In this episode of Copilot Connection, hosts Zoe and Kevin discuss the latest developments in the Copilot space, share insights from recent events like Scottish Summit and anticipate upcoming announcements from Ignite. They explore the significance of agents in the AI landscape, the challenges of governance, and the evolution of AI models. Hopefully, they managed to dodge any NDA content this close to Ignite...

Takeaways

• Excitement builds ahead of the Ignite conference.
• Bluesky offers a refreshing social media experience.
• The Copilot Fireside Chat will provide live insights post-Ignite.
• Anticipation for new agent announcements is high.
• Governance is a critical consideration for AI agents.
• New AI models are being tailored for specific industries.
• Understanding the hype cycle is essential for AI adoption.
• Strategic implementation is key to realizing AI's potential.

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Useful links:

We’re on Bluesky! Copilot Connection

Scottish Summit 2024 Closing Keynote With Dona Sarkar

Building a Centre For Enablement for your Copilot Strategy - Kevin & Simon

Copilot Fireside Chat

AGENTS

Earth copilot

Microsoft Viva community call (November 2024): New Employee Experience Announcements at Ignite 2024 | Microsoft Community Hub

Description of agents https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abramj_the-agentic-scope-of-work-ugcPost-7259233983639519234-0Rbh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

ADAPTED MODELS

Adapted AI models

Is Microsoft building their own model?

COPILOT UPDATES

Web page summary is back

Multi tenant orgs

Reflecting on a year of copilot

Gartner Hype Cycle

In this episode of the Copilot Connection, hosts Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell discuss the latest updates in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, including a new feature called Copilot Labs (not Lab...), insights from the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference, and the importance of AI integration in business. They also touch on the significance of empowering neurodivergent employees and the community's engagement in upcoming events. They also have a new AI generated summary - what do you think?

Links

• Introducing Copilot Vision
• Meet the new Copilot

Ignite sessions
Session catalog at https://ignite.microsoft.com where you can search for codes.

Build and extend agents with Microsoft Copilot studio | LAB433
Code-first development workshop for Copilot agents | LAB441
Extending M365 Copilot with Copilot agents: Best practices | BRK170
Part 1:2 Declarative Agents: Build Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot | LAB445
Reinventing business processes with autonomous agents | BRK169
Smarter workflows with ServiceNow Now Assist and Copilot integration | ODFP974

Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot in your business knowledge | BRK275
Microsoft 365 Copilot advantages: How does it compare with other AI solutions | BRK276
SharePoint content management reimagined with Copilot | BRK279
Unlock smart collaboration with Microsoft Teams | BRK280

Revolutionizing Employee Experience with AI | BRK283
The Future of Power Platform: Intelligent Apps | BRK171

From Copilot to code-first: the power of Microsoft Fabric and AI | THR618
Bring on-device ML to enterprise apps with Windows Copilot Library | BRK303
Copilot+ PCs: Your new superpower | THR650
Mastering custom plugins in Microsoft Security Copilot | THR653
Build real-time collab experiences with Fluid and Copilot | LAB440
Empowering neurodivergent employees with Copilot | BRK297

It's our birthday today! We've managed to pull together some fantastic guests including Loryan Strant, Caroline Kallin and Tom Morgan to help us celebrate by sharing their thoughts on Copilot Wave 2 so hear what we thought and then a few interviews that we have been able to do.

Great summary post from Sara Fennah on all the useful links for Copilot Wave 2 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarafennah_did-the-deluge-of-announcements-in-the-wave-activity-7241481645957029888-gyfa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

As the days in the UK get shorter, the grass looks brown and tired and the kids looked bored and ready for school, it's time to recap some of the news that has crept out while many were distracted with holidays. There's certainly been a few things coming through as momentum builds towards the second conference season of year. Zoe and Kevin cover some worrying news on hacking Copilot, some positive news on accessing models and some great events coming up.

Related links:

• Nominate your favourite community folks at the UK Technology Community Awards - https://www.ukcommunityawards.co.uk/
• Sign up for Scottish Summit and plan in for the Connecting the Copilots panel with Chris Huntingford, Dona Sarkar, Jose Lazaro Pinos , Sara Fennah and us - https://www.scottishsummit.com
• Zoe is co-hosting a webinar for Syskit with Luke Evans on Copilot for M365 after one year https://www.syskit.com/company/events/copilot-for-microsoft-365-after-one-year/
• New speaker workshop with Sara Fennah, Luke Evans and us - http://www.communitydays.org/event/2024-09-06/microsoft-community-new-speakers-day - if you're in the UK and doing interesting things with Copilot that you'd like to share
• Check out the brand new Copilot for M365 MVPs! - Search | MVP Communities (microsoft.com)
• Hacking Copilot
  • Microsoft’s AI Copilot can be weaponized as an ‘automated phishing machine,’ but the problem is bigger than one company | Fortune
  • https://www.perspectives.plus/p/copilot-bigger-security-threat-than-chatgpt
  • https://labs.zenity.io
• Models in Github - Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub - The GitHub Blog
• What’s new in Copilot | July 2024 - Microsoft Community Hub
• OneNote in Copilot supports Inked Notes - https://insider.microsoft365.com/blog/onenote-copilot-now-supports-inked-notes?ocid=usoc_TWITTER_M365_spl100006091250593
• Updates to Microsoft Copilot to bring enterprise data protection to more organizations - Microsoft Community Hub

After a slightly quieter time on the podcast, Kevin and Zoe are back and we pick some of the Month of Copilot sessions to share some interesting ideas from them that will interest you.

Check out the rest of the Month of Copilot sessions in the Copilot Connection - YouTube.

Kevin mentioned Commsverse and Experts Live UK so check out the links for more info.

Finally, if you want to try out the super hero prompt that Zoe mentioned, copy the prompt below and let us know what it finds!

Look at the emails and Teams meetings that I have sent in the last 6 months. Use these messages to distill a personal brand voice document that I can use to inform copilot of my personal voice and style.

Based on the above analysis, what superhero represents my style of work best? What would my super powers be? Can you format that as a dossier for superheroes -- listing my real name, and most similar existing superhero, and include the rest of the information formatted and edited in dossier style?

In this episode of the Copilot Connection, Kevin McDonnell is joined by Garry Trinder, a developer advocate at Microsoft focused on Microsoft 365 and Copilot. With Microsoft Build taking place this week, they recap the Copilot related news that came out with a special focus on extensions and custom copilots. Plenty of chat about why you should extend, the different ways to extend and when to extend or go custom. Plus find out how many times Copilot was mentioned in the first day keynotes thanks to Vlad Catrinescu.

Useful links:

M365 Conf sessions - some online now including the age of copilots -Introducing the Community News Desk with essential content from Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Vlad Catrinescu comedy recap Microsoft Build 2024 Keynote Recap in under 5 minutes!

Book of News - https://news.microsoft.com/build-2024-book-of-news/

GPT-4o demo by Seth Juarez - Conversational website: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2024

Copilot+PC - Introducing Copilot+ PCs - The Official Microsoft Blog

VS Code for Education - https://vscodeedu.com

Note that you need a Copilot license to use this with Copilot Studio - Use graph connections with knowledge sources - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

https://aka.ms/extendcopilotm365/decide

Useful Build sessions:

BRK 150: Developers guide to customizing Copilot - slides available too
BRK 151: Developer deep dive on building plugins for Microsoft Copilot
BRK203: Building a copilot: Azure AI Studio or Copilot Studio

With all the announcements made last week at the M365 Conf in Orlando, Zoe and Kevin take a dive into the roadmap to see what is coming up in the short to medium term. With a lot of key updates around Excel, cross application capabilities and graph grounded chat in other applications, take a listen to find out what you can expect in the world of Copilot over the next few months.

Key links:

• Month of Copilot
• May Copilot be with you
• Dona teases Project Copilot College

M365 Conf announcements

• What’s New in Copilot | April 2024 - Microsoft Community Hub
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2024 - Microsoft Community Hub
• Announcing SharePoint advanced management innovations for the AI and Copilot era - Microsoft Community Hub

Microsoft 365 Roadmap - See What's Coming | Microsoft 365 - Copilot Rolling Out items
Microsoft 365 Roadmap - See What's Coming | Microsoft 365 - Copilot In Development items

Is your tenant ready for Copilot? Do you know what needs to be done to be ready? This week, Kevin was joined by Michal Pisarek, CEO and Janitor at Orchestry, who has been involved in governance in Microsoft 365 for many years. We talk about Copilot Readiness and three key areas for governance:
- Understand the environment
- Review oversharing
- Sort out your sensitivity labels

Zoe and Kevin also cover a few bits of the latest news, including some Drama Llama action with Whats App, some impressive custom copilot creation from Microsoft Research and a plea from Kevin to provide ideas and feedback to Microsoft.

Don't forget that we are holding a Month of Copilot in June and still looking for people to share sessions. Submit your sessions at Month of Copilots: Call for Speakers.

Useful links:

Project VASA - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

Lllama 3 launched - Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3 | Meta | The Guardian
Comparison of recent models - https://x.com/rschu/status/1781007659493212215

Meta AI in WhatsApp - How to chat with Meta AI in a group | WhatsApp Help Center

Privacy and Meta AI - https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/genai?entry_point=whatsapp_genai

Feedback portal has Copilot for Sales and for Service - Community (microsoft.com)

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