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• Arun’s background – moving from Chennai, India to the US in 1995 and where he currently resides 
• How he spends his time when not working 
• Arun’s journey into IT Software – how he developed an interest in Software 
• Introduction to Power BI  – history, rise and market growth 
• Arun’s story on how he became a Microsoft MVP 
• The core pillars of Power BI 
• Creation of a unified experience for customers  
• How does customer drive a data culture 
• Thoughts on Power BI as one of the core pillars of  the Power Platform 
• The common principles between Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow 
• Discussion about Power BI when it comes to unstructured data 
• Outstanding customer stories in Power BI 

RESOURCES
Power BI
Power BI Blog
Power BI Community 
Blog User Groups
Ignite conference
Microsoft Business Applications Summit 

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• A brief introduction about James – where he lives and his career 
• Discusses his struggles and learning experiences 
• James’ journey as MVP 
• Thoughts on Power Portal 
• Background in custom development  
• James’ engagement to PowerApps 
• Learn how to create long-lasting positive change in life 
• James’ recommendations and advice to people aiming to be an MVP 
• The best application he uses on his phone 
• Learn about the big challenge of the Power Portal. 
• Introduction to the upcoming User Group Summit in Orlando 

Resources
365 Power UP

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• A brief introduction about Andrew’s life – family background, how often he travels and his favourite destination 
• What he does when he’s not working  
• Introduction to Wine30flight 
• Andrew’s struggles in writing a book. 
• The video he loves to watch 
• How big organizations view PowerApps as an app. 
• Introduction to  Power Platform Adoption Framework 
• His view on how big organizations can adopt the Power Platform at scale 
• Background in AIS and its primary focus 
• Best practice within the framework 
• What people should know about Dynamics 
• Power Platform Adoption Framework summary, target audiences and who it is for 
• The role of community in the development of the framework 
• Andrew’s advice to young Andrew 
• Guiding principles of power platform adoption framework 
• How do large enterprise businesses adopt this type of framework at scale
• Difference between adoption and implementation methodology 
•  Azure as part of the community world 
• Illustrates the three simultaneous tracks 
• Key tenancy of the framework Andrew has developed 
• Andrew’s question about citizen developer

Resource

PowerPlatformAF

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• A brief introduction about Daryl’s life – family background, what’s great about Indianapolis and as an independent MVP 
• Daryl’s skills and experience in business applications 
• The tools or plugins Daryl created 
• On how Daryl monitors which tools are most popular in the community 
• Understanding the Architect and Data model 
• What lead Daryl to decide to go independent MVP 
• The best thing about being an MVP 
• One thing people don’t know about Daryl LaBar 
• Daryl’s advice to developers who wants to become an MVP 
• Discussed his concerns on how hard it is for developers to keep their MVP title 

Other Resources and Tools
Attribute Manager
EarlyBound Entity Builder
Visual Studio Solution Accelerator
XrmUnitTest
DLaB.Xrm

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• A brief introduction about Cecilia’s life – grew up in Argentina, currently living in Seattle, Washington, her background and career as MVP 
• Cecilia’s favourite thing about London 
• Interesting story on Cecilia’s journey into Microsoft – her current role 
• Introduction to One Commercial Partner (OCP) – what constructs around it and how Business Application Partners engaged with it.  
• Discusses what Cecilia sees as the key things that a Microsoft Business Application Partner at this point in this journey as Microsoft up to in 2019 
• Understanding what the key elements are ever needed to develop skill in Microsoft Business Application Partner 
• Introduction to how Partners builds IP 
• Which direction Microsoft is going in 
• Great solutions they can offer their customers 
• Cecilia’s observation on what would make Business Application Partners successful 
• Introduction to the building blocks of the Microsoft/Partner relationship 
• Parts of One Commercial Partner (OCP) 
• Cecilia’s activities she enjoys the most, the person who inspires her the most to become a better person, and the first 30 mins of her typical day looks like 

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• A brief introduction about Gustaf’s life, including his family background, as a company founder and his career as MVP. 
• Introduction about Gustaf’s company – CRM-Konsulterna 
• Company achievements – having 3 MVP’s from his own company 
• Gustaf’s thoughts on the Microsoft MVP Program. 
• Challenges he has seen with SID, CDS and CDM  
• The support they offer to help their customers 
• Implementation of CDM 
• The voice of Customers 
• The important role of CDS 
• How MVP’s are determined 
• Gustaf’s advice to those aiming to become an MVP 
• Thoughts on reshaping CDS 

Other resources mentioned
Sara Lagerquist's MVP Award

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• A brief introduction about Leah’s life – family background, her career and personal experiences 
• History, culture, economy and facts about New Orleans 
• What she does when she is not working 
• The value of the Microsoft stack 
• Advice to consumers who wants to adopt new technologies 
• Leah’s view on the Insurance and Health care industry 
• The best practice tips she can give for pre-sales implementation 
• Introduction to the Microsoft Health care accelerator 
• What is customer engagement and why it is important 
• Introduction to the Enterprise road map 
• Leah’s engagement with Microsoft and the importance of nurturing a healthy relationship  
• Advantages and disadvantages of One-point solutions 
• Changes that have occurred in sales in the last ten years 
• Leah’s background and pre-sales experience  
• Separation of roles of sales and pre-sales 
• How important presentation is in business 
• Leah’s specific role and function in Insurance and Health care 
• The role of the modern solutions team and Dynamics team 

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• A brief introduction about Andrew’s life; his family background, what he loves in Adelaide, Australia. 
• His learning experiences as MVP; when and how his journey started. 
• As part of the MVP community in Australia; how active he is and his roles and responsibilities within the organization 
• PCF as a replacement for web resources 
• The future of PCF
• How realistic it is to design and create on the PCF 
• Where does react JS leading us 
• Andrew's thoughts on things he has done on the PowerApps components framework 
• Importance of Visual Application 
• What Influence Matrix means 
• The true meaning of Customer Engagement in the Microsoft world 

Books & Other Resources Mentioned  

 Powerapps Component Framework 

• https://aka.ms/PCFforum  
• https://aka.ms/PCFblog 
• https://aka.ms/PCFDemos 
• https://aka.ms/PCFIdeas  
• https://aka.ms/PCFDocs 

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• A brief introduction about Sameer’s life – Current City in Seattle, Washington, Hometown in Mumbai, Maharashtra 
• What he does when he’s not working 
• Sameer’s passion for writing poems and storytelling 
• Introduction to Simple Intentions 
• His involvement with Pathwise Leadership program 
• Sameer’s story on his exciting journey and his experiences in Microsoft 
• Introduction to French National Railway, SNCF 
• Functions and best practices to establish a Centre of Excellence 
• Responsibilities of Centre of Excellence that typically falls into four buckets 
• Introduction to PowerApps Admin Connectors 
• The implementation of PowerApps Governance 
• Sameer’s role as part of Customer Advisory Team. 
• Relationship of CAT to PowerApps and CDM 
• Understanding Centre of Excellence and how does it translate to Microsoft 
• Lauren Taylor and Manuela Pichler 

RESOURCES

Virgin Atlantic drives agile wins for its mobile workforce with the Power Platform
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/virgin-atlantic-drives-agile-wins-for-mobile-workforce-with-the-power-platform/

Have you ever switched to part-time in the corporate world?
https://medium.com/@sameerbhangar/have-you-ever-switched-to-part-time-in-the-corporate-world-b77b38f9e2db

Hawkary Pharmaceuticals: Power platform customer success story
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/hawkary-pharmaceuticals-digitizes-daily-sales-visit-reporting-using-powerapps/

Real World Stories: Global energy companies' power
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Business-Applications/Real-World-Stories-Global-energy-companies-power-digital/td-p/299942

Custom Air Products & Services manages HVAC manufacturing process using the Power Platform https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-air-products-services-manages-hvac-manufactur

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• A brief introduction of Neil’s family and background
• Neil's journey to how his career as an MVP started 
• What Neil kids think about his career as MVP 
• Lessons he teaches his kids, so they learn the value of work. 
• The best lesson he learnt as a parent, family member, mentor, and someone who works with business 
• His life experiences – may it be good or terrible 
• Neil’s story on how he started in Dynamics  
• Things he loves the most being an MVP 
• Introduction on Scrum training 
• What frustrates him the most with his work 
• Neil’s plan on releasing more training content 
• What are the qualifications to become and an MVP 
• Advice on getting nominated as an MVP 
• Tangible benefits of becoming an MVP 
• What and how Sonos Play 1 works 

Other Resources 

• Benjamin Grams – Intelligent Investor 

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