Microsoft Elevate for Education: What Ignite means for your institution
What does the future of a Frontier Institution look like?
Tuesday 1st December
14:00-15:00
Microsoft Teams
Education sector
Schools, trusts, colleges, and universities are navigating growing workloads, budget pressures, and increasing expectations around digital transformation.
At the same time, AI is reshaping how institutions teach, support students, manage operations, and make decisions.
Join Phoenix and Microsoft for an interactive session as we explore Microsoft’s latest innovations, showcased at Ignite and supported through Microsoft Elevate. We’ll discuss how these innovations can help education organisations become future-ready while maintaining security, governance, and trust.
Together, we’ll discuss what a Frontier Institution looks like in practice and how education leaders can confidently take their next step.
Why attend?
Microsoft Elevate brings together tools, resources, and support designed to help education organisations maximise the value of technology and AI. During this webinar, we’ll discuss how the latest Microsoft announcements can help institutions:
Reduce staff workload and administration
Create more time for teaching and learner support
Improve security and cyber resilience
Unlock value from existing data
Simplify device management
Develop a roadmap for AI adoption
What we’ll discuss
Go beyond the headlines with our interactive panel as we unpack brand-new announcements from Ignite. Our specialists will explain what’s changing, explore the benefits for education, and share where we see the strongest opportunities to put these innovations to use.
- Copilot and AI Agents: This is an area evolving at pace, with adoption accelerating. Be among the first to hear what’s on the roadmap.
- Power Platform: Discover what’s new in apps and automation, and where we see opportunities to turn time-consuming processes into simpler workflows. We’ll explore how the announcements could help academic and administrative teams reduce manual tasks and free up time.
- Security: Make sense of the latest security announcements and what they could mean for your institution. We’ll discuss their role in protecting students, staff, and data. As well as strengthening cyber resilience and supporting confident AI adoption.
- Azure and data: Explore the latest cloud and data announcements, with our take on how institutions could put them to work. We’ll discuss opportunities to turn existing data into useful insights for planning, teaching, and day-to-day operations.
- Cloud endpoints: Hear what’s next for devices and cloud-based working, and how the new announcements could translate into simpler management and better everyday experiences. We’ll explore potential uses across classrooms, campuses, and remote environments.
Meet your speakers
Tom Connolly
Divisional Sales Manager – Education
Lewis Thomson
AI Workforce Lead
Steev Bras
Power Platform Specialist
Lee Brown
Head of Cyber Security
Daniel Bowker
Cloud Endpoint Solutions Lead