Birmingham D365PPUG - September 2026

Our next in-person meeting of the year will take place on Thursday 17th September 2026 from 18:30 at the Wesleyan Building. Parking is available close by at the B4 Car Park or it’s a short walk from any city centre train station.

Agenda

Presentation 1 : Architecting multi agent solutions - Varsha Mahesh

This session explores how Copilot Studio enables intelligent, purpose‑built agents, and how to combine them to create coordinated, resilient, and scalable multi‑agent systems inside your organisation.
Copilot Cookbook: From Low-Code to Custom Engine Agents - Join us as we start with the low-code ways to build agents, then work our way up step by step until we’re cooking up fully custom agents from scratch. Copilot Studio vs Agents Toolkit - Comparing M365 Agents Toolkit and Copilot Studio and understanding how they enable multi agent solutions.

Presentation 2 : Copilot City: Agents, Anarchy & the Law - Emma-Claire Shaw & Keith Atherton

Agents are opening doors faster than most organisations can keep up with. With a few clicks, anyone can spin up an agent that talks to customers, processes data, or interacts with internal systems and that speed is both the opportunity and the risk. In this session, we’ll follow two familiar characters you’ve probably met in your own organisation:

Keith – a renegade Copilot Studio builder. He moves fast, breaks things, and spins up agents quickly to solve real problems but at what cost?

Guardrails? “Suggestions.” Best practices? “Optional.” If there’s a limit, Keith has already found a way around it.

Emma – the uncompromising force of Copilot governance. Badge, rulebook, and risk register in hand, she’s here to protect the organisation from data leaks, compliance nightmares, and AI agents that have gone completely off the rails.

We’ll use them to explore the real tension many organisations face right now: balancing creativity and innovation with security, oversight, and responsible use of AI agents living in your very own Copilot city.

This session is grounded in real-world experience from working with organisations who are trying to get Copilot Studio implementation right – not by slowing people down, but by putting the right conversations, boundaries, and support structures in place.

By the end, you’ll have a clearer picture of how to encourage responsible innovation, keep things on track, and avoid turning your AI rollout into a firefight.

We strongly encourage you to arrive early to meet other user group members. We will be providing food and refreshments and you are welcome to stay afterwards for a chat!

We are always looking for people passionate about Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform to present at our events. If you would like to speak at any of our future events please register here.