The Copilot Connection

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Welcome to Copilot Connection, the podcast that explores the world of Microsoft Copilots! Join your hosts, Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell, as they take you on a journey through the different Copilots available and how they can help you in your day-to-day life. From the newly launch date announced Microsoft 365 Copilot to the Dynamics 365, GitHub, Windows, Custom and more Copilots, we'll cover it all. Our upbeat and engaging conversations with experts in the field will keep you entertained and informed. Tune in to Copilot Connection and discover how these AI-powered assistants can transform the way you work!

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Ep 16 - Recap from Microsoft Build 2024 with focus on Copilot extensions

May 24 2024 60 mins

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 a

Ep 15 - The roadmap for Copilot for Microsoft 365

May 07 2024 68 mins

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

Ep 14 - Copilot Readiness with Michal Pisarek

Apr 21 2024 79 mins

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 labelsZoe and

Ep 13 - Copilot for Security with Ru Campbell

Apr 12 2024 43 mins

With Copilot for Security released on 1 April, we thought we should bring some real experience of trying it out from one of the top MVPs in Security. Ru Campbell (Twitter, LinkedIn) joined us to talk about:- What is Copilot Security?- What is it used for and by who?- How has his experience with it been compared with the marketing?This was a great chat that cut through into the real

Ep 12l - MVP Summit bonus with Mark Rackley

Apr 09 2024 5 mins

Twelth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Mark RackleyMark thinks that copilot is a vague term that can mean different things to different people, and he wants to help people understand what it is. Mark has some great use cases like finding presentations that were shared with him by using natural language queries.Listen to find ou

Ep 12k - MVP Summit bonus with Angeliki Patsiavou

Apr 08 2024 6 mins

Eleven of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Angeliki PatsiavouAngeliki sees copilot as a way to increase productivity, creativity, and innovation for individuals, teams, and organizations. She uses copilot for M365 to get technical content and learn about power FX queries and functions.Listen to find out about what concerns her arou

Ep 12j - MVP Summit bonus with Angel David Carillo

Apr 07 2024 6 mins

Tenth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Angel David CarilloAngel uses Copilot a lot in Microsoft Teams, especially for searching for information. He finds it easier and faster than using other tools or navigating to the location of the information. He also uses Copilot as his personal assistant for finding answers to any kind of

Ep 12i - MVP Summit bonus with Pragati Jain

Apr 06 2024 7 mins

Ninth of Twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Pragati JainPragati finds Copilot helpful to start developing something, add comments to her calculations, and learn PySpark coding but worries that Copilot is not always right and she needs to validate results.Listen to find out how she thinks Copilot will soon be able to help with the mos

Ep 12h - MVP Summit bonus with Gosia Borzecka

Apr 05 2024 3 mins

Eighth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Gosia BorzeckaGosia works in the AI space and talks here about the comparisons between Copilot Studio and AI Studio/Azure Search. Listen to find out more about how she thinks that this plays with Copilot.🐱‍💻 Gosia (Małgorzata) Borzęcka | LinkedInGosia Borzęcka (@GosiaBorzecka) /

Ep 12g - MVP Summit bonus with Chris Lloyd-Jones

Apr 04 2024 4 mins

Seventh of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.Interviewee today - Chris Lloyd-JonesChris was impressed by how GitHub Copilot could generate code from comments and help him achieve a flow state.Listen to find out how he thinks the Copilots could follow him across applications.Listen to find out which areas of Copilot frustrate him and his hopes for what