Two hundred and seven exhibitors, 1,407 sessions, and 20,000 attendees will be at Microsoft Ignite 2016 – so how do you avoid getting overwhelmed while making sure you get as much out of the conference as possible? There’s plenty of advice out there for planning your Microsoft Ignite schedule and how to spend your time in Atlanta. We also wanted to make sure you know where to find us during the conference, so we put together this post with a list of what we have going on!

AvePoint at the Expo

Visit our team at booth #1104 to see live demos of our latest solutions and product previews for SharePoint and Office 365 migration, management, and protection.

Migration

See how our DocAve High Speed Migration for Office 365 moves content from on-premises SharePoint, file shares, and LiveLink to SharePoint Online up to 10 times faster than conventional methods. If you’re looking to get to the cloud quickly, an AvePoint expert will be happy to help!

Management

New capabilities in AvePoint Online Services automate governance and lifecycle management of Office 365 Groups and users – quickly provisioning and de-provisioning approved services for business users, saving time for administrators, and ensuring organizational policies are met.

We also recently introduced AvePoint Online Services for Partners, for our partners who provide managed services for Office 365 customers. With this addition, partners access a portal to better manage client deployments using AvePoint Online Services.

Protection

Take a risk-based approach to protecting your IT systems with DocAve Governance Automation provides with access to a single governance system that allows businesses to easily manage the latest SharePoint versions under a centralized platform.

Get a Free Consultation

We’re offering complimentary consultations just for Ignite attendees! Sign up today to reserve 30 minutes to pick the brain of an AvePoint consultant and strategize around Office 365 and SharePoint migration and governance.

Enter our Ducati Giveaway

You could go home with more than just SWAG! Enter our raffle for a brand new 2016 Ducati Scrambler by scanning your event badge at booth #1104 and getting a raffle ticket. Earn additional entries by completing one or more of these activities:

• Attend a demo session at our booth
• Take a selfie at our booth and tweet it to us @AvePoint_Inc using the hashtag #MSIgnite
• Subscribe to our blog

Enter the raffle anytime until the drawing at 3:45pm on Thursday, September 29. Winner must be present at the drawing to accept the prize!

AvePoint Sessions

AvePoint will have speakers at five sessions throughout the conference:

Dive into Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Hybrid Scenarios

Time and Date: 2:15pm-3:30pm on Tuesday, September 27

Presenters: Bill Baer – Senior Product Manager, Microsoft; Richard Taylor – Strategic Consultant, AvePoint

Accelerate digital transformation success: how NBCU established SharePoint as an Enterprise Service

Time and Date: 4:00pm-5:15pm on Tuesday, September 27

Presenters: Charles E. Williams II – Senior Director of Service Strategy and Collaboration Engineering, NBCUniversal; Dux Raymond Sy – CTO at AvePoint Public Sector

 Use the right tools to achieve project management success (morning session)

Time and Date: 11:05am-11:25am on Wednesday, September 28

Presenters: Dux Raymond Sy – CTO at AvePoint Public Sector; Mike McLean, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

So you found an Office 365 DLP violation…now what?

Time and Date: 12:40pm-1pm on Wednesday, September 28

Presenter: John Hodges – VP, Product Strategy at AvePoint

Use the right tools to achieve project management success (afternoon session)

Time and Date: 5:05pm-5:25pm on Wednesday, September 28

Presenters: Dux Raymond Sy – CTO at AvePoint Public Sector; Mike McLean, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

AvePoint RED Party

And finally, the details for the hottest party at Ignite – our RED Party! This year’s bash is from 9pm-1am on Tuesday, September 27 at Tongue & Groove.

To secure your spot on our VIP list, contact your AvePoint account manager. Otherwise, stop by booth #1104 between 4pm-6pm on Tuesday, September 27, to pick up a wristband. Wristbands will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis!

If you can make it to the party, don’t forget to tag your photos with #AvePointRED on Twitter and Instagram so we can see what a great time you’re having!

More Things to do at Ignite

We hope to see you throughout the week! If you’re looking for other recommendations for things to do at the conference, check out these blog posts:

• 10 Office 365 Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss
• 6 Microsoft Ignite SharePoint 2016 Sessions You’ll Want to Attend

Can’t Make it to Atlanta?

Don’t miss our Ignite recap webinar! We’ll be sharing key lessons learned and bring clarity to the news that comes out of Atlanta to help you get ready for what’s next from Microsoft.