The Intelligence Age

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• Find out more about Chris Huntingford’s origin, family and career background. 
• A conversation with Chris about his career journey from Microsoft to Avanade 
• As the Director for Global Power Apps Lead and a Power Platform COE,  what led Chris into this field? 
• What’s Chris’ role and responsibilities? 
• Talks about Chris’ involvement with the Power Platform Community in the UK. 
• The relationship of Accenture and Avanade 
• The goal, history and how Avanade come about? 
• What is a Power Platform and Platform? 
• A discussion about what an App is? 
• Platform and building Apps stories. 
• How are companies using it in building multiple solutions? 
• What is a Strategic Platform, and why does it matter? 
• Discussions on Chris’ thoughts about the Power Platform Centre of Excellence kit 
• Chris’ thoughts about building Apps that solve business solutions. 
• What is Offline Canvas Apps? 

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• Kasun Rajapaksha Pathirana country of origin and his story of moving to New Zealand. 
• Best places, food recommendations and good things about Sri Lanka 
• The impact of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka 
• Kasun talks about his involvement with the Singapore community – Dynamics and Power Platform Community. 
• A conversation about Kasun’s area of specialization and skills when it comes to Microsoft tools. 
• Talks about Kasun’s interest in Dynamics – how did it start? 
• Learning and training experience - how did Karun learn more about Dynamics? 
• How Kasun managed to move from one job to another. 
• The steps involved in Kasun’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• Discussion about Kasun’s first MVP Summit as a first time MVP. 
• Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 

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• Find out more about Frank Weigel’s life and family background. 
• What Frank does when not working. 
• A conversation about Frank’s educational and career background. 
• Frank Weigel’s journey within Microsoft. 
• Talks about Frank’s role and what’s involved. 
• Understanding Customer Insights. 
• A discussion about the two elements of Customer Insights. 
• What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)? 
• Tell me about Microsoft's CDP product? 
• Why do originations want to achieve a 360-degree view of their customers? 
• How does Master Data Management system differ from CDP? 
• An overview of Microsoft orchestration. 
• How has Covid impacted the way customers look at CDP? 
• What Frank is seeing from Partners when it comes to CDP? 
• With most products licensed by those who can access the software, how does this work with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights? 

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• A brief introduction about Julian Sharp’s life.  
• How Julian spends his time when not working before and during the COVID19 pandemic.  
• Talks about Julian’s involvement with Dynamics since CRM v1.0. 
• Julian shares his thoughts about the training and product certifications in the past two years.  
• Julian’s involvement in preparing for written exams.  
• A conversation about different ways and other sources of learning  
• The process and requirements involved on how to become MCT.  
• Listen to Julian’s story and his journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP.  
• Talks about Julian’s involvement in the MVP community and user group.  
• Learn more about Julian’s role and contributions to the community.  
• Speaking experience of Julian at an event.  
• Julian’s advice to people wanting to join and become a Microsoft MVP! 

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Show Notes

• Hardit Bhatia talks about his country origin – originally from Mumbai, India.  
• The impact of the Covid19 pandemic in India and how does this affect his family?  
• How did Hardit got involved in technology?  
• Talks about Hardit's educational and career background.  
• Discover the culture and the importance of education in India with Hardit.  
• How did Hardit start working with technology, and how did he get involved with PowerApps, Canvas Apps and Microsoft Dataverse?   
• A story about Hardit's moving to another company.  
• What did the first 6months look like for Hardit in learning PowerApps, and what are the things he has done to help him?
• Talks about the Apps that Hardit built for Microsoft and the things he learnt working on these projects.  
• Hardit's experience in building these Apps?  
• What role does UI play in designing apps, and how to make outstanding UI's? 
• Hardit's journey to becoming an App maker.  
• How to be an App Maker 
• Introduction to UI and UX design  
• The App Hardit has recently built that he is most proud of.  
• Hardit's thoughts on Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams  
• The difference between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams  
• The advantages, disadvantages and limitations of Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams 

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• A brief introduction about Diana Birkelbach and her hobbies. 
• Talks about how Diana started in IT. 
• Career and educational background of Diana.  
• Diana's involvement with Microsoft Dynamics – when did it begin?  
• The key changes Diana has seen with Dynamics that improve the product.  
• Talks about Diana's involvement in PCF.   
• A conversation about Diana's engagement in PCF Community Forums. 
• A discussion about Diana's journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated her? 
• What does community mean to Diana's – the Global Power Platform Bootcamp and Scottish Summit
• Discussion about the importance of community in developing one's skills and growing one's career as an individual in this Microsoft space.  
• Diana's advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 

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• A brief introduction about Taiki Yoshida’s family and life background.  
• Educational and career background of Taiki. 
• Explore Japan’s tradition and culture with Taiki. 
• How did Taiki get into technology, and how did he get involved in Business Applications
• How did Taiki learn about his Dynamics NAV and ERP skills?  
• Taiki’s involvement with the implementation of the Dynamics NAV. 
• Learn more about how did Taiki’s journey to Microsoft start?  
• Taiki’s MVP journey and his involvement with the MVP community start?  
• The real value of MVP. 
• What was Taiki’s area of expertise?    
• Taiki’s story and his learning experience as a Microsoft MVP.  
• How did Taiki build his own community - the PowerApps User group - and what was his goal?  
• Recommendation to people considering starting a community group.  
• As a member of the CAT team – how did it start?  
• Taiki’s role, responsibilities and the projects he is working on at Microsoft.  
• What led Taiki to his current position?  
• Introduction to Express Route – what is it and how to use it.
• Options and benefits in implementing Express Route. 
• The future of Power Platform
• A brief talk about Robotic Process Automation – RPA.
• What are the benefits and the type of industries that can use RPA Solution? 

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• EY Kalman’s area of specialization as a Solutions Architect – the right tool for the right job 
• Talks about EY’s thoughts about Omnichannel – the future and how customers are adopting it. 
• How Omnichannel operates now – things you can and can’t do
• An overview of what an Omnichannel is.
• Talks about the Microsoft Business Applications MVP community in the UK.
• EY’s thoughts about becoming a Microsoft Business Applications MVP.
• Talks about the benefits and advantages of becoming a Microsoft MVP.
• A discussion about EY’s plans
• What excites EY the most when it comes to technology in the next 12months. 

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• Meet Sara Lagerquist, the queen of the Low Code!  
• Sara talks about her journey into low code development. 
• How does Sara Lagerquist spend her time now? 
• Public Speaking - how did Sara overcome her fear when it comes to speaking at a community event. 
• Sara’s involvement in public speaking and how did it start? 
• How did Sara prepare her presentation at community events?  
• Sara’s life in the past few months? 
• How did Sara feel when she first received the news about her condition?  
• Talks about the process Sara went through and her decision to let everybody know about it? 
• Find out more about Sara’s new Instagram account. 
• What's Sara’s experience with the people around her now? - Family and friends, General Public and the people in the community she’s part of. 
• Talks about Sara’s support network – Power community and her CRM-Konsulterna family 
• Sara talks about her good days and bad days - how did she deal with it physically and mentally? 
• How much has Sara’s life or world changed and what was the impact?  
• Talks about the treatment process - things Sara expected to happen. 
• What’s Sara looking forward to? 
• Sara’s message to the community, especially those people who are in the same situation as her? 

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• Check out Matt’s RIPT Apparel and find out what you can get from it. 
• Talks about the comic books and games he loves. 
• Matt Collins-Jones journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 
• How Matt’s journey started and what he knows about the MVP program 
• A conversation about Matt’s goal  
• How Matt’s nomination started and who helped him during the process 
• Talks about his YouTube Channel. 
• What made Matt choose YouTube as a form of sharing his knowledge in the MVP community? 
• YouTube as Matt’s mode of sharing his knowledge. 
• Talks about how helpful YouTube is to everyone. 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith