Session Abstract

Software is no longer built only by developers. People who never wrote code can now describe an idea and get a working application in minutes. For business use, though, an app also needs to connect to enterprise data, operate securely and fit within governed processes. This session explores the new natural-language app building experience in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. We start from a conversation: in Cowork with the new/app skill, available through the Microsoft Frontier program, and in Copilot Studio with the App (Preview) tile. We describe the business outcome, users, data and actions, and watch the agent generate an app scaffold. We then refine the app in natural language, using files, screenshots and annotations on the app canvas, and test it in the interactive preview. For advanced makers, we look at the underlying code. We also show how apps connect to business data through connectors and Work IQ, so they can take action and write results back to your systems, not just display information. We close with the administrator's view: publishing and sharing apps, and the governance and controls IT needs as more people become app builders. You will leave with a clear picture of how to go from idea to a governed business app, and when to start from Cowork or from Copilot Studio.

Marco Rocca

I'm a Cloud Solution Architect Modern Work and deals mainly (but not only ...) with SharePoint, a product that has been with him for 15 years and has experienced the birth and growth of all the latest versions. Today, however, collaboration is not just SharePoint, but all Microsoft 365 applications that are helping to revolutionize the way we work. Today I support customers to identify the better adoption strategy for Modern Work new products and technologies. In the last period I'm focusing on Power Platform, Teams, Copilot and Artificial Intelligence. As a speaker I have participated in several conferences as a speaker among which WPC Milan, BeConnected Italy, Scottish Summit, CollabDays, European Collaboration Summit, European Power Platform Conference, Thrive and more.