30 PowerApps Champions stories in 30 mins with Sameer Bhangar and Saurabh Pant

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• Saurabh’s brief introduction about his life – originally from India, presently residing in Seattle, WA, his family background and how he spends his time when not working. 
• Career background, how did he start working in Microsoft 18 years ago 
• When and how Saurabh got involved in Microsoft PowerApps 
• How the program PowerApps Champions started, how it works, and how did it come together to what it is at present  
• Discusses Citizen Developer, Pro Developer, IT, COE, Community and Partner
• Talks about the opportunities PowerApps provides to help people in their career 
• How Azure ISV’s consider CDS, the opportunities that are available and the benefits they provide so that they can look at the journey of becoming a Power Platform
• Talks about creating business value
• How Lauren Taylor discover PowerApps 
• Link for Sameer’s first episode here.
• Sammer and Saurabh talk about 30 PowerApps Champion stories in 30mins. 

Presenter – Sameer Bhangar 

1. London Heathrow Airport – Samit Saini 
2. Tacoma Public School – PowerApps Youtube – Lauren Taylor  
3. Autoglass – Autoglass (part of Belron group): call centre and field technician apps – Martin Lee – A PowerApps Software developer 
4. Hawkary Pharmaceuticals – Mohammad Alkhawaja – Sales and Marketing Manager

Presenter – Saurabh Pant 

1. Schlumberger – Hundreds of apps with thousands of monthly users 
2. James Matson – Pro Dev 
3. Inter Pipeline – Enabling bottom up innovation 
4. TransAlta – Hydro monitoring 

....More stories are available under customer stories here.

Resources

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption

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