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The Microsoft Teams Insider podcast: Tom Arbuthnot in conversation with Microsoft product leads, enterprise service owners and industry experts on Teams, Microsoft 365, Copilot, meeting rooms and voice. Every episode with video, audio and AI-summarised key insights.

How Partners can Accelerate Copilot Success - Wesley Budd, Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft

How Partners can Accelerate Copilot Success - Wesley Budd, Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft

Wesley Budd, a Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft working with EMEA partners on the Copilot Jumpstart programme, sets out the three areas where partners can add real value to customer Copilot projects: adoption and change, readiness and security, and building agents. He also covers the tiering

How IQVIA scaled 650 Microsoft Teams Rooms with Global Standards & Smart Operations

How IQVIA scaled 650 Microsoft Teams Rooms with Global Standards & Smart Operations

Andre Razzuri, Associate Director at IQVIA, describes how a five-person core team has taken the global pharma services business from Cisco, HP Poly and Lifesize SIP endpoints to roughly 650 Lenovo Windows 11 Teams Rooms at around 200 rooms a year. He is joined by Allison Thompson of AVI-SPL, who exp

Microsoft Teams Rooms - How to Choose Beyond the Specs

Microsoft Teams Rooms - How to Choose Beyond the Specs

Simon Dudley, a 30-year veteran of the video collaboration industry with spells at PictureTel, Polycom, Lifesize and nearly nine years at Logitech, now runs his own consultancy advising vendors, resellers and end users. He and Tom Arbuthnot pick apart a Teams Rooms bar market with almost 30 certifie

AI in Teams Devices: What’s New and What’s Next? Irena Andonova, Head of Product for Teams Devices

AI in Teams Devices: What’s New and What’s Next? Irena Andonova, Head of Product for Teams Devices

Irena Andonova leads product for Microsoft Teams Devices — Rooms, Panels and Phones — and was the first PM on the original Skype Room System v2 (code-named Project Rigel) back in 2016. She sets out where AI is landing across in-room experiences, Teams Phone and the Pro Management Portal, plus the pu

Telco Infrastructure Evolution - Automation, AI and Containerisation Explained

Telco Infrastructure Evolution - Automation, AI and Containerisation Explained

Matt Hurst, Senior Director for Ribbon's AI and automation practice, talks to Tom Arbuthnot about how containerisation, DevOps pipelines and AI are reshaping carrier and large-enterprise voice infrastructure. He breaks down what containerisation actually means for an SBC, where automation delivers m

Scaling M365 Copilot Adoption Across 20,000 Users

Scaling M365 Copilot Adoption Across 20,000 Users

Karoliina Kettukari is Head of Modern Work at OP Financial Group, Finland's largest financial services group, and a six-year Microsoft MVP who moved to the customer side after a decade in consulting. She explains how OP has licensed roughly half of its 20,000-strong workforce for M365 Copilot, where

AV, AI and Meeting Equity - Multi-Camera, Multi-Agent, Multi-AI with Bo Pintea

AV, AI and Meeting Equity - Multi-Camera, Multi-Agent, Multi-AI with Bo Pintea

Bo Pintea of Huddly, previously a long-standing Microsoft veteran across Exchange, the RTC/OCS/Lync lineage and Skype, sets out the architectural case for IP-connected, edge-processed multi-camera rooms. He covers the human science behind shot selection and hyper-gaze fatigue, practical camera layou