Seattle, WA

Copilot Studio (PVA) Track

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 609

Power Platform Copilot In A Day

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

Power Platform is Microsoft's low-code, cloud-based service to turn ideas into impactful, end-to-end services. With the Power Platform having been available for over 10 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows, chatbots and websites. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for you company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it.

However, in the last year Microsoft has infused AI Copilot into all their cloud services and this change has affected Power Platform as well, some might say, more so than other services. Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he gives you a good overview of the Power Platform family in a day including all the AI Copilot features plus the changes coming to two of their services.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 602:603

The One Copilot Workshop to Rule them All

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architect at Avanade

Let's face it, Copilot is everywhere, in everything, it's like the force... and sometimes just as confusing and hard to grasp. Those who learn to harness the power of Copilots within their organization will be able to go where no organization has gone before...

But what does it all mean? It all seems so overwhelming. What if your organization is unwilling to pay for Copilot licenses? What is the average person to do??

Join Mark Rackley in this full-day demo-filled tutorial where attendees will learn:

  • What is Copilot and Generative AI?
  • What do you need to do to prepare for Microsoft Copilot?
  • What are your options for extending Microsoft Copilot?
  • When and how should you use Copilot Studio?
  • How can you create your own Custom Copilot that doesn't require expensive licensing?

With practical demos and real-world stories from the trenches, you will leave with all of your Copilot questions answered and feeling empowered to embrace Generative AI in your organization.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 609

Automate Desktop Processes using Robotic Process Automation in Power Automate

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

Automate routine tasks, eliminate the chance for errors, and free up time for more important work with robotic process automation (RPA) and Power Automate for desktop.

This workshop allows you to experience the utility of RPA and Power Automate for desktop and use out of box actions such as manipulating Excel documents as part of an end-to-end invoice processing solution.

In addition, with the Copilot feature available, building the desktop flows has become easier than ever! Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he walks you everything that Power Automate desktop has to offer.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 604

Introduction to extending Copilot for Microsoft 365

Jeremy Thake

Jeremy Thake

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Jeremy Thake, Principal PM Lead on Copilot developer experience team will introduce you to the different ways you can extend Copilot for Microsoft 365.

He will show you both the pro code with Visual Studio Code and low code approaches with Copilot Studio.

This will be a demo filled session to help you understand the power of generative AI for your business needs.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 611

Two Guys and A Copilot - The DnA Show!

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

William Huneycutt

William Huneycutt

Upskill Tech

Daniel and Andy (DnA) are two guys who work for enterprise level companies and must deal with day-to-day tasks that can be both time consuming and mundane. However, now with Copilot available across several Microsoft cloud services, these two Microsoft MVPs are finding ways to making their jobs a lot easier and, in some cases, automated.

So, join them as these two guys show share their tips and tricks with you to make your jobs easier and make you look like Copilot superstars. This session will cover both Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot features.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 615:616

What’s New with Copilot Studio

Dewain Robinson

Dewain Robinson

Principal Program Manager for Power Virtual Agents and Conversational AI at Microsoft

Pawan Taparia

Pawan Taparia

Principal Product Manager Lead, Power Virtual Agents

In this session we will go over an overview of what is Copilot Studio and how it fits into the Copilot landscape at Microsoft. We will also discuss the latest features and what Microsoft is working on in this space.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 619:620

Extend Copilot Studio with intelligent actions, workflows from Power Automate

Matt Townsend

Matt Townsend

Senior Product Manager, Power Automate, Microsoft

Ravon Lingard

Ravon Lingard

Product Manager, Power Automate

In this session, we'll show you how to use Generative AI capabilities of Power Automate in Copilot Studio to build action orientated custom copilots.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 606

Developing Graph Connector to ground your business data in Copilot for Microsoft 365

Jeremy Thake

Jeremy Thake

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Jeremy Thake, Principal PM Lead on the Copilot extensibility team will walk you through developing a Graph Connector to ground Copilot for Microsoft 365 with your business data.

He will take you through both the out of the box Graph Connectors as well as building your own in Visual Studio Code.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 604

Demystifying Copilot Studio

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architect at Avanade

Copilot Studio offers the power of bringing Copilots to the masses! Now anyone can create their own Copilot and harness the power of Generative AI! But what's the real story? What are the costs of Copilot Studio? What is the cost? How does it integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Join this demo-packed session with Copilot veteran Mark Rackley and discover the truth beyond the marketing.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 609

Extending Microsoft Copilot products using Copilot Studio

Dewain Robinson

Dewain Robinson

Principal Program Manager for Power Virtual Agents and Conversational AI at Microsoft

Pawan Taparia

Pawan Taparia

Principal Product Manager Lead, Power Virtual Agents

In this session, we will go over how you can leverage Microsoft Copilot Studio to extend other Microsoft Copilots, such as M365 Copilot. You will learn more about copilot extensibility as well as how to create and publish these copilot extensions. We will also look at which Microsoft Copilots are currently extensible and what ones are targeted for this capability.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 613:614

Bye, Bye Power Virtual Agents, Hello Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio!

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

At the Microsoft Ignite event in November 2023, Microsoft announced Copilot Studio and that it is built upon the foundations of Power Virtual Agents. So what does this mean? Is Power Virtual Agents gone? Do our chatbots need to be rebuilt?

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and a certified trainer as he walks you through these changes made to Power Virtual Agents and will provide you the guidance you need to adapt to these new enhancements.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 606

How Copilot Studio Uses Generative A.I. to Build Custom Copilot

Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian

Microsoft Business Application MVP

Microsoft Copilot Studio makes creating chatbots as easy as 1, 2, 3. The generative A.I. feature is able to take natural language from end-users and helps transform that into bot logic which can also be extended to Microsoft 365.

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he shows you how Copilot Studio makes bot building truly low-code.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 609

Extend Copilot for Sales using Copilot Studio to empower sales teams with data & insights

Bharath Varadarajan

Bharath Varadarajan

Principal Product Lead at Microsoft

Microsoft Copilot for Sales, the first role-based copilot from Microsoft is purpose built for sales teams. Copilot for Sales contextually integrates sales data and insights directly into Microsoft 365 applications, offering both chat based experiences such as Microsoft 365 chat, and non-chat experiences, such as writing better emails or providing actionable suggestions in the context of calls or emails.

Out-of-the-box, Copilot for Sales delivers actionable insights from your CRM. With Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can now incorporate data and insights from any sales applications you use – ranging from account planning and customer insights to configure-price-quote, eSignature and more – into both chat and non-chat experiences within Copilot for Sales.

Join us to learn how Microsoft Copilot Studios enables you to enhance and extend multiple copilot surfaces at one go – with engaging demos!

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 604

Using your enterprise knowledge for building Q&A experiences in Copilot

Julie Koesmarno

Julie Koesmarno

Principal Product Manager at Microsoft

Modern AI-enabled applications require modern data layers to handle hyperscale data for retrieval-augmented generation. Come learn about the latest improvements to the Dataverse data platform including Data Workspace capabilities for easy AI assisted table and app creation, and grounding your copilots with your enterprise data to drive business results with Knowledge in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 606

Deep dive into building Copilots with Copilot Studio

Dewain Robinson

Dewain Robinson

Principal Program Manager for Power Virtual Agents and Conversational AI at Microsoft

Pawan Taparia

Pawan Taparia

Principal Product Manager Lead, Power Virtual Agents

Come join the Microsoft Copilot Studio Product Team to learn about building your own Copilots using Copilot Studio. This session will go over some key copilot building capabilities to help you make copilots that delight your users. We will cover how to incorporate Generative AI capabilities into your copilot and how to incorporate them while also leveraging other capabilities of Copilot Studio to be able to build amazing new experiences for users.

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