

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 10, 2022 • 22min
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 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 • 24min
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/ 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport 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 • 24min
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/ 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport 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 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport 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 • 17min
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/ 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 • 18min
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/ 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 • 25min
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/anuitzMicrosoft 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Sep 7, 2022 • 18min
Gabor Faludi on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/401 Find out more about Gabor Faludi – family, interests and what he does when not working. The process of setting up and running Gabor’s company. Gabor talks about his career journey. What Gabor sees about the future of Power Platform when it comes to building Apps and Automation. Learn about how Gabor got into technology and NAV. Gabor’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP Find out how big the MVP Community is in Hungary. Advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. OTHER RESOURCES: Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP 90-Day Mentoring Challenge - https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Aug 31, 2022 • 18min
Temmy Wahyu Raharjo on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/400 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo talks about his life – country of origin, presently residing in Indonesia and the best food in Indonesia. Temmy’s story and his journey into how he got into technology. A conversation about Temmy’s Dynamics background and how did it start? How did Temmy become a Microsoft MVP? Discussions about Temmy’s involvement in the community Temmy talks about his blogging The benefits of becoming a Microsoft MVP How big is the Power Platform, Power Automate, PowerApps and Dynamics 365 community in Indonesia and Malaysia? What project is Temmy working on at the moment? 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/ Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

Aug 29, 2022 • 27min
State of Play with Dataverse with James Oleinik
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/399 An introduction to James Oleinik’s life. James talk about his career journey and where he is right now at Microsoft A conversation about Microsoft Dataverse - its use, the modern Dataverse, licensing, etc. What is Dataverse in a non-technical term? A discussion about considering security for something that would never likely surface and AI that might be used, but was building a more durable, intelligent system or ecosystem that James developed with this date. James' views when it comes to data structure? What is turnkey insights? James shares his thoughts on industries that are embracing this technology.James explains the limitations of the technology. 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith


