Charles Lakes II
Creative Solution Architect
United States of America

Microsoft MVP | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group

Charles is a technical speaker and low-code advocate with a pro-code background, specializing in transforming business data architecture. With a passion for innovation, he shares his expertise to solve complex business problems and guide organizations in reimagining their legacy processes, advancing automation initiatives, streamlining operations, and reducing infrastructure costs. | Software Engineer Plus Ultra | Middle-child | Soufside

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Meet Charles next at

North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit

07/09/2025

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Current Sessions Delivered by Charles
Dataverse: Everything, Everywhere, Here and There
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power-platform
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power-user
database

Are you building Power Platform solutions, but still storing your app data in SQL Server? If so, then you may need to reevaluate and consider Microsoft Dataverse. For many of your low-code initiatives, Dataverse is likely a better option. Designed to be a secure, low-code data storage solution, Microsoft introduced Dataverse to help organizations increase their return on investment (ROI), better scale their in-house applications, and promote rapid innovation, even leveraging Microsoft Copilot. Let’s deep dive into Microsoft Dataverse and explore jumpstarting your fusion team's productivity.

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Modern Processes w/ Power Automate
microsoft-365
power-platform
low-code
power-user

Are you getting the most out of your cloud infrastructure? More and more organizations are embracing the cloud, adopting SaaS solutions, and taking the opportunity to reimagine many of their legacy on-prem processes. Power Automate, a no-code/ low-code automation offering of the Power Platform, helps modernize these workflows. Let’s discuss some automation basics, ideal practices, and opportunities for efficiency.

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