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Sunday 25 Oct

08:00 · 9 at this start time

08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 317
Agent 365: Securely Managing and Governing Agents at Scale
Track
Agents
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Kendra Springer, Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Dave Jennings
Full-day hands-on workshopIT professionals
AI agents are transforming how organizations work, but scaling them responsibly requires more than just building great experiences. Join this immersive full-day workshop to learn how Agent 365 helps organizations discover, govern, secure, and manage agents across the enterprise. Starting with an overview of the Agent 365 vision and architecture, you'll gain hands-on experience enabling the agent registry, synchronizing and reviewing agents, implementing security and compliance controls with Microsoft Entra, Defender, and Purview, and creating reusable agent templates and approval workflows. You'll also learn how to onboard custom agents through the SDK, address the growing challenge of Shadow AI and local agents, and extend agent capabilities with tools. Whether you're an IT administrator, security leader, architect, or maker, you'll leave with practical guidance, proven governance patterns, and the skills needed to confidently scale agentic AI across your organization.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 311
Agents Meet Business Applications in Work IQ: Ground Copilot in Dataverse Data
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Nathan Helgren, Kent Weare, Daniel Laskewitz, Rohith Chetla
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopIT professionals
(Previous title, Coding Agents Meet Work IQ: Grounding Copilot in Your Dataverse Business Data) Microsoft makes it possible to integrate your business data into Copilot, giving you a 360 view of not only your daily productivity information, but also the information you need to handle everyday business tasks. Together, Dataverse and Business Applications in Work IQ give your AI agents a deep understanding of how your business operates, grounding Copilot in the real data, processes, and workflows that live in Dataverse. These capabilities are not just done using low code UI but also through code interfaces. In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to integrate Work IQ within your agents using AI assisted coding, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. What you will learn: * Create a solution, tables, and relationships for a custom app using Github. * Build a server side plugin to automate the processing of inbound requests based on policy data. * Create business skills that will process available data to provide users a comprehensive view to make important business decisions with Business Applications in Work IQ. * Manage security roles and your Dataverse data model through Github. * Build an agent in Copilot Studio that takes advantage of Work IQ across your business applications. * Apply semantic modeling and Business skills to provide more accurate responses when accessing data from chat with Business Applications in Work IQ This lab is focused on users who have awareness of Dataverse and its data structures, and who either have coding experience or are willing to learn how to code using AI in Copilot. It's also a great starting point for Business Applications in Work IQ hands on experiences. The focus will be on makers, developers, and some administration.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 316
AI-Assisted Full Stack Development on Power Platform
Track
Dataverse
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Chris Piasecki, Tomas Prokop
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopers
Sunday, October 25th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Power Platform development is shifting from low-code to AI-assisted pro code. This workshop helps you make that transition by building production-grade solutions with GitHub Copilot - not just vibe code a frontend. Vibe coding a single page app is easy with AI, but real solutions need a database schema, server-side validations, transaction management, and background jobs. We'll show you what belongs on the client versus the server, and why trying to do everything in the frontend creates security holes and data integrity problems that'll come back to bite you. You'll build a complete full-stack Power Platform solution leveraging: * A Power Apps Code App frontend with React, TypeScript, and Fluent UI components. * Dataverse plugins and custom APIs in C# for server-side rules with transactional safety. * Custom connectors and Power Automate flows for background jobs. * A single git monorepo so Copilot sees full context across application layers. * Written specifications that work for both AI and humans - clear enough for code generation, detailed enough for team review. This workshop sets realistic expectations about what AI can do today and equips you with patterns that work. By the end, you'll understand full-stack architecture, have guardrails where AI can't break things, and know when to let Copilot code versus when you need to take control.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Chairman's 370
Callsign: COPILOT — Build and Deploy Mission-Ready AI Agents
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Dian Taylor, David Warner
Foundational (100)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopersIT professionalsMaker
Sunday, October 25th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Every Copilot has a callsign. What matters is how it’s trained. In this hands-on workshop, Dian and David will help you step into the role of an agent builder, not just a consumer. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll work hands-on to design and deploy mission-ready AI agents that go beyond conversation and are built to support real work across the Power Platform. Throughout the session, Dian and David will cover areas such as grounding agents with the right knowledge, shaping agent behavior, and connecting agents to actions and automations that enable them to participate in real business scenarios. The emphasis is on practical patterns, sound design choices, and the mindset shift required to build agents you can trust. You’ll leave with a working AI agent, hands-on experience you can immediately apply, and a clearer mental model for designing, deploying, and evolving Copilot agents as the technology continues to mature. IMPORTANT: Please bring an unlocked laptop for the hands-on components. Work laptops are usually locked down so we recommend bringing a personal laptop that allows signing into a trial environment.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 319
DAX and Calculations in Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star
Track
BI · Power Platform
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Reza Rad
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopBusiness / end userDevelopersIT professionals
Sunday, October 25th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm In your journey to learning Power BI, DAX and calculations are must-learn techniques. However, understanding DAX can be complicated as it uses concepts that can be hard to absorb. If you want to perform a year-over-year calculation, a month-to-date, or percentage of the total, dynamic row-level security patterns, or even conditional formatting, DAX is the answer to them all. You can write formulas and expressions in DAX which answers all of those queries. Reza Rad is the best-selling author of the Power BI DAX Simplified book and dozens of other Power BI books. In this one-day workshop, he gets you from the very beginner level of learning DAX into advanced techniques and examples. At the end of this training, you will be able to write DAX calculations for your own models and understand how the calculation and formula language works. You don't need any prerequisites for this workshop. This workshop is designed for beginner and experienced users of Power BI. The day includes modules below: -Fundamentals -Aggregation and Iterators -Filter -Relationship functions -Logical functions -Time Intelligence -Table manipulation functions -Parameter table
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Chairman's 368
Deep Dive Into the New Copilot Studio: Engineering Enterprise Agents and Workflows
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Henry Jammes, Doug Bellingeri, Bobby Chang, Remi Dyon, Roel Schenk
Advanced (300)Full-day hands-on workshopMaker
Copilot Studio has been rebuilt for complex, multi-step work – and this workshop goes well beyond the tour. Designed for practitioners who have built agents before, it digs into how the platform actually works and how to make deliberate design choices across Microsoft's agent stack. We'll start with the full spectrum of agents for business productivity: what employees can build themselves with Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and how Copilot Cowork lets them delegate work to agents and get things done. Understanding what these surfaces do well – and where they stop – gives you a clear decision framework for when a scenario graduates to Copilot Studio, and how employee productivity agents and enterprise agents complement each other. From there, we go deep on the new Copilot Studio. You'll learn how the agentic orchestrator plans and executes long-horizon tasks, and how instructions and skills shape behavior. Hands-on, you'll engineer agents that work through complex problems: grounding them in enterprise knowledge, sharpening tool selection, and using skills – reusable instructions that load on demand. You'll learn what long-horizon, recursive execution unlocks: agents that process large volumes of content, produce rich file outputs, and keep working until the job is done. You'll then take these agents further – giving them their own identity to run as autopilots, and building rich interactions between people, agents, and applications with MCP apps. With the new workflow designer, you'll build end-to-end automations that blend deterministic steps with agent nodes – and learn when to use each. You'll wire in event-driven and scheduled triggers, add human-in-the-loop approvals for the actions that matter, and design for reliability and error handling from the start. You'll leave with an engineering-level understanding of the new Copilot Studio, a decision framework for the full agent spectrum, and working patterns for enterprise agents and automations that hold up in production. What you'll learn - Navigate the agent spectrum – building agents with Agent Builder, delegating work with Copilot Cowork, and engineering enterprise agents with Copilot Studio – and know when each is the right choice. - How the new agentic orchestrator plans, reasons, and executes long-horizon, multi-step work. - Engineer agent behavior with instructions and skills, and sharpen grounding and tool selection. - Give agents their own identity to run as autopilots, and create rich human–agent–app interactions with MCP apps. - Design workflows that blend deterministic steps with agent nodes, triggers, and human-in-the-loop approvals. - Apply patterns for reliability, error handling, and production readiness.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 318
Lifecycle Mastery: ALM for Power Platform and Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Casey Burke, Prabhat Pandey, Yash Patel, Ashish Choudhary, Marcel Ferreira
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshop
As AI agents take center stage in what you build and how you build it, the need for robust, scalable, and secure application lifecycle management (ALM) has never been more critical. This hands-on workshop will help you master the lifecycle of Power Platform solutions, agents, and how to deploy and operate them together - ensuring intelligence, governance and agility go hand in hand.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 310
Mastering Hyperautomation: Power Platform Workshop
Track
Automate · Power Platform
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Tomasz Poszytek, Petros Feleskouras
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopBusiness / end userDevelopersMaker
Sunday, October 25th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Note: Workshop will include HANDS-ON tutorials. Bring your own fully charged laptop and power cord Hyperautomation, the practice of automating all possible processes within an organization, has become integral to enhancing operational efficiency and competitiveness. By leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA), organizations can streamline workflows and achieve unprecedented levels of productivity. In this comprehensive workshop, attendees will gain invaluable insights into the transformative power of hyperautomation. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises, participants will learn: * Strategies for identifying and mining tasks within existing processes to optimize efficiency. * Techniques for building end-to-end business processes that seamlessly integrate cloud and on-premises environments. * Best practices for incorporating AI models into automation workflows to drive intelligent decision-making. * The importance of creating robust queues to manage and prioritize processes effectively. * Proven tips and tricks for enhancing the performance and efficiency of automated processes. By harnessing the capabilities of Power Platform, including Power Automate, RPA, Task mining, and AI, attendees will be equipped with the tools and knowledge needed to implement hyperautomation solutions that deliver tangible business benefits. Join me to unlock the full potential of hyperautomation and propel your organization towards greater success.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Grand 114
My First Day of Power Platform (Powered by Copilot)
Track
Apps
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Julie Yack
Foundational (100)Full-day hands-on workshopMaker
Sunday, October 25th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Note: Workshop will include HANDS-ON tutorials. Bring your own fully charged laptop and power cord New to the Power Platform—or new to tech altogether—and not sure where to begin? This hands-on workshop is designed for anyone who’s curious but uncertain, exploring a career shift, or simply looking for a clearer, less intimidating way to get started with Power Platform. You don’t need a technical background, coding experience, or the “right” vocabulary to participate. If you can describe a problem, ask questions, or explain how work should flow, you already have what you need. Copilot helps bridge the gap—turning natural language and ideas into a clear path forward. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the full journey from idea to solution using a real-world scenario. You’ll see how Copilot can help you think through business problems, reduce the blank-page fear, and guide early decisions—before we ever worry about tools or buttons. From there, we’ll build together, using Copilot as a supportive partner throughout the process. This session isn’t about memorizing features or becoming “technical” overnight. It’s about learning how to approach problem-solving with the Power Platform, gaining confidence through hands-on experience, and realizing that building solutions is more accessible than it first appears. By the end of the day, you’ll leave with practical experience, a strong foundation, and a clear understanding of how Copilot can support your learning—whether you’re changing careers, returning to tech, or starting something entirely new. Come as you are. Leave knowing you belong here.
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Monday 26 Oct

08:00 · 9 at this start time

08:00–15:00 · 7h · Chairman's 368
Build Intelligent Business Processes with Apps, Automations, and Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Dataverse · Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Rasika Chaudhary, Warren Bryant, Nikita Polyakov, Jay Padimiti, Adrian Orth, Olivier Conort
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopersIT professionalsMaker
Today's business processes need more than forms and workflows – they need intelligence. In this hands-on workshop, you'll build an end-to-end intelligent business process that combines modern apps, automation, and agents on one unified platform. Starting from a real-world business scenario, you'll design a modern application, automate approvals and integrations, and extend the solution with agents that reason, take action, and orchestrate multi-step workflows – collaborating with employees where it matters through human-in-the-loop approvals. You'll connect it all to your enterprise systems through Dataverse and connectors, and apply best practices for architecture, governance, security, and ALM so you can deploy with confidence at scale. By the end of the session, you'll understand how apps, automation, and agents come together to transform business processes – and how to build on the platform where Microsoft's AI-first innovation is landing. What you'll learn Design modern business applications that put agents to work for employees and customers. Automate complex, multi-step business processes with workflows. Build agents that reason through complex problems, execute long-running multi-step work, take action across your systems, and produce rich outputs – autonomously or with employees in the loop. Connect enterprise systems and data using Dataverse and connectors. Apply enterprise architecture, governance, security, and ALM best practices. Bring it all together into one end-to-end intelligent business process.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 317
Build, Deploy and Manage Vibe Coded Apps at Scale
Track
Copilot Studio · Apps
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Tasha Scott, Emma Cooper, Greg Lindhorst, McCall Saltzman
Advanced (300)Full-day hands-on workshopMaker
Vibe coding has received a lot of hype recently: describe what you want and agents build it in minutes. It's also received a lot of skepticism – it needs real data, real governance, and someone else to maintain it. The impression is that today vibe coding gets you a prototype, not a real solution - but everyone seems to agree that it's the way of the future. It's hard to understand why - until you try it firsthand for yourself. In this workshop you'll get hands-on with new, real frontier enterprise agentic authoring tools ushering in the future of enterprise tool development. You'll try working with new and existing canvas and model app estate using agentic plugins, now generally available. Maybe you've heard the buzz around the brand-new Copilot Managed Runtime? You'll get hands on with it to create new apps in Copilot and then extend them with the CLI. You'll do the parts demos skip: connect apps to real enterprise data sources, deploy them, and apply the management and governance patterns production demands. Led by the people who build the product, with dedicated Q&A at the end - bring your hardest questions. Who should attend: Anyone wanting to try hands-on agentic coding for real-world problems - makers of every kind, low-code to pro-code and admins who curious but cautious about agentic app authoring. A 200–300 level session kept as approachable as possible wherever you're starting from. In this lab, you'll: • Learn to how choose the right agentic authoring tool for the job • Go from plain-language idea to working apps, then make them genuinely good • Connect to real enterprise data • Learn to recognize where agentically-coded apps break down and what to do before they do • Deploy and manage apps for real organizational use • Ask the product team directly in a closing Q&A This hands-on lab requires you to bring your own laptop with the ability to open an incognito/in private browser window in order to participate. If bringing a work laptop, please check to ensure it meets this requirement before signing up!
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 316
From Problem to App: How to Build a Complete Operations System with Power Apps & Power Automate
Track
Apps
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Shane Young
Intermediate (200)Full-day presentation workshopBusiness / end userDevelopersIT professionalsMaker
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm You’re going to start with a problem: your business has no clear way to track work, requests, or tasks. Things fall through the cracks, and nobody has visibility. By the end of this session, you’ll have a working solution: a complete Operations System built with Power Apps and Power Automate. This is a live, start-from-scratch build. No scripts, no prebuilt pieces. Just a real-world problem and a step-by-step process to design and build the solution together. Along the way, you’ll learn how to think through: - Data modeling (what tables, relationships, and why) - Building a clean, usable app experience - Parent/child relationships and editable grid patterns - When Power Automate adds value (and when it doesn’t) - What to do when things break (because they will) This session is about the process, not just the final app. You’ll see how to go from problem → design → working solution in a way you can apply to your own projects immediately. If you’ve ever wondered how to actually think through and build a real business app, this is your session. Resources and a full solution download will be provided after the workshop. This is not a hands-on workshop.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 319
Mastering Governance at Scale: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Power Platform and Agent Estate
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Gregg Barker, Mihaela Blendea, Zohar Raz, Ken Auguillard, Sid Gundavarapu, Graham Mosley, John Hart, Praveen Mantha, Lane Swenka, Mik Ferland
Advanced (300)Full-day hands-on workshop
This full-day workshop is designed for platform admins, security leads, CoE owners, and anyone responsible for managing environments, policies, connectors, and scaled adoption. You’ll learn how to implement adaptive governance strategies that maximize innovation while minimizing risk, using the latest capabilities in Power Platform and Copilot Studio. Through demos, hands-on labs, and real-world scenarios, you’ll explore: - Enterprise-grade security and compliance: Discover how to secure apps, automations, and agents with managed controls, environment zoning, connector policies, and advanced auditing. - Agentic governance: See how new agent management tools streamline policy enforcement, inventory visibility, and lifecycle controls for AI-powered solutions. - Operational excellence: Learn best practices for monitoring, cost management, and scaling mission-critical workloads across thousands of environments and agents. - Human-in-the-loop admin workflows: Experience natural language admin interfaces that let you query, set, and enforce governance policies across your tenant—no scripting required. - Customer stories and lessons learned: Hear how leading organizations balance innovation and control, and how Microsoft’s own internal adoption journey shaped the platform. Whether you’re just starting your governance journey or scaling to tens of thousands of makers and agents, you’ll leave with actionable insights, practical tools, and a clear blueprint for governing apps, agents, and workflows at enterprise scale.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 310
MCP in a Day: From “What Is It?” to Real Solutions with Power Platform
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
EY Kalman, Haniel Croitoru
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopersMaker
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm If you’ve heard people mention the Model Context Protocol (MCP) but aren’t sure what it is- or how it can simplify your integrations with the Power Platform then-this full-day, demo-heavy workshop is for you. We’ll start at first principles, providing an overview of what an MCP server, why so many organizations are leaning towards them, and why should you care. Next, we will have a look under the hood to learn about the components that make up an MCP server. As an example, we will be reviewing the using native MCP integrations, connecting to Dataverse via the Dataverse MCP Server. In our final section, we will be building and wiring a custom MCP server into a Power Platform agent. We’ll bring a familiar scenario to use for the live demos, to be able to see exactly how MCP will benefit you. Along the way, you’ll see how MCP plays better together with Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365, and more -- so you leave with working patterns you can take back to your team. Key Takeaways: - Explain key MCP concepts and components-: clients vs. servers, and the three capabilities (tools, resources, prompts). - Add an MCP server to a Copilot Studio agent and review how actions/knowledge flow through the connector governance model (auth, DLP, VNets). - Use the Dataverse MCP Server to list tables, describe schemas, and perform CRUD safely with environment-aware permissions. - Build a custom MCP server using Azure Functions or containers and expose a few business-specific tools that an agent can invoke. - Wire up “Better Together” scenarios that combine Power Platform with GitHub Copilot (MCP server in VS Code) and Microsoft 365 Copilot federated connectors for live data.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Chairman's 370
Microsoft Fabric — A Whole New World for Power BI
Track
BI
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
John White, Jason Himmelstein
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopBusiness / end userIT professionalsMaker
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Microsoft Fabric is the Brave New World of Microsoft Analytics. Fabric brings together not only Power BI, but all sorts of tools from the Microsoft data platform, including Data Factory, Synapse Data Warehouse, Azure Data Explorer, Spark, Azure Data Lake Gen 2, and more. It also introduces new capabilities such as OneLake, Lake Houses, Databases, and Real-Time Dashboards. The choices of tools have totally exploded. This all-day tutorial will explore all of the different components of Microsoft Fabric and what they bring to the table, particularly from the perspective of a Power BI user. We will walk through its architecture and the user interface, working through a number of examples as we go. Finally, we will cover off how it is licensed, and a whole host of other miscellaneous topics including source control, and integration with other systems. This tutorial consists of a mix of theory and demonstrations, with emphasis on the demonstrations using real-world data. It is designed for the beginner and the novice user, but even advanced users will find some nuggets of new information. Fabric is a fast-moving, and ever-changing product, and this tutorial is constantly updated to reflect that. Above all, we encourage questions and dialogue. We can't answer your questions if you don't bring them, so please come armed! Feel free to even bring us data, and we can work through any reporting challenges that you may have. If you want to get exposed to Microsoft Fabric, this workshop is certainly for you.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 311
Nobody Knows How Many Agents You Have
Track
Agents · Apps · Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Michele Bustamante, Jim Counts
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopersIT professionals
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Your makers are shipping Copilot Studio agents faster than anyone is tracking them. Each one gets an identity. Each one carries permissions for every connector it touches. Each one can reach Dataverse, SharePoint, and whatever that HTTP action points at. Ask three simple questions in most organizations - how many agents are published, who owns them, what can they read - and nobody has the answers. This isn't hypothetical and it isn't old news. Since March 2026, Copilot Studio has created an Entra identity for every new agent automatically. Agent 365 went GA in May. The governance surface arrived faster than the governance did. But inventory is only the beginning. An agent's effective reach is determined by its identity, user context, connector permissions, tools, data sources, and environment configuration. Understanding who an agent can act as - and what it can reach when it does — is the foundation of securing it. This session works through how agent estates actually fail: injection through grounding data, exfiltration through agent responses, connectors scoped far wider than the job needs, confused-deputy and user-context problems, insecure HTTP and MCP integrations, shadow and orphaned agents, credentials sitting in configuration. Then the harder half: what the controls actually do. DLP policies, environment strategy, agent identities and permission scopes, Conditional Access, detection signal. For each failure, we say plainly whether the control closes it, dents it, or misses it entirely. The gaps are the point. You'll leave with a practical way to map your agent attack surface: what agents exist, which identities they use, what they can access, where trust boundaries are crossed, and which controls actually reduce the risk. You'll know what to go look at in your own tenant on Monday, and how to make the case for fixing it. For platform owners, CoE leads, admins, and security teams who need to understand what their agents can actually access - and whether the controls around them are enough.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Grand 114
The ALM / CICD Session You've Been Waiting For
Track
Copilot Studio · Dataverse · Power Platform
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Parvez Ghumra, Sean Astrakhan, Petros Feleskouras
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshopDevelopersIT professionals
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm This is the workshop where ALM “finally clicks”! Learning Azure DevOps is critical if you want to apply professional software best practices to Low Code. Fear not! Sean and Parvez train Solutions Architects every month, and have an unmatched reputation for making complex topics understandable, and even fun. In this all-day workshop you’ll be helping the company “Better 2gether LLC” move from a simple solution to a full-blown enterprise level ALM pipeline! Everything will be in Azure DevOps and the best part, it’s so adaptable you can begin implementing the same setup at your work tomorrow. Part 1 – Immediate Results Starting in a Dev Dataverse solution, we’re going to connect it to source control in a few easy steps. Along the way, it’ll start to become crystal clear how GIT work, the advantages of using repos, and the time saved when using release pipelines. Lay the tracks and skip the hacks. Part 2 – Production was on fire...until you saved the day Everything is going well but oh no! There is a major fire, not at the factory, but in Production! Normally you would deploy a new solution with a fix, but not anymore! You’ll leverage the pipeline you just built to roll back the solution. We’ll even take your existing User Stories and Tasks, and tie them to the deployments. You’ll see how much of a life-saver it is to have a history of changes, and your PM will have actual “proof” work is done. Part 3 – AI & Advanced Features We've saved the best for last – Agent Lifecycle Management! We’ll showcase how to deploy Agents and how AI can assist in not only tracking work completion, but spot issues in Solutions before they’re deployed. i.e. Prevent the fire before it starts. This is not some generic "Demo of how to set up CICD"; we're moving fast, covering a lot, and without anyone getting lost because we know exactly how tricky this topic can be.
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08:00–15:00 · 7h · Premier 318
The Rise of Agents: AI-First Power Pages Development
Track
Copilot Studio · Pages · Power Platform
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Victor Dantas
Foundational (100)Full-day hands-on workshopBusiness / end userDevelopersMaker
Monday, October 26th, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm Low-code isn’t disappearing. It’s being redefined. In this workshop, you’ll learn how AI agents are reshaping Power Pages development and what that means for your skills, tools, and architecture choices. We walk through a full AI-assisted build journey, starting with the basics and ending with advanced, production-ready patterns. You’ll begin with Power Pages fundamentals and Dataverse building blocks, then use GitHub Spark to quickly generate an initial website. As the solution matures, GitHub Copilot becomes your co-developer, helping you implement deeper logic and customization with confidence. We’ll cover advanced topics such as new BYOC, Server Side Logic options, the Power Pages Client API, Copilot Agents and professional development strategies that scale. You’ll also see how MCP servers can be integrated to provide richer context and unlock more powerful agent-driven workflows. By the end, you’ll have a clear picture of what it means to build Power Pages in the age of AI and how to position yourself for what’s coming next.
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17:30–20:30 · 3h · 350 - 352
Feel the Power! Bring a problem. Build an answer. (Build-a-thon)
Room
350 - 352
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Build with Microsoft AI one evening — Join Microsoft AI experts and a room full of fellow makers for a high-energy, hands-on build-a-thon where ideas turn into working solutions in a single evening. Build apps, spin up agents, automate the boring stuff, and get your hands on the newest AI innovations straight from the source. No slides. No scripted labs. Just build. Pick a real-world scenario from our line-up or bring your own and spend the evening experimenting, learning, and shipping something you can proudly take back to your organization. What to bring: your laptop (personal devices preferred – especially for regulated industries) and your boldest ideas and a little swagger. We'll bring the AI, the access, the coaches and heavy appetizers. Register to grab your spot — attendance is strictly limited to confirmed participants only.
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Tuesday 27 Oct

06:00–07:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Grab & Go Breakfast
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
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07:00–07:30 · 30m · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Everyone Seated for Keynote
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
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07:30–08:00 · 30m · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Opening Keynote with Charles Lamanna
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
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Opening Keynote with Charles Lamanna, Executive Vice President, Microsoft
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08:00–09:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Keynote with Ryan Cunningham
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
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Keynote with Ryan Cunningham, CVP of Power Platform, Microsoft
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10:00–10:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Car Sales to Power Platform Developer: An Unconventional Journey into Tech
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
David He
Lightning talk
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10:30 · 16 at this start time

10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 350
Agent 365 Unlocked: Building a Secure and Governed Agent Ecosystem
Track
Agents
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Dave Jennings, Bob Wille, Vineet Kaul
Advanced (300)Roundtable
As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI-powered agents, success depends on more than just deployment—it requires a clear strategy for governance, security, compliance, and operational oversight. Join this roundtable to explore proven approaches for deploying Agent 365 at enterprise scale while maintaining control, trust, and business value. Participants will discuss deployment patterns, access controls, lifecycle management, policy enforcement, observability, risk mitigation, and data protection strategies that enable organizations to confidently govern agents across Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Foundry and 3rd Party ecosystems. This interactive session will bring together practitioners, IT leaders, and security stakeholders to share lessons learned, emerging best practices, and real-world experiences for building a secure, compliant, and scalable agent ecosystem.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Grand 119
Automation at Scale: Workflows in the Agentic Era
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Costas Chamosfakides, Jed Brown
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Automation adoption is accelerating—RPA alone is up nearly 30%—and AI is the reason why. This session unpacks how workflows and automations evolve in the agentic era, from the latest on PowerAutomate.com to RPA's growth drivers and roadmap. See how Process Mining closes the loop from discovery to automation, and how cloud flows and agent flows now work side by side. A featured customer shares what's driving automation at scale in their organization today.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 353
Beyond Tools: Rethinking Process Change with AI
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Alexandra Jayeun Lee, Dustin Welch García
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Business processes do not get stuck because of technology alone. In this interactive discussion, attendees will explore the macro context in which people, processes, systems, governance, and organizational culture shape process improvement efforts. Participants will learn from one another’s examples and identify more realistic ways to improve business processes with AI-enabled solutions.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 354
Conversational Agents vs Autonomous Agents: Use Cases Roundtable
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
John Strohschein, Joe Fernandez, Scott Pierce
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Curious when to use agents vs. workflows? In this interactive roundtable, participants will share how they’re using autonomous and conversational agents in real-world scenarios. Together, we’ll discuss best-fit use cases, explore how enterprise automation is evolving, and identify gaps and opportunities in today’s workflow solutions.
Note
10:30–10:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Courage Before Confidence: Lessons from Mexico’s Unlikely Superhero
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Juan Vazquez
Lightning talk
No description listed
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 310
DevOps in Power Platform: Build, Deploy and Operate at Enterprise Scale
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Casey Burke, Arjun Mayur, Greg Lindhorst
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As AI agents take center stage in what you build and how you build it, exercising DevOps principles has never been more critical for Power Platform and managed apps and agents. Learn about the latest enhancements that 1) scale development and agility for complex solutions, 2) ensure quality bars are met, 3) deploy production changes 4) monitor production workloads and 5) leverage intelligence to drive continuous improvement across all your managed platform workloads.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 319
Getting Started with A365
Track
Agents · Power Platform
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Kendra Springer, Aaron Bjork, Paty Carlos
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Ready to move from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI? This session covers everything you need to know about Agent 365—from core concepts and architecture to deployment, governance, security, and adoption best practices. Learn how to build, manage, and scale intelligent agents across your organization to accelerate productivity and drive business transformation.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Getting Started with Apps in Cowork and Copilot Studio
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Jessica Lo, Jake Cohen, Miguel Resto
Foundational (100)60-minute session
New to building apps with AI? This session shows how to go from an idea to a working app using Apps in Cowork and Copilot Studio. Through approachable demos, you will learn how to describe what you need, shape the app experience, refine data and logic, and understand when to keep iterating versus when to bring in more advanced tools. You will leave ready to build your first app with confidence.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 351
Lost in the Agent Jungle: What to Use When?
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Remi Dyon, Roel Schenk, Bobby Chang, Karima Kanji-Tajdin
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, Work IQ, Agent 365... the platform landscape has never been richer – or more confusing. Users don't know where to start, IT doesn't know what to govern, and every team seems to pick a different tool for the same job. This roundtable is about creating clarity: when to use what, how to communicate it simply to your organization, and how to build adoption and enablement strategies that empower users instead of overwhelming them. Join peers and Microsoft experts to compare decision frameworks, internal guidance that actually gets read, and enablement approaches that put the right tool in the right hands for the right job.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Chairman's 370
More Than a Chatbox: Rich, Interactive Experiences with Copilot Studio Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Rachel Kingdon, Evan Lew, Jacob Wilkinson, Michael Pena
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Agent responses don't have to be walls of text. In this forward-looking session, see how Copilot Studio agents go beyond plain text to engage people through rich, interactive experiences built on MCP Apps. Your agent can respond with a map, a chart, or a rich visualization — and gather human input through app-like micro-experiences that are far more intuitive than a chat box. We'll explore new ways for people and agents to work side by side, with human-in-the-loop steering that keeps users in control and builds trust. Come see where agent interfaces are heading — and help shape our roadmap for what comes next.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 316
Power Platform Architecture Internals
Track
Power Platform
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Mauktik Gandhi, Anousha Mesbah, Max Bovykin
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Power Platform Architecture Internals is a continuation of the 2022 - 2025 PPCC sessions about the internals of Business Applications and the Power Platform however, pivoted on how we make the systems reliable, secure and performant so customers can trust the products and can rely on us to handle these complex problems. We will also talk about how we leverage agentic loops to achieve this and use Darwin+AutoPerf loop as a concrete example on how we make this happen for performance.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Product Talk: What’s Next in Microsoft Fabric & Power BI: The Data Foundation for AI
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Kim Manis
Product talk
Every organization deploying AI faces the same obstacle: agents and apps are only as good as the data beneath them. Yet data estates are often fragmented across operational, analytical, and real-time workloads, on-prem and in the cloud. Agents are left with siloed, poorly governed data that undermines trust and stalls innovation. Join Microsoft leadership to see how Fabric, OneLake, and Power BI come together to solve this challenge by providing a single governed foundation for data and semantics. You’ll learn why unifying databases and analytics accelerates development, and how Fabric IQ gives every agent the business context to power reliable analysis and action. See how Fabric and Power BI are shaping the future of enterprise data and bringing trusted intelligence into day-to-day work, everywhere decisions are made
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 318
Roundtable: Power Platform & Copilot Studio Strategy at Scale
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
James Connelly, Chris Huntingford, Ricardo Russ
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join Microsoft Global Black Belt's Ricardo Russ and James Connelly, along with Chris Huntingford (Partner at Cloud Lighthouse) for a roundtable focusing on Scaling Power Platform & Copilot Studio. James (before recently joining Microsoft) - has over 7 years experience strategically and technically running one of Europe's largest Power Platform programmes. Ricardo works with some of Microsoft's largest strategic customers across the EMEA region. Chris works with some of the largest Power Platform & AI-focused organisations in the world. How do you move from a handful of successful apps and agents to enterprise-wide adoption — without the need for a large COE team and ensuring that governance, security, or quality being compromised? Join this interactive roundtable to swap real-world strategies with peers who are rolling out Power Platform and Copilot Studio at scale. We'll tackle the key elements to successful implementation: establishing a Centre of Excellence, defining and implementing governance, guardrails and security, driving maker enablement, measuring ROI on agent deployments that genuinely get to production and achieve significant value, and much more! This is a discussion, not a lecture — come ready to share what's working, what's broken, and what you're still figuring out - We will all succeed by learning from each other. You'll leave with: A practical checklist of governance guardrails to put in place before you scale A view of how to structure your COE and their purpose! Proven tactics for accelerating maker adoption while keeping control and visibility Approaches for measuring business impact and ROI across apps and Copilot Studio agents A network of peers facing the same challenges — and their hard-won lessons and much more!
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Shadow AI Agents in the Enterprise: Managing Risk at Scale
Track
Agents
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Ambrita Nand, Sravani Seethi, Srikumar Nair
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As organizations adopt AI agents, shadow AI agents are already emerging across teams and workflows. These agents are often created or used outside established governance models, making it difficult to track usage, manage risk, and maintain control at scale. In this interactive roundtable, we’ll hear how organizations are identifying and managing shadow AI agents today. Bring your challenges, approaches, and lessons learned as we explore what effective visibility and management need to keep pace.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 352
Teaching Copilot Your Business: Translating Business Processes Into Agentic Workflows
Track
Dataverse
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Divya Rajaram, Jennifer Bost
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss how organizations are translating business processes into AI-powered and agentic workflows. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in day-to-day operations, new challenges are emerging around business data, process design, governance, and quality. How do teams define the business concepts, relationships, and rules that agents rely on? Who owns and maintains this context as processes evolve? And how do organizations evaluate outcomes and build confidence that their solutions are ready for production? Share what you're seeing in your organization, discuss what has worked and what hasn't, and exchange practical approaches for designing, testing, and governing agentic workflows at scale.
Note
10:30–11:30 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Work, Reimagined: Copilot, Cowork & the Power Platform
Track
Agents · Apps
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Miti Joshi, Tiffany Treacy, Adrian Orth, Mike Stall
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Your apps and Copilot just became one workflow. See how Microsoft 365 Copilot, the newly GA'd Cowork, and Power Platform converge into a single intelligent surface for getting work done in the age of AI. We'll show how Work IQ—the intelligence layer that knows you, your job, and your company—grounds Copilot and agents in real business context, and how the apps you've already built plug directly into Copilot and Cowork. Live demos included.
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10:45 · 8 at this start time

10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 116
AI Eldorado: Transforming Your Dataverse into a Copilot Goldmine with Fabric
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Nancie Calder, Will Hawkins
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Many businesses find AI innovation hindered by an underdeveloped or poorly managed data estate, including their Dataverse environment(s). We anchor the session with a relatable story: “Eddie the Seller” trying to produce a quote fast. Eddie needs Copilot to pull from multiple sources, not just CRM. Without a solid data foundation, even advanced AI initiatives can stall, leading to frustration and missed opportunities. This session will show how Microsoft Fabric can transform your data estate from an innovation inhibitor to an accelerator. We’ll explore populating Fabric with data from all sources (Dataverse, APIs, Azure, etc.) and leveraging OneLake to model and prepare this data for advanced AI. By integrating with Azure AI and Copilot Studio, you’ll unlock your data’s full potential, powering AI models and driving meaningful business transformation.
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 112
Automation Showdown: Which Automation Tool Is Best for You and Your Needs?
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
EY Kalman, Charlie Phipps-Bennett
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Cloud flows, desktop RPA, and the new wave of Copilot‑driven agents all promise faster automation, but they don’t fit every job equally well. In this session we’ll cut through the hype and compare Power Automate cloud flows, Power Automate Desktop (RPA), and Copilot Studio agents (including the new Computer Use capabilities) through one business scenario implemented three ways. We’ll also include the Azure automation capabilities, and when you might want to go outside of Power Platform & use them. We’ll talk pricing, capabilities, limits, scale, and operational upkeep and where each approach shines or struggles in the real world. You’ll see live demos that wire up Microsoft 365 (SharePoint/Teams), Dataverse, and line‑of‑business systems, with understanding the key concepts to take home with you. Key Takeaways: - When to pick which automation style — a clear, scenario‑driven decision tree for cloud flows vs attended/unattended RPA vs Copilot agents, including the trade‑offs you actually feel on day two of operations. - The real‑world cost picture — current Power Automate list prices (Premium per user, Process bot, Hosted Process) and how Copilot Studio’s credit‑based model works (pre‑purchase vs pay‑as‑you‑go) so you can forecast spend beyond slideware. - Limits & scale fundamentals — the platform ceilings that matter (actions per flow, throttling, request allocations, 14‑day auto‑disable behavior if you keep breaching) and practical patterns to stay within them. - Maintenance playbook — how to keep automations healthy using the Automation Kit / CoE guidance for ALM, monitoring, exception handling, and desktop‑bot operations. - Better Together blueprint — how Microsoft 365 + Dataverse + Teams + Power BI/Fabric amplify Power Automate and Copilot agents, and how to choose the right data backbone
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Premier 311
Beyond the CRM Screen: Headless CRM in the Age of Copilot
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Dustin Hoyte, Akhil Tadakamalla, Alan Ross
60-minute session
Everyone is asking the same question: If Copilot Agents can do the work, do we still need CRM? The answer may surprise you. In this session, we'll explore the future of customer relationship management through the lens of Headless CRM, where Dynamics 365 evolves from a destination application into the intelligent platform powering Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, Copilot experiences, and the flow of work. Using a real-world banking scenario, we'll follow a customer journey across multiple personas, from frontline employees and relationship managers to compliance reviewers and advisors and see how they interact with customer data through the tools they use every day. Rather than forcing users into a CRM screen, CRM capabilities are delivered directly into their workflow through Copilot, Copilot Cowork, Power Platform, and AI agents. If you've wondered whether AI will replace CRM, this session will show why the future isn't AI versus CRM. It's AI and CRM working together in a Headless experience.
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 122
Brick by Brick: The Power Apps Master Builder’s Guide to AWESOME Components
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
David Warner, April Dunnam
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Just like LEGO bricks let you build incredible structures from simple, reusable pieces, Power Apps components empower you to create scalable, maintainable, and efficient applications. In this AWESOME session, we’ll explore how to design and implement reusable components, leverage component libraries, and configure custom properties to supercharge your Power Apps. Whether you’re new to Power Apps or a seasoned builder, you’ll learn how to construct applications more efficiently—one reusable brick at a time! Get ready to click, build, and scale—because EVERYTHING is about to get AWESOME in your Power Apps! ??️?
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 120
From Shadow IT to Secure: Implementing Data Policies That Stick
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Lindsay Shelton, Benny Perchez
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Most organizations don’t start with Power Platform governance—they start with the Default environment full of hundreds of apps, shadow IT integrations, and connectors no one remembers approving. In this session, we’ll show how our Power Platform team transformed that chaos into a scalable, secure, and human-centered governance model. We’ll walk through how two admins designed a proactive default‑deny connector strategy, where every new connector is automatically blocked until it passes a cross‑team security and vendor review. You’ll see how we partnered with leadership and Procurement to validate connector approvals, then used the CoE Starter Kit to run impact analysis and identify non‑compliant apps and flows across the tenant. We’ll also share the practical side: building internal KB articles that guide makers through replacing unapproved connectors (like Mail → Outlook), moving solutions out of Personal Productivity into proper dev environments, and giving users a path to request review or submit business justification. Finally, we’ll discuss how we scheduled notifications, timed policy rollouts, and supported makers so governance strengthened the platform instead of stifling it. Whether you're starting from scratch or tightening an existing governance model, you’ll leave with a blueprint for implementing data policies that scale, stay current, and actually work for your organization.
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 114
How Not to Fail in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
Track
BI · Power Platform
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Reza Rad
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building a Power BI or Microsoft Fabric solution looks exciting—and often deceptively easy. The real challenges appear once implementation begins, when early design decisions start impacting performance, security, scalability, and cost. Many projects fail not because of the tools, but because of weak architectural foundations. In this session, you will learn how to approach Power BI and Microsoft Fabric from an architectural perspective before diving into implementation. Rather than starting with reports or pipelines, we focus on the critical decisions required to build a strong, future‑proof foundation. Topics covered include licensing considerations, sharing and security strategies, workspace management, development architecture, governance, and performance and scalability. You will learn how these aspects work together—and how poor decisions in any of them can lead to long‑term failure. By the end of this session, you will understand how to plan and design Power BI and Microsoft Fabric projects that scale, perform, and succeed over time. This session is ideal for developers, analysts, architects, and decision makers working on current or future projects, or looking to future‑proof existing implementations.
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Grand 121
Is Low-Code still Low-Code? Choosing among the new ways to build
Room
Grand 121
Speakers
Duke DeVan
60-minute session
The line between low-code and traditional development is getting harder to see. As the Power Platform expands, makers and developers have more ways to solve the same problem, from traditional low-code experiences to code apps, Power Pages with bring-your-own-code, generative pages, and server-side logic with Power Fx in Dataverse. So how do you decide which approach actually fits? In this session, we’ll cut through the feature list and focus on the architectural choices behind these new development patterns. We’ll look at where each approach fits, what you gain by moving closer to code, and where added flexibility can introduce complexity that low-code was supposed to eliminate. Then we’ll put the question to the test by building the same application two different ways live. We’ll compare the development experience, flexibility, maintainability, and overall trade-offs so you can see what these choices look like beyond the marketing slides. You’ll leave with a practical framework for deciding when low-code is enough, when code makes sense, and how to choose the right development approach without abandoning the advantages that made Power Platform compelling in the first place.
Note
10:45–11:45 · 1h · Premier 317
Putting the “Power” in SAP with Agents, Apps & Flows
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Marysol Mantilla
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
SAP runs many of the business but great user experiences, intelligent assistance, and cross-system scenarios spanning SAP and non-SAP landscapes don’t have to live inside SAP. In this session, discover how Power Platform and Copilot Studio act as a modern innovation layer that complements SAP regardless of your SAP landscape. Learn how organisations are transforming SAP-centric processes by combining apps, automations, and AI-driven agents to reduce friction, minimise errors, and deliver faster outcomes. We’ll also explore how this innovation layer connects with SAP Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot, enabling intelligent experiences that span tools, roles, and systems. Through emerging patterns like agent-to-agent (A2A) interactions and MCP protocols, you’ll see how copilots and agents can collaborate across SAP and Microsoft ecosystems to orchestrate end-to-end business scenarios. You will learn: Copilot Studio introduces intelligent, guided interactions around SAP workflows M365 Copilot and SAP Joule extend these experiences across enterprise productivity tools Power Apps provide intuitive experiences on top of complex SAP processes Power Automate keeps workflows moving seamlessly across systems We’ll also cover: Secure connectivity and compliant patterns using connectors, MCP, and A2A architectures ALM, governance, and security approaches for enterprise-scale adoption Decision frameworks to determine when to use an app, workflow, or agent Through a real customer example and practical takeaways, you’ll leave with proven patterns to make SAP work better for humans while Microsoft technology does the heavy lifting around it. Less clicking. Smarter flows. Connected agents. Happier SAP users.
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11:00–11:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Hillbilly to MVP
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Mark Rackley
Lightning talk
No description listed
Note

11:30 · 3 at this start time

11:30–11:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Build While You Wait: From Spectator to Contributor on Power Platform
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Nsikan Ikpe
Lightning talk
No description listed
Note
11:30–13:00 · 1h 30m
Lunch
Room
No room listed
Not listed
Lunch locations are based off of lanyard colors Purple Lanyards - Marquee Ballroom. level 1 (Expo Hall) Brown Lanyards - Terrace Ballroom, level 1 Teal Lanyards - North Pavilion, outside, level 1 White Lanyards - Chairman's Ballroom, level 3 Red Lanyards - Studio, Grand Garden Arena
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11:30–13:00 · 1h 30m · Studio Ballroom, MGM Grand Garden Arena
Women in Power Networking Lunch: Connect Before the Conference
Room
Studio Ballroom, MGM Grand Garden Arena
Not listed
Join the Women in Power community for a relaxed networking lunch designed to help you meet new people, reconnect with familiar faces, and find your conference crew. Grab lunch, introduce yourself, and build connections you can carry throughout the week.
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12:00–12:50 · 50m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Working Parents in the Era of AI
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Angeliki Patsiavou, Ian Tweedie, Vandana Sharma
Lightning talk
No description listed
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13:00 · 21 at this start time

13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 310
Ask the Power BI Product Team: An Open Q&A
Track
BI
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Mohammad Ali
60-minute session
Have questions about Power BI's direction, roadmap, or the challenges you're facing today? Join members of the Power BI product group for an interactive Ask Me Anything session where your questions take center stage. From current capabilities and upcoming innovations to AI, semantic models, developer experiences, and the future of business intelligence, this is your opportunity to engage directly with the people building Power BI. Bring your toughest questions, share your feedback, and hear perspectives from the product team on the opportunities and challenges shaping Power BI. Whether you want to understand the thinking behind product decisions, discuss capabilities you'd like to see, or share feedback from your own organization, come ready to participate. The agenda is driven by you, making this a chance to have an open conversation with the Power BI team and help shape the discussion around what comes next.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 114
Big Data Big Problems—Scaling Power Platform for Enterprise
Track
Automate · Dataverse
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Chris Piasecki, Sean Astrakhan
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Power Platform makes it easy to build apps fast—but what happens when your solution needs to handle millions of records, mission-critical uptime, and enterprise complexity? If you’ve ever looked at Azure Service Bus, Logic Apps, or heard someone mention SAGA pattern and thought, “That sounds powerful but I’m lost,”—this session is for you. In this fast-paced, demo-heavy session, we’ll break down intimidating topics with crystal-clear examples, so you walk away ready to build enterprise-grade solutions—even if you’ve never touched an Azure Function in your life. We’ll walk through real-world use cases and decision points that Architects face every day: - Integrating near-real time using event and message driven patterns - Move beyond Power Automate to Logic Apps to Azure Functions to orchestrate complex integrations - Connecting legacy on-prem systems with Dataverse in real-time - Handling bulk operations with performance in mind - Perform micro-batching or large scale data processing outside of the transactional system using Fabric and Delta lake We’ll also show how to apply Microsoft’s Well-Architected Frameworks, so you can: - Build solutions that recover from failure without breaking a sweat - Scale under heavy load and avoid over-architecting - Protect your data from loss or data leaks With a mix careful mix of code-first strategies and Power Platform best practices, you'll leave this session with reference architectures and patterns that you can apply tomorrow—whether you’re a Maker or Developer stepping into enterprise territory or an Architect guiding large-scale implementations.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 121
Build at the Speed of AI: The New Power Platform Development Cycle
Room
Grand 121
Speakers
Ben Freedman, Jared Simmons, Mike Hughes
60-minute session
This session is built for leaders and project managers, with no jargon or code. Three architects walk through real Power Platform projects at large companies and break down how to run with AI at every stage. You'll see discovery that shows value within the first week, a Thursday design call that became working code by Monday, and user feedback that ships the next day. You'll also see where AI goes wrong, along with the context and rules that keep it useful. Don’t feed the slop machine!
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Building on Power Platform: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Track
Power Platform
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Tiffany Treacy, Jed Brown
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
The Power Platform is expanding fast – Code Apps, Power Pages BYOC, Generative Pages, Agentic Coding MCPs for Canvas, Model and Power Automate, and vibe apps – but with more entry points comes a new challenge: knowing which tool to reach for, and how to make the pieces work together. This session is a practical guide to choosing the right tool for the job, and to moving fluidly between AI-assisted creation, pro-code precision, and enterprise governance to build solutions that are fast to prototype and built to last.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 116
Demystifying Copilot Studio Licensing
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Haniel Croitoru
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Does Copilot Studio licensing make you feel like you're looking through a kaleidoscope with an ever-changing view, depending on how you look at it? If so, you're not alone. Join us in this session, where we will unravel the mystery and dig deep into how Copilot Studio is managed and licensed. We will be covering key topics, including - types of licenses available and what is included with them - overlap of licensing - do's and don't when building Copilot Studio agents as it pertains to licensing - scenarios of what licenses are needed in specific examples - how to save on license costs without breaking any rules
Note
13:00–13:25 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Don't Start Over: Move Copilot Studio Agents to the GitHub Copilot Harness
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Andrew Hess, Doug Bellingeri
Lightning talk
Existing Copilot Studio agents can gain new development and orchestration capabilities without discarding prior work. Compare two upgrade paths to the GitHub Copilot harness, including architecture analysis, assisted rebuilding, testing, and a controlled transition that preserves the original solution.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 319
Exec Panel: The Token Meter Is Running, What It Takes to Get Max ROI from AI Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Srini Raghavan
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Real bills. Real guardrails. Real ROI. Join Srini Raghavan (CVP – Copilot & Agent Ecosystem) and a candid panel of customer executives who've carried agents into production and defended the cost. Hear what it really took: getting the data foundation ready, surviving the shift to consumption-based billing, and proving durable value to the CFO while the product landscape reinvents itself month over month. Leave with a clear view of where to build now versus wait, plus one thing to do differently in the next 90 days.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 351
Expanding Agents with Connectors and MCPs
Track
Power Platform
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Sabin Nair, Mankirat Kaur Bajwa, Rohith Chetla, Jennifer Bost
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss Connectors and the MCP Platform in Work IQ. Share how your organization is leveraging connectors, MCP servers, and business system integrations to power agents and workflows. Discuss current challenges around discoverability, governance, certification, scalability, and agent-to-system connectivity. We're also interested in how organizations connect their own third-party systems of record, whether CRM, ERP, ticketing, or other business platforms, into this ecosystem for both read and write operations. Share how you're exposing data and actions from your existing 3P systems through connectors and MCP servers, and what's working or falling short in making those integrations reliable, secure, and scalable. Exchange practical approaches for integrating enterprise data and actions, and provide feedback to help shape the future of Work IQ's extensibility platform, connector ecosystem, and MCP-powered experiences.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 122
From Bricks to Sets: Designing Fleets of AI Agents That Work Better Together
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Nancie Calder, Will Hawkins
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Most teams begin their AI journey by building a single agent. While useful, real business value emerges when agents are designed to work together as a coordinated system. Using a LEGO‑inspired model, this session shows how to design individual agent “bricks” that can be safely composed into larger agent “sets.” Attendees will learn practical design patterns for multi‑agent solutions built with Copilot Studio, Dataverse, and Power Automate, including orchestration, peer collaboration, escalation, and reuse. The focus is on building systems that remain maintainable, governable, and adaptable as requirements evolve. Key Takeaways • LEGO‑style principles for modular agent design (bricks → sets) • Clear patterns for agent responsibilities, boundaries, and tool contracts • Common multi‑agent architectures: orchestrator/worker, peer collaboration, escalation • Anti‑patterns that lead to tightly coupled or brittle agent systems • A reusable checklist for designing evolvable multi‑agent solutions
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
Getting Unstuck with AI Adoption
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Pages
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Does your organization want to adopt AI but not sure where to begin? Are you feeling overwhelmed with options, feel disappointed, don't think you can make the time to learn, or just don't know how to get started? This session invites attendees to share what is slowing AI adoption in their organizations and co-create practical ways to build momentum, choose the right first steps, and support more sustainable AI adoption that puts people first.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 318
Governing Agents at Scale: PPAC, Agent 365
Track
Agents
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Kendra Springer, Ken Auguillard
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss how governance and admin responsibilities should span PPAC and Agent 365. Share what’s working, where you’re experiencing challenges, and how agent COEs should partner with core IT and security.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Guardians of the Lake: Securing Your Data with OneLake
Track
BI · Dataverse
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Cole Haddock, Joe Griffin
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s new OneLake security empowers you to protect sensitive data at scale with role-based access, row and column security, and governance best practices—turning OneLake into your secure foundation for analytics.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 352
Help Shape the Copilot Managed Runtime (Apps + Agents) Developer Experience
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Marcel Ferreira, Bryce Sova, Greg Lindhorst, Cody Plante, Jordan Chodak
Advanced (300)Roundtable
Bring your dev workflow, sharp opinions, and production scars — the Copilot Managed Runtime engineering team wants to hear what would make this platform work for real pro developers.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 354
How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Agent and Start Thinking About the Work
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Dan Stevenson, Giorgio Ughini, Sathya Raveendran, Ishaan Mirchandani
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Not every business outcome needs another agent. Increasingly, capabilities can live as reusable skills and prompts in apps like Cowork and Copilot, while more complex work evolves into workflows, automations, and autopilots. Join a candid roundtable on what this shift means for Microsoft Copilot Studio, makers, and pro developers.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Product Talk: What’s New with Copilot Studio
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Bryan Goode, Jason Moore
Product talk
AI agents are changing how work gets done, and Copilot Studio is putting the power to build, customize, and extend them directly into the hands of makers. Join Bryan Goode and Jason Moore for a look at what’s new and what’s next with Copilot Studio. Through product insights and demos, see the latest innovations designed to help makers build powerful agents, connect them to business processes and data, and move from experimentation to real-world impact.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 353
The New Maker Journey: What Customers Need in an AI-First Power Platform
Track
Apps · Automate
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Manajit Pal, Mausam Jain, Ankita Chopra, Yogesh Gupta
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
This session would be a discussion to understand how our makers are adapting their workflows using our current power platform products in an AI-first world, what expectations they have of our platform, and where friction still exists. The goal is to not only identify opportunities for quick wins to grow the business but also get a mental model of the maker's workflow which can help transform our AI offerings from being just a feature to an indispensable partner that meaningfully improves efficiency, accelerates creation, and drives business value.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 112
There's No Time Like the Present—Reducing Latency in Power BI with Fabric
Track
BI
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
John White, Jason Himmelstein
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Power BI offers many ways to keep data fresh, but what if refreshes aren’t enough? This session explores real‑time and near‑real‑time options—from DirectQuery, aggregations, and hybrid tables to Fabric features like Direct Lake and Real‑Time Intelligence—plus design tips and trade‑offs to watch for.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Turn Dynamics 365 and Power Platform into Agent‑ready Context with Dataverse
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Nathan Helgren, Prithvi Khosla, Jason Huang
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Your Microsoft estate already holds deep business context – the data, processes, and semantics inside Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse. This session shows how to turn existing context into reusable business context any agent can draw on with Dataverse. Configure your reusable and powerful context in Dataverse once – what your data means and how your organization works – and reuse it across every agent you build. Walk away with scalable and smarter way of building agentic scenarios that extend your applications.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 120
We Are the Ones Defining the Future of AI
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Julie Yack
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
AI isn’t something that’s coming—it’s already embedded in how we build, automate, decide, and scale. And whether we realize it or not, the choices we make every day are actively shaping what AI becomes next. In this session, we’ll step away from hype, fear, and futuristic speculation to focus on something more powerful: agency. From the data we trust, to the prompts we write, to the guardrails we include (or skip), builders, architects, and leaders are defining the future of AI right now—often quietly, and at scale. Through real-world examples drawn from business applications, low-code platforms, and Copilot-driven solutions, this talk explores where the future of AI is actually being written, the unintended consequences of “good enough,” and how small decisions compound into lasting impact. This is not a talk about predicting the future of AI. It’s a reminder that we are already creating it—and we still get to choose what it becomes.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
What's New and What's Next in the Managed Platform
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Mihaela Blendea, Zohar Raz, Austin Laugesen, David Blyth
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Enterprise control at maker speed - Most teams treat enterprise control and maker speed as a trade-off. They are not. Tour the Managed Platform as your control plane and the guardrails beneath it: environment strategy, connector and data policies, lifecycle at scale, and routing that lands new makers safely by default. The result: governance that says "yes" faster, and that your makers never feel.
Note
13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 119
Your Processes, Now Intelligent: Process Mining and Optimization
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Michal Rosik, Tomas Poklemba
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Every business wants AI. But AI can only improve processes it understands. Join us to learn how Process Mining and Process Intelligence help organizations uncover how work really happens, identify their biggest improvement opportunities, and create a foundation for smarter automation and AI-driven transformation. Discover how Microsoft is bringing together process understanding, automation, intelligent optimization, and Microsoft Fabric-powered analytics to help every organization continuously improve. Learn how Process Intelligence integrates with the broader Microsoft data and AI ecosystem, enabling organizations to combine operational insights with enterprise-scale analytics and AI workloads. This session will showcase practical scenarios, lessons learned, and the future direction of Process Intelligence within the Power Platform and Microsoft Fabric.
Note

13:25–13:50 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Less Clicking, More Doing: Productivity Hacks for Model-Driven Apps
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Mansi Malik
Lightning talk
Discover practical ways to get more done in model-driven apps - from AI-assisted form filling and natural-language search to interactive visualizations, tailored views, and faster updates - all through one everyday business scenario.
Note

13:50–14:15 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
There's a Kit for That: Build, Test, and Govern Better Agents
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Denise Moran, Em D'Arcy, Rajeev Pentyala
Lightning talk
Building an agent is quick; knowing it is ready for users takes more. Take a rapid tour of Copilot Agent Kit capabilities for inventory, review, debugging, testing, analytics, and governance, and learn where each tool fits from first prototype through production operations.
Note

14:15–14:40 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
GitHub Copilot Harness in Action | Agentifying Business Processes with Copilot Studio
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Lightning talk
How Lumen are building with the GHCP harness on Copilot Studio.
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14:40–15:05 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Agent Improv Theater: From Requirements to a Working Agent
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Amanda Billings, Rahul Prashant Singh
Lightning talk
Watch a customer scenario become a working agent in real time. Using rapid field-engineering practices and AI-assisted development, the session moves from requirements through architecture, implementation, evaluation, and publishing while keeping explicit human review at consequential decisions.
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15:00 · 20 at this start time

15:00–16:00 · 1h · Room 353
Agents That Remember & Learn: An Interactive Session on Memory in Copilot Studio
Track
BI · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Zankar Desai, Anushikha Sharma, Srihari Srinivasa, Cole Taylor
Foundational (100)60-minute session
What would you build if your agent could remember, learn, and get better over time? Join us for an interactive session exploring Memory & Learning in Copilot Studio. We’ll walk through real scenarios, discuss how agents can carry context and knowledge forward, and explore where memory and learning can make the biggest difference. Bring your scenarios, questions, challenges, and ideas. We want to hear what you’re trying to build, where agents today fall short, and what you would expect from an agent that can truly remember and learn.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Beyond the Basics: the GitHub Copilot Harness and Workflows in Copilot Studio
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Giorgio Ughini, Alicja Gilderdale, Roel Schenk
Advanced (300)60-minute session
The GitHub Copilot harness is the most capable harness in Copilot Studio, built for reasoning-heavy agents and workflows that automate a real business process end to end. This session is a technical deep dive into it, and into the workflow experience that comes with it. We start with what the harness actually changes: a continuous reason–act–observe loop instead of plan-then-execute, instruction-first authoring with reusable skills, stronger tool orchestration and error recovery, memory, connected agents, and a sandbox with shell and Python for large files and real computation. We unpack each building block – what it is for, when to reach for it, and how to keep the loop reliable – and we show what it unlocks: processes that used to need a scripted path end to end, complex or ambiguous processes that could not be automated reliably before, work across large files, and tasks that run long and recover on their own. If you are coming from the standard harness, we spend real time on how to think about the move. Not a component-for-component port, but a translation: what topics, Power Fx, variables and flows become, and why the right question is what the agent must accomplish rather than which feature maps to which. We also cover when the harness is not the answer, and where the standard and Copilot chat harnesses still fit. Workflows get the same treatment: what is genuinely new next to agent flows, how to pick a deterministic step versus an AI-powered one, inline agents versus published agents, and how human-in-the-loop gates keep autonomy under control. Underneath sits the decision that matters most: agents where the path is agile, workflows where the path is predictable, and how the two call each other. Everything is demonstrated live, and you leave with assets you can put to work the same week – the Copilot Studio plugin that lets GitHub Copilot or Claude Code inspect an existing agent and propose an upgraded architecture, the CAT agent skills library, the Copilot Studio gallery, and the guidance behind all of it. All of it comes from the Copilot Acceleration Team's hands-on enterprise work: what the harness changes, how to position it, what to build first, and what to reuse instead of rebuilding.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Delegate It to Cowork: From Meeting to Working App, Agent, and Flow
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Microsoft Power Platform Team
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Copilot Cowork doesn't just answer. It takes a task and runs it end to end. In this demo-driven session, the team that builds Cowork shows what that means for Power Platform. Starting from a Teams meeting, Cowork writes the spec, builds and publishes an app, and wires up the agent and flow that keep it running, all grounded in your business data through Work IQ. We'll show where Cowork fits in the new Copilot alongside Chat, Code, and Autopilot, how IT stays in control, and what's coming next.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Empower Your Agent to Do More: What's New in Agent Capabilities
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Todd Trotter, Evan Lew, Christian Sadak
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Join us to discover how to make your Copilot Studio agents do more. In this demo-packed session, we'll walk through new agent capabilities and how to put them to work. Equip your agent with memory so it remembers context across conversations and quietly gets smarter as built-in learning kicks in. Give it an identity so you can @mention it in a chat, tag it in a Word comment, or simply forward it an email. Grant it skills — and stand up a skills library to uplevel everyone's agents. And unlock rich experiences so your agent interacts through real UX, not just plain text. You'll leave with a clear picture of everything that's new — and how to start using it in your own agents today.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Premier 318
Enabling Vibe Coding in Copilot Studio at Scale Across Organizations
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Emma Cooper, Jake Cohen, Ken Auguillard
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Vibe coding changes how people build software but scaling it across an organization requires more than enthusiasm. This roundtable brings together product leaders, makers, developers, and admins to discuss what it takes to adopt AI-assisted app creation responsibly. We will explore governance, enablement, quality, security, and culture, with an emphasis on what organizations need before opening the doors broadly. Come ready to share what is working, what is risky, and what still needs to be solved.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Everyone Starts Somewhere: A Judgment-Free Power Platform Q&A
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Tiffany Duppong, Ed Gonzalez, Britta Rekstad
Lightning talk
No description listed
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 114
Forgotten Features of Dataverse: Hidden Gems That Enhance Agents, Apps, and Everything in Between!
Track
Apps · Dataverse · Pages
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
George Doubinski, Sean Astrakhan
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Microsoft Dataverse has been powering enterprise applications since the early Dynamics CRM days, and along the way it’s collected a surprising number of features that most teams never use, or don’t even know exist. In this session, we’ll surface those hidden gems and show how they can simplify integrations, strengthen solution design, and accelerate the new wave of AI, Copilots and agent-driven Power Apps. Some examples; we’ll look at server-side Exchange integration, the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook, polymorphic lookups, field mappings, static workflows, and much more! Capabilities that quietly solve real-world problems without added complexity. If you build on Dataverse, this session will help you get more value from the platform you already have by rediscovering classic features that still deliver today.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
From Black Box to Glass Box: Observability for Your AI Assets
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Apostolis Papaioannou, Chris Garty
Advanced (300)60-minute session
As enterprises move from AI assistants to autonomous agents, observability becomes mission critical for production readiness. In this session, we’ll show how to monitor, debug and govern agents across the Microsoft ecosystem, from Copilot Studio and Agent 365 to Azure Application Insights and Microsoft Sentinel, with OpenTelemetry (OTel) enabling open, interoperable telemetry. Through the latest agentic observability capabilities, you’ll see how these technologies come together to provide visibility across the agent lifecycle. Whether you build agents, run them in production, or govern them at enterprise scale, discover why end-to-end observability is becoming essential for production AI.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Room 351
From Idea to AI Blueprint: A Hands-On Workshop for Business Process Innovation
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Foundational (100)Roundtable
This is an interactive workshop where you will turn a real business challenge into an actionable AI blueprint. Participants will use guided prompts to map a problem, identify workflow friction, and design a realistic AI-enabled solution using agents, automations, and related capabilities. Attendees will leave with a draft blueprint they can bring back to their team.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 120
Getting Started with Fabric for Power Platform for IT Pros
Track
BI
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
John White, Jason Himmelstein
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform are converging to create powerful enterprise data solutions, but IT professionals need to understand the architecture, governance, and integration points to support this effectively. This session provides IT pros with a practical foundation for enabling Fabric capabilities within Power Platform environments, covering how OneLake serves as a unified data foundation for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. We'll explore how to enable citizen developers to access curated Fabric data through Power Apps, automate data workflows combining Power Automate with Fabric notebooks and pipelines, and optimize the Power BI integration within the broader Fabric ecosystem. Attendees will leave with actionable guidance on licensing requirements, common architecture patterns, and practical next steps for leveraging Fabric's capabilities across their Power Platform environments.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 119
GitHub Copilot as a No-Coder
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Damien Bird
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Many people assume GitHub Copilot is only for professional developers, but the rise of AI-assisted development is rapidly changing that perception. In this session, we'll explore how architects, consultants, makers and power users with little or no coding background can use GitHub Copilot to build useful solutions, automate repetitive tasks, create prototypes and accelerate learning. Drawing on real-world experiences, we'll look at how AI lowers traditional development barriers, where the opportunities and limitations exist, and how tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot and agentic experiences are changing what it means to be a "developer". Attendees will leave with practical ideas, lessons learned and a clearer understanding of how they can move from consumer to creator using AI-assisted development. Key takeaways: Where GitHub Copilot helps non-developers most Turning ideas into working solutions with AI Practical examples and lessons learned Skills that matter in an AI-assisted future
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 122
In Defense of Model-Driven Apps
Track
Apps
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Ed Williams
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Model-driven apps are having a renaissance. Code apps have generated a lot of excitement and bring new possibilities to the Power Platform, and they deserve that attention. Even so, a well-designed model-driven app remains the superior foundation for business applications because of the rich, mature, and deeply integrated features it provides out of the box. In this session, we will explore how model-driven apps have evolved and take a deep dive into the native capabilities that make them so effective. We will look at interactive views, advanced filtering, editable grids, charts, dashboards, reports, Word and Excel integration, relationship driven navigation, business process flows, and the modern UX updates that simplify how users work with structured data every day. The goal of this session is to show the full power of model-driven apps and why they continue to be one of the strongest and most scalable options in the Power Platform. Whether you are a maker or a developer, you will walk away with a renewed appreciation for how much you can accomplish with a core MDA without writing any code.
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15:00–16:00 · 1h · Premier 310
Power BI: The Next Evolution of BI in the Era of AI
Track
BI
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Mohammad Ali
60-minute session
Business intelligence is at an inflection point. As AI transforms how people interact with data, Power BI is evolving to redefine how organizations understand their business, uncover insights, and turn intelligence into action. Join the Power BI product leadership team to explore our vision and strategy for the next era of business intelligence. Discover how we are building on Power BI's strengths in trusted analytics, interactive reporting, and enterprise scale while reimagining the BI experience for a world where AI is increasingly central to how people work with data. Through strategic insights, product innovations, and demos, we'll share how Power BI is evolving to bring intelligence closer to every decision, empower more people to work with data, and help organizations build a stronger data-driven culture. Get a look at what's next for Power BI and how our investments are shaping the future of BI.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Product Talk: What’s New with Power Apps
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Leon Welicki, Tiffany Treacy
Product talk
The next generation of business applications is being shaped by AI, agents, and a radically faster approach to building. Join Leon Welicki and Tiffany Treacy for a look at what’s new with Power Apps and how the platform continues to evolve for the AI era. See the latest product innovations in action and learn how makers can turn ideas into intelligent, enterprise-ready applications faster, while delivering experiences that help transform how people and organizations work.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Regulating Freedom — Admin Portal (Tenant Settings)
Track
BI
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Collin Quiring
Advanced (300)60-minute session
The Power BI Administrator walks a constant tightrope: maintaining security, governance, and control while still enabling users to leverage Power BI to its fullest potential. Striking the right balance is increasingly challenging as the platform continues to evolve at a rapid pace. While there won’t be time to cover every setting in the Admin Portal, this session will focus on the Tenant Settings that affect both Fabric and Power BI), which represent the true heartbeat of administration. The session will highlight the latest and most impactful changes, explain how frequently these settings evolve, and provide guidance on how administrators can stay aligned as new capabilities are introduced and existing behaviors shift. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of which settings matter most today—and how to adapt as the platform continues to change.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Premier 319
Rethinking Natural Language in Copilot Studio
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Hannah Garmise, Heather Orta-Olmo, Rishu Mehndiratta
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Creating in MCS has never been easier! Bringing CLI experience to enterprise Agents and Workflows. Makers will be able to build and edit agentic artifacts all through a conversational chat.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 112
The Best of Both Worlds: Model-Driven Apps Powered by Azure Functions & Logic Apps
Track
Apps
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Sahib Sawhney
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
You don't have to choose between the speed of low-code and the power of pro-code—you can have both. Model-driven apps give you a sophisticated, responsive UI with security, offline capability, and mobile support built in. Azure Functions and Logic Apps give you the computational muscle, complex integrations, and custom logic that enterprise scenarios demand. Together, they're a combination that lets you deliver faster without hitting the walls that force full rewrites. In this session, we'll build a real-world solution that uses a model-driven app as the user interface while offloading heavy lifting to Azure. You'll see how to trigger Azure Functions from Dataverse events using custom APIs, when to use Logic Apps vs. Functions (spoiler: it's not either/or), and patterns for keeping your frontend responsive while backend processes run asynchronously. We'll tackle the practical challenges head-on: handling long-running operations without timeouts, surfacing backend errors gracefully in the UI, managing secrets securely, and designing for retry and idempotency. You'll also see how to structure your solution so citizen developers can extend the frontend while pro devs evolve the backend independently—true fusion development without stepping on each other. If you've ever felt like you had to pick a lane between Power Platform and Azure, this session will show you how to drive in both.
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15:00–16:00 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Tools—Simple for Devs, Secure for Enterprise
Track
Agents
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Srikumar Nair, Mata Prasad Gupta
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Governance of AI tools like MCP, Skills is equally important as governing your agents. Discover how Agent 365 helps you to discover, observe, govern and secure powerful tools that connect your systems and business data with agents. Learn how developers can quickly extend agent capabilities with minimal effort while IT maintains the enterprise-grade security, governance, compliance, and controls required to scale AI confidently across the organization.
Note
15:00–16:00 · 1h · Room 354
What is Agent Quality, and How do I get there
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Melanie Wang, Natasha Eibich, Scott Pierce
Foundational (100)Roundtable
You've built an agent. But is it good? In this roundtable, we'll unpack what "quality" actually means for AI agents — from reliability and grounding to user trust and task completion — and discuss practical frameworks for measuring and improving it. Whether you're shipping your first agent or scaling across your organization, join the conversation on defining quality benchmarks, identifying failure modes early, and building evaluation practices that keep pace with your ambitions.
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15:00–16:00 · 1h · Grand 116
When One Agent Isn’t Enough: Designing Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Geetha Sivasailam, Mark Rackley
Advanced (300)60-minute session
As AI agents move from simple assistants to enterprise-grade solutions, single-agent designs quickly hit limits. Real-world scenarios increasingly require multiple specialized agents working together - each with a clear role, responsibility, and orchestration model. In this deep-dive session, we’ll explore how to design scalable multi-agent architectures using Copilot Studio and the broader Microsoft ecosystem. Through practical patterns and real-world examples, you’ll learn: - When to build one generalist vs. multiple specialist agents - Orchestration patterns: routing logic, handoffs, and conversation state management - Knowledge base strategy: SharePoint vs. Azure AI Search vs. Dataverse Performance optimization & best practices - Enterprise patterns & Demos: Self Service agent calling specialized HR and IT sub-agents
Note

15:05–15:30 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
The Power CAT Toolbox: Modernize, Troubleshoot, and Accelerate
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Rasika Chaudhary, Ravi Chada, Ankita Chopra, Reza Dorrani, Rui Santos, Yasin Mukadam
Lightning talk
Discover practical Power CAT resources that help teams move from idea to impact faster. See how agent-assisted troubleshooting, migration skills, and self-service engagement can improve modernize legacy solutions and connect customers with reusable guidance and product expertise.
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15:30–15:55 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Advanced Agent Patterns: Progressive Disclosure, Inline Agents, and Copilot Nodes
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Andrew Hess, Doug Bellingeri
Lightning talk
Strong agents depend on putting the right capability in the right place. Compare progressive disclosure, inline agents, and Copilot nodes, then use a practical decision framework to improve context efficiency, orchestration, maintainability, and control.
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16:00 · 2 at this start time

16:00–18:30 · 2h 30m · Expo Hall (Marquee Ballroom), level 1
Conference Opening Reception
Room
Expo Hall (Marquee Ballroom), level 1
Not listed
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16:00–16:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Lagos Intern to 3x Microsoft MVP: Grow Your Career by Sharing What You Learn
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Tolu Victor Sanwoolu
Lightning talk
No description listed
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16:30–16:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
The Power of Community: Building Digital Skills in Ukraine
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Vlad Sarov, Julie Yack
Lightning talk
No description listed
Note

17:00–17:30 · 30m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Beyond Keywords: The Future of Search is Intent in Dataverse
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Sophia Ma, Jason Huang
Lightning talk
Explore how AI Overviews help users quickly gather the context they need through a generated summary that surfaces relevant information, insights, and records directly within the Dataverse search experience.
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17:30–17:55 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Vibe to Value: Build Managed and Code Apps with AI
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Reza Dorrani, Warren Bryant
Lightning talk
See how AI-assisted development is changing the path from business question to governed application. Compare managed app experiences and Power Apps code apps, then learn how natural language, enterprise data, supported connectors, environments, security, and lifecycle management fit together.
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17:55–18:20 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Modern Agent Building Blocks: Skills, Memory, Tools, and Connected Agents
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Greg Hurlman, Jay Padimiti, Kahlil Fitzgerald
Lightning talk
Copilot Studio offers many ways to extend an agent, but each building block has a different job. Learn how to place responsibilities across instructions, knowledge, reusable skills, plugins, memory, MCP servers, and connected agents so solutions remain useful, governable, and easy to evolve.
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Wednesday 28 Oct

121

06:00–07:00 · 1h
Breakfast
Room
No room listed
Not listed
Breakfast locations are based off of lanyard colors Purple Lanyards - Marquee Ballroom. level 1 (Expo Hall) Brown Lanyards - Terrace Ballroom, level 1 Teal Lanyards - North Pavilion, outside, level 1 White Lanyards - Chairman's Ballroom, level 3 Red Lanyards - Studio, Grand Garden Arena
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07:00 · 21 at this start time

07:00–08:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Apps in Every Pocket: The Power Apps Mobile Roadmap
Track
Apps
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Jed Brown, Dipti Jaiswal, Ruchi Dixit
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Apps in every pocket—online or off. Power Apps Mobile puts business apps in the hands of the 2.1 billion frontline workers who keep the world running, including places with limited or no connectivity. This session tours the mobile roadmap: a faster, more native experience, a unified offline runtime, and agentic offline profile optimization that tunes what syncs. See wrapped apps, push notifications, and deep links, plus how generative authoring brings mobile apps to life.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 116
Building Smarter Agents: When Low-Code Is Enough and When Pro-Code Is Preferred
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Daniel Christian, Prashant G Bhoyar
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building effective Copilot agents isn’t about choosing between low-code or pro-code it’s about knowing when each approach creates the most value. In this session, Daniel Christian, low-code expert, content creator and Prashant Bhoyar, pro-code super star! and Microsoft MVP, collaborate to demonstrate how agent solutions evolve across real business scenarios. Starting with low-code foundations in Copilot Studio, they’ll show how teams can move quickly, then selectively introduce pro-code techniques to unlock advanced logic, integrations, and control as requirements mature. Attendees will gain insight into key decision points, governance considerations, and architectural trade-offs that influence agent design at scale. Whether you’re leading strategy or building solutions, you’ll leave with a practical framework for creating smarter, more adaptable agents that balance speed, scalability, and responsibility.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Built to Last; the Right Power BI Architecture
Track
BI
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Reza Rad
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building a Power BI solution is one thing; keeping it working for a long time is another. If you want to build a solution that is reusable, easy to maintain, and easy to modify whenever needed, then you have to think about building the right architecture for the Power BI solution. The right architecture includes a multi-layer design of Dataflows and Shared Semantic models, considerations of version control, deployment pipelines, and many other things. In this session, Reza will take you through some of these features and show you how to use them in real-world scenarios.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 120
Form Logic Without Code: Business Rules in Dataverse, Model-Driven Apps, and Power Pages
Track
Apps · Dataverse · Pages
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Laura Rogers
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Every form needs logic—hide a field, make something required, set a default, validate before submitting. Business Rules in Dataverse let makers add this logic without writing a single line of code. The Form vs Entity scope setting is an important factor. Rules that fire on a model-driven form don't fire on Power Pages without the right configuration. And there's also a Business Rules panel tucked inside the Power Pages design studio. In this session, we'll walk through Business Rules end-to-end with no code: how they work in Dataverse, where they fire (and where they don't), the patterns that transfer across from other forms products, and when Business Rules are the right tool versus when to reach for Power Automate instead. You'll leave knowing exactly when, where, and how to use them—across model-driven apps and Power Pages. Attendees will learn to: • Create Business Rules in Dataverse for common form logic patterns • Choose the right scope (Form vs Entity) based on where the rule needs to fire • Predict which contexts a given Business Rule will and won't run in • Add Business Rules to a Power Pages form using the design studio • Recognize when Business Rules are the right tool—and when to reach for Power Automate or another approach instead
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 122
Full Stack Solutions with Code Apps
Track
Apps · Power Platform
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Tomas Prokop
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Live coding a complete full-stack Power Platform solution from scratch. React Code Apps frontend with TypeScript, C# Dataverse plugins for server-side validation, custom connectors, Power Automate background jobs, Package Deployer shipping it all as one unit. The architecture coherent picture documentation doesn't provide. You'll see the real implementation: plugins preventing data corruption with transactional safety that client validation can't enforce, monorepo structure with frontend and backend code, GitHub Copilot generating across the stack with custom instructions, deployment automation from development to production. Developer workflow demonstration: VS Code workspace configuration, inner loop for rapid local iteration, outer loop with automated deployments, version control strategy for solution files, code review process when AI generates code, structuring pull requests across frontend and backend changes.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Premier 318
Industry Deep Dive | Building the Intelligent Financial Services Enterprise with AI Apps & Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Jay Steinke, Amber Weise, Mark Grosvenor, Maureen Tomlinson
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Organizations are rapidly evolving from digital transformation initiatives to intelligent enterprises powered by AI, automation, and agents. Join industry leaders as they share how Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio are enabling the next generation of business innovation. Hear how organizations are creating AI powered employee experiences, modernizing business processes, deploying autonomous agents, and accelerating business outcomes with low-code and AI technologies. While the session will feature financial services focused industry success stories and lessons learned, the strategies, architectures, and best practices discussed are applicable across every industry. Whether you're in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, financial services, government, or another sector, you'll gain practical insights into governance, adoption, security, compliance, and scaling AI powered solutions across the enterprise. Whether you're exploring your first agent or driving enterprise-wide transformation, you'll leave with actionable ideas and real world examples you can apply immediately.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Industry Deep Dive | Innovation Unleashed - How AEC Leaders Are Putting AI Agents to Work
Track
Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Jamie Hall, Ted Kempf, Sean Galliher
Foundational (100)60-minute session
AEC firms are under increasing pressure to deliver projects faster, safer, and more profitably while navigating workforce shortages, fragmented data, and growing project complexity. As AI rapidly moves from experimentation to a strategic necessity, industry leaders are proving that measurable business value is being realized faster than ever. Join executives from Amey Plc, Clyde Construction, and WSP as they showcase AI-powered solutions running in production across pursuits, project controls, field operations, and knowledge management. Through live examples and candid discussion, these leaders will share how they identified opportunities, overcame implementation challenges, and scaled AI to drive meaningful business outcomes. Attendees will gain firsthand insights into what worked, what didn't, and the lessons learned along the way, providing a practical roadmap for accelerating AI adoption and delivering impact across their own organizations.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Room 352
Industry Deep Dive | Lights, Camera, Automation: Reimagining Media Operations with Low Code & Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Rode Kirk
Advanced (300)Roundtable
The Media & Entertainment industry is at a pivotal moment. Content volumes are exploding, audience expectations continue to rise, advertising models are evolving, and operational teams are being asked to do more with fewer resources. At the same time, organizations are navigating complex ecosystems of legacy systems, fragmented data, and increasingly sophisticated AI capabilities. Join this interactive roundtable discussion to explore how leading media organizations are leveraging low-code platforms and agentic AI to transform content operations, advertising workflows, subscriber experiences, rights management, field production, and business processes. From automating repetitive tasks to orchestrating intelligent, multi-step workflows across teams and systems, low code and AI agents are enabling a new era of operational agility and innovation. Together, we'll discuss real-world challenges facing broadcasters, streaming providers, publishers, media networks, and entertainment companies, including how to modernize without massive IT investments, accelerate innovation in resource-constrained environments, and unlock new opportunities for efficiency, creativity, and revenue growth. Whether you're evaluating your first AI agent, scaling Power Platform adoption, or envisioning the future of autonomous media operations, this session will provide practical insights, peer perspectives, and actionable ideas for turning AI potential into measurable business outcomes. Key Discussion Topics: • Where agentic AI can deliver the greatest value across M&E operations today • Modernizing legacy workflows with low-code solutions • Transforming content, advertising, and customer engagement processes • Balancing innovation, governance, and responsible AI practices • Building the foundation for the autonomous media enterprise Attendee Takeaway: Media & Entertainment business leaders, technology decision-makers, digital transformation teams, Power Platform practitioners, and AI innovators looking to accelerate operational excellence and competitive differentiation.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
Industry Deep Dive | Manufacturing & Mobility: Equipment Return Reimagined
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Brian Caauwe, Scott Evans
Not listed
Traditional return processes are manual, fragmented and expensive to reconcile – delaying billing, slowing service readiness, create disputes, and hiding critical asset and sales signals. See how Power Platform empowers Manufacturing & Mobility organizations to reimagine equipment returns using multimodal agentic processing. During this session, we’ll follow one returned asset as it triggers billing overages, damage detection, service work orders, preventive maintenance, asset depreciation updates, fleet analytics, and sales signals – turning a manual return process into an agentic manufacturing workflow.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Room 350
Industry Deep Dive | Operationalizing AI in Government: The Journey from Pilot to Production
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Dave Bailey, Al Smith
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
- Many government organizations have successfully built their first AI-powered applications, copilots, and agents. Far fewer have successfully operationalized them across the enterprise. - This interactive panel explores what it takes to move AI from isolated proofs of concept into secure, scalable, and sustainable government operations. Hear directly from public sector organizations that have deployed AI solutions into production and learn about the governance, security, architecture, change management, and operational practices that made those deployments successful. - Discussion topics include responsible AI, deployment strategies, user adoption, monitoring, data readiness, operational support models, measuring impact, and lessons learned from real-world implementations. Whether you're preparing your first production deployment or expanding AI across your organization, this session provides practical guidance from peers who are already navigating the journey.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Room 351
Industry Deep Dive | Powering the Grid with AI
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Eric Denton, Mauro Relva
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
The utilities industry faces a unique balancing act: modernize fast enough to meet rising customer and grid demands, while operating in one of the most regulated, risk-averse environments in business. This panel brings together leaders from NRG, CenterPoint Energy, and Hydro One to share how they're using the Power Platform to close that gap not through a single flagship project, but through a portfolio of wins spanning citizen-developed code apps, first- and third-party AI agents, and cross-team co-work solutions built by business users, not just IT. We'll hear how NRG accelerated internal tool delivery with Code Apps, how utilities are deploying agentic AI to automate everything from field service dispatch to customer support, and how regulated organizations are navigating governance and adoption at scale without slowing innovation. Attendees will leave with a practical playbook for driving low-code and AI transformation in a highly regulated industry including the governance guardrails, change-management lessons, and quick wins that made it possible.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Room 353
Industry Deep Dive | Reimagine Healthcare and Life Sciences with Low Code & AI Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Ellary Rose
Foundational (100)Roundtable
This panel discussion brings together innovators from across the Healthcare and Life Sciences spectrum to explore how AI-powered agents and low code are driving measurable impact. Learn how these Healthcare organizations are using Microsoft's Power Platform and Copilot Studio to build intelligent, adaptive solutions that reduce friction, enhance collaboration, and drive better health outcomes. Hear real-world stories of transformation and leave inspired to begin your own agentic journey.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Innovation Session: Building End-to-End Agents with Copilot Studio
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Jason Moore
Innovation session
Building an agent is just the beginning. Delivering real business value means taking it all the way from idea to production. Join Jason Moore for an end-to-end look at building agents with Copilot Studio. You'll see how to design an agent, ground it in your business data and connect it to the systems and processes your organization runs on. Then watch it take action, work alongside people and other agents, and run securely at enterprise scale. Through live demos, learn practical patterns for testing, monitoring, managing and improving agents over time, and leave ready to move your own agents from experiment to everyday impact.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Premier 319
Managed Security: Securing and Governing Apps, Automations, and Agents at Scale
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Lane Swenka, Gregg Barker
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
What if managing Power Platform governance felt more like chatting with a security expert than hunting through admin screens? In this session, we'll showcase a new agentic governance experience that lets admins ask questions and take action across their entire tenant using natural language. Need to find orphaned apps, exposed connectors, security gaps, or environments drifting from your standards? Just ask. Then go beyond insights to action. Define your organization's governance constitution and let the agent translate policy into execution. Enable Managed Environments, enforce sharing limits, configure IP firewalls, apply auditing settings, and manage retention policies across environments from a single conversation. The agent builds a plan, shows its work, and waits for approval before making any changes. No hunting through portals. No scripting marathons. Just governance at the speed of conversation.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Meet Microsoft Autopilot: A Personal, Persistent, Proactive AI Agent for Work
Track
Power Platform
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Samantha Neufeld, Matthew LeHew, Dino Ilic
Foundational (100)60-minute session
As AI assistants like Microsoft Autopilot evolve from chat-based copilots into proactive, always-on companions, customers and product teams are asking a new set of questions: Where does this fit in the broader Microsoft AI portfolio? What should it do that existing tools do not? How should it handle governance, permissions, interoperability, and organizational readiness? In this session we will share the latest on Microsoft Autopilot, including capabilities, use cases, and demos.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Premier 319
No Pilots. No POCs. Only Demos of GenAI Agents and Apps in Production
Track
Agents · Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Pages
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Satish Paul, Ryan Kane, Thad Neal, Uday Adhikari, Mark Luquire
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
See what EY, PwC, Accenture and RSM are already running in production: working Power Apps, Power Automate flows and Copilot Studio agents built for real commercial and government work. This is not a pilot tour or a “maybe someday” demo. You will watch solutions that already have users and hear directly from the presenters about the business problems they solve, what the apps and agents do, and how their teams are measuring value. Come to see what is live. Because the content is confidential, this session will not be recorded. There is no replay. Add it to your PPCC agenda and be in the room.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Observability and Governance for Your 3P Agents with Minimal Configuration and Maximum Control
Track
Agents
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Aarthi Saravanakumar, Shailesh Nikam, Ganesh Krishnamurthy
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Your agents are hosted in AWS, GCP and Azure. You use Amazon Bedrock. Google Vertex and Claude and Open AI. You want a single place to manage your agents without costly instrumentation and configuration. Come here to learn how Agent 365 can discover your agents and their telemetry and assign Entra identities unlocking governance, security and control.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 114
Power BI Administration at Scale: Governance Patterns for Enterprise Deployments
Track
Automate · BI
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Heidi Hasting, Shabnam Watson
Advanced (300)60-minute session
As Power BI adoption grows, so does the complexity of managing it. Learn proven governance patterns and automation techniques for administering Power BI at enterprise scale using the Power Platform. We'll cover workspace management strategies, automated compliance monitoring, license optimization, and practical approaches to balancing governance with self-service. You'll see how to use Power Automate, and the Power BI REST APIs to build scalable administration solutions that grow with your organization. What You'll Learn: Automating workspace provisioning and lifecycle management with Power Automate Building compliance monitoring solutions that detect and remediate policy violations Implementing practical governance frameworks that enable self-service without chaos Leveraging Power BI REST APIs and Admin APIs for at-scale operations
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 119
RPA at Scale: What’s New, What’s Next, and What’s Driving Rapid Enterprise Adoption
Track
Automate
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Yiannis Mavridis, Nikos Moutzourakis
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Join this session to explore the latest innovations in Power Automate for RPA and what’s coming next. We will walk through recently delivered capabilities across enterprise readiness, development experience, and execution reliability, and provide a forward-looking view into upcoming investments. You’ll also see how RPA has become one of the fastest-growing areas within Power Platform and what’s driving this momentum across enterprises. Through real-world examples and demos, you’ll learn how organizations are using RPA to scale automation across legacy and modern systems, and how to take advantage of these advancements in your own solutions.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Grand 112
Smart, Seamless, Supportive: Finding the AI Balance in Power Apps
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Anna Black, Phil Owens
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
We’re entering a new era in Power Apps - where AI is no longer just behind the scenes, but embedded directly into the user experience. From Copilot suggestions to intelligent controls, AI can guide, accelerate, and elevate how users interact with apps. But without thoughtful design, AI can just as easily overwhelm, slow down performance, or confuse users with too much “help.” In this session, we’ll explore how to infuse AI into Power Apps with purpose. You’ll learn how to activate and extend native AI features - like Copilot for form fill, AI-generated suggestions, natural language commands and more while designing experiences where AI supports without intruding. We’ll also cover performance considerations, trust-building techniques, and how to guide users without removing control. Join us to discover how to strike the right balance between smart assistance and streamlined UX. Build Power Apps that don’t just work - they think with your users, adding value without getting in the way.
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07:00–08:00 · 1h · Room 354
The Meter Is Running: FinOps for Agents in a Consumption World
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Phil Topness, Dave Milton
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Your agentic workflows are live. Your Copilot Credits are burning. The invoice arrives monthly whether or not the value has landed. Cost is visible, immediate, and precise to two decimals. Value is diffuse, lagging, and soft. "We saved time" isn't wrong. It just isn't bankable. ROI lives in the ratio: return over consumption, inside a payback window someone will accept, and those windows are getting shorter. Cloud teams built a discipline for this a decade ago: FinOps. Now it's time to apply it to agentic workflows. This is a working session, not a panel. Bring one real agentic workflow, shipped or scoped, and a willingness to argue. At your table we'll run a compressed FinOps loop: Inform. Attribute consumption to an owner, an environment, and an outcome. Optimize. Set guardrails and cut runaway-workflow waste without shutting down experimentation. Quantify. Pick one return lane and defend it: revenue influenced, cost avoided, risk reduced, capacity released. Operate. Decide who owns the consumption number, and what happens when the forecast is wrong.
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08:00–08:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Automate Your Whole Life: Power Platform at Work, at Home and at the Kitchen Table
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Geoff Ross
Lightning talk
No description listed
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08:30–08:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Still a Maker: How Real Organizational Transformation Happens
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Michael Heath
Lightning talk
No description listed
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 114
AI Agents Meet Dataverse: Building Intelligent Automations with Microsoft Agent Framework
Track
Dataverse
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Allan De Castro
Advanced (300)60-minute session
AI agents are the next evolution beyond chatbots and copilots—autonomous components that reason, call tools, and take action. But how do you connect them to your Dynamics 365 data? This session introduces Microsoft Agent Framework and shows you how to build an AI agent that queries Dataverse, analyzes customer data, and delivers actionable insights. Through a live demo, we'll build a Sales Intelligence Agent that retrieves accounts, opportunities, and activities, then recommends next best actions—all powered by Azure OpenAI and the Agent Framework. You'll learn how to expose Dataverse as tools for your agent, handle authentication securely, and design prompts that drive reliable behavior.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 116
Anatomy of Effective Prompts: LLM Foundations for Power Platform
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Geetha Sivasailam
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As AI becomes deeply embedded across the Power Platform, prompts are no longer just inputs but they are runtime instructions that shape how systems understand intent, maintain context, and take action. In this session, we’ll break down the anatomy of effective prompts and explain the Large Language Model (LLM) foundations that power Copilot Studio, Copilots, Power Apps, and Power Automate. You’ll learn how prompt design influences language understanding, orchestration, and agent behavior, and why prompt quality becomes an architectural concern as we move from automation to agentic systems. We’ll cover: - How LLMs interpret language and why prompts act as the control plane - Core prompt ingredients and design strategies for reliability - The role of prompts in language understanding, orchestration, and dynamic chaining - Practical patterns and pitfalls when operationalizing prompts in Power Platform
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Build, Reuse, and Act in Copilot Studio: Master Skills, Plugins, and Computer Use in Copilot Studio
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Hemant Gaur, Samarth Gupta, Ken Seong Tan
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Agents are most powerful when they can draw on expertise, discover the right capabilities, and take action. Join us for a look at the next chapter of extensibility in Copilot Studio. We’ll start with Skills, turning repeatable expertise into reusable capabilities that can move beyond a single agent. Then we’ll explore Microsoft’s shared plugin registry, creating a common discovery and governance layer for the capabilities agents depend on. Finally, we’ll showcase computer use, showing how autonomous agents can navigate websites and complete tasks through user interfaces—even when no API is available. We’ll also show how to package computer-use workflows as reusable Skills, so a workflow defined once can be put to work across agents. If you’re building enterprise agents today, come see how Skills, plugins, and computer use are turning Copilot Studio from a place where you build every capability into a place where agents can discover, compose, reuse, and act.
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09:00–09:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Built Something Useful? Turn It into an Org-Wide Copilot Skill
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Prashant G Bhoyar
Lightning talk
No description listed
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 122
Enhancing User Experience with Model-Driven Apps: Best Practices and Insights
Track
Apps · Dataverse
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Ashley Steiner, Sarah Jelinek
Foundational (100)60-minute session
In this session, we will explore the intricacies of user experience (UX) design within Model-Driven Apps. Attendees will gain valuable insights into creating intuitive and efficient interfaces that enhance user satisfaction and productivity. We will cover key principles of UX design, practical tips for optimizing app performance, and real-world examples of successful implementations. Whether you're a developer, designer, or business analyst, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to elevate your Model-Driven Apps to the next level. Join us to learn how to create seamless and engaging user experiences that drive business success.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 119
From AI Adoption to AI Confidence: Evaluation and Analytics for Agents, Flows and Apps
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Efrat Gilboa, Karima Kanji-Tajdin, Ilana Kantorov
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As AI assets (agents, workflows, apps) move from prototypes to mission‑critical systems, quality can't be an afterthought. In this session you'll see how evaluation and analytics close the loop between design, deployment, and continuous improvement. We'll walk the full agent lifecycle (build → publish → analyze → evaluate) and show how to turn real production usage into measurable quality gains. You'll learn how makers, analysts, BDMs, AI operators and QA teams set a quality bar across any AI asset their organization operationalize, gate releases with A/B testing - then monitor quality, health, compliance, and consumption from one place. The result: a practical AgentOps playbook to scale reliable, trustworthy agents and automations without slowing innovation. Includes live demos.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Premier 311
From Legacy to Modern: Rebuilding Apps with an AI-native Development Experience
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Deepak Shrivastava, Danish Naglekar
60-minute session
See how legacy apps are rebuilt live using Power Platform's AI-native development experience. Through real-world examples, learn how AI-driven design, assisted development and low-code acceleration modernize classic Power Apps and other legacy applications into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions. Explore how AI helps transform requirements into modern app experiences, data models, workflows and intelligent automation more efficiently than traditional methods. Attendees will discover how to reduce technical debt, accelerate delivery and build enterprise-ready applications more quickly than with traditional development methods. Key takeaways: o Modernize legacy applications with AI-native development o Accelerate app design and development using AI assistance o Apply architecture and user experience guidance o Reduce technical debt and improve maintainability Experience a live app transformation using Power Platform's latest AI capabilities
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Governance First, Agents at Scale: How Wells Fargo Built Copilot Studio Agents in a Regulated Bank
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Raina Harrison
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Many banks are eager to deploy agents. Getting them through security review is where the real work begins. Wells Fargo and Microsoft share what it takes to move Copilot Studio agents from demo to production inside a national bank. We'll cover the governance groundwork — building and validating a Copilot Studio security requirements playbook that turned security from blocker into enabler — then walk through the agents themselves: branch assistant and banker-support agents already in production as part of Wells Fargo's AI-enabled branch and agentic banking strategy, plus client onboarding and KYC spanning document analysis, screening, risk assessment and memo generation.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Room 350
Industry Deep Dive | Customer Loyalty in Travel, Hospitality, and Transportation
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Lisa Clark, Janelle Beczak, Andriy Galiv, Ted Kempf, Gopi Vaitla, Daniel Pacheco
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
This industry-led customer roundtable explores how travel, hospitality, and transportation organizations are using Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Dynamics, and agents to turn high-stakes moments into loyalty. Recovering a traveler's trip, keeping operations moving, and giving frontline teams what they need to resolve issues in the moment. These are the interactions that decide whether a customer books again and whether an employee stays. This is a practical industry conversation on how organizations move from low-code adoption to governed, scalable AI-enabled workflows that measurably improve customer retention, employee experience, and operational throughput. You will hear from teams who built it themselves with no partner and no packaged app, teams running one platform across multiple airline brands in multiple countries, and teams supporting millions of travelers and owners every year. To make it tangible, the session opens with an audience choice. Attendees vote on a real-world scenario, and while the panel discussion is underway, the selected agent is built live in Copilot Studio, then revealed at the end to show how quickly an idea becomes a working capability. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of where to start, how to govern, and how to identify the agent opportunities that protect revenue and strengthen customer relationships in their own organization.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Room 352
Industry Deep Dive | From Automation to Agentic AI: A High-Tech Industry Customer Roundtable
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Nick Fratello, Tara Mason, Av Erlenwein, Beau Dossin, Jordan Kates, Mike Tamburrino
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
AI is moving from experimentation to enterprise execution. Discover how BMC, Ivanti, Sage and Precisely are building enterprise-scale AI programs with Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft AI. Explore practical use cases, governance approaches, and proven patterns for driving business transformation and measurable outcomes.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Room 353
Industry Deep Dive | Government: Beyond the Hype: Delivering Real Business Value
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Pages
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Dave Bailey, Al Smith
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
- Every day brings new AI announcements, new copilots, and new promises of transformation. Frontier Professionals are quickly generating full application "re-writes" leveraging the latest AI-assisted coding tool, yet, have no way to scale and secure that app to the business. Government organizations are increasingly asking a more important question: Where is the measurable value, despite the creativity? - This customer-led discussion brings together agencies that have successfully moved beyond experimentation to deliver meaningful operational improvements with Microsoft Power Platform, while embracing this AI-based creative wave of innovation. Panelists will share the business problems they solved, how they measured success, and the organizational strategies that helped distinguish lasting solutions from short-lived AI experiments. - Discussion topics will include citizen services, workforce productivity, case management, automation, contact centers, low-code application modernization, and AI-assisted business processes. Attendees are encouraged to share their own experiences, challenges, and lessons learned as we explore what sustainable Power Platform success looks like in today's rapidly evolving AI landscape.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
Industry Deep Dive | Manufacturing and Mobility: Customer Showcase
Track
Power Platform
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
James Wang, Stephen Magnuson, Phillip Dockley, Christopher Young
Not listed
Manufacturing organizations are managing unprecedented disruptions internally and externally - hear how your peers are driving value and ROI leveraging Agentic AI across core manufacturing processes from operations to dealer management to customer engagement. Brunswick, Regal Rexnord and John Deere will present their own journeys and how they use Power Platform and AI Agents to provide strategic value to their organizations.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Innovation Session: The Future of Agentic Apps
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Clay Wesener
Innovation session
Apps are becoming intelligent partners that reason, act and work alongside people and agents. Join Clay Wesener and Emma Cooper for three live demos showing how to build agentic apps with Power Apps, and practical patterns to bring that intelligence into the apps your organization relies on.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Managed Governance: Governing Copilot Studio Without Killing Innovation
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Mik Ferland, Ken Auguillard, Sid Gundavarapu
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As organizations scale Copilot Studio agents across the enterprise, governance often becomes a source of friction—slowing makers down, surfacing blockers too late, and creating confusion between IT, security, and builders. In this session, we'll share how we're rethinking agent governance to protect enterprises without sacrificing the joy of making. We'll cover what we've shipped—shift-left governance signals, clearer agent status and blockers, and more transparent admin policies inside the maker experience—and what's coming next, where governance becomes proactive, explainable, and actionable. In our learnings, we'll help customers reduce "policy debt"—the burden of layering too much process into governance—and share how Microsoft adopted agents internally. This session is a conversation: your feedback will directly shape our roadmap. "Governance is most powerful when it enables the right things to happen safely — not when it merely prevents the wrong things from happening at all."
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime: AI-Powered Development with Built-In Governance
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Bryce Sova, Austin Laugesen, Jordan Chodak, Mark Overholt
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Enterprises need apps that move as fast as business demands, but still meet expectations for security, governance, compliance, and operational reliability. Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime brings those needs together by helping developers build internal line-of-business applications with modern web technologies, AI-assisted development, Git-native workflows, and enterprise controls. In this session, we’ll show how managed apps provide Microsoft Entra authentication, Microsoft's 1,400+ connectors, Work IQ and native Cowork integrations. These apps allow building richer experiences with native server-side functions that extend apps. Also, these apps simplify building apps with a native data source which is as easy to share with users as sharing the app! In addition to the developer capabilities, IT gets governance through the Microsoft Admin Center, built-in usage analytics, operational health metrics, alerting, and policy enforcement. You’ll also see how Git-backed development, code scanning, development-to-production build support and industry-standard technologies help teams build in ways that developers and coding agents already understand while giving IT confidence that policies are enforced throughout the app lifecycle.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 112
Power BI Design with Empathy: Designing for Clarity, Confidence, and Inclusion
Track
BI
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Elena Drakulevska
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Your reports do not just deliver insights, they shape how people feel. From fear and frustration to confidence and joy, learn how empathy-led Power BI design reduces overwhelm, supports accessibility needs, and helps every user navigate with ease. Create reports people love so much they never hit 'Export to Excel' again!
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Room 351
The human journey behind Chevron's MOBI customer experience agent
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Nico Sprotti, Petros Feleskouras, Blake Jones, Jeffrey Bennett, Carrie Jewkes
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
What started as a simple customer engagement bot has evolved into one of the energy industry's most compelling AI agent transformation stories. This session traces Chevron's journey building MOBI, a mobile-first customer support experience that began as a basic self-service tool and matured into a full AI agent capable of reasoning across loyalty, fuel card, and retail support inquiries. We'll explore how Chevron, together with Microsoft, layered in agentic capabilities, intelligent case management, automated workflow routing, and integrated knowledge access to move beyond scripted bot interactions toward a system that resolves issues end-to-end without human handoffs. The results speak for themselves: an 18% reduction in customer escalations shortly after launch, faster resolution times, and higher customer confidence in digital support, all while easing pressure on live agents handling high call volumes. This session unpacks the technical and organizational evolution behind MOBI, what changed when a bot became an agent, the architecture decisions that enabled it, and the lessons other energy companies can apply to their own customer experience modernization efforts through a collaborative partnership between business and technology teams.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Room 354
The People Side of Agentic AI: Why Culture & Change Management Define Success
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Suzy Agi, Peter Ruiter, Matt Sauer
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Most Agentic AI pilots don't fail because the technology doesn't work. They fail because the organization around it isn't ready to change how work gets done. Every company is experimenting with agents. Few are scaling them. The gap between the two comes down to leadership, trust, and the willingness to redesign work itself, not the sophistication of the model. This session brings together three vantage points rarely combined in one room: Capgemini's perspective on what it takes to build an agent powered organization, a firsthand account from Brown & Brown on driving that change from the inside, and a Microsoft view grounded in its own AI adoption journey, including why human focused design is central to building agents people actually trust and use. You'll leave with a practical view of what it actually takes to drive adoption at scale: the leadership behaviors, cultural shifts, and human centered design principles that turn isolated experiments into lasting business impact, and a clear next step for wherever your organization is in that journey.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 120
Unlocking Power BI Models with TMDL: Code-First Semantic Modeling
Track
BI
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Samson Truong
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Power BI’s TMDL view introduces a code-first way to work with semantic models using the Tabular Model Definition Language. Instead of relying only on the visual modeling experience, developers can view, edit, and apply model metadata as text, making complex changes faster, more repeatable, and easier to manage. In this session, we will explore how TMDL enables advanced semantic modeling scenarios such as bulk updates, model refactoring, and metadata reuse across projects. Attendees will learn how code-first modeling complements the traditional Power BI experience and supports more scalable, maintainable, and team-friendly semantic model development.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Grand 121
Who Answers the Call When the Agent Breaks at 2 A.M.?
Room
Grand 121
Speakers
Shailendra Singh, Dimitri Ayrapetov, Sebastian Atar
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building an agent is a project; running one is a service. Most organizations learn the difference when something quietly stops working in the middle of the night and nobody knows who owns it. This session brings service-management discipline to the agentic era: what belongs in an agent runbook, how to write an SLA for a non-deterministic system, triage tiers for "wrong answer" versus "no answer" versus "took an action it shouldn't have," and the on-call split between IT and the business owner. We show an operating model that scales from five agents to five thousand. You leave with a runbook template and a support RACI.
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09:00–10:00 · 1h · Premier 310
Why Enterprise Agents Fail; and the Microsoft IQ Answer
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Sharad Bajaj, Julie Koesmarno, James Oleinik, Robert Bruckner
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Enterprise agents fail at alarming rates in production, despite rapid advances in foundation models - not because the models are weak, but because they lack business context, organizational awareness, and governance guardrails. This flagship session unpacks why, then delivers the Microsoft IQ answer, grounded in Dataverse. See how Dataverse provides the business semantic layer that grounds agents in enterprise data, processes, and meaning - so they take accurate actions, not just generate responses; how Microsoft IQ delivers organizational context, expertise, and work intelligence through MCP Servers, so agents understand how work actually gets done across people, systems, and processes; and how Agent 365 provides the governance foundation - policy, security, sensitivity, and trust boundaries - to safely scale AI across the enterprise. We walk an end-to-end retail scenario where multiple agents run on Dataverse and Microsoft IQ, managed by Agent 365, showing how Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Work IQ power assistive, autonomous, and autopilot agents. You leave understanding why agents struggle - and exactly how Dataverse, Microsoft IQ, and Agent 365 close the gap.
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09:30–09:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
You Didn’t Know Power BI Could Do That!
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Lightning talk
No description listed
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10:00–10:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
A Beautiful Dashboard. A Confident AI. A Terrible Decision.
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Rajaniesh Kaushikk
Lightning talk
No description listed
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10:15 · 8 at this start time

10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 121
Agentifying Your Business Processes: Why Most Organizations Get It Backward
Room
Grand 121
Speakers
Chris Snyder, Nicolas Fernandez
60-minute session
Agents are everywhere, yet most organizations are agentifying the wrong way: automating broken processes, chasing agent count instead of outcomes and treating governance as the enemy of speed. This session flips the sequence. We'll show why transformation starts with the process, not the agent: how to identify which processes deserve agentification, redesign them before you build, choose the right architectural pattern instead of the default product and balance control with enablement so adoption actually sticks. Grounded in real enterprise programs, you'll leave with a practical sequence to turn agent experiments into measurable business transformation.
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 122
App UI vs Agent UI: The Future of User Experience in Power Platform
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Anna Black, Phil Owens
Foundational (100)60-minute session
The rise of Copilot, conversational agents, and AI orchestration is reshaping the way users interact with business applications. As natural language becomes a primary interface, makers and architects must navigate a new design dilemma: App UI vs Agent UI. This session explores the strengths, trade-offs, and complementary roles of both interface models. We'll compare the traditional form-based App UI-screens, views, filters with the emerging Agent UI-prompt-based, intent-driven, AI-powered interactions. Through real-world scenarios and side-by-side demos, you'll discover: * When to design with screens, and when to lead with prompts, * How Copilot agents use Dataverse data and business logic behind the scenes, * What this means for data modelling, validation, and error handling, * How user experience shifts from point-and-click to conversation-led journeys. Screens aren't going away, but they’re no longer the only way. Whether you're building with canvas apps, model-driven apps, or Copilot Studio, this session will help you future-proof your UX strategy by understanding how and when to combine App UI and Agent UI effectively.
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 116
Can Copilot Studio Get Any Smarter? How Agents and Smart Devices Supercharge Your Productivity
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Lindsay Shelton, Angeliki Patsiavou
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Ever felt terrible for end users who have to navigate a busy home office to client site travel life whilst juggling calls and logging targets in CRM? The same users who are trying to navigate all the Copilot Studio agents’ benefits without knowing how to best adopt them and are still stuck in manual overdrive? Or maybe, have you been struggling a bit to make sense of the AI-verse? Join this session as we show you in real time, with an Alexa and a Ring device, how your Copilot Studio agents can supercharge both your home office productivity and on-the-go lifestyle as a Power Apps CRM user. From explaining the architecture magic behind each demo, to real-time testing the demo gods’ patience, we will demonstrate how voice can rule over your emails, tasks, data and ultimately an insane calendar! Whether you are really into Copilot Studio agents, are a CRM or an IoT nerd, there is something for everyone. Disclaimer: This session contains really fun and nerdy content. Join if you dare!
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Premier 317
Fabric Weaves: Stitching Together Dynamics and Dataverse
Track
BI · Dataverse
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Cole Haddock, Joe Griffin
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Welcome to "Fabric Weaves: Stitching Together Dynamics and Dataverse"—a session showcasing the integration of Microsoft’s advanced technologies. Experience the power of Direct Lake and Data Lake, woven with Microsoft Fabric. In this session, you’ll see two demos: Fabric and Direct Lake with Dynamics 365 CE/Dataverse: Learn how to leverage Fabric without needing Azure resources. Fabric and Azure Data Lake: Explore how Synapse and storage accounts enhance your data strategy. We will demonstrate how this integration accelerates data processing and enriches business intelligence, highlighting Microsoft Fabric as the thread connecting these technologies into a unified, robust data ecosystem. Join us to see how these cutting-edge tools empower your organization with better data insights and efficiency.
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 120
Improve Your Power Platform Security Posture with Advisor and Security Hub
Track
Power Platform
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Yannick Reekmans
Advanced (300)60-minute session
More and more security options are added to Power Platform with every release. Unfortunately, it’s hard to keep track of them or know whether you have implemented them (let alone, implemented them correctly). Other parts of the Microsoft cloud have had Secure Score for a while, most notable are Microsoft Secure Score and Identity Secure score. And now finally Power Platform has one too! In this session, Yannick will take a brand-new Power Platform environment and use the recommendations from Security Hub and Advisor to explain the security features and at the same time increase the security score! Can we do it? Come find out!
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 114
No Code Power BI & Fabric: Welcome to the Era of AI
Track
BI
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Reza Rad
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Microsoft Fabric and Power BI have evolved throughout the years, but nothing has come close to what you can achieve with the combination of AI assistants and LLMs with it. In this session, you will see demos of how agentic development works with Fabric and Power BI using AI assistants such as Claude and GitHub Copilot in combination with the MCP Server and Skills.
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Grand 112
Scale Like a Giant: AI-Powered Automation for Small Teams
Track
Automate
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Mary Myers
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
When you're running a 3-person company, everyone wears five hats. Invoices pile up on someone's desk, approvals happen over text messages, and data gets typed into spreadsheets at midnight. Meanwhile, enterprise companies have entire departments dedicated to these tasks. What if your small team could process documents and run operations like a fortune 500 company without hiring anyone? In this session, you'll learn how AI Builder and Power Automate give small teams access to automation capabilities that used to be reserved for companies with deep pockets and dedicated IT departments You'll see exactly how to automate invoice and receipt processing with custom AI models, route approvals intelligently based on document content, use Prompt Builder for unstructured communications, and eliminate the manual data entry that's stealing hours from your week You'll leave with a practical roadmap for identifying which document-heavy processes are eating your team's time—and how to automate them without a developer on staff.
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10:15–11:15 · 1h · Premier 311
Your Next Co-Developer: Generative Pages and MCP in Power Apps
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Hardit Bhatia
60-minute session
In this session, we’ll explore two exciting capabilities that are changing how apps are built in Power Apps: Generative Pages for model-driven apps and MCP for canvas apps. See how these new AI-powered experiences can help makers move from idea to working solution faster than ever before. We’ll walk through real-world demos, practical scenarios, and the current strengths (and quirks!) of these features while discussing how they fit into modern low-code development. Whether you’re a seasoned Power Apps developer, an architect, or just AI-curious, this session will help you understand where the platform is headed — and how to start taking advantage of it today. Expect live demos, practical takeaways, and a glimpse into how AI is reshaping the future of app development in Power Apps.
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10:30 · 15 at this start time

10:30–11:30 · 1h · Grand 119
Defining Governance for Agent Tools in the Enterprise
Track
Agents
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Ambrita Nand, Mata Prasad Gupta, Srikumar Nair
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As organizations adopt AI agents at scale, the tools those agents rely on are rapidly expanding, but how they should be governed is still evolving. Help us shape how agent tools are governed by sharing how your organization is navigating this space today. In this interactive roundtable, we’ll hear your challenges, expectations, and real-world approaches, and explore what effective governance looks like in the future.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 319
Driving Adoption: Copilot, Cowork, Agents and Copilot Studio
Track
Power Platform
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Karuana Gatimu, Bryan Wofford
Foundational (100)60-minute session
With so many AI experiences how do you target the right adoption materials for the right people in your organization. Join Karuana Gatimu and Bryan Wofford in this session to get an overview of what tool when, the content Microsoft provides and best practices we've observed from customers doing this work across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Cowork, Agents and Copilot Studio.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Extend Copilot Cowork: Build and Ship a Plugin in 45 Minutes
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Bas Brekelmans, Pratyusha Avadhanula
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Your organization's systems, rules, and know-how belong inside Copilot Cowork. In this live-build session for makers and pro developers, two of the architects behind Cowork build a plugin from scratch on stage: an MCP server that connects Cowork to your systems and Power Platform, a Skill that teaches it how your team works, and the packaging that makes them a plugin. We'll sideload it, iterate in real time, add guardrails admins will approve, and walk the path to catalog publication. We'll also show how the Power Platform team used the same approach to bring governance guidance (Ask Advisor) into Cowork. You'll leave with a starter template.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 310
From Blank Canvas to Business Value: Agent Templates, Skills, and Plugins
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Clint Williams, Giorgio Ughini, Chris Garty, Dakota Shafer, Sravani Seethi
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
The fastest path to value with agents isn't starting from scratch – it's starting from what already works. This roundtable explores how enterprise agent templates, reusable skills, and plugins accelerate your business users' path from idea to production. How are organizations curating internal template catalogs? Which out-of-the-box templates actually deliver? Where do skills and plugins fit in a maker's toolkit? Join peers and Microsoft experts to swap accelerators, shortcuts, and lessons learned – and leave with concrete ways to compress your time to value from months to days.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Chairman's 370
From Traditional to Agentic RPA: The Next Evolution
Track
Automate
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Costas Chamosfakides, Angelos Angelopoulos, Thanos Potosis
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
RPA is evolving into a new model where intelligent agents augment deterministic automation. In this session, we will take a deep dive into how Power Automate is transforming into an agent-enhanced platform, combining the reliability and predictability of RPA with the adaptability and reasoning capabilities of AI. You will see how agents can assist across the entire automation lifecycle, from guiding users during authoring and improving flow quality, to helping troubleshoot issues, optimize execution, and introduce intelligent decision-making at runtime. We will also cover how these capabilities extend existing automations, allowing organizations to incrementally add intelligence without needing to redesign their solutions from scratch. Through real-world scenarios and demos, you will learn practical patterns for combining deterministic and agentic approaches, and how to introduce AI into your automations while maintaining full control, governance, and enterprise-grade reliability.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 318
Industry Deep Dive | Capital Markets Roundtable
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Jacob Englund, Goutham Davuluri
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Join us to discuss pressing topics relating to regulatory challenges, admin, governance, security, controls, business value, platform consolidation, and much more. Expect a highly interactive discussion with peers, Microsoft leaders, and our partners.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 352
Industry Deep Dive | Driving Nonprofit and Education Impact with Power Platform and AI
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Jen Senger, Amalia Mariaca, Gary Cirujales, Andy Zbeeb
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Nonprofits and educational institutions are under constant pressure to do more with limited resources. Power Platform and AI offer tremendous opportunities to streamline operations, improve experiences, and increase mission impact, but knowing where to start and what works in practice can be challenging. This interactive ask-the-experts session is designed for nonprofit and education leaders, business users, makers, and IT professionals looking to maximize the value of Power Platform and AI. Bring your questions and learn directly from organizations that are using these technologies today. Panelists will share real-world experiences, lessons learned, successes, challenges, and practical guidance you can apply in your own organization. Whether you're automating manual processes, building applications, improving student or constituent experiences, exploring Copilot, or scaling existing solutions, you'll have the opportunity to engage with peers who have been there and done it. Attendees will learn: -Best practices for applying Power Platform and AI in nonprofit and education scenarios. -Real-world use cases and lessons learned from fellow organizations. -Common implementation challenges and strategies for overcoming them. -How Microsoft Elevate can help organizations access technology, resources, and community connections to accelerate impact. Join the conversation, ask your toughest questions, and leave with practical insights you can put to work immediately.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 354
Industry Deep Dive | From Vision to Value - Publix’s Power Platform Transformation Journey
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Danielle Moon, Kristi McKenzie
Foundational (100)Roundtable
What does it take to move from isolated business solutions to an enterprise-wide innovation strategy? Join retail leaders from Publix as they share their Power Platform transformation journey, highlighting how they have empowered business users, modernized legacy processes, and accelerated innovation across the organization. In this interactive roundtable discussion, attendees will gain firsthand insights into Publix’s approach to governance, adoption, citizen development, and scaling business solutions with Microsoft Power Platform. Learn how the organization navigated challenges, built stakeholder alignment, and created a sustainable framework for driving efficiency and business value. Whether you’re just beginning your Power Platform journey or looking to expand its impact across your enterprise, this session will provide practical lessons learned, real-world success stories, and actionable advice from one of the retail industry’s most respected brands.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 353
Industry Deep Dive | Government: Autonomy and Governance in the Age of AI and Vibe Coding
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Pages
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Dave Bailey, Al Smith
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
- The barriers to building software have never been lower. Business users can now create applications, agents, automations, and solutions in hours instead of months—but how do government organizations encourage innovation without sacrificing security, compliance, or operational excellence? - Join leaders from government organizations as they discuss how they're evolving their Power Platform governance strategies for an AI-first world. Learn how agencies are balancing centralized oversight with decentralized innovation, enabling makers to move quickly while maintaining the guardrails required for government environments. - This interactive roundtable will explore topics including Center of Excellence strategies, environment management, DLP policies, AI governance, lifecycle management, maker enablement, and the emerging challenges introduced by AI-assisted development and "vibe coding." Whether your organization is just establishing governance or refining a mature operating model, you'll leave with practical ideas and lessons learned from agencies facing the same challenges. Power Platform is the ANSWER to securing the VIBE!
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 350
Industry Deep Dive | How Low Code and Agentic AI Are Powering the TechCo Transformation
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Rode Kirk
Advanced (300)Roundtable
Telecommunications providers are at a critical inflection point. While demand for connectivity continues to grow, traditional revenue streams are increasingly constrained by commoditization, margin pressure, and rising competition from cloud hyperscalers, digital-native disruptors, and platform-based businesses. To remain relevant and drive growth, telcos must evolve beyond their historical role as network operators and embrace a new identity as technology companies—or TechCos. A significant barrier to this transformation lies within the industry's legacy Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS). Designed for stability and scale in a connectivity-centric world, many of these environments are highly customized, siloed, and slow to adapt, making it difficult for telecom providers to rapidly launch new products, monetize data and digital services, create ecosystem partnerships, or deliver the agility expected of modern technology companies. The question facing every telecom executive is: How does the legacy nature of BSS/OSS restrain the telco from becoming a TechCo—and what can be done about it? Join telecom and technology leaders for an interactive discussion on how Low Code platforms, Agentic AI, and modern automation technologies are helping organizations break through these constraints. Explore how telcos are empowering business users through citizen development, simplifying complex operational processes, augmenting legacy systems with intelligent agents, and accelerating the creation of new digital products and customer experiences without requiring multi-year transformation programs. The panel will examine practical approaches to reducing operational friction, accelerating innovation cycles, and enabling employees and partners to interact with complex telecom environments through natural language, intelligent workflows, and autonomous agents. Attendees will gain insights into how leading organizations are leveraging AI-powered automation to modernize operations, improve customer engagement, unlock new revenue opportunities, and accelerate their journey from connectivity provider to digital innovator. Key Discussion Topics • How legacy BSS/OSS environments constrain innovation, agility, and revenue diversification • Strategies for evolving from a connectivity-centric Telco to a platform-driven TechCo • Leveraging Low Code to accelerate product development and business innovation • Using Agentic AI to simplify interactions with complex telecom systems and processes • Creating new revenue streams through digital services, AI, data, and ecosystem partnerships • Enabling citizen developers and business-led innovation across the enterprise • Building an AI-ready operating model while maximizing existing technology investments Attendee Takeaway Participants will leave with actionable insights into how Low Code and Agentic AI can help overcome the limitations of traditional telecom architectures, accelerate digital transformation, and unlock the capabilities required to compete as a modern TechCo in the age of intelligent automation. The discussion will challenge conventional thinking and explore what it truly takes to move from selling connectivity to delivering capability.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Room 351
Industry Deep Dive | Transforming AEC Business Processes with Code Apps, Agents, and Workflows
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Jamie Hall, Sean Galliher, Ted Kempf
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Architecture, engineering, and construction firms run on processes the industry's systems were never built to hold: RFIs and submittals that live in email, change orders that bounce between the field, the project manager, and accounting, daily reports that arrive days late, and pay applications reconciled by hand. Every handoff costs margin, and in a business that already runs on thin ones, that adds up fast. In this demo-heavy session, we'll rebuild several of these processes on the Power Platform and show where each tool earns its place. You'll see a Power Apps Code App built for field teams: pro-code where it matters, governed by the platform where it counts. You'll see Copilot Studio agents that read a change request against the contract and the spec, then draft the response a project engineer would have spent an afternoon on. And we'll spend the most time on the new Workflows experience in Copilot Studio, orchestrating an end-to-end process on a single canvas, with deterministic steps and approvals where you need control and agent nodes where you need judgment. Throughout, Microsoft IQ (Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ) supplies the context that makes those agents project-aware: who's involved, what the data says, and what the contract actually allows. You'll leave with a practical framework for when to build an app, when to deploy an agent, and when a workflow should hold them together, plus patterns you can take back to your own projects on Monday. Key Takeaways • A decision framework for choosing between a Code App, an agent, and a workflow for a given AEC process, and when to combine them • How Copilot Studio Workflows blend deterministic orchestration with agent nodes and AI-powered actions (classification, content generation, decision support) • How Microsoft IQ grounds agents in project people, data, and authoritative documents • Reusable patterns for RFIs, change orders, submittals, and field reporting that translate to any project-based business
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Level Up Your Agents for Real-World Work
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Zankar Desai, Vinay Singh, Claudio Romano, Rahul Prajapati
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
An agent is only as powerful as the capabilities you give it. In this session, we’ll take an agent from simple to powerful, adding new capabilities step by step as our scenario grows. See how to give your agent access to the context and knowledge it needs, from broad organizational context to precisely scoped sources such as SharePoint. Then, take it further by giving your agent the ability to interact with your business systems, complete tasks, and act on your behalf. Along the way, we’ll show how makers can discover, connect, and configure the right capabilities for each scenario. Come see how to progressively level up your agents, helping them know more, do more, and take on increasingly powerful scenarios.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Premier 316
Operationalizing Agents at Scale: The Agentic COE Playbook
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Saurabh Pant, Aamer Kaleem
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
How do you operationalize Copilot Agents at scale? In this session, Saurabh Pant and Aamer Kaleem share the Agentic COE Playbook developed through deep work with global customers, covering the structures, roles, guardrails, and operating rhythms needed to move from isolated experiments to enterprise-wide agent adoption. If your organization is building Copilot Agents with Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Connectors, M365 data, WorkIQ, or strategic ISV integrations, this session provides a practical blueprint to accelerate value.
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10:30–11:30 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Power Apps + Power Automate: Best Practices for Building Production-Ready Solutions
Track
Apps · Automate
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Ilya Fainberg, Sonali Panda, Christopher Moncayo, Olivier Conort
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Building a Power App or cloud flow is easy. Building one that is fast, reliable, maintainable, and ready for real-world use takes the right patterns and practices. Join the Power CAT team for a practical session focused on proven best practices for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining Power Apps and Power Automate solutions. You’ll learn how to: - Design Power Apps that perform well as your data and usage grow - Build reliable and efficient Power Automate flows that are easier to troubleshoot - Connect apps and workflows without creating fragile dependencies - Structure solutions for ALM across development, test, and production - Choose the right app experience across canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Code Apps - Monitor, support, and maintain your solutions after go-live Whether you’re a maker looking to level up or an architect building enterprise solutions, you’ll leave with practical best practices and proven patterns you can apply to your next Power Platform project.
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10:30–10:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Your Microsoft Copilot Doesn't Know You Yet. Bring Your Phone, Leave With One That Does.
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Ryley Bauer
Lightning talk
No description listed
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11:15–13:00 · 1h 45m
Lunch
Room
No room listed
Not listed
Lunch locations are based off of lanyard colors Purple Lanyards - Marquee Ballroom. level 1 (Expo Hall) Brown Lanyards - Terrace Ballroom, level 1 Teal Lanyards - North Pavilion, outside, level 1 White Lanyards - Chairman's Ballroom, level 3 Red Lanyards - Studio, Grand Garden Arena
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12:00–12:25 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Show, Don't Prompt: Accelerate Agent Building the CAT Way
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Giorgio Ughini, Henry Jammes, Remi Dyon
Lightning talk
Move faster by starting with proven resources instead of a blank canvas. See how Skill Recorder, reusable agent skills, implementation samples, technical guidance, and other Copilot Acceleration Team (CAT) resources can turn real work into maintainable, production-ready agent capabilities.
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12:25–12:50 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Business Applications in Work IQ brings your Dataverse data into chat and Declarative Agents
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Nathan Helgren
Lightning talk
See how you can get accurate and detailed answers about data in Model Driven Apps and Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps using Copilot chat. Also, how to access this Dataverse data as a source in Declarative Agents.
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12:50–13:15 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Vibes to Verified: Holistic Agent Reviews Before Your Users Complain
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Navya Sree Kolluri, Serena Xie
Lightning talk
Building an agent is only the first step. Production-ready agent systems need repeatable validation, deep diagnostics, governed reuse, and lifecycle visibility across conversations, skills, plugins, tools, knowledge, and connected agents they depend on. This advanced session presents the Agent Review Center and invites audience members to sign up for preview access.
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13:00 · 20 at this start time

13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 352
App Modernization: Which Legacy and 3rd-Party Apps Deserve Power Platform, Agents, or Retirement?
Track
Apps · Automate
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Yasin Mukadam, Dileep Singh, Ravi Chada
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Every enterprise carries both aging internal apps (Access, InfoPath, SharePoint, Excel, custom builds) and expensive 3rd-party SaaS estates (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and others) — and none of it should be rebuilt the same way. Customers want a proven path to Power Platform without relearning every lesson the hard way. Power CAT can frame a migration-factory model — triage, value scoring, Dataverse-first fit, code apps, Power Apps, and agent augmentation — paired with the Skilling playbook and best practices (migration patterns, reference architectures, and the enablement model) that de-risk the move and get teams productive faster.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 114
Building a Secure Power Platform Architecture with Managed Identity and VNet
Track
Dataverse · Power Platform
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Allan De Castro
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Security is a critical aspect of scaling enterprise solutions on Power Platform. This session explores how Managed Identity and Virtual Network (VNet) integration enhance authentication, data access control, and network security. Learn how to securely connect Power Platform services to Azure resources, enforce least-privilege access, and prevent data exposure through private endpoints. With real-world use cases and demos, we’ll showcase best practices for securing connectors, Dataverse, and custom APIs, ensuring compliance and reducing security risks in your Power Platform environment.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h
Building What’s Next: A Fireside Chat with Jeff Teper, EVP, Apps and Agents
Room
No room listed
Speakers
Jeff Teper
Not listed
Join Jeff Teper and host Heather Cook for a candid conversation about the evolving role of AI, community, and technology in how we work and build. Hear perspectives on the opportunities ahead, the changing technology landscape, and what it means for the people and communities bringing the next generation of ideas to life.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
Collaborating on Apps with Citizen and Pro Devs
Track
Apps
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Austin Jones, Emma Cooper, Jake Cohen, Mark Overholt
Advanced (300)60-minute session
The best business apps rarely come from one role working alone. This session explores how citizen makers and professional developers can collaborate across the app lifecycle, from early AI-generated drafts to code, ALM, review, and deployment. You will see patterns for dividing work, preserving maker speed, and adding developer rigor where it matters most. Leave with a practical collaboration model for building better apps without slowing teams down.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Copilot Managed Runtime Data and Connectors
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Greg Lindhorst, Bryce Sova, Jordan Chodak
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Data is at the heart of every app and agent. So, it is fair to ask, how does Copilot Managed Runtime connect to Data? How is access controlled through governance? What out of the box data sources does Copilot Managed Runtime offer? We'll cover all aspects of data access for Copilot Managed Runtime.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 122
Copilot‑First Design: Smarter Power Apps Solutions with Plan Designer and Generative Pages
Track
Apps
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Ashley Steiner
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Adopt a Copilot‑first design approach to accelerate how you plan and build business applications in Power Apps. This session showcases Plan Designer and Generative Pages, focusing on how natural language inputs translate into user stories, data models, process flows, and page structures. We’ll demonstrate how Requirements, Process, Data, and Solutions agents collaborate to reduce upfront complexity and create a common design artifact that aligns makers, analysts, and stakeholders. Then we’ll shift to Generative Pages, where AI proposes responsive, data-connected pages based on intent and app structure—shortening the time from idea to functional prototype.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Boulevard 163
From Tactical to Strategic: 5 Steps to Scale Power Platform Across 40,000 Users
Track
Apps · Automate
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Ricardo Russ, James Connelly
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
How do you take Power Platform from isolated usage to enterprise-wide transformation? Former Microsoft MVP, James Connelly (prior to joining Microsoft) technically and strategically led one of the largest Power Platform programmes in Europe, at Network Rail. Alongside James, Ricardo Russ was the Microsoft specialist involved, key to making the programme a success too. Join Microsoft Global Black Belt's James & Ricardo in this session, where they share a real-world journey from Network Rail, scaling Power Platform from fragmented, low awareness adoption to a fully governed, business-critical platform used across tens of thousands of employees - 2,500+ Makers, 18,000+ Monthly Active Users which has led to Power Platform becoming the strategic platform of choice for digital solution demand. They will walk through a proven 'bottom-up approach' (led by James whilst at Network Rail) that combines community activation, governance, and business alignment to unlock true enterprise value, putting Power Platform at the forefront of innovation and digital strategy. You’ll learn how to: Identify and harness early “shadow IT” signals as a catalyst for adoption. Build momentum through high-impact use cases that demonstrate value quickly. Establish governance and a scalable operating model (including CoE patterns). Activate organisation-wide communities. Align Power Platform to C-suite priorities to move from tactical usage to strategic investment. This session is based on a multi-year transformation, including scaling to thousands of active users and embedding Power Platform, and more recently... Copilot Studio into core organisational workflows. Attendees will leave with a repeatable playbook to drive adoption, governance, and measurable business impact in their own organisations. This is proven success, at scale! A session not to be missed.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 353
From Tokens to Business Value: Measuring Agent Cost and ROI
Track
Agents
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Sneha Kohli
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss agent costs, token usage, value, and ROI. Share what matters most to your organization, discuss current struggles, exchange practical approaches, and provide feedback to help shape future Agent 365 capabilities.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 116
Multi-Agent AI Systems with Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric, Microsoft Agent Framework
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Prashant G Bhoyar, Dewain Robinson
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Agents are the new apps for an AI-powered world where personal agents, business-process agents, and cross-organizational agents work together to enhance productivity and collaboration. With their evolution, real innovation and results are coming to fruition, and businesses are seeing real benefits. In this session, we will cover the following topics in detail: 1)What are AI Agents? 2) What are Autonomous Agents? 3) What are Multi-Agent AI Systems? 4) How to evaluate a use case and find the ROI? 5) Enterprise-Level Applications, AI Agents: Learn to develop robust, scalable multimodal applications and AI Agents using Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Agent Framework, focusing on industry requirements and best practices
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 310
Power BI Development in the Agentic Era
Track
BI
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Sujata Narayana
60-minute session
Power BI development has entered a new phase that is shaped by agentic experiences. Join the product team to see how these capabilities are changing the way data solutions are built and improved, from semantic models to reports and even custom web apps. Learn how to best leverage Al agents, like GitHub Copilot, to build more powerful data experiences with less manual effort.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 319
Power Pages: From Prompt to Production Site
Track
Pages
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Dipti Jaiswal, Saumitra Nanda, Ashish Choudhary
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
External-facing sites, built the agentic way. This session tours the Power Pages roadmap and shows how agentic coding turns a natural-language description into a modern, production-ready React/Angular portal. See what's shipping now and next, how MCP servers let agents connect to and act through your sites, and where customers in government, financial services, and manufacturing are finding the biggest wins. Whether you're a maker or a pro dev, there's now a faster path to launch.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 119
Reimagining Agentic Automation: Workflows and Agents Together in the Copilot Studio Designer
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Joe Fernandez, John Strohschein, Matthew LeHew, Jared Lambert
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Real-world business processes have a lot of moving parts, and now builders can orchestrate that complexity on a single surface. Learn how the refreshed designer in Copilot Studio gives you unlimited control and flexibility, letting you decide which parts of a process to script and which parts to delegate to agents. See real-world examples of inline agents reasoning over unpredictable inputs, finding meaningful information and routing it along the execution paths you design. Product experts from research, PM, and design will explain how user feedback guided the evolution of this unified building tool, showing you how to use agentic routing, when to stick to deterministic tools, how to iterate and test with the new single action testing capability, and more.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 311
Scaling Agents: A Maturity Model for the Enterprise
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Norm Young
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Move from "we think" to "we know." Agents are being built by business users, makers, and developers faster than governance can keep up - and the gaps only surface once scale arrives. This session gives Power Platform admins, CoE leads, and architects a shared model for assessing agent readiness across six capability areas and four maturity levels. We'll then stress-test the model against knowledge, task, and autonomous agents to expose which capability fails first in your environment. You'll leave able to identify your weakest constraint - not chase a single score - with a prioritized starting point: visibility, context, lifecycle. Takeaways 1. Assess agent readiness across six capabilities; expect uneven maturity. 2. Use agent types to pressure-test governance claims before scale does. 3. Recognize the difference between governance that's documented and governance that actually holds
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Secure by Design: Preparing Agents for Production and Scale
Track
Power Platform
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Bryan Wofford, Sophie Ke
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building an agent is easy. Building one your security team approves is harder. Learn the key security, governance, and readiness considerations for Copilot Studio agents, including permissions, data access, DLP policies, and enterprise AI guardrails.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 120
The Psychology Behind Powerful Power BI Reports
Track
BI
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Lakshmi Ponnurasan
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Ever created a Power BI report that looked great but didn’t quite land with your audience? You’re not alone. Designing dashboards isn't just about visuals- it's about how people think, see, and feel when they interact with your report. In this session, we’ll explore how basic psychology principles can help you build more intuitive, impactful, and human-friendly reports. No psychology degree needed- just curiosity! Session Takeaways 1. How the brain processes data and visuals (and what that means for your report design) 2. Design techniques based on psychology principles 3. Real Power BI examples showing how small changes lead to big insights
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Transforming SAP-connected Business Processes with Power Platform and Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Marysol Mantilla, Reuben Krippner
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Join us for a focused technical session exploring the integration of SAP with Microsoft Power Platform, where we’ll unpack key architectural considerations, integration strategies, and real-world implementation patterns. Using manufacturing and retail scenarios, we'll examine how organisations can securely connect SAP data and processes to low-code applications, automation, analytics, and AI experiences. Special emphasis will be placed on Copilot Studio and agentic experiences, demonstrating how intelligent agents can support business processes such as procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, supply chain operations, inventory management, store operations, field service, and production planning. We'll discuss the technical considerations behind accessing and orchestrating data across SAP and other enterprise systems, enabling agents and low-code solutions to act on trusted business information while maintaining governance, security, and scalability. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of integration options, architecture patterns, and lessons learned for building enterprise-grade solutions that bridge SAP and Microsoft technologies.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Grand 112
Untapped Power of Custom Connectors: Helping Makers Take Their First Steps Beyond Low Code
Track
Automate
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Ian Tweedie
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Power Automate is an incredibly effective low-code platform, and for many scenarios, flows are all you need. But as solutions grow, makers often find themselves maintaining flows with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of steps just to handle validation, transformation, or something that feels so simple. This session explores how adding a small amount of pro-code can actually make solutions simpler, not more complex. Instead of managing fragile 100-step flows, you’ll see how custom connectors can move that complexity into a small, reusable integration layer, allowing makers to work with cleaner, more readable flows. Using real-world examples, we’ll look at common scenarios where flows start to struggle and show how simple C# techniques can encapsulate logic once and expose it safely through a custom connector. The focus is on mindset and approach rather than deep coding: understanding when a flow has outgrown its comfort zone, how little code is often enough, and how this pattern reduces long-term maintenance rather than increasing it. This is not a coding workshop and assumes no prior C# experience. The goal is to build confidence and give makers a practical mental model for recognising when taking a small step beyond low code can make their Power Automate solutions easier to build, understand, and support. Key takeaways Recognise when large, fragile flows are a signal to introduce a custom connector Understand how small, focused amounts of C# can replace complex flow logic Gain confidence to take first steps into pro-code without leaving the Power Platform Optional internal message to selection team
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 351
What Is the Future of Intelligent Apps? From Static Software to Ambient Experiences
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Divya Srinivasan, Kristen Oshiro
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
A roundtable exploring the shift from static, destination-based applications to intelligent, omnipresent experiences embedded into the flow of work. As AI and agents evolve, apps are becoming ambient collaborators that appear across conversations, documents, tools, and environments. We’ll discuss where omnipresent intelligence creates value versus intrusion, and how we design for trust, agency, and seamless human-AI collaboration in a context-first future.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Women in Power Panel: Owning Your Power, Claiming Your Seat
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Danielle Moon, Sravani Seethi
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Back by popular demand, and this year with a full hour. The Women in Power panel brings together women who have built real influence in the Power Platform ecosystem, and the allies who helped clear the path. This is a candid conversation about owning your expertise out loud, asking for what you have earned, recovering when confidence wavers, and pulling other women up as you rise. No polished highlight reels, just honest stories and practical courage. Come for the perspective, stay for the community, and leave with the language and conviction to take up the space you have already earned.
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13:00–14:00 · 1h · Room 350
Your Voice, Our Roadmap: A Copilot, Cowork & Power Platform Roundtable
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Miti Joshi, Adrian Orth
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Pull up a chair for an open, no-slides conversation about where Copilot, Cowork, and Power Platform are taking the way we work. Bring what's on your mind: how you're putting these tools to work today, what's clicking, what's getting in the way, and what you need next. We'll trade stories across the table, surface common patterns, and feed your candid feedback straight to the product team. Come ready to talk—your voice shapes the roadmap.
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13:15–13:40 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
GitHub Copilot Harness in Action | Agentifying Business Processes with Copilot Studio
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Lightning talk
How EPIQ are building with the GHCP harness on Copilot Studio.
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13:40–16:05 · 2h 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Find the Value Before You Build: Agent ROI That Holds Up
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Greg Hurlman, Niyonika Chhabra
Lightning talk
Time saved does not automatically become business value. Use practical frameworks, credit-aware economics, and pilot scorecards to select high-value agent scenarios, measure meaningful outcomes, and explain whether an agent is producing enough value to justify its cost.
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14:05–14:30 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
How to thrive in the age of AI
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Jack Rowbotham
Lightning talk
This session shares how to take advantage of the AI opportunity, how your role evolves to leading human-agent teams, and how to get started.
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14:30 · 18 at this start time

14:30–15:30 · 1h · Room 350
Are Apps Dead—or Just Everywhere Now?
Track
Apps
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Kristen Oshiro, Divya Srinivasan, Rishika Jamwal, Dustin Welch García, Jessica Lo
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Apps aren’t going to stay still and locked into place – at least we don’t think they will. The UI from one app could show up in a chat, an email, a Loop page… you name it! Let’s discuss what it means for applications to show up in different places. Do portable, transient, omnipresent apps create value? Is this intelligent embedding? Or is it unnecessary conflation? Does it foster user trust, agency, and overall positive sentiment? Or eye-rolling groans from across the globe?
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Premier 319
Beyond Search: Enabling Agents to Operate Business-Critical Systems
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Anurag Handa, Mankirat Kaur Bajwa, Sabin Nair
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Most enterprise agents search. The real opportunity is agents that ACT - creating orders in SAP, converting leads in Salesforce, triggering workflows in ServiceNow, across the systems where your business actually runs. But your business doesn't run on Microsoft alone, and that's exactly where agents go blind. This session shows how to bring third-party and custom systems into Work IQ - so the operational knowledge they hold becomes part of the same business understanding every agent can draw on - and how to turn that understanding into action with Model Context Protocol (MCP). Learn how Microsoft-built, certified-partner, and bring-your-own MCP servers, connect agents to business-critical systems, with business skills encoded once and reused, and governance, security, observability, and human-in-the-loop inherited by default. Discover the growing MCP ecosystem and certification program, and walk away knowing how to take agents from systems of record to systems of action - trusted, and at enterprise scale.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 112
Boosting Team Efficiency: Easy Automation with Teams Workflows
Track
Automate
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Laura Rogers
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Dive into the world of effortless automation as we explore how Microsoft Power Automate and Teams can transform your daily grind into a breeze. This session is about cutting the manual work and boosting efficiency, making it perfect for anyone looking to streamline their team's workflow. You will see real-life examples of how integrating Power Automate flows into Teams can automate the mundane tasks we all dread, like scheduling meetings, managing approvals, and even keeping track of project updates—all within the familiar space of your Teams channels. Learn how to spot opportunities for automation in your day-to-day tasks, customize flows that fit your team's needs, and keep everything running smoothly. By the end of this session, you'll be armed with the know-how to make your team more connected and productive without breaking a sweat. Whether you're new to automation or looking to level up your Teams game, this presentation will show you the fun in functionality with Power Automate and Teams.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 122
Code Meets Low Code: Building with Copilot Managed Runtime and Power Platform
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse · Pages
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Elaiza Benitez, Rami Mounla
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Join Rami and Elaiza to see what modern Power Platform development looks like when code and low code come together. Focusing on an incident management use case, we'll explore Dataverse, Power Pages, Visual Studio Code and developer tooling, including using GitHub Copilot to build an app with Copilot Managed Runtime. See how these different development experiences can come together to build and manage a complete solution using the tools that best fit the job. Different tools. One solution. Build your way.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Room 353
Copilot Cowork Ate My Agent: When Building Becomes Prompting
Track
Agents
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Dan Stevenson, Sathya Raveendran, Ishaan Mirchandani
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
A year ago, that agent took your team weeks or months to design, build, and deploy. Today, a business user gets the same outcome from Cowork with a single prompt. This roundtable digs into what that shift means: how Cowork is impacting employee productivity, how teams are learning to delegate work to agents instead of building tools for it, and what happens to the backlog of custom agents when "just ask" becomes the default. Is this the end of custom agent building – or does it free makers and pro devs to focus on what only they can do? Join peers and Microsoft experts to compare real adoption stories, productivity gains, and how the role of the builder is being redefined.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 114
Develop More Secure Dataverse Plug-Ins with Virtual Network Integration and Managed Identities
Track
Apps · Dataverse
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Yannick Reekmans
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Code-first Dataverse plug-in development has stayed the same for years, with hardly any significant improvements. Because, why fix it if it ain't broken? On the other hand, a lot has changed for development and plug-ins were due for some much-needed upgrades. In 2024 this finally happened, with Microsoft's newfound love of code-first development! In this session, Yannick will discuss two of those new features in plug-in development. He will show a demo of Virtual Network integration, and how to configure, manage, and use it in plug-ins. Managed Identities are also finally a possibility in plug-ins, and Yannick will show why that is a massive enhancement for secure connectivity to Azure and other resources. Understanding these new features and incorporating them into your developer workflow will improve the security posture of your code and environment, and will make building integrations so much more fun!
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Room 352
From Agent Pilots to Business Value: Proving ROI at Scale
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Ravi Chada, Gopikrishna V, Alicja Gilderdale, Niyonika Chhabra
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Building an AI agent is only the beginning. The bigger challenge is proving that it is being adopted, delivering measurable value, and worth scaling across the organization. In this roundtable, Power CAT team will share practical patterns for measuring the business impact of AI agents - from early pilots to scaled enterprise deployments.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Chairman's 370
From Copilot / Agent Feature to Business Capability: Designing Agent × Apps Systems
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Michael Jiang
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Learn how to transform isolated AI features into integrated business capabilities. We’ll show how a Code App orchestrates agents, workflows, and data services into a unified experience that drives seller productivity, improves data quality, and accelerates time-to-value without sacrificing governance. This session shows how Code Apps unlock rich UX, AI copilots, voice workflows, and connector-driven automation in one cohesive system. We’ll break down an end-to-end reference architecture using Power Apps Code Apps, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Azure services to deliver intelligent, multilingual, action-oriented experiences. We’ll cover performance, governance, and extensibility by design.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 116
From RPA to Agentic Automation: Getting Hands-On with Computer Using Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Agnius Bartninkas
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
WHAT Ever wished you could automate a desktop task just by asking for it - no flow designer, no selectors, no scripting? Welcome to Computer Using Agents (CUA), Microsoft’s next evolution of automation in Copilot Studio. CUAs are AI-powered virtual agents that can operate real user interfaces through natural language, combining the flexibility of AI with the reliability of automation. In this session, we’ll explore what CUAs are, how they compare to traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and - most importantly - when to use which. While RPA shines for predictable, rule-based flows, CUAs thrive in non-deterministic scenarios where user interfaces are unstable or decision-making requires AI reasoning. WHY Not every UI-based process fits neatly into the RPA model. And that’s where CUAs step in. As Microsoft brings this technology to general availability, understanding its sweet spots and limitations will be critical for Power Platform architects, automation developers, and business solution designers. This session will help you choose the right automation approach for each scenario - whether that’s Power Automate Desktop or Copilot Studio’s new AI agents. By seeing CUAs in action, you’ll understand how they fill automation gaps, where they still fall short, and how they complement your existing Power Automate and Copilot investments. HOW Slides will be kept to a minimum and demos will take the front and center. After a lightning-fast introduction to CUA concepts and setup, we’ll jump into live demonstrations showing CUAs performing real tasks on virtual machines from navigating complex UIs to handling edge cases where RPA typically struggles. You’ll see: - How to configure and prompt a CUA in Copilot Studio - How CUAs differ from and integrate with RPA flows - Real-world examples of when an agentic approach is better than traditional automation - Cases when they don't work and RPA is a better tool for the job instead The session will close with a practical framework to help you evaluate when to use RPA, CUA, or a hybrid approach in your automation strategy. TAKEAWAYS After attending this session, you’ll: - Understand what Computer Using Agents are and how they extend the Power Platform automation toolkit - Know when to choose CUA vs. RPA, and when a hybrid approach makes sense - See CUAs in action through real, live demos - Be able to design automation strategies that handle both deterministic and non-deterministic UI processes - Walk away inspired and ready to experiment with the next generation of AI-driven automation in Microsoft Copilot Studio
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 119
How Microsoft Does IT: Managing and Governing Agents — Empower with Risk Aligned Oversight
Track
Power Platform
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
David Johnson, Aisha Hasan, Naveen Jangir
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Unless you're living under a rock, you're probably feeling pressure to build and deploy agents. In this informative session, Principal PM Architect David Johnson will share how Microsoft Digital - Microsoft's IT team - empowers Microsoft's employees with the tools to build, deploy and manage agents. From agent governance in Copilot Studio, observability and management with Agent 365, to securing our environment with Defender, to managing our productivity estate with Microsoft Purview, this will be a comprehensive view of how Microsoft uses our own technology to accelerate agentic innovation while mitigating risk.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Industry Deep Dive | How Production GenAI Agents Get Built, Deployed, Funded & Cost Optimized
Track
Agents · Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Dataverse · Pages
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Satish Paul, Benjamin Tickner, Michael Lang, Ryan Kane, Coskun Cavusoglu, Mark Drenka
Not listed
The Sausage Making Session! Most GenAI sessions stop at the demo. This one starts where the work gets real: spec, build, test, deploy, fund, and cost-optimize so you are not token-maxing on frontier models. EY, PwC, RSM and Accenture walk through how Power Platform GenAI solutions — apps, agents and automated workflows — get shipped for clients You will see demos of the “sausage-making”: - How the spec is written so the business, builders and testers share one source of truth - How teams develop together, save prompts and share context across developers instead of losing the work in someone’s chat history - How evals are created, how the solution is tested, and what “ready for production” means - How it goes live - What happens when the model version changes: automated tests, review, and a controlled rollout back to production - How EY uses an agent in the tax-credit process for Power Platform customization - How RSM runs work on SLMs and unmetered intelligence to cut token cost and reserve frontier models for the tasks that need them - How PwC, RSM and Accenture run the SDLC around delivery, funding, and GenAI cost optimization Leave with a pattern for shipping Power Platform GenAI — and for reducing the cost of GenAI — not another happy-path prototype.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Premier 311
Lost in the Files: Architecting Scalable File Management in Power Platform
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Aleksei Andreev, Ledjana Doci
60-minute session
Out-of-the-box file management in Power Platform covers standard business requirements, but complex enterprise architectures require pushing past native limits. Skipping basic definitions, this session reviews how SharePoint, Dataverse Files, Notes, Azure Blob Storage, and their combinations address common functional scenarios, along with their operational friction and scaling limits. We will demonstrate how production-proven PCFs, Web Resources, and Plugins delivered to actual clients expand native capabilities to handle demanding document requirements. Finally, the session covers Power Pages, examining how external portal access alters storage dynamics. We will share practical experience on how combining native components with custom extensions addresses the technical challenges portals introduce.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Premier 310
Managed Apps Built with Cowork, Copilot Studio and the SDK
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Damien Bird
Advanced (300)60-minute session
The next generation of business applications is being built differently. Managed Apps enable organisations to move beyond chat experiences and create task-focused, AI-powered solutions that combine conversational interfaces, automation, data access and business processes. This session explores how Managed Apps can be created using Cowork, Copilot Studio and the SDK, and how these approaches complement each other. We'll discuss architecture choices, governance considerations, licensing implications, developer and maker experiences, and where each tool fits in the journey from idea to production-ready business solution. Through practical examples and demonstrations, attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how AI-powered applications can be designed, governed and scaled across the organisation. Key takeaways: Understanding the Managed App landscape When to use Cowork, Copilot Studio or the SDK Governance, security and operational considerations
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 120
Managing Security in Dataverse
Track
Dataverse
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Sarah Jelinek
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Join us for a live-action session on securing Dataverse with role-based security. We’ll break down how privileges and access levels work and show you how to customize them for different roles within your organization. We’ll explore using security roles with teams to boost secure collaboration and make managing security a breeze. Whether you’re an administrator or developer, you’ll leave with practical tips on how to tighten security without complicating things.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Premier 316
Measuring App Success in Copilot Studio: From Usage Metrics to Real Impact
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Jake Cohen, Ilknur Kaynar Kabul
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Many teams rely on usage and adoption metrics to measure success, but these often fail to reflect real value. This session introduces a practical approach to evaluating the true impact of Copilot Studio apps, focusing on metrics that matter for business outcomes.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Premier 317
Power BI and Office 365 Together
Track
BI
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Collin Quiring
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Many users tend to think of each tool as an isolated solution, but this session focuses on showing how these tools become far more powerful when used together. We’ll begin from a Power BI perspective, but let’s be honest—many of our users still love working in Excel. And when it comes time to communicate insights, PowerPoint remains the go‑to tool for presenting data, no matter where that data originated. In this session, we’ll explore how Power BI can serve as the central data engine while still allowing users to enhance or personalize information in Excel and then showcase those results in PowerPoint. In some cases, we may even be able to adjust the original Power BI report so that the Excel transformation becomes unnecessary — allowing a more seamless flow directly into PowerPoint. In other scenarios, the best solution might be a layered approach that uses the strengths of all three: the core Power BI report, the user’s Excel refinements, and even additional Power BI visuals built on top of that enhanced data. Ultimately, this session highlights the “better together” experience—empowering users to combine Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint in ways that make their work more flexible, efficient, and impactful.
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14:30–15:30 · 1h · Grand 121
The Agent Failure Lab: Why Your Demo Passed and Production Failed
Room
Grand 121
Speakers
Mario Trueba, Marco Amoedo
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Your Copilot Studio agent answers the question, calls the tool and updates the record. The demo looks perfect—but did it use the right policy, choose the right action and handle a failing dependency safely? In this live failure lab, we'll take a supplier-onboarding agent from apparent success to three realistic production failures: stale knowledge, ambiguous tool selection and an unreliable MCP service. Using Copilot Studio's activity map and agent evaluations, we'll trace what actually happened, correct the architecture and rerun the same tests to prove the fix. You'll leave with a practical failure taxonomy, a reusable test pack and a repeatable workflow for moving agents beyond “it worked in the demo.”
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14:30–14:55 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
The Evolution to Agentic Automation
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Jay Padimiti, Bobby Chang, Bharat Rathod
Lightning talk
Automation is undergoing its biggest shift! What began as a world of predefined triggers and steps is now evolving into a need to reason, adapt, and take action. In this session, we'll explore how Copilot Studio has evolved into an agentic, end-to-end automation platform to build with. We'll outline why this shift matters and why organizations need to move beyond automating certain tasks and towards automating outcomes by combining AI into the end-to-end process build. Join us to build the next generation of intelligent business processes with Copilot Studio. We'll walk through the evolution of AI Prompts and uncover agentic nodes that you can built directly in workflows, enabling agents to interpret context, make decisions, and dynamically choose the next best actions within your pre-defined processes.
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15:00–15:30 · 30m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Building Community within Enterprise Organization
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
David Abu
Lightning talk
How do you get champions and community within your organization
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15:30–15:55 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Modernize RPA with Agents, Apps, and Computer Use
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Gopikrishna V, Yasin Mukadam
Lightning talk
Modernizing automation is not a matter of recreating each desktop flow. Learn patterns and anti-patterns for redesigning RPA workloads with Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and computer use agents so solutions can reason through exceptions while preserving reliable, governed execution.
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16:00–16:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Build a Copilot Studio Agent in 5 Minutes
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Shane Young
Lightning talk
No description listed
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16:30–16:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Why You Can’t Be “Just” a Power Platform Developer in 2026
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Siddharth Vaghasia
Lightning talk
No description listed
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17:00–17:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Swap the Engine, Keep the Car: Migrating to GHCP
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Vivek Bavishi
Lightning talk
No description listed
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19:00–21:00 · 2h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Attendee Party featuring Pitbull
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Not listed
Exclusive evening event featuring a live performance by Pitbull at the Power Platform Community Conference attendee party
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Thursday 29 Oct

06:30–07:45 · 1h 15m
Breakfast
Room
No room listed
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Breakfast locations are based off of lanyard colors Purple Lanyards - Marquee Ballroom. level 1 (Expo Hall) Brown Lanyards - Terrace Ballroom, level 1 Teal Lanyards - North Pavilion, outside, level 1 White Lanyards - Chairman's Ballroom, level 3 Red Lanyards - Studio, Grand Garden Arena
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07:45–08:00 · 15m · MGM Grand Garden Arena
Everyone Seated for Keynote
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
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No description listed
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08:00–09:00 · 1h · MGM Grand Garden Arena
PPCC Closing Keynote: Charles Lamanna in Conversation with Chris Paul
Room
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Speakers
Charles Lamanna, Chris Paul
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Charles Lamanna in Conversation with Chris Paul Abstract: Join Charles Lamanna in discussion with Chris Paul, one of the most respected leaders in professional basketball. We’ll talk about what it really takes to build and lead high-performing teams—and how that mindset translates into executing in today’s fast-moving tech landscape. We’ll explore how leadership, preparation, and consistency drive innovation forward both on and off the court.
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09:00–09:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Curious to Credible: Growing Your Career in the Age of AI
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Delia Zuniga
Lightning talk
No description listed
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09:30–09:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Monday to Friday: Show Us Your AI Weekly Loop
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Chris Landtiser, Delia Zuniga
Lightning talk
No description listed
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09:45 · 20 at this start time

09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 116
? Model Context Protocol vs. Connectors: Rethinking Integration in the Power Platform ?
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Daniel Laskewitz, Mats Necker
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Model Context Protocol (MCP) quickly became the thing everybody talks about who is doing AI in the moment and its adoption rate across different tech providers is rapid. Microsoft has embraced it as well and is combining it with an old friend of ours: (Custom) Connectors. In this session, Mats & Daniel will break down the differences between Model Context Protocol (MCP) and traditional connectors in the Power Platform. Attendees will learn how each works, where they fit best, and how they compare. The session includes practical demos showing how to get started with MCP and how it can work alongside connectors—not replace them. It’s aimed at solution architects, developers, and IT leaders looking to modernize how they build integrations. Do not miss this session if you want to get your AI solutions to the next level which will be increasingly connected to other system and working with your data. We will discuss if connectors together with MCP will get us to the true agentification which was promised.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Agent Accounts in Copilot Studio and Agent 365
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Kendra Springer, Matt Hidinger, Fabian Fuxa, Rahul Prajapati
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Move from agents that answer questions to agents that carry out business processes on their own, working with you the same way your team does: through Office documents, Teams conversations, and email. Learn how Entra Agent user accounts give autonomous agents an identity to collaborate in Microsoft 365, take action across systems, and work toward business goals. Explore how to build these agents with Copilot Studio and manage them with Agent 365, with the permissions, accountability, and human oversight enterprises need.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Premier 317
Agents in the Wild: Emerging Design Patterns for the Agentic Enterprise
Track
Agents · Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Dan Stevenson, Clint Williams
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Building on hard-earned lessons from the front lines of enterprise adoption, this session explores the architectural patterns, design decisions, and emerging innovations shaping the Agentic Enterprise. Through real customer examples from more than 1,000 CAT/CAPE-led engagements, we'll examine what works, what doesn't (yet?) work, and the architecture strategies organizations can use to move from pilots to business impact at scale. Beyond today's implementations, we'll explore how enterprise architectures are evolving from skills and copilots to teams of collaborating agents, agentic workflows, autonomous execution, evaluation-driven development, and new models for human-agent orchestration. We'll examine the emergence of agentic loops, AI-driven process flows, and the growing role of runtime evaluation, governance, and adaptation in production systems. Along the way, we'll highlight the tradeoffs, anti-patterns, and design principles emerging across real-world deployments, providing attendees with a practical framework for evaluating architectural approaches and a glimpse into how enterprise software itself may evolve in an AI-native world.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 120
Anything You Can Code, I Can Code Better: Copilot Managed Runtime Apps vs Power Pages SPA
Track
Apps · Pages
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Ulrikke Akerbæk, Scott Durow
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Two devs. Same tools. Same editor. Same Copilot...but Different runtimes! In this demo-heavy, "friendly" showdown, Scott and Ulrikke build the same application twice. Once as a Power Apps Code App, with TypeScript deployed into the Power Apps runtime. And once as a Power Pages Single Page Application, running inside the Power Pages runtime. Both approaches use VS Code and GitHub Copilot. Both deploy into managed Power Platform runtimes with security, governance, and environment-based deployment built in. They overlap far more than most people expect, including internal app scenarios where they can be compared almost one-for-one. Spoiler alert: you have choices to make! Who This Session Is For: - Developers building Power Platform solutions using TypeScript, VS Code, and GitHub Copilot - Developers who want a clear, practical understanding of how Code Apps and Power Pages SPAs actually differ What You’ll Learn: - How Power Apps Code Apps work in practice, including writing custom code, deploying into the Power Apps runtime, and using Dataverse alongside connectors such as SQL and Azure SQL - How Power Pages SPAs compare, using bring-your-own-code in the Power Pages runtime with server-side logic, flows, Dataverse web roles, and web-focused capabilities - How both platforms behave when used for internal applications, and where they remain genuinely interchangeable - Where Power Pages pulls ahead for web scenarios, including CDN caching, CSPs, and public-facing performance considerations
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Author Your Way: Agentic Authoring Across Power Platform
Track
Agents · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Tiffany Treacy, Jed Brown
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Describe the outcome; ship a governed solution. Power Platform now uses AI not just at runtime but to author solutions. In Power Apps, describe an app in natural language and Copilot generates the data model, screens, and Power Fx; Plan Designer turns a business problem into a full solution. In Copilot Studio, build agents and agent flows conversationally. We'll show MCP and external coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code authoring across the platform.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Premier 319
Being an AI Leader
Track
Power Platform
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Karuana Gatimu
Foundational (100)60-minute session
AI is fundamentally changing what's needed to lead no matter the size of your team. Whether you have company-wide accountability to deliver business value or are leading a smaller team this session will provide you with the framework to evolve your leadership style to this AI driven era. Join Karuana Gatimu and guest who discuss insights from our AI Leaders Circle and MIT leadership events to provide you with actionable tasks you can go back and execute on day one.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Premier 318
Beyond Chat: Extending Copilot Cowork with Custom Plugins and Workflows
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Giorgio Ughini, Alicja Gilderdale
Advanced (300)Roundtable
Let's discover how to extract the full power of Copilot Cowork by extending it with your own plugin capabilities. In this session, we'll go beyond prompts and explore how Copilot Cowork can become a customizable engineering companion through plugins, tools, skills, workflows, and external integrations. Learn how to connect internal systems, automate repetitive tasks, orchestrate specialized AI capabilities, and build reusable extensions that transform Cowork into a platform tailored to your team's needs. We'll cover practical architectures, plugin development patterns, security considerations, and real-world examples that integrate source control, documentation, APIs, issue tracking systems, and custom enterprise services. You'll see how extension points can evolve from simple utilities into sophisticated agentic workflows capable of research, code modernization, migration assistance, and operational automation. Whether you're building internal engineering accelerators or creating organization-wide AI tooling, you'll leave with practical guidance for designing, deploying, and scaling Copilot Cowork extensions in production environments.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Premier 310
Build, Secure, and Scale Power Apps & Workflows with AI Agents
Track
Apps · Automate · Dataverse
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Yasin Mukadam, Rui Santos, Ravi Chada
Advanced (300)60-minute session
AI agents are changing how we build and manage solutions on Power Platform. From creating Power Apps and workflows faster to strengthening governance and automating work across the enterprise, agents are becoming part of the entire solution lifecycle. In this session, we'll explore three practical areas: Build: See how AI agents can help you create Power Apps, build workflows, and work with Dataverse data faster. Secure: Learn how agents can help identify risky apps and workflows, uncover governance and DLP gaps, and keep people in control where it matters. Scale: Explore how agents can monitor, optimize, and extend your apps, workflows, and business processes across the enterprise. You'll leave with practical examples of where AI agents fit into Power Platform today and ideas you can start applying to your own apps, workflows, and solutions.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 114
Fabric IQ: The Semantic Backbone for AI Agents
Track
BI
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Shabnam Watson
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Explore how Fabric IQ empowers AI agents for smarter decisions across your organization. Learn key concepts like ontologies, entity types, relationships, and data binding. See demos of building and exploring ontologies with graph visualization and natural language queries, and how Fabric IQ integrates with Microsoft Foundry, Copilot, and Fabric Data and Operational Agents for unified intelligence.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Room 354
From prompt to pattern: A Microsoft Autopilot + Power Platform agentic workflow roundtable
Track
Power Platform
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Samantha Neufeld, Matthew LeHew, Dino Ilic
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Join a 60-minute community roundtable exploring how agentic assistants like Microsoft Autopilot can work better together with agentic business processes in Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Dataverse, and M365. This session is a focused design jam: Participants will bring real maker and business scenarios, discuss where agentic assistance could help, and think through how to prompt the ideal experience. Together, we will surface reusable workflow patterns, trust boundaries, and human-in-the-loop moments that participants can adapt for their own organizations.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Room 350
Is Your Data Platform Ready for AI-Native Applications?
Track
Dataverse
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Tommy Graham, Jennifer Bost
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss how enterprise data platforms must evolve as organizations move from AI assistants to AI-powered applications and agents. For decades, business applications were designed around forms, workflows, and human users. As AI increasingly participates in business processes, new requirements are emerging for operational data, business logic, security, extensibility, and governance. Share what you're seeing in your organization, discuss where traditional application architectures fall short, and help shape the future of AI-native business platforms.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Room 351
Make Your Network Your Net Worth: A Women in Power Roundtable
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Delia Zuniga, Danielle Moon, Sravani Seethi
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Careers rarely grow in isolation. The opportunities that change our trajectory (a stretch project, a speaking slot, a referral, a first customer) usually arrive through people. In this Women in Power roundtable, we skip the theory and get straight to practice. Join fellow community members for a facilitated, small-group conversation on building a network that is genuine, reciprocal, and sustainable. Bring a question, a challenge, or a win to share. You will leave with new connections, practical tactics you can use before the conference ends, and a clearer sense of the community standing behind you. What attendees will take away A practical framework for mapping your current network and spotting the gaps Language you can actually use to ask for introductions, sponsorship, and feedback Tactics for staying visible and connected between conferences New relationships with women and allies across the Power Platform ecosystem An invitation into the ongoing Women in Power community
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Room 353
Managed Platform as the Enterprise Default: Life After the CoE Toolkit
Track
Apps · Power Platform
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Reza Dorrani, Ken Auguillard
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
The Center of Excellence (CoE) Toolkit has helped countless organizations establish governance across the Power Platform. But as the platform evolves, so do the tools available to administrators. Today, modern inventory, usage, and monitoring capabilities provide new ways to understand, govern, and optimize your Power Platform estate. In this session, we'll explore how to leverage the latest Power Platform capabilities to build a modern administration and governance strategy. You'll learn how to inventory apps, flows, agents, environments, and other platform assets, analyze usage and adoption trends, identify risks, and surface actionable insights through administrative dashboards and reporting. We'll share practical guidance, implementation patterns, and lessons learned from working with enterprise customers, showing how these new capabilities can simplify governance while providing richer visibility into your platform. We'll also discuss how to complement existing governance investments and evolve toward a more scalable, insight-driven approach. Whether you're a Power Platform administrator, Center of Excellence lead, or solution architect, you'll leave with a clear understanding of the latest administrative capabilities and a roadmap for building a modern governance strategy centered on visibility, operational excellence, and informed decision-making. Power CAT can drive a practical conversation about Managed Environments, CoE practices, admin controls, and adoption blockers.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Room 352
Monitoring: Identifying essential information for tracking business performance and ROI
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Courtney Lyons, Christian Sadak, Chinmayee Channuri, Scott Pierce
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
What would make the Monitoring tab more useful to you? In this roundtable, we’ll discuss how you monitor your agents today, what information and insights you need to do this well, and where the current experience falls short. We’ll also explore how you define and measure ROI, and how Copilot Studio could better surface the value your agents are delivering.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Chairman's 370
Real-World Stories: Becoming a Frontier Firm with Apps and Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Sally Shi, Sarah Goodwin, Henry Jammes, Phil Topness, Lisa McKee
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Behind every successful agentic rollout is a bigger story — one of strategy, culture, hard-won lessons, and the guardrails that make scale possible. This interactive roundtable brings together leaders to share the holistic journey of driving agentic adoption with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio and Power Platform: how they built momentum, the adoption strategies that worked (and the ones that didn't), and how they balanced speed with responsible governance. You'll hear candid, real-world stories from the people who've lived it, then join the conversation to trade approaches with peers facing the same challenges. Come ready to share and to listen — you'll leave with a richer playbook for your own journey and a network of fellow leaders to keep learning with after the conference.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Recommended Architectural Patterns & Common Pitfalls for MCS Retrieval Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Betty Le, Karima Kanji-Tajdin, Doug Bellingeri, Remi Dyon
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Why can't my agent read my excel file accurately?" Does this sound familiar to you? In this session, we will highlight the common pitfalls that many makers experience when they first build an agent in Copilot Studio. Ideally by the end of the session, you will walk away with a practical guide for determining how to architect your agent based on the requirements. For the purposes of this session, we will focus on Microsoft knowledge sources like SharePoint and Dataverse. In this session, we'll walk through real-world customer scenarios where agents struggle with unstructured data and explore the retrieval patterns that lead to better outcomes. Using live demonstrations, we'll show why Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) works well for unstructured content such as Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, where its limitations appear with complex tabular and highly structured data or large datasets, and how alternatives such as Dataverse, connectors, MCP-based approaches, and modern orchestration patterns can improve accuracy. Key Takeaways - Understand why agents sometimes return incomplete or inaccurate answers when working with SharePoint and Excel-based knowledge sources. - Learn the difference between structured and unstructured data retrieval patterns. - See how RAG, Dataverse, connectors, MCP, and orchestration approaches (GHCP vs standard harness) affect retrieval quality and accuracy. - Explore practical architectural decision frameworks for common scenarios.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 112
Smarter Insights Start Here: Prepping Data for AI in Power BI
Track
BI · Power Platform
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Devin Knight
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Learn how to prepare your Power BI data models for AI-driven insights using the Prep Data for AI tools in Power BI Desktop. We’ll cover defining an AI-friendly schema, adding business context with AI instructions, and linking visuals to natural language questions for verified answers. You’ll see practical steps to make your semantic models Copilot-ready and ensure accurate, grounded responses. This session is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their reports with intelligent, context-aware insights.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 119
Take Control of Your Power Platform Spend
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Graham Mosley, Amiya Patra
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Do you know where your Power Platform investment is going? As organizations deploy more apps, agents, automations, and makers, understanding usage and controlling costs becomes increasingly challenging. In this session, we'll showcase the newest cost management and licensing capabilities across Power Platform, helping administrators gain visibility into consumption, identify optimization opportunities, and make data-driven decisions. Learn how we're evolving the platform to provide deeper insights into resource usage, licensing utilization, and cost allocation across your organization.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Premier 316
The Copilot Compass: Finding True North Across Copilot, Cowork, Scout, and Agents
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Bryan Wofford, April Dunnam
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
The biggest mistake people make with AI isn’t using the wrong tool, it’s expecting one tool to do everything. The most successful AI users build a connected workflow, using Copilot to think, Scout to discover, Cowork to coordinate, and Agents to scale their expertise across teams. In this fast-paced, demo-driven session, we’ll follow the real journey of work from idea to impact, showing how to move seamlessly between experiences to solve real business problems, accelerate decision making, and get more done. Through practical tips, proven patterns, and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to choose the right tool at the right time, avoid common adoption pitfalls, and create an AI work stack that feels natural instead of overwhelming. Whether you’re an executive, maker, IT pro, or everyday knowledge worker, you’ll leave with a simple compass for navigating Microsoft’s rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and a repeatable framework for turning isolated AI moments into meaningful productivity gains. Because the future of work isn’t about picking one AI tool, it’s about knowing where to go next.
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09:45–10:45 · 1h · Grand 122
Vibe Coding in Power Platform
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio · Pages
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Charlie Phipps-Bennett, Nathan Rose
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Vibe Coding is transforming the way we build on the Power Platform. Forget traditional dev cycles, this new approach lets makers and developers co‑create with AI, refining ideas through natural conversation, rapid iteration, and real‑time reasoning. It’s not just faster development, it’s a new way of thinking, where creativity, logic, and AI come together to produce production‑ready apps in record time. In this highly interactive, example‑driven session, we’ll explore how Vibe Coding works end‑to‑end across Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and Dataverse. You’ll see how to turn an idea into a fully functioning app through iterative prompting, agent‑assisted design, dynamic schema creation, and instant UI generation. We’ll break down how to work with the AI instead of around it, using techniques that unlock higher‑quality outputs, cleaner architecture, and significantly shorter delivery timelines. If you want to learn how to shift from slow build cycles to an AI‑accelerated flow state, this session is for you.
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10:00–10:20 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
No traduzcas tu comunidad: localízala
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Michael Matamoros
Lightning talk
No description listed
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10:30–10:50 · 20m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Prompt Battle: Enter the Arena. May the Best Prompt Win.
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Ralph Rivas
Lightning talk
No description listed
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11:00 · 18 at this start time

11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 116
“Copilot, Reset My Password!”—Building a Secure Self-Service IVR with Copilot Studio & Entra ID
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Peter Ruiter
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Tired of password reset tickets clogging your helpdesk queue? In this live demo, we’ll use Copilot Studio to design a self-service password reset experience that works seamlessly across voice (IVR) and chat. We’ll go beyond the basics - integrating step-up authentication via Microsoft Authenticator and even enabling the bot to generate Temporary Access Passes (TAPs) autonomously through Microsoft Graph. You’ll discover how to combine Copilot Studio, Agent Flows, and Azure AD (Entra ID) to create a secure, low-friction password reset workflow that your IT team (and users) will love. Whether you’re in IT operations, customer service, or a Power Platform enthusiast, this session will show you how Copilot Studio can transform a mundane IT task into an intelligent, secure, and scalable self-service experience.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Premier 316
Agentic Governance: Secure, Govern, and Operate Your Power Platform at Scale
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Lane Swenka, Gregg Barker, Reza Dorrani, Sanket Vasa
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
The CoE Starter Kit is retiring — so what comes next? This session turns that transition into an upgrade. Meet the Power Platform API: the extensibility layer that lets you secure, govern, and operate Power Platform at enterprise scale, your way. Discover how to build your own Center of Excellence in minutes, not months. Stand up custom reporting, real‑time inventory, and automated controls tailored to your organization — or replace the Starter Kit entirely — all on a supported, first‑party API. Then go beyond dashboards to agentic governance. Ask questions in plain language with AskAdvisor and act instantly across your tenant. Watch real‑time telemetry track connector and action growth as AI accelerates and see automated security curate asset‑specific policies during production deployment — embedding Advanced Connector Policies directly into your ALM workflows. Whether you're navigating the Starter Kit sunset or ready to scale governance for the agentic era, you'll leave with a clear, practical blueprint to extend, secure, and future‑proof your Power Platform estate. Come see how governance becomes something you build, own, and trust.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Build Fast, Govern Better: The Latest in Power Apps code apps and Copilot Managed Runtime for devs
Track
Apps
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Jordan Chodak, Ryan Jansen, Austin Laugesen, Alan Castellanos Moreno
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Power Apps code apps bring together modern application development and enterprise governance, enabling developers to build with code while taking advantage of Power Platform management, security, and administration. In this session, we'll showcase the newest enhancements to the code apps experience and share how customers are using them to accelerate development without sacrificing control. We'll also introduce Copilot Managed Runtime, a new approach for running AI-powered applications inside your Microsoft environment. Learn how capabilities first explored through code apps helped shape a platform that enables developers to deliver intelligent applications with built-in identity, security, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management. See what's new, what's next, and how you can start building enterprise-ready applications designed for the AI era.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Room 351
Building your agentic enterprise with agents, workflows and autopilots in the new Copilot Studio
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 351
Speakers
Giorgio Ughini, Roel Schenk, Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Doug Bellingeri
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Take a look at the new Copilot Studio -- not just a conversational bot builder but a full agentic platform with autonomous agents that act on triggers and with their own identity instead of waiting for prompts, workflows that bring deterministic automation and agentic reasoning together, and computer use that automates legacy apps and websites with no API required. Join peers, Microsoft experts, and early adopters for a candid discussion on what's changed, what's now possible, and how organizations are moving from insight to action – turning real business processes over to agents. Bring your past experiences (good and bad), your skepticism, and your use cases.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Chairman's 370
From Laptop to Governed Production: Creating and Running a Hosted Managed Agent
Track
Agents
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Sarah Critchley, Matthew Barbour
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Coding agents now put production-grade code in everyone's hands, developers and non-developers alike, faster than any IT or security team can review it. The result isn't more agents in production; it's a growing pile of working code stuck on laptops, passed around as .zip files, waiting for a path to go live. This session is your 101 on the Hosted Managed Agents - a managed runtime and governance layer that takes a code-built agent from the developer's repo to governed production whilst still being able to choose your orchestrator, model and business logic. We'll walk through: The three patterns blocking agents today Who it's for One shared plane for apps and agents Where & how it fits alongside Copilot Studio You'll leave knowing what the platform is, who it's for, and how it turns ""it works on my machine"" into ""it's running in production under our controls.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Chairman's 368
From Requirement to PR: Pro-Dev on Dataverse with Coding Agents
Track
Agents · Dataverse
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Rashmi Mansur, Kent Weare, Viraj Malkar
Advanced (300)60-minute session
What if your coding agent could take a business requirement all the way to a production-ready pull request? Pro devs don't just consume the platform – they build on it. This session shows how to build on Dataverse and Work IQ, in code, with coding agents as your accelerant. Ground your solutions in the Dataverse semantic layer and reusable business skills, then let the coding agent do the heavy lifting: point it at a business requirement and it can scaffold the project, implement and test the code, wire up the APIs and MCP connections, and open a PR – so you go from requirement to production-ready in a fraction of the time. We'll cover the pro-dev inner loop on Dataverse, patterns for building agents and apps on Dataverse and Work IQ, and how governance and human-in-the-loop keep everything trusted. Walk away ready to build on Dataverse and Work IQ, faster, with coding agents.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Boulevard 162
From Shadow AI to Tightly Managed Agentic Tools Without Slowing Innovation
Track
Agents
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Srikumar Nair, Sravani Seethi
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Learn how organizations can embrace the power of AI for innovation and productivity without compromising on governance, security, and compliance. Most enterprises already have AI agents running they can't see or govern. This session traces the path from unmanaged Shadow AI to tightly governed agentic tools, showing how Microsoft Agent 365 helps teams discover every agent, enforce identity and least-privilege access, and defend against emerging agentic threats!
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Premier 318
Industry Deep Dive | How NAES Is Rebuilding Its Dynamics 365 Foundation for the AI Era
Track
Agents · Apps
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
Eric Denton, Ted Kempf, Niah Henry, Adam Griffin, Lucas Diaz
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
NAES runs power generation and asset optimization services across a large fleet of plants, on a Dynamics 365 platform that has grown up with the business. Like most operators, NAES started its AI work where it was easiest: a few agents on existing processes. They worked. They also raised the harder question: what does the rest of the enterprise look like, and what has to change underneath before AI can scale? Niah Henry, Director of Digital Transformation, walks through NAES's answer. Using Ludia Helios, an AI platform from Microsoft partner Ludia Consulting, NAES built an enterprise-wide inventory of its own work, service line by service line, and classified each item as a process, a workflow, or an AI agent tied to its system of record. Helios also gives NAES the picture behind each agent: the data sources it depends on, the expected token consumption, and the integration and platform work required, so every item on the map carries a real cost and a real prerequisite. That map now drives NAES's digital transformation and D365 modernization roadmap. NAES will share its progress and results to date: what the first agents delivered, how Helios turned those lessons into a living map with named owners and KPIs per function, the human gates NAES kept on purpose, and the D365, Copilot, and Power Platform roadmap that followed. Attendees leave with a repeatable way to decide where AI belongs in an asset-heavy business and what it will take to get it there.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Room 352
Migrate RPA from Other Vendors to Power Automate & Copilot Studio
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Gopikrishna V, Ravi Chada, Dileep Singh
Roundtable
Many organizations are looking to modernize their automation landscape and reduce the complexity and cost of managing multiple RPA platforms. This session will explore the opportunity to migrate existing automations from platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism to Power Automate and Copilot Studio. Learn how organizations can assess their current RPA estate, identify the right migration candidates, and use Microsoft’s low-code and AI-powered capabilities to modernize automations while preserving business value. We’ll share a practical framework for evaluating migration readiness, key considerations and challenges, and how to extend traditional RPA with intelligent agents and Copilot capabilities. Leave with a clear framework to identify where migration can deliver the greatest value and how to move from traditional RPA toward a more integrated, AI-powered automation strategy.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 120
OpenClaw for the Enterprise: Build Your AI Assistant with Copilot, Dataverse, & Foundry
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Sheila Shahpari
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
OpenClaw went viral because it showed what "AI that actually does things" looks like — autonomous tasks, persistent memory, tool-calling across apps, running 24/7. The demos were mesmerizing. But your CISO would never let it near a corporate machine: no identity governance, no data protection, and security researchers called it a prompt injection nightmare. What if you could build one on the stack your org trusts? In this session, we'll break down the fundamentals that made OpenClaw so successful, then rebuild it as an enterprise-grade personal AI assistant using Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry. You'll see how multi-agent orchestration, persistent memory, MCP tool-calling, and autonomous task execution come together — secured with Entra identity, Purview data protection, and full ALM lifecycle management. You'll leave knowing where Copilot Studio gets you without code, where Foundry takes you deeper, and how to develop them into an AI assistant that actually fuels your productivity and runs your business.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 112
Optimizing Power BI Models with the Right Storage Mode
Track
BI
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Samson Truong
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Selecting the right storage mode is one of the most impactful decisions when designing a Power BI semantic model. Import, DirectQuery, and Direct Lake each offer different tradeoffs across performance, data freshness, scalability, and modeling flexibility, and choosing the wrong option can lead to slow reports, complex architectures, or unnecessary cost. In this session, we will break down how each storage mode works and explore practical scenarios where each one makes sense. Attendees will learn how storage mode choices affect query performance, refresh behavior, and semantic model design, and how to align those choices to business requirements and data platform architecture.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 119
Production-Ready Power Pages: Our Top 10 Secrets for Sites That Scale
Track
Pages
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Rajeev Ranjan, Priyanshu Agrawal, Neeraj Nandwana, Bipul Deora
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Anyone can build a Power Pages site, making one for a larger audience that is compliant, interactive, and stays fast and secure under real load is another skill entirely. We share our top 10 battle-tested secrets for production-ready sites: performance and caching, scalable data access, security hardening, and design choices that hold up at scale. Leave with a checklist you can apply immediately.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Premier 317
Support Agents That Deliver: Trust, Quality, and Resolution
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Mehmet Yuksel, John Hart, Cole Haddock, Efrat Gilboa
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Building an AI support agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio is easy; delivering a trusted support experience is harder. Hear what customers and IT admins expect from agentic support. Then hear how the Power Platform Admin Center team built its support agent and supportability program. Our speakers will share key engineering decisions, success measures, and lessons learned. See the latest Microsoft Copilot Studio evaluation features and learn how structured testing, telemetry, and experimentation help validate changes, govern quality, and improve customer outcomes. Finally, look ahead to an ecosystem of agentic skills that can diagnose, triage, and resolve issues—not just answer questions. This session is for makers, admins, architects, and product teams building AI support experiences.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 114
The Future of BI: Digital Data Analysts Powered by Fabric Data Agents
Track
BI
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
Devin Knight
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Imagine a world where your analytics platform thinks for you. Fabric Data Agents bring that vision to life by acting as digital data analysts—anticipating needs, automating tasks, and delivering insights on demand. This session will cover practical implementation steps, governance considerations, and use cases that redefine self-service BI.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Room 353
The Hispanic Voice of Power Platform: Building Differently, Innovating Together
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Marysol Mantilla, Claudio Romano, Jorge Andres Sabella Elizondo, Leon Welicki
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Back by popular demand, this is the second edition of the Power Platform Conference's Spanish-language community session. The Power Platform community is global, but every region brings a unique perspective to innovation. Join an interactive discussion with makers, architects, and community leaders from across the Spanish-speaking world as we explore how creativity, resilience, and close business partnerships shape the way we build solutions with Power Platform. Through real stories, lessons learned, and audience participation, we'll discover what makes the Hispanic Power Platform community unique and what the rest of the world can learn from it. This is not a product deep dive. It's a celebration of the people, experiences, and ideas shaping our community. _________________________________________________ De vuelta por petición popular, esta es la segunda edición de la sesión comunitaria en español de la Power Platform Conference. La comunidad de Power Platform es global, pero cada región aporta una perspectiva única sobre la innovación. Únete a una conversación interactiva con creadores, arquitectos y líderes de comunidad de todo el mundo hispanohablante mientras exploramos cómo la creatividad, la resiliencia y la estrecha colaboración con el negocio influyen en la forma en que construimos soluciones con Power Platform. A través de historias reales, aprendizajes y la participación de la audiencia, descubriremos qué hace única a la comunidad hispana de Power Platform y qué puede aprender el resto del mundo de ella. Esta no es una sesión técnica ni una inmersión en productos. Es una celebración de las personas, las experiencias y las ideas que están dando forma a nuestra comunidad.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Grand 122
There Is No Such Thing As Left-Handed Chopsticks: Power Platform Inclusivity Guide
Track
Apps · Pages · Power Platform
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
George Doubinski
Foundational (100)60-minute session
Accessibility is a big word. But rather than just talk about standards and requirements (which we will), let's focus on inclusivity. In your life, in your job, in your apps. Get the answers to perpetual questions such as: why some people don't play golf? Do the left-handed chopsticks exist? Why do date controls on forms discriminate? And the more practical guidance: - How to write better emails. - How to design a better mouse. - How to describe Picasso's work to someone who is unable to see it. - How to make accessibility innate to your apps. - How to make your apps delightful without giving it a second thought. - How to be passionate and win when it comes to inclusivity. Come and see the left-handed chopsticks. And take a step towards inclusivity. Because, if you think about it, there is no such thing as accessibility - only inclusivity.
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Premier 319
Under the Hood: Dataverse, Copilot and Work IQ
Track
Agents
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Nitish Jain, Massimo Gatti, Jeff Anderson
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Where does the application intelligence in Work IQ actually come from? This session goes under the hood of the Dataverse-powered intelligence that makes business data agent-ready. Walk through how Dataverse grounds agents in business data and meaning: the semantic models and search that deliver targeted, curated answers beyond raw tables and metadata; reusable business skills that capture how your organization works; and how agentic search and actions let agents reason over and act on that intelligence. See how these layers combine to deliver the application intelligence Work IQ brings to every agent, and how to design for it at enterprise scale. (The broader Dataverse platform - storage, governance, and Fabric - is covered in 'The Dataverse Platform Behind Your Apps & Agents'.)
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11:00–12:00 · 1h · Premier 310
Wait, Where Do I Govern My Agents?
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Mihaela Blendea, Jocelyn Panchal
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Is it the Power Platform Admin Center? the Microsoft 365 admin center? Copilot Studio? Entra? Purview? Defender? Lean into the question every customer keeps asking. Learn exactly what you govern where, and how Agent 365 and Copilot Studio admin controls work "better together" so they start feeling like a single tool.
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12:00 · 2 at this start time

12:00–13:30 · 1h 30m
Lunch
Room
No room listed
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Lunch locations are based off of lanyard colors Purple Lanyards - Marquee Ballroom. level 1 (Expo Hall) Brown Lanyards - Terrace Ballroom, level 1 Teal Lanyards - North Pavilion, outside, level 1 White Lanyards - Chairman's Ballroom, level 3 Red Lanyards - Studio, Grand Garden Arena
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12:00–12:25 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Waiter, There's An App in My Agent! Building MCP Apps in Copilot Studio
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Phi-Lay NGUYEN
Lightning talk
MCP Apps are a new way to bring application-like experiences directly into agent workflows - already in Agent Builder, coming soon to Copilot Studio. This session will showcase how to use Copilot Agent Kit to adapt an application into an intelligent agent experience. We'll cover the architecture, design considerations, and the opportunities MCP Apps create for delivering richer, more interactive experiences within agents.
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12:25–12:50 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Getting to know Cowork - an admin and user overview
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Damien Bird
Lightning talk
Get to see Cowork in use, how consumption based AI is evolving, the admin controls and why multistep tasks are where the value is in Cowork.
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12:50–13:15 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
GitHub Copilot Harness in Action | Agentifying Business Processes with Copilot Studio
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Lightning talk
How Worley are building with the GHCP harness on Copilot Studio.
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13:00–13:10 · 10m · Expo Hall (Marquee Ballroom), level 1
Bingo Card Raffle Winner Announced
Room
Expo Hall (Marquee Ballroom), level 1
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MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN! Turn in your completed bingo card by 11:45am on Thursday to be in the raffle. See top of Bingo card for rules
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13:15–13:40 · 25m · Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
From Proof of Concept to Production: Evaluating Enterprise AI Agent Readiness
Room
Microsoft Theater, Expo Hall
Speakers
Bob Wille, Dave Jennings
Lightning talk
Most Agent 365 evaluations prove that manageability of agents can work, far fewer prove how best to scale. The strongest evaluations focus on five critical questions: Can we discover our agents? Can we identify ownership? Can we govern access? Can we secure activity? Can we operationalize at scale? In this 20-minute session, we'll share the evaluation criteria repeatedly seen across enterprise deployments and demonstrate how to build a proof-of-value that delivers executive-ready insights. You'll learn how leading organizations assess production readiness, establish governance and accountability, operationalize observability and security, and create a foundation for scaling AI agent end-to-end manageability across the enterprise.
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13:30 · 18 at this start time

13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 112
After Power Integrate—Can AI Bring Us "Automatic Integrations"? ?
Track
Apps · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Grand 112
Speakers
Mats Necker
Advanced (300)60-minute session
As a Power Platform developer building integrations between Dataverse and other systems is a recurring challenge since the dawning of IT. Microsoft promotes Power Automate as part of their integration story and we talked about problems with this approach. But nowadays we have ✨ AI ✨ with a lot of potential, can this actually be the solution for integrations? Does AI will bring us easy and Automatic Integrations? Well maybe. In this session we will talk about: ? Different approaches with AI integrations ? Current AI/tool landscape ? Avoidable problems ? New challenges This session was born from painful learned real-life lessons and experiments which I want to share with everybody. With AI being often promoted as the solution for everything it is worthwhile doing deep dives into specific challenges and validate the use of AI in this context. ? Either if you are an experienced integrator or new to the topics of integrations, with AI most of us are in the same boat, so this session will be for you if you are open minded and interested in connecting systems! ? After this session, you will take these things with you: ✅ When to use AI for integrations and when not ❗ Common pitfalls to look out for ? What considerations are important
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Premier 317
Apps, Agents, or Both? Where Should Work Happen in the Agentic Era?
Track
Apps
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Olivier Conort, Christopher Moncayo
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As agents become a bigger part of Power Platform, a new design question is emerging: when should users work in an app, interact with an agent, or use both? Join this roundtable discussion as we explore app experiences, agent experiences, generative pages, embedded copilots, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Bring your scenarios, perspectives, and questions as we discuss how the user experience of Power Platform is evolving - and where apps and agents fit together.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Room 353
Beyond Time Savings: Rethinking ROI and Value for Persistent AI Agents
Track
Power Platform
Room
Room 353
Speakers
Samantha Neufeld
Foundational (100)Roundtable
As proactive, persistent AI agents like Microsoft Scout move from experimentation into enterprise deployment, organizations face a new challenge: understanding whether the value they create justifies the resources they consume. Traditional ROI models focus on time saved, costs reduced, or tasks automated. While important, these measures do not fully capture the impact of always-on AI agents. This roundtable brings together product leaders, researchers, IT decision-makers, and practitioners to explore how organizations evaluate the value and ROI of persistent AI agents. Discussion will consider outcomes such as improved decision-making, reduced coordination burden, scaled expertise, employee satisfaction, faster learning, and new patterns of productivity, alongside practical considerations around consumption costs, governance, and sustainable adoption. Participants will discuss the evidence organizations need to make confident investment decisions, how value should be measured beyond automation alone, and what deployment and consumption models may emerge as agent usage scales across teams and roles.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Chairman's 368
Copilot Credits at Scale: Governing Consumption, Empowering Everyone
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Stuart McCarthy, Elaine Ansell, Chris Garty, Doug Bellingeri, Hongfei Guo, Graham Mosley
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Agentic AI is no longer a pilot – it's a line item. As Copilot credits become the currency of AI across your organization, how do you empower every employee without losing control of consumption? This roundtable brings together admins, CoE leads, and business owners to compare notes on managing and governing Copilot credits at scale: empowering users on productivity scenarios, and scaling enterprise automations and agents with Copilot Studio and Work IQ. Come learn how peers are budgeting, monitoring, and allocating credits – and share the story of what's working (and what isn't) in your own org.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Room 354
Demystifying Debugging in AI (Testing and Evals for Agents and Workflows)
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Room 354
Speakers
Natasha Eibich, Saakshi Goel
Foundational (100)Roundtable
Testing traditional software is well-understood — testing AI agents is not. In this roundtable, we'll cut through the confusion around evaluation strategies for agents and multi-step workflows. What should you measure? When do unit-level checks matter vs. end-to-end scenario testing? How do you catch regressions when your agent's behavior is non-deterministic? Bring your questions and hard-won lessons as we explore practical approaches to building eval pipelines that give you confidence before, during, and after deployment.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Premier 316
Extending Copilot Cowork with Custom Plugins and Workflows with Real-World Customer Use Cases
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 316
Speakers
Giorgio Ughini, Alicja Gilderdale
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Let's discover how to extract the full power of Copilot Cowork by extending it with your own plugin capabilities. In this session, we'll go beyond prompts and explore how Copilot Cowork can become a customizable engineering companion through plugins, tools, skills, workflows, and external integrations. Learn how to connect internal systems, automate repetitive tasks, orchestrate specialized AI capabilities, and build reusable extensions that transform Cowork into a platform tailored to your team's needs. We'll cover practical architectures, plugin development patterns, security considerations, and real-world examples that integrate source control, documentation, APIs, issue tracking systems, and custom enterprise services. You'll see how extension points can evolve from simple utilities into sophisticated agentic workflows capable of research, code modernization, migration assistance, and operational automation. We'll also share the CNH's story: how they implemented plugins and rolled out Copilot Cowork to their users at scale. Whether you're building internal engineering accelerators or creating organization-wide AI tooling, you'll leave with practical guidance for designing, deploying, and scaling Copilot Cowork extensions in production environments.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 114
Fabric Decoded: The Power Platform for Your Data Universe
Track
BI · Dataverse · Power Platform
Room
Grand 114
Speakers
David Patrick
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Get ready to demystify Microsoft Fabric—what it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s reshaping the modern analytics landscape. Fabric brings together the entire data lifecycle into one unified, end‑to‑end platform, giving enterprises a single place to move, ingest, process, transform, route, and visualize their data in real time. With a rich suite of experiences spanning Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Science, Real‑Time Analytics, Data Warehousing, and integrated databases, Fabric delivers a truly cohesive analytics ecosystem. In this session, we’ll break down the core components, explore how they work together, and highlight the scenarios where Fabric shines. If you’ve been wondering what makes Fabric tick—and how it can elevate your organization’s data strategy—this is your guided tour into the heart of the platform.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 120
From Legacy to Cloud at Scale: An AI-Accelerated Migration Playbook
Track
Apps · Automate · Dataverse
Room
Grand 120
Speakers
Berel Lax
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Modernizing a complex, on-premises business applications (XRM) solution requires far more than infrastructure changes. It demands deep understanding of custom code, integrations, reporting, data flows, and technical debt accumulated over years. In this session, we’ll walk through an end-to-end migration approach that uses AI, metadata extraction, and agent-assisted remediation to accelerate a large-scale move to the Power Platform. By extracting full environment metadata into Dataverse, we create a living system blueprint that informs planning, risk assessment, and modernization decisions, aligned with Success by Design and FastTrack principles. We’ll explore how AI agents are used to: - Analyze and document the existing environment - Identify deprecated patterns and unsupported customizations - Prepare custom code for the cloud, including JavaScript, plugins, workflows, and reporting assets We’ll also cover modernization decision points across integrations, automation, reporting, and data strategy - including long-term retention, warehousing, and analytics using Microsoft Fabric. Attendees will leave with a repeatable, process-driven migration framework they can apply to any large legacy platform - without relying on manual audits or guesswork.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Chairman's 370
From SharePoint List to Beautiful Canvas App in Record Time
Track
Apps
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Tasha Scott, Yogesh Gupta, Emily Kessler, Mike Stall
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
SharePoint is one of the most familiar data sources in Microsoft 365 - it's where your team already tracks work that runs the business, and it's the fastest, lowest-friction place to start building apps. In this session, you'll see how the canvas app authoring experience on SharePoint has been reimagined so you can go from an existing list to a polished, working app in far less time. Then we'll take it further: we'll show you how canvas apps let you choose when to leverage agents and human edits, both to help you build and help your users unlock exponential efficiency. We'll show you how you can work with the Canvas Authoring Agent to build gorgeous and compelling apps over SharePoint faster than ever, and how Copilot can share deep insights on SharePoint data with your app users, directly inside your app.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 122
Full Power! Power App Optimisation
Track
Apps
Room
Grand 122
Speakers
Keith Atherton
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
User experience (UX) can make or break adoption of a solution, and a large part of that experience can be the performance of your app. In this session, we'll demonstrate various ways to optimise Power Apps to get optimal performance to improve that experience. We will cover: - Code optimisation - Architectural optimisation - User experience (UX) - Monitoring & troubleshooting You'll leave this session with knowledge on how to make your apps perform as fast as possible, happier customers, and less support tickets!
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Boulevard 162
Governance of All Your Agents at Scale
Track
Agents
Room
Boulevard 162
Speakers
Trisha Sinha, Romir Mittal
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
Agent 365 governance—from admin-led to Autonomous—trigger the right actions for the signal set that help you stay in control of agent risk, approvals, usage, cost and overall health
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Room 350
Power Apps Decision Framework: Canvas, Model-Driven, or Code Apps?
Track
Apps
Room
Room 350
Speakers
Reza Dorrani, Ankita Chopra
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Power Apps now spans no-code, low-code, and pro-code development - across Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps, Code Apps, and other experiences. So how do you decide what to build, which app type to choose, and how much code is actually needed? In this session, we’ll use real-world scenarios and a practical decision framework to evaluate UX, data, scale, security, customization, governance, and maintainability - helping you confidently choose the right approach for your next Power Apps solution.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 116
Power Platform Agentic Testing
Track
Apps · Copilot Studio · Dataverse
Room
Grand 116
Speakers
Rami Mounla
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
How do you test an agent when its behaviour is non-deterministic? It is a challenge many makers and developers face as agents become central to Power Platform solutions. Thanks to recent AI driven innovations, testing across the Power Platform has never been more accessible. Whether you are validating customisations, front end experiences, or your agents, new tools are emerging that streamline the entire testing process and significantly uplift solution quality. This demo led session will introduce practical AI powered testing capabilities available today, including dedicated approaches for effective agent testing. You will see how these tools fit into a modern testing workflow and how they can be applied immediately to your own solutions. If you are new to testing or keen to expand your testing toolkit with the latest innovations, this session will give you the clarity, confidence, and techniques to take your testing practice to the next level.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Grand 119
Right-Size & Secure Your Data Estate: Governing & Managing Dataverse and Dynamics 365
Track
Dataverse
Room
Grand 119
Speakers
Paul Liew, Tommy Graham, Alex Peck
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
As your data estate grows, governing and managing it well is what keeps it fast, compliant, and cost-effective. This session walks through the latest improvements to govern and manage your data across Dynamics 365 and Dataverse - and ultimately right-size it. See how to gain visibility into storage and capacity, apply data lifecycle policies (retention, archival, and recovery with the recycle bin), and manage capacity and cost so you pay for what you actually need. Learn how to design data security models that balance performance, compliance, and sustainability, and how new tooling helps you find, prioritize, and act - shifting from reactive cleanup to proactive, policy-driven data security & data management. Walk away with a clear approach to a well-governed, right-sized data foundation powered by Dataverse.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Room 352
Securing the Agent Ecosystem: Agents, Tools, and Shadow AI
Track
Agents
Room
Room 352
Speakers
Srikumar Nair, Mata Prasad Gupta
Intermediate (200)Roundtable
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss securing agents and their tools, including connectors, MCP servers, and plugins. Share challenges and priorities around access, oversight, shadow AI, and local agents, and provide feedback on the capabilities needed to manage emerging risks.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Boulevard 163
Server or Client? Where Business Logic Belongs in Copilot Managed Runtime
Track
Copilot Studio
Room
Boulevard 163
Speakers
Bryce Sova, Marcel Ferreira, Greg Lindhorst, Jordan Chodak, Mark Overholt
Advanced (300)60-minute session
Modern business apps often blur the line between client-side logic, server-side code, workflow automation, and platform-provided capabilities. This session gives developers a practical framework for deciding where code should run in a Copilot Managed Runtime architecture: in the client for responsiveness and local interaction, on the server for security and consistency, in APIs for reuse, or in the platform/runtime when the capability should be managed. We will walk through concrete scenarios such as validation, business rules, authorization, data access, integrations, long-running work, background jobs, AI calls, and cross-user workflows. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model for when to keep logic close to the user experience, when to move it to a trusted server boundary, and how Copilot Managed Runtime can support that split with runtime, data, and deployment patterns.
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13:30–14:30 · 1h · Premier 319
The Semantic Layer in the Age of AI: Power BI Semantic Models
Track
BI
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Eun Hee Kim
60-minute session
AI is only as useful as its understanding of your business data. As organizations embrace copilots, AI agents, and natural-language analytics, having access to raw data is not enough. AI needs trusted metrics, clear relationships, business definitions, and the context to understand what the data actually means. Power BI semantic models provide this foundation, bringing together business logic, governed measures, relationships, and shared definitions into a consistent representation of organizational data. In this session, explore how semantic models are evolving to support the next generation of AI-powered analytics, helping both people and AI systems work from a common understanding of the business. Discover how to build on your existing Power BI investments to create trusted, reusable, AI-ready data foundations that support self-service analytics, natural-language experiences, and emerging agentic workflows. Learn why the semantic layer is becoming increasingly important in an AI-driven world and how Power BI can help organizations move from fragmented data and disconnected insights toward a shared, governed understanding of their business.
Note
13:30–14:30 · 1h · Premier 310
Workflows Reimagined—Agentic Automation
Track
Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Joe Fernandez, Ashvini Sharma, Matthew Vogel
Intermediate (200)60-minute session
This session will be used to dive into the new workflow designer and creation experience in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Come learn how the new designer enables makers to create agentic workflows at scale, with adaptive intelligent nodes. Dive into the new capabilities across the drag and drop surface, in line testing, versioning and more.
Note

Friday 30 Oct

07:00 · 7 at this start time

07:00–14:00 · 7h · Premier 317
Agentic Coding: Modernize Legacy Business Processes with AI on Power Platform & Copilot Studio
Track
Apps · Automate · Dataverse · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 317
Speakers
Dileep Singh, Yasin Mukadam, Ankita Chopra, Reza Dorrani, Giorgio Ughini
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshop
Modernizing legacy business processes has traditionally been time-consuming, expensive, and resource intensive. With Agentic Coding, developers can now partner with AI to dramatically accelerate application modernization while improving code quality and delivery velocity. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use AI as your paired programmer to modernize an existing business process into an intelligent solution built on Power Platform and Copilot Studio. Whether you choose GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, AI Skills, or other AI coding experiences, you'll discover how AI can analyze legacy logic, generate production-ready code, automate repetitive development tasks, and accelerate the delivery of modern business applications. Through guided, real-world exercises, you'll transform a legacy business process into an intelligent application powered by automation, AI, and agents. You'll leave with practical patterns, reusable techniques, and the confidence to modernize your own application estate using AI. What You'll Learn Use AI as your paired programmer to accelerate application modernization Transform legacy business processes into intelligent solutions on Power Platform and Copilot Studio Analyze, refactor, and generate production-ready code with AI Build AI-powered applications, automations, and agents faster Apply repeatable modernization patterns that increase engineering velocity while improving code quality Who Should Attend Developers, makers, solution architects, consultants, IT professionals, and technical leads looking to modernize legacy applications and business processes using AI on Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Premier 310
Automating Business Processes with Cloud Flows and AI: 2026 Hands-on Workshop
Track
Automate
Room
Premier 310
Speakers
Vlad Catrinescu
Foundational (100)Full-day hands-on workshop
Friday October 30th, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm Power Automate cloud flows are the most popular type of flow in Microsoft Power Automate, and in 2026 they are more powerful than ever with new AI capabilities to take business process automation to the next level. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to automate business processes by creating cloud flows using a practical, step-by-step approach. We will start by learning the fundamental concepts of Power Automate and then move into creating cloud flows using guided examples. From there, we will create our own flows based on real-world scenarios. Throughout the workshop, each flow will take things one step further as we learn how to build approvals, use conditions, expressions, and loops, integrate flows with Microsoft Teams, and handle errors in cloud flows. We will also cover how to use Microsoft Copilot and how to infuse AI capabilities such as AI Builder prompts to extract or modify information, and the Workflows Agent to automate processes. Towards the end of the workshop, we will also learn how to take our cloud flow skills and use them for Agent flows! This is your chance to learn how to automate your own business processes with Power Automate cloud flows and understand the different controls available in cloud flows in a modern, AI-powered environment.
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Premier 319
Build Your First AI Agents with Microsoft’s Agent Academy
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 319
Speakers
Sheila Shahpari, Scott Durow
Foundational (100)Full-day hands-on workshop
Friday October 30th, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm Note: Workshop will include HANDS-ON tutorials. Bring your own fully charged laptop and power cord AI agents are moving fast from buzzword to business reality. Many professionals want to skill up but struggle to find the time, guidance, or structured learning path to get started. Is this you? Is learning how to build and extend agents in Copilot Studio a to-do list item that keeps getting pushed? Join Sheila Shahpari (10x Microsoft AI & Biz Apps MVP) and Scott Durow (Microsoft's Developer Advocate extraordinaire and 10x Microsoft MVP) for a thrilling day of learning...and also earn your AI Agent recruit badge! This workshop brings the official Microsoft Agent Academy curriculum to life in a fun, interactive, and community-driven setting. You’ll leave with both hands-on skills and the confidence to continue your AI journey. By the end of this workshop, as an attendee, you will be able to: • Understand the fundamentals of AI agents and their role in modern business solutions • Design and build your first working AI agents using Copilot Studio and Power Platform integrations • Connect agents to real-world scenarios, improving productivity and customer engagement • Take home resources, labs, and patterns to continue learning and applying agents after the event • Network with like-minded community members and make new friends who are on the same learning journey as you! Approach / Delivery: • Guided hands-on labs • Small group exercises to foster peer learning and collaboration • Real-world examples to ground abstract concepts in business scenarios • Open Q&A and troubleshooting with the facilitators throughout the day • A wrap-up session with tips on extending agents beyond the curriculum
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Chairman's 368
Create Your Own Agentic Squad to Build Power Apps
Track
Agents · Copilot Studio · Dynamics
Room
Chairman's 368
Speakers
Rami Mounla
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshop
Friday October 30th, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm The future of Power Platform development has arrived. As Microsoft introduces new capabilities such as Power Platform Plans and assisted AI in the maker portal, a growing gap is emerging for traditional developers who prefer prompt‑driven, guided build processes. This workshop provides a practical walkthrough of how to create a collection of agents capable of building Power Apps for you. We will cover the full lifecycle, starting with fit‑gap analysis, followed by schema design, client‑side and server‑side customization, testing, and deployment. You will explore what is possible with a modern approach that equips developers with specialized agents aligned to every stage of the Software Development Lifecycle. You will also see how GitHub Copilot skills can transform your development workflow and support the majority of your SDLC tasks. Attendees will receive a set of ready‑to‑use GitHub Copilot skills and GitHub Copilot agents that can be applied immediately in their development environments to accelerate solution delivery. This approach has been used in real projects throughout the past year and has consistently delivered productivity gains of sixty to eighty percent. It reflects the future of how makers and developers will build solutions on the Power Platform.
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Chairman's 370
Hands-On: Building Intelligent Agents with IQ, Dataverse, and Fabric
Track
BI · Copilot Studio
Room
Chairman's 370
Speakers
Heidi Hasting, Shabnam Watson, Khaled Chowdhury
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshop
Friday October 30th, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm Ready to build agents that truly understand your organization? In this hands-on workshop, you'll build intelligent agents that combine organizational intelligence, business processes, and analytical insights through natural language conversations. Using tools like Copilot Studio and other agent-building approaches, you'll create connections to Dataverse for business workflows, integrate Fabric's analytical capabilities and data agents, add organizational context through IQ layers, and extend agent capabilities using Model Context Protocol (MCP). Through guided exercises and practical scenarios, you'll work alongside instructors to build solutions that go beyond basic chatbots. By the end of this workshop, you'll have: Built a working intelligent agent integrating multiple data sources Hands-on experience with Dataverse, Fabric, and IQ integrations Practical patterns you can apply immediately in your organization Who should attend: This workshop is designed for makers and developers with basic Power Platform experience who want to learn how to build integrated intelligent agents. You should be comfortable with agent-building concepts and understand basic Dataverse concepts (tables, relationships). No prior IQ or Fabric experience required—we'll teach you what you need to know! Prerequisites: Familiarity with building conversational experiences (Copilot Studio, chatbots, or similar) Understanding of Dataverse tables and data modeling Laptop with web browser
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Premier 311
Modernize Your RPA Estate with Power Platform and Copilot Studio
Track
Agents · Automate · Copilot Studio
Room
Premier 311
Speakers
Christos Tzirtzilakis, Ashwin Raju Krishnamurthi, Gopikrishna V, Gregory Petrolekas
Advanced (300)Full-day hands-on workshop
This hands-on workshop is for practitioners ready to build resilient, intelligent automation. You'll build a complete end-to-end automation using Power Automate — spanning desktop flows, cloud integration, and execution — then take it further by tackling the real-world challenges that break traditional bots. You'll work through handling dynamic selectors, building resilient UI automation, and incorporating AI and agent capabilities, including Copilot Studio Computer Use Agents (CUA), into your flows. Where traditional RPA follows rigid, hard-coded steps, CUA reasons over the screen the way a person does — adapting when the UI changes instead of breaking on it. By the end of the session, you'll have hands-on experience building automation solutions that hold up in the real world, and a clear understanding of how to evolve from basic automation to more intelligent, resilient, and scalable scenarios. What you'll learn • Build end-to-end automation with Power Automate desktop and cloud flows, integrating across applications • Handle dynamic selectors and unstable UIs that break traditional bots • Apply techniques for resilient UI automation that survives application changes • Use Copilot Studio Computer Use Agents (CUA) to reason over the screen and adapt to UI change • Know when to use deterministic RPA vs. AI-driven computer use — and how to combine both • Orchestrate flows and agents together for more autonomous, self-adjusting automation • Evolve from basic automation to intelligent, scalable scenarios on one governed platform
Note
07:00–14:00 · 7h · Premier 318
Power Platform Agentic Quest
Track
Copilot Studio · Power Platform
Room
Premier 318
Speakers
David Yack, George Doubinski
Intermediate (200)Full-day hands-on workshop
Friday October 30th, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm Bring your own fully charged laptop and power cord From the creators of Power Platformers: Fusion Quest and Power Platform AI Quest comes the new Power Platform Agentic Quest, a workshop like no other. Join us for a day of learning as you complete a series of agentic AI quests designed to challenge and grow your Power Platform AI skills as an architect, maker, or as a developer. Skills that go beyond building a Copilot, skills that can be applied to all parts of your work. Built for modern reality: multi-agent orchestration, tool-connected agents, and enterprise guardrails. This is NOT your typical workshop where you listen all day, or follow the instructor, or repeat click after click in the exercise instructions. In this workshop you participate solo as well as in groups to achieve greatness. We need attendees of different skills as we use a combination of business knowledge, maker creativity, data appreciation, and cunning development, done in teams. Pro-code, low-code, no-code. ALL THE CODES are welcome. Come join us to collaborate, create, and conquer challenges with the finesse of a seasoned adventurer. Teams will tackle real world scenarios to architect and implement agentic AI solutions. Learn how to make AI work with your team from crafting intelligent prompts to orchestrating multiple agents. Challenge yourself to go beyond just single agent chat bots and leave this workshop with new skills, fresh ideas, and a vision for how agentic AI can transform not just your work, but your entire approach to problem-solving that you can apply immediately
Note

Sunday 25 Oct

Agent 365: Securely Managing and Governing Agents at Scale

Agents Meet Business Applications in Work IQ: Ground Copilot in Dataverse Data

AI-Assisted Full Stack Development on Power Platform

Callsign: COPILOT — Build and Deploy Mission-Ready AI Agents

DAX and Calculations in Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star

Deep Dive Into the New Copilot Studio: Engineering Enterprise Agents and Workflows

Lifecycle Mastery: ALM for Power Platform and Agents

Mastering Hyperautomation: Power Platform Workshop

My First Day of Power Platform (Powered by Copilot)

Monday 26 Oct

Build Intelligent Business Processes with Apps, Automations, and Agents

Build, Deploy and Manage Vibe Coded Apps at Scale

From Problem to App: How to Build a Complete Operations System with Power Apps & Power Automate

Mastering Governance at Scale: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Power Platform and Agent Estate

MCP in a Day: From “What Is It?” to Real Solutions with Power Platform

Microsoft Fabric — A Whole New World for Power BI

Nobody Knows How Many Agents You Have

The ALM / CICD Session You've Been Waiting For

The Rise of Agents: AI-First Power Pages Development

Feel the Power! Bring a problem. Build an answer. (Build-a-thon)

Tuesday 27 Oct

Grab & Go Breakfast

Everyone Seated for Keynote

Opening Keynote with Charles Lamanna

Keynote with Ryan Cunningham

From Car Sales to Power Platform Developer: An Unconventional Journey into Tech

Agent 365 Unlocked: Building a Secure and Governed Agent Ecosystem

Automation at Scale: Workflows in the Agentic Era

Beyond Tools: Rethinking Process Change with AI

Conversational Agents vs Autonomous Agents: Use Cases Roundtable

Courage Before Confidence: Lessons from Mexico’s Unlikely Superhero

DevOps in Power Platform: Build, Deploy and Operate at Enterprise Scale

Getting Started with A365

Getting Started with Apps in Cowork and Copilot Studio

Lost in the Agent Jungle: What to Use When?

More Than a Chatbox: Rich, Interactive Experiences with Copilot Studio Agents

Power Platform Architecture Internals

Product Talk: What’s Next in Microsoft Fabric & Power BI: The Data Foundation for AI

Roundtable: Power Platform & Copilot Studio Strategy at Scale

Shadow AI Agents in the Enterprise: Managing Risk at Scale

Teaching Copilot Your Business: Translating Business Processes Into Agentic Workflows

Work, Reimagined: Copilot, Cowork & the Power Platform

AI Eldorado: Transforming Your Dataverse into a Copilot Goldmine with Fabric

Automation Showdown: Which Automation Tool Is Best for You and Your Needs?

Beyond the CRM Screen: Headless CRM in the Age of Copilot

Brick by Brick: The Power Apps Master Builder’s Guide to AWESOME Components

From Shadow IT to Secure: Implementing Data Policies That Stick

How Not to Fail in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

Is Low-Code still Low-Code? Choosing among the new ways to build

Putting the “Power” in SAP with Agents, Apps & Flows

From Hillbilly to MVP

Build While You Wait: From Spectator to Contributor on Power Platform

Lunch

Women in Power Networking Lunch: Connect Before the Conference

Working Parents in the Era of AI

Ask the Power BI Product Team: An Open Q&A

Big Data Big Problems—Scaling Power Platform for Enterprise

Build at the Speed of AI: The New Power Platform Development Cycle

Building on Power Platform: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Demystifying Copilot Studio Licensing

Don't Start Over: Move Copilot Studio Agents to the GitHub Copilot Harness

Exec Panel: The Token Meter Is Running, What It Takes to Get Max ROI from AI Agents

Expanding Agents with Connectors and MCPs

From Bricks to Sets: Designing Fleets of AI Agents That Work Better Together

Getting Unstuck with AI Adoption

Governing Agents at Scale: PPAC, Agent 365

Guardians of the Lake: Securing Your Data with OneLake

Help Shape the Copilot Managed Runtime (Apps + Agents) Developer Experience

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Agent and Start Thinking About the Work

Product Talk: What’s New with Copilot Studio

The New Maker Journey: What Customers Need in an AI-First Power Platform

There's No Time Like the Present—Reducing Latency in Power BI with Fabric

Turn Dynamics 365 and Power Platform into Agent‑ready Context with Dataverse

We Are the Ones Defining the Future of AI

What's New and What's Next in the Managed Platform

Your Processes, Now Intelligent: Process Mining and Optimization

Less Clicking, More Doing: Productivity Hacks for Model-Driven Apps

There's a Kit for That: Build, Test, and Govern Better Agents

GitHub Copilot Harness in Action | Agentifying Business Processes with Copilot Studio