

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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Jun 7, 2021 • 48min
A Journey to becoming an App maker with Hardit Bhatia
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/292Show NotesHardit Bhatia talks about his country origin – originally from Mumbai, India. The impact of the Covid19 pandemic in India and how does this affect his family? How did Hardit got involved in technology? Talks about Hardit's educational and career background. Discover the culture and the importance of education in India with Hardit. How did Hardit start working with technology, and how did he get involved with PowerApps, Canvas Apps and Microsoft Dataverse? A story about Hardit's moving to another company. What did the first 6months look like for Hardit in learning PowerApps, and what are the things he has done to help him?Talks about the Apps that Hardit built for Microsoft and the things he learnt working on these projects. Hardit's experience in building these Apps? What role does UI play in designing apps, and how to make outstanding UI's? Hardit's journey to becoming an App maker. How to be an App Maker Introduction to UI and UX design The App Hardit has recently built that he is most proud of. Hardit's thoughts on Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams The difference between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams The advantages, disadvantages and limitations of Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams 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

Jun 2, 2021 • 22min
Diana Birkelbach on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/291A brief introduction about Diana Birkelbach and her hobbies. Talks about how Diana started in IT. Career and educational background of Diana. Diana's involvement with Microsoft Dynamics – when did it begin? The key changes Diana has seen with Dynamics that improve the product. Talks about Diana's involvement in PCF. A conversation about Diana's engagement in PCF Community Forums. A discussion about Diana's journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated her? What does community mean to Diana's – the Global Power Platform Bootcamp and Scottish SummitDiscussion about the importance of community in developing one's skills and growing one's career as an individual in this Microsoft space. Diana's advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. 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

May 31, 2021 • 41min
MVP to Microsoft journey with Taiki Yoshida
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/290A brief introduction about Taiki Yoshida’s family and life background. Educational and career background of Taiki. Explore Japan’s tradition and culture with Taiki. How did Taiki get into technology, and how did he get involved in Business ApplicationsHow did Taiki learn about his Dynamics NAV and ERP skills? Taiki’s involvement with the implementation of the Dynamics NAV. Learn more about how did Taiki’s journey to Microsoft start? Taiki’s MVP journey and his involvement with the MVP community start? The real value of MVP. What was Taiki’s area of expertise? Taiki’s story and his learning experience as a Microsoft MVP. How did Taiki build his own community - the PowerApps User group - and what was his goal? Recommendation to people considering starting a community group. As a member of the CAT team – how did it start? Taiki’s role, responsibilities and the projects he is working on at Microsoft. What led Taiki to his current position? Introduction to Express Route – what is it and how to use it.Options and benefits in implementing Express Route. The future of Power PlatformA brief talk about Robotic Process Automation – RPA.What are the benefits and the type of industries that can use RPA Solution? 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

May 26, 2021 • 24min
EY Kalman on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/289EY Kalman’s area of specialization as a Solutions Architect – the right tool for the right job Talks about EY’s thoughts about Omnichannel – the future and how customers are adopting it. How Omnichannel operates now – things you can and can’t doAn overview of what an Omnichannel is.Talks about the Microsoft Business Applications MVP community in the UK.EY’s thoughts about becoming a Microsoft Business Applications MVP.Talks about the benefits and advantages of becoming a Microsoft MVP.A discussion about EY’s plansWhat excites EY the most when it comes to technology in the next 12months. 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

May 24, 2021 • 35min
Power Platform Consultant Fighting Cancer with Sara Lagerquist
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/288Meet Sara Lagerquist, the queen of the Low Code! Sara talks about her journey into low code development. How does Sara Lagerquist spend her time now? Public Speaking - how did Sara overcome her fear when it comes to speaking at a community event. Sara’s involvement in public speaking and how did it start? How did Sara prepare her presentation at community events? Sara’s life in the past few months? How did Sara feel when she first received the news about her condition? Talks about the process Sara went through and her decision to let everybody know about it? Find out more about Sara’s new Instagram account. What's Sara’s experience with the people around her now? - Family and friends, General Public and the people in the community she’s part of. Talks about Sara’s support network – Power community and her CRM-Konsulterna family Sara talks about her good days and bad days - how did she deal with it physically and mentally? How much has Sara’s life or world changed and what was the impact? Talks about the treatment process - things Sara expected to happen. What’s Sara looking forward to? Sara’s message to the community, especially those people who are in the same situation as her? 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

May 19, 2021 • 28min
Matt Collins-Jones on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/287Check out Matt’s RIPT Apparel and find out what you can get from it. Talks about the comic books and games he loves. Matt Collins-Jones journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. How Matt’s journey started and what he knows about the MVP program A conversation about Matt’s goal How Matt’s nomination started and who helped him during the process Talks about his YouTube Channel. What made Matt choose YouTube as a form of sharing his knowledge in the MVP community? YouTube as Matt’s mode of sharing his knowledge. Talks about how helpful YouTube is to everyone. 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

May 17, 2021 • 46min
The Future of Microsoft AppSource and PCI with Jeremiah Marble
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/286Learn about Jeremiah’s businesses - the Prima Dona and Towards Arcadia Jeremiah is co-founder and COO of Earning The Negronis. Check out Jeremiah and Dona Sakar’s Model 47: A Startup Storybook How Jeremiah handles banking transactions or funds transfer Jeremiah’s hobbies, family life and the activities he enjoys the most outside work. Career journey and learning experiences of Jeremiah before joining Microsoft The beginning of Jeremiah’s journey into working at Microsoft Key roles, responsibilities and what lead Jeremiah to where he is right now. The outcome in improving user experience What is UNESCO and what does it do to help and protect the community? Jeremiah’s involvement, discoveries and experience as the previous Director of the Airband Initiative team. The importance and impact of Airband Initiative Find out more about Microsoft AppSource. Jeremiah’s role and responsibilities in his current position in Microsoft AppSource What are the opportunities available for partners? Recommendations and advise to people using this Microsoft AppSource platform An overview of what Partner Contribution Indicators (PCI) is? The implementation, how does it work and what are the criteria of PCI How is PCI coming within Microsoft? 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

May 12, 2021 • 21min
Juan Antonio Tomás on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/285Juan Antonio Tomás talks about life in Madrid, Spain A conversation about Juan’s Xpp.dev podcast - how it started How Juan enjoys life when not working Talks about Juan’s hobbies Juan as a Beer collector Professional career and educational background As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Technical Lead Juan’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP How Juan’s journey started and who nominated him to become a Microsoft MVP A discussion about Juan’s blog - how he helps the community Talks about Juan’s passion for sharing his knowledge with people Dynamics Saturday community event - Juan as a speaker 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

May 10, 2021 • 42min
The Power Platform in use at T-Mobile with Brian Hodel
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/284Talks about what Brian Hodel does when not working – what’s keeping him busy these days? Brian’s story about how he started having an interest in technology. Talks about Brian’s career background - before Power Platform. How Brain’s involvement with Power Platform happened? Brian talks about how he discovered Microsoft Licensing. Brian shared his thoughts about Info Path. What lead Brian to his current position? Brian’s journey with Power Platform and Power Apps? How Brian discovers the technology? What are Brian’s future plans with app development? What is ORBIT application - what it does? The impact to customers in using the software? How they handle the adoption of ORBIT application. What's been the impact of COVID19 with the new software, ORBIT application – what are the new opportunities? The Microsoft products Brian’s is using in building ORBIT Applications. Find out how ORBIT application work? A discussion about the importance of ORBIT application What is Lean Six Sigma? How useful is Lean Six Sigma? Is Lean and Six Sigma the same? How Lean Six sigma come together and how does Lean Six Sigma Work? Is it too late for someone to learn more about Power Platform? The Important skills people will need if they are considering working with Microsoft 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

May 5, 2021 • 24min
Josh Cook on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/283Introduction to Power Virtual Agents. A discussion about the use cases Josh had seen with Power Virtual Agents. Josh’s thoughts about why people and organizations should use Power Virtual Agents. Discusses the benefits of using Power Virtual Agents. Talks about the features available in Power Virtual Agents. How and when did Josh start to have an interest in technology? A conversation about Josh’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. Josh’s involvement and contributions to the MVP community. What did Josh discover after becoming a Microsoft MVP? Where Josh got his social media name FlowAltDelete and how did it come about? 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