Microsoft Business Application Partner Ecosystem with Carissa Allen

Professional and personal background

Living in Fairbanks, Alaska – childhood, the Northern lights, appreciation for nature

Travel experiences and favourite destinations

Career journey and working in Microsoft

What comes with the role of overseeing Business Application Partner Ecosystem, focusing around customer engagement

Having a fresh look at how Sales is going within Microsoft

Thoughts on how partners/practices that have traditionally done Dynamics based implementation are evolving moving forward

Thoughts on Dynamics becoming broader and practices having mastery in different workloads

What Microsoft Readiness is looking going forward and create a system of “drinking from the firehose”

Changes in the way Microsoft Partner Network type function and what these changes are in the calendar year

How Microsoft deals with Partners feeling of being abandoned by Microsoft after the Dynamics group was moved to Enterprise

Women in technology, a roundtable discussion with women during Dynamics 365 Saturday in Scotland

“All the Voices” — what inspired the piece and her thinking around it

Thoughts on equality and inclusion in tech

Thoughts on diversity and inclusion coming through STEM