Retraining the Brain with Augmented Reality [Emerging Tech Virtual Summit]

Unique projects, workstyles, functional roles, and workforce diversity call for a complete set of collaboration tools. People are working from everywhere, and even the physical workspaces we’re all familiar with are changing. As this appetite for new ways of working together grows, Microsoft is finding new ways to support it. Office 365 offers a full set of solutions, including Office 365 ProPlus, Outlook, Yammer, SharePoint, Skype, and now, Microsoft Teams. This live demo is a deep dive into Microsoft Teams.

For state and local government
State and local government agencies are currently undergoing massive transformation programs that will fundamentally change the shape of their organizations. How can a CIO or Program Manager gain complete visibility, insight, and control over the entire agency program or set of programs?
Join this webinar to:
•Gain an overview and framework for leveraging the cloud-based Microsoft Project Online solution in your agency
•See examples of how other large state and local government agencies are managing their transformation programs

Get tips and tricks from a Microsoft Project MVP

Save time in your day with helpful tips and tricks from a Project MVP for effectively using Microsoft Project. You'll walk away saying, ""I didn't know you could do that with Microsoft Project!""

Join this webinar to learn how to:
•Customize the project ribbon
•Use the WBS more effectively
•Discover resource non-working time using formulas

Where are you with the cloud?

You’ve heard about the cloud, you know the benefits it offers, yet you’re still using an on-premises solution for your company’s emails. Maybe the thought of the transition is too daunting, or you’re not convinced it’s necessary at this time, but chances are, you're already running at least one application in the cloud or considering which IT operation to move.

This webcast series will show you how you can give your employees the freedom to work when and where they need to—on their favorite devices—to increase productivity, simplify team collaboration, enable co-authoring, and enhance employee work-life balance.

Join this webinar to learn how to:
•Harness powerful tools for modern meetings, collaboration, and content creation
•Work from anywhere on a proven platform with rich, fully-featured mobile applications
•Provide user access across platforms, devices, and browsers in a secure, compliant fashion
•Work securely with a rich, enterprise-grade productivity solution across all user devices

Surface offers new ways to work, play, and create

Get to know these versatile devices that can adapt to your needs

Breaking old organizational habits can help you think in new ways and move your business forward. By design, Surface encourages you to work, create, and collaborate differently. Surface is changing how our customers do business, from collaboration with Surface Hub, to creation with Surface Studio, to how they show up every day with Surface Pro, Laptop or Book.

Join this webinar to:

•Discover the engineering principles that influence Surface design.
•Find out about the newest Surface products.
•Learn how businesses are using Surface to transform.

Gear up for the start of the new year with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace ideal for streamlining processes, compiling resources, and accelerating and enriching the learning environment. Teams brings people, conversations, and content—along with the tools institutions need—together in one place so they can easily collaborate to achieve more.

Discover how to increase continuity and transparency across faculty projects and committees, and explore the possibilities for developing student communication skills while still maintaining moderation controls.

It's 2017 - technology is no longer just for IT teams and tech companies. We've already begun to see technology advancements in the classroom, medical facilities, transportation, and more.

When it comes to preparing for the future and educating today's youth, learning success starts with equipping your faculty and staff with tools that facilitate planning.

Year end is an opportunity to consolidate learning, build skills, and plan for what's next. Rediscover the tools that will allow your institution and students to be more successful and effective in how they work.

Join this webcast to learn how you can:
- Empower your faculty and staff with the technology they need
- Leverage the tools that will empower your school and students
- Utilize Office 365 to drive learning outcomes

In the age of cybercrime, threats, and breaches, it's more important than ever to secure your IT operations, devices, and infrastructure through an integrated approach.

Now, for the first time ever, Microsoft is offering an integrated solution for your business that helps you achieve more together, anywhere it matters, with always-on security.

In this webcast, you will:
- Discover an integrated solution powered by Office 365 and Windows 10, designed for small and mid-size businesses.
- Learn how you can connect with your remote coworkers and work on a document in real-time using Word, Outlook, OneDrive, and Skype for Business.
- See how inking in Windows 10 enables you to take notes with OneNote.
- Learn how you can easily set-up policies to protect company data across devices with Microsoft 365 Business.

Today's manufacturers are operating in a world of uncertainty. Successful manufacturers are combating market volatility by focusing on productivity gains via new technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) and predictive analytics are likely to determine who wins and who loses in this age of uncertainty.

Join this virtual event to hear from leading experts and analysts about technologies manufacturers need to adopt to stay competitive. Industry analyst, Ray Wang will outline the macroeconomics trends affecting the industry and lay a path forward. Experts from Hitachi Solutions will discuss the promise of IoT and the cloud for discovering new opportunities and achieving operational efficiencies. Microsoft’s IoT lead will share upcoming trends to watch.

Hear leading experts and analysts discuss the state of manufacturing today—and a path to the future.

Task Types and Effort Driven can be two of the most confusing features of Microsoft Project, both to novice users and to experienced users alike. For example, have you ever changed one number in Microsoft Project, and then the software changed another number in response, and you don’t know why?

Guest expert Dale Howard will unlock the mysteries of Task Types and Effort Driven behavior in Microsoft Project, showing you how their behavior is logical, predictable, and meaningful.

Join this webcast to:
- Eliminate the confusion around these two Microsoft Project features
- Harness the power of Task Types in your own projects
- See how Effort Driven task statuses interact with each Task Type

Performing a system-wide migration across a large or complex environment is no easy task, but new Windows 10 deployment options, streamlined application rollouts, and enhanced cloud capabilities can ease the path. Find out how Microsoft IT approached the deployment of Windows 10 across a global user base, plus how they think about Windows as a service.

You'll also hear about Microsoft IT's best practices and lessons learned—from application compatibility testing and upgrade strategies to smoothing the deployment path through end user readiness.

Join this webinar to:
- Learn how Microsoft IT is using new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
- Find out how Windows IT approaches Windows 10 update management.
- Get your questions answered in a live Q&A

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft does deployment? Get your questions answered about how Microsoft IT approaches migrations and rollouts.

Emerging technology allows organizations to differentiate through service and increase revenue while improving customer experiences.

After-sales service is now one of the biggest opportunities for companies looking to generate revenue, increase margins, and improve customer loyalty. Used correctly, emerging technology could become a huge source of competitive differentiation in field service. By putting the customer first and operationalizing field service strategy, organizations can maximize results.

Join this webinar to:
- Discover why customer demand is driving investments in mobile field service
- Find out the benefits and best practices of automating a field service solution
- Learn how to achieve efficiency gains without sacrificing the customer experience

Presented by Barbara Giamanco, CEO of Social Centered Selling, Christine LaVoi, Field Service Management Client Success Manager, IFS and Sean McDade, CEO of PeopleMetrics.

This webinar is part of our Connected field service webinar series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

With tools and technologies like UCaaS and remote, mobile devices at our disposal, it's imperative that organizations make collaboration a breeze through the evolution of engaged, effective group work.

With document co-authoring, teams can get more done with fewer barriers—whether they're students, peer groups, parents, or subject matter experts.

Join this webcast to learn how you can:
- Bring everyone to the virtual table
- Save time for collaborators
- Increase engagement within teams
- Enhance your unified communications strategy

This webcast is part of our Microsoft in education virtual productivity webcast series. Sign up for this session, or the entire series today!

Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done. Today's workers need their projects organized with clarity and transparency

Managing projects and resources is one of the biggest challenges for managers in the fast-paced digital world. However, as more information workers scale across more teams and become more geographically dispersed, it can be difficult to keep things on track.

Join this webcast to:
- Find out how to manage projects more efficiently
- Learn how you can track progress throughout collaborations
- Reduce the time needed to achieve project objectives

If you consider yourself to be an above average Visio user, it’s time to step behind the curtain and learn how to unleash even more of what Visio can do.

In this webcast, you'll learn techniques for creating shapes, masters, stencils, and templates. You’ll learn the difference between editing a master in a stencil and editing a master in the Document Stencil. (For that matter, you’ll learn what the Document Stencil is and where to find it!) You'll also learn to display and use the Developer tab. Finally, you'll learn to unlock the real power of Visio by using the ShapeSheet.

Join this webcast to learn how to:
- Understand shapes, masters, stencils, templates, and the ShapeSheet
- See the functionalities available to you on the Developer tab
- Discover the Visio SDK (software development kit) and other useful websites for developers

Are you compliant with data preservation requirements? Ensure that you're saving information according to your needs. Office 365 U.S. Government is designed for the unique needs of U.S. government organizations. It provides all the features and capabilities of Office 365 services in a segmented cloud community that enables organizations to meet U.S. compliance and security standards.

Organizational effectiveness is defined as the efficiency with which an organization is able to meet its objectives.

What if one of the organization's objectives is to introduce agile project management? What measures will you need to determine the efficiency of your agile tools, process, and people?

Join this webcast to:
- Learn what's important when introducing an agile methodology within the Microsoft PPM environment
- Understand how agile can help increase organizational effectiveness within the PMO
- See how Microsoft Project supports the agile methodology

Software continues to transform the world in remarkable ways and developers are at the center of it. Tune in for this special encore Best of Microsoft Build presentation. We have taken the best rated content, announcements and solutions from our Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, and consolidated them into a one hour webinar.

Agenda:

Key Announcements from Microsoft Build 2017
Key Content from Microsoft Build 2017
Top Rated Demo
Q&A

Are you prepared to handle exponential growth in data volume?

How you access, manage, protect, and utilize your data is the challenge. Gartner reports the data volume is set to grow 800% over the next 5 years.

Nasuni offers a complete Azure-based enterprise file storage system to handle this data volume growth. The IT goal hasn’t changed. How to accomplish it has. The debate is not hardware versus the cloud. It’s how to create an intelligent file infrastructure that utilizes the cloud.

Join this webcast to learn how to:
- Store data centrally in one self-protecting global file system
- Make your data accessible anywhere, anytime
- Scale your storage at unheard-of cost efficiency