The Intelligence Age

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• A Brief Introduction about Alysa Taylor’s life and family 
• How Alysa spends her time when not working 
• The impact of COVID19 on Alysa’s day to day life 
• Talks about Alysa’s journey to her current role in Microsoft Business Applications 
• A conversation about the first major virtual event – Microsoft Business Applications Summit 
• Discussions on the lessons learned from running the first major virtual summit event for Microsoft 
• Talks about the feedback they have received from the first major virtual summit event 
• How virtual events will affect the planning for future Microsoft Summit 
• Discusses the newly released apps – the Microsoft Crisis Management Response 
• How does Microsoft Crisis Management Response help the community? 
• What was the thinking behind it? 
• What has the feedback from people using Microsoft Crisis Management Response 
• An introduction to Digital Transformation 
• Alysa’s thoughts on how Digital Transformation is evolving 
• How companies using the Power Platform respond to the crisis
• The massive changes to business with the present situation
• How are things evolving in business applications across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform? 
• The pivots they have made in the current economic climate. 
• The success customer stories heaving on with Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents 

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• Learn more about Deepak Agarwal’s family and life 
• Find out more about Deepak as a blogger
• Discussions about Deepak's career background  
• How are things in India with the current COVID19 crisis  
• Shares his thoughts on the possible effect of COVID19 in the next year globally 
• A conversation about Deepak’s nature of work  
• Talks about Deepak’s involvement in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation
• Discusses Deepak’s journey to becoming a Microsoft  Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
• Talks about the challenges Deepak had encountered with Dynamics 365  
• Deepak talks about his contributions to the community  
• Shares Deepak’s thoughts about being an author of a book
• Talks about how Deepak manages to find time to write a book while working/on top of work  
• Public Speaking Events – where and how Deepak get the opportunity to speak  
• A discussion about how PowerApps works with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation (F&O)  
• Shares his ideas on what advice Deepak can give to people wanting to become a Microsoft MVP 

Deepak Agarwal Books

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook – Fourth Edition 

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• Lauren Taylor talks about her life – where she lives and what he does 
• What’s famous in Seattle – places to visit and foods 
• A conversation about Lauren’s role in his current job 
• Lauren’s journey to PowerApps 
• The Microsoft products Lauren use in school   
• Practical ways of using the Power Platform in school?  
• The applications Lauren have created using Power Apps 
• How do these applications help? 
• Talks about the challenges Lauren encountered in using the Power Platform and building apps. 
• How Lauren overcome those challenges while working with the technology? 
• Explained how is the community involved in all these?  
• How Lauren introduce the technology to the teachers and students 
• Discussions on teacher-student collaboration in building Power Apps 
• How has this impacted Lauren’s network outside the education system?  
• A discussion about Lauren’s learning point from her Power Platform journey 
• Lauren’s advice to her fellow educators who are unsure of utilizing the Power Platform in the education sector 

Resources

Microsoft Stories: https://news.microsoft.com/features/you-dont-have-to-be-a-developer-to-turn-a-great-idea-into-an-app/
Events: https://bascatalog2019.azurewebsites.net/SpeakerDetail.aspx?id=555153 

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• Steven Renders shares the best thing about living in Belgium and the best place to visit 
• The area Steven specializes in Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem 
• How Steven got started with his Business Central journey 
• Talks about Steven as a Microsoft Certified Trainer – his focus 
• As a Microsoft trainer, how does it play a key role in Steven’s career 
• Steven’s thoughts when it comes to the future of Business Central 
• A discussion about the integration of PowerApps and Power Automate
• Talks about the integration of Power Virtual Agents with Business Central 
• Steven’s approach when it comes to Business Intelligence with the customers 
• Explained what a Business Central Booster is 
• How Steven manages his training with the current COVID19 situation 
• Talks about Steven’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• A conversation about Steven’s Microsoft MVP contributions 
• The benefits and Steven’s journey in writing a POWER BI book 
• Explains step by step guide in writing a book 

Other Resources:

Booster Website:https://businesscentralbooster.com/

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• A Brief Introduction about life, family, and hobbies of Sangya Singh 
• A conversation about Sangya’s journey working with Microsoft 
• Discussions about how Sangya got started and what lead her to her current position within the community  
• Sangya’s key objectives as part of the maturing Power Platform – Power Platform Solutions, Maker Experience and Community 
• Find out about Sangya’s team's goal 
• Sangya talks about the Microsoft Catalyst 
• An introduction to Discovery Driven Transformation and Human Centre Design 
• Talks about Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring Solution 
• The importance and how critical the Microsoft Emergency Response Tracking Solutions tool is? 
• Learn how to create Microsoft Emergency Response Tracking Solutions  
• How Microsoft Emergency Response Tracking Solutions works and how it helps Microsoft customers. 
• Is Microsoft Emergency Response Tracking Solutions a low code no-code product? 
• The reason why Microsoft choose Power Platform for this tool 
• Talks about the Power Platform Community where Sangay is part of it 
• How can Microsoft play a much more significant role in helping the local community user experience? 
• Resources, forums and training materials available for the community to access 

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• Learn more about Stefano Demiliani's life.  
• Describes how great his country of origin is  
• Talks about his career journey – his role and responsibilities  
• Stefano talks about the things he does when he is not working and his hobbies.  
• A discussion about the area and his involvement with Dynamics 365  
• Stefano shares his journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP  
• Shares stories about his interest in writing IT books  
• How he managed to write a book  
• In what way has the MVP Program affected Stefano's career  
• How Stefano prepares for events like public speaking as part of the MVP Program 
• How the COVID19 crisis affected his work and his daily life 

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• Life and family background of Dux Raymond Sy 
• Hobbies and what his family enjoy doing when not working 
• Dux’s thoughts about what is going to happen after the COVID19 crisis 
• The impact of the COVID19 Crisis on the upcoming events and gatherings 
• Talks about Dux’s journey into technology 
• A conversation about Dux’s personal brand and its importance 
• Steps people should take to develop their Personal Brand 
• How does an introvert develop their Personal Brand?  
• Shares Dux’s presentation techniques 
• Technology and tool Dux use for presentation 
• Talks about Dux’s journey to his recent Podcast – How did it start? 
• The type of community that play in Dux’s career journey 
• What is AvePoint and what does it do? 
• Dux’s role and responsibilities at AvePoint as a CMO 
• A discussion about Dux’s experience with AppSource 
• A conversation about Dux’s ISV journey  
• Dux’s recommendation to people who are wanting to become an ISV 
• Discusses Dux’s journey Lessons learnt from getting IP Cost program 

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• A brief introduction about Jeevarajan Kumar’s origin, life and family 
• Shares his thoughts about the effect of COVID19  
• Jeevarajan’s day to day working life and what he does 
• Talks about Jeevarajan’s role for the company he works for 
• Shares story and Jeevarajan’s involvement with the MVP community in Singapore 
• A conversation about what’s new with PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) 
• Changes that happened to Jeevarajan’s career since becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Discussions on the best thing about being a Microsoft MVP  
• Jeevarajan’s journey to becoming an MVP 
• Activities MVP community group in Singapore is working on staying connected during this COVID19 crisis 

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• Muhammad Alam’s educational background story 
• Career background and Microsoft journey 
• Role and responsibilities of Muhammad in Microsoft 
• Talks about the first major virtual MBAS event for Microsoft  
• A discussion about Muhammad’s operations application portfolio 
• Shares his thoughts about where sales and operations coming together 
• Integration story of sales and operations 12 months ago and how Muhammad see it evolving 
• Where Dynamics 365 Sales fit  
• Why Dynamics 365 Sales is important in where Muhammad’s portfolio connects 
• A conversation about Dynamics 365 Commerce Apps 
• Shares what Muhammad thinks about Dynamics 365 Commerce Apps strategically 
• Discussions about Partner Adoption  
• The key fundamental integration in E-Commerce solutions 
• Introduction to Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection 
• How Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection helps the customers? 
• How Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection protect your customer's data? 
• Connection of Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection to Connected store 
• What is Project Operations Applications? 

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• Tatiana Pupko lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia 
• What Tatiana enjoys the most about living in Saint Petersburg 
• Describes Tatiana's maternity life – her experience being a mother 
• How COVID19 affects Tatiana's life 
• A conversation about Tatiana's journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Tatiana as part of the MVP community  
• What Tatiana normally does before becoming an MVP  
• Rules or work involved for the implementation of business for a new customer when it comes to Russian localization 
• Alternative product used in Russia if not Business Central 
• Tatiana's thoughts about using “Translations”  
• What Tatiana does during her spare time – social life and hobbies 
• A discussion about what Tatiana expected since becoming an MVP 
•  Discusses the changes that happened since becoming an MVP
• The best thing about being part of the MVP Summit 

Dynamics Community:
https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/navfunctionality 

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