Mondays at Microsoft
Welcome back to Mondays at Microsoft with Heather Cook — and this week’s guest host Rob Nunez, Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft! Together they bring you your 30-minute breakdown of what’s ahead across the Microsoft world with a focus on Modern Work, AI, and Power Platform. In this episode: • Toastmasters embraces AI to support speakers worldwide: • Quantum-safe security: how Microsoft is preparing for the future of cryptography: • NFL + Microsoft Copilot: AI on the sidelines for faster, smarter strategy: • GitHub Copilot powers Argentina’s banking breakthrough: ...
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Welcome back to Mondays at Microsoft with Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook 🎙️ — your 30-minute breakdown of what’s ahead across the Microsoft world with a focus on Modern Work, AI, and Power Platform. In this episode: GPT-5 arrives — the most advanced AI yet, now in Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry How the Greater Austin YMCA tackled the child care gap with Microsoft tech Xbox amplifies Indigenous voices in gaming Excel gets smarter with PivotTable Auto Refresh Hidden OneDrive features you didn’t know you needed Plus community events, product updates, and more! ...
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Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as she take you through the latest in #AI news, #Microsoft365 product updates, and community news & events.
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Join Heather Cook as she take you through the latest in #AI news, #Microsoft365 product updates, and community news & events. SHOW LINKS: 💡Announcing Microsoft Elevate and the AI Economy Institute — 📖 Learn how to build an AI-powered, unified SOC in new Microsoft eBook — 📞 Announcing transferred call summarization with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams — 🎙️Microsoft Research Podcast, new episode: "How AI will accelerate biomedical research and discovery" — 🎥 Microsoft-led webinars series | Frontline Fridays: Empowering frontline...
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Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in #AI news, #Microsoft365 product updates, and community news & events. SHOW LINKS: 📅 Show reminder — 📝 Recap blogs on the Microsoft Tech Community — 🔔 Follow Microsoft Community on Facebook — ⏰ "Infinite Workday" insights — 🏢 AI Co-Innovation Lab in Wisconsin — 🩺 PadChest-GR: AI & Medical Imaging — 🎥 Frontline Fridays sessions — 🎓 Customer Hub webinars — 🏆 Imagine Cup AI winners — 🍽️ Steijn AI assistant in the Netherlands — 💡 AI Agents...
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Get ready for the next two weeks across the Microsoft world with Mondays at Microsoft. Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook break down the big stories—from Modern Work to AI and Power Platform! Show Notes / Resource Links: Show reminder — Community News Desk recap blogs — Follow Microsoft Community on Facebook — Azure AI Foundry innovations with DeepSeek-R1-0528 — Announcing comprehensive sovereign solutions empowering European organizations — Watch Microsoft 365 Community Conference keynotes, interviews and more — "Meet 4 developers...
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Join Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook as they take you through the latest in #AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news & events. Karuana Gatimu – Director of Customer Advocacy for AI & Collaboration Heather Cook – Principal Community Evangelist, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group This week’s episode dives into: Supporting animal welfare organizations with an Xbox game A powerful AI model redefining environmental forecasting How Special Olympics is using Copilot to empower athletes and operations https://aka.ms/MondaysAtMicrosoft...
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LIVE from Las Vegas, NV, during #M365Con, Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook take you through the latest in #AI news, Microsoft 365 product updates, and community news and events. Episode 48 of "Mondays at Microsoft" originally aired on LinkedIn, Monday, May 5th, 8:00 AM PT! Resource Links: Mondays at Microsoft is now available as a podcast: , , or wherever you get your favorite tech podcasts. View the Microsoft 365 Community Conference Event Guide: Opening Keynote: "Microsoft 365 Innovation in the Era of AI" | Jeff Teper (President –...
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Expect a few Easter Eggs of the technical kind as Karuana and Heather take you through the latest in AI news, product updates, and community news and events. Resource Links: •"Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success" by Bret Arsenault — aka.ms/SecureByDesignJourney • Join the Women in M365 community on LinkedIn — aka.ms/WomenInM365Community • Share your Community story, be featured at upcoming events — aka.ms/ShareYourCommunityStory • "A Colombian judge leads judicial transformation with Copilot" by Juan Montes — • Saving the Paramount...
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It's been a busy last few weeks, with the and planning for the . and keep you grounded with the latest in #AI, broader product awareness, community activities and events, and more. Aired Monday, March 10th, 8 AM PT Resource links mentioned during the episode: Up your SharePoint IQ! Watch the SharePoint event "From Concept, to Creation, to Impact" + live AMA with , , and and the SharePoint team members: Submit your creations to SharePoint Hackathon | Hack submissions open from March 3-17, 2025: ....
info_outlineKickstart November 2024 with the goodness of community news and events. Your co-hosts, Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook, along with security expert, Virginia Bryant. Aired live on Monday, Nov. 4th, 2024.
Show notes and links to all that was shared and discussed during this episode:
- Jay Parikh joins the senior leadership at Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/10/31/microsoft-names-jay-parikh-as-a-member-of-the-senior-leadership-team/
- Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/29/midnight-blizzard-conducts-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-using-rdp-files/
With Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, Pets at Home unleashes an AI revolution leveraging the Azure platform – https://aka.ms/PetsAtHome. - Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions – https://aka.ms/LowCarbonDatacenters. Microsoft's goal: By 2030, it would be “carbon negative” – meaning it would take more carbon out of the atmosphere than it emits. And by 2050 it would remove from the atmosphere the equivalent of all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975.
- "Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams" by Jeff Teper - https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/Blog.
- Review the "Meet the Makers" episode with Teams leadership: https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/MeetTheMakers.
- Join our Teams chat and channels AMA next Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 10am PST: https://aka.ms/Teams/NewChatChannels/AMA.
- "Microsoft 365 Copilot drove up to 353% ROI for small and medium businesses—new study" by Brenna Robinson – https://aka.ms/Copilot/SMB/ROIstudy.
- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 – https://aka.ms/DigitalDefenseReport2024.
- "2024 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform now available " by Ryan Darby Martin - https://aka.ms/Dynamics365/2024ReleaseWave2.
- Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich Learn To... Use AI and Know AI Limitations (Episode 3) - https://aka.ms/ScottAndMarkLearnTo/Ep3.
- "Fabric Influencers Spotlight October 2024" by Rie Merritt - https://aka.ms/Fabric/InfluencersSpotlight.
- Find your next event: https://CommunityDays.org.
- Microsoft Ignite | November 19-22, 2024, in Chicago, USA – https://ignite.microsoft.com.
- Check the #ESPC24 event guide: https://aka.ms/ESPC2024/EventGuide by Heather Cook.