Get ready for Microsoft Ignite 2024

Carina ClaessonPower Apps3 months ago6 Views

Next week Microsoft Ignite 2024 will be held. It’s a hybrid event, where you can attend in-person in Chicago as well as virtually. Attendees traveling to Chicago will be able to enjoy keynotes and other sessions live, along with the benefits of meeting in-person, such as official and unofficial meetups, discussing around the latest announcements and more. In this post, I will share what sessions I’m most excited about, perhaps it will inspire you keep up with what’s new.

Register for Microsoft Ignite

If you are traveling to Chicago to attend in-person, you are most likely already registered (it’s sold out!). Anyone can still register for free and attend virtually. Once you are registered you will be able to save sessions as your favorites and build your own agenda for the conference days.

Top 20 Sessions

As usual, watching the Microsoft Ignite Keynote is a must. In-person there will be different experiences available; two rooms with pre-keynote chat and snacks, ”The Hub” or the ”Skyline Ballroom” – for all early birds who are lucky to secure a seat. Tuesday, November 19, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM. That will be Tuesday at 15:00 Swedish friends

To hear about “The future of business apps” including roadmap for Power Apps, Power Pages, Managed Environments and of course how Copilot is utilized for these product areas, visit The Future of Power Platform: Intelligent Apps. Breakout session, Tuesday, November 19, 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM.

Come learn about building, running and managing your apps, Build Intelligent Applications with AI and Power Apps. Breakout session, Wednesday, November 20, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM.

In Chicago only , NOT recorded. Build Power Apps solutions with natural language, start with a plan, Building complete solutions with Copilot and Power Apps. The plan designer is currently available through Early Adopters Program, https://aka.ms/LetsBuildaPlan, read more here. Theater session, Wednesday, November 20, 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM.

Here’s a glimpse of the future of automation, Revolutionize the way you work with Power Automate and AI. Breakout session, Wednesday, November 20, 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM.

Are you curious about the latest innovations for governing, protecting, monitoring and managing your Power Platform deployments? Don’t miss Enterprise Scale: The Future of Power Platform Governance + Security. Breakout session, Tuesday, November 19, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM.

In Chicago only, NOT recorded. Come and hear about how to protect your Power Platform resources, monitoring utilization and setting up a strategy to keep your organisation’s data safeguarded at Leveraging rich visibility to secure AI driven business applications. Theater Session, November 21, 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM.

If you are interested in hearing the latest about Copilot Studio and what’s next, this session is for you, What’s new with Copilot Studio and agents. Breakout session, Tuesday, November 19, 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM.

Come learn about the types of knowledge available and to optimize them to meet your needs, Get the most of your enterprise knowledge with Copilot Studio. Breakout session, Thursday, November 21, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM.

Only 15 minutes, but if you are in Chicago, you can come and listen to the Group Program Manager for the Power Platform Governance Team and hear about the new Power Platform Admin Center. Getting the most out of the new Power Platform Admin Center Classic UI no more? Theater session, Wednesday, November 20, 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM.

For all of you who wants to hear about the latest innovations in Azure architecture, this session is for you, Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich. Breakout session, Wednesday, November 20, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM.

Unify Dataverse data & Microsoft graph data in Get started with best-in-class Copilot connectors in Copilot Studio Breakout session, Wednesday, November 20, 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM.

Learn about three risks with LLMs as Scott and Mark learn responsible AI. Hallucination, indirect prompt injection and jailbreaks (direct prompt injection). Breakout session, Thursday, November 21, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM.

Where do the prompts go? Follow the prompt! Tracking and managing Copilot prompts at hyperscale. Breakout session, Thursday, November 21, 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM.

The concepts, tools, and frameworks within the AI space, autonomous agents and my co-curator Daniel Laskewitz is one of the speakers A guide to building tomorrows AI Solutions. Breakout session, Friday, November 22, 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM.

Familiarize yourself with new maker experiences at Deep Dive: Create, monitor and optimize enterprise apps with Power Apps. Friday, November 22, 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM.

Find out about autonomous workflows and Copilot to dynamically tailors user experiences at Unlock Productivity with AI in Power Apps. Breakout session, Thursday, November 21, 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM.

From agents built to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot, to agents operating autonomously in the background. The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio. Breakout session, Friday, November 22, 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM.

How D365 agents can offer an out of box solution to quickly address the most common business process issues, Reinventing business processes with autonomous agents. Breakout session, Thursday, November 21, 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM.

Autonomous agents and what’s new i Customer Service, Unleash next-level customer service with Copilot and agents in Dynamics 365 Breakout session, Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 PM – 7:15 PM.

I’ll give you a bonus session or we can say that we do not count the keynote as one of the 20. If you are in Chicago, you can come and listen to April Dunnam talking about Power Apps testing, monitoring and troubleshooting. Theater session, Thursday, November 21, 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM.

There are so many other interesting sessions, simply navigate to the Session Catalog to find them all.

HOW to keep up with it all?!

Seeing this long list of sessions might be exciting for some and exhausting for others. We all learn about the new features eventually, one way or another. Ignite tips: focus on the product areas that you are interested in and take part of the sessions your preferred way.

Remember there are other ways to keep up with what’s new too. The Power Platform Boost Podcast is an excellent way, I would be very surprised if their upcoming episode is not filled with Microsoft Ignite buzz.

There are curated newsletters, ok, I might be biased Power Platform Weekly and Power Platform Dev Weekly.

Fellow MVP Lisa Crosby will most likely record videos summarizing and explaining the latest announcement, keep an eye on her YT channel! Another YT Channel to keep an eye on is April Dunnam’s. She also often makes excellent summaries after events.

Social Swag

Navigate to the Microsoft Ignite Social Swag page to download animated GIFs, backgrounds and social styles. Personally, I liked the Minesweeper, it reminded me of good of times. See you at #MSIgnite!