Power Platform, M365 and AI: Practical Insight for the Public Sector

Join us for welcome refreshments and check-in. Get ready for an exciting and full day ahead.

Mike Tansey, Head of Sales, opens the seminar, setting the scene for the day ahead.

This session breaks down the latest Power Platform Apps & Governance updates, including:

• Release Wave overview
• Power Apps – Modern UI and Copilot-first app creation
• Power Automate – smarter management and AI-driven automation
• Power BI – Copilot features and smarter interactions
• Power Pages – AI-powered site building
• Copilot/Copilot Studio – New agent capabilities, end-to-end orchestration
• Governance & managed environment updates

Ben will also demonstrate a live build of an AI-accelerated app.

This session ensures attendees are up to date with the most important capabilities shaping the Power Platform roadmap.

Have a drink & snack, and take the opportunity to connect and network with fellow delegates.

This Copilot-focused session breaks down the latest Microsoft updates, including:

• The rise of AI in Power Platform
• What’s new highlights across Power Platform
• What’s new in Copilot Studio, including advanced agent building, lifecycle improvements and multi-step behaviour
• Governance, admin tools and other interesting updates

The session will also include a live demo build of a governed agent.

This session ensures attendees are up to date with the most important Copilot capabilities shaping the Power Platform roadmap.

This session explains what effective Power Platform governance should look like for large public sector deployments. It covers the foundations required to balance innovation with control, including:

• Designing environment strategies that separate development, testing and production workloads
• Applying Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies aligned with public sector regulatory expectations
• Managing maker activity, app usage visibility and platform risk through analytics
• Ensuring auditability, compliance and lifecycle management across the Power Platform

Delegates will gain a clear understanding of how to stabilise and secure their Power Platform environments while still empowering users.

Enjoy a nice lunch and network with other delegates and our event team.

Microsoft is introducing a set of AI capabilities directly into SharePoint - including Copilot, SharePoint agents, and AI Skills - which change how organisational content is created, interpreted, and reused.

In this session you’ll learn:

• What Microsoft means by 'AI in SharePoint,' including Copilot in SharePoint, agents, and AI‑assisted content experiences 
• A walkthrough of how AI is used across SharePoint sites, pages, libraries, lists, and documents for summarising, comparing, and generating content.
• Why content structure, metadata, and libraries directly affect the quality and safety of AI outcomes
• How AI Skills capture organisation‑specific rules and multi‑step ways of working, so SharePoint AI behaves consistently instead of relying on one‑off prompts.

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the AI features Microsoft is delivering in SharePoint, and how to best make use of them.

Public‑sector organisations often face complex legacy estates with network drives, shared drives, outdated or complex SharePoint platforms, bespoke systems and more. Moving this data and content to Microsoft 365 is typically the direction of travel, but what are the considerations

This type of migration is often treated as a data move, but the decisions made during migration directly shape how well collaboration, search, and Copilot work afterwards.

In this session we’ll cover:

• Why migrations often fail to deliver expected outcomes, and how those issues can be avoided
• How to plan migrations with Copilot, search, and automation scenarios in mind
• Addressing legacy content, permissions, and structures before they limit future capability
• Lessons learned from real Microsoft 365 migration projects

This session will help organisations understand migration as a deliberate design decision, rather than a one‑off technical exercise.

Enjoy a drink and snack while continuing your conversations with your peers and our team.

Copilot works over existing Microsoft 365 content and permissions, which means long‑standing governance issues become immediately visible and harder to ignore.

In this session we’ll explore:

• What Copilot readiness looks like in practice, across SharePoint and Microsoft 365
• Why governance and lifecycle management are foundational to safe and effective Copilot adoption
• The risks surfaced during Copilot readiness assessments, including duplicate and conflicting content, unmanaged sharing links, and over‑permissioned files that Copilot can freely reason over.
• How organisations are rethinking governance to support AI‑driven ways of working

Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of the governance questions Copilot raises, and where to start assessing their own Microsoft 365 environment.

Mike Tansey will sum up the day.

Continue your conversations, visit the museum displays, or make your way home. The museum is open until 6pm.

Yes, the War Rooms are fully accessible.

You can find more information here.

Registration: Tea, coffee, water, pastries & fruit

Morning Break: Tea, coffee, water & treats

Lunch: Deli sandwich buffet 

There will be at least one vegetarian option available. 

Afternoon Break: Tea, coffee, water & treats

If you have any specific dietary requirements, please note them on the registration form.

Yes, we welcome all afternoon delegates to join us for lunch and registration from 12:45.

All delegates are welcome to wander round the museum at any time between 10:00 and 18:00, should there be a suitable gap in your schedule. The event will finish at 16:30, after which there will be refreshments and networking so this could be a good opportunity to have a look around.