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Tom Arbuthnot

Microsoft MVP and founder of Empowering.Cloud and ChangePilot. Host of the Teams Insider podcast and author of the M365 Perspective newsletter, covering Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot for enterprise service owners.

Copilot Cowork vs. Scout with Microsoft's Alev Tamer and Chris Wheeler

Copilot Cowork vs. Scout with Microsoft's Alev Tamer and Chris Wheeler

Alev Tamer, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, and Chris Wheeler, Senior Copilot Solution Engineer aligned to UK healthcare, unpack the Copilot announcements made the day before at Microsoft Build.

Microsoft Planner Roadmap - AI Agents, API and MCP With Howard Crow, Director of Product, Microsoft

Microsoft Planner Roadmap - AI Agents, API and MCP With Howard Crow, Director of Product, Microsoft

Howard Crow, Director of Product at Microsoft, has spent nearly 30 years at the company, writing the original Web Parts code for SharePoint before moving on to lead the Project, Planner and To Do teams.

Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update June 2026

Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update June 2026

MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the latest Microsoft Teams and Copilot news and announcements in less than 15 minutes for June 2026.

Microsoft 365 Release Options Explained: Frontier, Standard, Deferred - From the Product Team

Microsoft 365 Release Options Explained: Frontier, Standard, Deferred - From the Product Team

Jim Barber, Brian McGough, and Gobinder (Micky) Saini from the Microsoft Change Communications team, along with MVP Michael Blumenthal, unpack how Microsoft 365 change management is being fundamentally redesigned

The 2026 Rebuild of Telco Voice — Why Containers, Automation and AI Are Needed

The 2026 Rebuild of Telco Voice — Why Containers, Automation and AI Are Needed

Six-to-eighteen-month upgrade cycles no longer cut it. Ribbon's Matt Hurst joins the Teams Insider Podcast to explain how containerisation, automation and AI are reshaping telco voice — and why 100-day TLS certificates from March 2027 make automated rotation across your SBC fleet non-negotiable.

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Madhu Sudan, Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft, has worked on the communications stack from Skype through Skype for Business to Teams and now leads AI work in Teams.