The Intelligence Age

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/206

• Robbie Baxter’s life, family, educational and career background  
• The effect of COVID-19 globally – changes happening all over the world 
• As the writer of the book and the benefit of the book she published – The Membership Economy  
• Areas where she sees “The Membership Economy” is for  
• How the book she wrote applies to the different projects each company has  
• The type of organizations adopting this  
• What strategies have Robbie come up with to build the kind of engagement in loyalty membership subscription?  
• The importance of knowing who your customer is  
• How much does NETFLIX contribute to Robbie’s thoughts around “The Membership Economy.”  
• Customer’s feedback from Robbie’s book – The Membership Economy  
• How Robbie see this applying to Microsoft Partners  
• Lesson Robbie have learned since the release of her book that made her decide to write another one  
• Looking at the Subscription model, for those organizations who are struggling due to the CORONA crisis, what should they do?  
• A discussion about the launch of Robbie’s second book – “Forever Transaction.”  
• A conversation with Robbie on how important it is to find out what people are willing to pay for  
• What Robbie means by “Forever Product.” 

Books Mentioned

The Forever Transaction: https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/the-forever-transaction-chapter-8/
The Membership Economy: https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/the-membership-economy/ 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/205

• A brief introduction about Stefan’s family background and where he lives 
• What he does during his free and his hobbies 
• Became a Microsoft MVP on December 1, 2019 
• Explains what Stefan found different from being an MVP, and what he expected? 
• Stefan’s journey to becoming a Microsoft Business Applications MVP 
• A discussion about Stefan’s involvement with Dynamics CRM 
• How Stefan started working for the User group community – Dutch PowerApps & Flow User Group and CEProNL
• Shares his thoughts about the POWER of COMMUNITY 
• A discussion about what area Stefan spends more of his time, his focus and his role 
• Challenges that came across during Stefan’s journey 
• Stefan’s recommendations and advice to people who are wanting to shift from a Functional to Architectural role 
• Stefan’s method or system to keep his knowledge and skills up to date 
• Stefan shares his thoughts around running a community during COVID19  
• Discusses how they maintain the community connection  
• Shares his opinion about the state of Business Applications in the Market

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/204

• A Brief Introduction about Sunay Vaishnav’s life – the current city where he lives and his home city’s famous for 
• How Sunay spends his time outside of work  
• Share Sunay’s story about the changes and how COVID19 affected his life  
• Talks about MBAS event – the first major virtual event for Microsoft 
• The positive impact of working from home 
• Sunay’s career journey and what he is currently working on at Microsoft 
• How Sunay got started and what lead him to his current position within the community 
• What is Power Automate and Sunay’s vision for it 
• The level of engagement Sunay sees for Power Automate  
• Discusses the short term and long-term roadmap of Power Automate 
• Who is their target customer for Power Automate? 
• Explains their plans and his thoughts when it comes to Flow Designer or Maker Experience, as well as the validation Test Flows on Power Automate 
• Power Automate features:
              API Flows / UI Flows
              Adaptative Cards
              Approval Attachment
              Teams 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/203

• Meet Tomasz Poszytek from Warsaw, Poland  
• Tomasz talks about his family and describes his hometown  
• How Tomasz handles working from home during lockdown due to the COVID19 crisis  
• With the COVID19 crisis, what Tomasz sees in the next few months when it comes to community events  
• Lessons learnt from running a productive event using virtual events  
• A discussion about how they manage these events  
• How Tomasz facilitates these events making it sure that they have answered all the questions 
• Any problems have encountered during a presentation and how they handled it  
• Tomasz area of expertise when it comes to Power Platform  
• Became a Microsoft MVP in November 2019  
• The value and the best thing about being a Microsoft MVP 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/202

• A Brief Introduction about Emma D'Arcy's personal, educational and career Background 
• How Emma spends her time during her free time and her hobbies  
• Talks about how Emma started working with technology  
• Emma's community involvement and her contributions  
• An introduction about Emma's brand as TatooedCRMGirl  
• Tips and advice Emma can give people who want to build their name brand   
• A conversation about how much does create content play into Emma's brand
• Discussion about how Emma started working in ClickDimensions   
• Why culture is the most important for Emma  
• Shares about her involvement in Marketing  
• The best qualities of a great event in marketing  
• Learn about “The Dunder Mifflin Project” live streaming  
• How Emma able to pull up massive events from start to handle attendees  
• Learn more about the different community – Scottish Summit, PowerApps Philly and PowerApps Boston  
• Discussion about the best thing about community  
• Shares her ideas about running a user group  
• How Emma coach and encourage new and existing speakers in a user group
• Talks about how Emma encourages speakers to get involved in a community event  
• Emma talks about the MB200 and MB600 exam 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/201

• Life introduction about Sukrut Parab – lives in Los Angeles with his family 
• Talks Sukrut’s journey from India to Los Angeles  
• Career background of Sukrut, how he started working with Dynamics  
• Advice to people wanting to work away from their hometown 
• A conversation about Sukrut’s journey inside AX to Finance and Operations of Dynamics 365 
• The key lessons Sukrut’s has learnt on his journey that helps in his career growth 
• Discussion about the importance of industry knowledge when it comes to product implementation 
• How Sukrut focus from one area while maintaining his skills and knowledge Sukrut’s thoughts about people migrating On-Prem to Cloud 
• Talks about Sukrut’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – how he got awarded 
• Sukrut’s MVP contributions to the community

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/200

• The origin story of Stuart Ridout and his career background 
• Family background and activities they do together 
• The changes happening to Stuart’s everyday life with the current world situation – COVID19 crisis 
• Stuart’s journey working with Microsoft 
• Talks about Stuart’s role and responsibilities as a Customer Success Manager  
• What Microsoft Teams is and its importance – Chris Slemp’s Taming Teams
• Benefits, effectiveness, and advantage of creating chat channels – Champions Program 
• How Microsoft Teams work with PowerApps and Power Automate 
• The key things Stuart thinks makes his time more efficient and productive using Power Automate 
• The role of a Citizen developer in building/linking Microsoft Teams to Power Platform 
• Explains how Microsoft Teams and Power Platform are being used – examples and experiences 
• Talks about the features and other applications within Microsoft teams 
• The future Stuart sees with the integration of PowerApps and Power Automate with Microsoft Teams 
• What everyone should know about Power Automate 
• The feedback from the community with all these tools 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/199

• A brief introduction about André Arnaud de Calavon  
• Talks about how the normal celebration of King's day looks like 
• How the COVID19 affected André’s life and Netherland’s community 
• As a Microsoft MVP for 6years and André’s area of specialization 
• André’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• How André started his career 
• Changes André had seen with the Dynamics and his experience with the product 
• A discussion about André’s experience and his role as a Product Manager and in managing ISV solutions Talks about their new product and who can use it 
• The impact of becoming an MVP on André’s career 
• André’s strengths when it comes to his MVP community contributions 
• What André’s likes the most becoming a Microsoft MVP 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/198

• Interesting facts about Srikumar Nair’s life
• How Srikumar started working with Microsoft  
• Srikumar’s involvement with XRM, CRM and CDS  
• A discussion about Srikumar’s role in Microsoft as Principal Group Program Manager  
• Introduction to XRM and CDS  
• Discusses the difference between XRM and CDS  
• Srikumar’s shares his views on what a low-code no-code is  
• What Srikumar is seeing when it comes to resource consumption    
• Discussions on the architecture patterns and the changes happening concerning the CDS environment  
• A conversation about the sales applications and the changes  
• CDS licencing when it comes to Platform Capacity – API and Storage  
• How they work with the AZURE team when it comes to the growth happening on the Power Platform, and how are they integrated into different parts of Microsoft  
• Srikumar’s journey from Blob storage to Cosmos DB and the lessons learnt   
• How Srikumar’s team make sure their customer gets the right value of the product when it comes to the new licensing that is coming  
• An introduction about the Team Member enforcement  
• Talks about ISV considerations and how they make sure that the Power Platform is the tool where they can build their applications 

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/197

• Family life and career background of Mohammad Reza Dorrani 
• Talks about Reza’s hobbies outside Power Platform 
• Reza’s hometown and what made Reza move to Houston, Texas 
• Became a Microsoft MVP in December 2019 
• A discussion about Reza’s area of specialization as a Microsoft Business Applications MVP 
• Talks about Reza’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• The changes happened to Reza’s life since becoming part of the Houston User group 
• Final process involved in getting Reza into the MVP Program 
• Reza’s contribution to the Microsoft community 
• Shares his Microsoft Flow All-Star award experience 
• Learning experiences being in a forum  
• Reza’s motivation on why he wanted to become a Microsoft Business Applications MVP  
• Advantages and disadvantages of becoming a Microsoft MVP 
• Reza’s goal and what he wants to achieve in the next few years as a Microsoft MVP 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith