

Microsoft Innovation Podcast
Mark Smith [nz365guy]
If you want to get your ideas or questions featured on an episode, please leave us a voicemail: https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/voicemail/Dive into the future of work with the "Microsoft Innovation Podcast," exploring the intersection of People, Business, Technology, and AI. Engage with expert guests—including thought leaders from Microsoft, industry innovators, and community specialists—who are redefining the world with advancements in AI, Cloud technologies, the Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and beyond.Every episode delivers a blend of in-depth discussions, practical insights, and actionable strategies tailored for professionals driving enablement and innovation. Join us across our five shows:The Power Platform ShowThe MVP ShowThe Copilot ShowThe Ecosystems ShowThe AI Advantage (coming soon)
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Oct 24, 2022 • 25min
Power Platform Governance with Zohar Raz
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/411 An introduction about Zohar Raz as the Group Product Manager of Power Platform Governance at Microsoft What is Zohar’s background in technology? What does Power Platform Governance mean to Zohar and Microsoft customers? What is the concern for enterprises that need to offer a layer of protection as governance as visibility inside the organization? From Zohar’s perspective, where do these individual components sit within Microsoft's strategic direction moving forward? Zohar talks about Manage Environment A discussion about expanding on the terminal landing zone. Zohar's views about sharing limits and data policies and the current elements. What should people consider if they already got the Power Platform deployed? This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Oct 19, 2022 • 16min
Carmen Ysewijn on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/410 Talks about Carmen Ysewijn’s hobbies, interests and activities When it comes to technology, where does Carmen spend most of her time working with? Carmen’s Power Platform and Power Automate background Projects and building applications Carmen is working on A conversation about PCF components - what problems did it solve and what they are trying to achieve Carmen’s story about her journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. Speaking events, projects, blogging and Carmen’s involvement in the community What is ProvisionGenie all about - what does it do and how does it work? Why should I use ProvisionGenie? The best thing about becoming a Microsoft MVP. OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ ProvisionGenie (open-source project I'm doing together with Luise Freese): provisiongenie.com Carmen Ysewijn GitHub: https://github.com/CarmenYsewijn This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Oct 12, 2022 • 21min
Django Lohn on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/409 Django Lohn talks about his family and what he does when not working. Discussions about Django's interest in technology Django’s Power BI, PowerApps and PowerApps Portals background. Talks about Django’s SharePoint and InfoPath journey A conversation about Django’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and how did it come about. Django talks about being a SharePoint Consultant Talks about Django’s involvement in the MVP communityOTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Django Lohn’s GitHub: https://github.com/m3ngi3 Django Lohn’s Power Community: https://events.powercommunity.com/speaker/django_lohn/ This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Oct 10, 2022 • 23min
Pay As You Go on the Power Platform with Kavishi Agarwal
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/408 A brief introduction about Kavishi Agarwal’s life and what she’s passionate about Talks about Kavishi's career journey at Microsoft.What is Pay as you go? Kavishi talks about the primary use cases for businessesKavishi discusses seasonal apps and occasional apps as one of the top use cases Providing a frictionless way for customers to get started with PowerApps premium capability Kavishi shares her thoughts about how to handle storage Does Kavishi see health agencies or government agencies being part of power pages formally Power Apps portal in time? How does pay-as-you-go provide the best of both worlds? RESOURCES MENTIONEDPay as you go Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pay-as-you-go-overview This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Oct 5, 2022 • 25min
Ulrikke Akerbæk on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/407Ulrikke Akerbæk talks about the things she does for fun and when not working. A discussion about Ulrikke’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP How did Ulrikke’s involvement in Microsoft started? A conversation about Ulrikke’s career background Ulrikke talks about her blog - where she gets her idea for creating her blog content. Talks about Ulrikke’s involvement in the community Find out what Ulrikke’s Portal look like. OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 28, 2022 • 25min
Peter Charquero Kestenholz on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/406 Talks about the life and family background of Peter Charquero Kestenholz. A conversation about Peter’s story and journey to PPM Discussions about Peter’s SharePoint, Project client and Project server background Peter talks about the Agile market in Europe A discussion about Peter’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. Peter’s blogging and his involvement in the Community OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 26, 2022 • 26min
Process Mining with Power Automate with Ilya Fainberg
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/405 An introduction about Ilya Fainberg, a senior program manager at Microsoft What’s life like now that he lives in Belgium? What is process mining? How to use process mining to understand the usage patterns of apps Why are companies investing a lot of time in process mining? A conversation all about Process Mining Advisor and how it works Ilya shares his thoughts on different ways process mining can be achieved based on the data. Where do bottlenecks come from and how do you identify them? A way to make processes more transparent for the team management people How much of a role does AI play in process-advisor? RESOURCES MENTIONED Understanding PowerApps Usage Patterns with Process Mining - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794sFs-sWF8 This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 21, 2022 • 18min
Alexander Ermakov on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/404 A brief introduction about Alexander Ermakov's family background, favourite food and interests. How did Alexander get into technology and his journey? Alexander’s story about becoming a Microsoft MVP Alexander’s involvement in the community Alexander shares his thoughts about using Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Finance together Alexander’s recommendations to people wanting to become a Microsoft MVP. What changes in the Microsoft Business Applications is Alexander most excited about OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 14, 2022 • 19min
Tomislav Karafilov on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/403 A brief introduction about Tomislav Karafilov’s life – family, food and hobbies. Tomislav Karafilov’s involvement in the User Group Community – the Microsoft Cloud & Collaboration Hannover and Power Platform User Group Hannover. Talks about the hosting platform Tomislav Karafilov is using for running their user group. How big is the User Group? A conversation about Tomislav’s company – SoftwareONE What does SoftwareONE do? What types of projects and Apps Tomislav is working and building on around Power Platform? Tomislav’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP? The best thing Tomislav discovered from becoming a Microsoft MVP. OTHER RESOURCES Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ This year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 12, 2022 • 26min
Mixed Reality and Geospatial capabilities of the Power Platform with Anthony Uitz
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/402 An introduction to Anthony Uitz's life. What does Anthony do outside Microsoft? Anthony talks about his area of Microsoft: what he owns, what he looks after, what he’s focusing on A conversation all about Mixed Reality Discussions about the use cases and the top industries that uses Mixed Reality Anthony answers about the surface that most customers generally work on within the mixed reality space. What does Mixed Reality offer in real-world apps? Anthony talks about what geospatial capabilities is.What are the key points that people need to be aware of around the geospatial capabilities?OTHER RESOURCES Anthony Uitz’s GitHub: https://github.com/anuitzThis year we're adding a new show to our line up - The AI Advantage. We'll discuss the skills you need to thrive in an AI-enabled world. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge We’ve helped 1,300+ people across 70+ countries establish successful careers in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.Benefit from expert guidance, a supportive community, and a clear career roadmap. A lot can change in 90 days, get started today!Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith