Session Abstract

Are you finding it challenging to make Viva Connections Dashboards truly useful for your organization? Do the out-of-the-box cards fall short of your needs? In this session, we’ll take a code-first approach to building beautiful, data-driven experiences using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). You’ll learn how to use the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to create dynamic Adaptive Card Extensions. We will show how to retrieve and display real-time data, support a mobile workforce, and leverage location services. We will show how to use both React components and the Adaptive Card Framework to design visually engaging, highly functional cards. Join this session to discover how to transform your Viva Connections Dashboard and provide real value to your users.

Derek Cash-Peterson

Derek is passionate about building intuitive and useful applications, focusing on the design and user experience as well as the development. 

 He has over 20 years of industry experience building customized intranets, extranets, and public facing websites based on the Microsoft stack. He specializes in front-end development and visual design/branding of SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365. He brings a design eye to a developers world along with skills in information architecture, content architecture, and collaboration strategy skills.