The Intelligence Age

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• Kathrine’s brief introduction about her life – born in Norway, lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family for 29 years  
• Talks about what her family loves to do together  
• Introduces the best destination to visit in Sweden and Norway  
• A short introduction about the history of their company – CRM-Konsulterna
• Discusses the type of business they have and what their typical customer looks like   
• Describes her current role, what’s involved and the things that excite her the most in her daily activities   
• The kind of culture their company creates  
• Discusses sourcing talents and how they attract and retain top talents  
• Their motivation on how they encourage their employees to continue developing their skill level  
• How they value their customers 
• Explains how they manage their employees –  especially those who are sent out to offsite clients 
• How do they determine career advancement
• Ways to discover and attract new customers  
• What works well when it comes to marketing  
• What opportunities they are exploring in the future in relation to their business model 
• As part of individual growth – how meaningful is community engagement in their business  
• Enumerates what lessons she has learned from running an event  
• What Kathrine’s typical monthly calendar typically looks like from a work perspective 
• A book about Naked Consulting – what it means to their company and staff 

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• Vivek Bavishi's background – originally from India, discusses things you can do in India, good food in India and the reason why he moved to the US 
• Talks about the Marketing program course 
• Shares his thoughts about the MVP Program
• Discusses the company he works for – Regal Beloit 
• What he does as a Marketing Manager 
• As the new model of MVP – the generation of people who just wants to get things done
• Bavishi's journey and how he managed to become part of the MVP Program
• Where That_API_Guy name came from? 
• Shares his views about being a consultant within his own company 
• How he started working with PowerApps 
• Discusses his contribution to the community
• Talks about the changes that happened after becoming an MVP 
• Power Platform and focus in his current role

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• A brief introduction about Daniel, Jeff and Rob’s personal & family background. Where they live & how they spend their time when not working.   
• Discussions about their journey to Microsoft  
• Introduction to the Catalyst program  
• Discusses the history of Microsoft Catalyst and Methodology  
• Importance of Modern Business Engagement  
• Relationship between Design Thinking, Business Decision Maker and Microsoft Catalyst – taking requirements from the customer.   
• The impact of Catalyst on business  
• Discusses the four pillars of Microsoft Catalyst – Inspire, Design, empower and Achieve  
• Understanding its importance with Partners in modern business engagement   
• Talks about the resources used in the methodology  
• The type of search things they need to better understand the building blocks around customer journey mapping, empathy mapping, and wireframe   
• Is Catalyst part of the business?  
• Understanding the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation   
• The importance of embracing these technologies for functional consultants and the impact on their business  
• What are the specific sets of steps the Catalyst programs provide?  

RESOURCES

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation   

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• A brief introduction on Shawn’s – growing up and living in Florida for the last 30 years & being born outside of Chicago. 
• Shaun talks about his education  
• Shawn’s day working in the Power Platform Dynamics Arena 
• Shawn's focus on field service and customer service  
• Shawn’s thoughts on getting PowerApps for Field service 
• Is the product set big enough to just chose one thing? 
• Shawn’s recommendation on choosing the right product. 
• What he loves to do the most. Field service and customers service or Sales? 
• Discusses IoT Practical integration to Field service  
• How to tell if preventive maintenance is needed  
• Being an MVP for 3 years – and how his journey started 8 years ago 
• CRM Lady – Anne Stanton 
• Talks about his passion for doing Podcasts 
• Events Shawn's attended – Orlando summit, Ignite broadcasting service and 20mins on PowerApps and field service 

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• A brief introduction about Aaron’s personal background –originally from Maryland and lives in Seattle, WA 
• What Aaron does when he’s not working – play with kids, skiing and travelling 
• The Founder of icommunicate – history and origin 
• Co-founder of Invoke system and Crelate (from creating relationship) 
• Key highlights of his 3 years working at Microsoft  
• Talks about the feature set in CRM 1.0 in 2003 
• The reason why 1.2 was released the same year 
• Shares Aaron's thoughts about Salesforce while building a product 
• Lessons learnt from working with a big company – Microsoft 
• Discusses the true story of CRM 2.0  
• Shares Aaron's thoughts about being involved in a powerful product line at Microsoft and one of the core pillars of the business. 

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• Sergio's personal life – lives in Monterey, Mexico and shares his views on the three most important cities and popular food in Mexico.  
• Discusses how popular Microsoft PowerApps and Flow, Power Platform, Dynamics 365 are in Mexico  
• The first Dynamics 365 CRM MVP in Mexico  
• Sergio’s journey to becoming an MVP – 2 years as an MVP  
• Discusses the three significant events that happened for Dynamics 365 in 2019 – D365 Saturday – Mexico City, Mexico in April, Dynamics 365 Saturday – Monterrey, Mexico in May and D365 Saturday – Guadalajara, Mexico June  
• Sergio’s objective and goals when it comes to Dynamics 365 events  
• How successful is the Dynamics 365 event?  
• Are Microsoft Partners in Mexico doing Dynamics 365? 
• How he discovered the MVP Program and talks about the person who guided him to become an MVP  
• Discusses his contributions to the Dynamics 365 community   
• What project he is working on at present, his focus & and his current team
• Who does he see in the Spanish community as a future MVP   
• Who inspires him to be better
• The mistake he kept doing over and over again? 

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• A brief introduction about Dileep’s life – originally comes from India  
• Educational background, career background & how he got into Microsoft. 
• Dileep’s thoughts about Microsoft’s PowerApps Portals going public 
• An overview of PowerApps Portals – the importance, application and ways to improve its performance 
• Talks about the changes happening on Dynamics and PowerApps Portals – when and how people will be able to see these changes 
• Discusses how to differentiate between new and old portals 
• Names the new features available 
• A better understanding of why and how PowerApps Portals are licensed  
• What happens when people go over the usage limit –  will the portal stop working?  
• Dileep’s thoughts on the “Pay as you go” Azure model 
• Explains/Clarification on how ‘ 24hours for unauthenticated users' works  
• Dileep explains what no-code and low code experiences are 
• The future of PowerApps Portals licensing – when it comes to changes  
• Discusses the setup and configurations on how to make the Power platform simple 
• PowerApps Component Framework in PowerApps Portals 
• Talks about the plans on OneDrive file access and SharePoint file access via PowerApps Portals  
• Resources and training materials available for the community to access PowerApps Portals 
• Specific forums for PowerApps Portals 
• Answers some questions on Twitter.  

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• Megan talks about her personal life – living in the USA and what made her decide to come back to Chesterfield, England. 
• Discusses her career background 
• Her journey to becoming an MVP  
• Megan shares her thoughts on the reasons for becoming an MVP 
• Discusses her discovery in writing a blogpost using emoji in CRM or Dynamics 365 and how it changed the way she visualizes the data and Dynamics 
• Discusses effective strategies to create balanced work, community activities and personal life  
• Megan’s journey into Dynamics 
• Things that helped her most with learning Flow 
• Introduction to better understand Microsoft Forms Pro 
• Talks about Capture and Attachment upload features of Microsoft Forms Pro 
• Biggest three turning points of her life 

Resources Mentioned  

• Forms Pro

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• Jackie's personal background – born in Australia, moved to Indonesia – Nigeria – Thailand – Switzerland – Colorado and her home of Los Angeles
• Why Jackie travelled at a young age and her favourite place 
• An introduction about Six Sigma, also known as The Process Improvement 
• OCM – Organizational Change Management 
• How Jackie started working in Dynamics 
• Talks about her experience working with an Offshore Team 
• Discusses how she handles people in different time zones during scrum agile environments 
• Explains techniques and strategies she uses when working remotely 
• Cultural training and non-work-related code 
• How they involve remote consultants to move into functional business requirements  
• Significant challenges in handling offshore teams and their solution in moving through these challenges  
• The importance of maintaining consistent Hitachi culture no matter where people are located  
• How Jackie got into change management and her own definition of change management
• The components of ADKAR  

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• A brief introduction about Malin’s life – lives in Oslo Area, Norway and talks about how she spends her time when she’s not working  
• Shares her journey into becoming an MVP  
• Talks about her educational and career background  
• The FIRST and ONLY MVP for Dynamics Talent  
• How long has she been working with Dynamics Talent?  
• Discusses projects around Microsoft Talent  
• Second to pass the MB6 898 Dynamics 365 Exam Talent Certification  
• What made her choose to work in Dynamics Talent and what she likes the most doing the Dynamics Talent work  
• Talks about her Blog – the 16 reasons why you should choose Talent 
• Explains where her ideas are coming from when writing a Blog – How long does it take for her to write a post.  
• How she manages her user group Woman in Dynamics – where and how did it start  
• What advice she can tell people all over the world who are considering becoming a member of the user group  
• Advantages of creating a more traditional mixed group scenario   
• Malin’s thoughts on the MVP Program 

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