Session Abstract

In automation, actions aren't just louder—they're smarter. This session walks through Power Automate patterns drawn from a real, fully-working demo: a Copilot Studio job-application assistant and the five Power Automate flows that run everything after someone applies. Karl-Johan Spiik will show you how disciplined patterns—iterative development, proper error handling, smart child-flow design—turn a fragile flow into one you can actually trust in production. And in the session's closing stretch, he'll show what happened when he handed that same solution to an AI coding agent and asked it to find what he'd missed. What You'll Learn - Build flows iteratively, one action at a time, so failures are easy to isolate and debug - Apply a proper try/catch scope pattern, and know when to terminate a flow with a Failed status so it doesn't silently vanish into "Succeeded" - Move logging from ad-hoc checks to a real production tier with Application Insights via the Power Platform Admin Center - Replace hard-coded approval lists with a Teams-channel-membership pattern that scales without spamming anyone - Scope child-flow permissions with run-only users, and respond early from slow child flows so the parent isn't left blocked - Build a self-service Power Platform Lifecycle Management portal — automate environment creation, connector unblocking, and Entra ID security group provisioning end to end, with SharePoint (not Dataverse) as the intake form for licensing reasons - Use an AI Prompt action directly inside Power Automate — no full Copilot Studio orchestration needed - See a live case study: an AI coding agent (Claude Code) given the same demo and existing conventions, autonomously finding and building five missing flows via the Power Platform CLI Why Attend? Karl-Johan Spiik brings nearly two decades of Microsoft project delivery experience, including eight years focused on Power Platform, and has spent the past few months building agent-driven automation with Claude Code. Join this session and learn how to make your flows Spiik louder than words — because in Power Automate, actions truly speak louder.

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Session content is always refreshed when technology evolves. Based on blogs in https://www.karlex.fi More information and 19y experience in https://www.karlex.fi/introduction-karl-johan-spiik/

Karl-Johan Spiik

Karl-Johan is a Senior Consultant with over 19 years of experience delivering solutions with Microsoft technologies. In the past eight years, he has specialized in the Power Platform, focusing on Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and Power Apps. He has delivered around 100 projects across multiple industries, working as an architect and Scrum Master. His solutions often extend into Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure services. Recently, his work has focused on building autonomous agent solutions with Copilot Studio manually or with Claude Code. With nearly two decades of technical experience combined with a strong Agile background, Karl-Johan is a versatile technology consultant and developer. He brings both practical delivery experience and a solid theoretical foundation. In the past years, he has authored five books focused on community-driven and self-organizing ways of working.

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