Power Platform Content at Community Summit Barcelona March 10-12
Power Platform Sessions at Community Summit Barcelona
March 10-12, 2020 the Power Platform product team will be in Barcelona for the Community Summit which brings users and partners of the Microsoft Business Applications platform together to learn, collaborate, and connect about Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Applications.
Free of sales and marketing gimmicks, this event is designed and curated by the community to share real learnings, actionable practices, and valuable lessons, delivered by the experts in the industry, so you can put your new bits of knowledge to use the very next day. Enjoy Barcelona in the springtime and get ready for 3 days of value-packed learning, connecting with like-minded peers, lunches and a nice welcome reception on the house, and the most fun you’ve had at a Community Summit ever!
To register please see:
https://www.summiteurope.com
Power BI Sessions:
Building enterprise-grade models with Power BI Premium
Power BI Premium enables you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel. This session will dive deep into exciting, new and upcoming features including aggregations for big data to unlock petabyte-scale datasets that was not possible before! We will uncover how the trillion-row demo was built in Power BI on top of HDI Spark. The session will focus on performance, scalability, and application lifecycle management (ALM). Learn how to use Power BI Premium to create semantic models that are reused throughout large, enterprise organizations
Speaker:
Kasper de Jonge
is the Principal Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, where he has worked on developing features for Power BI, Power Pivot and other Analysis Services products such as the Tabular model and Multidimensional cubes. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Ignite, MBSAS, SQLPASS, and SQLSaturday. His blog can be found at https://www.kasperonbi.com and can also be found on twitter https://twitter.com/kjonge. He is also the author of Dashboarding & Reporting with Power BI: How to Design and Create a Financial Dashboard with Power BI.
Microsoft Power BI: Delivering business value with AI
Learn about the latest AI capabilities in Power BI and the upcoming roadmap with a focus on the latest changes in Q&A, AI visualizations, and AutoML. Learn how these innovations can deliver business value.
Speaker:
Justyna Lucznik
is a program manager in Power BI Team focusing on AI features on the product and service. In this interview, she talks about AI features announced in Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, and Power Query.
Working with Data in the Power Platform
Data is critical for the success of every organization. The Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps and Power Automate) provides a suite of tools to measure, act and automate processes around data. This foundational session gives you a 360-degree view for how to connect to data from any data source, shape, and size and get it ready to be used within all the Power Platform tools and experiences.
Speaker:
Miguel Llopis
works as a Program Manager in the Power Query team at Microsoft.
Power Query delivers market-leading Data Connectivity and Data Preparation capabilities for Power BI, Excel and Analysis Services.
Power Apps and Power Automate Sessions:
Introduction and Roadmap for AI Builder, the no-code AI experience of the Power Platform
AI Builder is the new artificial intelligence functionality in Power Apps and Power Automate. This will be a session with numerous demos where you can learn how to add artificial intelligence to your applications and processes without having any notion of programming or data science.
Speaker:
Joe Fernandez
Program Manager, Microsoft. Joe is an amazing community advocate, single handedly answers most of the forum questions and a Program Manager on the AI Builder team at Microsoft.
What is new and exciting for Power Apps
See the Power Apps experience will evolve through the next 6 months. This session will share an early view into what we have been working on and how we are working to modernize legacy experiences, improve the Common Data Service in all apps and fully converge the platforms, ensure high quality applications and more. The session will drill into topics such as how to take advantage of AI with practically no code, monitoring and test your Power Apps and finally Administration of Power Apps based solutions.
Speaker:
Clay Wesener is passionate software professional with a background in ERP implementation and business productivity software design. Currently leading the app experiences PM team for Microsoft PowerApps enabling the next generation of developers and app makers on the Microsoft Power Platform.
Introducing Power Apps portals for external users
Learn how Microsoft Power Apps customers can create websites over data stored in Common Data Service that can be accessed by external users with a wide variety of identities including personal accounts, LinkedIn, and other Azure Active Directory organizations as well as allow anonymous browsing of content.
Speaker:
Yogesh Gupta
Yogesh works as program manager for Power Apps portal product team. He recently contributed in building new portal studio for recently released Power Apps portal. He is super excited about sharing and learning from Europe Power Apps community.rs.
Introducing UI flows to Power Automate
This session will introduce you to the next level of application automation with UI Flows. UI Flows Robotic process automation (RPA) feature within Power Automate that helps you save time and effort. Enable anyone to automate manual business processes across all on-premises and cloud apps and services.
Speaker:
Stephen Siciliano
is a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. He believes that there is not a single User Interface that cannot be improved. His passion is to identify and execute on such improvements. Stephen enjoys being outdoors, hiking and running trails. He enjoys traveling and considers himself a transit enthusiast.
Intelligent automation with Power Automate
Microsoft is modernizing business processes across applications – bringing intelligent automation to everyone from end-users to advanced developers. Microsoft Power Automate is Microsoft’s process automation platform with 270+ built-in connectors and can even connect to any custom apis. In this session we cover this vision in detail, both in terms of what is available today, such as the new AI Builder, and a roadmap of what is coming in the near future.
Speaker:
Stephen Siciliano
is a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. He believes that there is not a single User Interface that cannot be improved. His passion is to identify and execute on such improvements. Stephen enjoys being outdoors, hiking and running trails. He enjoys traveling and considers himself a transit enthusiast.
Power Virtual Agents Sessions
Getting Started with Power Virtual Agents
In this nearly all demo session we walk through how to get started with Power Virtual Agents. If you haven’t heard of Power Virtual Agents, they empower teams to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers. Power Virtual Agents addresses many of the major issues with bot building in the industry today. It eliminates the gap between the subject matter experts and the development teams building the bots, and the long latency between teams recognizing an issue and updating the bot to address it. It removes the complexity of exposing teams to the nuances of conversational AI and the need to write complex code.
Speaker:
Charles Sterling (Chuck)
came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. He started out at Microsoft supporting Excel and moved through a couple of support teams to being an escalation engineer for Microsoft SQL Server. Taking his love for customers (and diving), Chuck moved to Australia as a product manager and developer evangelist for the .NET Framework. In 2008 he moved back to Redmond as a Visual Studio program manager then joined the Power Platform group focusing on Power BI and now
continues his community passion and looking after the Power Apps influencers and MVPs.
Hands-On Labs:
Creating your own bot with Power Virtual Agents with Chuck Sterling
In this 2-hour hands on lab we will build your very own bot! If you haven’t heard of Power Virtual Agents, they empower teams to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers. Power Virtual Agents addresses many of the major issues with bot building in the industry today. It eliminates the gap between the subject matter experts and the development teams building the bots, and the long latency between teams recognizing an issue and updating the bot to address it. It removes the complexity of exposing teams to the nuances of conversational AI and the need to write complex code.
Power Apps and Power Automate AI Builder in two hours with Joe Fernandez and Anousha Mesbah
In this 2-hour hands on lab you will get an introduction to the four major AI model types and walk through how to get AI and forms processing working in your very own Power Apps application!
Power BI & AI: Better Together with Justyna Lucznik
In this 2-hour hands on lab Justyna will walk the audience how to easily take your Power BI reports to the next level with the addition of AI.
