The Power Platform Global AI Hack Recap
April Dunnam
Power Platform Advocate?? at Microsoft ? YouTuber ? Speaker ? LinkedIn Learning Course Author ? Low Code Revolution Host
On September 14th we launched?The Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether?– a virtual hackathon all about using AI in the Power Platform. Here’s a recap of what happened in the event and what's next and how to continue learning!
Kickoff Session
We kicked off the virtual hackathon with a keynote by Ryan Cunningham (Vice President, Power Apps).
Ryan gave an insightful presentation on how AI can empower developers to create smarter and more intuitive applications. This can result in more personalized and efficient software that can cater to the needs of individual users and tackle big challenges.
Introduction to Power Platform Copilots.
The first full week of the hack kicked off with a live session on Power Platform Copilots. Priya Vaidyanathan joined us to show a captivating demo of how you can build business grade websites fast with the help of Copilot in Power Pages. We learned how to choose a theme, add pages, and design multi-step forms based on your website’s intent. We also discovered you could create a customer facing chat-bot experience for any website visitors that was powered by the information on your website.
Later on in the session, I showed off some of the other Copilots available in Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents.
Getting Started with AI Builder in the Power Platform
On Wednesday, Gomolemo Mohapi and Ashish Bhatia showed us how to use AI Builder, a powerful tool that lets you add intelligence to your apps and workflows without writing any code.
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Leveraging Azure OpenAI Service in the Power Platform
On Thursday, Daniel Laskewitz and ?? Robin Rosengrün did an amazing session on extending your Power Platform solutions with Azure OpenAI.
Robin showed off a real world demo of Azure OpenAI and Power Apps integration with his AI powered bedtime story generator.
Getting Started with GitHub
In our final week of the hack, David Warner II joined us to show how to get started with GitHub. GitHub gives you a way to share your solutions with the community so everyone can benefit from your work. David walked through the basics to submitting your first pull request so you can be on your way to contributing to the Power Platform Samples repository.
Wrap up and take action: Join our community for the next Big Thing!
We closed out our hack with some closing remarks and a live Q&A from VP of Power Automate Stephen Siciliano . Stephen shared how he sees AI and Copilots evolving in the Power Platform and answered some fun questions like what his favorite AI use case in Power Automate is.
What's Next?
So now that the hack is officially over, what's next? Our judges are going to go to work reviewing all of your inspiring AI-powered submissions. We will vote and deliberate to determine the winners for each category (best better together solution, best AI-powered use case, best DEI solution and grand prize winner). The winners will be announced in a blog post the week of October 23rd.
The learning doesn't stop here though, we hope that the hack inspired you to continue your journey exploring the world of AI in the Power Platform! We have a bunch of resources to continue your journey.
- Watch all of our live streams on demand here: https://aka.ms/pp/hacktogether/videos?
- Check out all of the slides that were presented in our live sessions: https://aka.ms/pp/hacktogether/slides
- Explore our curated collection of learning material (scroll to the bottom and you might find something new!): https://aka.ms/pp/hacktogether/learn
- Share your prompts in our prompt library: https://aka.ms/powerplatformprompts
- Check out the prompt manager application to curate your favorite prompts: https://aka.ms/promptmanager
Not your average data nerd | Building Power BI dashboards that executives actually use | 15+ years in data visualization
1 å¹´I really enjoyed taking part, is there anywhere mentioned how many submissions you got?
It was amazing, we had so much fun, learned a lot and created a Power App for internal use - win-win-win !
4xMicrosoft || 2xAWS || 1xGCP - Business Development Manager at SUDO Consultants driving Cloud and AI success and growth
1 å¹´Awesome efforts and amazing experience in Microsoft Hackathon. Thanks April and all the team for your support and cooperation. We all enjoyed the learning journey and developing solutions And we are looking for winning Microsoft socks ??????