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

Dataverse Bootcamp for M365 Makers

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.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 607

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

Wes Preston

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

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset.

We will cover:

• Simple extensions of the Microsoft List / SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
• How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
• Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 612

Automatically capture information about incoming files in Microsoft 365

Tom Resing

Content designer @ Microsoft focused on M365

Files are at the core of Microsoft 365. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, of course. In addition, all kinds of files, PDFs, pictures, and video are created, shared, viewed, edited, and deleted all day, every day in organizations around the world through the tools and services included as part of their Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Tom Resing is a member of the SharePoint Premium product engineering team at Microsoft. Every day, Tom thinks about the user experience around files and their properties how content AI does or doesn't empower people to achieve more with files.

Come to this session to get an overview of the how, why, what, when, and where you can get started with automatically capturing information about files as they are added to SharePoint, including when they're added in conversations in Teams channels.

Note that the majority of this talk relates to the new SharePoint Premium offering. However, Tom will demonstrate how you can get started for very little cost and explain scenarios that might provide immediate value to your organization.

Thursday 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM · Solution Stage

Break Free From Your IT Groundhog Day by Automating More

Keanan Ball

Sr. Director of Product Marketing

Feel like you're caught in an IT time loop cursed to repeat the same tasks and tickets every single day forever? You're not the only one considering that 76% of IT professionals report increasing burnout. This year, let's take the opportunity to break free from our own personal IT time loop more by unifying endpoint management, security, and automation.

Join Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Keanan Ball, to learn tips and tricks for automating the mundane day-in and day-out tickets and tasks without needing a PhD in scripting. We'll also discuss how to leverage policy-based automation to handle patching, backup, and AV/AM compliance without manual intervention. With the right technology in place you can secure your clients and business, free up your time for higher-value work, and banish doing the same thing every day to a charming 1993 or 2020 dark comedy movie.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 606

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

Wes Preston

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

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when?

This session will walk through updated capabilities, Copilot integration across the forms landscape, and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 606

How Copilot Studio Uses Generative A.I. to Build Custom Copilot

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

Microsoft Copilot Studio makes creating chatbots as easy as 1, 2, 3. The generative A.I. feature is able to take natural language from end-users and helps transform that into bot logic which can also be extended to Microsoft 365.

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he shows you how Copilot Studio makes bot building truly low-code.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 609

New Planner: Unifying Task Management in Microsoft Teams

Biatrice Ambrosa

Principal Engineering Manager

Get started with the new Planner in Teams and learn how the new Planner grows with your needs from managing your own tasks to collaborating with your team on projects.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 615:616

Empowering Frontline Workers with Microsoft Teams and Next-Generation AI

Tulsi Keshkamat

Group Product Manager

In this session, we will explore why enterprises of all sizes are adopting Microsoft Teams for their frontline workers and how next-generation AI offers innovative ways to solve challenges faced on the frontline. From time-consuming processes to inaccessible data, we will show you how to establish an intuitive and intelligent solution for your essential workforce at scale. You’ll learn how to deploy and manage a frontline solution that creates a single pane of glass with Microsoft Teams surfacing robust data and intelligent capabilities from Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover how your organization can benefit from adopting Microsoft Teams for your frontline workforce and leveraging the power of next-generation AI to drive operational efficiency and improve customer satisfaction. Join us to learn more about empowering your frontline workers with Microsoft Teams and next-generation AI.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 607

Intro to Dataverse for M365 Makers

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 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 611

Beyond Copilot: Integrating Custom AI Into Apps

Geoff Ables

Microsoft MVP, Best Selling Author

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!