Christina Wheeler
Principal FastTrack Solution Architect, Microsoft
McDonough, Georgia, United States
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Christina Wheeler is a Principal FastTrack Solution Architect at Microsoft, where she helps enterprise customers accelerate adoption of Dynamics 365 applications, first-party AI agents, and custom Copilot Studio solutions. As part of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Apps & Agents organization, she works closely with customers and Microsoft product engineering teams to drive successful deployment of Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Service AI-powered agent solutions. Serving as a bridge between enterprise customers and engineering, she helps remove adoption blockers, influences product improvements through customer feedback, and enables organizations to realize the full value of Microsoft's AI-powered business applications.
Prior to her current role, Christina spent three years as a Solution Engineer in Microsoft's Financial Services Industry (FSI) organization, working with some of the largest banking and insurance customers. Through executive briefings, MTC engagements, technical demonstrations, workshops, and hackathons, she helped business and technology leaders identify innovative ways to leverage Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot, and AI technologies to drive business transformation.
Christina's passion for technology began early. She started programming at age eleven and built her first computer at thirteen. Her publications include contributions as the technical editor of “SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog,” co-author of “SharePoint 2010 Field Guide,” “SharePoint 2013 Inside Out,” and author of “Mastering Microsoft Teams: Creating a Hub for Successful Teamwork in Office 365.”
Christina received her first MVP award October 2017 in M365 Apps & Services and became a Business Applications MVP in 2022 before retiring from the MVP program to join Microsoft.
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Prompt Engineering for Copilot Studio: Getting the Best Results from Your Agents
Getting high-quality results from your Copilot Studio agents starts with writing better prompts. This session focuses on how to guide and structure prompts to achieve consistent, accurate, and secure outcomes. You’ll learn how to use system messages, manage context, and ground responses in your organization’s data. Through real-world examples, we’ll explore how small prompt adjustments can dramatically improve the quality and reliability of your agents while aligning responses with business tone and intent.
From Automation to Intelligence: Using Power Automate GPT Prompts for Smarter Document Processing
Document automation is evolving beyond templates, OCR models, and rigid workflows. With GPT-powered actions in Power Automate, organizations can now add intelligence directly into their document processing pipelines to interpret, classify, summarize, and extract information from real-world business documents.
In this demo-heavy session, you’ll learn how to design intelligent document workflows using Power Automate, SharePoint, Dataverse, and Power Apps together with GPT prompts and AI-driven processing patterns. We’ll walk through practical scenarios that capture documents from email, process them with generative AI, generate structured outputs, and surface results for human review and approvals.
Along the way, we’ll cover prompt design strategies, structured output patterns, error handling, security considerations, governance, and lessons learned from real enterprise implementations. Whether you work with invoices, contracts, forms, or unstructured business content, this session will show how Power Automate can help transform traditional document automation into intelligent business workflows.
Empower Your Data: Choosing the Right Tool - SharePoint, Dataverse for Teams or Dataverse?
Unlock the full potential of your data in this session where we guide you through Microsoft's data tools, helping you understand the strengths and best use cases for each option. Learn how to determine whether SharePoint Lists, Dataverse for Teams, or Dataverse is the right fit to solve your business challenges.
Through live demos and guided exercises, you'll learn how each platform handles data modeling, security, scalability, integration, and governance. We’ll start by building a Microsoft Form that collects data in SharePoint using Power Automate, then evolve the solution into a scalable Power App backed by Dataverse. Along the way, we’ll share best practices, common pitfalls, and real-world examples from enterprise deployments.
Whether you work in IT, development, or governance, this workshop will give you the technical insight and confidence to choose the right tool for each project. You’ll walk away with the skills to guide your organization toward sustainable low-code success.
Copilot Studio Tools Deep Dive: From Connectors to MCP
Copilot Studio's tool surface has grown significantly, and most people are still treating it like it only has connectors. This session is a comprehensive look at every tool type available to your agent today: connectors, REST APIs, prompt actions, Power Automate agent flows, and the newest addition, Model Context Protocol (MCP). Each one unlocks different capabilities, and knowing when to reach for which one is the difference between an agent that feels powerful and one that feels patched together.
We'll start with how generative AI uses tools at runtime: how the orchestrator decides which tool to call, what happens when it picks the wrong one, and how your tool descriptions and input schemas directly influence that decision. Most developers skip this part and then wonder why their agent ignores a perfectly functional action.
From there we'll work through each tool type with live demos. By the end you'll understand not just how to add tools, but how to design them so your agent's AI layer uses them correctly, consistently, and without surprises in production.
Copilot Studio for Developers: What You Need to Unlearn
Most developers approach Copilot Studio the same way they approach every new platform: find the code, locate the extension points, and figure out how to force it into familiar development patterns. That instinct will slow you down here. Copilot Studio is optimized for conversational orchestration, not traditional application architecture, and understanding that shift changes everything.
In this demo-heavy session, we’ll explore the mental model changes developers need to successfully build agents with Copilot Studio. You’ll learn where traditional developer instincts still apply, including custom connectors, REST APIs, Power Fx, and Power Automate flows, and where they actively work against the platform. Along the way, we’ll cover the patterns that trip developers up most often, including topic design, variable scope, conversation structure, and why agents sometimes behave nothing like you expected.
By the end of the session, you’ll understand how to work with Copilot Studio’s abstractions instead of fighting them, where the real extension points are, and how to design agents that are more reliable, maintainable, and aligned with how the platform actually works.
Techorama 2026 Belgium Sessionize Event
Thrive Conference 2025 (Slovenia)
- Mastering Power Apps: A Full-Day Immersive Workshop for App Builders
- Harnessing Generative AI in Copilot Studio: From Concepts to Conversations
- Boosting Personal Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Real-World Example
- What’s New in Power Apps and Power Automate: Unlocking the Latest Features
Techorama 2025 Belgium Sessionize Event
Knoxville Microsoft 365 Community Day Sessionize Event
Thrive Conference 2024 (Slovenia)
- Mastering Power Apps: A Comprehensive In-a-Day Workshop
- Power Apps Canvas Apps Design Essentials: Creating Visually Stunning Experiences
- Automating Manual Processes through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Power Automate Desktop
CollabDays Lisbon 2023
Implementing the CoE Starter Kit for your Power Platform Governance and Adoption Strategy
European Collaboration Summit 2023 (Germany)
- Establishing a Center of Excellence for the Power Platform using the CoE Starter Kit
- Power Platform Panel
Teams10X - April 12 - 13, 2023 Sessionize Event
Virtual M365 Friday Cincinnati Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 EduCon Dallas 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 Sessionize Event
Teams Nation 2022 Sessionize Event
Power Platform 24 Sessionize Event
SPFest Chicago 2021 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Sessionize Event
Techorama 2020 BE Sessionize Event
Office 365 Nashville Sessionize Event
Microsoft Techdays 2020 Sessionize Event
Microsoft TechDays 2019 Sessionize Event
Office365 & SharePoint Connect Community Edition Sessionize Event
Music City Tech 2019 Sessionize Event
Techorama Belgium 2019 Sessionize Event
SharePoint Fest Chicago 2018 Sessionize Event
Office 365 and SharePoint Connect 2018 Sessionize Event
Techorama NL 2018 Sessionize Event
European Collaboration Summit 2018 Sessionize Event
European Collaboration Summit 2017 Sessionize Event
Christina Wheeler
Principal FastTrack Solution Architect, Microsoft
McDonough, Georgia, United States
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