hello everyone
i'm delighted to be here to talk to you
about the next wave of innovation for
microsoft teams
that will make collaboration even more
seamless whether you're still working
from home remotely
or you're back in office number one how
we're making it easy for you to bring
your teams together
and reduce the meeting's fatigue second
how we're addressing some of the known
pain points in the way meetings are
structured today
and then lastly how you're streamlining
your work and saving your time
every day with that let's jump into it
now once i'm in a meeting you'll see the
new dynamic view
it's a more fluid and flexible way to
optimize the screen real estate
for what's most important so if someone
sharing content
or people who are joining through video
are the main part of my screen here
the audio only participants are on the
right hand side so the focus can stay on
people who joining through video
now we've also added visual cues to
easily follow along the meeting
participants
as you'll see when i'm talking a purple
box will appear above my head
and i see james has just raised hand and
his box is highlighted in yellow
now we know there are times we have to
bring a large group of people together
for interactive meeting
think of a company town hall not only
will teams support up to one thousand
meeting participants
if you're making the experience more
scalable with up to twenty thousand more
people
who can attend as viewers in addition to
those thousand participants
when someone's presenting content in the
meeting you can see the content as well
as the meeting participants
in the same view as the content is
getting shared
you also want to be able to focus on a
particular person it could be an
interpreter
it could be a decision maker or maybe a
conference room where a bunch of people
are joining together
it's just a great way for us to bring
content and people together in the same
view in a meeting now as you can see i
have nine meeting participants on my
screen
we call it the gallery view as more
people start joining
we'll optimize for the most active
meeting participants
however now you also have the option to
select the large gallery view that
supports up to 49 people
so here you can see 16 people on my
screen
now let's see what it looks like when we
have 25 people on the screen
and last but not the least 49 people at
the same time on the same screen
it's just another way for us to give you
greater control on your meeting
experience
i'm not sure about you but i'm in so
many video meetings these days that it
can be overwhelming
we believe there is a better way for
video meetings to help us stay more
connected
this month we're excited to announce a
new meetings capability called together
mode
that brings you and your team members in
the same shared virtual space
without any barriers just with one click
i can convert the meeting setup into an
auditorium like setting
where me and my colleagues can be in a
much more natural setup
think of meetings like a brainstorming
session or a live teaching session
it's just a more natural and relaxed way
to be with your colleagues and friends
in addition to the auditorium setting we
will be bringing more settings to this
experience
think of a classroom a conference room
or a cafe
now let's see what this looks like when
we have more people joining in
now you'll see as i'm speaking people
are looking at my direction
when someone starts speaking everyone's
gaze is directed towards them
and by removing the distraction of
individual backgrounds our brains can
actually more easily focus
on the people themselves and we can
catch nonverbal cues like head nods or
raised eyebrows smiling or
a raised hand since it's easier to
understand from people's body language
when they want to speak
it just makes for a seamless more easy
handoff between speakers
it just leads to this more human
connection between people
which is essentially missing from
today's meetings experience now this
experience also scales up to 49 people
at the same time
from everyday meeting to a classroom to
your next big event
it feels like all of us are together
even when we are apart
now i know all of you have been itching
to have some fun so let's give each
other some high fives
[Music]
another new feature that helps me stay
connected with my team members
is reflect it's the messaging extension
which team leaders
and class instructors can use to take a
quick pulse
of their team members to see how
everyone's doing so here
when i go in the menu i can see the
reflect tool
i can create a question or select from
one of the predefined questions
i can select the privacy settings
whether i want the results to be
anonymous or public
i can also decide if it's a recurring
poll
once i submit the poll it actually goes
into a channel
and all my team members can vote on it
that's just a quick way for me to
connect with my team and check in on
them
now let me pass it on to my colleague
deandra who's going to talk to you about
teams innovations
that can help address meetings pain
points over to you deandra
askron noted more and more meetings are
taking place virtually
for me personally i always find it
really challenging to read the reactions
of those that i want to call with
let me share with you all some new and
exciting features coming to teams to
help with these meeting pain points
with the raised hand feature we can
ensure that all voices have been
heard and if you're running late to a
meeting you don't have to worry about if
folks did or didn't see your message
with chat bubbles your message will not
pop up right within the meeting view for
all participants to see
we are bringing exciting ways to love
celebrate and laugh together as a team
with five reactions
if you really love something that
someone shared send over a love reaction
if you want to celebrate a big win as a
team now the team can celebrate back
with you
this is a really great authentic way to
bring group sentiment into the digital
meeting experience
many of us have been using live captions
to follow along with the conversation
during our team's meetings
but before we had no way of knowing who
was saying what
this was particularly challenging in
environments where it was hard to hear
what you'll see now as i turn on live
captions is that it will not only
capture
what is being shared but also who is
sharing it
which is super handy when someone is
presenting and you don't actually know
who's talking
that's right jason especially in those
meetings with unfamiliar faces you're
able to stay more connected than ever by
knowing everyone and their name
this is available now in english with
more languages coming soon
i'm going to go ahead and walk you guys
through a new feature we're also adding
live transcription you'll see here as i
turn on live transcription
that it'll capture the comments that
were made throughout this conversation
as well as be providing a really good
recap tool after the meeting takes place
you'll also see up here at the top that
teams will notify all meeting
participants that
they're being transcribed once the
feature is enabled
this is a really great way to know what
is being said during a conversation and
who is making those decisions
and it can also help in those
embarrassing moments when you got
distracted
just as a question was being asked
exactly
now you can quickly read up through the
captions and be able to catch yourself
up and respond
really quickly and then after the
meeting all of this is available for you
when you open up the meeting chat the
transcriptions live right there
once you open up the transcription you
will be able to see the decisions that
were made
who made them and the context around the
entire conversation
this is going to be a very powerful tool
to know how we can better follow up with
meetings afterwards and be more
efficient
i'm going to pass it back over to quran
who's going to wrap up with how teams
can help
streamline your work and save you time
great stuff thank you deandra now with
microsoft 365 and teams
we're continuously looking for ways to
streamline your work and save your time
now my mobile phone is a key part of my
everyday routine
whether i'm at home taking a break from
my laptop or just out
running an errand this is how i keep on
top of things that i have to do
cortana is my digital voice assistant
that uses
ai and microsoft graph to securely take
actions
like getting in touch with people or
finding the right files
while i'm on the go i can use microphone
in my team's mobile app to interact
naturally with cortana let's take a look
what's in my schedule tomorrow morning
i'm finding one event for tomorrow
morning oh i see there's a meeting in
the morning
and i promised marissa i'll send her a
file before this well let me just do it
now while i'm on the go
send the quarterly review deck to
marissa
okay which powerpoint should i share the
second one
now you'll see i didn't have to say the
exact name of the presentation
or marissa's full name that's because
cortana understands the signals from
microsoft graph
so it really understands what my recent
activities are and who are my key
contacts
you can take numerous actions like this
with cortana like making a call
scheduling a meeting or sending a
message
so here i can just send a message to my
next meeting participants
send a message to my next meeting all
right
what's your message please send the
agenda for tomorrow's meeting
send it or change it send i'll send that
let me show you a couple of other
features that are already available in
teams
but help manage your work-life balance
and personal well-being
continuing on the theme of cortana it
also sends me a daily briefing email
every morning it captures all the
upcoming appointments
as well as any commitments that i might
have made to colleagues
in the previous emails now if you
actually scroll down to the bottom
it proactively asks me if i want to
block some time for focusing
so here i'll go ahead and block three to
four pm
now you can see on my calendar the times
blocked as focus time
when i do that there are two things that
happen one
all my contacts on teams see my status
as focused and second all the
notifications are silenced for that time
unless i've given someone explicit
permission to be able to send me a
message at that time
with around the clock access to mobile
phone it's become
even more important to be able to
balance work and life
in the team's mobile app i can easily
schedule quiet hours
so here you'll see a block 7 pm to 7 am
during which time
i don't get any notifications if i
actually want to customize the time
to a later point i can do that in a very
easy way as well
during this time i can just stay focused
on my personal well-being
another time saver that i use every day
is suggested replies
so when someone sends you a message on
teams chat the application provides you
logical responses
it may be a small thing but the benefit
adds up over time
while i'm in the focus mode i can use
the new tasks app within teams
to manage all my action items it brings
together tasks from to-do
and planner in one simple view
smart views like important planned
and assigned to me create a structured
curated view of my action items so for
example
when i go to the important tab i can
select one of the action items
and change the status to complete it
the tasks app within teams is also
available on your mobile phone
so you can manage your tasks while
you're on the go
this is the microsoft teams display an
ambient touch screen
with a hands-free experience powered by
cortana
it's an all-in-one device so it brings
all your favorite teams experiences
like chats meetings calling calendar
files all in one single place and it
also seamlessly connects with your pc
since it's paired with my laptop it's a
companion device
so as soon as i unlock my pc you'll see
the microsoft teams display also gets
unlocked
now you can see that i can access my
chats and notifications
in a single glance here i see my peer
lydia
has sent me a message she actually wants
me to review a deck
now since it's a companion device i can
actually open up the document
on my pc for a richer experience
now in meetings the team's display
device works better together with your
pc
so you can have a distributed meetings
experience across the devices
you know you could be sharing content on
one device and you could be following
along with your participants on another
device
now of course i can join a meeting by
pressing a button on teams display
but since this device actually supports
cortana
i can also take hands-free actions while
i'm just walking up to my device
let's take a look hey cortana
join my next meeting
joining your 7 pm
now while i'm in the meeting i can also
take other actions
like presenting documents cortana
present the quarterly review deck
okay which presentation the second one
sure i'll bring up the presentation
of course privacy is top of mind so the
team's display
comes with physical buttons to toggle
your camera shutter
as well as your mic so you're always in
control
so there you have it a ton of great
teams innovation coming your way this
summer
new capabilities to help you bring your
teams together and reduce meetings
fatigue
to address some of the known meeting
pain points and lastly
to streamline work and save you time