The Intelligence Age

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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. 

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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. 

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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! 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/312 

• 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 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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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?  

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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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  

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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

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