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Governance as code: life after the CoE Starter Kit

Jukka Niiranen got the big hall and ninety minutes at Nordic Summit 2026 for a deep dive called “Governance as Code for Power Platform”, and he said it was the first time he had ever been given that long. Jukka… Continue Reading →

Same score, opposite meaning: what my Nordic Summit demo actually proved

I gave “From Smart Answers to Trustworthy AI: Designing Governed Copilot Studio Agents” at Nordic Summit 2026 in Billund on 21 September, in the Ideas room. I forgot to press record on my own session, so this is written from… Continue Reading →

Champions of AI are not enough: Jouni Heikniemi’s closing keynote on what enterprise AI actually requires

HELish Summit 2026 closed at 16.50 in Runway 2 with Jouni Heikniemi, CEO of Zure, and “The cardinal sins and deep roots of AI”. He opened with a confession: he used to be an IT and AI consultant, a year… Continue Reading →

Child agent or connected agent: what a conference assistant taught about multi-agent design in Copilot Studio

At 13.45 in the Take off room at HELish Summit 2026, Ferran Chopo, Power Platform Advisor at Forward Forever and Microsoft MVP, ran a session called “Multiagents in action: your assistant for HELish Summit with Copilot Studio”. Almost no slides,… Continue Reading →

Copilot Cowork, Claude Cowork and Claude Code: five comparison tables

Most comparisons of AI tools ask which one is smartest or latest. In my daily M365 and Power Platform work that is almost never what decides it. What decides it is where the agent runs and whose rights it uses…. Continue Reading →

Defensible beats impressive: designing a governed Copilot Studio agent

A confident wrong answer sounds helpful. It is the worst possible outcome, because nobody thinks to check it. “I don’t know” sounds worse and is better: it can be defended, and it tells the user what to do next. I… Continue Reading →

Copilot Studio agents have no voice, so I built the microphone

I have been building Copilot Studio agents for several years now, and in the car I use the voice feature of M365 Copilot a lot. Together with other MVPs I have been waiting for that same capability to arrive in… Continue Reading →

Test-Driven Agent Development

I have been building quite a different kind of Copilot Studio agents, but this latest project was the most challenging one. The knowledge source list was very narrow, and the agent was not allowed to hallucinate or to say anything… Continue Reading →

How I Work With A Coding Agent: What’s In My Toolkit After Three Months

Three months ago I wrote about setting up a Linux box on Azure to develop Copilot Studio with Claude Code. That post ended where the machine was ready, which is exactly where the interesting part starts. This is what happened… Continue Reading →

Agents Everywhere: Manage, Secure, and Prove Value with Agent 365

EPPC26 Thursday keynote recap: Nirav Shah (Microsoft) introduces Agent 365 — the unified control plane for governing AI agents across Microsoft and third-party platforms. Covers the governance gap, shadow AI, KPMG case study (130K agents), local agent discovery, and new cost management features.

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