Teams On Air

In this season finale of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, and Principal Product Manager, Sandhya Rao, demo mixed reality for Microsoft Teams to help first-line workers solve problems faster. With Microsoft Remote Assist for Hololens, firstline workers who need help can collaborate remotely in a heads-up and hands-free environment to make video calls, share images, and create mixed reality annotations with a remote expert who is using Teams on their Windows 10 PC.

Join host Delanda Coleman and Sr. Product Manager, Swati Jhawar this week as they demonstrate what an average work day looks like on the Microsoft Teams mobile client. Swati will walk us through the experience of joining a meeting on a phone, connecting with her teammates through video, and many other intelligent capabilities available in mobile.

The modern workplace is powered by cloud computing, and in our space, transitioning from UC to UCaaS – is everyone ready? Join host, Delanda Coleman, and Sr. Program Manager, Jamie Stark, as they discuss what companies should be considering as they are evaluating cloud solutions and how Microsoft Teams can help transform your IT experience.

Many organizations have discovered the power and competitive benefits of ideation – the ability to create new content and leverage existing content in teaming and brainstorming sessions across multiple locations. In this episode host, Delanda Coleman and Sr. Program Manager, Angela Sze will explore the benefits of digital whiteboards, why they're gaining popularity and how to use Microsoft Whiteboard to maximize collaboration.  

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, brings on Segment Manager for Video Delivery, Thereasa Roy, and Sr. Director of Enterprise Video Strategy, Patty Perkins, from Kollective to cover trends in Enterprise live streaming. They will discuss why there has been an increase of video and live streaming in organizations, how corporations can plan for this wave of video consumption and distribution and how you can do all of this through your Office 365 subscription with Microsoft Teams.

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, is joined by Solutions Architect, Marc Wynter, from ConvergeOne to talk about his experience with Microsoft Team in sales. Marc will provide insights on how they structure their teams and channels to collaborate and communicate effectively across the company.  

As organizations expand their use of video conferencing to work with a dispersed workforce, they are also discovering opportunities to use video to build connections with their customers. While it can be easy to control for different platforms and endpoints within an organization, it’s a different story when working with customers who will have different technologies and levels of experience. To help make things as easy as possible, Pexip customers are depending upon cloud video interoperability solutions. In this episode host, Delanda Coleman and Head of Presales & Solution Architecture for Pexip, Marius Nisen, will explore how organizations are using Pexip video interoperability to broaden their services, increase customer satisfaction and build stronger relationships.   

Traditional video conferencing systems aren't effectively serving the needs of modern workplace. Join host, Delanda Colemam and Joan Vandermate, Head of Marketing for Video Collaboration for Logitech as they discuss how the workplace collaboration is changing. Find out how Microsoft Teams, Skype Room Systems, and Logitech are making video-enabled meeting rooms easier and more affordable than ever. 

Productive meetings leave people feeling informed, fulfilled and clear about next steps.  Technology needs to enable productive meetings not stand in their way.  Modern Meetings as part of Microsoft Teams is redefining productive and collaborative experiences, including meetings.  In this episode of Teams on Air, you’ll hear from Polycom’s Field Director, Sherri Pipala and host, Delanda Coleman, discuss how to enable any meeting room to get the most out of a Modern Meeting. Which devices make sense for you room? Should you consider video, audio or both?  How can you utilize solutions you already have in a Modern Meeting?  

Meeting rooms of all shape and sizes have largely remained the same for as long as anyone can remember, yet with the acceleration of technology adoption the ways in which we conduct our meetings have evolved from audio calls on conference phones to purpose built video conferencing, to telepresence suites, to wireless presentations to cloud based collaboration services. In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman will be joined by VP of Unified Communications Strategies for Crestron, Ted Colton, to discuss what the next frontier holds. How will intelligent communications and Microsoft Teams shape our meetings experience for installers, IT administrators and most importantly all of us, the end users? 

Making the decision to jump into the cloud can be daunting for enterprises large and small. In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, and Director of Program Management, Mahendra Sekaran, to discuss the history of Microsoft's Unified Communications, how it has evolved into the Microsoft Teams we know today and the benefits of moving to the cloud. Mahendra also discusses the transformation of the Mobile space and how the Teams Mobile app aims to provide a first-class experience for your meetings.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest technology topics in the industry today, yet it is also one of the least understood. In this podcast host, Delanda Coleman, brings on Principal Program Manager, Senthil Velayutham, to discuss the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and how Microsoft is using AI today. Senthil delves into how progress in AI has exploded in the last 3-5 years and the ways in which Microsoft Teams is leveraging AI to provide a better experience.  

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, brings Principal Product Manager, Sandhya Rao, on the podcast to talk about commercial scenarios that AR/VR can bring to life. Mixed reality has the potential transform the way that employees meet, teams collaborate, companies train and much more.  Sandhya also discusses how AR/VR can extend into team workspaces like Microsoft Teams.

People’s work styles vary. Now, more than ever, IT leaders are beginning to recognize that if they hope to attain strong adoption of communications technology in the enterprise, they need to understand and consider user behavior, device preference and work style. With this in mind, Plantronics conducted an in-depth, global study of 4,000+ participants, in an effort to understand evolving needs and pain points as they apply to communication and communication device technologies. This work identified distinct working styles or “personas.” In this episode host, Delanda Coleman and the VP of Global Strategic Alliances from Plantronics, Boris Seibert will cover the topics that have stemmed from that research: the story that follows why People Matter, Devices Matter and Insights Matter when connecting the dots on adoption of a Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business deployment.

In this week's Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, will be joined by Sr. Program Manager, Jamie Stark, to explore the new portal to administer both Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business in Office 365. This new admin portal will provide a single place for administration, policy creation and management, and insights via the call analytics and call quality dashboard.

The age of Intelligent communications is here with the arrival of advanced voice services in Microsoft Teams.  However, vision aside you still need to make the right connection to leverage the promise of the future. Microsoft has devised a simple, yet powerful method to connect your current PSTN and voice enable Microsoft Teams.  In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman, will be joined by the VP of Unified Communications from AudioCodes, Eric Bauer, to discuss how AudioCodes plays an instrumental role in the process and making the vision a reality. 

In this episode host, Delanda Coleman brings on the VP of product management from Jabra, Tero Tolonen, to talk about their communications device solutions. Customers experience the issue of having a huge mix of UC communication hardware. When IT Department wants to measure usage and adoption of a Teams/Skype deployment, the individual asset management system from each UC hardware manufacturer is required. Jabra therefore launched a comprehensive SDK to allow integration with existing 3rd Party Management solutions, making the life of the IT department easier, using only one unifying Management tool to manage and monitor the Teams/Skype deployment and audio devices.

In this episode of Teams On Air host, Delanda Coleman and Principal GM, Dan Stevenson, discuss the latest features in Microsoft Teams such as expire & renew teams, clone a team, deeper SharePoint integrations and more! Dan also talks about how to you can customize Microsoft Teams through app integration.  

Enterprise Connect was backed with sessions, keynotes, demos, and customer conversations. For our first interview we wanted to bring Microsoft's CVP, Bob Davis to give you a sneak peak of what to expect. This episode will give you an overview of our announcements and inside view of the teams Team.   

Team Collaboration has reached center stage in the past 12 months: and Microsoft Teams has risen to the challenge.  In only 1 year, it’s broken records for productivity, intelligence, and user love.  This is a two part epiosde - in part 1 host, Delanda Coleman is Joined by her colleagues Raanah Amjadi and Farren Roper from the Microsoft Teams team to talk about their favorite features in Teams. Part 2 is was recorded live on the Enterprise Connect show floor with General Manager of Skype & Teams, Lori Wright. She shares with you the progress of our journey and asks you: is your organization’s collaboration and Unified Communications (UC) roadmap ready to make a detour into the world of Team Collaboration?  We think so, and we’d like to give you a 1st class ride there.