Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026

Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026

April 21–23, 2026 | Orlando, Florida

We’re headed to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference this April, and looking forward to connecting with IT leaders, Microsoft 365 professionals, and data management experts from across the country.

Hosted by the Microsoft 365 Community, this annual event brings professionals together to explore the latest innovations including data governance, security, collaboration, and AI-driven productivity.

Why Attend

As organizations continue to scale their Microsoft environments, managing content sprawl, ensuring compliance, and maintaining data accessibility has become increasingly complex.

M365 is designed to address these challenges head-on, with sessions focused on:

• Data governance and compliance
• Information lifecycle management
• Security and risk mitigation
• AI and automation within Microsoft 365
• Real-world customer use cases and strategies

DryvIQ Speaking Session at M365

Why Copilot Projects Succeed or Fail: It Comes Down to Content

• Wednesday, April 22
• 1:30 PM ET  |  Room: Timor Sea 1

Presented by: Tyiler George

Most organizations are moving quickly to deploy Microsoft Copilot to improve productivity, accelerate knowledge access, and unlock new revenue opportunities through more informed decision-making. Few, however, evaluate the quality, structure, and governance of the content Copilot relies on.

Years of collaboration, migrations, and organizational changes leave behind duplicate documents, outdated files, inconsistent metadata, and tangled permissions. Left unaddressed, these conditions directly impact how Copilot retrieves, interprets, and surfaces information.

Copilot does not resolve these issues. It exposes them.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful Copilot implementations is not the tool itself; it’s the condition of the content it operates on.

In this technical session, we’ll show how one of the world’s most recognizable business services brands addressed this challenge by building a governed, high-quality content foundation to support Copilot and enterprise AI.

You’ll learn a practical, end-to-end approach and walk away with a blueprint to:

• Identify and curate high-value datasets across M365 repositories
• Apply a permissibility and access framework to control what Copilot can surface
• Enrich and classify content using MPIP labels and custom metadata
• Extend governance with Microsoft Purview and integrate with Azure-based AI models
• Cleanse sensitive, stale, and redundant content through automated lifecycle actions
• Establish a certified corpus of high-quality content to support consistent Copilot outcomes

We’ll also cover the measurable impact of this approach, including:

• Improved accuracy and consistency of Copilot responses
• Reduced exposure of sensitive or outdated content
• Faster adoption and increased trust in Copilot outputs
• Increased employee productivity through reliable, accessible knowledge

Copilot operates on the content it can access. If that content isn’t relevant, organized, cleansed, and secure, neither are the results.

This session focuses on the operational reality of Copilot at scale, and what it takes to ensure it delivers against the business outcomes it was implemented to achieve.

Let’s Connect in Orlando

If you’re attending the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, we’d love to meet you. Whether you’re evaluating your archiving strategy, planning a file migration, or just trying to get a better handle on your data, we’re happy to share what we’re seeing across the industry.

Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the event, or reach out to schedule time with our team while we’re onsite.

Event Details

• Event: Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026
• Dates: April 21–23, 2026
• Location: Orlando
• Hosted By: Microsoft 365 Community

About DryvIQ

DryvIQ helps organizations gain control of their unstructured data through intelligent migration, classification, archiving, and governance. Our platform enables businesses to reduce risk, lower costs, and unlock the full value of their data no matter where it lives.