Microsoft MVP Community Week 2026 in Münster. (Only German)

Copilot can do more than you think – if you know how!

Speaker: Fabio Bonolo, Microsoft MVP | Team Leader Productivity @ redIT

Discover how Copilot Studio Agents seamlessly connect with Atlassian Jira and Confluence MCP servers to revolutionise enterprise workflows.

Speaker: Ragnar Heil, MVP M365 Apps & Services & Copilot, Business Dev Manager Microsoft at HanseVision (Bechtle)

Copilot is not just another software component – it represents a leap from searching to understanding, from clicking to creating.

Speaker: Patrick Kelbch, Microsoft 365 Copilot Expert

Until now, interaction has mostly followed the same pattern: ask a question, get an answer, move on. Copilot Notebooks break with this pattern.

Speaker: Christoph Twiehaus, Productivity Experience Evangelist | Microsoft MVP

Business apps are often built for functionality. Games are built for engagement. In this session, we'll pull off a little UX heist: we'll ‘steal’ proven game UX patterns and transfer them to business applications in the Microsoft environment.

Speaker: Sandra Kiel, Managing Director and Microsoft MVP

How to strategically shape productivity with Microsoft 365, Copilot and clear methods.

Speakers: Christoph Twiehaus, Productivity Experience Evangelist | Microsoft MVP
Andreas Schlüter, #MrPowerMagic | make your work flow!

In this session, I’ll share how organizations can move beyond experimentation and build meaningful applications with Azure AI Foundry.

Speaker: Ferdi Lethen-Oellers, Microsoft MVP | Increasing productivity in everyday work with Microsoft 365 | Modern Workplace enthusiast and expert in the Microsoft 365 environment

As AI systems evolve from single-task assistants to collaborative digital workforces, the need for scalable, modular, and intelligent agent architectures is more urgent than ever.

Speaker: Arin Roy, Principal Architect & Azure (AI) MVP, Capgemini

This session will guide you through the journey of leveraging AI from the initial concept phase to the deployment of a functional and efficient application.

Speaker: Jannik Reinhard, Head of AI and Lead at Epic Fusion Germany & Dual MVP (Intune & AI Platform)

Traditional API patterns often introduce unnecessary friction, tight coupling, and governance gaps, especially when LLMs are involved. 

Speaker: Arin Roy, Principal Architect & Azure (AI) MVP, Capgemini 

This session shows how to modernise cloud systems so they can run, scale, and evolve intelligent applications using cloud-native and GenAI-driven architectures.

Speaker: Radu Vunvulea, Technology Enthusiast, Microsoft Azure MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, Group Head of Cloud - Endava

This session demonstrates how organisations can implement Copilot and AI agents in a legally compliant, controlled and transparent manner. The focus is on governance, the GDPR, the EU AI Act and employee participation. Practical examples provide concrete measures, safeguards and recommendations for safe implementation and day to-day operation!

Speaker: Raphael Köllner, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP for Office Apps and Services, Windows Insider MVP, podcaster, speaker

There are many ways to connect and optimise the cloud.

Speaker: Markus Klein, Azure Expert DC Migration, BCDR & Connectivity

As organizations embrace AI agents to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, and interact with sensitive data, the Zero Trust security model becomes more critical than ever.

Speaker: Adnan Hendricks, @Microspecialist #InTheCLoud Securely with Ai & Azure

AI solutions such as Microsoft Copilot promise huge productivity gains. At the same time, the risk of data leakage, compliance breaches and ‘shadow AI’ scenarios is growing. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how organisations can use Microsoft Purview to lay the foundations for responsible AI usage: from transparent data classification and sensitivity labels, through data loss prevention, to audit and insider risk management. Practical examples will illustrate how business-critical information can be protected without hindering innovation.

Speaker: Julian Kusenberg, MVP Purview | Senior Consultant, SoftwareOne

Speaker: Julian Kusenberg, MVP Purview | Senior Consultant, SoftwareOne

This session demonstrates how Zero Trust goes beyond mere technology to integrate security and compliance. Security.Microsoft.com and Compliance.Microsoft.com explain how CISOs can centrally monitor and manage incidents, apps and compliance. This is complemented by Identity and Data Access Governance in Microsoft 365 IT.

Speaker: Nicki Borell Microsoft 365 Consultant | Microsoft MVP

New autonomous AI agents such as OpenClaw are extremely powerful and exceptionally capable. However, they pose significant compliance and security risks. In this session, we will examine in detail whether on-premises hosting can provide a significant solution to these issues and how you might implement such solutions. The aim is to help you sleep better at night, despite the emergence of new autonomous AI agents. Hardware will be demonstrated using the HP ZGX Nano AI Station and NVIDIA NemoClaw.
Speaker: Ragnar Heil, MVP M365 Apps & Services & Copilot, Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft at HanseVision 

Modern cybersecurity failures are rarely about zero-days — they are about persistent misconfigurations and skills gaps that attackers continue to exploit. Even the best technology, when misconfigured or underutilized, becomes an opportunity rather than a defense.

Speaker: Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of CQURE, Cybersecurity Expert

Use of the cloud is growing steadily – many companies are expanding their data centres or migrating existing services to cloud providers.

Speaker: Gregor Reimling, MVP for Azure and MS Security, Chief Azure Technologist

Active Directory will remain with us for a while yet, and it continues to offer some popular paths for attackers to spread and escalate.

Speaker: Evgenij Smirnov, Principal Solutions Architect @ Semperis

This session offers a compact, practical overview of the central question facing many organisations: How much on-premises infrastructure is still necessary, and how can a secure transition to the cloud be achieved?

Speaker: Thomas Stensitzki, MVP, MCT, Author, Blogger - Granikos GmbH & Co. KG

Most organisations do ‘something’ with PowerShell in system administration. And because the tool is so powerful, its areas of application are also extremely variable.

Speaker: Evgenij Smirnov, Principal Solutions Architect @ Semperis

2026 will bring significant changes to on-premises environments: shorter certificate validity periods, the removal of the ClientAuthenticationEKU, the deprecation of NTLM, Kerberos with AES as the default, and expiring UEFI BIOS certificates. This session highlights the implications and risks, and demonstrates how isExchangeCloudManaged can assist in phasing out on-premises Exchange servers.
Speaker: Frank Carius, MSXFAQ | Microsoft MVP | Microsoft Certified Master | Microsoft 365 | Tech Speaker

Standing still is not an option in modern IT. Even in 2026, Microsoft will continue to drive the evolution of its infrastructure platforms at a rapid pace. The boundaries between traditional data centres and the cloud are becoming increasingly blurred, and the demands for security, scalability and hybrid management are constantly rising.
Speaker: Carsten Rachfahl, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP & Azure MVP