Laura Rogers
Microsoft MVP, CEO at IW Mentor, @WonderLaura
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Laura is a speaker, author, educator, and expert on SharePoint and Power Platform technologies. She is well-versed in helping organizations make the most of their SharePoint and Teams implementations, using out-of-box functionalities such as Power Apps and Power Automate with SharePoint. She is currently the owner of IW Mentor, a SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps & Power Automate training company. Laura's technical expertise also includes over 18 years of experience working with Microsoft's messaging and collaboration systems. She has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the past fourteen years.
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Travel Requests Tamed: No-Code Approval System with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot
Managing travel requests (or any type of request forms) shouldn’t be a headache—no more lost forms, approval bottlenecks, or endless email chains. In this session, see how to build a no-code travel request system using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot. We’ll create a Power Apps form for employees to submit travel plans, automate multi-level approvals with Power Automate, and use Copilot to generate policy snippets and trip summaries in seconds. You’ll walk away with a practical, no-code framework that improves efficiency and saves admin time. Bring your questions—we’ll tackle real-world challenges together!
SharePoint Automation Showdown: Rules, Quick Steps Workflows & Power Automate
SharePoint offers several built-in automation tools— Rules, Quick Steps, and some out-of-box approval options. When should you use each one? And when do you need workflows to take things further? In this session, we’ll break down the differences between these automation options, covering their capabilities, limitations, and best use cases.
By the end of this session, you’ll not only understand which automation tool is right for your scenario but also leave with ideas about what Power Apps and Power Automate flows can do beyond SharePoint’s out-of-the-box automations.
Power Apps Fundamentals: Extending SharePoint into Low-Code Apps and Forms (2024 edition)
Are you a SharePoint power user interested in building no-code business solutions? SharePoint has always been a powerful platform, enabling the effortless creation of tailored solutions, including sites, Microsoft lists, forms, and automated flows. With Power Apps and Microsoft's newest offering, Copilot, the scope for building customized forms in the Microsoft Power Platform has expanded tremendously.
In this workshop, you'll delve deep into Power Apps, learning how they can enhance your custom business solutions. Moreover, you will also be introduced to Copilot, Microsoft's innovative AI tool designed to assist in coding and data management. This powerful combination empowers you and your colleagues to go even further in developing efficient and cutting-edge solutions.
You will walk away with practical and easily implementable concepts, tips, and tricks for your organization. Learn how to create forms with parent-child relationships, manage cascading drop-down menus, pre-populate user information in your apps and forms, and build approval processes initiated by request forms in Power Apps. Additionally, see firsthand how Copilot can seamlessly integrate with your workflows, simplifying coding and enhancing productivity.
Whether you are new to Power Apps or eager to explore Microsoft's Copilot, this workshop promises a valuable hands-on experience. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from one of the industry's leading experts on these topics.
This workshop welcomes participants with varying levels of experience; there are no pre-requisites. Join us and take your Power Apps skills to the next level!
Roundtable Discussion - All things Power Platform including Copilot Studio
Join us for an engaging and informal gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Roundtable Discussions are a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences with other attendees. Pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights!
We go over all thing Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio related items. The discussion flows in whatever direction the group desires, from agent building to governance, no-code to low-code to pro-code. This is more of a group therapy than a routable discussion which includes free comfort hugs :-).
Mastering Power Apps: Build Forms That Users Actually Want to Fill Out
Whether you’re building a request system, an audit tracker, or an approval workflow, form design can make or break user adoption. In this session, we’ll go beyond the basics and explore how to optimize Power Apps forms on SharePoint Lists for usability, efficiency, and accuracy—without writing code. Learn practical techniques like:
dynamic field visibility, pre-filling data to minimize errors, responsive layouts for desktop and mobile, useful modern controls to enhance user interaction, and the use of Copilot to generate formulas.
Walk away with actionable design principles and ready-to-use patterns to create Power Apps forms that are intuitive, fast, and frustration-free.
Mastering Power Automate: From Requirements Gathering to Building Efficient Flows
Dive deep into the capabilities of Power Automate in this full-day workshop. Tailored for both newcomers seeking foundational knowledge and power users looking to enhance their expertise, this session will arm you with the skills to revolutionize business processes through effective automation. You’ll master approval requirements gathering to craft targeted automation strategies, accompanied by practical exercises in designing, building, and deploying powerful flows that boost efficiency and streamline your organizational operations.
By the end of the day, participants will not only possess hands-on skills in flow creation and deployment but will also gain a strategic perspective on utilizing automation to address unique business challenges. This workshop is designed to instill confidence and proficiency, enabling you to leverage Power Automate to its fullest, transforming everyday tasks into opportunities for efficiencies within your team.
Join Laura Rogers, to harness the power of automation and reshape your business operations with Power Automate, Copilot, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams, unlocking new levels of performance and innovation.
Mastering Power Apps & SharePoint Related Lists
Related lists and parent-child forms, also known as repeating tables or sub-lists, and are an important part of many business forms. With related lists and SharePoint lookup columns, there are some important details to understand to work with these types of relationships in Power Apps.
In this session, learn how to configure your sub-forms and repeating tables with SharePoint lists and libraries. This session covers a few different approaches with varying levels of complexity.
With this knowledge, you’ll walk away with a fundamental understanding of how to build your own business solutions the right way with Power Apps, and apply these principals in many types of SharePoint scenarios.
KEYNOTE - AI Roundup: Navigating the Frontier of Innovation
From the open frontier of AI, Microsoft technology, business, and policy experts share insights on reshaping industries, navigating challenges, and blazing new trails toward the future.
Empowering Collaboration and Productivity with Microsoft Loop
Microsoft Loop has truly redefined team collaboration and task management in Microsoft 365. This presentation showcases the innovative features of Loop, emphasizing the ability make the most of tasks within its fluid workspaces and canvases, using integration with Microsoft 365 tools like Teams, Outlook and OneNote. This platform not only facilitates real-time collaboration but also enhances task tracking and process management for improved productivity.
Learn effective methods to utilize Loop for organizing tasks, streamlining workflows, and fostering a collaborative environment that adapts to the needs of modern teams. This session provides actionable insights on utilizing Microsoft Loop to elevate team efficiency and drive forward organizational goals.
Creating Approval Processes using Power Automate and Power Apps
The adaptable approval process is the best way to have a standard for all of the forms in your company. To understand the multitude of approval processes emanating from various business units, and have the ability to implement the most efficient solutions, is a highly sought skill set. A major component of this skill set is the understanding of available technology and maximally focusing it on creating solutions.
This workshop utilizes Power Automate and Power Apps to forge your abilities in successfully implementing approval processes. To understand these capabilities of Power Automate and Power Apps, we will start with an overview of the standard out of the box approval process offered by Power Automate, and where it falls short.
In this workshop, you will learn the details of how to build an efficient approval process with Power Apps. With Power Apps providing a solid base for the user’s experience, we gain the ability to dynamically change this experience as the approval process advances.
Once these concepts have been assimilated, the advanced concept of a custom approval process will be explored. This concept will illuminate the process for creating custom approvals that allow a large variation of business requirements.
This workshop, while detailing the technical parameters of the above approval process concepts, will also explain the latitude in which these processes are best implemented.
Enhancing Collaboration with Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
Unlock the full potential of workplace collaboration by integrating Power Apps with Microsoft Teams. This session is tailored for IT professionals and power users interested in enhancing team dynamics by seamlessly embedding and publishing custom Power Apps directly into Microsoft Teams. Learn how to design and optimize custom applications that leverage the combined strengths of both platforms, such as streamlined communication workflows and centralized data access. Discover practical strategies and real-world examples to revolutionize team collaboration and productivity.
Empowering SharePoint with Power Apps: Crafting Smart Solutions for the Modern Workplace
Unlock the full potential of SharePoint by integrating it with Power Apps and Copilot in this full-day workshop designed for Microsoft 365 power users. Discover how to build intelligent, low-code applications that elevate SharePoint’s functionality for streamlined collaboration and automated business processes. Through hands-on demos and practical examples, you’ll learn to design responsive apps for scenarios like form submissions and approval workflows, all tightly connected to SharePoint lists and libraries. Explore how Copilot’s AI capabilities can boost development speed and maker efficiency. Led by Microsoft MVP Laura Rogers, this session also covers solution lifecycle strategies and design best practices—equipping you with the skills to deliver impactful, code-free business solutions.
Buttons in SharePoint Lists - Logic for Non-devs
In lists, formatting can be done easily, and buttons can be created using a little JSON code. Wouldn't it be nice for end users to be able to click a button on an item in a list, to set a value or run a flow, without even having to open the item? In this session, you will learn how to create a nice pretty button to quickly click to run a workflow. No menus, no panels, super simple for end users! Laura Rogers will teach you the logic used in order to assign the action that the button takes, how to set up the button's visual appearance, and its text, and how to create conditional formatting on all of these.
You will even learn how to utilize Copilot to help with your code!
Boosting Team Efficiency: Easy Automation with Teams Workflows
Dive into the world of effortless automation as we explore how Microsoft Power Automate and Teams can transform your daily grind into a breeze. This session is about cutting the manual work and boosting efficiency, making it perfect for anyone looking to streamline their team's workflow. You will see real-life examples of how integrating Power Automate flows into Teams can automate the mundane tasks we all dread, like scheduling meetings, managing approvals, and even keeping track of project updates—all within the familiar space of your Teams channels.
Learn how to spot opportunities for automation in your day-to-day tasks, customize flows that fit your team's needs, and keep everything running smoothly. By the end of this session, you'll be armed with the know-how to make your team more connected and productive without breaking a sweat. Whether you're new to automation or looking to level up your Teams game, this presentation will show you the fun in functionality with Power Automate and Teams.
Beyond Document Libraries: Unleashing Lists for Business Solutions
SharePoint Lists are one of the most powerful tools in Microsoft 365. While many organizations primarily use SharePoint for document storage, lists offer a flexible way to manage structured data, automate workflows, and build interactive business solutions—without coding.
In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll explore how SharePoint/Microsoft Lists can revolutionize the way teams track information, collaborate, and automate tasks. You'll learn:
✅ What is a SharePoint List? How it compares to Excel, Microsoft Lists, and Dataverse.
✅ When to use Lists vs. Document Libraries vs. Databases.
✅ Building lists from scratch: Columns, views, and formatting.
✅ Enhancing lists with automation: When to use alerts versus rules versus a flow.
✅ Power Apps with SharePoint Lists: Turn lists into easy-to-use forms and apps.
✅ Best practices for security and permissions to control access and prevent accidental deletions.
By the end of this session, you'll understand how to leverage Lists as a powerful, no-code business solution.
Battle of the Forms: Microsoft Forms vs. Power Apps vs. SharePoint Forms
Are you looking to streamline your business processes using digital forms but feeling overwhelmed by the array of tools available? This session entails an enlightening presentation that explores three popular options: Microsoft Forms, Power Apps, and SharePoint Forms.
In this session, you will get a deep dive into the strengths and weaknesses of each form-building solution, empowering you to make informed decisions for your organization's specific needs. Learn how and why to leverage these platforms to enhance your workflows, from simplifying data collection to automating complex processes.
Whether you're an IT professional, a business analyst, or simply curious about optimizing your operations, this presentation will equip you with valuable insights and strategies to harness the full potential of these tools. Join Laura Rogers in this session, to unlock new efficiencies, save time, and elevate your business processes with confidence.
Why Integrate Power Apps with Power Automate?
Power Apps and Power Automate are built to work together, enabling makers to create seamless, automated business processes that enhance productivity. But when should you trigger a flow from Power Apps, and what’s the most efficient way to integrate automation into your solutions?
In this session, we’ll explore the different ways Power Apps can connect with Power Automate and the key considerations for choosing the right approach. You'll learn best practices for optimizing performance, reducing dependencies, and ensuring smooth automation within your apps.
By the end of this session, you'll have a clear understanding of how and why of leveraging Power Automate within Power Apps to streamline workflows, minimize manual effort, and build smarter, more efficient business solutions.
Supercharging SharePoint with Power Apps and Copilot: Building Intelligent Business Solutions
In this all day workshop, learn to transform your SharePoint expertise into intelligent, business-driven solutions using Power Apps and Copilot. Tailored for Microsoft 365 power users, this session dives into building low-code apps that supercharge SharePoint’s capabilities for team collaboration and process automation. Learn how to create dynamic apps for scenarios like forms and approval workflows, seamlessly integrated with SharePoint lists and libraries. Discover how Copilot’s AI-powered features can accelerate development and enhance maker productivity. We will also explore best practices for designing responsive apps and the solution life cycle. With live demos and real-world case studies, this workshop, led by Microsoft MVP Laura Rogers, equips SharePoint power users with the tools to modernize workflows and drive business impact without coding expertise.
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