLIVE from ESPC 2025 - Microsoft 365 & AI Conference | Mondays at Microsoft (Episode 63)
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook, LIVE from ESPC 2025 - Microsoft 365 & AI Conference in Dublin as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 63 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes live on Monday, December 1st at 8:00 AM PT! #MondaysAtMicrosoft #ESPC2025 #MicrosoftEventsLIVE from Microsoft Ignite | Mondays at Microsoft (Episode 62)
Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook, LIVE from Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco, as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 62 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes live on Monday, November 17th at 8:00 AM PT! #MondaysAtMicrosoftMondays at Microsoft | Episode 59
Join Karuana Gatimu, Heather Cook, and special guest correspondent Arvind Mishra as they take you through the latest in AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. 🎥 Episode 59 of "Mondays at Microsoft" goes LIVE on Monday, October 6th at 8am PT! Show Notes 🎬 INTRO Segment Name: Welcome & Kickoff Title: Mondays at Microsoft – Biweekly Microsoft News & Insights Feedback Survey: aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft/survey 🧠 BIG ROCKS SEGMENT Segment Name: Big Rocks Title: Microsoft’s AI Momentum & Excel Turns 40 https://aka.ms/Excel40Years 🛠️ PRODUCT SEGMENT Segment Name: Microsoft 365, Azure, Dev & Security Title: Copilot + OneDrive Event OneDrive Event Registration: aka.ms/OneDriveEvent 🌍 COMMUNITY & EVENTS SEGMENT Segment Name: Community & Events Title: Microsoft Tech Community User Groups & CommunityDays.org Community Events Hub: https://www.communitydays.org Tech Community User Groups Preview: aka.ms/mtc/usergroups Microsoft Global Community Initiative Hub: aka.ms/MGCICommunityHub 📅 EVENTS LISTS Segment Name: Event Highlights Title: Upcoming & Past Microsoft Community Events Microsoft 365 Ottawa: https://www.communitydays.org/event/2025-09-26/microsoft-365-ottawa-2025 AgentCon Singapore: https://www.communitydays.org/event/2025-09-09/agentcon-singapore Power Platform Community Conference: https://www.communitydays.org/event/2025-10-28/power-platform-community-conference Microsoft Ignite 2025: https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/home 📢 RESOURCES & SOCIAL LINKS Segment Name: Community Resources Title: Stay Connected with Microsoft Community Mondays at Microsoft Calendar & Podcast: aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft Tech Community News Desk: aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk Microsoft Global Community Initiative: aka.ms/MGCI Facebook: aka.ms/MSCommunityFB LinkedIn: aka.ms/MSCommunityLIMM Twitter/X: https://x.com/MSFTAdoption
