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Discover how organisations are building practical AI capability with Microsoft Copilot, Zero Trust, and robust data security. Learn actionable strategies for readiness, compliance, and continuous professional development in a rapidly evolving tech landscape featuring insights from Sam Brazier-Hollins.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/788

👉 What you’ll learn

Assess Copilot readiness and secure sensitive data before deployment
Apply Zero Trust principles and simplify data labelling for real-world use
Use Copilot to streamline meetings, notes, and executive summaries
Identify and address over-shared information risks in M365
Build a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing in tech teams

✅ Highlights

“We call it a M365 Copilot readiness assessment, where we go and look at your data.”
“Zero Trust is a great one. It spikes up every sort of year.”
“Data labelling is really key. Keep it simple so users don’t overthink.”
“Copilot is so powerful at finding information that’s been lost somewhere.”
“Mandatory labelling: before you can hit save, you have to enforce it there.”
“Meeting recordings and Teams notes - Copilot can summarise, give action items, and minutes.”
“The value of having this licence is we’ve saved 2 man hours of this consultant.”
“Security Copilot is really good at certain use cases. Some predefined ones work exactly as they say on the tin.”
“Continuous professional development - can’t just rely on what you knew last month or last year.”
“The best person in the team isn’t the person who’s got the most information. It’s the person who’s best at sharing.”
“Microsoft’s changing those things, they’re now disabling basic authentication, great.”
“It’s constantly changing and there’s a bit of that sort of almost gamification of it.”

🧰 Mentioned

Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Purview - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-purview
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7

✅ Keywords
copilot, zero trust, data labelling, security, microsoft 365, purview, compliance, teams, sharepoint online, professional development, knowledge sharing, australian government

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