Last week, I was scheduled for a 60-minute session on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at the 2018 European SharePoint, Azure and Office 365 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the entire conference, but instead scheduled to fly in on Wednesday morning, attend the conference, attend the party and then fly back to the Netherlands on Thursday morning.

With only 65 minutes of flight time, the flight from Amsterdam (AMS) to Copenhagen (CPH) is a short flight, so I elongated my time with KLM in their lounge. After landing at Copenhagen Airport, I took a cab to Bella Center. I prepared my session and spent some time at the Ask the Experts booth for Azure AD with Peter Schmidt.

At 2 PM, I started my break-out session on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in room 9. It was packed! The main points of this presentation were that the Compliance Manager can help assess GDPR compliancy, and that Azure AD Identity Protection, Conditional Access, Information Protection and Advanced Threat Protection can work together to create a more secure environment, towards GDPR-compliancy.

After the presentation, I headed out with Peter Schmidt. We walked to the picturesque Nyhavn, Amalienborg, Maersk’s headquarters, den lille havfrue (the little mermaid) and Copenhagen’s kastellet. before heading towards Wallmans Cirkusbygningen for the ESPC Party.

At around 11 PM we headed back to the Bella Center hotel. At 4:30 AM, a cab picked me up at the front door to deliver me at Copenhagen’s airport (CPH), in time for my 6 AM flight.

I arrived at the office around 8:30 AM for a normal day of work.

Thank you!

Thank your for inviting me as a SharePoint, Azure and Office 365 Conference speaker, and to all the people attending, sitting in on my session and, of course, the people who stuck around after these sessions for the interesting discussions. And Peter, thank you for showing me around in the capitol of your beautiful country.

After last week’s Heliview People-centric IT event in Rotterdam, I drove to Haarlem for the next event on my list: NC Communications’ Office 365 and SharePoint Connect.

Unfortunately, I was too late to pick up Mustafa Toroman and Sasa Kranjac from Amsterdam Airport, but we did arrive at the Amrâth Grand Hotel Frans Hals at around the same time.

We headed out for dinner. After asking for directions at the hotel reception and taking the scenic route, we ended up at Steakhouse Wilma & Albèrt’s, where we enjoyed a nice dinner with truly great steaks. We had a great discussions on tech, our respective home countries and, of course, the events we presented at.

After dinner we ended up in the hotel lobby where we shared drinks with the rest of the speakers and organization.

The next morning, I put my stuff in my car at the car park and headed for the venue, the Stadsschouwburg and Philharmonie Haarlem. In the speaker room (coincidentally the actual artist room at the venue), I picked a shirt and prepared my slides and demos.

After the keynote, I presented a 60-minute session on Azure AD Connect. We discussed the way Azure AD Connect works, and how the attendees could leverage Hybrid Azure AD Join and carry out Active Directory restructuring and/or consolidation projects with the help of the mS-DS-ConsistencyGUID.

After the session, several people came up to me with questions, but as Waldek Mastykarz was about to start his session, we headed out to the lobby area to further discuss the challenges some organizations face with Azure AD Connect.

I stuck around for the SharePint drinks at the end of the day, but decided the speaker dinner was too much on my agenda. I wanted to go home again, so I started my journey home at around 7PM.

Thank you!

Thank your NC Communications, for inviting me as an Office 365 and SharePoint Connect speaker, and to all the people attending, sitting in on my session and, of course, the people who stuck around after these sessions for the interesting discussions.

A week ago, we were present at Heliview’s 2018 People-centric IT event at Soccer club Feyenoord’s “De Kuip” Stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

As this was somewhat of a home game for us, we decided to make our mark at this event with our new corporate banner and new corporate clothing style.

We arrived at 7:30AM at the venue and starting setting up our new corporate banner. After 20 minutes, Carlo and I were done, wo we lit up “De Kuip” with our booth. As the stadium experienced an embarrassing light issue just two weeks ago during one of the soccer games, this got us a lot of attention from the attendees throughout the day.

Just before lunch, I presented a 25-minute session, titled “Our three biggest challenges solved in under 25 minutes? Because cloud.” I showed Windows Hello for Business Security Keys, Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, Windows Defender Conditional Folder Access, Windows AutoPilot and Intune. As these are all cloud services and easily configurable settings in the base Operating System, we flew through the presentation and demos.

26 minutes after the start we were done, and configured with new up-to-date settings for password management, anti-ransomware and location-independent imaging.

After the session, we enjoyed some more conversations with customers and potential customers, to better understand their needs, their worries about GDPR and the legacy stuff that’s keeping them back. Our team has a lot of answers and offers help in many of these areas, so it was fun to talk about it.

I enjoyed Heliview’s People-centric IT event.

Thanks to all the people attending, sitting in on my session and, of course, the people that took the time out of their busy schedule to talk to us. We felt we brought unique value to the event.

Hat tip

Carlo Shaeffer has made SCCT’s presence possible at Heliview’s 2018 People-centric IT event this year.

Next week, I’ll present a 60-minute break-out session on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.

After I presented this session with a standard slide deck from Microsoft at the Amsterdam Tech Summit, Donald Hessing invited me to present an updated version of that deck at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference. He liked the way I presented the session and wanted the same approach, but with slightly more room for adjustments, humor and horror stories.

About the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference

The European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (ESPC) is Europe’s leading online community, providing educational resources and encouraging collaboration.

Each year, the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference gathers SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure experts from around the world in one European location for the largest conference of its kind.

The European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference is part of QualTech Conferences and is based in Galway, Ireland. QualTech has 18 years of experience in organising leading European IT conferences.

This year’s European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference will be hosted at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark from November 26th 2018 till November 29th 2018.

About my session

I’m scheduled to present a 60-minute breakout session on:

GDPR: Where the Rules Meet Microsoft 365 Technologies

Wednesday November 28th 2018, 2PM – 3PM, Session Code W25, Level 200

Learn how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law imposes new rules on companies, government agencies, and other organizations that offer goods and services to people in the EU or that collect and analyze data tied to EU residents.

This session discusses those requirements, and how certain Microsoft 365 products map to these capabilities, what licenses organizations need and where to find more information and guidance.

GDPR is the ultimate boring stuff to present on, but I’m having fun laying down the need for it by going through our industry’s worst practices. I feel we need to grow up, as an industry. I feel the GDPR is our means to do so.

Join us!

Join Chris Petit, me and over 2000 attendees at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference. Learn, connect and be inspired at Europe’s largest Independent Conference on Microsoft Technologies.

Register here!