The Intelligence Age

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• A brief introduction about Sameer’s life – Current City in Seattle, Washington, Hometown in Mumbai, Maharashtra 
• What he does when he’s not working 
• Sameer’s passion for writing poems and storytelling 
• Introduction to Simple Intentions 
• His involvement with Pathwise Leadership program 
• Sameer’s story on his exciting journey and his experiences in Microsoft 
• Introduction to French National Railway, SNCF 
• Functions and best practices to establish a Centre of Excellence 
• Responsibilities of Centre of Excellence that typically falls into four buckets 
• Introduction to PowerApps Admin Connectors 
• The implementation of PowerApps Governance 
• Sameer’s role as part of Customer Advisory Team. 
• Relationship of CAT to PowerApps and CDM 
• Understanding Centre of Excellence and how does it translate to Microsoft 
• Lauren Taylor and Manuela Pichler 

RESOURCES

Virgin Atlantic drives agile wins for its mobile workforce with the Power Platform
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/virgin-atlantic-drives-agile-wins-for-mobile-workforce-with-the-power-platform/

Have you ever switched to part-time in the corporate world?
https://medium.com/@sameerbhangar/have-you-ever-switched-to-part-time-in-the-corporate-world-b77b38f9e2db

Hawkary Pharmaceuticals: Power platform customer success story
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/hawkary-pharmaceuticals-digitizes-daily-sales-visit-reporting-using-powerapps/

Real World Stories: Global energy companies' power
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Business-Applications/Real-World-Stories-Global-energy-companies-power-digital/td-p/299942

Custom Air Products & Services manages HVAC manufacturing process using the Power Platform https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-air-products-services-manages-hvac-manufacturing-process-using-the-power-platform/

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• A brief introduction of Neil’s family and background
• Neil's journey to how his career as an MVP started 
• What Neil kids think about his career as MVP 
• Lessons he teaches his kids, so they learn the value of work. 
• The best lesson he learnt as a parent, family member, mentor, and someone who works with business 
• His life experiences – may it be good or terrible 
• Neil’s story on how he started in Dynamics  
• Things he loves the most being an MVP 
• Introduction on Scrum training 
• What frustrates him the most with his work 
• Neil’s plan on releasing more training content 
• What are the qualifications to become and an MVP 
• Advice on getting nominated as an MVP 
• Tangible benefits of becoming an MVP 
• What and how Sonos Play 1 works 

Other Resources 

• Benjamin Grams – Intelligent Investor 

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• A Brief Introduction about Dan’s life – where he lives, his hobbies, what he does when he’s not working or surfing 
• His involvement with the Not for Profit Space 
• What made him decide to join the Microsoft world
• Erik Arnold’s role as a Global CTO 
• Understanding Threshold.world 
• The Importance and goal of Threshold.world 
• Where the company name Threshold.world came from 
• Dan’s role, focus and vision of the business  
• Things that can help non-profit organizations and funders make a better decision for them to invest  
• The relationship between the common data model and the Not for Profit Space Accelerator  
• Dan’s relationship with Microsoft 
• Changes happening with the first generation of accelerator  
• Sustainable development goals 
• Dan’s vision for the accelerator and its future  
• The importance and goals for the Not for profit space and Microsoft Accelerator   

Resources

Erik Arnold – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/author/erik-arnold/
IATI – International Aid Transparency Initiative 

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• A brief introduction about Mariano Gomez’s life –his family and personal background
• How his career as an MVP started  
• Mariano’s thoughts about the global economic recession that happened in 2008 and how it affected his life 
• Result of the evaluation of ERP solutions 
• As the author of Microsoft Dynamic GP 
• Improvements happening around Microsoft 
• Knowing about GP customers 
• Customer’s reaction on ERP and its contribution 
• Solutions implemented to help Microsoft customers 
• Microsoft Dynamics GP vs Business Central Intelligent Cloud 
• Advice he can give to new aspiring MVP’s  

Resources Mentioned:

Microsoft Project Green – https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-project-green-still-alive-and-kicking/ 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GP MVPs Weigh in On Project “Madeira” – https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/dynamics-nav/microsoft-dynamics-nav-and-gp-mvps-weigh-project-madeira-mix-caution-excitement 

Legacy vs Cloud ERP, what’s the difference? https://www.erpsoftwareblog.com/2019/06/legacy-versus-cloud-erp-whats-the-difference/ 

Microsoft Power Platform – https://powerplatform.microsoft.com/en-us/ 

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• A brief introduction about Steve’s life – his family, sports they love playing and how they spend time together as a family 
• Steve’s experiences and his involvement with the ISV program
• What Steve wants to achieve with the new ISV program for Business Applications 
• The definition of a healthy and successful ISV 
• How the new program differs from the old one
• Discussion about Practical IAI and what it means to him 
• Microsoft’s goals for ISV to be successful in market & market strategies 
• What training they are offering Microsoft’s staff to sell ISV solutions 
• History of ISV’s in Microsoft Business Applications 
• How to determine the success of the platform 
• What the community should expect with the arrival of the new program 
• How to deal with unsupported Apps 
• Benefits ISV's can offer like IRR 
• Expectations with the existing large ISV's 
• Cleaning up of sample Apps I.e. search functions 
• What move to take to prove to ISV’s that this is in their interest 
• The future of IAI, ISV program and AppSource 
• Thoughts about reviews and feedback happening around Apps 
• How to make these solutions available 

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• A brief introduction about Julien's life – born in Paris, grew up in Luxembourg, his favourite food and how he ended up living in Montreal, Canada. 
• How his journey of becoming an MVP in Business Application started
• Experiences living in another country  
• Lessons learnt after participating in the MVP Global Summit event 
• Julien's thoughts about English as the second language  
• The importance of understanding and protecting culture and language in building a community  
• Lessons learnt from his presentation in Dynamics 365 Saturday on Friday! Toronto 2019 event in  Toronto  and Montreal  
• Julien's interest in PowerApps and flow 
• The success of publishing his own blog in French to help the community 
• Julien's long–term plans  
• Solutions that can be created using new technologies 
• Thoughts about getting data publicly accessible 

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• A brief introduction of Moacyr’s life and where he comes from 
• A breakdown of his professional background  
• Why Portugal is an exciting proposition  
• Where new technologies are leading us in the next 3 to 10 years  
• Understanding the importance and the future of new technologies 
• Maturity of understanding business with regards to AI and how to get started 
• Impact of new technologies on people and organization  
• Microsoft partner opportunities 
• How to better understand productivity tools  
• AI and the competitive advantage 
• Role of Microsoft Power Platform 
• The most important aspect of AI 
• Importance of collaboration between University, Industry and Government 
• How to get into the world new technologies 
• How to collect and process huge data 
• What it can offer the customer when talking about internal and external data
• The future of AI within an organization 

Book Recommendations

• How to lie with statistics –https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff-ebook/ 
• Master of Algorithm – https://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning-Machine-ebook/ 
• On intelligence – https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-Intelligent-Machines-ebook/ 

Resources

• Steve Guggenheimer – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sguggenheimer 
• AI and Machine learning – https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/ai-digitalization/power-ai-and-machine-learning-in-financial-services/ 

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• A short introduction about Daniel Christian who grew up in Bombay, India, moved to Dallas, Texas at the age of 17 and is presently residing in Concord, North Carolina.   
• Being a Microsoft Business Solutions MVP and when his journey started
• Power Platform User Group  
• Daniel's experiences and cope during difficult times
• Discussion about his ultimate ambition, passion and goals for the future
• Encouraging words for success
• His favourite apps 
• Canvas apps and Model-driven apps
• Importance of new features available 
• Enterprise license, its differences, how it works and its features 
• Changes since becoming a Microsoft MVP
• Product tools Daniel uses and ways to stay organized
• Concerns whenever new features are released
• Key to better understanding Power BI, SharePoint, and PowerApps 

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• A brief introduction about Manuela life who originally came from Vienna, Austria now presently residing in Horsham, West Sussex with her husband 
• What made Manuela decide to start using PowerApps
• How to be more productive in doing business and how to increase customer satisfaction in using PowerApps governance
• The importance of creating a community within the organization around building apps
• How PowerApps governance can help everyone to be more productive
• What support they can provide to PowerApps governance users
• Solutions, learning tools and training they can offer
• Ensuring the correct way of using PowerApps governance tools 
• What critical communication is and providing training that is required
• Concerns about using PowerApps and its risks
• How digital guidelines & creating support infrastructure and governance works for the company
• How to avoid duplication and complications with applications
• Implementation with ongoing PowerApps within the organization 
• Learning point and education hackathons 
• How teams are built up 
• Impact of having a facilitator 
• Plans for PowerApps governance to be successful 
• Understanding the benefits of using PowerApps governance
• Recommendations for a success plan

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• Personal and professional background – what led to his move to Melbourne, being a regional director and an MVP, starting in SharePoint and falling in love with Dynamics 365, being passionate about AI, working for Salesforce 
• Countries he has lived and worked – being a global traveller, getting involved in international Dynamics communities, and being multilingual 
• Experience in a blockchain – what it is and how it is applied today 
• Working with blockchain and Microsoft business applications 
• Merging of blockchain and AI – scenarios that either exist now or coming in the future around the merging of blockchain and AI 
• How he stays at the cutting edge of change and how he keeps learning 
• Advice to professionals wanting to stay up to speed with all the changes in Microsoft 
• The public speaking process he follows to go through from the idea to what he presents 

Other Resources 

• Stefano’s blockchain blog, Blogchain – http://www.blogchain.space/ 

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