This interactive workshop, mostly demo-driven and suitable for beginners, will introduce you to Microsoft's Power Platform services, as well as cover integrations with other Microsoft 365 and Azure services (including Azure AI Services and OpenAI). Major technologies covered:

• Power Apps (a SaaS option for Power Users to build business applications, that can be used on desktop or mobile);
• Power Pages (low code business website);
• Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow, technically similar to Azure Logic Apps);
• Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents, an SaaS version of bots with much in common with Azure Bots and the Bot Framework);
• Power BI (needs no introduction!) and Microsoft Fabric (an SaaS ETL solution);
• Dataverse (an enterprise grade database with pre-defined minimum table schema that can be used in all Microsoft products, including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and even Azure);
• AI Builder (bringing the power of Azure AI Services to M365).

All these services are build on top of Microsoft 365 / Office 365 tenants, and can be integrated with many other services, such as Exchange 365 / Outlook, MS Bookings, OneDrive (Personal or Business), SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Graph and other Microsoft 365 and Azure services, as well as thousands of 3rd party services available.

Workshop contents:
0. Setting up a developer tenant (it's free!):
- You are invited to follow the workshop along on your developer tenant.
1. Quick intro to Microsoft 365 / Office 365 tenants:
- Quick list of Features and services;
- Basic tenant administration (focusing on what you need to get started with the Power Platform);
- Basic Power Platform services administration.
2. Power BI / Microsoft Fabric:
- Getting started with Power BI Desktop (inc.PowerQuery);
- Power BI Service in the cloud (inc.managing workspaces, publishing Power BI content, sharing options and mobile);
- Microsoft Fabric for Power Users.
3. Power Automate:
- Features and triggers/connectors;
- Building flows.
4. AI Builder:
- Basics of AI (including explaining Azure AI Services and OpenAI);
- Features and integration in other services.
5. Power Apps:
- Different types of Power Apps and features;
- Building your first app... and your second app... (from multiple sources including SQL Server / Azure SQL Database and Dataverse);
- Integrating with the outside world with Power Automate;
- Publishing Power Apps and using them (inc.mobile).
6. Power Pages:
- Building your first Power Page.
7. Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents):
- Features, comparison with Azure Bots (and how both use the Bot Framework and tools), etc.;
- Build your first chat bot (inc.publishing and sharing options);
- Fetching/saving data and executing actions with Power Automate;
- Develop better bots with OpenAI.
8. Microsoft Copilots:
- Details of the many Copilots available;
- Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot (and others).
9. Working better together:
- Integration examples between these services;
- Discussion of M365/Azure/Hybrid architectures.
10. Final Q&A.

Attendees that want to try the examples during the workshop need to have:
• Laptop;
• Create/have a M365 Developer tenant (it's free - go to https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/dev-program and create your own tenant, or alternatively if your company uses M365/O365 and your user has the necessary licences, you can try with that);
• Any browser should be fine, but you should access the developer tenant in a separate browser profile;
• Example data files will be provided during the workshop.

Target audience: Developers, System Administrators, Power Users
Pre-requisites: None
Certification: This workshop has content similar to what's covered in the PL-900 exam, and covers some content from other PL-xxx, AI-xxx and DP-xxx exams.