Adriatic Tech Summit 2027

05/04/2027, Congress Center Hotel Hills
Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina

I'm a Power Platform Developer. Here's What I Actually Needed Foundry For.

I build on Power Platform. Canvas apps, model-driven apps, Dataverse, flows. For about a year people kept telling me I should be looking at Foundry, and I kept nodding and not doing it, because nobody could tell me what I would use it for that I could not already do. So I took four things from real projects and tried each one the low-code way first. The first one AI Builder handled without complaint. The second one was fine in Copilot Studio. If I had gone straight to Foundry for either of those I would have spent a sprint building something more complicated than the problem. The third one is where it got interesting. It nearly worked, and then I hit a ceiling - I could not see why it was answering the way it was, I could not measure whether it was getting better or worse when I changed the prompt, and I could not do anything about either from where I was standing. That is the moment I stopped guessing and went and learned Foundry properly. The fourth one was never going to work any other way. This session is those four, in order, with the demos. What I built, what broke, and the point where I should have moved and the point where I definitely should not have. I am not going to teach you Foundry from scratch. I am going to show you where the low-code surface runs out, from the perspective of someone who lives on that surface and did not particularly want to leave it. If you are a Power Platform developer who keeps hearing about Foundry and has no idea whether any of it applies to you, this is for you. Key takeaways A threshold you can recognise: the specific signals that mean you have outgrown AI Builder or Copilot Studio, and the ones that only look like it. Three cases where the low-code answer was the right one, so you can stop over-engineering the easy half. What the move actually costs - what you have to learn, what you have to set up, and what you get in return.