Episode Five - European Power Platform Conference 2026 Special: Panic Room Round Up and Reflections
Power Platform Panic RoomShow Notes
In this episode, Emma and Craig hide out in the Panic Room to share insights from the European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) 2026 in Copenhagen that they attended and spoke at at the end of June.They discuss how governance is finally (hooray!) at the top of the agenda, AI adoption and the future of Power Platform development.
In the show, they reflect on some of the keynotes and talks from the conference including Agent 365, Standard vs Premium licensing, and strategies to stay ahead in the evolving tech landscape (hint: it’s not ‘do more AI’). They also discuss the gap and opportunities for Power Platform Admins in this changing landscape, and the new skills they might need. As well as sharing some exciting new stuff that’s coming, they also reveal how many apps and agents Microsoft have on their estate which was shared at EPPC. We’d love to hear what you guessed before you heard the stats!
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Links to some of the things we discussed in this episode:
Filthy Animals who kindly provided our new soundtrack and ROCK 🤘: https://youtube.com/@filthyanimals-are-great European Power Platform Conference - Get your tickets for 2027 in Dublin here: https://espc.tech/conference/eppc-2027/ Dan Laskewitz’s post about the Power Platform CLI: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/laskewitz_pac-admin-query-command-ugcPost-7482356633600364544--tf6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAJNkvEBhnLKSs967lXvwVeYhjnjmlq-XhY Valentin Mazhar’s new tool for blocking agent creation at Environment level: https://www.powertricks.io/block-agent-creation/ Power Automate Plugin: https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills/blob/main/plugins/power-automate/README.md Power Platform Panic Room on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/power-platform-panic-room-podcast
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