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Security is 25 percent technology: Sami Laiho on turning the security department from disabler to enabler

The last session I saw at HELish Summit 2026 was Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer and Senior Technical Fellow at Adminize, Microsoft MVP for Windows OS since 2011 and for Security since 2024, at 16.00 in Runway 2 with “Cybersecurity… Continue Reading →

Champions of AI are not enough: Jouni Heikniemi’s closing keynote on what enterprise AI actually requires

HELish Summit 2026 closed at 16.50 in Runway 2 with Jouni Heikniemi, CEO of Zure, and “The cardinal sins and deep roots of AI”. He opened with a confession: he used to be an IT and AI consultant, a year… Continue Reading →

The first experiment is cheap: what building too many Agent Builder agents teaches you

The 10.00 slot at HELish Summit 2026 had Tero Niemi, Modern Work and AI Specialist at OP Pohjola, talking about a tool most Copilot Studio people walk past: the Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. The session was “Building too… Continue Reading →

Nobody wants to pay more than they need: a licensing optimisation session worth its slot

The 12.45 slot at HELish Summit 2026 was about money rather than technology. Eetu Hämäläinen, who has spent ten years around Microsoft 365 with a technical background and now does this work through his own company, gave “How to Save… Continue Reading →

Work IQ without a Copilot licence: retrieval is not the value, reasoning is

At 11.00 on Runway 2 at HELish Summit 2026, Katerina Chernevskaya, Power Platform and AI Architect at KPMG, gave a session with a long title and one sharp claim: “Microsoft Work IQ: Making Copilot Studio Agents Understand How Your Organization… Continue Reading →

Trust people, but do not just trust: insider threat at HELish Summit

The 15.00 slot in Runway 1 at HELish Summit 2026 was the one session of the day that was not about building anything. Tatu Seppälä, Security Architect and Microsoft MVP for Security at Context&, formerly Sulava, gave “Insider threat: First… Continue Reading →

Intelligence on tap, and the human who still has to read the code

Vesa Juvonen opened HELish Summit 2026 in Vantaa this morning with a keynote called “Intelligence on Tap: When AI Becomes a Utility”. Vesa is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, one and a half weeks short of twenty years at… Continue Reading →

The Bigger Picture: Why E7 Frontier Matters

I attended Microsoft partner architect seminar in Hilton Kalastajatorppa. I had one session about developing Copilot Studio agents with Claude Code and then I participated other sessions. First session for me was about E7 by Katja Alaviitala, Partner Development Manager,… Continue Reading →

Duplicate Microsoft Planner Plans with Power Automate (Flow)

I needed to create a Power Automate solution which clones Microsoft Teams team and planner inside it. And at last add the plan as tab to general channel. Cloning the team is easy and here are the instructions for cloning… Continue Reading →

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