Daniel Laskewitz
Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Daniel Laskewitz is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Half of his week goes into Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork, Scout, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, usually with something unfinished open on screen. The other half he spends with the people building the same things, in sessions and workshops and in the community, and what they tell him goes back to the product teams.
On stage he talks about getting an agent past the demo. Wiring it to real systems with MCP, working out when a plain connector is the better answer, and the part nobody puts in a keynote: making the thing safe to hand to somebody else. He has been speaking since 2015, often with a co-speaker.
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Power Platform Admin Essentials: CLI, Tools & Tips
The Power Platform CLI is a powerful tool with a dedicated following, offering extensive functionality to help you build and maintain your Dynamics and Power Platform environment. But do you know how to get started? Are you making the most out of it? What are the hidden gems and tips that can elevate your experience?
If you’re not a fan of command lines and prefer a more visual approach, don’t worry! There are plenty of features available through the standard admin center. Plus, there are numerous community tools designed to make your life easier.
Join Microsoft Power Platform Advocate Daniel Laskewitz and community tool legend Carl Cookson as they guide you through the Power Platform CLI, XrmToolBox, and the Admin Center. With their hints, tips, and live demos, you’ll discover the must-know features that will simplify your journey as a Power Platform developer or administrator.
Build your custom agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio 🚀
Join this session that unveils the superpowers of Microsoft Copilot Studio, the tool that's an evolution of Power Virtual Agents. With Copilot Studio, you can create agents or extend Microsoft Copilot. Through interactive demo's, you will learn all about Copilot Studio's AI features that help you build an agent fast!
🧠 Model Context Protocol vs. Connectors: Rethinking Integration in the Power Platform 💡
Model Context Protocol (MCP) quickly became the thing everybody talks about who is doing AI in the moment and its adoption rate across different tech providers is rapid. Microsoft has embraced it as well and is combining it with an old friend of ours: (Custom) Connectors.
In this session, we will break down the differences between Model Context Protocol (MCP) and traditional connectors in the Power Platform. Attendees will learn how each works, where they fit best, and how they compare. The session includes practical demos showing how to get started with MCP and how it can work alongside connectors—not replace them. It’s aimed at solution architects, developers, and IT leaders looking to modernize how they build integrations.
Do not miss this session if you want to get your AI solutions to the next level which will be increasingly connected to other system and working with your data. We will discuss if connectors together with MCP will get us to the true agentification which was promised.
🤖 Copilot Cowork: Work Together with AI, Get Things Done
Copilot has been promising to change how you work. Cowork is where it starts to deliver on that.
The idea: you describe what needs to happen, and Copilot Cowork builds a plan and executes it across your Microsoft 365 apps. Calendar cleanup, meeting packets, company research - not one prompt, but the full chain of steps, running while you do something else.
Twenty-five - thirty minutes is enough to see how Work IQ gives Copilot the context to act on your behalf, what plugins and skills look like in practice, and whether this is real or still mostly polished demos.
Bring your skepticism. It's a fair starting point.
👷♂ Building Maintainable Power Automate Flows: From Chaos to Clarity
WHAT
Power Automate enables anyone to automate processes. However, “anyone” often means flows that grow fast… and become unmanageable even faster. In this session, we’ll explore how to design and build Power Automate flows that are performant, reusable, and easy to maintain by applying proven software engineering principles to the low-code platform.
WHY
While Power Automate is marketed as a low-code tool for citizen developers, many flows end up being built without scalability or maintainability in mind, leading to fragile automations, duplicated logic, and performance bottlenecks. Yet, when designed with the right mindset, Power Automate becomes a powerful enterprise-grade automation platform that can deliver results at lightspeed.
This session will help both citizen developers and professional consultants adopt better design patterns, bringing clarity, structure, and quality to their automations.
HOW
With Agnius Bartninkas and Daniel Laskewitz joining forces for this session, you're in for a ride rich in absolute nuggets. We’ll walk through real-world examples showing how to refactor existing flows, extract reusable logic, and apply architectural patterns that make your automations easier to test, maintain, and scale. This is a session packed with demos, showing you we practice what we preach.
TAKEAWAYS
After this session, you will:
- Understand how key software engineering principles can be applied in Power Automate
- Learn practical techniques for improving flow performance and reusability
- Be able to structure your flows for clarity, maintainability, scalability, and long-term success
- Leave with inspiration (and templates!) to bring back to your own organization
Power Platform CLI Exposed
In this session, I will explore the Power Platform Command Line Interface (CLI), an essential tool for developers and IT professionals who work with Power Platform. I will demonstrate how to use the CLI to manage and automate common tasks, such as creating and deploying solutions, managing environments, and managing users and permissions.
I will cover the basics of installing and setting up the CLI, as well as talk about all the different command groups that are out there. I will also discuss best practices for using the CLI in your organization and provide examples of how it can streamline your development and deployment processes.
By the end of this session, you will:
✅ have a deeper understanding of how the Power Platform CLI can help you work more efficiently
✅ learn more about how the Power Platform CLI can be of help you instead of using the portal
✅ get a better idea of how the Power Platform CLI can help you, both from an inner loop as well as an outer loop scenario
🧠 MCP or not to MCP - that is THE question
So, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is everywhere these days, and now that Copilot Studio jumped on board in March 2025, everyone's wondering: what's the big deal? And more importantly, what happens to all those connectors we've been using?
Daniel's going to break it all down for you in this session. We'll dive into what MCP servers actually are, how you can start using them in Copilot Studio, and why you might want to try them out in other AI tools too. Fair warning: this is going to be demo-heavy, so get ready to see MCP in action across a bunch of different scenarios.
What you'll walk away with:
✅ A solid grasp of what MCP servers are and why they're worth your time
✅ Practical know-how for getting MCP servers up and running in Copilot Studio
✅ Real examples of using both Microsoft's own MCP servers (like the Dataverse MCP server) and third-party ones in different AI tools
Come ready to see lots of demos and leave with a clear understanding of whether MCP is right for your projects.
✨ 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
A developers introduction to Copilot Studio
Building Agents should be easy! And it can be if you are using Copilot Studio. In this demo rich session Daniel and Albert-Jan will show you how you can build agents, orchestrate their behaviour, introduce knowledge and apply custom reasoning models and add actions.
Takeaways from this session:
✅ Learn how you can leverage your development skills to build agents
✅ Integrate with additional knowledge using Azure AI Search
✅ Integrate with custom API’s and Business Logic
Build your own copilot with Copilot Studio 🤖🚀
Copilot Studio is the new kid on the block! It's a low code way to extend existing copilots like Microsoft 365 Copilot or build your own copilot from scratch! In this session, Daniel will show you how you can get started quickly by building your own copilot!
After this session, you will:
✅ have a clear understanding of what Copilot Studio is and how you can use it to build your own copilot
✅ know what different generative AI features there are in Copilot Studio to quickly add knowledge to your copilot
✅ know how to connect your copilot to external systems
✅ know how low code can help you develop quickly in some cases
Extend the Power Platform with Custom Connectors 🚀
Are you ready to take your Power Platform skills to the next level? Join this exciting session on custom connectors and learn how to extend the capabilities of the Power Platform by building your own connectors. In this session, I will provide an overview of what custom connectors are, how they work, and the benefits of using them in your apps and workflows. I'll also walk through the step-by-step process of building custom connectors using Power Automate and discuss best practices for designing and publishing connectors.
Whether you're an experienced Power Platform user or just getting started, this session is for you! Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can benefit from creating, using, and eventually publishing custom, certified, or independent publisher connectors.
Here are some takeaways of this session:
✅ Understanding of what custom connectors are and how they work in the Power Platform
✅ Knowledge of how to build custom connectors using the UI
✅ Familiarity with best practices for designing and publishing connectors
✅ Inspiration to explore and experiment with custom connectors in your own Power Platform projects
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Power Platform Nordic Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
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Daniel Laskewitz
Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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