Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 431-432, 4th Floor

Automation Accelerator: Power Automate Bootcamp - From Basics to Brilliance

This workshop is for beginners and I will cover a range of topics to help participants understand and utilize Power Automate effectively. Here are some key topics:

Introduction to Power Automate:

Overview of Power Automate and its capabilities. Understanding the different types of flows (cloud flows, desktop flows, business process flows). Creating Your First Flow

Step-by-step guide to creating a simple automated workflow. Using templates to get started quickly. Working with Connectors:

Connecting to various data sources and services. Using standard and premium connectors. Building Advanced Flows:

Using conditions, loops, and variables. Integrating with other Microsoft services like SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook.

Setting up error handling in your flows. Monitoring and troubleshooting flows. Best Practices and Governance:

Tips for designing efficient and maintainable flows. Understanding governance and security considerations. Hands-on Labs and Exercises:

Practical exercises to apply what you've learned. Building real-world automation scenarios.

These topics provide a comprehensive overview and hands-on experience with Power Automate, enabling participants to automate and optimize their business processes effectively

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 440-442, 4th Floor

Power Apps Quick-Start for Copilot-enabled M365 Makers

Unlock the potential of Microsoft Lists with Power Apps and Copilot. Join us for a session designed for power users and makers who are already harnessing the power of Microsoft Lists. We’ll extend List data with the functionality of dynamic forms and functionality using Power Apps and Copilot. In this session, you will get past your fear of complexity and learn how to: • Integrate Power Apps with Microsoft Lists to enhance data management and user experience. • Build custom forms and applications that leverage the data stored in your lists. • Explore real-world examples and best practices to inspire your own innovative solutions. Whether you're looking to improve your existing approaches or develop new applications, this session will provide you with the knowledge and tools to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Lists with Power Apps. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your skills and transform your business solutions!

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 443-444, 4th Floor

Seeking Your Approval: Using Approvals in Power Automate and Teams

With all of the emails piling up in your inbox and Teams chats pinging left and right, it can be easy to miss that quick, "Hey, does this look good?" question from a colleague. Using Microsoft Approvals can be a great way to have a concrete, separate place to collect those approvals. In this session, Lindsay will share: *How to build a variety of types of approvals in Power Automate *How to view those approvals in Microsoft Teams *Use cases for building processes around approvals

This session will enable audience members to build their own approval solutions, whether simple and straight-forward or complex and layered. Products: Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 443-444, 4th Floor

Leveraging Power Automate and Lists to Streamline a Chaotic Process

Asynchronous availability, procrastination, and lack of a clearly defined process meant that timesheet approvals before pay dates were a pain point for an entire organization. This session breaks down the List and Power Automate features used to bring some order to the chaos and includes a live demo of the solution in action.

Wednesday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 421-422, 4th Floor

Build External-Facing Websites Using Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 440-442, 4th Floor

Discover Dataverse for M365 Makers

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've been hearing about it for a while but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time. Adding Dataverse is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect.

• Learn what Dataverse is and where it fits in the maker toolset.
• Leverage Copilot for both data and application development through Model-Driven apps and other AI assistance.
• 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.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 435-436, 4th Floor

Use What You Have: Leveraging No- and Low-Code Solutions in 365 to Enhance and Extend Your Intranet

In this practical session, discover easy-to-implement but impactful ways to enhance the functionality and visual appeal of your SharePoint implementation. You’ll leave with examples of formatting modifications that make life easier for users, simple Power Automate flows that help streamline internal processes, and other ways to add meaningful value without learning JavaScript or bringing in an outside development team.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 440-442, 4th Floor

Forms, Forms, and More Forms: Data Gathering for the Copilot-Assisted Info Worker

Microsoft Lists (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Learn to navigate "what to use when" for your data collection needs.

This session will walk through Copilot-enabled and the latest capabilities and the options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.