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.

Same automation. Two completely different approaches. You'll build both.

Agent Flows and Computer Use represent two fundamentally different philosophies of automation - one structured and API-driven, one adaptive and UI-driven. Most practitioners have tried one. Almost nobody has had the time to go deep on both side by side.

Without that comparison, you're making architecture decisions based on familiarity, not fit. This workshop fixes that: you'll build the same real-world automation scenario twice, using each approach, then stress-test both before the day is out.

You leave with hands-on experience in both, a decision framework for any future project, and a clear understanding of where each approach breaks in production.

Building solutions is the easy part. Architecting them is what most people skip.

There's a gap between knowing how to build in Power Platform and knowing how to architect for it. Most practitioners cross that gap by accident - through a project that went wrong, a governance failure, a solution that couldn't scale.

This workshop closes that gap deliberately. You'll work through the mindset shift from maker to architect, learn to evaluate requirements at a systems level, and practice the trade-offs that senior architects navigate on every project.

Neil and Keith have made the mistakes. You don't have to.

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

Most data professionals know how to build reports. Far fewer know how to make them actually drive decisions. The gap isn't technical - it's about understanding who reads your work, what they need to do with it, and how to communicate in a way that moves people.

This workshop covers the full arc: from designing reports that fit your audience's decision-making process, through storytelling and presentation that make insights land, to ensuring your reports continue to drive action over time.

Good data communication is a skill. This is a day to practice it.

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.