Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2021

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Update: Due to Auckland moving to lockdown level 3 this week and the uncertainty around what level we will be on come Friday, this event will now be ONLINE only.
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This is the Auckland edition of the Global Power Platform Bootcamp (https://www.powerplatformbootcamp.com/). A free event driven by user groups and communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about Microsoft’s Power Platform. In this boot camp we will deep-dive into Microsoft’s Power Platform stack with interactive sessions, delivered to you by the experts and community leaders.

Schedule

Access the schedule in our Sessionize web app here!
https://bit.ly/2Nahk7A

9:00 AM Welcome

9:15 AM Create a Custom Visual for Power BI without coding
-- Leila Etaati --
In this session audience will learn how to create their own custom visual without coding inside Power BI. Charticulator is a tools for audience without programming background to learn to create custom visuals.

10:00 AM Google Forms meets Power BI
-- Indira Bandari --
This will be a hands on workshop where you will do the following:
•Create a quiz using google forms
•Import the data that is entered via this forms into Power BI
•Build a model to analyse the quiz results
•Get the answers for who are the top 3 winners
•What was the easy question?
•What was the difficult question?

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM The Why, What and How of Robotic Processing Automation
-- Jian Sun--
On 9th December 2020, Power Automate Desktop had become generally available, critical to Microsoft Power Platform's success. RPA is the latest addition to platform, in this session we'll learn about the RPA economy, Microsoft's points of differentiation, and learn to build a robot!

11:45 AM Ask Me Anything
-- Hosted by Jonathan Rickard --
Your chance to ask the experts anything about the Power Platform. Hosted by Jonathan Rickard, you get to fire your curly Power Plaform questions at our panel of experts consisting of Microsoft employees and MVPs.

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM A Power Platform design workshop at speed
-- Hamish Sheild --
There are so many possibilities with the Power Platform - how do you know that you have chosen the right components for your solution? Participate in this interactive workshop that demonstrates how to efficiently generate ideas as a team and choose the right ones to ensure an innovative solution that aligns with your business objectives. All in 45 minutes!

2:15 PM The agent has left the building - automating intelligent replies to customer inquiries
-- Nathan Rose --
Is your customer team drowning in emails? Do repeated questions from customers consume increasing amounts of your team's limited time? Are your torn between providing great service while meeting your SLA's? Have you ever asked if there's a better way? In this session we'll dive into how you can pair QnA Maker (part of Azure Cognitive Services) with a customer service queue in Dynamics 365 via Power Automate to create a self-learning knowledgebase that can automatically respond to customer emails with relevant information.

3:00 PM Starting with Mixed Reality in PowerApps -Tips and demos
-- Troy Gerber --
The new mixed reality capabilities in Power Apps make it easy for everyone to build mixed reality applications. This session will cover the basics of getting started, provide tips that will help you skip some the gotcha's and showcase/demo practical scenarios, where Mixed Reality can be used.

3:45 PM Close

What to bring?

Bring your laptop with you and get hands on! The sessions are a mixture of demonstrations and interactive workshops.

Where?

ONLINE at http://bit.ly/GPPB21AKTeams