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TechCon365 and PWRCON - A Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Conference

Room 608

Gartner predicts, “by 2024, over 65% of medium to large enterprises will have adopted a Low Code Application Platform as one of their strategic application platforms.” 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, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to a 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 frees 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, Copilot Studio, 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 + Copilot Studio
•	Azure + Power BI
•	Azure + Dataverse
•	PowerFx
•	Copilots in Power Platform
•	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, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, 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, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn:

1)	How to handle Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
2)	How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
3)	How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform


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

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've heard about it but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time to see how to scale solutions up from Lists. In this hands-on workshop we'll start with a Power App built with List data and build a similar solution using Dataverse as the data source - talking through the pros and cons comparison along the way. 

Adding Dataverse is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect. 
- Learn what Dataverse is, where it fits in the maker toolset, and how Copilot adds to the experience.
- Cover what the differences are between Dataverse, Microsoft Lists, and other data sources and talk through some of the 'what to use when' considerations as Lists solution builders integrate with and shift to Power Platform tools. 
- Get a perspective on the maker skills needed when using Dataverse and how to get started in your organization. 

Using the Developer Plan, attendees will get a hands-on look at Creating Dataverse tables, relationships, forms, and more. 
With Dataverse as a data source, we'll also do a quick compare of model-driven vs. canvas Power Apps. 

Dataverse Bootcamp for M365 Makers

Are you an admin who's been administering M365 for years? Or are you brand new to the admin role? Either way, there will be something for you in this workshop!

We will be taking a deep look into the administration of M365 and some of its services, with a heavy focus on Teams, using the admin center, PowerShell, Graph, and more. Expect deep explainers on what different switches really do, and practical advice on how to configure things appropriately for your organization.

We will spend time in this workshop setting up automations together and sharing real world examples of how to make your job easier.

Ultimate guide to administering M365 and Teams

Microsoft advanced content management and experiences - where AI meets content. Whether SharePoint Premium, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Archive, or SharePoint Embedded, you now have new ways to engage with your most critical content, while managing and protecting it through its lifecycle. In this era of AI and Copilot, learn how you can not only maximize content value with security and structure but make sure you prime and manage your content for Copilot too. 

SharePoint Premium - Intelligent Content for Everyone

At the Microsoft Ignite event in November 2023, Microsoft made the official announcement of transitioning Syntex to SharePoint Premium. 

Join Joanne Klein and Daniel Christian, Microsoft MVPs as they walk you through the new SharePoint Premium and all the features that come along with it that can help improve the experience, process and governance of all the content that resides in your SharePoint sites. 

Bye, Bye Microsoft Syntex, Hello SharePoint Premium!

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Paul Stork.

Discussion Bytes - Governance for Citizen Developers 

Microsoft 365 Groups are at the heart of modern collaboration and security models. Much like the Force binds the universe together, M365 Groups binds our apps. They provide permissions management and a security service that can simplify managing access to users throughout SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and more.

Let's take a closer look at the power of Microsoft 365 Groups and how they can bring together security, collaboration, and communication.  We'll learn how to use the Force... Groups to streamline modern work in the context of Microsoft 365 applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, as well as how guest management works within a Group.

Microsoft 365 Groups - The Force That Binds the Universe (of Apps) Together

Learn how to use Microsoft Viva to plan, communicate, measure, and support your organization’s rollout of Copilot or other Microsoft services. See Viva in action in this demo-heavy session. Learn real-world strategies, best practices, templates, and prescriptive guidance for an end-to-end campaign to drive adoption and share knowledge about Copilot. Help your organization successfully deploy and harness one of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet. 

Driving rollout & adoption of Microsoft 365 and Copilot with Microsoft Viva  

Security of data and assets is key for any enterprise grade solutions powered by AI. 
Join this session to learn how to operate your D365 and Power Platform AI-powered solutions securely and about what governance and compliance options organizations of all sizes have available to easily and responsibly scale their Dataverse business data footprint. 
We will cover the latest platform innovations to keep your data secured in an AI-driven world, using scalable controls for authentication and authorization.

Dataverse: Safeguard AI-enabled Enterprise Applications and Copilots

Users are spending more and more time using Teams. It makes sense to try and reduce the friction of context switching by bringing our custom applications directly into Teams where they are working. We are able to harness the collaborative nature of Teams and SharePoint in one application and render it in many different contexts. 

In this introductory developer session we will look at how to create and deploy a SharePoint Framework WebPart and have it be usable in Teams. We will use one code base to make the web part Teams aware in both a Teams Tab and a Personal App. We will look at how to use that app to read and write data into SharePoint using PnPjs.

Users will leave with an understanding of how to leverage SPFx to create applications they can use in Teams and resources on how to explore this further. 

Code Once Use Everywhere - Using SPFx to create applications that work in Teams and SharePoint

Delve into utilizing Microsoft Graph to answer complex scenario questions by reasoning over all its data endpoints.  In this session, you'll learn to achieve this using plugins and Semantic Kernel, leveraging natural language queries to dynamically select the appropriate endpoint.  Discover how to unlock value from your M365 and personal data to address nuanced end-user needs. 

Exploring Microsoft Graph copilot extensibility with Semantic Kernel and plugins

Copilot is a awesome product, but there are a lot of things you will need to before deploying to take it work as expected.  

In this session we will go through what you need to do today (data cleansing, deduping, training, permissions review and much more...)  to be ready for Copilot tomorrow.

AI - Intelligent Garbage in Semi-Intelligent Garbage Out

Learn how to save time and deliver more effective communications with Viva Amplify with this introductory session. We'll cover how to get setup and started with the latest Viva tool designed for organizational communications, including getting access, creating & managing campaigns, publishing to multiple channels, and measuring impact and reporting. 


Getting started with Viva Amplify

Learn the latest on M365 Backup & Archiving – file level archiving, Teams support for backup, and much more are now available in preview!

The Ins and Outs of M365 Backup & Archiving

SharePoint Embedded is the fastest way for developers to build Copilot experiences in their applications. Learn how you can build a Copilot-enabled SharePoint Embedded application in minutes, and how you can bring your app's content and experiences to Microsoft Copilot with custom Copilot Plugins.

Building Copilot experiences in SharePoint Embedded applications  

Every month there are dozens of changes made throughout the services in Microsoft 365. The changes can bring brand new features, but also change aspects on which your business solutions are based.  

How do you stay informed about the changes and prepare your environment for all the updates? How can you keep your users up-to-date with the features that are available and manage the process of change? How does Ai and Copilot help (or not)?
 
During this session, we will discuss how IT Pros and collaboration enablers can keep up with all the changes, promote adoption with your users, and help your organization stay focused on what you do best. Real-world examples of how you can manage all the data available to you will be shared. You will leave with the tools you need to be proactive in managing cloud changes in your organization.