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Charles Lamanna
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Platforms—Microsoft
Charles leads the product development and engineering teams responsible for creating business applications and low-code platforms that empower everyone to achieve more. This spans products and services across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance Enterprise. These products include low-code/no-code tools, robotic process automation, conversational AI, customer experience platform, customer service, finance, and supply chain applications.
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The Power Platform Conference: A celebration of community, collaboration, and career growth 

I’m excited that today, the first day of the inaugural Microsoft-sponsored Power Platform Conference, will support opportunities for upskilling through low-code. This Microsoft community-led event is a celebration of the passion and ingenuity of the Microsoft Power Platform community and will help attendees build new skills with low-code technologies.
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Announcing Microsoft Power Pages: Build secure, low-code websites 

Today, we are thrilled to announce the preview of Microsoft Power Pages, the fifth product in the Microsoft Power Platform family. Whether you’re a low-code maker or professional developer, this low-code, scalable, and secure solution empowers you to build business-centric websites quickly and easily.
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Power Platform redefines low-code with new products and features at Microsoft Build  

This year at Microsoft Build, Microsoft Power Platform is making low-code faster, easier to use, and more innovative for all developers. Today we’re announcing an exciting new Microsoft Power Platform product and many new capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform that include: Create modern business websites with the new Microsoft Power Pages As a new, standalone
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New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 

This year at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Power Platform is bringing added ease and innovation to low-code app development and automation for citizen developers, business analysts, IT admins, and professional developers. Today we are announcing a new set of capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform that includes: Enhanced collaboration for users building apps with built-in commenting, users
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Supporting our customers and partners as they return to the workplace—one year later 

A year ago, as we were holding our first all-digital event for our partner community, we introduced the Microsoft Power Platform Return to the Workplace solution template to help our customers safely prepare and manage the return to physical workspaces as they supported their employees whilst navigating the challenging, changing, and unique circumstances brought on
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Build differentiated SaaS apps with Microsoft Industry Clouds 

The past year has brought dramatic change to almost every facet of our lives. We have seen the same disruption play out across every industry, from retail to healthcare to financial services. Customer expectations are fundamentally altered, and it’s hard to imagine things going back to the way they once were. As organizations work to