I am delighted to announce I have been selected to speak at the European SharePoint Conference 2018. This event will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 26th to the 29th of November. I will be speaking about “Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint Framework”. “It’s the 3rd model Microsoft has come with to customize SharePoint in less than 5 years. You may still have add-ins/apps or even solutions running in production and you’re asking yourself what to do about all that?

I Have the pleasure to announce I have been selected to speak at SPS Pittsburgh 2018. I’ll give a speech about the graph “How to do Dev-Ops with the SharePoint Framework and why it matters”. Together we’ll see why it’s important to follow the DevOps processes, methodologies, and philosophy and how to implement it for the SharePoint Framework with Visual Studio Team Services (or TFS). Go from the original idea to production automating as much as possible!

SharePoint Fest Seattle 2018 is happening from August 20th to 24th. This event will feature 2 days pre-conference workshops and 3 days of conference. You can find more information about it on the website. I’ve been selected amongst 74 other speakers (including people from Microsoft product teams!!) to present this year two sessions: AZR203 - Azure Functions In The Real World: Lessons Learned & Best Practices “Azure Functions is one of the most powerful new solutions provided by Microsoft.

I Have the pleasure to announce I have been selected to speak at SPS Charlotte 2018. I’ll give a speech about the graph “How to do Dev-Ops with the SharePoint Framework and why it matters”. Together we’ll see why it’s important to follow the DevOps processes, methodologies, and philosophy and how to implement it for the SharePoint Framework with Visual Studio Team Services (or TFS). Go from the original idea to production automating as much as possible!

I must admit I’ve not been on page lately for the blog posts. However, I had the privilege (among other great speakers) to present during the Microsoft Graph Community call for the month of June. Microsoft Graph Community calls are online webinar organized by the Microsoft Graph Team. The Team usually presents announcements and then allows time for community speakers to presents discoveries, real life solutions and lessons learnt with the Microsoft Graph.

Last week I had the honor to be a guest on the Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast hosted by Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein. It was the second time I was invited on a podcast (the first one being in French about devops), this is a fun exercise where the content is delivered as a discussion between the hosts and the guests. During this episode we discussed about two main topics:

Renewed as MVP and changed category I have the pleasure to announce I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP, for the fifth year in a row (time flies, I’m getting old). A slight change this time, my award is Office development. Over the years I’ve been a SharePoint MVP, an Office Servers and Services MVP and now an Office development MVP. Originally Microsoft had it’s MVPs organized by products, which made a lot of sense in a on premises world which required a deep knowledge in something very specific.

This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS NYC. I’ll give a speech about “Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint Framework”. Together we will see how you can transition from either the server-side object model or the add-ins development fashions to the modern SharePoint Framework approach. This session is mostly meant for developers and technical architects who are curious about getting started on the new model and that might have legacy applications.

This year again I have the privilege to be part of the organizing committee for SharePoint Saturday Montréal 2018 taking place June the 2nd at Cégep du vieux Montréal. It’s free, it’s the occasion to learn a lot, not only about SharePoint but also about Office 365 and Azure. This year in a few numbers: 25 sessions (in English and French) 1 Keynote by the Great Serge Tremblay 16 Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) 1 MSP (Microsoft Student Partner) 5 MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainers) 9 partners 200 attendees (planned) Besides the content, it’s also the occasion to develop your network, eat some Schwartz (smoked meat) and “SharePint” (Share a pint) !

This year again I have the honour to be selected to speak at the Techorama Belgium 2018. It is a paid event taking place at the Kinepolis Antwerp (attending/speaking in a cinema theater is really cool!) from May 23rd and 24th. They have a great content, great speakers (many folks from Microsoft or other MVPs) and if you haven’t booked your ticket yet, I suggest you do! I’ll be giving two sessions that are related: