The Intelligence Age

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• A brief introduction about Lori Lamkin’s life and her hobbies  
• Check out Lori’s journey with Microsoft and how she landed on her current role as a Vice President 
• Dynamics 365 Marketing and how Marketing is evolving to systems of engagement  
• A discussion about Dynamics 365 Marketing customer journey orchestration 
• How does it work? 
• What are the big features? 
• What’s the expected impact? 
• Who are the most common users of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing? 
• How does Microsoft teams work with Dynamics 365? 
• What’s the future of Dynamics 365 Marketing? 
  
  

CREDITS 

Music by: StockSounds Title: Energetic Upbeat Pop Summer Licensee: Cloverbase Limited 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Talks about Thomas Sandsør’s life - background and origin. 
• As the leader of a team, discover how Thomas grows great talent, making sure that his staff are continuing to learn the technology that is relevant to Power Platform and Dynamics CRM. 
• A conversation about Thomas’ career background 
• Learn more about Thomas’ journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• The opportunities that opened to Thomas since becoming an MVP 
• How did Thomas start blogging? 
• Being a Microsoft MVP and as a former Partner Technical Strategist at Microsoft 
• The impact of becoming a Microsoft MVP on Thomas: 
             - Life 
             - Career 
             - Benefits 
             - Power Platform and Dynamics CRM 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• A brief introduction about Kaila Bloomfield’s background - life and family  
• Kaila’s story about how she started having an interest in technology  
• A conversation about Kaila’s journey into becoming a consultant 
• Where is Dynamics 365 Finance today? 
• How big is AZURE in the market? 
• The importance of Dynamics 365 Commerce 
• Talks about ISV ecosystem 
• What Kaila is seeing that successful partners are doing in this space that traditional partners might not have done? 
• Where are the new generation consultants are coming from that works on Dynamics 365 finance products? 
• Discussions about Kaila’s Partner Technical Architect (PTA) role. 
• Talks about the responsibilities of PTA 
• How the PTAs engage with Partners. 
• When it comes to Culture, what is the most important element in the modern partner
• Talks about Dynamics 365 finance ecosystem 
  • How Microsoft is looking at it 
  • The community 
  • Partners, End Customers and ISV’s 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• A conversation about Ryan Maclean's life and family
• Talks about the company Ryan works for - Hymans Robertson and what he does. 
• A conversation about career choice - End-user vs Microsoft Partner. 
• The goal and difference between working as a Partners and End-user Customers 
• Talks about Ryan’s Dynamics CRM and CRM background. 
• A brief discussion about Ryan’s career background. 
• How the community forum helped Ryan with what he does. 
• What does Ryan enjoy the most working with customers? 
• The benefits of working with end-users or customers. 

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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 

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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? 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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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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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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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? 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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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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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith