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Mike Gowland

Mike Gowland

Power Platform Consultant - Co-Host of the Sprint Zero podcast

Eastleigh, United Kingdom

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I've been working with Power Platform for around 3 years. I enjoy gaming, cycling and talking about tech!

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Low Code
  • Power Platform - Low Code
  • Power Automate (Flow)
  • Autostore
  • SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft Power platform
  • Dynamics 365
  • Power Platform Canvas Apps
  • PowerFx
  • AI
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Large Language Models

Revolutionising Consulting: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models

Mike (the crab) and Jon (the rat) will dive deep into prompt engineering and show case their solution to help those people who want on the spot examples, when they are in a spot.

Lego-Block your Canvas Apps with a Component Library

In this session I go over the fundamentals of Component Library building, how they benefit your wider eco-system enablement, some great hints and tips to putting them together and how to avoid some of the pitfalls you can fall into when creating these reusable components.

We'll take a look at:

Why do we use components?
New Behavior Types, Functions, Events and Actions and how they can make your components awesome
Live demo, building an app with components
Join me in speeding up your app development and make reusable code!

Match Strings like a Pro with PowerFx and Regex

Supercharge how you find and extract text in PowerFx by harnessing the power of Regular Expression!

This session will cover the fundamentals of using the Match functions in PowerFx in combination with Regular Expression including Enumerated Pattern creation and how to go deeper into the Regular Expression Rabbit Hole, all whilst following along with real world examples!

You will learn:

+ How Match functions work and what do they output
+ How to create an enumerated Match pattern with PowerFx
+ How to manipulate how the Match functions work with MatchOptions and Regular Expression Flags
+ Master Match Groups to help manipulate how Match functions work

Start a podcast they said, it’ll be easy; they said (don’t make the mistakes we did!)

So, you want to start a podcast? Well, this session is just for you!

Podcasts are a fantastic medium to get your message out there, interview fantastic guests and explore new concepts. They're also an awesome way to practice active listening!

In this session, Jon Russell and Mike Gowland discuss how their podcast; Sprint Zero, got off the ground and went from a faint idea to a weekly cadence and a huge guest list.

So come along for the ride to learn the story about how they started the podcast, some of the mistakes that were made along the way (so they hopefully don’t happen to you) and some tips and tricks to get your own podcast off the ground!

In this session, you’ll learn

> The story of the Sprint Zero podcast
> How much a podcast costs to run
> Getting over “hating your own voice”
> what are your options for recording a podcast
> Do I need a better mic? What do I need to invest in?
> Hosting, and how to actually release a podcast (how podcasts work)
> Marketing your podcast
> Managing your time with editing tricks and organisation tips

Extending and enhancing your apps with the power of AI (I won’t use the C Word!)

Have you heard of AI? Of course you have! Are you wondering how you can extend and enhance your Power Platform apps and flows using OpenAI and Azure services to bring the power of generative AI to your solutions? Well, this session is just for you!

On this session, I’ll take you through the fundamentals of adding AI services to your apps and flows, an overview on promoting and adding guardrails to your requests to ensure your generative services don’t go wild! We’ll also have a lot of fun too, probably at my expense!

After this session you will be comfortable in doing the following:

+ Adding generative functionality to your apps and flows
+ Write good system prompts that get the AI doing what you want it to do and master Prompt Engineering.
+ Understand the different parameters available on OpenAI services.
+ Add parameters to your generative AI calls from data within your solution.
+ Extend the extension, add Prompt Engineering capabilities to your solution for continuous improvements!

Whether you’re a seasoned Power Platform maker, of if you’re just starting out on the platform, you’ll definitely find value in this session with easy to understand examples and live demos.

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group - Paddington, London - February 28th 2024 Sessionize Event

February 2024 London, United Kingdom

Bletchley Park AI Microsoft User Group

Revolutionising Consulting:

Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models

Presented by Jon Russell and Mike Gowland

December 2023 Bletchley, United Kingdom

South Coast Summit 2023

Co-Presented “ Top 10 basics a Solution Architect HAS to be able to do” with Jason Earnshaw

October 2023 Farnborough, United Kingdom

UK Dynamics & Power Platform User Group (South West)

Lego-Block your Canvas App with Components!

August 2023 Bristol, United Kingdom

South Coast User Group User group Sessionize Event

February 2022 Southampton, United Kingdom

Mike Gowland

Power Platform Consultant - Co-Host of the Sprint Zero podcast

Eastleigh, United Kingdom

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