Thursday, August 20, 2026
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Northeastern University Vancouver, 410 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1Z3 (open in Google Maps)
Free Event
Presented by Van 365 View
Hosts: Luis Juarez, San Gifford, Maria Garcia, Van365 View, David Nudelman
A community networking night in the run-up to the Vancouver Microsoft 365 Summit in September. No agenda is published: it is billed as straight networking with no pitch decks required, open conversation across Microsoft 365, Dynamics and the wider stack, and summit tickets and discounts handed out on the night. It is aimed at anyone working in or around the Microsoft platform in Vancouver, whether or not they are going to the summit itself. The room is on the 14th floor at Northeastern University, and the organisers meet arrivals in the lobby to bring them up. Street parking is nearby. Numbers are capped at 100.
Anu's Take
The Vancouver Microsoft 365 crowd has set aside two hours to just talk to each other before September's summit, which is a rarer format than it sounds. The tell is buried in the logistics: someone waits in the lobby to take you up to the 14th floor. Plenty of groups call themselves welcoming and then leave you guessing which elevator. If the Microsoft stack pays your bills, this is the room where you find out who else in the city is solving the same problems.
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Published Sunday, August 2, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
Most of the people in this room are paid to make this stack work, which is roughly the argument I put on the record about why Microsoft 365 is the only choice for a Canadian small business.