Seattle, WA

Power Platform Track

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 608

Hands-On: Azure, ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

Gartner predicts, “by 2024, over 65% of medium to large enterprises will have adopted a Low Code Application Platform as one of their strategic application platforms.” Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to a native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and frees up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover: • Microsoft Azure Key Concepts • How does Power Platform use Azure? • How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform? • Authentication and Authorization in Azure • Azure + Power Automate • Azure + Power Apps • Azure + Power Pages • Azure + Copilot Studio • Azure + Power BI • Azure + Dataverse • PowerFx • Copilots in Power Platform • Azure OpenAI + Power Platform • ChatGPT + Power Platform • What are Azure Functions? • What are Logic Apps? • What is Azure Bot Service? • How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn:

  1. How to handle Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
  2. How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
  3. How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform
Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 609

Power Platform Copilot In A Day

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

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.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 608

Automate Desktop Processes using Robotic Process Automation in Power Automate

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

Automate routine tasks, eliminate the chance for errors, and free up time for more important work with robotic process automation (RPA) and Power Automate for desktop.

This workshop allows you to experience the utility of RPA and Power Automate for desktop and use out of box actions such as manipulating Excel documents as part of an end-to-end invoice processing solution.

In addition, with the Copilot feature available, building the desktop flows has become easier than ever! Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he walks you everything that Power Automate desktop has to offer.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 615:616

Dataverse Bootcamp for M365 Makers

Wes Preston

Wes Preston

Founder and independent consultant working with platform alignment and no-code solutions with M365 and Power Apps

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've heard about it but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time to see how to scale solutions up from Lists. In this hands-on workshop we'll start with a Power App built with List data and build a similar solution using Dataverse as the data source - talking through the pros and cons comparison along the way.

Adding Dataverse is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect.

  • Learn what Dataverse is, where it fits in the maker toolset, and how Copilot adds to the experience.
  • Cover what the differences are between Dataverse, Microsoft Lists, and other data sources and talk through some of the 'what to use when' considerations as Lists solution builders integrate with and shift to Power Platform tools.
  • Get a perspective on the maker skills needed when using Dataverse and how to get started in your organization.

Using the Developer Plan, attendees will get a hands-on look at Creating Dataverse tables, relationships, forms, and more. With Dataverse as a data source, we'll also do a quick compare of model-driven vs. canvas Power Apps.

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

Half-Day Workshop : Power Platform Governance 101

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

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 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 604

Super Charge your Power Apps and Copilots with Power Fx

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail. • What is Power Fx? • What are Data Types? • What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support? • How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application? • Power Fx Best Practices

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 609

Securing and governing the Power Platform at scale

Zohar Raz

Zohar Raz

Principal Group Program Manager, Governance

Join us to learn what is new and what is coming in the Power Platform governance space. As an IT professional you can help drive a digital transformation and accelerate your company's journey using the Power Platform. Come learn how a new governance approach and the new out of the box governance capabilities help you strike the right balance of empowering your organization to build robust and secure applications, automations, and copilots while easily placing the right guardrails to keep your digital environment safe. Join this session to learn how to manage your Power Platform assets at scale, and gain more visibility and more control, with less effort as your Power Platform adoption continues to grow.

Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · Room 6E - Keynote

Empowering Transformation: Power Platform and Dataverse in the Age of AI

Nirav Shah

Nirav Shah

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Dataverse

Hear from Nirav Shah, CVP of Microsoft Dataverse, how Power Platform is on the forefront in the Age of AI, helping people and businesses achieve more. Gain insights on how the Power Platform and Dataverse enable you to leverage your existing enterprise data and business processes to unlock the benefits of Microsoft Copilot. Discover how Microsoft quickly adapts to the changing AI workspace and how real Power Platform customers use the latest technologies.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 608

Building the apps of the future today with Power Platform and Copilot 

Leon Welicki

Leon Welicki

Vice President of Product & CPO, Power Apps at Microsoft

Come hear the latest news of how Dataverse is changing to meet the challenge of the evolving AI workspace through use of copilots. Learn how real customers are implementing the latest technologies to drive their business forward.

Learn how Dataverse makes it possible to easily connect data to LLMs using plugins, prompts and connectors to build copilots that meet your needs.

Learn about the Power Catalog which provides the ability to create and use templates to improve your productivity, and how the governance tools and capabilities ensures proper data access while using AI and copilots.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 612

What’s new in Dataverse & AI Builder: How to easily build generative AI business applications

Yogi Naik

Yogi Naik

Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft

Come hear the latest news of how Dataverse is changing to meet the challenge of the evolving AI workspace through use of copilots. Learn how real customers are implementing the latest technologies to drive their business forward. Learn how Dataverse makes it possible to easily connect data to LLMs using plugins, prompts and connectors to build copilots that meet your needs. Learn about the Power Catalog which provides the ability to create and use templates to improve your productivity, and how the governance tools and capabilities ensures proper data access while using AI and copilots.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 613:614

ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI and Power Platform: Better Together

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite.

In this demo-drive session, we will delve deeper into several intricate details and technical aspects and will also cover Practical guidance on developing next-gen, robust, scalable applications using Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Services, focusing on industry requirements and best practices.

We will cover :

  • Azure OpenAI Key Concepts
  • ChatGPT key concepts
  • Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
  • How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
  • How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?
Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 615:616

Power Platform Architecture

Ilya Grebnov

Ilya Grebnov

Vice President & Software Architect, Business Applications & Platforms at Microsoft

Power Platform Architecture Internals delves deeper into the inner workings of Business Applications and the Power Platform. The discussion focuses on the high-level design of the platform, with an emphasis on its High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities. Discover how the Power Platform team has invested in a cell-based architecture, resource governance, fault injections, and safe deployment practices to make the platform resilient to faults. Additionally, learn how the Power Platform leverages Microsoft Azure for better resource isolation, improved performance, and global scalability.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 619:620

Dataverse: Safeguard AI-enabled Enterprise Applications and Copilots

Mihaela Blendea

Mihaela Blendea

Principal Product Manager, Power Platform, Microsoft

Security of data and assets is key for any enterprise grade solutions powered by AI. Join this session to learn how to operate your D365 and Power Platform AI-powered solutions securely and about what governance and compliance options organizations of all sizes have available to easily and responsibly scale their Dataverse business data footprint. We will cover the latest platform innovations to keep your data secured in an AI-driven world, using scalable controls for authentication and authorization.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 611

Building a Modern Data Lake with OneLake: The OneDrive for Data

Josh Caplan

Josh Caplan

Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

OneLake eliminates pervasive and chaotic data silos created by developers configuring their own isolated storage. OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers. Unifying data across an organization and clouds becomes trivial.

With the OneLake data hub, users can easily explore and discover data to reuse, manage or gain insights. With business domains, different business units can work independently in a data mesh pattern, without the overhead of maintaining separate lakes.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 607

Intro to Dataverse for M365 Makers

Wes Preston

Wes Preston

Founder and independent consultant working with platform alignment and no-code solutions with M365 and Power Apps

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've heard about it but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time to understand how it impacts M365 users. Adding Dataverse to your toolset for solutions is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect.

  • Learn what Dataverse is and where it fits in the maker toolset.
  • Cover what the differences are between Dataverse, Microsoft Lists, and other data sources. Talk through some of the 'what to use when' considerations as Lists solution builders integrate with and shift to Power Platform tools.
  • Get a perspective on the maker skills needed when using Dataverse and how to get started in your organization.
Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 612

From SQL Developer to Business Analyst: Harnessing Fabric's Innovations

Charles Webb

Charles Webb

Leading a PM team focused on citizen and pro-developers, self-service and enterprise analytics, and AI for Microsoft Fabric

Data warehouse in Fabric is made for developers of any skillset. Learn how to take advantage of the newest innovations and developer experiences whether you are a SQL developer or a business analyst.

In this session we’ll provide an overview of capabilities, share best practices and enable you to use Fabric to power your analytical use cases from enterprise reporting to self service BI - and easily manage it in production.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 606

Copilot for Power Platform : Accelerating your Development with AI

Paul Papanek Stork

Paul Papanek Stork

Don't Pa..Panic Consulting, Owner

Microsoft is adding AI support to the Power Platform low code development platforms called Copilot. You can use Copilot to help build your next App or Flow.

Using Copilot you can use natural language to describe what you are trying to build. Copilot will return a suggested design for the app, flow, or Dataverse tables which you can then use.

Copilot will also help you along the way by suggesting modifications to improve your formulas. Copilot won't replace you as a Citizen Developer, but it will help you produce amazing apps and powerful flows in a fraction of the time.

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