Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 609

Power Platform Copilot In A Day

Power Platform is Microsoft's low-code, cloud-based service to turn ideas into impactful, end-to-end services. With the Power Platform having been available for over 10 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows, chatbots and websites. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for you company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it.

However, in the last year Microsoft has infused AI Copilot into all their cloud services and this change has affected Power Platform as well, some might say, more so than other services. Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he gives you a good overview of the Power Platform family in a day including all the AI Copilot features plus the changes coming to two of their services.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 613:614

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover: • Morning: Power Apps ○ Delegation ○ Working with Dates and Times ○ Conditional Formatting of data ○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow • Afternoon: Power Automate ○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively ○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches ○ Working with Large Data Sources ○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction ○ Improving Performance

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 615:616

Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) for M365/SharePoint Bootcamp

Work through a common business use case to see how Power Apps and Power Automate - and their Copilot capabilities - fit into your toolset extending M365, SharePoint, and Teams.

We'll start with some brief foundation info, dig in with demos, and then let you "take the wheel" walking through hands-on examples to build a solution as we work through the day building on top of Microsoft Lists.

You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be used with Power Automate and will create basic Flows yourself. Then, see how Flows integrate with Power Apps you've built and the list data behind them. Your instructors will be there to assist throughout the day with your questions.

Attend this workshop to get a foothold with the Power Platform. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Lists, Teams, SharePoint and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 611

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Workshop

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

We'll also learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 619:620

Half-Day Workshop : Power Platform Governance 101

Effective governance policies play a big role in the successful roll-out of the Power Platform across the organization and running it on a scale. In this half-day workshop, we will cover the key principles of Power Platform Governance, the tools available at our disposal, and how to use those. The governance policies will include Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Power BI.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover,

1. Power Platform Governance Overview
2. Center of Excellence ( CoE ) Starter Kit
3. Managed Environments
4. How to use Co-Pilot for governance?
5. Automation Kit
6. Data Loss Prevention policies
7. User Management
8. Permission manager
9. License and capacity management
10. Security and Control
11. Best Practices

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to implement Governance in Power Platform.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 612

Using Power Apps and Power Automate Together: Made for eachother

Power Apps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level. In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a Power App, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to Power Apps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your Power Apps and Flow work more efficiently together. Even if you know both Power Apps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 615:616

Copilot is beside me along my RPA journey

This session will talk about how Copilot can help you build, monitor and troubleshoot your automations.

It will also present the new experiences meant to help you scale up reliable and robust desktop automations.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 611

Two Guys and A Copilot - The DnA Show!

Daniel and Andy (DnA) are two guys who work for enterprise level companies and must deal with day-to-day tasks that can be both time consuming and mundane. However, now with Copilot available across several Microsoft cloud services, these two Microsoft MVPs are finding ways to making their jobs a lot easier and, in some cases, automated.

So, join them as these two guys show share their tips and tricks with you to make your jobs easier and make you look like Copilot superstars. This session will cover both Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot features.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 615:616

Process Mining with Copilot and AI: A New Frontier for Business Intelligence

Process Mining is a powerful tool that helps organizations take an x-ray of their business processes for the purpose of finding opportunities for optimization and driving business decisions. However, it has historically been a tool requiring deep analytical knowledge and experience to wield.

With Power Automate Process Mining, the ability to drive process insights and make impactful changes to how processes are run within your business is now accessible to any business user through the power of Copilot.

In this demo, Heather will demonstrate how Copilot can help the business user understand the root causes of process deviations, to generate actionable insights and recommendations, and to communicate these results effectively to stakeholders.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 619:620

Extend Copilot Studio with intelligent actions, workflows from Power Automate

In this session, we'll show you how to use Generative AI capabilities of Power Automate in Copilot Studio to build action orientated custom copilots.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 619:620

Power Automate & Automation in the Age of AI: strategy & roadmap

Over the last year, we're all starting to experience the benefits of Copilot across various products. More customers are building richer automations, helping transform their business faster. Come learn about how Copilot continues to evolve to help build automations faster, and how automations can help Copilots be more actionable.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 619:620

Bye, Bye Power Virtual Agents, Hello Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio!

At the Microsoft Ignite event in November 2023, Microsoft announced Copilot Studio and that it is built upon the foundations of Power Virtual Agents. So what does this mean? Is Power Virtual Agents gone? Do our chatbots need to be rebuilt?

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and a certified trainer as he walks you through these changes made to Power Virtual Agents and will provide you the guidance you need to adapt to these new enhancements.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 613:614

Advanced workflow solutions with Power Automate

Power Automate is the evolution of workflow for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This session is designed to showcase building flows for no code/low code solutions for personal productivity, team productivity, and enterprise business processes.

Topics include:

• Data connectors, connections, and user accounts
• Types of cloud flows - automatic, instant, scheduled, AI built, desktop, and process advisor
• Flow elements - triggers, actions, and conditions
• Building flows using templates versus starting from blank
• Flow settings, run history, & debugging Advanced approval scenarios - escalation, delegation, and parallel approval
• Expressions, formulas, and functions for managing data
• Using OData to better work with larger data sets in SharePoint
• Power Automate and SharePoint limits and boundaries
• Real-world application, tips & tricks
• Licensing

Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how to design flow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s business professionals.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 611

Beyond Copilot: Integrating Custom AI Into Apps

Chat GPT has been out for over a year and Copilot has been rolling out for over 6 months. It's time for your company to take AI to the next level and integrate custom AI capabilities that accelerate the productivity of every member of your team.

In this non-technical session, we'll take a look at the capabilities and case studies of AI capabilities available through AI Builder, the OpenAI API, Azure Cognitive Services and more.

You'll walk away with over 20 case studies and ideas for how you can integrate AI into the tasks your team has to manage every day. You'll lower costs, improve productivity, create better customer and employee experiences, and unleash your team to be super-humans!

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 613:614

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate.

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely.