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• Meet Joy Kirkwood’s and find out more about her life  
• Joy’s story about her interest in technology, Dynamics and CRM 
• Talks about Joy’s Dynamics and PowerApps journey 
• What motivates Joy to go beyond Model-Driven experience into the world of Canvas Apps 
• Joy’s experience and the thing she is working on with App development. 
• A discussion about Joy’s post about – An Honest Guide to Canvas Apps Offline part 1 and part 2 
• The feedback Joy got from people for writing An Honest Guide to Canvas Apps Offline 
• An overview of Offline Canvas Apps  
• What has Joy learned about offline and what do people need to be aware of? 
• Find out how to address a good design in Canvas Apps. 
• Collaborating with designers to create a good design for Canvas Apps and Portals 
• Learn about Offline Canvas Apps: 
  • Use cases 
  • Limitations 
  • Alternatives 

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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• Ritika Agarwal talks about the growing number of Microsoft Business Applications MVP in India 
• With the Covid19 pandemic, what is happening in India now? 
• Exploring India – the best place to visit and food recommendations. 
• A discussion with Ritika’s educational background and her journey into IT. 
• What led Ritika to work in Microsoft Business Applications? 
• Discover what Ritika had accomplished in 3 years. 
• How did Ritika learn about the MVP Program? 
• The process and steps Ritika went through to become a Microsoft MVP and who nominated her. 
• Ritika’s involvement with the D365 Saturday Event 
• Becoming a Microsoft MVP, what are the changes and impact on Ritika’s career? 
• Recommendations and advice to people wanting to become a Microsoft MVP and start a career in Power Platform. 

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• A brief introduction about John Wheat’s life and his hobbies 
• Check out John’s journey into Microsoft and what led him to the role he currently has. 
• Where is Microsoft Customer Insights and Dynamics 365 Marketing coming together? 
• What opportunities are present in Microsoft Customer Insights and Dynamics 365 Marketing? 
• Who is entering the channel when it comes to the Partner side?
• Are they more from a marketing background that is now adopting the technology? 
• A discussion about Dynamics 365 Marketing:
  • How has it changed over the past three years? 
  • What is happening in the Marketing space? 
  • What's the future of the product? 
  • What John is seeing from marketing agencies?  

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 brief introduction about Yash Agarwal’s origin and family background. 
• Yash’s career background and what he does when not working. 
• Learn about Yash’s involvement with trading cryptocurrencies. 
• Talks about Yah’s autonomous vehicles and his worries about its security. 
• A conversation about Yash’s Microsoft Power Platform journey 
• What Yash is working on right now using the Microsoft Power Platform 
• How did Yash’s blog – bythedevs start? 
• Yash’s favourite thing when it comes to technology. 
• MVP journey of Yash - the process and how everything started. 
• The impact of the MVP program on Yash’s career? 

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• A Brief introduction about Jim Stout’s life - life in Europe and the United States  
• Jim’s life background and hobbies  
• Educational and Career Background of Jim  
• How did Jim become interested in Microsoft Business Applications?   
• Jim’s involvement with Microsoft CRM 
• A story about how Jim got into technology.  
• Talks about Jim’s career journey.  
• What are the factors Jim has found in identifying top talent?  
• The importance of Character and Good Management skills 
• Why is curiosity and service mentality important? 
• How to keep people working with you? 
• Why is humble self-confidence important? 
• How does Jim develop talent once he has it on his team?  
• Jim’s involvement with grad programs. 
• How do grad programs play in finding and developing talent? 
• How to get newly grads effective as a high-performance consultant  

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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• The number of MVP in Fatih Demirci’s region. 
• What’s famous and the things you can do if you will visit Turkey. 
• Fatih’s educational and career background. 
• How did Fatih start in IT, and what led him to where he is right now? 
• A conversation about Fatih’s story and the reason for changing his job. 
• Project Fatih is involved in. 
• How popular is Power Platform, ERP, CRM and Dynamics in Turkey? 
• The impact of becoming an MVP on Fatih’s career. 
• Building a user group community in Turkey. 
• Fatih’s involvement in the user group community and MVP community in Turkey. 
• How Fatih organizes MVP community events. 

OTHER RESOURCES:
Turkey User group: https://kommunity.com/dynamics-365-user-group-turkiye

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 Brief introduction about April Dunnam’s life and family background.  
• April talks about her journey from Microsoft MVP to working with Microsoft.   
• Discussions about April’s involvement in SharePoint and as the SharePoint Siren.  
• April’s thoughts about Info Path now.  
• A conversation about how April started with YouTubing and what does this means to her?  
• The tools April is using in YouTubing to create a quality and attractive video.
• Feedback April received from listeners  
• What is Fusion Development?  
• A discussion about Fusion Development Teams functions.  
• The skills and knowledge fusion development allow building better applications.  
• What does fusion development mean to professional developers?  
• Talks about April’s role and responsibilities  
• Career switching  
• April’s thoughts on the future for Pro Devs on the Power Platform and why they should care as a Code First Developer  
• What is Microsoft DataVerse for Teams environment? 

RESOURCES

Power Platform Learn: https://powerplatformlearn.com/
Fusion Development Learn: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/transform-business-applications-with-fusion-development/

Thank you Mike Ford for your support! 

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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• Talks about Oleksandr Olashyn’s country of origin and what made him move to Poland. 
• How Oleksandr got involved in Microsoft Business Applications and how it started? 
• Recommendations to people who are considering working in Dynamics 365 developer 
• The changes in Dynamics and the things that Oleksandr did before and now that are different? 
• The resources Oleksandr is using – PCF or Web resources? 
• What Oleksandr thought about what PCF needs to improve from the Microsoft side? 
• Oleksandr journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• How Oleksandr started sharing his knowledge with people in the community 
• The impact of MVP on Oleksandr career 
• What’s Oleksandr advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP 

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• A discussion with Alan Chai about Schlumberger  
• A conversation about Alan’s journey with PowerApps - 20K apps 32 flows 2M per day 
• How Alan gets into where he is right now? 
• Alan’s Power Platform journey
• How does Alan use Power Platform in their organization as a tool to create a solution? 
• Learn how Microsoft Power Platform helped Alan create a solution he wants? 
• Find out how to drive big adoption across a company? 
• How did Alan keep in control? 
• Categorizing Business Apps in solving business problems. 
• Tells about Schlumberger internal community of citizen developers and contributors 
• How it was created? 
• How did they create their culture in the community? 
• How did they grow it? 
• In terms of adoption, how did Alan reference the solution he has created to something that is measurable in terms of business KPI? 
• Alan talks about the Microsoft hackathon 
• Talks about the success of Microsoft hackathon 
• With people working remotely, how did this affect them from building Apps or solutions? 
• What are they getting from these investments? 
• How did they avoid the duplication method? 
• How did they measure and track the value of your Power Platform solutions? 
• Talks about their learning process? 
• Alan’s view about the future of Power Platform and its impact on business. 

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 brief introduction about Christian Paul Abata Quinchuqui - the only MVP in Ecuador. 
• Talks about Christian’s interest in Robotic Process Automation. 
• A conversation about Christians RPA journey. 
• Discussions about Christian's Power Platform learning experiences 
• Christian’s experience as a Cloud Solution Architect at Cloud 360 
• Talks about Christian’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated Christian 
• How Christian got his first MVP nomination and the process involved. 
• Things Christian shared in the community forum. 
• Christian thoughts about working full time remotely  
• Christian’s engagement with Clients 

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