Welcome to the Power Apps community call. These calls are the 3rd Wednesday of each month where we share the latest news about Power Apps, demonstrate tips and tools to help you build amazing Power Apps. In these calls you will meet the Power Apps product team and community experts to get your questions answered.  For the month of January, we have two very exciting topics!

Community rockstar Shadrack Inusah will walk through how to create an audio player using Power Apps and Kavishi Agarwal will walk through the new Power Apps Pay-as-you-go features.

If you are not familiar with Pay-as-you-go it is a new way to pay for Power Apps using an Azure subscription, which allows you to get started building and sharing apps without any license commitment or upfront purchasing.

When
January 19^th, 2022, 8AM PST

Where:
https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join

Agenda 

• Introductions by April Dunnam & Todd Baginski
  
• Power Audio Player by Shadrack Inusah
  
• New Pay-as-you-go Features by Kavishi Agarwal
  
• Power Apps Community Call Quiz by April & Todd
• Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions by April & Todd 
• Next call details by Todd Baginski

Kavishi Agarwal

Senior Product Manager| Microsoft |Carnegie Mellon 
I am Senior Product Manager in the Power Apps product team and is passionate about creating experiences that customers love. I have been a part of Microsoft a little over 3 years and have been working on Power Apps since. I am currently leading the Pay-as-you-go business model for Power Apps along with other licensing related initiatives. 

Shadrack Inusah

I’m an IT/Compliance assistance at DreamOval where I handle device management on Azure, build and manage Business Applications in M365. A Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador with community building and leading experience and a member of the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Low Code No Code League. I help students learn and build together to solve a technical world problem. I write technical blogs about Power Platform on the Microsoft Tech Community blog site. I have introduced and trained over 100+ students on the Power Platform and have built amazing Power Apps where I became 2nd best Power Platform builder in Africa and a first-time speaker during the Power Platform Global Bootcamp in 2021. I mentor students for the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program across Africa. 
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April Dunnam

I’m a Power Platform Developer Advocate at Microsoft and Power Platform MVP Alumni. As a Power Platform Developer Advocate, my mission is to help citizen and code-first developers succeed in building collaborative applications for the Power Platform. I develop written content, videos, and samples; speak at conferences; and advocate for developers with Microsoft’s engineering groups. I have an active YouTube Channel and blog where I share how-to videos and demos around Power Apps, Power Automate, Teams and SharePoint. I regularly speak at events across the globe to share Power Platform knowledge.
(99+) April Dunnam | LinkedIn

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies.
Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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When
December 15^th, 2021, 8AM PST

Where:

https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join

Agenda 

• Introductions by Todd Baginski
  
• Power Apps Xbox Games with Brian Dang
  
• Power Apps Office-like comments with Emma Cooper
  
• Recent Power Apps News and Community Updates by Todd and Chuck
  
• Next call details by Todd Baginski
  

Emma Cooper

Currently excited to be working as a PM at Microsoft because of my interest in advancing technology, advocating for users and getting things done!

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/it-it/blog/author/emcoope/

Brian Dang

Elementary school teacher turned classroom app developer. Senior Program Manager @ Microsoft. Photographer. Storyteller.

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/brdang/

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies. Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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Power Apps Holiday Calendaring Application

For folks not familiar with Christmas Advent calendar it is a special calendar used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas. In this session Craig Gregory will show best practices he used to create this exciting and topical Power Apps sample!

ProvisionGenie – an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams

Luise Freese and Carmen Ysewijn worked together to automate the tasks to create useful Team’s Teams complete with monitoring through the graph API, role based security and documentation!

When

November 17^th, 2021, 8AM PST

Where:

https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join
Agenda 

• Intro – 5 minutes (Todd & Chuck)
  
• Power Apps Christmas Calendar – 20 minutes (Craig Gregory)
  
• Teams Provision Genie – 25 minutes (Luise + Carmen)
  
• Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions – 5 minutes (Todd and Chuck)
  
• Next call details – 1 minute (Todd)
  

Carmen Ysewijn

Carmen is a Power Platform Architect at Qubix (Belgium) with a passion to find the right solution for any challenge that arises. With this solution-oriented approach, she helps customers improve their business processes. She loves to share the knowledge she gains along the way on her blog or speaking at conferences. Based Kontich, Flemish Region, Belgium. https://twitter.com/CarmenYsewijn

Luise Freese

Luise Freese is an independent Microsoft 365 Consultant and Low Code Developer. She is awarded as an MVP and member of the Microsoft 365 PnP team, where she helps people extend Microsoft 365. She facilitates her clients’ digital and cultural transformation by simplifying their business processes and mastering the art of teamwork. She runs her own blog at https://m365princess.com and is co-founder of https://pyod.shop. She loves LEGO and stickers; her favorite number is 42, she lives in Germany. https://twitter.com/LuiseFreese

Craig Gregory

SharePoint and Power Platform Consultant/Researcher/Builder | Infosys based in Arizona

My SharePoint career began in 2016 with SharePoint 2013 along with InfoPath forms. In 2018 started the journey with SharePoint Online and the Power Platform. My focus is O365 SharePoint and Power Platform. My skills range from consulting, researcher of solutions, no code to low code solutions, and understanding the wholistic workings of O365 apps utilized together. I’m driven by the constant changing of technology and it drives my continuous desire to learn more. https://twitter.com/crashlongjohns

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies.
Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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Finding your Tribe

Sheryl treated her month of upskilling just like a regular job; she would start studying using Dynamics Learning Portal (DLP) inspiring Microsoft Learn (which is free) at 8am and often didn’t wrap up until 8pm. One of the study aids she found that really worked well for her was Julian Sharps Study Groups. This not only helped her leverage her newfound peers’ knowledge in her studying but gave her kindred spirits who supplied motivation and encouragement. In addition to preparing her intellectually, through the study group she met Iain Connolly and learnt of his efforts and his passion in regional user groups as well as one of the largest Power Platform events, the Scottish Summit. A serendipitous result from Sheryl’s community interactions (like the Scottish Summit) was meeting ‘Larry’ Laurynas Merkelis, who was so impressed by Sheryl that he referred her for a role through one of his Dynamics contacts. Not only did this role significantly pay more, but it also offered more flexible hours that better fit Sheryl’s family needs. An unexpected benefit was this employer offering to pay for her exams!  

Giving Back

With a newfound set of friends, a new job that not only delivers on her basic needs better, but enables Sheryl to grow in positive ways, it seems this story would be over. But it’s not! While helping at Scottish Summit, Sheryl was introduced and became fast friends with another community pillar, Julie Yack. Julie Yack firmly believes a key to achieving personal growth and contentment is channeling your energies into helping others around you. Sheryl has really taken this to heart and is one of the advocates who helps organize the Power Platform Tech Stylers, the 3 shires 365 User Group and was made an Ambassador for Wentors, a WiT mentoring organisation.

Julian Sharp’s comments:

Sheryl exemplifies the concept of community. I first met Sheryl at a community event where she bravely attended in her journey to switch to a technical career in Dynamics 365. Many people are afraid to jump in; Sheryl threw herself into speaking to as many people as possible to find out what she should do and how she could learn. Sheryl learned quickly and attended my study groups to gain certifications. Sheryl has given back to the community, first as a volunteer at the Scottish Summit, to then speaking at events on both technical and non-technical subjects. A thing I have noticed is that Sheryl is always there encouraging others in their own journey. https://aka.ms/JulianSharp

Julie Yacks comments:

Sometimes we go through life in our own zone and don’t seek a community, especially true in our professional lives.  But once you find that community, you wonder what you ever did without them.  Sheryl is a great example of both giving and receiving from her community to elevate not only herself but those around her.  https://365.training/Instructors/Detail/julieyack

As of this writing, Sheryl’s amazing contributions were recognized with an MVP award nomination and we are looking forward to seeing what the next chapter in Sheryl Netley’s life brings!

About Sheryl Netley



“I’m a late career switcher, having picked up Microsoft Power Platform in the last few years as an enthusiastic 50 something.  I am very active in the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Community, and regularly participate in events as a speaker, volunteer, and attendee.  Microsoft certifications have been the enabler for a life and career I had only ever dreamed of, and it is my mission to share that opportunity with as many people as I possibly can! It really is #NeverTooLate.

Outside of work, I spend my time mostly being a mum of 4, but also volunteer when I can as a STEM Ambassador, mentor and ambassador for the TechStylers group for women in tech. I firmly believe that #WeRiseByLiftingOthers.”

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        Introductions by Todd Baginski

        Pokémon Bubbles Video Game by Michelle Wong 

        How to get Microsoft Certified in the Power Platform by Sheryl & Jese)

        April Dunnam what is new with PnP Samples

        Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions  (Todd and Chuck)

        Next call details by Todd Baginski

About our Presenters

April Dunnam

I’m a Power Platform Developer Advocate at Microsoft and Power Platform MVP Alumni. As a Power Platform Developer Advocate, my mission is to help citizen and code-first developers succeed in building collaborative applications for the Power Platform. I develop written content, videos, and samples; speak at conferences; and advocate for developers with Microsoft’s engineering groups. I have an active YouTube Channel and blog where I share how-to videos and demos around Power Apps, Power Automate, Teams and SharePoint. I regularly speak at events across the globe to share Power Platform knowledge.

https://aka.ms/AprilDunnam

Jese Navaranjan

Jese is currently working at Avanade as a Power Platform Solutions Architect. She is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and holds many Power Platform Certifications. She has her own YouTube channel and her own blog where she shares content on a weekly basis on all the tools of the Power Platform. She is passionate about all things data and loves to share her knowledge to help others! Make sure you check out Jese’s Power Channel! https://aka.ms/JesesYouTubeChannel

https://aka.ms/JeseNavaranjan

Michelle Wong

@MichelleWongNL
Michelle is a Microsoft 365 Consultant and an MVP of Business Applications.  

In her projects, she integrates the possibilities between Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. She is a fan of Power Automate Cloud flows and use it a lot to digitalizing the business processes. Michelle is one of the leaders of PowerApps4Kids and one the leaders of the TechStylers group. Besides that, she also participates in various Power Apps and Power Automate User Groups and speaks at conferences and Online Meetup meetings.
In her spare time, she creates Power Apps games to practice and makes herself familiar with Power Apps. Michelle likes to use Pokémon characters in her Power Apps gamification, due to his son. His son is a real Pokémon fan: he has been collecting Pokémon cards when he was 4 years old (he is now 13) and loves playing Pokémon Go. To attract her son into Power Apps, she has been building different Pokémon games: Pokémon Memory, Pokémon noughts and crosses, Pokémon3D and the latest one PokéBubbles.  
For the Pokémon3D and the PokéBubbles game, she did an entry for the Demo Extravaganza 2020 and 2021.  
To see the entries please visit:
A Pokémon 3D app with Mixed Reality – make photos with your favorite Pokémons and save this to your OneDrive (link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Demo-Extravaganza-2020/A-Pok%C3%A9mon-3D-app-with-Mixed-Reality-make-photos-with-your/cns-p/587679 ) 
A PokéBubbles Game – just match the correct bubble of the lowest bubble on the stack (link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Demo-Extravaganza-2021/Pok%C3%A9Bubbles-Game/cns-p/936320 ) 

Sheryl Netley

“I’m a late career switcher, having picked up Microsoft Power Platform in the last few years as an enthusiastic 50 something.  I am very active in the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Community, and regularly participate in events as a speaker, volunteer, and attendee.  Microsoft certifications have been the enabler for a life and career I had only ever dreamed of, and it is my mission to share that opportunity with as many people as I possibly can! It really is #NeverTooLate. Outside of work, I spend my time mostly being a mum of 4, but also volunteer when I can as a STEM Ambassador, mentor and ambassador for the TechStylers group for women in tech. I firmly believe that #WeRiseByLiftingOthers.”

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies.
Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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The Power Platform community has created a virtual event: Business Application Summit 2021 being held November 17-19^th and is entirely focused on upskilling and sharing knowledge with members of the community.

Run by MVPs, super users, user group Leaders, user group members and community members this virtual conference will have sessions by Americas based speakers with 3 days of topics in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Day one we will have lectures from ISVs, partners and more organizations that will tell us how technology has changed the business or sectors to which they belong.

The second day will focus on diversity and inclusion with guests sharing their experiences and how they overcame them, women of success and prominence sharing best practices and women recognized as experts in their domain and how they have revolutionized the world of IT.

Don’t miss this free virtual event that will help us grow more as teachers and in our language and in our time zone !!!

When:

November 17^th – 19^th

Where:

BizApps LATAM Summit Tickets, Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 8:00 AM | Eventbrite

Featured Speakers

FaBIana Ravanêda Vercezes



I love to communicate, network, exchange information and experiences… fascinated by technology, especially everything that encompasses the world of Data. Coordinator of data intelligence and analytics at Icatu Seguros, specialist in Business Intelligence at PUC-RJ, with international certification by MIT in Big Data and certified by Microsoft as Innovative Educator (MIE) and Microsoft MVP Data Plataform. Postgraduate professor in BI, Data Science and Big Data. (99+) FaBIana Ravanêda Vercezes | LinkedIn

Fabiola Padilla



More than 14 years of professional experience in Information Technology (IT) with Multinational and Global Enterprise accounts. High experience in transformational and digital projects with focus in develop a Growth Business Strategy and Planning with High Performance Mindset.
During this time, I have had the opportunity to develop skills in effective global negotiations, leadership and customer obsession to ensure what the customer wants, needs and care. I worked with different areas, orchestrating, leading and supporting a large cross group organization in order to success in the accomplishment of local and global commitments. (99+) Fabiola Padilla | LinkedIn

Fátima Blancas



Mexican enthusiast of technology and education. For the last 12 years I have been an Entrepreneur, Passionate Consultant and Teacher. As CEO of iTProve I focus on carrying out the right strategies so that the processes of the operation of the business of our clients are developed on Office 365, helping them to reduce times so that with the information collected they can drive their own growth. (99+) Fátima Blancas | LinkedIn

Reza Dorrani

Reza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP & Principal consultant at Catapult Systems.   He is a Microsoft Power Apps & Microsoft Power Automate community dual super user.  He was awarded the Microsoft Flow All Star award by the community.  He is also the founder and leader of the Houston Power Apps and Power Automate User Group https://aka.ms/RezaDorrani

Samantha Villarreal

Entrepreneur and generator of business solutions, I have several awards, including Microsoft MVP of Office Server and Apps since 2015, I belong to a group of less than 60 women in the world with a recognition in this category, specializing in Office365. I have 14 years of experience in ICTs, alternating in positions of Management and Head in areas of IT, Administration and Marketing, I have participated as a Bachelor’s and Master’s Professor. I founded and led the Microsoft-UPIICSA community as a student, a community I continue to support. I am a speaker and organizer of high impact technological events nationally and internationally. (99+) Samantha Villarreal | LinkedIn

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1. Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps by May Alhajri
2. How to build better Power Automate Cloud Flows – tips, tricks and considerations by Dawid Ziolkowski

When: September 9/23/2021 6pm PST

Where: https://aka.ms/SeptVanPUG

Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps by May Alhajri

Controls help create a better experience for the user and collect the appropriate data. This module will help you understand and use Controls.
Learning objectives:

• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
  
• Use the different types of controls
  
• Understand how Galleries and Forms related to controls
  

References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/controls-canvas-apps/

How to build better Power Automate Cloud Flows – tips, tricks and considerations by Dawid Ziolkowski

This session will be packed with the tips and tricks how to approach build better, quicker more performant Power Automate Cloud Flows. In this story I will also cover some considerations of building the Flow like User context and that not always http actions are required to change it.


May Alhajri

Don’t think inside the box and don’t think outside the box…Don’t even know where the box is. You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. Digital world is my place⭐️ Sharing my knowledge is my favorite part of my day through all my social media accounts. Therefore, sharing my knowledge is the best way to learn and retain knowledge for myself.

https://aka.ms/MayAlhajri


Dawid Ziolkowski

I’m working in the IT almost 12 years thou I finished management studies, after years I know that this was one of the important factors for me.

I’m working close with Users and always looking to find the Business Value to deliver what will really help. I participated in many projects, building various automatizations and workflows, that is why I feel so good with Power Automate. Next to that of course there is User Experience which is the key and one of the deciding factors of success and that is why Power Apps are in my daily work and I like them so much.

I strongly believe that all the Digital tools are for people and Power Platform can help anyone to resolve their day-to-day challenges or support the work and make it more efficient. That is why I’m currently working to establish a Citizen Developers framework which will support Onboarding, Learning, Governance of all New and Active Makers. This is huge challenges but at the same time fascinating journey.

Except all above I love to interact with community #PowerAddicts, speak at the conferences and writing my own blog where I’m sharing my learnings. #SharingIsCarring

https://aka.ms/DawidZiolkowski


Scott Durow

Scott is a committed and personable software architect/technologist with a successful track record for realising business vision through enterprise/application architectures that are tightly aligned with budget and time scales. By combining his detailed technical knowledge with a clear grasp of the wider commercial issues Scott is able to identify and implement practical solutions to real business problems. Scott is also an excellent communicator and technical author. Scott's 20 years of software engineering background has moved him from assembly language device driver programming, industrial control software engineering into enterprise business software applications, with experience that covers work in Europe, North America and Japan.

https://aka.ms/ScottDurow

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Welcome to the Power Apps community call. These calls are the 3rd Wednesday of each month where we will share the latest news about Power Apps, demonstrate tips and tools to help you build awesome Power Apps. In these calls you will meet the Power Apps product team and community experts to get your questions answered. For September we have two of the Power Platform MVPs: Reza Dorrani and May Alhajri covering two of the hottest Power Platform topics: Power Apps design and Power Platform integration.

This month’s agenda:

• Introductions Todd Baginski
  
• Value Proposition Design: Canvas by May Alhajri
  
• Power BI Tiles & Reports in Power Apps | Inventory Management Solution by Reza Dorrani
  
• PNP Updates by April Dunnam
• Next call details – 1 minute (Todd)
  
• Q&A – Till end of call (Todd and Chuck)
  

When: September 15th 8:00AM PST
Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join

Value Proposition Design: Canvas by May Alhajri

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want.


Power BI Tiles & Reports in Power Apps | Inventory Management Solution by Reza Dorrani

This session will explore the Power BI Tile control in Power Apps to bring specific Visuals from Power BI Dashboards into Power Apps. We will also look at a *new feature* on how to bring the entire Power BI Report in Power Apps.

This session will demonstrate PowerApps Power BI Integration with Dynamic filtering. We will apply dynamic filtering of Power BI data inside Power Apps & also apply multiple filters. I showcase my Inventory Management Power App Solution I built using multiple Microsoft 365 services – Power Apps, Power BI, Microsoft Visio & Microsoft Dataverse. The solution leverages a Power BI report which has visualizations showcasing information of the storage facility where the inventory is maintained. Microsoft Visio Visual in Power BI has a diagram of the Storage Facility space, which allows users to look at the Spaces available. The Visio shapes have their color property change dynamically depending upon available space per Container. The Power App allows us to check in and check out inventory data into the specific containers / spaces.

References:

? Power BI tile control in Power Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powe…

Our Presenters

May Alhajri

May’s own words: Don’t think inside the box and don’t think outside the box…Don’t even know where the box is. You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.
Digital world is my place.

https://aka.ms/MayAlhajri

Reza Dorrani

Reza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP & Principal consultant at Catapult Systems.   He is a Microsoft Power Apps & Microsoft Power Automate community dual super user.  He was awarded the Microsoft Flow All Star award by the community.  He is also the founder and leader of the Houston Power Apps and Power Automate User Group

https://aka.ms/RezaDorrani

April Dunnam

I’m a Power Platform Developer Advocate at Microsoft and Power Platform MVP Alumni. As a Power Platform Developer Advocate, my mission is to help citizen and code-first developers succeed in building collaborative applications for the Power Platform. I develop written content, videos, and samples; speak at conferences; and advocate for developers with Microsoft’s engineering groups. I have an active YouTube Channel and blog where I share how-to videos and demos around Power Apps, Power Automate, Teams and SharePoint. I regularly speak at events across the globe to share Power Platform knowledge.

(99+) April Dunnam | LinkedIn

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies.
Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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The August Power Apps community calls has a special treat! By popular demand, we are continuing the deep dive walk throughs of the Demo Extravaganza submissions. For August we will be looking at: How to feed your dragon game by Gerard Simpson and Event Calendar App by Juli Reid. Additionally, Microsoft feature PM, Varda Shrivastava will walk us through how to analyze Model-driven applications performance data using Performance Insights. If you haven’t looked at if before, Performance Insights is a self-service tool for enterprise app makers that analyzes runtime user data and provides a prioritized list of recommendations to help improve the performance of Model-driven apps. With this feature, we’re converting raw telemetry data into actionable work items for you to tackle. The call will also include Power Platform Patterns and Practices updates by April Dunham. Of course, none of this would be possible without the host and creator of the Power Apps community call, Power Platform MVP Todd Baginski.

When

            August 18^th, 2021 – 8AM Pacific Time

Agenda 

• Introductions and kick off by Todd Baginski
  
• Performance Insights by Varda Shrivastava
  
• Event Calendar App by Juli Reid
  
• How to feed your dragon game by Gerard Simpson
  
• Power Platform Patterns and Practice updates by April Dunnam
  
• Power Platform Updates and closing by Todd Baginski
  
  

Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join

Demo Extravaganza 2021 Finalists Video Entries

If you missed the demo extravaganza not to worry you can watch the entire recording on the Microsoft 365 Developer YouTube Channel and for your viewing pleasure have broken down the submissions into easy “bite sized” videos:

• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Course Maker Solution – Rory Neary @azurerory  https://youtu.be/gHgQ4r60pxc
  
• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Course Maker Solution – Rory Neary @azurerory – (Extended Demo)  https://youtu.be/BPZ_q__7sNk
• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Number Puzzle – Krishna Rachakonda @rachakonda78  https://youtu.be/-EzdaIQlnW8
  
• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Pandemic Response Solution – Venkat Rao https://youtu.be/ddVJObr3lHw
  
• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Kitty Run! Game – Nicholas Nguyen | @PowerAppsGamer1 https://youtu.be/e1puxuRjw2w
  
• Power Apps Demo Extravaganza 2021 – Sports Stats Tracker – Todd Baginski | @toddbaginski, Matt Schuessler | @mattschues, Hubert Sui | @HubertSui, Sarah Meyer, and Damian Gibbs https://youtu.be/DJfDL9FWH0M
  

Juli Reid



I am a ‘Jill of all trades’, Queen of everything. Developing creative solutions with SharePoint and Microsoft Power Platform Tools are at the top of the list of my favorite activities. Also high on that list are automating daily tasks with Powershell. Among the myriad other things, I do or have done are managing Nintext Workflows, InfoPath forms, wireless accounts, MobileIron, cell phones and creating searches, reports, one-steps and dashboards in Cherwell.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juli-reid-10a315b/

Gerard Simpson



I am a Chartered Civil Engineer with no formal IT qualifications, and I work for an organisation, which develops and operates a wide range of renewable energy projects. I am your typical Citizen Developer. I had been dabbling with power automate for a while, but once I built my first stand-alone app in Power Apps back in July 2020, there was no looking back. I am well and truly hooked on all this powerful goodness!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-simpson-76bb08a5

Varda Shrivastava

“I’m a product manager on the Power Apps Interface team. My focus is on empowering our makers to build usable, performant apps that end-users love!”

https://www.linkedin.com/in/varda-shrivastava/

April Dunnam

I’m a Power Platform Developer Advocate at Microsoft and Power Platform MVP Alumni. As a Power Platform Developer Advocate, my mission is to help citizen and code-first developers succeed in building collaborative applications for the Power Platform. I develop written content, videos, and samples; speak at conferences; and advocate for developers with Microsoft’s engineering groups. I have an active YouTube Channel and blog where I share how-to videos and demos around Power Apps, Power Automate, Teams and SharePoint. I regularly speak at events across the globe to share Power Platform knowledge.

(99+) April Dunnam | LinkedIn

Todd Baginski

I’m a proud Partner, and the CTO at Canviz where I am currently leading several projects that include PowerApps, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, full web stack, and numerous other technologies.
Sharing my expertise and knowledge with others is important to me, I love to teach. I’ve been blessed to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for the last 13 years. This award recognizes my contributions to the technical communities I am a part of. For over a decade, I have created close relationships with the Microsoft SharePoint & Azure teams which provides me access to early releases. My team and I work closely with the Microsoft teams before products are released publicly to develop training and samples that are distributed worldwide to architects and developers. I give back to my local community by coaching and growing youth sports teams; emphasizing hard work, excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership.

https://toddbaginski.com/blog/ 

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When: July 22^nd 6pm PST

Where:
https://aka.ms/VANUGEvent
Agenda:

Data Flows in Power Apps by Olena Grischenko (30 minutes)
No-code integration what? No-code data migration why? There are things that aren’t easy to un-learn in the development world. System integration and data migration are two of the most difficult parts of any business application projects. Can we solve it with No-code? Yes, we can, it a very easy and cost-effective way. You could ask Why? Why do we need new tools in the space where we solve problems in the same common way for many years? This talk is useful for developers as well as for people who don’t use code. Learn about new possibilities of Power Platform which nobody talks about even though they do exist. Learn about simple and not so simple transformations from CSV, text files, SQL to Dataverse. Become a new Power Platform data integration superhero!

Sneak Peak at Commanding for model driven Power Apps by Scott Durow (30 minutes)
Changing the commanding in model based Power Apps has traditionally been reserved for code based solutions, in this session Power Platform MVP and User Group Leader will show us a sneak peak as to how this going to be much easier in the near future. (sorry this portion is currently not planned to be recorded nor posted due to its unreleased nature)

About your organizers and presenters:


Olena Grischenko

Power Platform MVP based in Sydney Australia passionate about Technomancy – make systems work like magic: https://technomancy.com.au/ and #PowerLabs – start with Microsoft technologies! https://www.meetup.com/PowerLabs/
https://aka.ms/OlenaGrischenko


Scott Durow
Scott is a committed and personable software architect/technologist with a successful track record for realising business vision through enterprise/application architectures that are tightly aligned with budget and time scales. By combining his detailed technical knowledge with a clear grasp of the wider commercial issues Scott is able to identify and implement practical solutions to real business problems. Scott is also an excellent communicator and technical author.

https://aka.ms/ScotDurow


Ali Sharifi
With a rich background in business applications Ali Sharifi came to Microsoft from the Microsoft partner channel, where as a Lead Solution Architect he delivered solutions based on Microsoft technologies to many customers in various industries form commercial to public sector. He is now Power Platform Technical Specialist in the Cloud and Enterprise team and lives the Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 with underlying Azure cloud services can accelerate digital transformation of any organization to build tomorrow’s business and IT solutions.

https://aka.ms/AliSharifi

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