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Charles Lamanna
Corporate Vice President, Business & Industry Copilot—Microsoft
Charles leads the design, product development, and engineering teams responsible for creating intelligent business applications and low-code platforms with generative AI. This spans products and services across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Copilot apps, and Nuance Enterprise. These products include business applications for Microsoft Copilot, low-code/no-code tools, industry cloud solutions, conversational AI, RPA, CRM, and ERP applications.


2024 release wave 2 launches with hundreds of Copilot capabilities
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms were designed to help integrate the fragmented processes that comprise the operation of a large enterprise. But the way we do business keeps fundamentally changing.
How the Microsoft Power Platform community is using low-code and AI to transform work and lives
The Microsoft Power Platform community keeps showing us the next frontiers of innovation and creativity. These stories from our community below showcase some of the most innovative and inspiring work we’ve seen.
New ways of development with copilots and Microsoft Power Platform
As technology advances more rapidly than ever, the combination of generative AI and low-code is fundamentally changing how developers build solutions. The shift from coding to developing with natural language promises to be as transformative as the impact of cloud platforms and open-source software.
2024 release wave 1 kicks off with hundreds of AI-powered capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
We launched the 2024 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a rollout of new features and enhanced capabilities slated for release between April and September 2024.
Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event introduces wave of new AI-powered capabilities for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
Today, at the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event, we kicked off the 2023 release wave 2 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a six-month rollout of new and enhanced capabilities scheduled for release between October 2023 and March 2024.
The AI revolution: Supercharging low-code with the Power Platform community
Welcome to the second Microsoft Power Platform Conference! Since the first conference, there has been a seismic shift in how we build low-code solutions. With Copilot in Power Platform, we are now in the era of AI-assisted low-code development.
The future of app development with Microsoft Power Platform
Microsoft Power Platform transforms the way developers work by providing a comprehensive low-code platform that increases their productivity and enables them to build solutions faster than ever before. Developers can use Microsoft Power Platform to create custom applications, automate processes, and manage information across their organizations.
Release wave 1 expands agility, automation, and innovation across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
Today we launched 2023 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a rollout of new features and enhanced capabilities slated for release between April and September 2023.
Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development
Microsoft Power Platform is reinventing software development with AI-powered no-code development. Today, Microsoft Power Platform is announcing Copilot in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents further democratizing development and enabling even more people to create innovative solutions through natural language.
Leverage low-code to do more with less at Microsoft Ignite 2022
Microsoft Power Platform is empowering you to do more with less by making it easier than ever to securely scale low-code, increase organizational collaboration for accelerated innovation, and infuse AI and automation into all of your business processes.