The Intelligence Age

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• Life outside work and being an MVP — family, fatherhood, hobbies 
• Sri Lankan background and visiting family in Sri Lanka 
• Moving from Sri Lanka to Australia, having NV1 status, and having Australian citizenship 
• Community activities, D365 Saturday, organizing Dynamics activities in Colombo, Sri Lanka 
• Thoughts on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform market in Sri Lanka 
• Observations on the Dynamics community in Sri Lanka 
• Thoughts on the maturity of skillsets in Sri Lanka 
• Top 5 things to visit and eat in Sri Lanka 
• Plans for D365 Saturday in Australia 

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• Professional journey, internship, establishing MetricsHub, etc. 
• Momentum growth in the Microsoft internal community around the Power Platform 
• What to expect in the April ‘19 Release  
• PowerApps Control Framework 
• How items land in the platform over the release timeframe 
• Line-of-business applications and the way they’re impacting work, the way they’re being created, and why the Power Platform plays a key part in that story 
• Projections around the October release timeframe 
• Clearing the confusion around naming — PowerApps, Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps 
• Thoughts on the future direction and the changes in ALM 
• The difference between the classic interface and the unified interface, the lifecycle within the classic interface in Dynamics 365 
• Next steps for ISVs with regard to a unified interface 
• Offline story for unified interface in the coming 12 months 
• Upskilling from to PowerApps and Flow for Dynamics 365 professionals 
• Opportunities for ISVs around the Power Platform 
• Addressing concerns of ISVS about the lack of protection around IP when building in Dynamics 365 
• Future plans around AppSource 
• The impact of Microsoft investments in AppChecker, Solution Checker, and Flow checker 
• How soon there won’t be a need to go to the classic UI from an admin perspective 
• How artificial intelligence can impact the future of the Power Platform 
• Democratising Power Platform 

Resources Mentioned:

• Microsoft’s acquisition of MetricsHub
• April ‘19 Release Notes
• PowerApps Control Framework (PCF)
• Line-of-Business Applications

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• Living and growing up in Ontario, moving to Toronto
• Food, entertainment, curling
• Journey to becoming a business apps MVP
• Splitting time between business, consulting and coaching
• Mashup between where Microsoft is going with the Power platform and where the old xRM story play into helping ISVs
• Microsoft for Startups – what's involved, requirements for entry, etc., and benchmarks for developers who want to work on the Power platform
• Advice to startups — experience, strategy, engaging with Microsoft, support model, ability to take multi-currencies in the world
• Types of business models recommended for ISVs
• Playing in the international space as an ISV
• Community involvements and advice to MVPs

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• Background and career journey 
• Background and plans of Paritta Group 
• Getting sales and marketing rhythms in place 
• Defining ideal customer profile 
• Most effective ways for people to find your products and services 
• Targeting customers and focusing within a geography 
• Niching in AI (Augmented Intelligence) 
• The toughest thing about starting a new practice and how capital/cash flow affects decision making 
• Finding and attracting the right talent, contractors vs FTEs and US employment laws 
• Measuring progress and success and setting the vision and culture for the company 
• Top recommendations for revenue generation 
• Key advantages to partnering with Microsoft 
• Competing against Salesforce and another Microsoft partner 
• Major wins  
• The biggest risk taken in business 

Resources

• CRMUG
• Microsoft Ignite
• Microsoft Partner Network
• Arc’teryx Equipment

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• Living in Bangalore, the “Silicon Valley of India”
• India’s love of Bollywood and what makes it unique
• Growing up in Calcutta, exploring its history, being a foodie and enjoying street food
• Recommended food for tourists who want to travel to Calcutta and experience the foodie culture
• Splitting time between Bangalore and Calcutta
• Journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP and working as a Dynamics 365 professional
• Contributing to the community
• Moving codes from Codeplex to Github
• Launching his company, XrmForYou
• Handling project management in a remote scenario
• Thoughts on moving to another country and establishing a profession overseas 

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• Personal information and what Ryan does outside of his Microsoft day job 
• Role in Microsoft as a Group Program Manager 
• Working with the core CDS platform team 
• How a massive endorsement translates to business, engineering, design, and vision in the context of the GPM for PowerApps role 
• How he keeps the business very business-focused 
• Questions from customers in this type of engagement, especially around UX 
• Balancing the request coming from the market and what the team can show 
• Managing patents and controlling a limited view of who gets know about what they’re going to patent 
• Routine in preparing to go on stage before a presentation 
• Ryan’s path into the business applications team 
• Thoughts on the switch from CDS 1 to the underlying code base of what is Dynamics 
• Unifying of Canvas Apps and model-driven apps 
• The point at which Office 365 move into the Dynamics suite 
• Thoughts on the admin experience over the maker experience and how it’s playing out  
• Thoughts on the concern for the ALM story for Canvas Apps 
• Thoughts on PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) 
• Opportunities for ISVS and advice for startups wanting to consider Power Platform 

RESOURCES

• CDS (previous version) – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-service/entity-reference/introduction 
• Upgrade to CDS for Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-service/upgradecds/introduction-upgrade-cds 
• Improve ALM for Canvas Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/powerapps/improve-alm-for-canvas-app-with-solutions 
• PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) on Azure – https://pivotal.io/partners/microsoft 
• Enrich your model-driven forms with embedded canvas apps (Public preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/enrich-your-model-driven-forms-with-embedded-canvas-apps-public-preview/  

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• Personal background — living in Nantes, studying  masters degree in Quebec, food, travel, etc.
• Journey to becoming a Business Apps MVP and experiences so far
• Area of specialisation in Dynamics 365
• Experience with Dynamics 365 and AI
• Internship experience in Barcelona Spain
• Love of travel and travel experiences around the world
• What Clement is most interested in developing his skills on the Power Platform
• Using Microsoft Flow and Canvas Apps
• How becoming MVP has affected his career
• Being a contributor in the xrmToolbox and plugins published

Books & Other Resources Mentioned

• Clement O. github – https://github.com/carfup
• Delta Plugin Steps Btween Two Environments xrmToolbox – https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Carfup.XTBPlugins.DeltaStepsBetweenEnvironments/
• Personal Views Migration xrmToolbox – https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Carfup.XTBPlugins.PersonalViewsMigration/
• Delta Plugins: Local Assembly vs CRM – https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Carfup.XTBPlugins.DeltaAssemblyvsCrm/
• NAS (network-attached storage) – https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/network-attached-storage
• FetchXML Builder xrmToolbox – https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Cinteros.Xrm.FetchXmlBuilder/

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• Dave’s professional journey – moving from the UK to Australia and establishing a startup company 
• Overview of the software Maptaskr 
• Creating geospatial information software, Maptaskr 
• Maptaskr data collection and processing, industries that use the app, and use cases 
• How businesses can use data with intelligence to create future business models 
• How artificial intelligence plays a role in developing Maptaskr 
• Practical applications of Maptaskr, combining external data set with customer data 
• How frequently Maptaskr can pull an update from a satellite 
• Data collection from satellites and drones and leveraging data 
• Customers that are currently using Maptaskr 
• What it means to be a software startup ISV 
• Key roles put in place in the team as he established started to ramp up their technology 
• Key things that make up a successful ISV – raising capital, building channels to market, selling the technology 
• Why they chose to partner with Microsoft 
• Addressing customer support across the globe 

Books Mentioned

“Zero to One” by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters – https://amzn.to/2X4ETPQ

Resources

• Maptaskr – https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365/ovass.maptaskr?src=Office&tab=Overview  
• normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetation_index  
• Geoscape – https://www.geoscape.com.au/  
• HAPS (high-altitude platform station) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_platform_station  
• GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) – https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Geospatial_Information_Systems_(GIS) 
• Location Intelligence – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_intelligence 
• Zephyr (Airbus) – https://www.airbus.com/defence/uav/zephyr.html

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• Moving from South Africa to the UK and balancing work, family and other pursuits 
• Sports interests – hockey, triathlon training 
• Journey to becoming a Dynamics professional 
• Working with Microsoft as P-Seller 
• Being part of TDG (Those Dynamics Guys) 
• South African delicacies and braai  
• Mixed reality and AI – opportunities, adoption and actual use cases 
• AI intelligence levels and AI becoming mainstream 

Books & Other Resources Mentioned  

• Those Dynamics Guys (TDG) – https://dynamics365society.uk/ 
• Box – https://www.box.com/home 
• Extreme365 (formerly ExtremeCRM) – http://extreme365.com/ 
• Braai – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_variations_of_barbecue#South_Africa  
• Microsoft HoloLens – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens  
• Neuralink – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink 

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Professional journey into Microsoft, career highlights, living in the UK and missing Australian weather and beaches
• Changes that has catapulted Dynamics into the next billion-dollar product
• Opportunities for partners to capitalize on PowerApps
• How to explain the concept of the Power Platform, CDS for Apps, Dynamics 365, Common Data Model and how they relate to each other
• Vision on the Power Platform interface
• Possibility of AI producing its own code
• Vertical industries that are prime targets for Power platform
• Mixed reality adoption in Microsoft and use cases
• Partners leading the charge in switching to Power Platform

RESOURCES

• Power Platform – https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-power-platform/
• PowerApps – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/
• CDS for Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro
• Mixed Reality – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mixed-reality
• Microsoft Teams – https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

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