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Thu Nov 12 2026 at 10:00 am to 04:15 pm UTC-05:00

Workplace Ninjas US Boston Meetup

  • 5 Wayside Rd · Burlington
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This will be the meetup for Workplace Ninjas US Boston at the Innovation Hub in Burlington, MA. The agenda can be seen below.
Agenda

🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Introduction
Host: Jon Towles
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Toolkit for Building Agents: M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, SharePoint & Cowork
Host: Manpreet Singh

Info: Building enterprise AI agents doesn’t have to start from scratch. In this practical, demo-driven session, explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, SharePoint, and Copilot Cowork come together to create intelligent, secure, and context-aware agents for real-world business scenarios.

We’ll explore the complete agent-building toolkit—from using Microsoft 365 Copilot to enhance everyday productivity, to extending capabilities with Copilot Studio, grounding agents in organizational knowledge through SharePoint, and enabling agents to collaborate and execute multi-step work with Copilot Cowork.

Through real-world demos, you’ll see how agents can access enterprise knowledge, reason over content, automate processes, collaborate across tasks, and take meaningful actions across Microsoft 365. We’ll also cover key considerations around knowledge, actions, security, governance, and scalability when moving from simple copilots to enterprise-ready agentic solutions.


🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Break
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
PSAppDeployToolkit 4.2: Smarter Deployments and Modern PowerShell UI
Host: Dan Cunningham

Info: PSAppDeployToolkit 4.2 brings significant improvements to application deployment, from a faster, leaner architecture and simplified package creation to more flexible user interaction and improved reliability.

Join PSAppDeployToolkit co-founder and developer Dan Cunningham for a technical deep dive into what's new in 4.2, why these changes matter, and how to put them to work in real-world Intune and Configuration Manager deployments.

We'll also go behind the scenes of Fluence.Wpf, the open-source UI library powering PSADT's modern Fluent interface, before introducing Fluence.Wpf.PowerShell: a new way to create polished Windows dialogs, interactive forms, progress indicators, and even fully customized interfaces directly from PowerShell.

Expect practical examples, live demonstrations, and a look at the engineering decisions behind the tools. Whether you're packaging enterprise applications or developing your own PowerShell-based administration tools.


🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Sponsored Session
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
A Year of Workforce Passkeys in Entra ID: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
Host: Eric Woodruff

Info: Passkeys are now the default authentication method in Entra ID, users are getting push to register them, but there is much more to ensuring a smooth passkey rollout, and securing your enterprise, than just a nudge campaign.

In this session, we’ll dive into what passkeys have looked like across the enterprise when phishing-resistant authentication is the only option, giving you a taste of what’s ahead.


🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Debugging skills in Windows
Host: Tim Mangan

Info: Everyone has to debug something on Windows now and then. You probably have used all of the tools that we will dive into. But did anyone every train you how to use them effectively? We will take on a few of these in this session.


🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Break
🕑: 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Who Governs the Bots? Securing Workload and Agent Identities in Microsoft Entr
Host: Sudheer Kotilingala

Info: Service principals, managed identities, app registrations, automation accounts, and now Copilot and AI agents are multiplying across Microsoft tenants. Non-human identities now outnumber human users in most organizations. Many are created by scripts and DevOps pipelines with no owner, no expiry, and hardcoded secrets. This leaves an attack surface that user-focused Conditional Access policies were never designed to cover.

This session focuses on the identities nobody signs in as. Sudheer brings more than 20 years of enterprise IAM architecture experience, including leading AccessHUB, a risk-based access platform that integrates over 3,500 applications and 50,000 servers. He turns lessons from governing access at that scale into a practical Zero Trust blueprint for Entra administrators and security teams.


🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Closing
Host: Jon Towles
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5 Wayside Rd, 5 Wayside Road, Burlington, United States

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