Power Platform in the age of Copilot

Discover the future of business apps — what they can do, how they’re built, and how they’re governed. We’ll dive into the roadmap for Power Apps, Power Pages, and Managed Environments focusing on how Copilot is driving rapid evolution, all in this session packed with demos and customer success stories.

What’s new and what’s coming in Power BI?

Power Up Your Power Platform development with Power Automate

If you want to take your Power Platform development to the next level, this workshop is for you. You will discover how Power Automate can help you create custom workflows and integrations for your bots, apps, websites and reports.

You will also learn how to leverage Power Automate features such as triggers, actions, connectors, expressions and conditions to automate common tasks and scenarios across different platforms and services. Whether you want to send personalized emails, respond to Teams messages, generate documents, or update data sources, you will find out how Power Automate can make it easier and faster.

Goals:

This workshop will cover how to use Power Automate to improve your bot with Copilot Studio, applications including model-driven and canvas apps, as well as websites with Power Pages and reporting within Power BI.

A few examples:

• Did you ever want a custom button on top of your model driven app that does an action for you? Like send an email with that item, but be able to fully customize it?
• Or in Microsoft Teams, whenever someone mentions a keyword like Sales overview 2024, to automatically pick that up and send them that overview?
• Whenever someone submits a new item in your Power App, to automatically notify management, create approvals and schedule review board meetings.

Join me as I teach you the ins and outs of Power Automate Cloud flows, and possibly some mentions of RPA flows and custom connector scenarios along all Power Platform products.

Mastering Model-Driven Power Apps 

Visual Calculations: Making DAX easier

Power BI for Frontline Workers

In this session, we delve into the powerful capabilities of the
Power BI mobile app, specifically designed to empower frontline workers across diverse sectors.

From healthcare to public safety, manufacturing to retail, education to hospitality, these features are tailored to enhance efficiency and streamline daily operations.

Expect live demonstrations showcasing how Power BI can be seamlessly integrated into fieldwork, along with practical insights on implementing these features to simplify processes, improve decision-making, and enhance collaboration.

No, AI is not answer for everything, yet. Why you should care anyway?

1.⁠ ⁠Introduction: Personal Story of Jaro Sponar
– Challenges faced in early career.
– Importance of avoiding monotonous tasks through automation.
– The transformative role of AI and automation in creating new opportunities.

2.⁠ ⁠Konica Minolta’s Evolution
– Historical transformation from a medicine wholesaler to a leader in digital printing and IT solutions.
– Adoption of Microsoft technologies to enhance document management, processing, and security.

3.⁠ ⁠Embracing AI and Microsoft Cloud
– Integration of Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Security for managing business processes.
– The digital workplace powered by intelligent cloud solutions.

4.⁠ ⁠Technology Adoption and Resistance
– Historical resistance to technological advancements.
– Comparison of people who resist vs. those who embrace change.

5.⁠ ⁠The Future of Work with AI
– Addressing the fear of job redundancy due to AI.
– AI’s role in augmenting human work, not replacing it.

6.⁠ Impact on Productivity and Economy
– Global economic trends and challenges with a declining productive population.
– AI’s potential to boost productivity and address workforce gaps.

7.⁠ ⁠Microsoft Copilot as a Daily Tool
– Benefits of using Copilot in daily tasks, meetings, and content creation.
– Myths around AI tools like Copilot and their actual benefits.

8.⁠ Conclusion: Preparing for the AI Era
– Encouraging adaptation to AI as a way to enhance skills and productivity.
– Positioning AI as a supportive partner in daily work.

The UX Code: Crack the Laws of User Experience to Build Apps Users Love

Ever wish you could create apps that users rave about, but feel limited by a lack of design skills? You’re not alone—and the good news is, you don’t need to be a designer to build something amazing!

In this session, we’ll decode the science and research behind User Experience (UX) design, providing you with powerful “Laws of UX” that can transform your apps from functional to fantastic. By applying these universal principles, you’ll be able to craft applications that users love, improve productivity, and reduce errors—all without needing any artistic talent or creativity.

Whether you’re building with Power Apps or Power Pages, these UX laws will be your secret weapon for success.

Join us to discover how you can harness the power of UX to design apps that are not only user-friendly but also a joy to use!

From data to action: Driving decision-making with Power BI

Let’s face it; there are probably not many people designing dashboards and reports just to have something pretty to look at. Companies asking for dashboards want to get insights and eventually take action with these insights.
Many Power BI dashboards companies use do not fully fulfill this need. Often there is data, which is good, but taking action and taking the next step with the insights needs many additional steps… When we take a step back, the dashboards were intended to lessen the workload and not add to the workload.

In this session, “From Data to Action,” I will show how you can visualize the data in a way that helps companies to take the next step. Often, this is not complicated, and you don’t need to buy additional tools. Just some visual tweaks will go a long way!

Also, this session will focus on asking the right questions and tailoring the design to your audience. So it’s a mix of visuals, examples, and theory about choosing the right design to answer the (actual) question.

Whether you are a business analyst, a data enthusiast, or a decision maker, this session will help you to bring your dashboards to the next level. It will also help you to communicate more clearly to the team what you are looking for, even if you don’t know everything about Power BI and dashboard design.

Unlock the hidden potential of Virtual tables

Let’s dive into the world of virtual tables and learn how to overcome the struggles of known limitations and fit them into your business requirements. Master the art and discover how they can achieve new levels of data connectivity in a fun and exciting way.

From everyday skills to Power Platform: Leveraging diverse skills for citizen development

This session explores how individuals from various backgrounds, using everyday skills, can become adept at citizen development on the Power Platform. Attendees will learn how skills not typically associated with technology, like creative arts or educational strategies, can be uniquely leveraged to enhance their capabilities in building applications using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.

It’s essential for attendees to recognize the value of their diverse skill sets in the tech landscape, encouraging them to engage actively with the Power Platform.

Through a combination of storytelling, interactive discussions, and live demonstrations, we will delve into real-life examples and practical applications. The session will feature interactive elements that encourage participants to think about how their skills can translate into technology solutions.

Attendees will gain insights into the creative integration of skills for better problem-solving and innovation on the Power Platform, along with practical tips for applying these strategies in their projects.

The Cost of a Workaround – Key considerations for Power BI

From using SVGs or DENEB to create unique visuals, to page level security with RLS – workarounds are often necessary to overcome limitations and achieve desired functionalities in Power BI. However, these workarounds come with their own set of costs and considerations. This session discusses the key factors to help developers evaluate workarounds in Power BI, ensuring that the benefits outweigh the potential drawbacks.

To do this, we will explore some real-life workarounds in Power BI such as code-based Custom Visuals (DENEB, SVGs, HTML, Python), Page level security, and storing a custom PowerQuery library in Github. We will also dive into the trade-offs involved, including maintainability, impact on development, and technical debt.

This session is aimed at the intermediate Power BI Developer, to help them answer the question – Should I use this workaround? Attendees are encouraged to have some experience with custom visuals and PowerQuery with the Advanced Editor.

The Ultimate Power Slam: Model-Driven Apps vs. Power Pages Portals

In the grand arena of CRM development, Model-Driven Apps have been the reigning champions. The speed of development and extensibility they provide to business users is unparalleled. But what if you need to provide a web experience for external users with Power Pages? It is not a simple one-to-one replication. And this is where the royal rumble starts, the stakes are high, and the competition is fierce.

You need the ultimate Power Platform tag team, built on the robust foundations of Dataverse. As it’s not just a one-to-one replication, you need to understand how to transfer your well-known features such as forms, views, and permissions into a portal that is fighting fit.

This session will showcase the best no-code/low-code techniques as the high-flying moves that extend your Model-Driven Apps into Power Pages without needing a full-stack developer. For those tougher opponents of configuration, it will also demonstrate how to collaborate with them to build sustainable websites, ensuring your apps remain the undisputed champions in the digital arena.

You can be my wingman anytime: The Copilot story

Welcome to the journey where you meet your new business wingman. The groundbreaking Copilot innovation boosts business productivity as never seen before. In this session, we will delve into the transformative capabilities of Copilot, a revolutionary AI assistant designed to enhance the way we work, collaborate, and drive success.

Rob will take you on the AI journey, giving an overview of the current AI & productivity capabilities of the CRM platform. Besides that, Rob will guide you in the Copilot landscape. Which Copilots are available and where? What are the possibilities wit Copilot Studio? And last but not lease, he will inspire you with the upcoming Copilot capabilities that are coming your way.

Be ready for a session with lots of energy and passion and enjoy the visual effects and the story line, based on the famous movie Top Gun.

Additional notes

This session has a nice story telling component based on the Top Gun movie. Using visual effects will keep the focus of the audience. Therefore a (big) screen and audio capabilities of the room are essential.

Deutsche Boerse: Citizen Developer’s Dream

Deutsche Boerse is a global financial institution with over 13 000 employees. In the session I want to share why we chose MS Power Platform as a company automation suite and how we nurture the internal community of over 700 citizen developers.

I will describe:
> How and why we nurture internal citizen developer community
> How we drive governance for citizen developers in a heavily regulated financial environment
> How we embraced the fusion team development

Additional notes

Key topics:

> Citizen developers
> Fusion team development

Govern your Data on Fabric and Beyond

In the ever-evolving landscape of governance, where agility, transparency, and efficiency are paramount, the integration of cutting-edge technology becomes imperative. Enter Microsoft Fabric – a transformative platform designed to revolutionize data democratization. This pre-conference session serves as an immersive exploration into the governance capabilities within Microsoft Fabric.

Throughout this session, participants will delve into the multifaceted dimensions of governance, understanding its complexities and challenges in contemporary contexts. By leveraging the power of Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview, attendees will uncover innovative strategies to streamline decision-making processes, enhance compliance frameworks, and foster greater accountability.

DesignKit – move your Power Apps development to the new level

This Figma plugin helps to speed up the UI development of Power applications and improve the level of designs for customer projects.

Users can import & export Canvas apps, import Model Driven apps, or Power Automate flows.

PRO version helps Power Apps users to pre-create Design Systems with components.

The plugin does not neglect the Power BI app. Users can generate a Canvas background layout for Power BI reports.

Power Fx Deep Dive: From Novice to Ninja!

Step into the transformative world of Power Fx, the backbone of Microsoft’s low-code business applications platform. At this workshop, attendees will not just dabble but dive deep into the nooks and crannies of this Excel-like language, mastering its capabilities, nuances, and potential.

Power Fx is used across the entire Power Platform, meaning it’s vital for developers to understand the foundational elements of the language and see how this can be applied in real-world scenarios. During this all-day workshop, we’ll see how Power Fx can be used within Canvas Power Apps and as part of model-driven Power Apps, plug-ins and Power Virtual Agents chatbots. Attendees will learn from various hands-on activities and demos, better understanding the common pitfalls and how to sidestep them in a project.

In a world where digital transformations are taking centre stage, and the line between developer and non-developer continues to blur, our workshop suits both new and experienced attendees. It will provide a forum for active participation, ensuring that every attendee is more than just a spectator. Join us in exploring and unlocking the massive potential of Power Fx!

Securing the Power Platform: What are my options?

One of the most sensitive aspects of any cloud platform is the security of access to the Applications and Processes deployed on it. And in the case of the Power Platform, beyond application-level security: What options do we have?

In this session, we will review the state of the art in securing the Power Platform from the point of view of identity, cross data access, privileged identities protection, etc.

We will see security elements we have for the Power Platform such as Conditional Access, Tenant Isolation, or Continuous Access Evaluation, among others.

Changing the way how we interact with data in the Era of AI

Why should we look at reports and search for a specific KPI, if you can just ask your personal assistant for the most recent status of that KPI? Chatting is the new way of interacting with your data in the Era of AI.

Join us as we delve into the future of data interaction and explore the transformative power of Microsoft Fabric. Discover how this technology enables us to have dynamic conversations with our data that go beyond traditional static reports. Prepare to revolutionize your approach to using data in the age of artificial intelligence.

During this session we will touch upon different technologies to support your data related conversations.

– Natural language to SQL capabilities
– MS Copilot in Power BI
– AI Skills in MS Fabric
– Power Virtual Agents to bring conversations to MS Teams

Supercharge Your Canvas Apps: Performance Optimization Secrets Unveiled

🔓 Unlock Performance Excellence in Canvas Apps!

🚀 Dive into the dynamic world of Canvas Apps in this action-packed session designed to boost your app performance to the next level! Learn how to optimize your app for speed, efficiency, and user satisfaction.

🕰️ Tired of waiting for your Canvas Apps to load? Learn how to trim down those wait times and keep users engaged from the get-go. Understand the differences and good practises for OnStart vs OnVisible and Local vs Global vs Temporary variables to leverage them effectively to optimize app performance.

🔁 Avoid reinventing the wheel by creating reusable Components and Named Formulas in your Canvas Apps. Share Your logic across multiple screens, saving time and ensuring consistency.

Transform user experiences by making your apps not only functional but exceptionally responsive and efficient.

Join us to ensure your Canvas Apps run smoothly, keeping your users engaged and satisfied.