TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON,&nbsp;is a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Training Conference that brings you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure, &amp; AI.&nbsp;Whether you are new to Microsoft 365 and Power Platform or an experienced power user, admin, or developer,&nbsp;TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON&nbsp;has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by&nbsp;Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft product group members.
At Microsoft&nbsp;TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON, the&nbsp;sessions are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Copilot, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, Microsoft Fabric, Dataverse, Syntex/SharePoint Premium, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, SharePoint Administration &amp; Development, Azure OpenAI, OneDrive, Purview, Loop, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence,&nbsp;and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

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TechCon 365 and PWRCON Seattle 2025

Room 421-422

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
	○ Using Solutions to package Apps & Flows
  • Afternoon: Power Automate
	○ New Copilot Support
        ○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
	○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
	○ Working with Large Data Sources
	○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
	○ Improving Performance

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

In a world where digital transformation is key to staying ahead, mastering the tools that drive innovation is essential. This workshop is designed to empower users ranging from beginners to experienced, with the knowledge and skills to leverage Microsoft Power Platform's full potential, enriched by Copilot for Power Platform.

Our workshop will explore the entire Power Platform ecosystem, including: Power Apps Copilot, Power Automate Copilot,  Copilot Studio, AI Builder, Power Pages Copilot, and Dataverse.
		
This workshop is designed to be interactive and hands-on, as it is free today, with real-world examples and exercises that ensure every participant can apply what they've learned to their own work environments. Whether you're an end user looking to simplify daily operations or a power user seeking to build sophisticated solutions, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge of AI to innovate and drive impact.
		
Join Gokan and Mike, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft RD, and MCTs, for an engaging and informat

Power Platform with Copilot and AI: A master class for every Information Worker

Struggling to get users fully engaged with your Microsoft 365 and Power Platform implementations? This session is your solution.

Discover 5 things to immediately boost adoption and usage of your Microsoft 365 and Power Platform environments by up to 3X. Learn from real-world strategies used by leading organizations worldwide to maximize their investment and drive true user engagement. If you want to see tangible results, don’t miss this session.

5 Immediate Things You Can Do To Increase Microsoft 365 and Power Platform User Adoption

Metadata in SharePoint Online is essential for efficient content management and retrieval. Entering metadata manually is a simple and powerful way to start organizing your content. However, as the complexity and volume of content grow, this approach becomes difficult to manage. This session will guide you through transitioning from basic metadata management in SharePoint Online to leveraging the advanced features of SharePoint Premium. 

We will explore scenarios for choosing SharePoint Premium, focusing on the use case of managing legal documents. Learn how this advanced capability can streamline content management by automatically populating metadata fields, reducing manual entry, and minimizing errors. Discover how SharePoint Premium can enhance document accuracy and compliance, ultimately improving the efficiency of your legal operations. We will also discuss the one-to-many relationship of Matters to Cases and how to manage various content types including Contracts, Pleadings, Affidavits, Legal Briefs, Discovery Documents, Court Orders, Case Files, and Correspondence. 

Mastering Metadata in SharePoint Online: Unlocking the Power of SharePoint Premium

We will look at 3 real life customer Copilot case studies and what mistakes they made that limited Copilot adoption within their organizations. If you are planning to deploy Copilot or are wondering why your usage is not as high as you expected, this sessions is for you.

10 Must Dos for Success Copilot Adoption and Usage

 The SharePoint Agreements solution is a new offering that encompasses the end-to-end flow of managing agreements both inside your company and with third parties. It ties together functionality across multiple M365 platforms including SharePoint, Teams, Word and Approvals and has AI features integrated throughout. This session will share details about the experiences of early adopters and best practices for organizing content within the solution workspaces along with features coming in the next quarter. 

Document intelligence in the AI-driven SharePoint Agreements Solution: Practical tips/best practices

In this engaging, informative, and rapid-fire session you will learn about 20 different Microsoft 365 productivity tips, with a focus on both personal and team productivity.

This session offers a light-hearted yet impactful exploration of practical tips and strategies to streamline your daily work. Covering many aspects of the Office and Microsoft 365 platform, attendees will walk away with actionable insights that you can immediately apply to boost your productivity.

Expect a fun, interactive experience with audience participation, where you'll walk away with two or three powerful tips that could transform how you work. Whether you’re looking to save time or improve team collaboration, this session will be packed with valuable takeaways.

20 Microsoft 365 Productivity Tips You Need To Know

Everyone talks about them, but what the heck are they and how can I use them? We will start with some demos of how to use custom content types, then on to what the heck are content types anyway and we will end with another demo to build content types in the browser.

Key Takeaways:  
1) What are content types?
2) Planning content types 
3) Creating site columns 
4) Creating content types 
5) Using content types 

Content Types: Easier Than the Theory of Relativity

Join me as we explore Clipchamp's user-friendly interface and discover how to create, edit, and produce compelling videos without needing advanced editing skills. Whether you're preparing training materials, creating promotional content, or delivering tutorial videos, you'll leave equipped to integrate this powerful tool into your instructional toolkit.

 - Create professional-looking video content tailored to their training needs.
 - Streamline the video production process to save time while maintaining quality.
 - Incorporate video as a tool to engage learners and communicate concepts effectively.
 - Feel confident in using Clipchamp for both internal and external-facing video content, enhancing the overall impact of their training programs.

Join us to explore how Microsoft Clipchamp can transform your training materials and help you deliver content that captures and retains your audience’s attention!

Quick, Creative, and Compelling: Unleash Clipchamp to emPOWER! Your eLearning!

This session will explain Data Lifecycle and Records Management in Microsoft Purview from an IT-Pro's perspective. With compliance concerns on the rise in the modern workplace, Compliance teams are reaching out to their IT-Pro partners for assistance. This is unfamiliar territory for many IT-Pros, so this session is designed to help clear the path forward. It covers topics like:
•	Recommendations for mapping a retention schedule into a "software-friendly" Purview File Plan
•	Using automation to apply retention labels to your content
•	Using scopes to scale and meet complex retention requirements
•	SharePoint and Teams architecture impacts
•	Understanding what configurations can't (easily) be changed after-the-fact
	
To reinforce the topics, Joanne will discuss the skills IT-Pros should bring to the table when working with their Compliance team partners.

IT Pro meets Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management

OneDrive for Business is the Microsoft cloud storage service that comes with Office 365 or SharePoint Server. With OneDrive, you can securely store all your files in one place, share them with others, and get to them from anywhere.

But did you know that OneDrive can sync SharePoint document libraries using the new and improved OneDrive sync client on both Windows and Mac OS X? 
Or you can move and copy files quickly and easily with metadata between OneDrive and SharePoint? 
Or that you can securely share content with users both internally and externally to your organization? 
How would you like to be able to work with a colleague on the same file, at the same time, in real time? 
Or perhaps you'd like to use a workflow for content in your OneDrive? 

Join me in this interactive, hands-on session where I demonstrate the new features that you should be aware of when working with OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.

I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!

As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the amount of data can be daunting. Administrators and compliance professionals are being called on to support content management to ensure it is protected and maintained throughout its data lifecycle.

Joanne and David have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build compliance solutions using Microsoft Purview from the ground up. In this session, they'll discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing Records Management and Information Protection controls. They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization on its compliance journey.

Microsoft Purview Compliance – Tales from the Trenches

Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information.  As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders.  Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy.  Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information.  Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information.

Establish a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview

In this session, we will explore the latest and upcoming news in SharePoint within the realms of content management. We'll delve into new features released with SharePoint Premium. 
Introducing AI and automation, it redefines how you engage with content throughout its lifecycle, setting the stage for the future with Copilot for Microsoft 365, the next-generation AI assistant revolutionizing productivity.

But the core of the new features obviously are Copilot Agents in SharePoint that help you to find information for a specific scenario. In this session we'll show all different options and ways that you have to create and manage (yes, the security is always one must!) your custom Copilot directly in SharePoint.