Session Abstract

WHAT Power Automate Desktop has come a long way from being "the thing that clicks buttons when there's no API." With a growing set of agentic and AI capabilities, PAD can now get help building, maintaining, and debugging flows, and even become more intelligent while those flows are running. In this session, we'll explore how agents and AI are changing what's possible with Power Automate Desktop, from AI-assisted flow development and debugging to Copilot Studio agent integration, local LLMs, and computer vision as a fallback for UI automation. WHY Not every process has a nice API waiting for us. Sometimes the only way to automate a legacy application, stubborn web page, or ancient desktop system is still to make the computer do what a human does. And when PAD is the right tool, these new capabilities can make it considerably more powerful - and potentially give it an edge over competing RPA platforms. But with great power comes... yet another way to automate the same thing. As agents, cloud flows, APIs, AI services, and PAD increasingly overlap, knowing how to automate something is no longer enough. We also need to know which tool belongs where. HOW We'll spend just a few slides covering the landscape before diving into a series of practical, demo-heavy scenarios. We'll see agents help create and fix PAD flows, debug problems, and improve existing automations. Then we'll take things further by combining PAD with Copilot Studio agents, local LLMs, and computer vision. Expect less "here's what this feature does" and more "let's see what happens when we actually let AI loose on a desktop flow." TAKEAWAYS After attending this session, you'll be able to: ✅ Understand the latest agentic and AI capabilities coming to Power Automate Desktop. ✅ Use AI to build, maintain, debug, and improve PAD automations. ✅ Combine PAD with Copilot Studio agents, local LLMs, and computer vision to build more capable automations. ✅ Recognize when PAD is the right tool - and when something else should probably get the job. ✅ Identify new ways to make desktop automations more resilient, intelligent, and capable than traditional RPA.

Note to event organizers

This is an intermediate level session. I expect attendees to be familiar with PAD, but not necessarily with the features discussed.

Agnius Bartninkas

8+ years of successfully leading a process improvement and automation agency, specializing in operational excellence and automation, using the Microsoft Power Platform. Over 200 projects delivered to more than 100 clients worldwide either personally or via a directly managed team of developers. Over 10 million EUR in accumulated savings reported by clients due to these projects. Personally trained numerous automation developers to work with the Power Platform and related software. Microsoft Business Applications MVP.

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