Chicago, IL

Virtual Agents

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S103d

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

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

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.

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

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

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.

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

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

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?
Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S106a

Power Fx for Absolute Beginners

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail. • What is Power Fx? • What are Data Types? • What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support? • How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application? • Power Fx Best Practices

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

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect at AIS

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 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room S106a

The future of bot development - no code/low code/AI powered custom bots with Power Virtual Agents

Eric Overfield

Eric Overfield

PixelMill, RD, MVP, MCT

Power Virtual Agents has brought the power of AI driven bot creation to the masses. You can now create, test, and publish feature-rich, natural language enabled bots across Microsoft Teams, websites, mobile apps, and more, all managed within a collaborative administrative interface that does not require developers, nor infrastructure engineers.

Join us and learn how to quickly and easily create bots using Power Virtual Agents. See how you can securely build, validate, and deploy bots using a centralized administrative interface that further help you maintain governance and compliancy. Further, learn how to use embedded tools within Power Virtual Agents to monitor KPI's and uncover additional wins for your bots.

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

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Ralph Rivas

Ralph Rivas

Director and National Solutions Architect at SOGETI USA and Sogeti Labs Fellow

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.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S105a

Attainable AI – Real World Artificial Intelligence for Everyone

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architect at Avanade

Why has your organization not embraced AI yet? Cost? Complexity? No perceived business value? Thanks to Azure and Microsoft 365, AI is not only cost-effective (sometimes free) and easy to use, there are many real-world use-case scenarios that you can take advantage of today without having to be a developer.

Attend this demo-packed session to learn how quick and easy it is to get started with AI in your organization to create bots, translate conversations, identify objects in pictures, and more!

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