Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S102bc

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S103d

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover: • Microsoft Azure Key Concepts • How does Power Platform use Azure? • How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform? • Authentication and Authorization in Azure • Azure + Power Automate • Azure + Power Apps • Azure + Power Pages • Azure + Power Virtual Agents • Azure + Power BI • Azure + Dataverse • Azure OpenAI + Power Platform • ChatGPT + Power Platform • What are Azure Functions? • What are Logic Apps? • What is Azure Bot Service? • How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S104a

Automate your Business Processes with Power Apps and Power Automate

Learn how to start using Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) with SharePoint Online to automate your daily workload. Discover how to use connections to connect Power Apps to services like SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Excel, Outlook and even SharePoint on-premise.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Apps to:

• Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
• Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
• Connect to other data sources
• Apply Themes, branding, and layouts
• Manage custom conditional formatting
• Use the Formula bar to create complex functions
• Share your Power Apps with colleagues

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Automate (Flow) to:

• Connect to data in the cloud and on-premises
• Use triggers to start your flow
• Control branching in your flow with conditions and switches
• Review the run history of your Workflows
• Share your flows with colleagues
• How Licensing works

SharePoint is the underlying data storage system for OneDrive, Teams, and much more. Learning to use Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.

Monday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room S106b

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 1

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

Monday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room S106a

Power Automate Cloud Flows for the Absolute Beginner

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you!

Here's what you'll learn:

• What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care
• Types of Cloud Flows
• How to create Flows from a template and from scratch
• How to debug your Flows
• Power Automate and SharePoint, Excel and other data sources
• Power Automate Expressions
• Power Automate approvals And more…

All concepts will be presented using live demos. While this is not a hands-on session, attendees are welcome to follow along.

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today!

Monday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room S106b

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 2

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will also learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S104a

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover: • Morning: Power Apps ○ Delegation ○ Working with Dates and Times ○ Conditional Formatting of data ○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow • Afternoon: Power Automate ○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively ○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches ○ Working with Large Data Sources ○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction ○ Improving Performance

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room S104b

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover : • The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts • Copilot in Power Virtual Agents • Azure Open AI Key Concepts • ChatGPT key concepts • How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform? • Authentication and Authorization in Azure • Azure API Management • Azure Communication Services • Power Platform Custom Connectors • Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents • ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents • How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room S106b

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate. You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops. We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint. Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts. You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements: To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room S102bc

Building Business Processes that Can & Will Evolve: Product-Neutral Principles

Far more than data management apps, workflow solutions need to factor in the need for frequent change. You should expect even the best-designed models and applications to be regularly modified -- and that's a good thing.

This has an impact on how to design processes, how to create forms and reports, how to connect to external data, and how to maintain internal data.

This session will talk about reasons why workflow solutions need to be modified so often, why you should embrace this, and strategies and tactics for addressing it. Its advice can be applied to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), WEBCON BPS, Nintex, K2, SharePoint Designer, or most anything else.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room S105a

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :

• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room S106b

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it.

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions.

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

Wednesday 1:40 PM - 2:50 PM · Room S103d

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process.

Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity.

Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S102a

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls. Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S102bc

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate.

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S102bc

Stages and State Machines: The Ideal Way to Model and Manage Workflows

If you've heard of Power Automate Business Process Flows; they're an implementation of stage/state machine logic available to companies with Premium licensing.

SharePoint Designer 2013 supported stages, and third-party options range from emulation (Nintex) to engine-level support (WEBCON).

This session will start by explaining how stage-based designs and processes work, move on to why they're often far better than classic sequential flowcharts, and conclude with examples of how to build and run such solutions.

It's the most useful workflow "secret" you can possibly learn.

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S102bc

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:

• How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
• How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
• How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
• How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
• How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
• Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
• How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S102d

Using Power Apps as A Rapidly Deployable Front End for Open AI

In this session we will go over how to configure create a custom connector that accesses Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API. We will then build a Power App that will be used to configure and train face models and be used for facial recognition.

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S103bc

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn

1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S106a

Automated Notifications in Microsoft Teams

With many people spending their workday in Microsoft Teams, receiving notifications right within Teams can be much more effective than email notifications. These might be notifications of new sales, documents needing to be approved, employees joining the team, or any number of things. This session will show you how to use Power Automate to automatically create and update actionable messages within Microsoft Teams, as well as how to trigger Power Automate flows from within Teams. We'll look at the Teams-related actions and triggers available in Power Automate, and also see how to create interactive Adaptive Cards for use within Teams.

Thursday 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room S102bc

Unleashing the Power of Power Automate with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel Formulas

Are you tired of struggling with complicated logic and tedious tasks in Power Automate? If so, join us for this demo-packed session to learn how to use JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel formulas to take your Power Automate solutions to the next level.

We will explore real-world scenarios and walk through practical solutions step-by-step, showing you how to simplify complicated flows, generate dynamic adaptive cards, and generate graphs and charts on the fly for real-time updates to SharePoint data.

By attending this session, you will learn how to leverage Office Scripts to execute JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel formulas, providing more power and flexibility to your Power Automate solutions. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your development skills and become a more effective Microsoft 365 developer.

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room S103bc

Using PowerApps and Flow Together: Made for each other

PowerApps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level.

In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a PowerApp, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to PowerApps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your PowerApps and Flow work more efficiently together.

Even if you know both PowerApps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room S103d

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room S103bc

Arrays Made Easy: How to Effectively Manage Data with Power Automate

In this session you will learn how to make arrays work for you in Power Automate! We'll cover essential tips and techniques for handling arrays in Power Automate, including how to create, manipulate, and iterate through arrays.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, you'll gain valuable insights into how to streamline your workflows and maximize your productivity.

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room S103d

Power Automate process mining deep-dive

Unlock the Hidden Potential of Your Processes with Power Automate Process Mining! Dive deep into the world of process mining, a cutting-edge data science field that unveils the secrets of your business operations. Discover how Microsoft's Power Automate Process Mining solution revolutionizes the way you understand and optimize your workflows. Through captivating real-life case studies, witness how companies have harnessed this transformative tool to streamline their operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity. Join us for an immersive journey into the power of process mining with Power Automate and take your business processes to the next level.

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room S106b

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S102bc

Practical Power Automate Expressions

A deep knowledge of expressions is critical to maximizing the power of Power Automate.

In this demo rich session, we'll take a deep dive into the types of expressions available and how to apply them. You'll see how to combine expressions, use expressions to format email text, how to use and apply date and string expressions, how to use expressions with collections and arrays and more...

If you have a casual knowledge of Flow and want to "step up your game" with the use of expressions, attend this session!

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S106a

From Beginner to Pro: 10 Essential Tips Using Power Automate and SharePoint

In this session, we’ll cover ten practical tips to help you streamline your workflows and boost productivity with SharePoint and Power Automate.

These tips are based on real-world use cases and common problems, so you can apply them immediately. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, these insights will help you work smarter, not harder.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room S103bc

Create Power Apps, Flows and chatbots directly from Teams with Dataverse

Dataverse for Teams allows you to use Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents on top of Dataverse inside of Teams without additional cost. But what does no cost mean? What are the differences between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams, and how does that affect my Apps, Power Automate flows and PVA chatbots? This session will compare Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams and build our data-driven app. We'll extend our app with Power Automate (with parameters and adaptative cards!) and finally make our chatbot. The goal of this session is to show you the power of these rich integrations that you most likely have available to you today and build apps without any extra cost!

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room S105a

Implement Robotic Process Automation using Power Automate Desktop Flows

Join us in this session to get started with the Power Automate Desktop Flows, Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation solution. During this session we will take a tour of the Power Automate Desktop application interface, look at the available controls and discuss some of the basic concepts around Robotic Process Automation.

We will show you in a step-by-step demo how you can record user actions such as mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry, and then replay those actions to automate this process.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room S102bc

Copilot in Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate is advancing to the next step in the evolution of code abstraction: moving from custom code to low code to natural language authoring, with the arrival of your personal next-generation AI copilot in Power Automate.

In this demo-rich session, we'll walk through how to use the AI Co-pilot to simplify and speed up you Power Automate development tasks.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room S102bc

Advanced workflow solutions with Power Automate

Power Automate is the evolution of workflow for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This session is designed to showcase building flows for no code/low code solutions for personal productivity, team productivity, and enterprise business processes.

Topics include:

• Data connectors, connections, and user accounts
• Types of cloud flows - automatic, instant, scheduled, AI built, desktop, and process advisor
• Flow elements - triggers, actions, and conditions
• Building flows using templates versus starting from blank
• Flow settings, run history, & debugging Advanced approval scenarios - escalation, delegation, and parallel approval
• Expressions, formulas, and functions for managing data
• Using OData to better work with larger data sets in SharePoint
• Power Automate and SharePoint limits and boundaries
• Real-world application, tips & tricks
• Licensing

Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how to design flow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s business professionals.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room S102d

ALM for Power Apps and Power Automate

Everyone talks about "No Code" or "Low Code" solutions and how easy they are to build. What nobody talks about is ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Come to this sessions to learn about how to manage permissions and govern the environment and the solutions your users are creating.

We also will cover the Importing and Exporting packages and solutions, the Power Platform Center of Excellence, and using tools such as PowerShell, GitHub, and Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room S105a

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellence kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.