Deepak Shrivastava
Microsoft Business Applications MVP
Houston, Texas, United States
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My name is Deepak Shrivastava. I am a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and a Senior Manager at EY.
I am a technology enthusiast and problem solver. I work/speak/blog/Vlog on Microsoft technology, including Office 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Teams Etc. I am helping global clients on Power Platform adoption and empowering them with Power Platform possibilities, capabilities, and easiness.
I am a leader of the Houston Power Platform User Group and Power Automate community superuser.
I love traveling , exploring new places, and meeting people from different cultures.
"Share Knowledge to empower others to achieve more."
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From Legacy to Modern: Rebuilding & Re‑energizing Apps with an AI‑Native App Development Experience
Legacy Apps, whether build in power apps using classic experience or other platform often slow innovation, becoming difficult to maintain, scale, and adapt to modern business needs. With the AI‑native app development vibe coding experience in Power Platform, you can rapidly modernize existing Apps. This session explores how to rebuild and re‑energize classic apps using AI‑driven design, assisted development, and low‑code acceleration to deliver modern, enterprise‑ready applications in a fraction of the time.
Attendees will learn how AI capabilities within Power Platform help convert legacy requirements into modern app layouts, data models, and workflows; support intelligent automation; and guide makers through best‑practice design decisions. I will show real-world examples and how simple it is to rebuild an app with the new AI-native development experience, live.
From Zero to Agent with Copilot Studio: Hands‑On Agent Building with the Right Tools and Knowledge
AI agents are rapidly becoming the front door to business applications—but building effective, enterprise ready agents require more than just turning on AI. This full day, hands on workshop is designed to take participants from zero to a working, production ready agent using Copilot Studio, with a strong focus on selecting the right tools, applying best practices, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Participants will learn how Copilot Studio fits within the broader Microsoft ecosystem, how to ground agents in business data using Dataverse, and how to enable agents to take real actions through Power Automate. The workshop emphasizes AI native agent design, covering conversational flows, prompt strategies, tool invocation, and authentication patterns. Attendees will also explore when to extend agents using Microsoft 365 Copilot and when Azure AI capabilities are required for advanced logic.
By the end of the day, attendees will have built, tested, and deployed an intelligent agent, gained a practical decision framework for tool selection, and left with proven design patterns they can immediately apply in their own environments.
From Blueprint to Brilliance: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Power Platform Plan Designer
This comprehensive session will take you on an in-depth journey through the capabilities and features of the Plan Designer, empowering you to transform your ideas or busing problem into a complete, end-to-end low-code solution in minutes.
Join us as we explore the intuitive interface, user friendly AI-powered seamless experience and natural language interaction that make the Power Platform Plan Designer an essential asset for any organization.
Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the platform, this session will provide valuable insights and practical tips on plan designer capabilities.
Key takeaways include:
• Understanding the core functionalities of the Plan Designer
• Real-world examples and use case
• Tips and tricks to maximize efficiency and productivity using Plan designer
Alone or together? Best Practices for Agents with M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft offers multiple platforms for building AI agents—but choosing the right one (or combining them effectively) is often the hardest part. Should you extend Microsoft 365 Copilot, build a custom agent with Copilot Studio, or go deep with Azure AI Foundry? And when does it make sense to use them together?
In this session, I will break down best practices for designing and building agents across M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry, focusing on real world decision criteria rather than feature comparisons. You’ll learn how each platform fits into the Microsoft agent ecosystem, the strengths and tradeoffs of using them independently, and proven patterns for combining them to deliver scalable, secure, and business ready agents.
Through practical scenarios and architecture guidance, this session will help you avoid common pitfalls, align agent design with business goals, and confidently choose the right platform—or platform combination—for your agent strategy.
Whether you’re a maker, developer, or architect, you’ll leave with a clear framework for building agents that work better—alone or together.
Copilot Studio: Tool Choices That Can Make—or Break—Your First Agent
Building your first agent in Copilot Studio can feel deceptively simple—until early tooling decisions come back to limit scalability, security, and maintainability. In this practical, experience driven session, we’ll break down the key tool choices in Copilot Studio that have the biggest impact on agent success—and the common pitfalls that cause first agents to fail in real-world environments.
Attendees will discover Copilot Studio Tools, learn how authentication, data grounding, and orchestration influence agent behavior, and gain a practical framework to design reliable, extensible, enterprise-ready agents from day one.
Whether you’re a maker, developer, or architect, you’ll leave with actionable guidance to confidently choose the right tools—and avoid costly rebuilds—as you start your Copilot Studio journey.
AI That Works: Power Platform AI Hub Prompts for Agents and Apps
AI is everywhere—but only well-designed prompts turn it into something that truly works. In this session, we’ll go beyond AI hype and dive into how Power Platform’s AI Hub enables makers and developers to build reliable, reusable, and scalable AI experiences for agents and apps using vast range of available prompts.
You’ll learn all about AI Hub prompts, how you can use and extend and reused across Copilot Studio agents, Power Apps, and Power Automate workflows, ensuring consistency, governance, and better outcomes. We’ll explore real-world patterns and best practices for grounding prompts in business context, balancing flexibility with control, and avoiding common mistakes that lead to unpredictable or low value AI responses.
Whether you’re building copilots, enhancing apps, or enabling citizen developers, you’ll leave with actionable techniques to make AI a dependable part of your Power Platform solutions.
All you need to know about Power Automate Approvals
In this session we will explore the Approval action in flow, approval patterns (sequential, parallel, etc.), approval reminders & escalations with demos, best practices, learning resources & more.
Deep dive into Responsive Power Apps Design
Join this session to learn about building responsive Canvas Apps using responsive container controls & screen layouts and other controls like Gallery. Learn best practices and guidance.
ChatGPT and Power Platform-A Game Changer for citizen developer
In this session, you will learn about ChatGPT, its capabilities, and how it brings the Power of AI to everyone's fingertips.
I will show how you can use ChatGPT in your Power apps, Power Automate, and other power platform tools and beyond to build simple to complex apps, flows, or solutions in no time.
I will share life examples of how you should use it, the future, and the impact of ChatGPT on future software development.
Microsoft Excel automation with Power Automate
Join this session to learn how you can automate Excel manual work using Power Automate. I will show connecting, consuming, and processing the excel data using Power Automate flow. I will also share best practices when integration Excel and Power Automate with some tips and tricks.
More Power to Power Automate and Power Apps with Microsoft Graph API integration
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It would be great if we could use it in power automated flow and Power apps to explore the endless possibilities. Join this session to learn how to use MS Graph API in Power Automate flow and Power Apps with some real-world use cases.
Power Automate integration with Office 365 apps(Outlook, Excel, Teams, Planner)
Join this workshop for hands-on learning of integrating power automated flow with Outlook, Excel, Teams, and Planner. We will learn the integration with the real-world use case and examples.
Workshop Agenda:
Introduction to Power Automate (30 minutes)
Power Automate and Outlook integration walkthrough (30 minutes)
Power Automate and Outlook integration hands-on learning (1 hour)
Power Automate and Excel integration walkthrough (30 minutes)
Power Automate and Excel integration hands-on learning (1 hour)
Power Automate and Teams integration walkthrough (30 minutes)
Power Automate and Teams integration hands-on learning (1 hour)
Power Automate and Planner integration walkthrough (30 minutes)
Power Automate and Planner integration hands-on learning (1 hour)
Key takeaways/best practices (30 minutes)
Power Platform Custom Connectors
Join this session to learn how to build a custom connector for Power App, Power Automate with a demo, best practices, and tips.
Power Platform Tips with Live Q&A | लाइव प्रश्नोत्तर के साथ पावर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म टिप्स
Join this session to learn some key tips for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual agent, and Power BI.
We will have a live Q&A and discuss best practices.
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, और Power BI के लिए कुछ प्रमुख टिप्स जानने के लिए इस सत्र में शामिल हों।
हमारे पास एक लाइव प्रश्नोत्तर होगा और सर्वोत्तम प्रथाओं पर चर्चा करेंगे।
Power Apps for Microsoft Teams with Azure API Management
Join this session to learn how the citizen or IT pro developers can leverage API services developed by professional developers hosted in Azure using Azure API Management connectors with no code.
Getting started with building Power Platform Solutions for Microsoft Teams
Join this session to learn how to leverage the built-in, low-code data platform capability (CDS) for Teams and enable everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows and intelligent chatbots in Teams with Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate & Microsoft Power Virtual Agents
Secure your DATA in Power BI to avoid unauthorized access risk
Data is essential and should be secure with related security to avoid unauthorized access.
Join this session to learn how you can secure your data in Power BI reports. You will learn and understand Power BI data sources and how you can apply custom security on data set to prevent unwanted access.
Secure your DATA in Power BI to avoid unauthorized access risk
Data is essential and should be secure with related security to avoid unauthorized access.
Join this session to learn how you can secure your data in Power BI reports. You will learn and understand Power BI data sources and how you can apply custom security on data set to prevent unwanted access.
Perform Data Operation in Power Apps like an Expert
Join this session to learn how you can perform data operation in Power Apps using Patch, Forms, and Power Automate. You will learn and understand the pros and cons of each to guide you to select the best data operation connector for your needs.
Integrate Power Platform with Microsoft TEAMS to enhance work productivity
Join this session to learn how we can integrate Power Platform with TEAMS to create a modern workplace. You will learn and understand what's available in Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agent to connect the power of the power platform with TEAMS capabilities.
Power Virtual Agent BOT for Microsoft Teams to add power to your work productivity
Join this session to learn how you can quickly build a Power Virtual agent in Microsoft Teams that can share your workload by performing time-consuming everyday tasks.
You will also learn how you can integrate Power Virtual Agent with Power Automate and Power Apps.
Power Apps Components What? How? When?
Join this session to learn what is Power Apps Component, how to design, and use it within apps to avoid re-work. In this session, I will walk through a step-by-step approach to build, deploy, and add it to your apps.
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Deepak Shrivastava
Microsoft Business Applications MVP
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