Story Summary:

Selected from nearly 1,000 entries, Suzy Dean, AddIn365 CEO, was announced as the winner of an everywoman Entrepreneur Award in December 2022, the UK’s longest running award’s programme for women in business. In the past 12 months, the business has seen growth in both turnover and talent, and Suzy has been invited to sit on the judging panel of the 2023 everywoman Entrepreneur Awards.

Winner’s confidence

Since winning the award in December 2022, Suzy Dean, CEO of AddIn365 reflects on how it’s impacted her.

“Looking back almost a year later, I still cannot express how much the award meant to me. Winning the everywoman Entrepreneur Award in 2022 gave me, personally, a lot of confidence in my ability. We have a board and external expertise, but there is sometimes that thought of, am I doing this right? The award gave me some validation, and with BGF sponsoring that category, it was even more validating, because it’s their job to look at these businesses and see if they’re viable. So, to have their ‘vote’, was a huge confidence boost. And in addition, the award has even positively affected the business, in terms of employee growth, credibility, and turnover.”

Business growth

In the past 12 months, Addin365 has grown another 30% and has even increased the business’ headcount 50% this year; building out the marketing and consulting team especially.

On the day of the awards, Suzy connected with and learnt from a broader network of female entrepreneurs. She added:

“It was remarkable to speak to all the other finalists and winners, who were at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey, in a vast range of industries and sizes of business. I found the conversations on the night invaluable. How often do you get to have conversations with women 10 years ahead of yourself and gain valuable knowledge, ask questions, and expand your network? The ideas that came out of those conversations around KPIs and business strategy that I took away and implemented.”

Talent pool

AddIn365 have been able to attract a stronger talent pool because of awards and its publicity. For example, their recent hire of a Head of Marketing saw that Suzy had won and said that it influenced them to apply because it demonstrated that D&I in the workplace was not just something that was spoken about, but they were living and breathing it, and had even been recognised for it with an award.

Joining the judging panel

From winning the award last year, Suzy Dean has now been invited to join the 2023 everywoman Entrepreneur Award’s judging panel, comprising some of the UK’s most successful women in business as well as VCS and investors who are at the forefront of closing the funding gap with their diverse portfolios. Judges include Chrissie Rucker (Founder of The White Company), Mandy Nyarko MBE (Angel Investor at Ada Ventures and Co-Founder of Discovery School), Connie Nam (Founder of Astrid and Miyu) and Libby Gibson (Partner at Piper PE LLP), amongst others. 

 Speaking about being a judge, Suzy said:

“It’s been great reading other women’s stories from such varied businesses and industries. I’ve found it very interesting to see the diversity of business models and different approaches to running and funding businesses. As a judge I’ve learnt a lot reading the entries. I think it is so important to have awards, like the everywoman awards, because it’s a place to take stock of what you have achieved, which can be difficult to do when you’re running a business, especially with the added pressures in the early years when you’re backed up with work, have a teething baby, a pile of washing, but these programmes show that you are not alone. It’s important to recognise your success and recognise and learn from the success of other brilliant women.”

Continuing to live and breathe D&I

As part of AddIn365’s commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, we are sponsoring the Tech Innovator category at this year’s everywoman Entrepreneur Awards, which is awarded to a woman who is creating innovative tech that is creating change within industry. AddIn365 also supported everywoman’s annual Early Career’s Day, where STEM students can learn from the most influential tech leaders, as well as provide them with an opportunity to network with leading technology companies and mentors.

Join us at ESPC 2023

The European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) is the largest Microsoft-focused conference in Europe and returns live and in-person in Amsterdam from 27th – 30th November. It provides Microsoft 365 and Azure professionals with the expert content and connections to help you achieve professional success.

AddIn365 are pleased to announce that we are returning as Platinum Sponsors of ESPC 2023. As industry leaders, our sponsorship provides the European Microsoft community an opportunity to hear from our Microsoft MVPs about how to get the best from Microsoft Syntex, Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. 

Case Studies: Where is AI 

driving business value in the market?

AddIn365 takes the stage at ESPC 2023

Join Microsoft MVPs, Suzy Dean and Wes Hackett on 28th November at 4.45pm, as they take to the stage to discuss ‘Where is AI driving business value in the market’.

Through a series of real-world examples, they’ll demonstrate how, when used correctly, AI has the power to optimise digital workplaces and deliver real value – fast.

They’ll share examples of successful adoption of Microsoft Syntex and Viva Topics, as well as AddIn365’s own AI-powered Content Confidence Kit and Content Pack. 

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Getting started with AI

With AI the focus of many conversations at the moment, it’s important to understand its potential impact and how to start using it across your digital workplace.

New AI innovations and products are being released regularly, prompting many IT professionals to ask “When is it the right time to start using AI?” and “Which products should I introduce first?”

Microsoft has launched some new AI capabilities like Microsoft Syntex, and SharePoint in Copilot is also on the horizon. As IT leaders partner with the business to think about their digital workplace approach, they should become familiar with these new AI products.

In this webinar, 10-time Microsoft MVP and AddIn365 CTO, Wes Hackett will explore what AI-powered products are available to you, which products you should adopt initially, and what AI products are coming from Microsoft in the future.

If you’re looking to deliver a new digital workplace (intranet) in Microsoft 365 and are considering when and how to start with AI, attending this webinar will help you define which course of action is right for your organisation.

In this session we will discuss:

SharePoint in Copilot

Microsoft are launching Copilot in SharePoint later in November 2023. This will allow content owners to use natural language and AI to author SharePoint pages faster and easier. Copilot in SharePoint also includes the ability to turn PowerPoint presentations into pages.

Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex is a pay-as-you-go service from Microsoft that allows for content understanding to find, organize, and classify documents in SharePoint libraries automatically and thoughtfully. For file heavy estates, Syntex can save significant time and support content findability.

AddIn365’s Content Confidence Kit

AddIn365’s Content Confident Kit uses natural language to help employees discover content they need – and feedback on content that could be better. Maintaining up to date content is made easy, with automated content lifecycle management.

Your leadership, workforce and intranet team can all be confident that your intranet site content is providing the right and relevant information to your employees, on an ongoing basis.

Benefits of attending the AI webinar

• Attendees will learn the AddIn365 best -practice project approach for delivering a Microsoft 365 digital workplace and how it will surface AI requirements within an organisation.
• Attendees will learn what stays the same and what changes as part of a project, as a result of these AI-based innovations.
• Attendees will see demos of Microsoft and AddIn365 products.

Register for the AI webinar

To confirm your attendance and receive a calendar invitation please complete the registration form via the link below.

Thursday 19th October 2023, 10am (GMT)

Webinar summary

This webinar is for WPP IT stakeholders who want to use Microsoft 365 to create a digital employee experiences that leverages AI capabilities.

In this session we will discuss:

SharePoint foundations

How SharePoint should be set up in order to best leverage future AI innovations. AddIn365 will show the Creative and Page Kit, and Site Builder products that WPP IT are already licenced to use globally.

SharePoint in Copilot

Microsoft are launching Copilot in SharePoint later in 2023. This will allow content owners to use natural language and AI to author SharePoint pages faster and easier. SharePoint Copilot includes the ability to turn PowerPoint presentations into pages.

Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex is a pay-as-you-go service that allows for content understanding to find, organise, and classify documents in SharePoint libraries automatically and thoughtfully. For file heavy estates, Syntex can save significant time and support content findability.

AddIn365’s Content Confidence Kit

AddIn365’s Content Confident Kit uses natural language to help employees discover content they need – and feedback on content that could be better. Maintaining up-to-date content is made easy, with automated content lifecycle management.

Your leadership, workforce and intranet team can all be confident that your intranet site content is providing the right and relevant information to your employees, on an ongoing basis.

Benefits of attending this webinar for WPP IT stakeholders

• You will learn what stays the same and what changes as part of a project, because of AI-based innovations.
• You will see demos of Microsoft and AddIn365 AI products.

Register for the WPP IT webinar

To confirm your attendance and receive a calendar invitation, please complete the registration form by clicking your preferred time below:

Thursday 12th October, 10am (GMT)

Thursday 12th October, 4pm (GMT)

About AddIn365

AddIn365 specialise in delivering digital workplaces on the Microsoft 365 platform. Using a products and services approach, we can help you meet your business objectives. You can view our work here.