The Intelligence Age

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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/

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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. 

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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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• A Brief Introduction about Bryony Wolf’s life, origin and family background. 
• Bryony’s role and responsibilities as Senior Product Marketing Manager for Power Apps at Microsoft. 
• Bryony's views on the growth of Microsoft Business Applications, Power Platform and Dynamics. 
• Apps and old software that can be migrated into the Power Platform. 
• A conversation about Power FX 
• The Feedback they get now that Power FX is out in the market? 
• Learn about the adoption and growth of Dataverse. 
• Describes the Icon that represents the Dataverse 
• What is GPT-3? 
• Unpack Fusion Teams 
• What is Enterprise Trust, and what it does? 
• The big things happening in Power Platform 
  • Fusion Teams 
  • Enterprise Trust 
  • AI Everywhere 
  • GPT-3 

RESOURCES:

• Power Platform Blog: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/ 
• Power FX Blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/power-fx/ 

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• A conversation about life and career background of Emma D’Arcy 
• The benefits and the changes happened to Emma since becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• How it feels working with MVPs in Hitachi 
• Hitachi’s culture in attracting top skilled personnel. 
• Emma’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• How Emma learned about the MVP Program. 
• Find out more about Emma’s podcast! 
• Emma’s involvement with the Dynamics 365 community events. 
• Introduction to Pre-sales
• What is Emma seeing in the next 6 to 12 months? 
• Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 

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• Find out more about Lucy Bourne, Andrew Welch and Lee Baker’s life and career background.  
• Learn about what PowerApps Adoption Framework is. 
• What are the moving parts of PowerApps Adoption Framework? 
• The relationship of Center of Excellence Starter Kit and PowerApps adoption Framework 
• How does governance fit with the center of excellence that Microsoft had released? 
• What is enterprise risk and how does it impact the business? 
• What are the key factors that contribute to an effective risk management program? 
• Why does this solution address enterprise risk? 
• How does Power Platform fit into an enterprise ecosystem based on what's in the market? 
• Lee and Andrew’s views on the Microsoft Three Clouds story. 
• What does that mean in an enterprise ecosystem? 

Resources Mentioned  

• Power Platform Adoption Framework: https://aka.ms/ppaf 
• Field Blends: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/fieldblends 
• Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/blog/power-platform-data-platform-architecture  
• One Thousand Workloads: How your Roadmap maximizes Power Platform investment: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/blog/roadmap 

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• Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza talks about what she does during her free time.  
• How does COVID 19 impact Ana's life?  
• Talks about Ana's Pilot License – what made her decide to get this license.  
• A conversation about Ana's career background   
• Interesting career switching story of Ana.  
• Projects Ana is working on, and what's her involvement?   
• The challenges Ana is facing working in a different time zone.  
• Ana's recommendations or tips to people working in different time zones.  
• A discussion about Ana's journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP.  
• How Ana's nomination happened  
• Dynamics 365 Human Resources integration with LinkedIn Talent Hub  
• The changes happened in Dynamics 365 HR functionality  
• Recommendations to people wanting to become Microsoft MVP.   
• Talks about the Business Applications community in Uruguay. 

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• Oli Ward’s life, educational and career background.  
• Discussions about Oli’s journey within Microsoft and with Customer Insights?  
• What does Oli’s current role involve?  
• What skills do people need to succeed in Pre-Sales?  
• What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)?  
• The benefits of using a CDP app, and what makes a CDP different?  
• What is the difference between a CDP and CRM?  
• What is Customer Insights, and what is its purpose?  
• How do you enable AI in Dynamics 365 customer insights?  
• What Is Master Data Management, and how is it related to CDP?  
• How MDM and CDP work together?  
• The importance of MDM?  
• What MDM does?  
• What level of expertise should people have before engaging in customer Insights?  
• Has Covid19 affected the demand for CI?  
• An overview of what Microsoft Synapse is.  
• Talks about Microsoft Synapse and how does it work with Customer Insights?  
• The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on your customers and in business? 

CREDITS 

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

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• A brief talk about Roma Gupta’s life, family, country of origin. 
• Covid19 situation in India and how is that affecting her and her family members. 
• How Roma’s IT journey started 
• A conversation about Roma’s career background. 
• The projects she’s working on in Africa. 
• Romas focus and area of specialization when it comes to technology. 
• Roma’s experience in Dynamics 365 marketing and Click Dimensions. 
• Describes the differences between the products and which is popular with customers. 
• What excites Roma the most about the future of Power Platform. 
• Power Automate as the best Integration platform for moving data. 
• Roma’s story and her journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and her involvement with the MVP community. 
• Roma’s thoughts about Microsoft's user group platform. 
• What was the biggest surprise and impact to Roma since becoming a Microsoft MVP? 
• Roma’s recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Roma’s future plans, and she is looking forward to attending the MVP summit. 

Music Credits
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

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