Powerful Devs Hack Together: Build Scalable, Secure Solutions, Innovate with AI, and become #PowerfulDevs!
🛠️ Build, innovate, and #Hacktogether! 🛠️
It's time to start developing secure solutions at enterprise scale using the power of AI and the Power Platform! 🤖 + 📚 = 🔥
The Power Platform (Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and Power Pages) are powerful tools to help any maker build any app, flow, site or agent they need, but how can professional developers get the most out of what the Power Platform has to offer? Through the Powerful Devs Conference and corresponding Hack Together, you will learn about ways you can use the Power Platform to enhance your productivity as a professional developer. Through these sessions, you'll learn about using gen AI in Copilot Studio, Managed Identities in Dataverse, how to extend your solutions as a developer by using external connectors using Visual Studio Code, and so much more. The Powerful Devs: Hack Together is your opportunity to apply what you've learned and build a solution yourself, using all the new tools in your toolkit. Across 14 sessions in both the conference and hackathon, you will learn all about how to be a Powerful Developer by using the Power Platform. The possibilities are endless for what you can create... plus you can submit your hack for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🥳
The conference is on February 12th and the corresponding hackathon runs from February 13th to February 28th. Hack submissions are due February 28th, 11:59 PM PST. Join us!
Register for the hackathon using any of the sessions linked on the Reactor Series page. This will register you for both the selected session and the hackathon.
Introduce yourself and look for teammates here on GitHub Discussions.
Read the official rules 📃
| Day/Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 2/18, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Powerful Devs Hack Kickoff: All About AI |
| 2/19, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | The Developer's Approach to Power Automate |
| Day/Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 2/24, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Securing Microsoft Copilot Studio Integration with External Connectors |
| 2/26, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Powerful Devs Hack Overview: Building Powerful Solutions |
For additional help with your hacks, you can drop by Office Hours. You can also ask questions on the Powerful Devs Hack Discord
| Day/Time | Link |
|---|---|
| 2/18, 10:00 PM UTC / 02:00 PM PT | 2/18 Office Hours |
| 2/20, 9:00 AM UTC / 12:00 AM PT | 2/20 Office Hours |
| Day/Time | Link |
|---|---|
| 2/25, 10:00 PM UTC / 02:00 PM PT | 2/25 Office Hours |
| 2/27, 09:00 AM UTC / 12:00 AM PT | 2/27 Office Hours |
Hack submissions are due February 28th, 11:59 PM PST. Submit your project here in GitHub Issues when it's ready🚀 🚀 Project Submission Form
Check out this video for step by step project submission guidance: Project Submission Video
Projects will be evaluated by a panel of judges, including Microsoft engineers, product managers, and developer advocates. Judging criteria will include innovation, impact, technical usability, and alignment with corresponding hackathon category. Each winning team in the categories below will receive a cash prize of $550. 💸
- Best Overall
- Best in Power
- Best in Integrations
- Best in Automation
- Best in Applications
- Best in Agents
- Best in Pages
- Best in AI
All hackathon participants who submit a project will receive a digital badge. In order to recieve the digital badge, all participants must submit this form: Badge Submission Form by Feb 28th, 11:59PM PST. The GitHub handle must match the handle submitted in the Project Submission Form.
Below are samples recommended by the Powerful Devs Conference and Hack Together team. Use these to get inspired for your hack project!
- Power Platform Snippets
- Power Platform Prompts Library
- Adaptive Cards Samples and Templates
- Power Platform Creator Kit
- Pnp Power Platform Samples
Below are resources curated by the speakers of the Powerful Devs Conference. Use this to continue your learning journey!
| Session Title | Resources | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Maximizing the value of Generative AI in Copilot Studio | Lauren Mills | |
| No more secrets! Using Managed Identities in Dataverse Plugins | Magnus Sørensen | |
| Get Your Code Together! | Albert-Jan Schot; Marcel Ferreira | |
| The different flavors of ALM in the Power Platform: which one is right for you? | Feline Parein | |
| Building cross platform desktop apps with Dataverse and .NET MAUI | Carl Cookson | |
| Extend your Copilot with connectors | Mankirat Kaur Bajwa; Nathan Helgren | |
| 5 ways to leverage Power Pages VS Code Copilot to increase productivity | Victor Dantas | |
| Mastering automated testing in Power Platform: From unit tests to CI/CD integration | Grant Archibald | |
| Building mega apps with the Power Platform | Rami Mounla |
