Session Spotlights


PowerShell for AD Admins: Automation Without the Intimidation

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, 21-time Microsoft MVP Derek Melber will show Active Directory administrators how to use PowerShell for faster administration, bulk changes, security checks and Group Policy work.

The Hive Mind: Copilot Learnings from the Community

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVPs Joy Apple and Diego Domingos da Silva will share community-tested lessons for preparing Microsoft 365 tenants, people and content for Copilot success.

How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices

At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Myron Helgering's "How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices" will explore practical ways to reduce risk when users access business resources from devices IT does not control.

Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector

At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Tatu Seppälä's "Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector" will show attendees how to turn identity, data protection, and signal correlation into a practical starting point for insider risk defense.

Build-a-Bot: Unleash Your Own Autonomous Agent with Microsoft Copilot

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Alex de Jong's "Build-a-Bot" session promises a practical look at how Microsoft Copilot, MCP, and modern orchestration tools can turn AI agents into useful workflow teammates.

LLMs Are Your New Junior Engineer: Using AI Safely in Security and IT Ops

Large language models can accelerate IT and security work, but only when teams pair speed with guardrails. At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze's session explores how to use AI like a capable junior engineer -- useful, fast, and always supervised.

When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP and Dev Assistants

At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Pavan Reddy's "When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP, and Dev Assistants" will examine the risks emerging as AI copilots move from chat windows into real systems, and the concrete controls teams need to keep those tools from becoming attack paths.

Why Failover Clustering Still Matters for the Private Cloud

Microsoft’s Rob Hindman will preview the future of failover clustering in Windows Server at TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, with a focus on update orchestration, admission control and resilient private cloud infrastructure.

Why Enterprise AI Demands an Enterprise IT Mindset

As AI moves from experimentation to production, IT teams are increasingly responsible for making sure it is secure, governable, reliable and cost-effective. This session explores what that looks like in practice, with Eric D. Boyd outlining the architectural, operational and security considerations organizations need to address to run AI at enterprise scale.

Unlocking the Power of Copilot Automation A Beginners Guide

Stephen L. Rose's TechMentor session offers IT pros a practical, beginner-friendly path into Copilot automation, including agents, prompts, connectors, actions and the governance controls needed to manage them securely.

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