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• Talks about the life and family background of Faisal Fareed 
• A discussion about Faisal’s work-life  
• Shares Faisal views on working with partners and directly with customers. 
• The advantages and disadvantages of working with partners and directly with customers. 
• The growth of Dynamics 365 CE community group and the drop of Dynamics 365 F&O community user group 
• The things you need to know if you want to be in the Microsoft ecosystem. 
• Why do people need to explore more about customer engagement and understand how applications are built. 
• Connecting Dataverse in Finance & Operations 

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• A brief introduction about Amey Holden and George Doubinski life, favourite food, what they do for fun and family. 
• Talks about Amey and George’s YouTube video series - how did it come about. 
• Find out more about Citizen Can. 
• How did Amey and George manage each episode and what are the tools they used to edit each show? 
• How did Amey and George put all episodes all together? 
• How did Amey and George decide on what to cover and where do they get those ideas? 
• What feedback did Amey and George get from the audience? 

Resources Mentioned  

• Citizen Can 365 Training - https://www.youtube.com/c/365Training 

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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• Discussions about Kamal Kolar Radhakrishnaiah’s life and background 
• A conversation about moving from India to the Netherlands   
• Talks about working with people from different culture and how he managed to work with native English speakers. 
• Kamal’s area of specialization and the Microsoft product he is mainly working with 
• Learn the use of Dataverse in Dynamics Human Resources 
• Integration between Dynamics Human Resources and LinkedIn Talent hub 
• What is LinkedIn Talent hub? 
• Talks about Kamal’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• What does MVP mean to Kamal and what made him want to be part of the MVP Program? 

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 conversion about Raphael Pothin’s family background, country of origin and life in Canada and Sweden 
• What took him to Sweden? 
• Culture differences in Sweden and home 
• Talks about the educational and career background of Raphael 
• What brought Raphael to where he is right now? 
• Raphael’s area of specialization 
• Memorable projects Raphael worked on using sales – Dynamics 365 
• The things Raphael discovered as a DevOps. 
• Raphael’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Raphael’s involvement in MVP virtual events 
• The impact of becoming a Microsoft MVP in Raphael’s career and life 

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• Find out more about Barry Ferguson – family, life and hobbies 
• Talks about Barry’s career background 
                  - His journey as a UI designer and Front-end developer 
                  - What drew him into this field 
                  - His role and responsibilities 
• Barry's involvement with Power Apps 
• A discussion about App Design 
                  - Why is design important in App making? 
                  - Barry’s thoughts about the User Interface and User Experience 
                  -  Are there different roles? 
                  -  What should one look for if hiring for these skills? 
• Barry’s design process and the tools they use 
• What does Barry do empathies with the person or people when designing an app for them? 
• How has Barry seen Developers, UI designers and Experience designers working together?  
• Team development, Data, Code, and Design working with developers 
• Talks about the Power Platform, Canvas, Power Portal and Model-Driven Apps 
                   - Constraints Barry have come across when designing? 
                   - Things to be aware of? 
                   - What excites Barry about App building on the Power Platform? 

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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• Find out about Arpit Shrivastava’s life background 
• Arpit’s story and how he started having an interest in Technology? 
• A discussion about Arpit’s achievements 
• Check out Arpit’s contribution to the Microsoft community 
• Learn about Arpit’s journey into PowerApps Portal Build tool - An Azure DevOps extension to automate PowerApps Portals Deployment. 
•  Find out more about how the PowerApps Portal Build tool works 
• Feedback about PowerApps Portal Build tool from the community 
• Arpit Shrivastava’ journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP? 
• Talks about Arpit’s thoughts about the MVP program 

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• Rebecca Sackett’s current role and how did she grow her career? 
• How Rebecca gets started in technology and why did she choose Power Platform? 
• How did Rebecca start using the Power Platform? 
• What does Rebecca’s company do? 
• How are they using the Power Platform in their organization? 
• Before Power Platform, what did they use to capture their project information?  
• What's the impact and benefits of Power Platform to your business? 
• As the only App developer, how do you engage with people in your organization to meet their needs? 
• When it comes to building Apps, what's the process involved? 
• What was the business challenge? 
• The feedback from the business and the individual with the Apps or tools they built 
• What other Apps do they use? 
• Other types of tools Rebecca uses to make up with another platform 
• A conversation about Rebecca’s YouTube channel. 

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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• How active Summit Bajracharya in sharing his experience on the Microsoft Platform - PowerApps, Power Automate and Power BI on his YouTube channel 
• Summit recently got his MVP award. 
• How big is the Power Platform in Nepal? 
• Talks about the company he works for and what they are focus on 
• How Summit’s journey to PowerApps started? 
• The tools Summit used in learning PowerApps. 
• Summit’s journey to Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solutions Architecture 
• What was involved in his Microsoft FastTrack journey and how did the process take? 
• The impact of becoming a Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solutions Architecture 
• The best part of becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft FastTrack Architecture and Microsoft MVP  
• Talks about the Power Platform user group community in Kathmandu. 

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• Mo Faheem’s life – country of origin and family background. 
• What brought him to Ottawa, Canada and how it looks like for Mo Faheem 
• A conversation about Mo’s journey as a Web Developer 
• Talks about Mo’s career background and his experience with Marketing 
• Mo’s story about how he started with CRM and what led him to his current position. 
• Discussions about Mo’s involvement with Dynamics 365 Marketing. 
• What sets Dynamics 365 Marketing apart from other products in the market 
• The benefits and features of Dynamics 365 Marketing  
• The profile of customer Mo is seeing using Dynamics 365 Marketing as their primary marketing tool.  
• What is Real-Time Marketing? 
• Discover the top 5 projects Mo worked on for Dynamics 365 Marketing 
  • What’s unique in each project? 
  • Why did Mo think that Dynamics 365 Marketing was the right fit? 
  • The timeframes for the implementation. 

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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• Kamil Sacek talks about Navertica and the history of the Czech Republic. 
• A conversation about how Kamil learned the English language and Atari 800XE. 
• How did the “Army Technical Picture Monthly journal" helped Kamil in learning basic programming? 
• MVP for over 16 years now – how did Kamil maintain his interest in technology? 
• Kamil’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• 16 years ago - how were the process and the steps Kamil has taken to become a Microsoft MVP. 
• Talking about the present, how will Kamil share his knowledge with the community and what platform will he focus on.  
• Kamil Sacek’s biggest achievement that he’s most proud most! 

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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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith