Hosted by Phoenix in partnership with Microsoft, Mission Possible Scotland is built specifically for Scotland’s third sector, and the Microsoft Copilot tools that are already changing how the sector works.

Why this event, why Scotland, why now

Scotland’s charities are being asked to do more, again. The funding climate is, in OSCR’s own framing, very challenging. Demand on services keeps rising. Audit, reporting and trustee transparency requirements have stepped up sharply, particularly with the Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 now landing in earnest.

And on top of all of that, every voluntary organisation we speak to in Scotland is being asked the same question: “what are you doing about AI?”

Microsoft Copilot is one solution, because it sits inside the Microsoft 365 tools your colleagues already use, works with the data you already hold, and doesn’t require a transformation programme to get started. Mission Possible Edinburgh exists to show you what that looks like for an organisation operating in Scotland’s sector.

What you’ll take away from the event

• A grounded, Scotland-specific view of what Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat and Copilot Studio do
• Customer stories and a Scottish sector panel speaking honestly about adoption inside the constraints we all know
• Hands-on time across three Prompt-a-thon rounds using Copilot against your own kind of work

Agenda

• 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration, Refreshments & Networking
• 09:30 – 09:50 | Welcome and The Sector Right Now: Why AI Can’t Wait
  Speaker: Craig Reeder, Phoenix Software
• 09:50 – 10:30 | Microsoft Copilot Demystified — What It Is and What It Isn’t
  Speaker: Lewis Thomson and Thomas Pyle, Phoenix Software
• 10:30 – 11:00 | Refreshment Break & Networking
• 11:00 – 11:45 | Customer Story: Scope – From 25 Licences to 210 Agents
  Speaker: Lewis Thomson, Phoenix Software and Kwesi Afful, Scope
• 11:45 – 12:30 | Responsible AI Adoption for the Charity Sector
  Speaker: Dave Lingwood, Phoenix Software