

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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Sep 22, 2021 • 21min
Faisal Fareed on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/322Talks about the life and family background of Faisal Fareed A discussion about Faisal’s work-life Shares Faisal views on working with partners and directly with customers. The advantages and disadvantages of working with partners and directly with customers. The growth of Dynamics 365 CE community group and the drop of Dynamics 365 F&O community user group The things you need to know if you want to be in the Microsoft ecosystem. Why do people need to explore more about customer engagement and understand how applications are built. Connecting Dataverse in Finance & Operations 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 20, 2021 • 46min
Citizen Can - 365 Training with Amey Holden and George Doubinski
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/321 A brief introduction about Amey Holden and George Doubinski life, favourite food, what they do for fun and family. Talks about Amey and George’s YouTube video series - how did it come about. Find out more about Citizen Can. How did Amey and George manage each episode and what are the tools they used to edit each show? How did Amey and George put all episodes all together? How did Amey and George decide on what to cover and where do they get those ideas? What feedback did Amey and George get from the audience? Resources Mentioned Citizen Can 365 Training - https://www.youtube.com/c/365Training 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 15, 2021 • 30min
Kamal Kolar Radhakrishnaiah on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/320Discussions about Kamal Kolar Radhakrishnaiah’s life and background A conversation about moving from India to the Netherlands Talks about working with people from different culture and how he managed to work with native English speakers. Kamal’s area of specialization and the Microsoft product he is mainly working with Learn the use of Dataverse in Dynamics Human Resources Integration between Dynamics Human Resources and LinkedIn Talent hub What is LinkedIn Talent hub? Talks about Kamal’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. What does MVP mean to Kamal and what made him want to be part of the MVP Program? 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 8, 2021 • 24min
Raphael Pothin on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/319 A conversion about Raphael Pothin’s family background, country of origin and life in Canada and Sweden What took him to Sweden? Culture differences in Sweden and home Talks about the educational and career background of Raphael What brought Raphael to where he is right now? Raphael’s area of specialization Memorable projects Raphael worked on using sales – Dynamics 365 The things Raphael discovered as a DevOps. Raphael’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. Raphael’s involvement in MVP virtual events The impact of becoming a Microsoft MVP in Raphael’s career and life 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 6, 2021 • 42min
Power Apps Interface Design with Barry Ferguson
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/318 Find out more about Barry Ferguson – family, life and hobbies Talks about Barry’s career background - His journey as a UI designer and Front-end developer - What drew him into this field - His role and responsibilities Barry's involvement with Power Apps A discussion about App Design - Why is design important in App making? - Barry’s thoughts about the User Interface and User Experience - Are there different roles? - What should one look for if hiring for these skills? Barry’s design process and the tools they use What does Barry do empathies with the person or people when designing an app for them? How has Barry seen Developers, UI designers and Experience designers working together? Team development, Data, Code, and Design working with developers Talks about the Power Platform, Canvas, Power Portal and Model-Driven Apps - Constraints Barry have come across when designing? - Things to be aware of? - What excites Barry about App building on the Power Platform? 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 1, 2021 • 19min
Arpit Shrivastava on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/317 Find out about Arpit Shrivastava’s life background Arpit’s story and how he started having an interest in Technology? A discussion about Arpit’s achievements Check out Arpit’s contribution to the Microsoft community Learn about Arpit’s journey into PowerApps Portal Build tool - An Azure DevOps extension to automate PowerApps Portals Deployment. Find out more about how the PowerApps Portal Build tool works Feedback about PowerApps Portal Build tool from the community Arpit Shrivastava’ journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP? Talks about Arpit’s thoughts about the MVP program 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

Aug 30, 2021 • 25min
Building Apps in Power Platform for your Business with Rebecca Sackett
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/316 Rebecca Sackett’s current role and how did she grow her career? How Rebecca gets started in technology and why did she choose Power Platform? How did Rebecca start using the Power Platform? What does Rebecca’s company do? How are they using the Power Platform in their organization? Before Power Platform, what did they use to capture their project information? What's the impact and benefits of Power Platform to your business? As the only App developer, how do you engage with people in your organization to meet their needs? When it comes to building Apps, what's the process involved? What was the business challenge? The feedback from the business and the individual with the Apps or tools they built What other Apps do they use? Other types of tools Rebecca uses to make up with another platform A conversation about Rebecca’s YouTube channel. 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

Aug 25, 2021 • 24min
Summit Bajracharya on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/315 How active Summit Bajracharya in sharing his experience on the Microsoft Platform - PowerApps, Power Automate and Power BI on his YouTube channel Summit recently got his MVP award. How big is the Power Platform in Nepal? Talks about the company he works for and what they are focus on How Summit’s journey to PowerApps started? The tools Summit used in learning PowerApps. Summit’s journey to Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solutions Architecture What was involved in his Microsoft FastTrack journey and how did the process take? The impact of becoming a Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solutions Architecture The best part of becoming a Microsoft MVP Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft FastTrack Architecture and Microsoft MVP Talks about the Power Platform user group community in Kathmandu. 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

Aug 23, 2021 • 36min
What’s Unique about Dynamics 365 Marketing with Mo Faheem
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/314 Mo Faheem’s life – country of origin and family background. What brought him to Ottawa, Canada and how it looks like for Mo Faheem A conversation about Mo’s journey as a Web Developer Talks about Mo’s career background and his experience with Marketing Mo’s story about how he started with CRM and what led him to his current position. Discussions about Mo’s involvement with Dynamics 365 Marketing. What sets Dynamics 365 Marketing apart from other products in the market The benefits and features of Dynamics 365 Marketing The profile of customer Mo is seeing using Dynamics 365 Marketing as their primary marketing tool. What is Real-Time Marketing? Discover the top 5 projects Mo worked on for Dynamics 365 Marketing What’s unique in each project? Why did Mo think that Dynamics 365 Marketing was the right fit? The timeframes for the implementation. 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

Aug 18, 2021 • 27min
Kamil Sacek on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/313 Kamil Sacek talks about Navertica and the history of the Czech Republic. A conversation about how Kamil learned the English language and Atari 800XE. How did the “Army Technical Picture Monthly journal" helped Kamil in learning basic programming? MVP for over 16 years now – how did Kamil maintain his interest in technology? Kamil’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. 16 years ago - how were the process and the steps Kamil has taken to become a Microsoft MVP. Talking about the present, how will Kamil share his knowledge with the community and what platform will he focus on. Kamil Sacek’s biggest achievement that he’s most proud most! 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