POWER CONFERENCE 2026

You've heard about agents. Now figure out where they actually belong.

The Microsoft ecosystem now has more agent types than most teams have time to evaluate. Canvas app agents, model-driven agents, Agent Feed, Copilot Studio - each one looks compelling in a demo. In production, the wrong choice costs months.

This workshop cuts through the noise. You'll map the agent landscape across the Microsoft stack, deploy agents into Power Apps hands-on, and leave with a decision framework you can use on Monday.

No theory without practice. No demos without you building alongside.

Before you build agents, build the foundation they won't collapse on.

Most teams are racing to ship agents. Few have asked what happens when the tenant underneath isn't ready - no ALM, no governance, no visibility into what's running where.

This workshop takes a deliberate step back. Not to slow you down, but to make sure the next thing you ship actually survives. You'll work through Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Purview, and Agent 365 to build a blueprint that's governance-ready from day one.

Fair warning: there's a swear jar. Every time someone says the A-word, money goes to charity.

Not a bake-off - a toolkit. Learn when to reach for Agent Flows, when to reach for Computer Use, and how to combine both in one agent to automate a real process end to end.

Agent Flows and Computer Use are the two automation engines inside Copilot Studio, and they solve different halves of the same problem. Agent Flows give you deterministic, connector-driven automation across the systems that expose APIs. Computer Use lets an agent drive any application through its interface - clicking, typing, and reading the screen - for the systems that never did. The real skill is not picking a side; it is knowing which engine fits which part of a process, and how to combine both inside one agent.

Most practitioners have reached for one and worked around the other. This workshop closes that gap. You will build a single real-world automation the way it is actually shipped in production: structured, API-driven steps handled by Agent Flows, UI-only steps handled by Computer Use, and human-in-the-loop where governance demands it. Then you will harden it and learn a repeatable framework for making the same calls on your own projects.

You leave with hands-on experience across both engines, a decision framework for matching any requirement to the right approach, and a clear view of where each one breaks in production and how to design around it.

Building a Power Platform solution is one thing. Architecting one that is secure, scalable, governable, and built to last is something else entirely.

There is a gap between knowing how to use the Power Platform and knowing how to design for it. Too often, practitioners discover that gap the hard way - through a solution that cannot scale, a project overwhelmed by technical debt, or governance decisions made too late.

This workshop helps you cross that gap deliberately. Through practical scenarios, real-world lessons, and honest architectural war stories, you will develop the mindset needed to move from maker to architect. You will learn to evaluate requirements at a systems level, challenge assumptions, identify risks, and navigate the trade-offs that experienced architects face on every project.

Neil and Keith have already seen the mistakes. You do not have to.

A report that looks nice and a report that drives decisions are not the same thing.

Data is everywhere, but how do you turn insights into action? In this workshop, we'll focus on creating reports that matter and driving real decisions. You'll learn how to understand your audience and the decisions they need to make, how to structure reports and apply effective data visualization, and how to sell your insights through storytelling and the psychology of communication.

It's not just about the data; it's about how you present it.

We'll wrap up with how to keep your reports driving action over time.

GitHub Copilot + MCP changes how you build Power BI. Here's how to actually use it.

Agentic AI tools are reshaping the development workflow for Power BI and Fabric - but most practitioners are either not using them yet, or using them at 10% of their potential. The gap is usually the same: no structured approach, no clear mental model of where AI accelerates work and where it needs a human in the loop.

This workshop goes end-to-end. You'll work through GitHub Copilot and MCP servers applied to real Power BI modeling, reporting, and deployment workflows. You'll leave with code snippets, a skills.md blueprint, and a clear picture of when agentic tools earn their keep.

Fast-paced. Deeply technical. Bring your laptop charged.