Experts Live UK
About the event
The UK's largest independent Microsoft community conference.
The record so far
One edition in, and the numbers are real
Experts Live UK 2026 was our first edition: 296 attendees, around 50 speakers, a 4.6★ average rating and an NPS of 76 from the post-event survey. ELUK27 is the second — a bigger expo footprint across two full days, and the same practitioner-first programme.
We are one edition old, so we will not show you a hockey-stick chart. We will show you what the people who came actually said — and let that do the selling.
What we stand for
The pillars
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Practitioners first
Sessions are picked for what you can use back at work — real deployments, real failures, honest lessons learned. No product pitches from the stage.
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Independent by design
Community-run and independently organised. Microsoft people speak here; Microsoft does not run it. Sponsors support the event — they do not set the programme.
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Conversation over broadcast
Small enough that you can actually talk to the speakers, the MVPs and each other. The corridor conversations count for as much as the sessions.
The people
Who runs it
A small crew of practitioners who organise the event around their day jobs — which is why the programme stays practical.
- Dean Ellerby — Lead organiser · Microsoft MVP LinkedIn
Sensible questions
The UK FAQ
Is this an official Microsoft event?
No — and that is the point. Experts Live UK is part of the independent, community-run Experts Live network. Microsoft people speak here, but Microsoft does not set the agenda.
How does it relate to Experts Live Europe?
Same community network, UK edition. Experts Live events run across Europe and beyond; ours is the one you can reach on a day return from most of the UK.
Who is it for?
Practitioners: the engineers and admins running Microsoft estates day to day — endpoint, security, identity, M365, Power Platform and the AI layer arriving on top of all of it.
Why London?
Because it is the easiest place in the UK to reach by rail and air, and the venue sits two minutes from Moorgate. The venue page has the door-to-door times.
Get involved
The four ways in
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Attend
Three days of practitioner-led sessions, workshops and roundtables.
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Speak
Share what you have actually built. The call for speakers runs on Sessionize.
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Sponsor
Meet the UK Microsoft community on the expo floor, where the conversations happen.
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Volunteer
Join the crew that runs the event — and see the whole thing from the inside.
Join the crew →