PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together

Every enterprise runs on business processes. Applications hold the data, permissions, and rules. Workflows move information and decisions from one step to the next. People provide judgment, manage exceptions, and often connect systems that were never designed to work together.

AI creates an opportunity to rethink how these pieces work together. It also raises practical questions for the people responsible for improving how work gets done:

• Where should you focus when the technology is changing every day?

• How can you move quickly without giving up control?

• How do you turn new capabilities into measurable business value, not simply more activity?

These are the questions we’ll tackle at the fifth annual Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC), taking place October 27–29, 2026 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. PPCC brings together business experts, developers, solution builders, admins, and leaders to learn how Microsoft Copilot, Work IQ, agents, apps, workflows, and data can improve the processes that run your organization, ensure they are governable and secure, and optimize them with effective AI cost management.

You’ll also learn how leading organizations are putting these ideas into practice. The NFL, for example, recently modernized game-day operations with an AI-powered Game Ops Dashboard built using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Power Platform. By standardizing incident reporting and supporting long-term operational learning, the solution creates a more consistent, data-driven approach to stadium operations. This is just one example of how connected systems and process expertise can turn a specific operational challenge into broader business value.

Expand what you can build

The tools available to solve business problems are becoming more powerful and more connected. That creates an opportunity to improve an entire process rather than focusing on one siloed tool or adding AI to a single step.

Consider a procurement process. An employee starts with a request in Copilot. An agent gathers the relevant supplier information and purchasing policies. The application applies the appropriate data model, permissions, and approval rules. A workflow routes the request and handles routine steps. Higher-risk exceptions go to the right person for review.

Building this type of AI solution requires a broad set of skills. Business experts understand where the process breaks down. Developers and solution builders connect systems and create new experiences. Admins establish the controls required to operate responsibly. Together, they can determine where automation is enough, where agent reasoning adds value, and where people need to remain in control.

We encourage every participant to bring one process that matters to their organization. You’ll learn from product teams and community members who are improving similar processes today while deepening your understanding of how Copilot, agents, apps, automation, and data work together. You’ll leave with ideas you can apply to your own. This approach is all about practical, real-world application—not trying to change everything at once. Start with one meaningful process. Learn from it. Improve it. Scale what works.

Plan your PPCC week

Start with the opening keynote on October 27, where I’ll join Charles Lamanna, Executive Vice President at Microsoft, to share what’s next for Copilot, agents, and Power Platform—and how these technologies are changing what organizations can build.

Across more than 200 sessions, 24 hands-on workshops, keynotes, product talks, roundtables, certifications, and community experiences, you can examine and learn not just what the product can do, but how the pieces connect across your business processes and organization and can translate to real value. Business and IT leaders can explore where AI can change an end-to-end process and what it takes to move from experimentation to production. Professional and IT developers can go deeper on architecture, agent design, automation, data, security, and governance. Business experts can learn how to turn process knowledge into systems that people can use and improve.

A few sessions and workshops to build your agenda around:

1. Real-world transformation: Customer Exec Panel: Real-world examples for AI Agent transformation. Join Srini Raghavan, Corporate Vice President of Copilot and Agents Ecosystem, and customer executives for practical lessons on transforming business processes with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.

2. Architecture and context: Under the Hood: Dataverse, Copilot and Work IQ. Explore how Dataverse grounds agents in business data, meaning, and reusable business skills and how those capabilities contribute to Work IQ.

3. Agents and workflows: Reimagining agentic automation: Workflows and agents together in the Copilot Studio designer. See how to combine deterministic automation with agent reasoning in complex business processes.

4. Security and governance: Secure by Design: Preparing Agents for Production and Scale. Learn how permissions, data access, DLP policies, and enterprise AI guardrails can prepare agents for production.

5. A full-day workshop: Build intelligent business processes with apps, automations, and agents. Build an end-to-end process that brings together applications, automation, agents, Microsoft Dataverse, human approvals, governance, security, and application lifecyle management (ALM).

Beyond the sessions, explore solutions in the Expo Hall, see what the community is creating in the Makers Market, and connect with experts in the Community Lounge. The event culminates on October 28, when full conference attendees can join an exclusive evening celebration featuring a live performance by Pitbull.

Register for the Power Platform Community Conference 2026 and join us in Las Vegas.