Celebrating makers and innovation at Power Platform Community Conference 2025

This year’s Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC 2025) was nothing short of extraordinary.

Over 7,000 makers, developers, and partners came together to explore the future of innovation, share inspiring stories, and strengthen the bonds that make this community so special.

Behind every innovation is a maker, someone who turns an idea into something real. At PPCC 2025, makers took center stage redefining what it means to build software and shaping the future of work every day.

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Building software has never been just about writing code; it’s about unlocking ideas at scale. Today, makers start with intent, designing solutions that blend human creativity and AI to make processes simpler and smarter. This shift is powering a new class of organizations, Frontier Firms, that place AI at the core of their operations and reimagine how people and technology work together to move faster, innovate more, and stay resilient.

Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio give makers the canvas to create with speed, the guardrails to build with trust, and the power of AI as their coauthor. With apps, agents, and Microsoft Copilot running on one managed platform, makers now have everything they need to make AI the foundation of everyday business.

Across the conference, our keynotes and sessions showcased how Microsoft is empowering makers to accelerate innovation. Here are the highlights driving that momentum:

Charles Lamanna’s keynote emphasized how AI and agents are transforming the maker experience, freeing them to focus on creativity, curiosity, and building what matters.

On stage, we saw demos that illustrated this vision: 

State Farm turned a natural language onboarding prompt into a governed, Dataverse-backed Training Manager app using plans and agent-assisted build in Microsoft Power Apps.

A leading insurance and advisory firm used Copilot Studio to orchestrate agents for compliance checks, portfolio reviews, and advisor-ready guidance, compressing hours of work into an auditable workflow. 

A global telecommunications provider showcased generative pages and built-in agents in Power Apps powering a real-time outage command center by pulling data from Outlook and Teams into Dataverse for faster incident response. 

A major professional services firm highlighted how Risk and Compliance teams can use the brand-new App Builder and Workflows Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to automate regulatory alerts, while Copilot Studio built a compliance agent that aggregates knowledge from Teams and SharePoint, connects experts, and generates actionable summaries—all without heavy IT lift. 

Ryan Roslansky’s keynote covered how the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform enables productivity in the flow of work. He highlighted key integrations and agents available across Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. He also showed an example of how preparing for a customer meeting can be made more effective using bespoke agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform.

Kim Manis’ keynote demonstrated how Microsoft Fabric unifies and curates data, bringing together information from more than 100 apps—including Teams, Excel, and Copilot Studio—into OneLake. From OneLake, this data powers AI experiences such as Chat with your data in Microsoft Power BI and Fabric Data Agents in Copilot Studio.

Dan Lewis showed how Copilot Studio is driving agentic transformation. He unveiled features that empower makers and information workers to build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents directly in the flow of work. These include seamless creation, advanced analytics, automated test case evaluation (evals), flexible model choice, and granular knowledge controls to ensure answer quality. As an example, we saw how an organization is using Copilot Studio to scale AI-powered solutions across HR, finance, and operations with an agent that rewrites content for social channels to match brand voice, provides clear guidance on changes, and delivers consistent messaging at scale. 

In my closing keynote, we celebrated the achievements of this entire community and focused on how our role as makers is more important now than ever before. We saw the BWT Alpine Formula One Team constantly evolving a technology platform to enable a human driver to succeed, and how Power Platform champions like Azsure Dorton at State Farm are helping entire companies build skills and rapidly adapt. The technology acceleration of AI in Power Platform and Copilot Studio is redefining what’s possible—the maker era is here, and this community is leading the way. 

Introduction of App Builder and Workflows: Empowering makers everywhere

We introduced new Frontier agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers: App Builder and Workflows. This new capability brings AI-powered app creation to millions of information workers who work with Copilot every day.

With App Builder, you can turn ideas into working apps in minutes—just describe what you need in natural language, and Copilot helps you build it. You can preview and refine your app, over multiple edits and comments, without leaving Copilot. No complex setup and no coding required. It’s secure, integrated with Microsoft 365, and designed to make building apps as simple as sharing a document.

Workflows agent helps users automate repetitive tasks across Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Planner using simple prompts. Built directly into the Copilot agent, it allows users to create, test, and monitor automations, such as meeting summaries or task digests, with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Deep integration with Microsoft 365 ensures access to Microsoft Graph data and seamless actions across services, with future upgrades available through Copilot Studio for advanced customization.

This is an agent-first, AI-powered development that scales from a single app to thousands, without sacrificing security or compliance.

What’s next

PPCC 2025 isn’t just about technology, it is about people. Community, creativity, and collaboration continue to shape what’s possible.

Join the Power Platform Community, your hub for ongoing product updates, expert insights, and real-world stories. It’s also the perfect place to share your experience and keep the conversation going with fellow makers.

Ready for an encore? See you at Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, California from November 18 to 21, 2025 (pre-day is November 17, 2025; online from November 18 to 20, 2025). The session catalog is live—browse and favorite Power Platform sessions to see what’s coming next.

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