Join us at the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Technical Summit, November 4-7, 2024. From new features to established functionalities, our interactive sessions guide you through the most effective ways to implement, integrate, and extend our solutions to fit your unique needs.
Register for each day by selecting the session set you want.
Welcome to the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Technical Summit
Kelsey Bloomquist
Begin the summit with a comprehensive overview of the four-day event. This session provides essential insights into the agenda and key components, ensuring you have the information needed to maximize your summit experience.
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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Technical Summit opening keynote
Brandon Potter
In an era where sustainability is a necessity, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability emerges as a transformative force for businesses and organizations worldwide. This session explores the suite of tools designed to measure, understand, and reduce environmental impact, seamlessly integrating with existing systems to drive eco-conscious decisions.
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Operating Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: People, process, and technology
Ravi Gangadharan
Deploying Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability only marks the beginning of your journey towards sustainability. Effective operation and maintenance are key to unlocking its full potential. This session covers the essential components for successful post-deployment operations, emphasizing people, process, and technology.
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Navigate sustainability regulations with Copilot Studio and Dataverse
Robin Smith and Nikol Vladinska
Explore how Copilot Studio and Dataverse, integrated with Microsoft Sustainability Manager, can help you meet sustainability regulations. Learn to configure SBTi and EU CBAM templates, integrate open data sources, and create custom Copilots to advance your sustainability efforts.
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End-to-end sustainability tracking and reporting for SMBs
Aleksandar Totovic
Sustainability tracking and reporting aren’t just for large enterprises—SMBs face growing regulatory demands and reputational risks, too. Join this session to learn how Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability provides a product for SMBs with a simplified user experience and robust features, helping them meet compliance requirements and enhance brand responsibility.
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Simplify processes with Project ESG Reporting (preview)
Sai Raghuveer Koduri and Gabby Skladman
ESG disclosure reporting can be a complex process with multiple frameworks and standards. Discover how our solution simplifies the process with standard templates and streamlined workflows for creating, completing, and approving ESG reports across various metrics.
Value chain calculations in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Rohan Jha
The ESG value chain solution is designed to help customers easily collect data from their value chain partners. This session highlights using this data for calculations and analytics within Microsoft Sustainability Manager, enhancing sustainability reporting and decision-making.
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Effective emission calculation design practices in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Vidyasagar Chitchula and Sachin Yelkar
Microsoft Sustainability Manager provides a robust platform for designing and modeling emission calculations, including emission factors, factor libraries, factor mappings, calculation models, and profiles. This session showcases two customer scenarios and discusses good design practices, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of design considerations.
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Streamline emissions reporting for diverse regulatory standards
Tafazzul Khan
Navigate the complex regulatory landscape with ease using Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Join us to learn how it can enable users to craft customized emission reports that meet the diverse demands of various regulatory bodies and regional standards.
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Data progression insights using data trail reports
Tafazzul Khan
Microsoft Sustainability Manager offers a data trail report for all emissions records, aiding effective decision-making and ensuring compliance with sustainability goals. Organizations can gain insights into their data’s progression and export detailed reports, making it easier to track their data’s history.
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Brewing sustainability: Best practices for custom dimensions, factor mappings, and data model extensions
Zoltan Banyai and Steven Pride
Join us to explore how Contoso Coffee uses Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to improve their environmental impact. This session showcases the practical applications of custom dimensions, factor mappings, and data model extensions. Discover the best scenarios for each customization option to meet your business needs.
Advanced application lifecycle management (ALM) in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Goksel Oral and Andrea Coluccio
Promoting controlled changes in Microsoft Sustainability Manager environments is crucial. Organizations aim to empower users to customize Sustainability Manager while ensuring governance, compliance, and traceability. This session covers advanced ALM scenarios, CI/CD pipelines, and best practices using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
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Implement hierarchical security in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Sachin Yelkar and Zoltan Banyai
Gain comprehensive knowledge on configuring custom security roles and access within Microsoft Sustainability Manager, focusing on data confidentiality across organizational levels. This session covers the role-based security model, business units, security roles, privileges, and best practices for Dataverse security roles, including custom scenarios and their implications.
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Custom connectors unleashed: Power up Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Goksel Oral and Steven Pride
Enhance Microsoft Sustainability Manager with custom connectors. This session guides you through the design and development process, offering best practices while creating custom connectors for your Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solutions.
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Reporting techniques in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Andrea Coluccio
Unlock the power of data insights with sustainability solutions. This session explores Sustainability Manager’s reporting architecture, covering basic and advanced custom reporting scenarios. We’ll also discuss how business users can interactively analyze Sustainability Manager data without relying on prebuilt dashboards.
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Developer's guide to troubleshooting Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Steven Pride
Navigate your deployment with confidence using our practical troubleshooting guide for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. This session addresses common challenges and provides actionable solutions, ideal for enhancing your skills and staying current with best practices. Elevate your technical expertise and ensure seamless operations.
Sustainability data solutions in Fabric: A comprehensive ESG data platform
Sourav Chakraborty
Learn to deploy, configure, and use Sustainability Data Solutions in Fabric to centralize data from various sources into a standardized ESG data lake. Compute ESG metrics for regulatory disclosures and analyze the data to optimize business operations and reduce environmental impact. This session guides you in creating a unified ESG data lake in Fabric, meeting regulatory disclosure obligations, and gaining actionable insights to achieve sustainability goals.
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Streamline ESG data ingestion with Sustainability data solutions in Fabric
Abhinav Premsekhar
Discover how to centralize your sustainability data from disparate sources into a standardized ESG data model for advanced analytics and reporting. This session guides you through data ingestion stages, including setting up reference data, harmonizing keys, storing organization hierarchies, transforming measurement data, and identifying target tables in the ESG data model.
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Unlock the power of ESG metrics with Microsoft Fabric
Neha Gupta
ESG metrics empower users to understand and compute relevant environmental, social, and governance data, storing results for visualization, reporting, or integration with ISVs. This session explores key components like aggregate tables, prebuilt metric definitions, utility functions, semantic models, and pipelines. Learn the end-to-end workflow for computing and visualizing prebuilt metrics, and creating custom metrics.
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Harnessing Microsoft Azure emission insights
Keerthika Varadarajan
Discover how Microsoft Azure Emission Insights in Sustainability Data Solutions in Fabric enables you to store, query, and analyze Azure cloud emissions. Learn to enrich and aggregate emissions data, create interactive dashboards, and derive insights from your organizational data sources. This session provides a comprehensive overview of managing and visualizing cloud emissions data to identify opportunities for workload optimization.
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Exploring sustainability insights with Copilot Studio
Neha Gupta
Leverage guided conversations with the Sustainability Insights Copilot to easily access relevant company sustainability information without needing domain knowledge. This session covers various scenarios for effective Copilot use, including an end-to-end demonstration of publishing with organization-specific documents, sample conversations, and adding custom topics to curate responses.
