I am active Microsoft 365 community participant, frequent speaker at local and international events including Microsoft Ignite Tour, ESPC (Europe), Microsoft 365 Community conference (USA), South Coast Summit, Commsverse, Scottish Summit, Modern Workplace Paris and Collabdays covering topics Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Purview and other related technologies.
links to Speaking Engagements – Presentation Slides and Session Recordings
UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
ESPC25 (2025) – Best Practices: Microsoft 365 Tenant-To-Tenant Migration
Boye Aarhus 25 (2025) – M365 Track leader
South Coast Summit (2025) – Transform your SharePoint with Content AI and Agents Workshop
South Coast Summit (2025) – Deep Dive Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
The AI-Native Workplace Summit (2025) – Mastering Content AI in Microsoft 365 through SharePoint Premium
Collabdays Bletchley Park (2025) – Deep Dive Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
India Cloud Security Summit (2025) – Deep dive into Microsoft Purview to manage your content compliance
Workplace Ninjas UK (2025) – Deep dive into Microsoft Purview to manage your content compliance
Modern Workplace Conference Paris (2025) – Deep dive into Microsoft Purview to manage your content compliance
Microsoft 365 Community Conference (2025) – Executing a Successful Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration!
North America MCT Summit (2025) – Protecting your SharePoint environment with Purview and Advanced Management Tools
2024
ESPC (2024) – Executing a Successful Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration!
M365 Dublin User Group (2024) – Data Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Purview in Microsoft Teams
Boye Aarhus (2024) – IT Pros guide to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
Collabdays Belgium (2024) – Executing a Successful Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration!
Scottish Summit (2024) – IT Pros guide to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
Manchester365 Microsoft Cloud Engineering Summit (2024) – Administrators guide to managing Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Viva Engage
Collabdays Bletchley Park (2024) – Data Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Purview in Microsoft Teams
Metaverse One (2024) – Sessions Moderator
CollabDays Finland (2024) – Configuring and Customising Microsoft Search
South Coast User Group (2024) – Data Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Purview in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Copilot and Viva Days (2024) – Microsoft Viva Essentials that empower your employees
Teams Nation (2024) – Handling Microsoft Teams with Document Management in SharePoint
2023
European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (2023) – Turning Content to Knowledge with Microsoft Syntex and Viva Topics Workshop
Boye Aarhus 23 Conference (2023) – Divestment and Microsoft 365 service migrations
CollabDays Belgium (2023) – Divestment and Microsoft 365 service migrations
Microsoft Build: AI Day (2023) – Proctored session: Build and run intelligent apps with AKS and Azure OpenAI
South Coast Summit (2023) – Building a Microsoft Teams chat space to manage your project
South Coast Summit (2023) – Turning content to knowledge with Microsoft Syntex and Viva Topics Workshop
CollabDays Bletchley Park (2023) – Divestment and Microsoft 365 service workloads migrations
Metaverse One (2023) – Conference sessions moderator
Microsoft Viva Days (2023) – Designing & Implementing Microsoft Viva services
Commsverse (2023) – Microsoft Viva Explorers Panel Discussion
Viva Round The World (2023) – How Microsoft Viva Insights can help you and your team maximise productivity
M365 North User Group (2023) – Understanding security and compliance in Microsoft Teams
Modern Workplace Conference Paris (2023) – Configuring and Customising Microsoft Search
Modern Workplace Conference Paris (2023) – Viva explorers – join us for a Viva round table
TeamsCommunityDay (2023) – Building a Microsoft Teams team chatspace to manage your project
TeamsCommunityDay (2023) – Microsoft 365 integration experiences with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint & Yammer
2022
European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference (2022) – Microsoft Viva Explorers Panel Discussion
European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference (2022) – Employee experience with Microsoft Viva and Syntex Workshop
Viva Explorers Community Day (2022) – Just in time data with Microsoft Viva Insights
South Coast Summit (2022) – The UnbeVivable Truth
South Coast Summit (2022) – Employee experience with Microsoft Viva and Syntex Workshop
Collabdays Bletchley Park October (2022) – Microsoft Viva Essential in 45 minutes
Technology Empowerment Fair (2022) – From Charity to IT Consulting career journey
Metaverse One – Building immersive and mixed reality experiences in SharePoint
Commsverse (2022) – Microsoft Viva Essential in 45 minutes
Scottish Summit (2022) – Understanding security and compliance
Scottish Summit (2022) – The battle for HR Supremacy
aMS Berlin (2022) – Working with templates in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (2022) – Deep Dive Microsoft Teams and Yammer integration
Teams Nation (2022) – Deep Dive Microsoft Teams and Yammer integration
CollabDays Bletchley Park (2022) – Everything you ever wanted to know about external sharing in Microsoft 365
ESPC Webinar (2022) – Working with Templates in Microsoft 365
Modern Workplace Conference Paris (2022) -Working with Templates in Microsoft 365
2021
South Coast Summit (2021) – Working with templates in Microsoft 365
South Coast Summit (2021) – Microsoft Viva and Syntex Workshop
Commsverse (2021) – Improving your productivity with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services
NYC Teams Tuesday (2021) – Understanding security and compliance
Power Saturday (2021) – Rolling out PowerApps and Power Automate to your organisation and managing them effectively
M365 Chicago Virtual Conference (2021) – Rolling out PowerApps and Power Automate to your organisation and managing them effectively
Teams Nation (2021) – Let’s get rich and connected with Microsoft Viva Connections
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon (2021) – Working with Security and Compliance in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft 365 Saturday Pune (2021) – Understanding Security and Compliance in Microsoft Teams
MS Ignite Ask the Experts (2021) – Microsoft Teams Security and Compliance
Scottish Summit (2021) – Administrators guide to managing Microsoft 365 and collaboration workloads
Collabdays Birmingham (2021) – Everything you ever wanted to know about external sharing in Microsoft 365
M365 Friday California (2021) – Everything you ever wanted to know about external sharing in Microsoft 365
2020
M365 Saturday Bangalore (2020) – Understanding Security and Compliance in Microsoft Teams
M365 Saturday Ahmedabad (2020) – Deep dive on Microsoft Teams integration with SharePoint
aMS Germany (2020) – Administrators guide to managing Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Yammer
M365 Chicago Virtual (2020) – Building a Microsoft Teams team chatspace to manage your project
M365 Chicago Virtual (2020) – Journey to the centre of Microsoft 365 Groups
Chirag Patel 