<h1>🍁 Canadian Power Platform Summit&nbsp;🍁</h1>
<h4>​Welcome to CPPS inaugural edition, a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and all things Power Platform, eh!<br>Join us in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC, for a one-of-a-kind event that brings together Power Platform enthusiasts from across the country and around the world.</h4>

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Canadian Power Platform Summit

General Area

Beaver Tail (706)

Nanaimo Bar (707)

Maple Taffy (Garage)

When “Something’s Gotta Change”, Maybe It’s You!
This presentation delivers an inspiring, impactful message that teaches participants to release their untapped potential and take control of their lives. The audience will learn to take control of their professional lives and become accountable to themselves, regardless of the external pressures.

Whether you acknowledge it or not, change is happening daily. There are a myriad of external factors that influence our markets, our business and the environment we operate in. We have little to no power to change most of these factors.

We can fight the changes. We can resist them, ignore them or let them flatten us. What we cannot do is stop them from happening. So when I hear someone drop the “Something’s gotta change” truism, I want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them and scream “Yeah something’s gotta change… Maybe it’s you!”

This session focuses on personal accountability and shifting attitudes to navigate any business’s undulating plains of change.

Resilience: When "Something's Gotta Change", Maybe It's You

Have you reached the point where you use Power Platform for complex projects, critical workloads and realize there's a need for more structured approach? Wondering if there's a way to apply best practices from professional software development?

ℹ️ Power Platform serves both citizen and pro-developers.
⚠️ However, gaps in toolsets can pose challenges for projects led by professional development teams.
❓ Is there a way to simplify and standardize the developer workflow?
🏁 By integrating familiar tools, we can streamline the process for professional developers, reduce the learning curve, enhance reliability, and appeal to an existing pro-developer community.

Design, develop, test, debug, deploy, and support your Power Platform workloads efficiently, just as seasoned developers do. Attend this session to discover methods and learn how to expedite your projects.

Boost, automate, and scale your low-code development with:
* Figma UI prototyping + import/export of solution component
* Visual Studio Code + MSBuild + Power Platform IDE tooling
* Power Platform CLI + .NET Template Engine (dotnet new) scaffolding
* Advanced debugging and automated testing techniques
* Multi-layered managed solution design
* Shared .NET and TypeScript libraries + monorepo build system
* Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline integration

If you resonate with the following challenges, this session offers solutions:
* High interaction cost - excessive clicking and loading times
* Slow UI prototyping and converting prototypes to real apps
* Difficulty in propagating and reverting changes across envs
* Conflicting with changes made by others
* Setting up a project structure and sharing code
* Long wait times for deployments
* Difficulty in managing a suitable versioning system
* Official tools not playing nice together
* Maintaining consistency in multi-developer teams
* Searching through code and refactoring

Disclaimer: This is the third revision of this session. With each iteration, I introduce fresh updates. If you've encountered this session elsewhere, I can confidently say it's worth revisiting.

Code-first low-code developer workflow with VS Code, CLI, MSBuild and DevOps

Join Richard McLeod of Convverge in a transformative journey from a runaway maker to a reformed Power Platform advocate. Discover firsthand his initial awe at the platform's boundless potential, igniting a passion fueled by the belief that any challenge could be overcome with enough effort. Delve into Richard's exploration of a vibrant community, where support is always at hand, and his humbling realization that capability doesn't equate to suitability.

Learn from his experiences in fostering governance, support, and scalability as primary considerations in Power Platform projects. Explore the evolution of a fusion development team dedicated to crafting solutions with cleanliness, consistency, and scalability. Uncover the tools and best practices that have propelled his team's growth, optimizing their offerings to serve the platform effectively. Finally, confront the ethical responsibility of all makers in safeguarding the platform's integrity, ensuring that critical applications uphold its promise for a brighter future.

In this session you will  learn about:

- The benefits of engaging early and often with the community
- Governance
- Fusion development
- Citizen development
- Tools and best practices

Don't miss this insightful session, where personal experiences illuminate the path to success in the Power Platform landscape.

Empowering Excellence: A Journey from Enthusiast to Advocate in the Power Platform Universe

While Power Pages (aka Power Apps Portals) includes many great features that can be enabled without a single line of code, sometimes your projects have requirements that need that next level of customization. Join MVP Nick Hayduk, whose firm Engineered Code helps Microsoft partners all over the world with Power Pages projects, as he discusses the pro code tools available in Power Pages, including Liquid, Web API, PCF Controls, and Companion Apps. After this session you’ll see how there is really nothing you can’t do with Power Pages!

Power Pages for Pro Code Developers

Plugins are at the core of custom development for Xrm. This session will look at the common pitfalls of plugin development, and the tried and true best practices for having powerful yet easy to maintain plugins by correctly utilizing a common plugin base and plugin framework. Learn how to automatically prevent some of the most common causes of plugin infinite loops, how to log every Organization Service request, how to declaratively execute different code based on the plugin context without any if statements, and more!

All Your Plugin Base Are Belong To Us

Join us as we present our private ChatGPT-like bot, specifically developed for internal use. This innovative solution seamlessly retrieves company data from SharePoint and custom data sources. The interface uses generative responses for an efficient and natural user experience. In this session we will explore our journey in both inception and creation of the tool. We will share our experience in leveraging APIs through Power Automate cloud flows and querying external data sources. Discover the potential of Copilot Studio's Plugin Actions in orchestrating these flows. Witness a secure authentication setup through Azure App Registration and setting up additional Azure resources, providing a modular and extensible approach to internal data access and utilization.

Unleashing AI for Intelligent interactions targeting Internal Resources using Copilot Studio

Did you know that you can use your Power Pages site offline? Or make it an app in the Google Play Store? In this session, you will learn how to convert your site into a Progressive Web App, what capabilities are available out of the box, what limitations we have, and how to overcome them with code.

Going offline with Power Pages

The session is designed to unlock the potential of power platform solutions with low-code plugins in enhancing business efficiency. 
We'll explore the fundamentals of Dataverse, demystify low-code plugins, and compare them with Power Automate flows. The session aims to provide practical insights through a live demo of automating technician scheduling, demonstrating how these tools can streamline complex processes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to leverage low-code plugins in their own environments, ready to implement scalable solutions and drive innovation in their organizations

From Low-Code to High Impact: Enterprise Automation with Low-Code Plug-ins in Dataverse

From contracts and reports to confirmations and beyond, documents play a crucial role in business applications. Yet, their creation often remains a cumbersome and manual task for users.

In this session, we will explore the critical need for documents within the Power Platform ecosystem and introduce our DocumentsCorePack connector, a powerful tool designed to enable customers to efficiently generate documents while building solutions on the Power Platform. We'll demonstrate how DocumentsCorePack streamlines document processes, focusing on the following key elements:

- Integration with Power Automate: Automate document generation within the context of a flow, using triggers and actions to create documents seamlessly.

- Boosting Power Apps: Enhance both Canvas and model-driven Power Apps with document capabilities, ensuring your apps meet all document-related needs.

- Enhancement of Power Pages: Enable dynamic document interactions directly from web interfaces.

- Template Design in Word: Utilize the intuitive Template Designer to prepare professional and attractive document templates directly in Microsoft Word.

This session will conclude with an interactive Q&A, offering you the chance to engage directly with our experts.
By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how DocumentsCorePack can simplify and automate your document creation process on the Power Platform, making document processes more efficient and less time-consuming.

From data to document: Document creation, delivery and automation on the Power Platform

You got your Power Pages site created, but then what? Where to begin with styling? Let me guide you through how to get started with branding - from the simplest level in Power Pages Studio Styling Workspace to the most advanced with custom CSS with Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Power Platform CLI.

How to style Power Pages

Microsoft has made significant investments in its low-code offerings, and Power FX is the offspring of its labour. In response to community feedback, Microsoft has strategically integrated Power FX into various platforms to democratize Power Platform extensions.

Starting with a humble origin in Canvas Apps, Power FX has evolved into a robust contender for custom plugin extensions and can even be utilized beyond your applications. With these recent changes, there's a fundamental shift in our approach to developing Business Applications, placing a heightened focus on low code.

Despite being formula-based and aimed at citizen developers, Power FX comes with a steep learning curve. Wondering what to do if you're unfamiliar with Power FX? Fear not, Copilot is here to the rescue.

This session will delve into demonstrating diverse and innovative ways to leverage Power FX, showcasing how it can significantly elevate your productivity.

Power FX Everywhere - The Low Code Revolution

Have you ever wondered how your business processes really work? How about those processes' efficiency, compliance or optimization?

Processes are everywhere. We have processes at home, at work and almost anywhere else we could go. Sometimes processes are efficient, other times not so much. 

Many organizations spend hours trying to fix their processes, while others don't even know that problems exist in them.

Process mining is like looking at an x-ray for your business processes. It allows you to see at a glance what is broken, and how those processes really work. It can also help you find bottlenecks and evaluate compliance and efficiency.

DON’T WORRY, no tunnels, pickaxes or explosives necessary! Process mining capabilities are possible within Power Automate.

In this session, I will share what I have learned about this powerful tool. I will do this by delivering a detailed demo and using a case study  of a Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process.

In this session you will learn:

What is process mining
Why is process mining important
How to do process mining in Power Automate
 

Through this presentation I really hope to not only wow you with the powers of the tool but also to motivate you to look for those x-rays of your own business processes so you can improve them and maximize your productivity. Together lets imagine a world where all your business processes are running smoothly and efficiently.

Power Up your Processes with Power Automate Process Mining

Join me for a dynamic Ask Me Anything (AMA) round table session where we can discuss your burning questions about Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform. I can also share my thoughts and point of view where we are headed next in the low code space.

Microsoft BizApps Global Black Belt - Ask me anything session

In this session, join Mark Smith, a renowned Microsoft Power Platform Strategist, as he delves into the transformative Centre for Enablement (C4E) Mindset. Explore how a federated organisational approach can decentralise knowledge and resources, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment. Learn about the critical role of asset accessibility in creating and managing reusable assets that are easily discoverable and accessible to all IT and business projects. Embrace a self-service model that cultivates an autonomous culture, allowing teams to independently utilize available assets. Finally, understand the importance of widespread asset distribution in reducing dependency on individual experts and enhancing overall asset engagement and application.

Empowering Transformation: The Center for Enablement (C4E)

So you’ve mastered the out of the box configurable components and wanna push the envelope getting your hands dirty with some code? We’ll cover the pro code landscape, where to start, the strengths and use cases for each language. Learners can expect to leave confident to tackle requirements with right language for each job.
Beginner-friendly theory and some worked examples. Maximum value from minimal code guaranteed!

Level Up from No Code to Pro Code in Power Pages

Generative answers is one of the most powerful features available in Copilot Studio, enabling you to create an instant AI bot to search and access to your business data - but so many users get stuck with less than impressive results when they plug in a website, document or SharePoint site for the first time. This interactive session full of real life hit and miss examples will get you over that hurdle to help you understand what you can achieve with generative answers, as well as what's not possible, and why, and equip you with the skills to get the most out of it.   

Mastering Generative Answers in Microsoft Copilot Studio

Nobody likes a slow-flow. Learn how to build automations that run at “ludicrous speed” in this frantic, fast-paced session. I’ll share my all of my battle-tested methods that you can immediately implement in your own Power Automate flows. Code examples are included.

Topics include:

- Maximizing performance in SharePoint, Excel and Dataverse
- Conquering concurrency & removing bottlenecks with parallel branching 
- Grokking the Microsoft Graph API and its ability to enhance speed
- Understanding API Limits and where to find them

I’ll also reveal next-level techniques to batch create records and eliminate loops. Strap yourself in and get ready. It’s going to be one heck of a wild ride.

Flows Done Fast: How To Supercharge Performance In Power Automate

How not to make your data public but still engage your makers and enable your users.

Defining who should have access to your precious data is a fundamental part of creating an application and is frequently forgotten. This whistle-stop tour of the security principles of the Power Platform will enable you to assess and ensure your app keeps your data secure.

We will cover all relevant parts of security around the Power Platform so you will learn how to secure:
- secure your platform, 
- your application
- your data
- your API
by leveraging the OOTB configurations and the best practices from our two speakers' years of working with every type of customer.

Whether you are already a security superstar or just starting your journey getting there, we have you covered and are looking forward to an extensive Q&A to tailor the content even better to your needs!

Power Platform Security 🔐 Do’s and Don’ts

The Power Platform is no longer new. It may still be shiny and constantly evolving but organisations are now in a position where their initial acceleration to platform adoption has resulted in the need for some well guided and informed remediation activities to realign it on a path for success. 

Join us as we explore an end to end remediation journey, the tooling we use to support us and the tactical and strategic solutions we deploy to help clients be successful long term. 


Power Platform: The 'Oops, We Went Too Fast' Remedy Show!

CGI is a Microsoft Certified Global Gold Partner with over 25,000 certified Microsoft Professionals that use Microsoft solutions with clients around the globe across a myriad of industries.  In this presentation CGI will provide an overview of how we use Microsoft solutions in different ways ranging from MS Co-Pilot and Azure OpenAI to Azure Machine Learning and Industry Solutions.  Combing Microsoft AI solutions with CGI's global best practices and Responsible AI Framework is helping clients achieve Speed to Trusted Action and delivering critical business value.    

CGI & Microsoft: Responsbile AI for Speed to Trusted Action

Did you know that Canada is the birthplace of Power Pages? In this session, join some of the world's foremost community experts on Power Pages for a fun and interactive "ask me anything" session about Power Pages. 

Power Pages All-Star ask me anything

I am aware that there are many other technologies that are considered to be sexier than Model Driven Apps but allow me to show you how cool they can be.  When I am done you may have a different opinion about these secure and robust business applications.

When you need to quickly create a robust application that lives on the Dataverse that can handle new and/or legacy data, has access to the Power Platform and has the Microsoft security model look no further.

We will create a new Model Driven App from scratch with new fields, relationships, app theming, security roles and Power Platform components on the fly.  Together we will experience just how easy and powerful creating native Model Driven Apps on the Dataverse can be for low-code and pro developers.

Model Driven Power Apps are cool, I will prove it to you!!!

Even though Power Automate cloud flows are supposed to be low-code tool for automation in the Power Platform and Dataverse, building complex logic require writing expressions and understanding of JSON.

In this session, you will learn how to build cloud flows more efficiently without adding unnecessary actions, how to utilise the capabilities of tools to increase your productivity and how to optimise the request consumption of your flows.

🍁 Canadian Power Platform Summit 🍁

Welcome to CPPS inaugural edition, a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and all things Power Platform, eh!
Join us in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC, for a one-of-a-kind event that brings together Power Platform enthusiasts from across the country and around the world.

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