The Copilot Connection

Send us a text 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 co...

Send us a text 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 an...

Send us a text 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/po...

Send us a text 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...

Send us a text 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 t...

Send us a text 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 an...

Send us a text 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...

Send us a text 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 a...

Send us a text 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 th...

Send us a text Twelth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Mark Rackley Mark 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...

Send us a text Eleven of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Angeliki Patsiavou Angeliki 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 ar...

Send us a text Tenth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Angel David Carillo Angel 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...

Send us a text Ninth of Twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Pragati Jain Pragati 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 m...

Send us a text Eighth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Gosia Borzecka Gosia 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 | LinkedIn Gosia Borzęcka (@GosiaBorzecka) / X (tw...

Send us a text Seventh of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Chris Lloyd-Jones Chris 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 wh...

Send us a text Sixth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Rishi Sapra Rishi sees Copilot as a tool for creativity and insight, rather than automation. He thinks it can help technologists understand the business questions and the data model better Listen to find out which areas of Copilot frustrate him and his hopes for what Copilot will become Ris...

Send us a text Fifth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Vesa Juvonen Vesa is a principal product manager in the Microsoft 365 platform who works remotely from Seattle. He is excited about Copilot's potential to increase productivity and innovation for enterprise customers. Listen to hear his favourite features and also the magic he thinks partne...

Send us a text Fourth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Simon Doy Simon likes the development side of things and breaking down application barriers with Copilot. He is excited about the opportunities to bring business data and take actions with Copilot. Listen to find out how he used Copilot to make his daughter's birthday even more special. Si...

Send us a text Third of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Marc D Anderson Marc is a natural skeptic who thinks that Copilot often gives unsatisfying or wrong answers that require extra thinking and verification. Find out what he thinks about the longevity and Return on Investment (ROI) of Copilot as well as any parts he might like! Marc D Anderson...

Send us a text Second of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Tom Morgan Tom uses GitHub Copilot to develop things on Microsoft 365 platform, and finds it useful for taking out some of the tedious tasks that he already knows how to do as well as learning with it. Listen to find out how he built using a new language to him and how Copilot may help jun...

Send us a text One of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit. Interviewee today - Darrell Webster Darryl is a change manager and adoption specialist who likes creating videos and helping people make sense of technology. Find out what he thinks about Copilot and the insights it can bring as well as the areas of concern he has. Darrell (as a Service) Webster | LinkedIn Darre...

Send us a text After a small pause due to travel, we are back with our thoughts from the MVP Summit without jeopardising our NDAs. As well as those thoughts, we pick up on the latest news and play a longer interview with Aaron Reich , CTO of Avanade, covering his thoughts and views on the Copilots, recorded live on the Microsoft campus. Listen to the second half of the show to hear what it means t...

Send us a text With more and more people getting access to all the different Copilots, there are more myths that are appearing online. So, in this episode, Zoe and Kevin take a look at some of those myths and either bust them or add the detail behind the truth of each of them, Plus, we highlight some of the latest news along the way including some potential new text to video for Copilot (warning -...

Send us a text In this podcast episode, Kevin runs solo to talk about the extensibility of Copilot. he covers the impact of Copilot on organizations, how to prepare for it, and how to extend it. The episode also features interviews with Garry Trinder (developer advocate at Microsoft) and Anoop Tatti (Team Lead at Advania), who share their experiences with Copilot and its extensions. The episode de...

Send us a text Welcome to this episode of the Copilot Connection podcast, where we share the latest news, insights, and capabilities of the Microsoft Copilots ecosystem. In this episode, your hosts Kevin and Zoe discuss the latest announcements in the copilot space, including the lifting of the 300 seat limit and the availability of Copilot Pro. They also delve into the human impact of Copilot, sh...