When : 14 July, 2026
Where : South Coast Baptist College Multipurpose Gymnasium
Thank you to our sponsors:
8:00 - 8:50
(50 mins)
Coffee, Registration
Location: Multipurpose Gymnasium
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:10
(10 mins)
Welcome, Acknowledgement of Country, Housekeeping
Ritchie Rajan & Nathan Harris
9:25 - 9:55
(30 mins)
Overview of ICT at South Coast Baptist College
Dawn Clements & Richie Rajan
9:55 - 10:40
(45 mins)
Session 1 - Before you switch on Microsoft Copilot: A practical governance playbook from assessment to deployment
This session outlines how to get your school’s Microsoft 365 environment ready before switching on Microsoft Copilot. It covers assessing the current M365 environment to identify oversharing and permission issues, fixing them using Microsoft Purview and SharePoint tools to clean up content and control access, and mapping out a step-by-step plan from assessment through to safe Copilot deployment for staff and students.
Speaker: Jag Kakarlapudi, Konica Minolta
10:40 - 11:25
Morning Tea
Middle Sessions
11:25 - 12:10
Session 2 - Practical use of AI and Automation in Schools
Speaker: Shaq Herath, Trinity College
12:10 - 12:55
Session 3 -
Speaker: Hugo van Niekerk, ICT Director, Mazenod College
MITIE Update
Speaker: Nathan Harris, MITIE Committee
13:05 - 14:15
(70 mins)
Lunch
Afternoon Session
14:15 - 15:00
Session 4: Helping your school to choose between Essential 8, NIST CSF, and ISO27001
Speaker: Toby Kerrison, Chief Technology Officer, Netstrategy
15:00-15:15
(15 mins)
Sponsors session & Door prizes
Directions
Please see attached for directions from carpark 7 to the Multipurpose Gymnasium School Map
Biographies
Jag Kakarlapudi, Jag Kakarlapudi has a Master of Software Engineering post graduate degree from The University of Adelaide and is a Microsoft and TOGAF certified Solution Architect. Jag has two decades of experience designing and rolling out SharePoint and Microsoft 365-based information management systems for educational institutions and corporate organisations across Australia.
He specialises in aligning Microsoft 365 tools with real-world school governance, compliance, and operational needs. Jag leads Konica Minolta Microsoft practice as Senior Solutions Architect focused on enabling schools to modernise and secure their data landscape safely and intelligently.
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