Microsoft Ignite

Name: Microsoft Ignite
Start: 2019-11-04
End: 2019-10-08
Location: Orange County Convention Center

November 4-8, 2019

Orlando, FL

#MSIGNITE

IT decision makers and enterprise developers join to connect with experts and keep apprised of the technologies available to help solve business challenges.

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9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819

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Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2019

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Monday, Nov 4 2019

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Diversity and Tech Empower Lunch Leadership Panel

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Theme: How we future proof against bias in tech by ensuring that leaders in organizations are conscious of personal biases that influence the development of technologies & how we can build inclusive technologies with diverse teams in technical roles.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Accenture & Avanade Client & Partner Reception

Location

Orange County Convention Center West, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Please reach out your Accenture or Avanade contact for an invitation.

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Location

Orange County Convention Center West, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Tuesday, Nov 5 2019

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Azure cost management with FinOps

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Emerging Tech

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Solving Real-World Field Service Challenges with Extended Reality

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

How to get the best possible UC Collab and Enterprise Voice solution with Avanade, Microsoft and AudioCodes.

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Digital assistants for Employees using natural language processing, image recognition and voice recognition

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Modernize your Mainframe - Accelerate your Digital Transformation

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Wednesday, Nov 6 2019

8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

How Diversity Ignites Our Innovation

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Imagine bringing your true self to work. How will this unleash your innovation? Hear inspiring stories from Accenture and Avanade leadership as they share insights about bringing their full self to work.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Digital assistants for Employees using natural language processing, image recognition and voice recognition

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Power-up your System of Engagements & Innovation with SAP on Microsoft Cloud

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

12:00 p.m. – 12:25 p.m.

Learn how Exxaro migrated their entire Enterprise estate to Azure Cloud

Location

OCCC West Theater #2, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Attend to see how Accenture assisted Exxaro in driving their Journey to Cloud. Learn about how Accenture architected and build the various components, and migrated their Enterprise workloads, with minimal downtime, to Azure. Also learn how Accenture is managing the migrated workloads today.

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Location

OCCC West Theater #2, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Tim Taxes and his future workplace @ Siemens—how to build a digital support function

Location

OCCC West Room #312, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

We present how Siemens enables and empowers tax experts to react in near real time to changes and educate the digital tax assistant—the TaxSphere chatbot—to keep the content current and relevant.

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Location

OCCC West Room #312, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Manage and evolve your application portfolio to drive business agility

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Unlocking value with a data center exit strategy

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

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Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Thursday, Nov 7 2019

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Scaling Modern Workplace to the Max: How Accenture Deployed Microsoft Teams to Half a Million Employees

Location

OCCC West, Ignite Live Mainstage, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Accenture is a professional services organization with half a million people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Tune in for this segment of Microsoft Ignite Live to learn the Accenture CIO team's journey: from planning to deploying to optimizing Teams for its workforce, making it the largest enterprise customer of Teams on earth. We'll then hear from Accenture and Avanade about challenges and solutions in deploying Teams for their clients.

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Jason Warnke

Managing Director – Digital Enterprise Services

Tony Leraris

Managing Director – User Infrastructure Services, CIO Office, Accenture

Wictor Wilén

Global Innovation Lead – Modern Workplace, Avanade

Location

OCCC West, Ignite Live Mainstage, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Solving Real-World Field Service Challenges with Extended Reality

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

SAVE TO CALENDAR

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.

How to get the best possible UC Collab and Enterprise Voice solution with Avanade, Microsoft and AudioCodes

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Visit our in-booth theater to meet our subject matter experts who will share their implementation experiences on the Microsoft platforms.

SAVE TO CALENDAR

Location

OCCC West Accenture & Avanade Booth #449, 9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819

Featured sessions

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ACCENTURE, AVANADE | Wednesday, Nov 6 2019 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

How diversity ignites our innovation

Imagine bringing your whole self to work. Hear stories from Accenture & Avanade as they share insights about bringing their full self to work.

SIEMENS | Wednesday, Nov 6 2019 12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Siemens—how to build a digital support function

Learn how Siemens enables and empowers tax experts to react in near real time to changes and educate using the digital tax assistant.

ACCENTURE, AVANADE | THURSDAY, NOV 7 2019 12:30 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Fireside chat: How Accenture and Avanade are maximizing employee experience

Learn about our internal Modern Workplace journey to become the largest consumer of Teams (400,000 active users) and enterprise adopter of Office 365.

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