Introduction to the Power Platform

Getting started with the Power Platform building Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate flows
Very excited to kick off the Power Apps, Power Virtual Agent and Power Automate user group in Vancouver Canada!
In this inaugural all demo event we will start with a tour of the Power Platform then show how to build a Power Virtual Agent bot, how to integrate that bot with Power Automate and how to host that effort into a Power Apps application.
Hands on participation highly encouraged and if everything goes to plan some of the demos will be showing bots by the user group members themselves!!!!!
When: April 23nd starting 6pm
Where: 1100 - 1111 W Georgia · Vancouver, BC
About your organizers and presenters:
Ali Sharifi
With a rich background in business applications Ali Sharifi came to Microsoft from the Microsoft partner channel, where as a Lead Solution Architect he delivered solutions based on Microsoft technologies to many customers in various industries form commercial to public sector. He is now Power Platform Technical Specialist in the Cloud and Enterprise team and lives the Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 with underlying Azure cloud services can accelerate digital transformation of any organization to build tomorrow’s business and IT solutions.


Charles Sterling
Came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. He started out at Microsoft supporting Excel and moved through a couple of support teams to being an escalation engineer for Microsoft SQL Server. Taking his love for customers (and diving), Chuck moved to Australia as a product manager and developer evangelist for the .NET Framework. In 2008 he moved back to Redmond as a Visual Studio program manager then joined the Power Platform group focusing on Power BI and now continues his community passion and looking after the PowerApps influencers and MVPs.