Cathrine Bruvold
Head of Power Platform & Power Apps MVP
Oslo, Norway
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Microsoft Business Applications MVP in Power Apps.
Power Platform enthusiast and solution architect with great passion for building and developing functional & aestethic Power Apps ✨
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Do You Actually Need an Agent?
Agents are exciting. That doesn’t mean every business process needs one.
With Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Power Apps and Power Automate offering more ways to solve business problems, choosing the right approach is becoming as important as knowing how to implement it.
This session provides a practical way to decide when an agent is the right solution and when a simpler, more deterministic approach may be better. We’ll look at scenarios involving workflows, approvals, human-in-the-loop processes, integrations and reasoning, and consider how complexity, scale and consumption should influence the decision.
The session is designed for solution architects, makers and technical decision-makers responsible for turning business requirements into working solutions.
Rather than starting with “How do we build an agent?”, we’ll start with the business problem and work forwards.
By the end, you’ll have a framework for deciding not only how to build your solution, but whether it should be an agent at all.
The Importance of Agent Design in Copilot Studio
Agents worth building require intentional design, but most makers haven't been taught what that means yet. As agent-to-agent architecture becomes the new standard, understanding how it shapes performance, maintainability and user experience is no longer optional.
Join Business Applications MVPs Cathrine Bruvold and Andrew Bibby for a practical session on how to get good at agent design in Copilot Studio and why it matters more than you might realise. We will explore why agents don't always deliver what you've asked of them and how to write instructions that actually work. Then we go further and dive into orchestrator agents that delegate intelligently to specialist child agents, rather than doing all the heavy lifting themselves. Learn from their hard-won knowledge as they shares the need-to-know non-negotiables when building agents today.
Leave with a clearer sense of what good agent design looks like and exactly what it takes to get there. Understand how agent-to-agent architecture affect performance, reusability, maintainability and differ from single agent systems. Get insights on how to leverage and simplify instructions to optimise agent execution.
💫 Master Custom Pages in Model-Driven Apps
Join Cathrine for an in-depth session on how to build and embed Power Apps custom pages in model-driven apps! Discover the great potential, interesting possibilities, and various ways of leveraging these pages to enhance application usability and capabilities in Power Platform. Learn more about the "how" and the "what" required for seamless custom page integration, as well as data interaction through pages in model-driven apps.
This session is ideal for Developers and Solutions Architects looking to elevate their Power Apps skills and explore useful and innovative solution ideas. Cathrine will also cover advanced Power Apps development concepts, including use of JavaScript, PowerFx and command bar configuration, in order to build and interact with well-designed and responsive pages.
Key takeaways:
✓ Understand how to embed custom pages in model-driven apps
✓ Gain insight into combining JavaScript and PowerFx in Power Apps solutions
✓ Learn advanced techniques for customized page development
✓ Get practical tips and use cases for leveraging pages in your apps
✓ See a demo of how various embedded pages work within the context of a model-driven app
Getting Started with App Building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
You bring the ideas, we’ll bring Copilot - let’s see what we can build! 🚀 We’re putting app building in Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio to the test, and you get a say in what happens.
This session is for Power Platform makers and consultants who know the platform and want to explore these new AI capabilities. We’ll start with a practical business scenario, then let your suggestions steer the build. What could possibly go wrong? 👀
We’ll cover the essential setup and getting started in both tools. Together, we’ll describe requirements, connect business data and tweak the app’s layout and behaviour through conversation. Then comes the moment of truth: testing, publishing and sharing the result.
Before anyone gets too carried away, we’ll cover licensing, controlling access to your app and its data, admin controls, and building and running costs.
Expect plenty of demos and practical tips for your own first app. Bring your app ideas and help put Copilot to the test!
Power Platform Governance Glow-Up: Build Your Baseline✨
Governance is demanding. The CoE Starter Kit has ghosted your governance strategy. Copilot Studio agents are living their best limitless life in the Default environment. And the one Data Loss Prevention policy is working overtime protecting every environment in your tenant. Everything is fine 🔥
This session is meant for admins who want to understand how to build and configure a practical governance baseline, focusing on foundational Power Platform guardrails and how to gain control through visibility.
Through demos and real-world use cases, we'll discuss best practices for access management and sharing, have a look at the new and natively available governance capabilities in Power Platform Admin Center and showcase how to utilise tenant and environment-level controls to visualise and tame your agents and apps living in the shadows.
You’ll leave with a practical understanding of the controls and governance practices needed to regain visibility, reduce risk and ensure that everything really is fine ✨
Power Platform Governance Glow-Up: Beyond the Baseline🚦
You've established your governance baseline. You know what's being built, where it lives and who owns it. Then someone's personal productivity app becomes business critical, a flow becomes everyone's dependency and an agent's consumption starts attracting attention. Your baseline is working. Now what? 🤷🏼♀️
This session is for Power Platform admins ready to turn visibility into action and explore the invaluable governance capabilities such as Environment Groups, Environment Routing and Advanced Connector Policies (ACP).
We'll discuss how to put controls into practice using the zone-based governance approach, and then talk about how to enforce guardrails as part of your environment strategy. Understand how growing adoption and solution complexity require more control, and that there exist options for scaling on Power Platform without driving the manual overhead and administration through the roof.
The goal isn't to apply enterprise controls to everything. It's to apply the right governance at the right stage. By the end, you'll know what can stay lightweight, what assets need stronger controls and when it's time to move that "little experiment" into a managed home.
Spice Up Power Apps Development With A Coding Agent 🔥
Working with Claude Code or GitHub Copilot as your coding agent isn’t just a productivity hack, it’s a whole new approach to building and optimising Power Apps.
In this session you'll learn how to configure and use Microsoft's Power Platform Skills plugin, the Canvas app MCP server and authoring agent to plan and develop Power Apps straight from a terminal or Visual Studio Code. We will look at how to design apps before even going into Power Apps studio, and you will understand how to create a GitHub repository for your app source code.
Expect tips, tricks and live demos that showcase how to utilise coding agents as part of your workflow. Gain insights on how you can utilise Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to build Power Apps. Understand how to iterate on app components using plain language.
Once Claude is part of your development process, going back to manually building apps “alone” feels unthinkable.
✨ Optimizing Canvas Apps for maintainability, reusability, and performance
Join Cathrine Bruvold and Daniel Laskewitz for a session on enhancing your Canvas Apps by focusing on best practices development for better performance, ensuring maintainability and promoting reusability.
Learn how to utilize different effective techniques and tools such as YAML, canvas & code components, HTML and custom connectors for building and designing well-performing applications. Focusing on optimization and reusability, Cathrine and Daniel will showcase examples from their own experiences and principles which will help you elevate your Canvas Apps development skills.
By attending this session, you will gain greater understanding of development standards in Power Apps that will enable you to build for scalability, avoid the common pitfalls and long loading times.
Takeaways:
✅ Learn about reusability of components in your Power Apps
✅ Learn how to optimize your Power Apps for better maintainability
✅ Learn how to improve the performance of your apps
✅ Gain better understanding of how to enhance the visual and technical aspects in Power Apps
Designing, Governing and Operating Advanced Copilot Studio Agents
This full-day workshop is aimed at technical makers, developers and solution architects who already use Copilot Studio and want to build agents that work reliably in real-world scenarios. We’ll start with agent design, focusing on prompt guidance, context management and grounding techniques that help reduce hallucinations and improve consistency from day one. Attendees will leave with clear design patterns they can apply immediately in their own projects.
From there, we’ll move into the challenges that appear once agents move beyond demos and into production. Based on real-world projects, we’ll cover authentication and authorisation, cost control and usage limits, and how to design effective human-in-the-loop flows. You’ll also learn how to use Dataverse with an MCP server and we will show how to bring services like Microsoft Foundry and AI Search into Copilot Studio in a controlled and practical way. The day follows the natural lifecycle of an agent, iterating through design, to testing, to operation and evaluation.
The workshop will be delivered by Microsoft MVPs Andrew Bibby and Cathrine Bruvold and is structured into clear modules, each supported by hands-on labs and guided exercises. Labs will cover refining prompts at agent and topic level, securing agent tools, monitoring behaviour in Copilot Studio and the Agent 365 workspace, and refining agent functionality over time. By the end of the day, you’ll have practical experience and a clear framework for designing, running and improving production-ready agents.
Key takeaways from this workshop:
- Design agents with clear boundaries and guidance to improve agent accuracy and ensure consistent results
- Apply governance, security and human-in-the-loop patterns to run agents safely in production
- Use a lifecycle approach to test, monitor and continuously improve agent behaviour over time
Impactful Development: Extending Power Apps with Custom Code
Not every business challenge can be solved using low-code alone. By leveraging the strengths of rapid Power Platform development combined with the flexibility of custom code, fusion developers and functional makers are empowered to deliver highly impactful business solutions!
Join Cathrine Bruvold and Pepe Diaz for this session on extending Power Platform's low-code capabilities with custom code, and learn more about Dataverse Plugins, Power Apps Component Framework (PCFs), Azure Functions, and Custom Connectors. Gain insight into design patterns and best practices for building maintainable Power Apps that are scalable and exceed expectations. We will showcase scenarios and use cases where low-code reaches its limits—and custom code provides the flexibility needed to bridge the gap.
Key takeaways:
✅ Understand how to balance low-code and custom development
✅ Learn more about Power Platform custom code capabilities
✅ Explore use cases where custom code can enhance Power Apps solutions
Don’t Wait for Errors: Monitoring Power Platform in Real Time
Your users shouldn't be your monitoring system in Power Platform. But with no overall dashboard or a single source of truth, staying in control is genuinely hard when every maker can build and publish a feature or a bug 🐛 anywhere. Monitoring isn't optional, but shadow IT and error handling is.
In this session, MVPs Cathrine Bruvold and Andrew Bibby take you on a hands-on maintenance and troubleshooting adventure packed with ✨ demos ✨. We kick off in the Power Platform Admin Center, exploring Usage reports to identify irregularities before they become incidents and proactive monitoring Alerts that flag problems early. Then it's over to Power Apps Monitor to watch issues unfold live from the user's perspective, giving you as a developer real app insights. From apps to flows, we move into Automation Center in Power Automate to keep an eye on every run, ensuring everything is up to speed. To close out, we bring in Agent Review in Power CAT Tools, showing you how to validate and analyse your Copilot Studio agents before they hit production.
You will leave knowing how and where to look for problems and symptoms proactively in PPAC. Understand how to spot issues before they escalate. Learn how to analyse app, agent and flow performance in real time in the Studio, and capture the live user experience to diagnose problems quickly 🚀
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