The Importance of Standardisation: Rolling out Microsoft Teams Rooms to 450 Rooms Globally
Andrew Liptrot, Service Owner for AV and Workplace Technology at Haleon, shares how a global estate is moving from traditional video rooms to Microsoft Teams Rooms with clear standards, fewer components, and stronger operations.Four room archetypes to match business outcomes: Meet, Create, Engage, and InfluenceConsolidation on a lean set of components, with emphasis on reliability, supportability, and lifecycleInternal design capability, visual room design, and partner delivery against agreed standardsGovernance and service maturity across policies, SOPs, and continuous improvementProactive monitoring and the push towards “self-healing” rooms at scaleBroadening from room uptime to overall digital employee experience, including booking, signage, and workspace tools
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The Future of Meeting Rooms — with Tormod Ree, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Neat
In this episode, Tormod Ree, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Neat, shares his view on where meeting room technology is heading and how Neat plans to differentiate while staying simple and reliable for customers.AI across the experience: device-side media understanding, and platform features will move meetings from basic framing to experiences that adapt to the interaction in the room.Hybrid work isn’t solved: organisations still struggle to give remote participants equal presence for video, audio and collaboration. Rooms must support more than a “video window” and enable local, collaborative and mixed scenarios.Neat’s approach to scale: multi‑device architecture for larger and more complex spaces, companion devices like Neat Center, and an App Hub to use devices for more than meetings.Platform alignment without losing identity and partnership on Microsoft’s Devices Ecosystem Platform to improve quality, provisioning and integrations, while retaining Neat’s own innovations and simplicity focus.Thanks to Neat, this episode’s sponsor, for their continued support of Empowering.Cloud.
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How Partners can Accelerate Copilot Success - Wesley Budd, Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft
Wesley Budd, Partner Solutions Architect at Microsoft, explains how partners are driving real-world impact with Microsoft 365 Copilot.The role of partners in readiness, security, adoption and changeWhy agentathons are gaining traction and what they mean for Copilot StudioHow partners are using AI Builder and Copilot Studio to build tailored solutionsHow the Copilot Jumpstart programme is helping partners accelerate customer successOpportunities for partners to unlock business transformation with Copilot Thanks to AudioCodes, this episode’s sponsor, for their continued support.
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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update - October
Microsoft Teams Monthly Update - October 2025Copilot Chat (free) in Office AppsUnified Copilot Chat in TeamsAgent Mode in Excel and WordTeams Channel AgentsAnthropic Claude Models Come to CopilotOffice Agent (Anthropic)Bring Consumer Copilot to Work?New Teams FeaturesTeams Devices NewsEventsThanks to Neat, this month's benefactor, for your support of Empowering.Cloud and the community.Note that this is an audio-only version of the update, so if you would like to see the accompanying slides, please watch the video version on Empowering.Cloud
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How IQVIA scaled 650 Microsoft Teams Rooms with Global Standards & Smart Operations
Andre Razzuri, Associate Director at IQVIA, explains how IQVIA rolled out Microsoft Teams Rooms to 650 rooms globally, creating standards and managing a global environment.Why IQVIA standardised on Lenovo Windows 11 MTRs for cost, supportability, remote management and user experienceDeploying 200 rooms per year with a small core team through strict global standards and robust remote toolingWhere they partnered with AVI-SPL for boardrooms and global rollouts, and how responsibilities are sharedGetting leadership buy-in using usage data and trusted internal championsThanks to AVI-SPL, this episode’s sponsor, for their continued support of Empowering.Cloud
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.
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