SharePoint Podcast: The INTRAZONE Episode – EP031: Jeff Teper at SPC19 Transcript SharePoint Podcast – The Intrazone Episode 31 – Jeff Teper at SPC19 TRT: Show Intro [00:00:00:00] 1. Topic of the Week – SharePoint Conference 2019 2. Guest Perspective – Jeff Teper, CVP 3. Show Wrap TC VO Dialogue #1 SHOW INTRO THEME MUSIC 00:02 Chris Welcome to The Intrazone. I show about the SharePoint intelligent intranet. I'm Chris McNulty here as always with Mark Kashman. Mark Hello! Chris It is great to be back here in Las Vegas for the 28th time. Mark It’s been many, many Vegas trips. I think you know how to get around Vegas now. Chris So today is very special because we're recording day one. Right after the keynote. We're going to be sitting down just a few minutes with Jeff Teper. We got a lot of claps in the keynote and we want to get from Jeff, which is the, what are the ones that he was most excited about? What did we learn? He's the team captain. He liked the team captain, not Godfather, team captain. Team captain of Mark SharePoint, OneDrive, Office. OMG. Omg. Oh my goodness. Chris Right. Um, it's amazing to be back here in Las Vegas. Mark, let me just ask you quickly, day one of the conference initial impressions. 00:55 Mark Ah, it's great. It's really nice to see the community as always. I sometimes forget, you know when you travel on the plane and you think, oh, I'm just going to the conference and I forget that. I'm just going to see a ton of faces that I know. And in the back of my mind I'm thinking, okay, finish the blog, get your session ready, what do they need for the keynote? Dan is doing a wonderful job, Dan Holme. But first impressions landing on the ground was things were going really smoothly. You know, always with a keynote, you've got last minute things and the keynote prep last night and then delivery this morning I thought was really good and I'm already getting ready for sessions and hearing feedback from what the attendees are already getting. So far so good, it seems like really smooth sailing and really good information outset. 01:34 Chris My initial impression is it's bigger. It's definitely a much larger event than it was last year. And just the scale and scope of it is, it's a refreshing reminder of how Page 1 of 15 SharePoint Podcast: The INTRAZONE Episode – EP031: Jeff Teper at SPC19 Transcript passionate our community, our leaders, our engineers are about everything that we're doing here. Um, one thing that we will definitely make sure we get in the show notes. If you are listening to this, you may be at the conference. If so, why aren't you at a session right now? But if you're participating in this after the fact, please, we will include a link to the SharePoint virtual summit. Our entire keynote was Streamed online and you're going to be able to participate in that from the comfort of your own home car pod hammock. 02:15 Mark Actually, the short audio link for you is Aka.ms/SPC/Summit. 02:24 Chris That's really impressive. Hey, you know, as with all things I have to sneak in a gratuitous sports reference. 02:28 Mark I thought you were gonna at least go for basketball. Looked like there was a big win last night. 02:33 Chris There was a big win, and it's going to be the Warriors. It's their fifth time in a row that they're going to the championship. Putting them in the league with my favorite hometown New York Islanders, 1980 to 1984. Enough of that. You're at the Intrazone that we're giving you nothing but Jeff Teper unplugged. So, events, FAQ, all your long time favorites, we'll save those for the next podcast. It's all about Jeff. Up next, Jeff Teper sitting down with Mark Kashman and me. #2 GUEST PERSPECTIVE – JEFF TEPER TRANSITION 03:00 Mark Are you ready to enter The Intrazone? Jeff I feel like Al Pacino in The Godfather, to Mr. Congressman. Mark And somebody taps you on the shoulder and tells you some things. I will ask you for a feature. If you do not deliver on this feature - Well, we are live here in Las Vegas. I will say again from a SharePoint conference perspective, but for the second time on The Intrazone, we have Jeff Teper joining us. Jeff, welcome to TheIntrazone again. Jeff Thank you Mark and Chris. It's great to be back. We're here at SharePoint conference 2019 I know people have had reflections Chris about, well, five years ago this happened at the Venetian or what happened at Mandalay bay. We're talking technically, we're not talking after hours, so, but I'd love to get, you know, one of your favorite memories from at one of the earliest SharePoint conferences. 04:02 Jeff Yeah, there was one where we had an attendee party and it might've been at the Mandalay Bay and I walked around the party and I had seen the attendee list and new people come from around the world, but when people come up to you and introduce you and they say, I'm from New Zealand, I'm from South America, I'm from, you know, Turkey. It's just, and they've came to a conference on the other side of the planet to learn about the latest SharePoint innovations and, and meet with people in the community. That was really, that memory probably Page 2 of 15 SharePoint Podcast: The INTRAZONE Episode – EP031: Jeff Teper at SPC19 Transcript stands out more than ever. It's just the sheer scale of people who are excited to come to an event like this. 04:42 Chris I'm also sometimes fascinated by the people who come to every one of these events when you factor in some of the third party things. And we go to conferences and be like, didn't I see you in South Africa three weeks ago? And they're like, “Yes!” 04:52 Jeff Yeah, there was one not in, gosh, I hope I don't get them into trouble. I don't think I will. But Simeon, somebody you know, worked in the SharePoint team in the very early days when we had you're more manual testing at that point and automated and uh, Simeon led that team and then he later went on and did a couple of things in the community and now works at a content panda with, uh, Heather Newman and does some other stuff. I just ran into him and he lives in Hawaii as a great life and yet continues to want to connect to the community. And so it's, it's pretty amazing. 05:32 Mark I just liked how in in your keynote you actually dedicate time not to just think the community, but to welcome new people into the community and really to address that. It is wonderful. 05:40 Jeff Cause there are, you know, there are stories like that. There's also people who are, uh, like Kevin from the keynote, uh, people who, uh, may or not have been deep in SharePoint a few years ago, but now is betting, you know, a multibillion dollar acquisition success on the combining the culture of two companies impacting 50,000 employees in a matter of weeks. Whether people are going to understand and act as one or not. And so that is an incredibly mission critical communications change management effort based on SharePoint. And so it's fantastic to have both newcomers to an event like this, but also some of the, some of the old time community too. 06:19 Chris I think that's a great point. I mean we, you know, it is humbling to see the ability to use technology to connect people from the community around all over the world, but at a much more practical basis for an organization that needs to connect it's people. It's a great means to do that. 06:34 Jeff Yes, it is fun to just sit back in some of the bright space between the sessions or in the hallways. There's a portion on the second or third floor where it's a sort of elevated seating area and you can see people sitting down and mingling and chatting there and it's, it's a great part of this event that we sort of sometimes forget between the sessions and the parties. Is, is just talking to other people. 06:59 Mark I agree. Um, I've heard you say one of your favorite things is a focus on fundamentals like performance. Um, when one of the big themes that you spend time on in the keynote was this notion of turbocharging Microsoft 365. There was a focus on files in that perspective, but it was a, a broader than files. What does that mean for people when they use SharePoint, OneDrive, Office now in going forward, things getting turbocharged. 07:24 Jeff There's been a lot of studies in usability design about how important performance is. You know, people certainly talk about it in the most monetized double way where search engine vendors, if they don't return a page quickly enough, you know, how much that money train, that translates, and that's been always true in Office.