The UX Code: Crack the Laws of User Experience to Build Apps Users Love

Ever wish you could create apps that users rave about, but feel limited by a lack of design skills? You’re not alone—and the good news is, you don’t need to be a designer to build something amazing!

In this session, we’ll decode the science and research behind User Experience (UX) design, providing you with powerful "Laws of UX" that can transform your apps from functional to fantastic. By applying these universal principles, you’ll be able to craft applications that users love, improve productivity, and reduce errors—all without needing any artistic talent or creativity.

Whether you're building with Power Apps or Power Pages, these UX laws will be your secret weapon for success.

Join us to discover how you can harness the power of UX to design apps that are not only user-friendly but also a joy to use!

Transform Your Business Processes with Microsoft 365 & the Power Platform

Are you tired of outdated, manual business processes that are slowing down your organization's growth? Join us for an exciting speaking session that will showcase the power of Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform in modernizing your business processes.

In this session, we will provide a live demonstration of how Power Automate and SharePoint can be used to automate workflows, saving you time and increasing productivity. We will also show you how to build custom applications with Power Apps and Microsoft Teams, providing your team with the tools they need to collaborate and streamline their work.

In addition, we will dive into the world of business intelligence, showcasing how Power BI and Microsoft Lists can be integrated to create powerful visualizations and reports that combine data from multiple sources. With our easy-to-use tools, you'll be able to analyze data and gain insights that drive business success.

You'll leave this session with a better understanding of how Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform can help modernize your business processes, and with practical knowledge of how to create these solutions for your organization. Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your business and stay ahead of the competition.

Stop using static downloadable forms start building data-connected web apps with Power Pages

Asking customers to download PDF forms or print and scan forms is soooo 1990!

Aren't you tired of rejecting poorly filled forms, re-entering data, and asking your users to enter the same information all the time?

In this session, we'll show you how you can use Power Pages to quickly build forms and connect to your Dataverse data securely.

We'll show you how you create solutions that help you and your business adapt to the constantly-changing business needs of your customers, constituents, partners, or employees.

We'll also show you how to secure your content, and support anonymous and logged in experiences.

The Force of AI: Becoming a Presentation JedAI with Microsoft Copilot

Join us on an epic journey to master the Force of AI and become a true Presentation JedAI with Microsoft Copilot. In this live, interactive, and unscripted session, you will wield the advanced capabilities of Copilot, along with ChatGPT and MidJourney, to craft presentations that captivate and inspire. Guided by an experienced JedAI Master, you will collaborate with fellow Padawans to generate engaging content and stunning visuals, transforming your ideas into compelling narratives. Embrace the future of presentation design with Microsoft’s Copilot and let the Force of AI guide you to new heights in your creative endeavors. After this session, you’ll have the skills to create presentations that impress and engage, and with a wave of your hand, you’ll confidently declare, “This is the presentation you’re looking for.” May the AI be with you!

Sharing is Caring - Power Platform Community Resources

Get ready to unleash your superpowers and become a legendary contributor to the Power Platform community! This session will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to conquer the universe of contributions.

Whether you're interested in sharing an Independent Publisher Connector, Power Apps template, Power Automate workflow templates, PCF controls, or Power Virtual Agents sample bots, this session will guide you in starting your contribution journey.

Don't worry - this session doesn't assume any pre-existing knowledge.

We will walk you through the landscape you need to know to get your contribution journey started with the Power Platform Community.

SPFx Supercharged: Hands-On Bootcamp for Building SharePoint Solutions

Unlock the full potential of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) with this immersive, hands-on bootcamp designed to take you from concept to implementation. Whether you're setting up your workstation, crafting custom SPFx web parts, or integrating with SharePoint data, you’ll leave with the tools you need to build impactful solutions that make a real difference.

Led by the fun and highly experienced Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team, this session goes beyond coding basics. Dive deep into real-world examples, best practices, and reusable libraries that will fast-track your ability to create flexible, powerful web parts for SharePoint.

Expect to walk away with actionable insights, practical experience, and the confidence to deliver solutions that will impress both your team and your users.

Requirements:
You must be able to install software on your machine (no admin rights required) and have access to a SharePoint tenant with permissions to deploy to an app catalog (a Site Collection app catalog works perfectly).

SharePoint List Formatting: From Zero to Hero

SharePoint lists are powerful, but they can be very plain looking.

Fortunately, you can customize the look and feel of SharePoint lists without writing any code with the help of List Formatting.

In this session we will see how to create, develop & auto deploy SharePoint List Formatting, Column Formatting and View Formatting Definitions.

With no previous experience required, we will start from scratch, see examples you can use for free and even learn how to automatically deploy our List Formatting.

Revolutionize Your Forms: From Static PDFs to Power Pages

Is your organization still stuck in 1996 with outdated PDF forms? It's time to leap into the modern era! If you're tired of wasting time and resources on processing static forms or manually inputting data into your systems, this session is for you.

Discover how to transform your paper-based processes with Power Pages, creating dynamic, interactive web and mobile forms that not only streamline data collection but also adapt to your ever-evolving business needs—all with minimal to no coding required!

In this session, you'll learn how to replace your clunky PDF forms with sleek, user-friendly digital forms that enforce your business rules and seamlessly integrate with your workflows. Say goodbye to inefficiency and hello to a new era of productivity.

Join us and walk away equipped to modernize your forms and empower your organization to thrive in the digital age!

Power Platform for Pro Developers

The Microsoft Power Platform promises a "low-code/no-code" experience that enables makers and traditional developers alike to create robust solutions to solve business problems.

Does it really though? Does Power Platform mean that pro developers are no longer needed? Is coding a thing of the past?

It is actually quite the opposite: the Power Platform creates new opportunities for developers, and offers a new way to work closely with business stakeholders in "fusion" teams while doing less "mundane" work, and focusing on innovating.

In this session, you will get an overview of the Power Platform and see the many opportunities it offers to pro developers. We'll discuss why organizations should embrace a new working model, and how the traditional developer role is evolving to empower organization to quickly adapt to the constantly changing business needs.

Power Platform Toolbelt: The Best Power Tools You Aren't Using

Are you getting the full value out of your Power Platform investment? In this session, learn how to create the ultimate Power Platform Toolbelt using some of the hidden gem features in the Power Platform. Need to migrate data? Have a legacy system that you want to automate? Do you need a chatbot ASAP? Unsure what processes should be automated? There's a tool for that!

Power Platform Community Call - Live!

Join the monthly Microsoft Power Platform Community Call, presented live at the Power Platform Conference and broadcast to the entire world!

Power Platform Development Is A Team Sport

Every player can’t be good at everything. The key to a successful team is to ensure that every player in a team brings their unique value and complements the team.

Power Pages Overview & Roadmap

Join Sangya Singh, product leader for Power Pages, and learn all about the newest member of the Power Platform family. In this session, Sangya will explain and demonstrate the critical capabilities that set Power Pages apart from other website-building tools on the market. You will learn about the current features as well as what is planned. You will also hear from customers on how they are using Power Pages at scale to support their customers and partners.

Power Pages in a day

Lab-based workshop walking prospective makers through an end to end development of a Power Pages website including creating an initial site, building pages, styling the site, building tables and forms, configuring AAD B2C, setting up security, and preview the site.

Power Pages best practices in security, monitoring & administration

Presentation plus hands on show & tell covering the important elements of going live with your website including AAD B2C setup, using CDN, security settings, configuring telemetry, and utilizing key administration functions.

Power Pages & Alexa business scenario : End 2 End Walkthrough

enterprise-grade, low-code solution envisioning with real-time use case on Power Pages. this walkthrough uncovers important features including customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, Alexa skills invoking logic, Azure Bot, entity mapping, liquid templates, third party service provider authentication, pages configuration, custom security roles on exemplified scenario.
*High level walkthrough of business use case implemented on Power page
* Integration landscape custom channel & Bot interface
*Custom Alexa Skill
*Azure integration- Licensing impacts and Cost metrics

No Access? No Problem! Building SPFx web parts and Viva ACEs with a locked workstation

Do you want to get started with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) development, but can't get administrative access to your workstation? No worries!

In this session, we'll show you how you can configure your SPFx development workstation using some of the latest tools and techniques -- even if you do not have administrative privileges to your workstation.

By the end of this session, you'll have all the information you'll need to get started and build cool solutions.

Passion Led Us Here

I'm interested in tech, but don't consider myself a "coder" -- do I really belong in the Power Platform community? I have no idea what people are talking about half the time.

I'm a lifelong coder--what the heck am I going to do with low-code? Won't this ruin my credibility?

Do these sound familiar? We'd like to invite you to this special conversation where some very familiar faces from the Power Platform community share the paths that brought us here, their insecurities, and their coping mechanisms.

Mission UX: Enhancing Experiences in SharePoint, Power Platform, and Copilot Agents

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to elevate user experiences across SharePoint, Power Platform, and Copilot Agents.

This session dives deep into the science of user engagement, revealing how microcopy and microanimations can be used to hack the human brain—guiding user attention, shaping perceptions, and creating intuitive, satisfying interactions.

With AI tools like Copilot as your secret weapon, you’ll unlock the psychological triggers that make user experiences not just functional, but truly addictive. Learn how to create digital journeys that anticipate needs, streamline engagement, and leave users wanting more.

The mission is clear: create UX so seamless and intuitive, your users won’t just use your apps—they’ll love them.

It’s Alive!!! Animation techniques that bring to life SPFx, List Formatting and the Power Platform

My creation...has.....LIFE!!! Animated & interactive solutions bring a spark of excitement to what can be a boring and lifeless user experience. In this session, see how to use TypeScript, CSS3, and JavaScript animation libraries to breathe life into your SharePoint Framework, List Formatting, Power Platform experiences, and so much more!!

Mission UX: Decoding the Science of User Experience in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explore the science behind exceptional UX design across Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot Agents. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll uncover the psychological principles that drive user engagement, equipping you with the tools and knowledge to create intuitive, seamless, and captivating digital experiences using data-driven techniques.
We’ll go beyond traditional design methods, hacking the brain’s natural responses to create user experiences that are not only functional but deeply engaging. By understanding how the human mind processes information and interacts with digital interfaces, you’ll gain the power to shape user behavior and elevate your apps and websites to the next level.

What You Will Learn:
• Introduction to the Science of Design:
Grasp the core scientific principles of UX design for Power Apps, SharePoint, and Teams, with an emphasis on how users naturally interact with digital environments.

• Decoding UX Across Platforms:
Learn how to apply scientific insights to design intuitive, user-friendly solutions in SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps, and Copilot Agents.

• Hacking the Human Brain with UX Science:
Delve into the psychology behind user behavior to guide attention, influence decision-making, and design intuitive pathways that align with cognitive patterns.

• Practical Implementation:
Explore real-world examples and case studies to see how scientifically-backed design principles can be applied in Power Apps, Teams, and SharePoint.

• Advanced UX Techniques:
Take your designs to the next level with advanced strategies, including responsive layouts, accessibility features, and custom components that enhance every interaction.

• Microcopy and Microanimations:
Discover the power of microcopy and microanimations to subtly shape the user experience, backed by science to optimize user journeys.

• Leveraging AI and Copilot:
Learn how to use Copilot Agents and AI to make data-driven design decisions that elevate the user experience across platforms.

• Accessibility and Inclusivity:
Design with inclusivity in mind by learning best practices for ensuring your apps and websites are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.

• Design Tools and Resources:
Get hands-on with the latest tools for prototyping and designing Power Apps, SharePoint, and Teams, and stay updated with cutting-edge UX trends.

• Interactive Sessions and Q&A:
In addition to theoretical knowledge, you’ll participate in interactive sessions and hands-on activities where you can apply what you’ve learned and receive real-time feedback. We’ll also have dedicated Q&A sessions to address your unique challenges.

Hands On - Power-Up your Power Platform Solutions!

UX matters! Build intuitive and engaging user experiences Power Platform solutions, provide a way to enhance mobile app experience, data visualization & analytics. We will walk through demos and explore the key principles of building engaging, clean, and performant solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power BI. This workshop will also help enhance your solution designs to amplify actionable data insights and accelerate better decision-making. Learn quick tips and techniques to go beyond the usual and Power-Up your Power Platform Solutions experience.

What we’ll cover in this workshop
- UI vs UX Design principles
- Top tips for efficient Power Platform Solutions designing, templates, tools and resources
- Accessibility, Responsive app designs, Fluent UI & Dataverse for Teams Apps
- Things you should know for powering up app performance
- When to embed vs standalone power app, form vs custom screen, component vs component library and many more
- How organizations can benefit from the exciting possibilities of using Power BI and Power Apps together
- Easily build sites that deliver information and services to customers with Power Pages (preview)
- Hands-on & Live build on real-world canvas app scenarios with a set of best practices, guidelines and tips.
- Demos on the art of possible in the canvas app design world including
What, why and how on the Power Platform creator kit (preview)

Getting the most of Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists is a powerful way to build lists within Microsoft 365 and SharePoint!

It's also a powerful way to solve real business problems and an efficient way to optimize business processes without any extra costs.

In this session, we'll show you how you can make the most of Microsoft Lists to track your business data, and how to use your existing Power Automate licenses to automate your business processes -- without buying extra software or paying for additional licenses!

From Tiny to Mighty: Enhancing UX with Power Particles in Microcopy and Microanimations

Embrace the power of small with Ant-Man’s insights into microcopy and microanimations. This session will show you how to use tiny elements to create a significant impact on your M365 & Power Platform projects. Learn to harness the energy of Power Particles to enhance user experience and delight your audience, making your apps and websites as engaging and user-friendly as possible.

Community Ambassador Programs: Learn about the Biz Apps Community Leader initiatives

Come and learn about the Community Ambassadors programs for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 community contributors! User Group Leaders, Super Users, and MVP's are our three groups that each support our product users across the community experience. From answering forum questions to creating dynamic blogs, videos and demos- these leaders are there to help all community members learn, grow and thrive.

Eric Archer is the Community Program Manager for the Ambassadors programs and will be your tour guide, explaining the opportunities each group provides to both the contributors as well as the benefit to the community members. Accompanied by Community Program Manager Hugo Bernier, Ambassador Program Coordinator Ashley Felts, and a panel of community members representing each group, you will get to hear their first hand accounts of their experiences and how they became community leaders. We will close the session with a live Q&A where you can get all of your questions answered directly by the experts.

Build a custom dashboard with Viva Connections

What if you could give your business users access to all the mission-critical tools and data they need to do their jobs in one place, with very little effort?

And what if you could do this without any extra costs?

In this session, we'll show you how you can build your own dashboards using Viva Connections.

We'll show how to leverage out-of-the-box capabilities, connect to any website or application, create great looking adaptive card extensions, and integrate with Microsoft Teams and your existing LOB applications.

Building Experiences with Microsoft 365 Power Class

Join us for a comprehensive overview of the different options and scenarios for building custom solutions within and around Microsoft 365. Learn how all the various options work together, when to use what, and what to avoid. We will be covering the full spectrum from low-code/no-code to pro-development options while focusing on the practical benefits of each.

We will be providing an overview of the latest and recommended capabilities for building solutions within Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and other related Microsoft cloud technologies.

All Aboard the Streamliner – A Journey of Automation of the Power Platform Community Team

Community to many is about belonging to something greater than yourself with others who are passionate about a similar subject. What happens when you run a business unit that is all about supporting a technical community? Creating content, scheduling monthly calls for different groups, collecting information, hosting campaigns and challenges, answering questions in a timely fashion all require the same thing any other business does – automated, repetitive processes, organization and workflows. This session will explore the inner working and team chemistry of the Microsoft Power Platform Community Success Team and how we have jumped on the Low Code No Code automation “streamliner” train. We say if you do it three times, automate it! A step by step walkthrough of some of our weekly processes that help our team with scalability and consistency with our programs.

All Aboard the Streamliner – A Journey of Automation of the Power Platform Community Team

Community to many is about belonging to something greater than yourself with others who are passionate about a similar subject. What happens when you run a business unit that is all about supporting a technical community? Creating content, scheduling monthly calls for different groups, collecting information, hosting campaigns and challenges, answering questions in a timely fashion all require the same thing any other business does – automated, repetitive processes, organization and workflows. This session will explore the inner working and team chemistry of the Microsoft Power Platform Community Success Team and how we have jumped on the Low Code No Code automation “streamliner” train. We say if you do it three times, automate it! A step by step walkthrough of some of our weekly processes that help our team with scalability and consistency with our programs.

Beginner SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Bootcamp

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and learn to code using SharePoint Framework (SPFx), TypeScript, and more?

In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to configure your workstation for SPFx development, build a custom SPFx web part, create configurable property panes, use reusable controls and libraries, and connect to SharePoint data. By the end of the session, you'll be ready to go back to work and start building awesome web parts!

Conducted by the most fun (and best-looking) members of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team, this session will make learning SPFx an enjoyable experience. You'll walk away with all the facts, but more importantly, real-world guidance, best practices, resources, and tips learned by actually making stuff for actual humans.

You will need to be able to install software on your machine, but admin privileges are not required. You should also have access to a tenant with permission to deploy to an app catalog (a Site Collection app catalog is perfectly fine). Head over to https://aka.ms/m365devprogram to get a FREE developer tenant!

From Low Code to Pro Code: A Power Class on Building Solutions for Microsoft 365 with PnP

The Microsoft 365 Developer Community (formerly Patterns and Practices - PnP) is an open source initiative coordinated by Microsoft and the community to provide guidance, samples, and tooling. But what does that mean and why should you care?

PnP has tons of tutorials, videos, samples, documentation, and tools (as in amazing, ground-breaking tools). If you haven't heard of it or you thought it was just one or two things, you're doing M365 development on hard mode!

We'll dive into what's available, getting started, staying up to date, how to contribute, and we'll be taking a deep dive into several of the tools and techniques to take you from beginner to pro.

Power Pages Onboarding and Authentication - Secure and Simple

Power Pages is a super-extensible portal platform that is very well suited to providing secure access for external users to forms, workflows, data, and business processes. What it doesn’t do is deal with the authentication of those users. In this session we’ll cover the different options you have as a developer, and how you can use this platform in a variety of scenarios. Not a developer, don't worry this isn't a coding session, it is mainly a architecture session to guide you down the right path for your business case.

Options we’ll cover are:

• Azure AD B2C
• Microsoft Entra External ID (Preview)
• Entra ID B2B (formerly Azure AD B2B)
• Third party products
• Roll your own identity provider

We’ll use real-world demo examples to showcase what the onboarding experience looks like both for invited users, and ones that discover and self-register. From there we’ll talk about and show the things you can do in Dataverse and Dynamics 365, and also how integrating Microsoft 365 can be done in a number of different ways.

How to Fake Being an AI Expert: An Evil Consultant's Guide to AI

(We apologize, but due to a scheduling conflict, Hugo Bernier's originally-scheduled "How to be an AI expert" session will be presented by his evil twin Oguh Reinreb)

Did you miss the AI hype train and now feel like you're the only one without a seat in the AI guru club?

Fear not! In this session, Oguh Reinreb (the evil twin who always has the best schemes) will teach you the dark arts of becoming a top-tier AI consultant—or at least how to fake it so well no one will know the difference.

Join us as we demystify the world of AI with a sprinkle of mischief, explaining the crucial differences between Copilot and generative AI -- or that Azure Open AI thing. We'll arm you with a treasure trove of impressive buzzwords, so you can dazzle your friends, fool your foes, and maybe even convince a few clients along the way.

Don't miss out on this devilishly clever guide to mastering AI expertise—no actual expertise required!

Security: Your first step to Power Platform Governance

A common concern around low code platforms is “security”. Whether it is a low-code platform or pro-code, security is important to protect organizations and individuals from data breaches, identity theft, and other types of cybercrime. All organizations conduct business with partners and peers, and security data across organizations is as important as securing the data within your organization.
Power Platform brings all the strong security and compliance features of Azure and AAD on the table. In addition to all the standard Microsoft 1st party security constructs, Power Platform has many targeted governance capabilities that are focused on securing its unique app-flow-bot-Dataverse and connector ecosystems. Like all good security strategies, Power Platform security offerings are a multi-layered cake and offer defense in depth.
Power platform security begins at the tenant level and then cascades down to other elements such as environments, resources, and the Dataverse. During this session, we will dive into each layer of security covering key facts, next steps, what comes out of the box, how to further customize security that suit your organization’s requirements.

Power Platform Development Is A Team Sport

Every player can’t be good at everything. The key to a successful team is to ensure that every player in a team brings their unique value and complements the team. 

Power Platform + List Formatting Integrations Master Class

Maximize the potential of the Microsoft Power Platform with our Power Platform + List Formatting deep dive training. SharePoint lists are the primary data source for the platform, but they often lack the visual appeal and seamless integration necessary to enhance productivity.

Our comprehensive, full-day training covers the basics of Column, View, and Form Formatting and advanced techniques that integrate with Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Teams, and Power Virtual Agents. You'll learn how to enable Conditional Flow Launching, offer Flow Instance Linking and Progress Visualization, Command Bar customization, Power Apps Deep Linking, and Style and Design Integrations.

This workshop will empower you to transform your SharePoint lists from just a backend and separate experience into fully integrated and complementary solutions offering integration and interoperability with the Power Platform. With the knowledge you'll gain, you can provide a complete application experience across the platform, guiding your users and taking your solutions to the next level.

Power Apps Design, Performance, and Accessibility Master Class

Power Apps makes it easy for business users to build custom apps and solutions, but for the wide feature set, its design and accessibility options may leave you wanting.

Thankfully, your expert presenters bring a wide range of proven experience in design, performance, and accessibility for Power Apps that they can't wait to share with you.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to take your apps to the next level of user experience and user interface using incredibly useful tips and tricks, proven practices, and real-world guidance that will take your apps from basic to bravo, restrictive to robust.

Expert to learn:
– How to choose the right data sources for your apps;
– Recommended coding practices;
– How and why to create reusable components;
– An intro to accessibility and how to make apps accessible by design;
– How to measure accessibility; and
– How to use visual hierarchy and layouts to make your applications more accessible and comprehensible

Expect a day packed with interactive exercises, lots of examples from from real-world use cases, and tons of power! After this workshop you will have not only theoretical knowledge, but also gained practical skills to make better apps and set the new standard for your organizations custom solutions.

A glimpse into the future of Microsoft

We'll dive into, discuss, and look at, some key upcoming and/or preview releases of products and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference 2022 that occurred in October while also discussing many more things to come on the Microsoft roadmap.

Sharing is Caring - Power Platform Samples Contributor

The Power Platform samples contributor session will give you the information and tools that you need to get started making contributions to the Power Platform community. You'll learn about what the PnP initiative is and discover what type of contributions you can make.

Whether you want to share an Independent Publisher Connector, Power Apps template, custom functions, connector, PowerBI Dashboard, Power Automate workflow template, PCF controls or Power Virtual Agents sample bot, this session will help you get started with your contributions.

Not sure what GitHub is or how to use it? Not sure how to package up your Power Platform samples and get them ready to share? Don't worry - this session doesn't assume any pre-existing knowledge.

We will walk you through all of the basics that you need to know to get started with GitHub and the Power Platform tooling needed so you can leverage it to submit your contributions.

By the end of this session, you will have created your contribution on GitHub and be empowered to continue your contribution journey.

Sharing is Caring hands-on sessions are never recorded to provide a safe space where everyone can feel comfortable asking any questions they wish.

Power Platform samples:
https://aka.ms/powerplatform-samples

Independent Publisher Connectors:
https://aka.ms/connector-repository

Kickstart your Microsoft 365 and Power Platform extensibility with open-source and community assets

Microsoft 365 has extremely active makers, builders and developer community and together with the Microsoft engineering, community has built amazing set of tools and assets which will help to get started on extensibility requirements. There are samples, tools, and controls, which will simplify design and implementation of engaging experiences. We do share the community objectives and engagement also across the Power Platform areas, so join this session to know the latest around how to get started with building experiences for Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.

Passion Led Us Here

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It’s Alive!!! Animation techniques that bring to life SPFx, List Formatting and the Power Platform

My creation...has.....LIFE!!! Animated & interactive solutions bring a spark of excitement to what can be a boring and lifeless user experience. In this session, see how to use TypeScript, CSS3, and JavaScript animation libraries to breathe life into your SharePoint Framework, List Formatting, Power Platform experiences, and so much more!!

Power Pages and Fusion Teams: the newest Power Couple

Find out why Microsoft's latest Power Platform family member is the best way to build rich, data-connected web applications by empowering makers, pro-devs, and IT administrators.

We'll show you how fusion teams can work together and leverage the respective skills of each team member to quickly build awesome websites that solve real business problems.

We'll also demonstrate how you can use application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to securely build, test, and deploy changes to your Power Pages sites.

It’s Alive!! Animation & Design Principle Techniques that Bring SharePoint Framework Solutions to Li

My creation... is... alive! Animated & properly designed interactive solutions bring a spark of excitement to what might otherwise be a boring and lifeless user experience.



In this session, see how to use TypeScript, CSS3, and Javascript animation libraries to breathe life into your SharePoint Framework solutions, Teams experiences, and so much more!

Intro to Power Apps Portals: Step into the Multiverse

Are you looking for a way to create low code solutions that can reach outside of your organization? Step into the Power Platform multiverse with Power Apps Portals. In this session, you'll learn what Power Apps Portals is and how you can get started building POWERful applications that are secure, accessible, and available to your organization and beyond.

Empower your customers and partners with rich dashboards using Power Pages + Power BI

A demonstration of how Power BI can be embedded into Power Pages to create powerful customer facing dashboards and analytics. Includes demonstrating the use of security groups to pre filter data.

Developing custom code websites for Power Pages

Demonstration of how to use CLI, VS Studio and GitHub to develop a custom website and host on Power Pages. Covers how to manage source code and ALM. Include demonstrating how the code can then be uploaded to Power Pages Design Studio for preview and testing, and using the inline code editor to quickly adjust the look and feel. Consider including PWC as a guest to quickly show their pro dev approaches.

Creating Engaging and Inclusive News for your Intranet

The average office worker receives 121 emails a day. Amidst those emails are critical pieces of company news. How do you design your message so you successfully communicate necessary information and actions while driving engagement across the organization?
 
In this session, we will take a user-centric approach to strengthen your ability to communicate news in a way that fits the needs and expectations of your audience. We will discuss the steps for organizing content, designing pages, and the dissemination of SharePoint news.

Walk away from this session with actionable steps to create more engaging and inclusive news in Microsoft 365 by focusing on the audience's goals and mental models, accessibility, and user experience best practices.

Building Web APIs for Power Platform Apps

Power Platform means that we don't need to write code anymore... right?

Not quite. The kind of code that we write may change, but there will still be code!

Instead of doing the same old boring code (you know, like that form that you need to rewrite every year for some internal process), you get to focus on the value-added code that will empower the makers in your organization to build their apps.

In this session, you will learn how to build web APIs (and enable APIs you already have) so they can be consumed by low-code developers building apps with the Microsoft Power Platform.

Build a website with no code using Power Pages Design Studio.

Build a website in less than hour starting from a template, add pages, adjust styling, create a table, add forms, and publish as a PWA. Demo the finished website in the final 5 minutes.

Build a business website for your customers or partners in < 20 minutes with Power Pages

This session is intended as an introduction to Power Pages and how easy and fast it can be to build business websites. The presenter races a 20 minute clock to create a business website starting with a Google search and following the 5x5 experience. The presenter then builds and styles a simple website from the default template, sets up AAD B2C or LinkedIn login, and then previews the site before the 20 minute clock runs out!

Better Together - Building Real World Solutions with Power Platform and Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 for the Hybrid Workplace

Organizations are going hybrid - to support the needs of remote and onsite employees. In this move, technology can help support and promote a culture of inclusivity and engagement, while being secure, reliable, and compliant. Jeff will share more on how people work together fluidly with the latest innovations across Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive - with a few fun reveals. This keynote spans updates to employee engagement, knowledge and information management with Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Lists. Lots to see and learn for users, BDMs, and IT Pros.

From Low Code to Pro Code - Building Solutions for Microsoft 365 – Powerclass

Microsoft 365 is an immense platform, full of awesome tools and resources with multiple ways to customize the experience. With so many choices available, how are you to know which development direction to pursue and invest in and how it might best fit your organization?

If you are responsible for managing, designing, or developing solutions, need to understand what's possible from low code to pro code AND how to make sense of it all - this is the workshop for you!! We will cover different capabilities in the Microsoft 365 platform, concentrating on the Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Viva Connections, and Microsoft Graph.

Topics covered on the Microsoft 365 platform:
• List Formatting, Microsoft Forms, Power Apps, and Power Automate
• SharePoint Framework
• Viva Connections Extensibility using Adaptative Card Extensions
• Microsoft Graph & Microsoft Graph Toolkit
• And how to use them together!!

Change how you work with Microsoft Loop

Remember the days when we used to email documents to each other and only one person at a time could edit a file because it was marked as read-only for everyone else?

We had to change how we worked to work around technical limitations.

And some of us still work the same way we did 10 or 20 years ago.

But technology has evolved, and times have changed!

In this session, we'll show you how to change the way you work by leveraging the latest collaboration technologies from Microsoft.

We'll demonstrate the latest from Microsoft Loop, but we'll also discuss how Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, viva, and Mesh fit in the whole picture -- and how to prepare your organization to adapt to a whole new way of working.

If you or someone you work with struggles to see the value of technologies like Loop, this session is for you.

Add Teams functionality to your apps using Azure Communication Services

Increase customer engagement by adding Teams functionality like voice and video calling, chat, and SMS capability in your web apps, desktop, and mobile apps built in JavaScript, .NET, Python, and Java in a few steps using Azure Communication Services.

In this session, we'll discuss sample scenarios, and walk you through the steps needed to easily embed Azure Communication Services to build apps that will allow you to connect with yOur customers and colleagues in a more meaningful way.

Link to session: https://teamsnation.rocks/Room6

ACE Dev Detective: When Viva Calls - Introduction to Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions

To become an Adaptive Card Extension (ACE) developer, you need to understand Viva Connections, SharePoint Framework (SPFx), and Adaptive Cards.

In this session, we'll investigate why you would want to build ACE solutions, pick up the tools of the trade, and follow the clues you'll need to solve the mystery of using Viva Connections.

We will walk you through how to build an ACE, types of ACEs, where and how you can use an ACE in SharePoint & Microsoft Teams. You'll also learn how to fight crimes against good design and provide the best experience for your users. Alllllrighty then!!

Beginner SPFx Bootcamp

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and learn to code using SharePoint Framework (SPFx), TypeScript, and React?

In this all-day hands-on workshop, we'll show you how to configure your workstation for SPFx development, build a web part, create configurable property panes, use reusable controls and libraries, and connect to SharePoint data.

By the end of the session, you'll be ready to go back to work and start building awesome web parts! You'll also have the skills you need to attend the Advanced SPFx Bootcamp.

Conducted by the most fun (and best-looking) members of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team, this session will make learning SPFx an enjoyable experience.

Advanced SPFx Bootcamp

So, you built some SPFx solutions and you're ready for more advanced solutions?

Ready to learn how to build large-scale solutions using SPFx, and use pro-dev techniques like advanced debugging, unit testing, and automated deployments?

Want to level up your development workstation configuration to maximize productivity?

This workshop is for you!

In this "choose your own adventure" all-day workshop, conducted by the members of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team, we'll show you the skills you need to build awesome, next-level SPFx solutions and how to continue to grow your skills. We'll also show you how to use your SPFx skills to build solutions for Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections.

If you're new to SPFx development, please attend the Beginner SPFx Bootcamp before attending this workshop, where we'll cover the basics you need for this workshop.

Power Platform Zen for IT: Finding the balance between creativity and control

Microsoft enabled the Power Platform products on your tenant without talking to you? Great.

Now you've got rampant Power Apps solutions, untamed Power Automate flows and uncontrollable Power Virtual Agents.

And your users demand more flexibility.

How can you, as an IT person, empower your Citizen Developers to use the full potential of the Power Platform while maintaining a controlled and sustainable environment that protects your data and your infrastructure?

In this session, we'll discuss strategies and tools to wrangle your Power Platform implementation while giving your company an edge to adapt to changing business needs by empowering your Citizen Developers and embrace fusion teams.

We'll discuss security, governance, data loss prevention, application lifecycle management, and various other best practices.

You'll leave the session having attained Power Platform enlightenment.

Mission Impossible: Deliver a feature-rich SharePoint solution with PnP community assets

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build an essential SharePoint solution in the most efficient way possible.

To help you on your mission, learn how to harness the various open-source PnP gadgets at your disposal. These tools include custom SPFx web parts and extension accelerators, list formatting definitions with interactive, animated interfaces and an Office365 Command Line Interface.

Be the hero your organization needs without the dangers of building your solution from scratch.

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Microsoft Teams: From Zero to Hero

Let's be honest: someone probably forgets to unmute at least once per meeting. Or fails to turn off their camera. Or accidentally share unintended content.

It's no secret - online meetings and remote work are a part of our life now—these new ways of working come with distinct challenges.

We'll share embarrassing stories in this session and discuss ways to avoid common mistakes when using Microsoft Teams. We'll provide tips to help you make a great first impression, present like a pro, and be a Teams hero.

If you'd like to succeed in the digital workplace, make sure to attend this session.

Creating Engaging and Inclusive News for your Intranet

The average office worker receives 121 emails a day. Amidst those emails are critical pieces of company news. How do you design your message to successfully communicate necessary information and actions while driving engagement across the organization?

In this session, we will take a user-centric approach to strengthen your ability to communicate news in a way that fits the needs and expectations of your audience. We will discuss the steps for organizing content, designing pages, and sharing SharePoint news.

You will walk away from this session with actionable steps to create more engaging and inclusive news in Microsoft 365 by focusing on the audience's goals and mental models, accessibility, and user experience best practices.

Contributors: Assemble! Unleashing the Power of Community

It's 12am on a Friday and you finally fixed that nagging issue with your project. You shout for joy to your nearest companion only to be met with an unenthusiastic response. What if you had a place to assemble, full of community heroes who share the same passions for technology as you? A place where you can unleash your superpowers: share your hard-fought tips and tricks, your ideas, best practices.

In this session, we will redefine what it means to be a contributor. This community is not about any one person or group of people. It is about collaborating, sharing, or improving things for the greater good of the community. Join us on an adventure to build your community origin story.

What's in it for you:
-Tips for finding your place in the community
-An understanding of the open-source initiatives
-Guidance on where to get help on issues you're struggling with
-Bestowing of boons

Winning Combination: Team up with the Microsoft 365 PnP Community and become a SharePoint All-Star

Championships are won by the efforts of a team. Likewise, award-winning SharePoint solutions are built by the contributions & efforts of a team.
 
Together we will review how you can harness the PnP tools and resources at your disposal to enhance your SharePoint solution experience.
 
We'll learn how to collaborate with team players within the Microsoft 365 PnP community to streamline your development cycles.
 
We will also demonstrate a variety of SPFx development assets, samples & techniques to increase quality and decrease costs to deploy a championship SharePoint solution.

Top 5 Power Platform solutions you should build

You want to build solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agent but you don't know where to start?

Your company does not want to purchase Power Platform licenses because they are "too expensive"?

We'll show you five solutions every organization should build using the Microsoft Power Platform that will instantly help you recover the license costs and help every company save money and improve productivity.

Choosing between Microsoft Lists, Dataflex, and Dataflex Pro

With Microsoft Lists, Dataflex for Teams, and Dataflex Pro, it can be challenging to decide what to use when building your Microsoft 365 solutions.

In this session, we’ll explore the difference between each solution, examine the limitations of each and the cost implications of each approach. We’ll discuss best practices with each and offer real-life examples of how to use each solution.

Building your first bot using Power Virtual Agent

Power Virtual Agents allows power users to easily create powerful bots using a no-code interface.

In this session, we'll demonstrate real-life usage scenarios of Power Virtual Agents and build a brand new bot together.

Upgrade your SPFx projects using Office 365 CLI

Since the first developer preview in 2016, the SharePoint Framework has released over 10 major releases and many minor releases, adding new functionality and improvements along the way.

But how do you keep your SPFx solutions up-to-date with the latest version of SPFx?

Luckily, Office 365 CLI makes it easy to upgrade your SPFx projects with minimum efforts!

In this session, we'll show you how to the Office 365 CLI SPFx project upgrade command, some of the configuration options, and how to solve issues you may encounter along the way.

Getting started with Power Virtual Agents

According to Forrester, 69% of global data and analytics decision-makers plan to implement a chatbot for their organization within the next year.

Luckily, Power Virtual Agents is here and it is easy to use!

In this session, we'll show you how you can build your own chatbot using Power Virtual Agent.

Faites des belles web parts avec SPFx

Avouons-le: nous les développeurs ne se soucient pas vraiment quand nos web parts ne sont pas belles. Tant que ça marche, on est heureux. Malheureusement, vos utilisateurs ne partagent pas nos sentiments. Dans cette session, vous apprendrez les principes de style de SharePoint, et comment vous pouvez construire de belles web parts que vos utilisateurs aimeront en utilisant SPFx.

Building SharePoint Framework solutions for C# developers

Do you feel that Microsoft changes how SharePoint solutions are built every time they release a new version of SharePoint?

Are you still supporting old SharePoint solutions that were built in C#?

Are you to busy to learn the new SharePoint Framework (SPFx)?

In this session, we'll show you why SPFx is here to stay!

We'll introduce you to SPFx concepts by using the technologies you're already familiar with (like Visual Studio, C#, Nuget, MS Build) and show you their SPFx equivalents.

After this session, you'll want to go back to your office and build your first SPFx solution!

How to fail a SharePoint migration to Office 365: an evil consultant's guide

Everybody can do presentations on how to migrate from SharePoint to Office 365 successfully.

But only our guest speaker from Evil Consulting Corp. can teach you how make a migration take longer, cost more, and reduce user adoption.

We'll demonstrate real-life examples of "best practices" to avoid and present success-avoidance techniques such as:
- Don't communicate to your users, they love surprises
- Training is for babies
- Estimates are for losers

If you are preparing for a migration and you want to fail, this session is a must. If you want to succeed, you can attend this session and do the exact opposite of what we'll present -- if you must.

Integrate Microsoft Graph in your solutions using Microsoft Graph Toolkit

Microsoft Graph is the "glue" that binds many of the Office and SharePoint components together, but it can be daunting for a developer to start using it.

But it does not need to be!

In this session, you'll learn how you can use the Microsoft Graph Toolkit in your SharePoint web parts to display data from Microsoft Graph with little or no code.

It’s Alive!!! Animation techniques that bring to life SPFx & List Formatting SharePoint solutions

My creation...has.....LIFE!!! Animated & interactive solutions bring a spark of excitement to what can be a boring and lifeless user experience.

In this session see how to use TypeScript, CSS3 and JavaScript animation libraries to breath life into your SharePoint Framework solutions, List Formatting experiences and so much more!!

Using Artificial Intelligence in SharePoint Framework Solutions

Learn how you can integrate the various services available with Azure Cognitive Services in your custom SPFx solutions to solve real-world problems using practical business solutions.

Designing SharePoint Framework Web Parts for Non Designers

Creating beautifully-designed software is like kryptonite for most developers. Fortunately, it is possible to create solutions that work great and look great. Learn how you can create beautiful SPFx web parts that your users will love, even if you don't have an ounce of design sense.

Build a SharePoint Information Architecture your users will love

SharePoint implementations can fail or succeed based on user adoption. One way to improve user adoption is to make every user feel that you built SharePoint specifically for them. Find how you can build an Information Architecture that will make your users fall in love with SharePoint and help improve their productivity.