Manchester November 2025 In Person Meeting

We're excited to announce that our next Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group (D365PPUG) UK chapter meeting for Manchester will take place on November 19th!

Agenda

17:45-18:15: Arrivals / Networking / Intros
18:15-19:00: Power Automate Best Practices for Dataverse - Cosmin Tartan

This presentation explores essential best practices and performance optimization strategies for Power Automate with Dataverse, towards building efficient, scalable, and reliable cloud flows.

Key topics include optimizing trigger conditions, leveraging concurrency controls, managing data volume effectively and improving Dataverse calls, implementing error-handling mechanisms to ensure robustness and tips and tricks to further improve performance.

19:00-19:15: 🍕Pizza Time 🍕
19:15-20:00: AI Isn’t Magic—It’s Accountability and Clean Data - Matt Beard

Discover the secrets to managing data effectively within the Dataverse! In today's digital landscape, being prepared for AI means understanding that rubbish data leads to rubbish AI implementations. Data quality isn't just an IT issue - it's everyone's responsibility. Join me for a session where I'll dive into practical advice on handling data. From ensuring data integrity across the Power Platform to smart tricks for cleaning and transforming messy data, I'll equip you with the tools needed to turn your data into a strategic asset. We'll also tackle common challenges in data management and provide strategies to avoid those pitfalls. By the end of our session, you'll be ready to harness the full potential of your data within the Dataverse.

20:00+ : Close and Drinks Social

Our Speakers

Cosmin Tartan is D365 Technical Architect at Legal and General, specializing in Dynamics 365, .NET, JS and MS SQL.

Matt Beard is a Microsoft MVP, head of our all-day Manchester User Group committee, and co-organiser of the Scottish Summit events. He is an experienced software developer with a demonstrated history of working across the full stack, with a particular focus on data cleansing API's.

Location

Irwin Mitchell Solicitors,
One St Peter's Square,
Manchester,
M2 3AF