Allan De Castro
Avanade
Solution Architect
France

Solution Architect at Avanade | FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect Power Apps | MVP Business Applications | Speaker | Organizer | Evangelist

💼 8 years of experience and passion about D365 & Power Platform & 4+ years about Azure. Today, I have the privilege of working as a Solution Architect on large-scale projects involving several different departments and teams. 📍 Involved in the community, sharing and evangelising technology to empower everyone. 📰 Follow me here, on my blog (blog.allandecastro.com) or on twitter (@decastroallan) to follow the latest news and my investigations around D365, Power Platform & Azure.

Rendez vos applications PowerApps intelligentes avec GenAI
powerapps
openai
llm
genai
rag

Découvrez comment intégrer des LLM au sein de vos applicaitons PowerApps. Utiliser Azure OpenAI Service pour interrogez vos données d'entreprise.


Exploiter le potentiel des Bulk Operations Messages
integration
dataverse
data-migration
bulk-data-loader
bulk-operations

Les messages d'opérations en masse dans Dataverse permettent d'optimiser les interactions avec de grands ensembles de données. Cette fonctionnalité transforme la manière dont vous gérez la création, la mise à jour et la suppression d'enregistrements. Rejoignez-nous pour découvrir, à travers des démonstrations en live, comment exploiter ces capacités pour améliorer la performance et la simplicité de vos opérations de données.

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Your Copilot, Your Rules: Customizing Chat for Model-Driven Apps
dataverse
adaptive-cards
model-driven-apps
m365-copilot
copilot-studio
copilot-chat
custom-topics

Copilot Chat is transforming how users interact with Dynamics 365 and model-driven apps—but out of the box, it's just the starting point. The real power comes when you tailor it to your business. This session shows you how to take control of Copilot Chat. We'll cover enabling and configuring both the classic and M365 Copilot Chat experiences, then dive into customization using Copilot Studio: adding knowledge sources, building custom topics, creating prompt guides, and designing zero-prompt experiences with adaptive cards. You'll also learn how to extend Copilot beyond read-only queries using declarative agents, custom engine agents, and Copilot Studio agents. Whether you're rolling out Copilot for the first time or looking to unlock its full potential, leave with practical patterns to deliver a truly personalized AI experience for your users.

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AI Won't Wait for You: The New Reality of Development
github-copilot
claude
ai-assisted-development
power-platform-productivity

While you debate whether to use AI, your competitors are shipping faster. The developers thriving today aren't the ones resisting change—they're the ones who've made AI their coding partner. This session is a wake-up call and a practical guide. We'll explore how AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor are transforming Power Platform development—from writing Dataverse plugins and PCF components to generating Terraform configurations and unit tests. Through live demos, you'll see how AI-assisted development compresses hours into minutes and how the right prompts unlock productivity you didn't think possible. This isn't about replacing developers. It's about amplifying them. The question isn't whether AI will change how we build—it's whether you'll be ready when it does.

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Building a Secure Power Platform Architecture with Managed Identity and VNet
azure
security
zero-trust
vnet
managed-identity
dataverse-plugins
private-endpoints

Security isn't optional when scaling enterprise solutions on Power Platform—it's foundational. This session explores how Managed Identity and Virtual Network (VNet) integration transform authentication, data access control, and network security for production-ready architectures. Learn how to securely connect Power Platform services to Azure resources without storing secrets, enforce least-privilege access patterns, and eliminate public internet exposure through private endpoints. Through real-world implementation patterns and live demos drawn from enterprise D365 projects, we'll walk through best practices for securing Dataverse plugins, custom connectors, and Azure Function integrations. Walk away with actionable blueprints to lock down your Power Platform environment—no more secrets in environment variables, no more public endpoints.

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