The Power Platform Global AI Hack Recap

The Power Platform Global AI Hack Recap

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.

Ryan talking about how AI is changing how we develop applications


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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.

Priya showing off Power Pages Copilot


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.

Gomo and Ashish talking about AI Builder

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.

Robin showing his AI generated bedtime stories application

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.

David showing how to do your first pull request on GitHub


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.

Stephen talking about low code Copilots


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.


Diana Ackermann

On a mission to improve your Power BI reports with advanced analytics and a user-centric approach | Statistician 📈 | Head of BD-A GmbH

1y

I really enjoyed taking part, is there anywhere mentioned how many submissions you got?

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It was amazing, we had so much fun, learned a lot and created a Power App for internal use - win-win-win !

Ahmed Abdel Razek

Corporate Sales Expert | UAE, Egypt, Kuwait & Qatar | Cloud & AI Sales Coach | Speaker | Founder | Microsoft | AWS | Google

1y

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 🤣🤣🤣

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