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• An introduction about Swapnil Agarwwal and what he does when he’s not working with Microsoft. 
• How did Swapnil end up in Microsoft and why he likes it? 
• What is the Dynamics 365 Sales Accelerator? 
• How does Sales Accelerator serve as an engagement and productivity tool? 
• How Sales Accelerator helps sales managers create a sequence of activities around a particular product. 
• What steps is Microsoft taking to ensure that the product is adaptable enough so that what works for one team also works for other stakeholders? 
• How can a sales manager Templatized a Success? 
• A conversation about the main sweet spot for sales accelerators. 
• Swapnil shares his thoughts about Viva Sales and its implementation in sales. 

OTHER RESOURCES:   
Swapnil’s GitHub: https://github.com/swapnilagarwwal
Sales Accelerator and Sequences: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2022/10/26/new-sales-sequences-experience-improves-seller-productivity/ 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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• A conversation about Tracy Van der Schyff’s life – family, hobbies, what she does for fun when not working. 
• Tracy’s story about getting into IT  
• How did Tracy get into Microsoft 
• A discussion about Tracy’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Talks about Tracy’s Blogging, YouTubing and TikTok 
• Tracy’s involvement in strategic consulting and her day-to-day job 
• Talks about Tracy’s SharePoint background 
• Tracy’s experience in writing a book 

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Talks about Sheryl Netley’s life and family background. 
• Listen to Sheryl’s story about her Power Platform and Dynamics 365 journey. 
• Discussions about Sheryl's career background.
• How does Sherly learn all things about Dynamics? 
• Sheryl’s involvement in the community, events and speaking engagements. 
• A conversation about Sheryl’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• What surprises Sheryl after becoming a Microsoft MVP? 

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

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If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• An introduction about Zohar Raz as the Group Product Manager of Power Platform Governance at Microsoft  
• What is Zohar’s background in technology?  
• What does Power Platform Governance mean to Zohar and Microsoft customers?  
• What is the concern for enterprises that need to offer a layer of protection as governance as visibility inside the organization?  
• From Zohar’s perspective, where do these individual components sit within Microsoft's strategic direction moving forward?  
• Zohar talks about Manage Environment   
• A discussion about expanding on the terminal landing zone. 
• Zohar's views about sharing limits and data policies and the current elements. 
• What should people consider if they already got the Power Platform deployed? 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Talks about Carmen Ysewijn’s hobbies, interests and activities  
• When it comes to technology, where does Carmen spend most of her time working with? 
• Carmen’s Power Platform and Power Automate background 
• Projects and building applications Carmen is working on 
• A conversation about PCF components - what problems did it solve and what they are trying to achieve 
• Carmen’s story about her journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Speaking events, projects, blogging and Carmen’s involvement in the community 
• What is ProvisionGenie all about - what does it do and how does it work? 
• Why should I use ProvisionGenie? 
• The best thing about becoming a Microsoft MVP. 

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/
ProvisionGenie (open-source project I'm doing together with Luise Freese): provisiongenie.com
Carmen Ysewijn GitHub: https://github.com/CarmenYsewijn 

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• Django Lohn talks about his family and what he does when not working. 
• Discussions about Django's interest in technology 
• Django’s Power BI, PowerApps and PowerApps Portals background. 
• Talks about Django’s SharePoint and InfoPath journey 
• A conversation about Django’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and how did it come about. 
• Django talks about being a SharePoint Consultant 
• Talks about Django’s involvement in the MVP community

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/
Django Lohn’s  GitHub: https://github.com/m3ngi3
Django Lohn’s Power Community: https://events.powercommunity.com/speaker/django_lohn/ 

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• A brief introduction about Kavishi Agarwal’s life and what she’s passionate about 
• Talks about Kavishi's career journey at Microsoft.
• What is Pay as you go? 
• Kavishi talks about the primary use cases for businesses
• Kavishi discusses seasonal apps and occasional apps as one of the top use cases 
• Providing a frictionless way for customers to get started with PowerApps premium capability 
• Kavishi shares her thoughts about how to handle storage  
• Does Kavishi see health agencies or government agencies being part of power pages formally Power Apps portal in time? 
• How does pay-as-you-go provide the best of both worlds? 

RESOURCES MENTIONED
Pay as you go Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pay-as-you-go-overview 

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• Ulrikke Akerbæk talks about the things she does for fun and when not working. 
• A discussion about Ulrikke’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• How did Ulrikke’s involvement in Microsoft started? 
• A conversation about Ulrikke’s career background 
• Ulrikke talks about her blog - where she gets her idea for creating her blog content. 
• Talks about Ulrikke’s involvement in the community 
• Find out what Ulrikke’s Portal look like. 

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

Support the show

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Talks about the life and family background of Peter Charquero Kestenholz. 
• A conversation about Peter’s story and journey to PPM 
• Discussions about Peter’s SharePoint, Project client and Project server background 
• Peter talks about the Agile market in Europe 
• A discussion about Peter’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Peter’s blogging and his involvement in the Community 

OTHER RESOURCES 
Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP
90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

Support the show

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• An introduction about Ilya Fainberg, a senior program manager at Microsoft 
• What’s life like now that he lives in Belgium? 
• What is process mining? 
• How to use process mining to understand the usage patterns of apps 
• Why are companies investing a lot of time in process mining? 
• A conversation all about Process Mining Advisor and how it works 
• Ilya shares his thoughts on different ways process mining can be achieved based on the data.  
• Where do bottlenecks come from and how do you identify them? 
• A way to make processes more transparent for the team management people 
• How much of a role does AI play in process-advisor? 

RESOURCES MENTIONED
Understanding PowerApps Usage Patterns with Process Mining - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794sFs-sWF8 

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

Support the show

If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.

Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith