Elayne Jones
Sr. Solutions Engineer - Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Elayne Jones is a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft. Elayne specializes in Microsoft Power Platform, delivering scalable solutions through Copilot Studio, Power Apps, Power Automate. She helps organizations modernize workflows, build low‑code applications, and unlock insights through integrated, data‑driven experiences.
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Lay Down the Law as a Fabric Administrator
"With great power, comes great responsibility." Microsoft Fabric's grandiose scope spans a number of technologies and services across domains, from data science and data engineering to data visualization. The span of products and associated users can seem daunting to manage. Fear not - the Fabric Admin Portal allows admins to manage their entire Fabric tenant. This session explains requirements for accessing the Admin Portal and demonstrates the settings available. Further, this session uncovers industry best practices for governing user activity, asset health, and resource consumption.
Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio
Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio is a practical, hands‑on session for anyone ready to move beyond generic AI chat and start building purpose‑built, enterprise‑ready agents. You’ll learn what agents really are, how they differ from traditional chatbots, and where Copilot Studio fits alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services.
How to Enable Copilot Studio Safely at Scale
Ever wondered how you can encourage adoption of AI-tools like Microsoft Copilot agents while protecting your enterprise data estate?
In this session, I'll take you on a tour of the suite of Microsoft tools that make up the Copilot Control System, such as Agent 365, the Microsoft and Power Platform Admin Centers, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra. Using the themes of Security, Governance, Management, and Monitoring, you will gain a clear understanding of which Microsoft tool to use to set up proper safety controls for your agent ecosystem.
Whether you’re an admin, architect, or solution builder, this session will equip you with the knowledge to confidently deploy and manage Microsoft Copilot usage across your environment.
Rapid Analytics: Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is redefining how organizations prepare for the era of AI. In this session, we’ll explore how Fabric brings data integration, analytics, and BI together on a single platform and how Copilot is embedded across every workload to accelerate insights without compromising security. You’ll see real demos showing how teams move faster from raw data to AI-powered decisions using tools they already know.
Design Agents That Reason, Orchestrate, and Act
Many agents start as a collection of topics; however, modern Copilot Studio agents can do much more. This session explores how to design agents that reason across steps, select the right tools, and take action without over‑engineering prompts. We’ll talk about orchestration patterns, agent vs child-agent responsibilities, and lessons learned from newer task completion models. If you’re ready to move past basic Q&A bots, this session will show you how to create the next phase in the automation lifecycle.
Designing Copilot Studio Agents for Business Teams
Copilot Studio shines when business users can own their own solutions. In this session, we’ll explore how to design agents that business teams can understand, maintain, and trust. We’ll cover writing clear instructions, choosing the right tools, and setting guardrails that don’t block innovation. This session is ideal for teams responsible for handing off agents to other teams, such as Finance, HR, Operations, or Center‑of‑Excellence teams.
One Agent to Rule Them All: Building Reusable Agents
Why build ten agents when one well-designed agent can do the job? In this session, I’ll show a reusable Copilot Studio pattern that supports multiple use cases, personas, and tools without forgetting governance or maintenance. We’ll look at instruction layering, tool reuse, and environment strategy, with a live demo mindset. Perfect for teams trying to scale agent creation without creating long‑term complexity.
Building Power Apps Like a Developer
What if you didn’t start a Power App with screens and controls, but with prompts? In this session, we explore vibe coding for Power Apps using GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. You’ll see how to describe what you want the app to do, let Copilot scaffold your data and logic, and iterate through conversational prompts instead of rigid designs. We’ll cover where vibe coding shines, where it breaks down, and how to keep speed without sacrificing maintainability
Low Code Is Becoming AI‑Native: What Power Apps Looks Like Next
Power Apps is no longer just “low code with AI sprinkled in." Power Apps is becoming AI‑native across how apps are designed, built, and extended. In this session, we’ll explore how generative app creation, Power Apps Code Apps, code components, and GitHub Copilot are reshaping the Power Platform builder experience.
Walk away with a clear mental model for how AI fits into modern Power Apps development and how to future‑proof your skills as a maker.
Ask Anything, Trust the Answer: Fabric Data Agents + Copilot Studio
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents and Copilot Studio are powerful individually. Together, they solve one of the most persistent problems in the data platform space: getting governed, accurate answers into the hands of business users who will never open Power BI Desktop.
This session walks through the end-to-end architecture — Fabric Data Agents as the intelligent data layer querying your Lakehouses, Warehouses, and Semantic Models with full identity passthrough, and Copilot Studio as the conversational surface that makes it accessible anywhere your users work. We'll build it live, demo it live, and cover the decision framework for when this pattern is the right call versus other Copilot options in the Microsoft stack.
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