Microsoft Teams Insider
Microsoft Teams discussions with industry experts sharing their thoughts and insights with Tom Arbuthnot of Empowering.Cloud. Podcast not affiliated, associated with, or endorsed by Microsoft.
Episodes
190 episodes
Microsoft Teams Phone: Recent New Features and What's Coming with Emily Kirby, Microsoft
Emily Kirby, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Teams Engineering, discusses the latest developments and future direction for Microsoft Teams Phone.• Multi-line calling: a multi-year...
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Javed Khan, CEO of Neat, on the Future of Meeting Rooms and New Capabilities with On-Device AI
Javed Khan, CEO at Neat, discusses his return to the industry and his vision for simple, open, intelligent collaboration experiences. • How advance...
Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update August 2026
MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the latest Microsoft Teams and Copilot news and announcements in less than 15 minutes for August 2026Link to the deck:
Understanding Agent 365 Hands On: Managing and Securing AI Agents with Microsoft's Graham Hosking
Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, breaks down Agent 365, Microsoft's approach to observing, governing, and securing ...
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Microsoft Places Updates Explained: Desk Booking, Room Booking and AI with Martin Boam, Microsoft
Martin Boam, Architect - Centre of Excellence at Microsoft, walks through Microsoft Places, the AI-powered workplace solution for coordinating hybrid work, booking rooms and desks, and optim...
Dynamics 365 Contact Center Explained with Alpana Bajaj, at Microsoft
Alpana Bajaj, Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft, discusses how Microsoft is reimagining the contact centre with AI-first design and agentic capabilities.• How Dynamics 365 ...
Why Microsoft Is Quietly Winning with Enterprise AI with Rishi Kumar, Logitech
Rishi Kumar, Director of Alliances and Go-to-Market at Logitech, discusses how Microsoft is positioning itself as the enterprise AI lea...
Craig Durr, The Collab Collective: Why the Device Market Forecast Dropped From 6% to 3%
Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder at The Collab Collective, discusses his revised five-year video conferencing device market forecast and why he has taken his compound annual growth rate ...
Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update July 2026
It's the start of Microsoft's new financial year and there's already a lot to unpack. In this month's update we cover the new Microsoft Frontier company, Cowork going GA (and the new consumption cost model), a wave of Copilot and model updates,...
Microsoft Teams Phone and Recording - API Integrations, Automations - Ben Richardson at SmartSearch
Ben Richardson, Infrastructure Engineer at SmartSearch, and Andy Whiteside, VP of Sales at Numonix, d...
How Microsoft, Zoom, and Cisco Are Approaching AI Differently With Kevin Kieller, enableUC
Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst at enableUC, discusses how the major unified communications vendors are taking distinctly different approaches to AI and what this means for IT p...
Microsoft Scout Explained: Microsoft's OpenClaw-based AI Autopilot Agent That Works for You 24/7
Michel Bouman, AI Powered Workplace Lead EMEA, India and SEA - Teams Engineering at Microsoft, shares a deep dive into Microsoft Scout, the ne...
Copilot Cowork vs. Scout with Microsoft's Alev Tamer and Chris Wheeler
Alev Tamer, Sr. Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft, and Chris Wheeler, Sen...
Microsoft Planner Roadmap - AI Agents, API and MCP With Howard Crow, Director of Product, Microsoft
Howard Crow, Director of Product at Microsoft, joins the podcast to discuss the evolution of Microsoft Planner, its deep integration wi...
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. Many thanks to Pure-IP for their continued support.
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Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft
Madhu Sudan, Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft, discusses Microsoft Teams Facilitator, a first-of-its-kind group AI agent built...
Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD): Intelligent Classifiers, Silent Test Call and Power BI
James Parkes, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Teams Call Quality Management, Siunie Sutjahjo, Principal Product Manager for...
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Microsoft 365 Message Center and M365 Change Explained with Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager
Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how change communications work across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and what's coming next.<...
Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update May 2026
MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the latest Microsoft Teams and Copilot news and announcements in less than 15 minutes for May 2026.Many thanks to Logitech<...
Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?
Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, discusses Copilot Skills, Cowork, and the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI acr...
What is Microsoft 365 Frontier, Work IQ, Cowork and Agent 365 with a Copilot Global Black Belt
Brett Johnson, Copilot Global Black Belt at Microsoft, returns for a second discussion to decode some of the biggest developments in the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem.• What the Front...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork Explained with Bas Brekelmans, Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bas Brekelmans, Software Engineer at Microsoft, focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, explains its architecture and use cases.• How Copilot Cowork runs entirely in the Cloud, u...
Damian Lewis at BSI on Creating a First Class Microsoft Teams Rooms Experience at Their New London HQ
Damian Lewis, Digital Workplace Specialist at BSI, shares the story of designing and deploying Microsoft Teams Rooms across BSI's new London headquarters, the Acre.• Moving from ...
