AI Unplugged: Balancing Innovation, Ethics, and Business Impact

AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, but with great power comes great responsibility. In this engaging panel discussion, we bring together experts from research, business, UX, and Microsoft AI ecosystems to explore the real-world impact of AI.

We’ll dive into the opportunities and challenges of AI adoption, from business value and user experience to governance and ethical considerations. Our panelists will share their insights on how organizations can harness AI effectively while ensuring responsible and human-centric innovation.

Join us for an open and honest conversation that goes beyond the hype—where AI meets strategy, design, and practical implementation. Bring your questions and prepare to rethink AI’s role in your business!

COE Starter Kit for admins, the full experience

Center Of Excellence (COE) Starter Kit is well-documented and very useful, but many still struggle with setup and execution. If you're in that position or just starting out and think it could benefit your organization, join this session to get exactly what you need, without wasting hours figuring it out alone.

This track covers everything: prerequisites, tips for a smooth installation, solutions to common errors, a detailed look at what’s included, and what's next after a successful configuration.

Power Platform Check-In: Conduct a Comprehensive Assessment and Leverage the Outcome

Whether you are just starting your Power Platform governance and adoption journey or are already advanced, it’s crucial to conduct a comprehensive assessment to maintain momentum and ensure continued success. This assessment identifies gaps in data security, compliance, and access control; provides insights into user engagement; reveals inefficiencies in app development, deployment, and management; and checks if your initiatives align with organizational goals.

But how do you do that? What methodologies and tools should you use? Which metrics are you measuring, and what outcomes should you expect?

I will address these questions in my session. By the end, you'll understand what a thorough assessment looks like and how to create a prioritized action plan.

Spoiler alert: We will mention Power Platform Admin Center, Power Platform Well-Architected Framework, CoE Starter Kit, and Adoption Framework.

Power Platform Ad:Option Gone Wrong: 10 Mistakes You Can't Afford Making

Power Platform can automate much of the developer experience and open the doors for less technical audiences to build solutions. Thus, empowering an entire organization to automate processes and create tailor-made solutions that drive efficiency and generate real ROI is only possible if you take adoption seriously.

Drawing from extensive experience with multiple organizations, this session highlights 10 crucial mistakes you can't afford making for a successful roll-out.

Explore key leadership aspects crucial to this journey grounded in real examples and actionable insights.

Session takeaways:
1. Why you need to take Power Platform adoption seriously
2. 10 pitfalls to avoid in Power Platform roll-out
3. Leadership aspects to consider for adoption success

SAP and Power Platform Excellence | Innovate, Integrate, Safeguard

This three-part session delves into the SAP-Microsoft Power Platform synergy.

It starts by laying out the value that can be created by combining SAP with the Power Platform, emphasizing cloud advantages even before SAP migration. The deep integration of Power Platform with emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, IoT, RPA, and collaboration tools, used daily in many organizations, can be beneficial when SAP joins forces with Power Platform. These synergies can prove cost-effectiveness in implementing digital solutions in SAP.

The focus of the second part is fully on integration scenarios, supported with successful solutions, highlighting the proven integration symbiosis between SAP and Power Platform.

In conclusion, discover how to safeguard vital SAP data during Power Platform interactions, ensuring compliance with internal guidelines.

Key Session Takeaways:

1. Navigate the SAP digitalization journey with Power Platform.
2. Explore SAP-Power Platform integration options through real-life solutions.
3. Keep SAP core clean ensuring data compliance and governance.

The poetics and politics of a successful Power Platform roll-out strategy

A successful Power Platform roll-out strategy involves several key steps, and the activities are mostly an intertwining of poetics and politics.

In my talk, I show what it means to create a dedicated Center of Excellence team that:
• defines clear business objectives,
• identifies flagship use cases where Power Platform adds value,
• implements processes ad tools to establish thorough data governance, security assessment, compliance, solution design, and monitoring,
• and establishes a culture of continuous improvement, and mutual help in a growing Power Platform community.

Come as you are and leave this session with a clear idea of what a Power Platform adoption plan destined for success needs (and needs not!) to consider.

Targeted audience: your Power Platform strategy team, the digitization and innovation decision-makers, and your future Center of Excellence team.

Governing Power Platform solutions, a non-expiring process

Center of Excellence, environment strategy, Data Loss Prevention, governance landing zones, power platform reference architecture, security layers – all these topics are music to my ears, but for some overwhelming and unclear.

With this session, I aim to bring clarity to those who wonder where to get started to get visibility, establish governance and provide a thriving environment where fusion teams have fun creating scalable, sustainable, and secure solutions.

Panel: How can you have successful projects

Join us while we discuss:
- Some of our successful projects
- Our bad projects
- How can you make sure your project is a success?
- Is there a difference between D365 Projects and Power Platform ones?
- People can make or break a project

Hopefully, you'll learn more about how you can have only successful projects in your future if that is possible - is it?