Power Hour: Build and Beyond

Power Hour: Build and Beyond a dynamic exploration of the latest features and future directions of Microsoft's Power Platform.  

In this session,  

Join us for this special addition of Power Hour, where CVP of Business Applications & Platforms, Charles Lamanna will share how you and your organisation can improve your customer and employee experience leveraging AI, Copilot, and the Power Platform.

Join us for our September Power Hour where we will show you how extend and innovate around your ERP system with the Power Platform. You will see how Power Platform can help you access and analyse your data, build custom apps and workflows, automate processes, and enable conversational AI.

We will cover:

• How Power Platform can help you extend and innovate around SAP
• How to create apps and workflows for your users and customers using Power Apps ,Power Automate & PVA
• Walk through of some real world use cases and common scenarios to help you get started

Register now and secure your spot!

Using a low code platform doesn’t limit your ability to make good looking apps that are easy to use. Join us for this month’s Power Hour, where special Guest April Dunnam, Principal Cloud Advocate – Power Platform at Microsoft, will walk through the main approaches you can take to building a Power App (Data or design first) and how to improve your UX design by:  

• Leveraging out-of-the box, styling Power Platform features 
• Balance UI design and usability
• Building inclusive and accessible Power Apps for all  

View this session to dive deep on the new Developer Power Platform capabilities recently announced Build, including:

• Co-Pilot enhancements to existing services within Power Apps and Automate and new services in Power Pages and Power BI
• Power Virtual Agents Generative Answers & Action with ability to have plug-ins
• Updates to Managed Environments with the inclusion of a new catalogue of enterprise-approved templates and components.

In this session you will learn about these new features 

• Design Studio makes it easy to design, style, configure, and publish modern business websites
• The Templates Hub hosts full-featured websites with demo data, so you can jumpstart your journey
• How to extend your pages with advanced pro-developer tools 
• Security and governance updates include turnkey integration with Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall. 

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In this Power Hour we are joined by Martin Abbott, App Innovation Specialist at Microsoft to showcase:

• Scenarios where Power Platform & Azure services can integrate to extend beyond a no or low code tool
• How to enable quicker time to value for core IT delivery
• Use cases across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power pages.

Join this upcoming session to discover many new Power Platform capabilities, including how to:

• Make the most of Express Design, Power App Ideas, Co-Authoring in Power Apps, new SAP integrations, Power Automate, the CoE Starter kit and more.
• Work seamlessly together with solutions that ease collaboration.
• Deliver more value to your customers by modernising your processes to accelerate results.

Discover the best practices to follow when establishing admin and governance for Power Platform across three core pillars:

Power Hour: Build and Beyond a dynamic exploration of the latest features and future directions of Microsoft's Power Platform.  

In this session,  

Join us, with guest speaker Tae-Rim Han, Technical Lead - Dynamics 365 and Power Platform at Aveo Group, as we explore:

• How fusion teams work in the real world and how this changes the way developers work with their users
• How developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Power Platform with different Azure services
• Actionable use cases helping developers save time and boost productivity

With Microsoft Dataverse, you can securely store and manage your data — but it is so much more than a database. This powerful data platform empowers you to work with any type of data or app to gain business insights and drive action.

Explore:

• What is Dataverse and how it can help your business
• Under the hood of Dataverse — from its architecture, performance and scale to audit and security
• The extensibility and integration of Dataverse

Low code is no longer just for ‘citizen developers’. Low code tools can empower all developers to innovate faster, maximise efficiency and reduce costs. In the this episode of Power Hour, we brought together a panel of experts, including Eric Regnier, Power Platform Chapter Lead & Microsoft MVP from Westpac New Zealand, Isaac Missingha, Chapter Lead of Software Engineering at Westpac New Zealand, and Matt Pontel, Modern Applications & Power Platform Lead at Velrada.

Join us as we discuss:

• How to start thinking about a low code platform as part of your app innovation strategy
• How your business and IT can come together to achieve true fusion team development (i.e. People, Skills and Process)
• How to determine app classification and identification
• How to manage ALM in this new app estate
  

Power Virtual Agents go beyond customer service to anywhere you need to engage with your customers or staff.
You'll Learn:

• How to create a bot to answer common questions and resolve customer and employee issues
• How to use your bot to automate tasks on behalf of customers and staff
• How to use Power Virtual Agents in Teams

The difference between Power Virtual Agents and Azure Bot Framework

Want to see just how quick and easy app building can be? Our guest Jolene e Sousa from Eighty20 Solutions will build an app LIVE during the session. 

You’ll learn: 

• Best practices for building apps with Power Platform 
• How to build apps quickly with pre-built templates and drag-and-drop simplicity 
• How Power Apps can enrich the ProDevTools set 

Power BI can help you open a whole world of data-powered insights with seamless integration across Power Platform and Office 365 applications.

You’ll learn: 

• How to gain and share deeper insights with data visualisations, built-in AI capabilities and pre-built and custom data connectors 
• How to enhance collaboration with native integration experiences in productivity tools like Teams, Excel and SharePoint 
• How you can leverage Power BI to empower your team with data-driven decision making 

With Microsoft Power Automate you can turn outdated into automated with a full spectrum of automation solutions. Join Foo Shen Wu and Microsoft MVP Elaiza Benitez, demonstrate and discuss best practices to make the most out of Power Automate. 

You’ll learn: 

• Cloud Flow and Hyper Automation 
• Tips & Tricks with Cloud Flow 

Performance is critical to user experience and the overall usability of any app.  

In this webinar with Foo Shen Wu, you’ll learn: 

• Power Platform best practices to optimise performance and user experience using Monitor 
• Canvas App design and architecture 

Microsoft Power Platform governance capabilities provide a solid foundation for securing, monitoring, and managing low-code or no-code resources at scale in your enterprise. Deep dive into the latest governance features for data loss prevention, administrative analytics, and user authorisation. 

You’ll learn: 

• Insights & reporting 
• Roles & security 
• Data loss prevention 

What is a low code platform strategy and why should every company have one? 

In this webinar you’ll learn: 

• What is low code 
• How to position the value of low code platform as part of your IT stack 
• Overview of the power platform 
• How to get started 

Microsoft Power Platform has been on a journey to empower all developers with AI-powered development experiences since 2021. This union of AI and low-code revolutionises the way solutions are built and fundamentally transforms the way people work, collaborate, and create.

Join this upcoming session to deep dive into all the AI features available across the platform. We will cover:

• What’s available now – AI Builder, Express Design , Natural language
• What’s coming next – Co Pilot across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power BI
• How to get even more business value from these features

In this installation of Power Hour, Foo Shen Wu, from our Power CAT team will share how to unleash more value with Dataverse.. You will  hear about the latest Dataverse features that can help you unlock more value from the Power Platform and what’s coming up on the roadmap