Microsoft has announced the fifth annual Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC), taking place October 27–29, 2026 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, dedicated to how Microsoft Copilot, Work IQ, agents, apps, and workflows can improve business processes.

A concrete example: rethinking a procurement process

The announcement illustrates how these pieces fit together with a procurement scenario:

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    A[Employee opens a request in Copilot] --> B[Agent gathers supplier info & purchasing policies]
    B --> C[Application applies data model, permissions, approval rules]
    C --> D[Workflow routes the request and handles routine steps]
    D --> E{Higher-risk exception?}
    E -->|Yes| F[Routed to the right person for review]
    E -->|No| G[Process completes automatically]

What to expect at PPCC 2026

  • Opening keynote on October 27 by Ryan Cunningham (CVP, Copilot Studio and Power Platform) and Charles Lamanna (EVP, Microsoft)
  • More than 200 sessions and 24 hands-on workshops
  • A dedicated session, “Reimagining agentic automation,” on combining deterministic automation with agent reasoning inside the Copilot Studio designer

  • A featured customer example: the NFL modernized game-day operations with an AI-powered Game Ops Dashboard built using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform

  • Source: PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together
  • Official documentation: Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation