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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
✅ Keywords
copilot, zero trust, data labelling, security, microsoft 365, purview, compliance, teams, sharepoint online, professional development, knowledge sharing, australian government
Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption
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