Canadian National Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE/CRM Community - September 11, 2025

We're excited to come together to engage and learn!

1:00 - 1:30p - Networking Discussion and DUG Update - we'll come together to introduce ourselves and chat through hot topics impacting our day-to-day work lives. We will also hear about all things DUG!

1:30 - 2:15p - Matt LaCasse - Configuration Driven Solutions - 5 tips to unchain your Power Apps
Tired of rebuilding your Power Apps every time the business changes its mind? Hard-coded logic may work today, but it becomes technical debt tomorrow. In this session, you’ll discover five practical strategies to design flexible, configuration-driven Power Apps that adapt to evolving requirements, without constant rewrites or hidden formulas.
We’ll explore how to externalize business rules to make logic transparent and easy to update, implement feature flags to turn features on or off dynamically, use environment-aware configurations to ensure your app behaves correctly in development, test, and production, and delegate configuration ownership to empower business teams while maintaining IT governance.
You’ll leave with patterns and best practices you can apply immediately to transform rigid apps into maintainable, future-proof solutions. Regardless of your role within Power Apps, this session will help you build apps that evolve with your organization, improve maintainability, and reduce the risk of costly rework.

2:15-2:30p - Networking Discussion - we'll debrief what we learned, ask questions, and discuss the value it holds for organizations, the challenges that might arise when implementing, and any other thoughts we might have!