From Flows to Copilots: Turning Everyday Automations into AI Agents

Many organizations already utilize Power Automate to streamline repetitive tasks; however, most workflows remain hidden in the background. With Copilot Studio, we can transform these flows into conversational copilots that interact directly with users in Teams or Outlook, making automation more accessible and human-friendly. This session will demonstrate how to transform a basic Power Automate flow into an AI-powered copilot.

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1. From Flows to Copilots: Turning Everyday Automations into AI Agents Let’s Start? Ifeanyi Benny Iheagwara => AgentCon Lagos & Nigeria M365 Community Day 2025
2. About Me I’m Benny I analyze data and explain technical term to the audience. I build smart automations with or without AI that make work feel less like work and empower teams to work smarter and focus on what matters: building great things, creating wealth for our clients, and improving the customer experience.
3. Have you automated a workflow or task?🤔
4. What is Automation? • Windows Task scheduler, • Power Query, • PowerShell, • Power Automate, Automation is the use of technology to perform tasks with minimal human intervention. Simple Task to really complex task Moving data, Auto-send birthday, Social media post, Customer feedback flow, Syncing data between applications and core system, Invoice generators, Email sentiment analysis, chatbot for employees, End to end customer onboarding, or a leave request portal • Zapier, • N8n, • Google App Script, • Make.com, • UIPath, • Perfect, • Apache Airflow, • GitHub Actions, • Azure Data Factory
5. Today Task: How can a Teams message becomes a sprint task ? Every team has great ideas. The challenge? Logging it so it doesn’t get lost in chat What if Teams could listen, understand the context, and turn those ideas into actual sprint tasks automatically?
6. Toolkits • Power Automate: builds the workflow • AI Builder: To bring the AI capabilities • Microsoft Teams: where the ideas start • Planner / Jira / DevOps: where the work happens So instead of chasing tickets, you can chase results. 😎
7. Let’s cook! Read more:
8. If you could automate one part of your daily routine — what would it be?
9. Thank you Till next time. chef's kiss AgentCon25 - Lagos