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https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/777

AI is transforming business and society, but most professionals underestimate its impact. Oliver Hartwich explores how culture, education, and practical skills shape our ability to harness AI’s full potential. Learn why curiosity, deep knowledge, and adaptability matter more than ever.

🎙️ What you’ll learn

• How to build practical AI skills for any profession
• Why cultural attitudes affect AI adoption and opportunity
• The importance of deep education in an AI-driven world
• How to experiment and prompt effectively with AI tools
• Strategies for thriving as technology evolves

✅ Highlights

• “Most people really don’t quite know, don’t quite understand what’s happening.”
• “The potential is enormous. We’re just at the beginning of this curve.”
• “Geography doesn’t matter anymore. What’s preventing us is culture.”
• “AI can just get a lot done and a lot faster done.”
• “General purpose technologies are quite rare.”
• “Technology has a wonderful potential to solve some of our problems.”
• “You need deep knowledge. The better educated you are, the more you will get out of AI.”
• “AI works really well for mid-career professionals who already know what they’re doing.”
• “Universities are almost giving up on fighting AI.”
• “Society will fracture between people who know how to use this for their own advantage and others who may not.”
• “AI amplifies what’s already there. It makes some punchier, perhaps it will make dumb people dumber and smart people smarter.”
• “Quantum computing will be completely different.”

🧰 Mentioned

• DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/
• Claude: https://claude.ai/
• Xero: https://www.xero.com/ca/

✅Keywords
ai, technology, productivity, education, culture, regulation, quantum computing, deepmind, chatgpt, xero, skills, opportunity

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/CopilotAdoption

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Explore how Merethe Stave demonstrates that building a strong Teams culture is essential for successful AI and Copilot adoption in business. This episode unpacks practical strategies for overcoming resistance, integrating AI into daily workflows, and fostering trust and transparency. Gain actionable insights to help your organisation thrive in the evolving digital landscape.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/776

👉 What you’ll learn

• How to create a collaborative Teams culture for AI success
• Steps to overcome resistance and guide teams through change
• Practical ways to integrate Copilot and AI into daily work
• The importance of trust and transparency in digital transformation
• How to use data and feedback to drive adoption and improvement

✅ Highlights

• “You need a Teams culture before you can succeed with Copilot.”
• “It is a skill that we need to gain and we need to mature in that skill.”
• “AI is helping you to get quicker from nothing to something.”
• “You have to put your voice on top of that.”
• “We go into Microsoft 365 and check how are they working.”
• “There’s nothing wrong or right in where you are. This is where you are right now.”
• “You have to listen to people and understand what the fear is about.”
• “Moving from private chat in Teams and email into channels and Teams, it challenged the power structure in our organisation.”
• “It’s about building trust and a culture of, yes, we are building each other good.”
• “If you have that in the ground, it’s not a problem with AI.”
• “You need to get order of your stuff, get your stuff in order to work well with Copilot.”
• “You have to start somewhere and then make a roadmap to what’s next.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Microsoft 365 Copilot - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot
• Copilot in Teams - https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-in-teams/
• Copilot Studio - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio/
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7

✅ Keywords
teams culture, ai adoption, copilot, digital transformation, microsoft 365, organisational change, trust, transparency, resistance, collaboration, viva insights, sharepoint

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/CopilotAdoption

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Explore how Microsoft, through the expertise of Aisha Hasan, is evolving governance and agent management in the age of AI. Learn practical strategies for balancing innovation, risk, and compliance as Copilot Studio and Agent 365 reshape enterprise workflows. Discover actionable insights for building, governing, and upskilling in applied AI.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/775

👉 What you’ll learn

• Define and apply core governance principles for AI and agents
• Shift from reactive to proactive governance in enterprise environments
• Empower users and IT admins to manage agent sprawl and compliance
• Leverage Agent 365 for holistic agent oversight and lifecycle management
• Build a three-pillar governance strategy: product, admin, and user education

✅ Highlights

• “Our principles have not changed, let's say that they have evolved to put more focus on certain things as compared to others.”
• “With AI, the need for proactive governance, I think, is far greater than ever before.”
• “Agent 365 is a starting point and it's a very good starting point in terms of the effort of consolidating that view for an IT admin.”
• “Governance itself is rooted into basic principles. So those principles do not change regardless of the portfolio.”
• “It takes a healthy balance of three pillars. One is what is available out-of-the-box and product.”
• “How are you empowering your admins to be able to fill in those gaps that are there in the product, but you need them now to secure and govern your enterprise?”
• “User education is quite important. Because if the product isn't self-governing, which means that you have gaps that the IT organization needs to fill, but there are some gaps maybe even the IT organization can't fill.”
• “Continue to educate your users through a centre of excellence or sort of a hub, and also use that hub to upskill on how to not just only build agents, but build meaningful, impactful agents and adopt good hygiene practices.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Microsoft Copilot Studio - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio/
• Agent 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365
• Microsoft Digital - https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/digitally-transforming-microsoft-our-it-journey/

✅ Keywords
ai governance, agent 365, copilot studio, power platform, compliance, enterprise workflows, proactive governance, user education, admin empowerment, agent sprawl, microsoft digital, centre of excellence

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/CopilotAdoption

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https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/774

Discover how open-source thinking, practical licensing solutions, and AI-powered development are reshaping the way business and tech professionals build, protect, and scale technology on the Power Platform. Gain actionable insights on responsible AI adoption, developer productivity, and building trust through transparency. Check out this episode of AI Unfiltered Show with Florian Krönert.

🎙️What you’ll learn

• How to protect intellectual property in Dataverse and Power Platform
• Practical approaches to offline licensing using JSON Web Tokens
• Strategies for using AI as a coding partner, not a replacement
• The value of open-source tools for trust and transparency
• Key differences between consulting and in-house tech roles

✅ Highlights

• “If you have an administrator who decides to mess with your logic to override your assemblies, there’s nothing to do against that.”
• “Licenses are JSON web tokens which are signed by you digitally so that they can be stored offline, validated offline, and will work as seamlessly as possible.”
• “I wanted to have a trust relationship with everyone who incorporates my solution.”
• “You just install the NPM package. You insert some data that you can generate on the Yanis Guard portal.”
• “I like it a lot for telling it ideas that I want to implement and how I want to implement it.”
• “What turned out the best for me personally was to use AI like as a partner programming peer.”
• “If I’m not able to really reliably reproduce what AI wrote for me, then I better not use it as much as I did before.”
• “You are very nearer to your end users. The feedback is very direct and you really see where the pain points are for the end users of your product and your platform.”
• “If you want to grind your way up fast, I can only recommend doing so. You can never learn as much in so little time as when doing it in big companies that have so many customers in parallel.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Microsoft Power Platform: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform
• Dataverse: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/dataverse
• JSON Web Token (JWT): https://www.jwt.io/
• GitHub: https://github.com/
• React: https://react.dev/
• Fluent UI: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui

✅Keywords
power platform, dataverse, licensing, open source, ai, json web token, developer productivity, trust, npm, react, chatgpt, consulting

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/CopilotAdoption

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Kurt Rolland shares practical strategies and philosophical insights at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and AI adoption. This episode explores how business and tech professionals can optimise energy use, leverage Copilot and agentic AI, and make ethical decisions in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/773

🔑 What you’ll learn

• Reduce operational costs with sustainable energy solutions
• Evaluate the impact of AI agents on business productivity
• Build resilience in tech projects through local adaptation
• Balance automation with privacy and ethical considerations
• Apply practical frameworks for optimising personal and team workflows

👉 Highlights

• “We’re actually able to generate about 100% of our electricity.”
• “We dropped our energy about 60% annually just going to geothermal.”
• “Copilot used to be one thing. Now there’s many copilots.”
• “It still requires a heck of a lot of effort to get an agent tuned enough to my needs.”
• “We’re data radiators now as human beings.”
• “For every convenience, you’re giving up some level of freedom.”
• “Is that what we want? Can we, but should we?”
• “Human bodies thrive on some level of resistance or friction.”
• “Surveillance is… it seems like we don’t talk about it enough.”
• “We’ve got a facade of Brave New World, but the background behind it is 1984.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
• SharePoint: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration
• Office 365: https://www.office.com/
• M365 Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot
• Copilot Studio: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio/
• Personal Agent Builder: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/agent-builder-build-agents
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7

✅Keywords
ai, copilot, agents, automation, sustainability, energy independence, privacy, surveillance, workflow, geothermal, office 365, ethical 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/CopilotAdoption

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https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/772

A practical conversation with data and AI manager Eickhel Mendoza about evolving from building Power Apps to architecting secure, mixed Power Platform and Azure solutions. He explains why a fast‑changing ecosystem suits a cookbook approach, how he curates real use‑case recipes, and what it takes to keep guidance current as UI and AI features ship rapidly. Clear takeaways on solution design, reviewer rigor, and creating applied examples that help teams ship performant apps.

👉 What you’ll learn

• How to architect Power Platform solutions that integrate Azure and customer APIs securely.
• Ways to infuse AI into existing business processes and automations.
• A repeatable “cookbook” method for producing practical, up‑to‑date guidance.
• Techniques for organising ideas into actionable recipes with real constraints.
• How to maintain performance, quality images, and clear instructions through review.

✅ Highlights

• “We are improving those solutions with the inflection of AI in their processes.”
• “Customers are focused on having everything secure in their infrastructure.”
• “I didn’t want to replicate Microsoft Learn.”
• “We want to do something like a cookbook.”
• “The book is filled with tips and tricks.”
• “Copilot is still in the early years.”
• “Stop the presses. I need to update the images.”
• “Power Apps Everywhere tries to include Power Apps everywhere.”
• “My best ideas come from the shower.”
• “Rebecca builds every actual recipe to see if it checks out.”
• “Use case scenarios, best practice and stuff like that.”
• “If that helped you in any way, it checks out.”

🧰Mentioned

• Power Apps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/
• Dataverse: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-intro
• SharePoint Online: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration
• Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot
• Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Power-Apps-Cookbook-user-friendly-ebook/dp/B0DHDBLCCM?ref_=ast_author_mpb

👉KeyWords
power apps, canvas apps, model‑driven apps, power platform, azure, dataverse, sharepoint, power bi, copilot, dataflows, microsoft fabric, teams

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/CopilotAdoption

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AI adoption is accelerating, but compliance alone won’t protect your business. In this episode, Santosh Kaveti explores practical strategies for managing AI risk, securing data, and scaling responsibly while unlocking new revenue streams.

👉 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/771

🎙️ What you’ll learn

• How to move beyond compliance to build security-first AI systems
• Four stages of AI adoption and where your organisation should be now
• Why data quality and governance are critical for AI success
• How to manage cultural change and workforce fears around AI
• Practical steps to create agents and leverage multi-agent ecosystems

✅ Highlights

• “Compliance is a result of really good security hygiene.”
• “Organisations will lose more by not embracing AI than worrying about what it might do.”
• “Most companies are still illiterate when it comes to wrapping their head around AI risks.”
• “Regulation is not moving as fast as it should. And it won’t.”
• “Security has to be the foundation and basis for everything that happens in the AI world.”
• “Most organisations should be in the low-code, no-code phase by now.”
• “You cannot bolt on security after the fact in AI.”
• “Everybody in every organisation should have created at least one agent for themselves.”
• “AI is not going to work just because you have an AI team deployed.”
• “You have to become AI native and then you have a huge opportunity in front of you.”

🧰 Mentioned

• ProArc – https://www.proarch.com/
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) – https://open-rag.ai
• MCP servers – https://www.mcplist.ai
• AIExamine – https://www.proarch.com/services/aixamine
• Mondra – https://www.mondra.com
• Meta Llama – https://ai.meta.com/llama

✅Keywords
ai compliance, security hygiene, data governance, multi-agent systems, low-code platforms, ai risk management, responsible ai, enterprise ai, agentic frameworks, synthetic data, ai adoption, ai literacy

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/CopilotAdoption

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Alax Cox shares how Microsoft Copilot is reshaping productivity, compliance, and workflow automation for business and tech professionals. Learn practical strategies for maximising ROI, overcoming adoption barriers, and building robust AI governance. This episode delivers actionable insights for leaders and teams integrating AI into daily operations.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/770

🔑 What you’ll learn

• Evaluate Copilot’s ROI and time-saving potential for your organisation
• Implement a structured Copilot onboarding and training programme
• Address compliance and governance challenges in AI adoption
• Leverage agentic AI for workflow automation and business processes
• Build effective AI governance boards and policies

👉 Highlights

• “Copilot has completely transformed my entire direction as far as my focus around the 365 stack.”
• “Microsoft has a much bigger story to tell. As part of that evangelist for 365, we all now have a better story to tell.”
• “If a person is drawing a salary of 70,000 US dollars a year, they only have to save themselves 54 minutes a month in order to recoup that value.”
• “83% of their people see that it saves them about 29% of their day.”
• “We run a jumpstart programme for Copilot to help organisations keep going with Copilot.”
• “By the time they're done, they're like, that's going to save us so much time just in Teams, maybe just in Outlook, maybe in Excel.”
• “There's a side of Copilot that people don't even realise exists, and that's the whole agentic side of Copilot.”
• “A big question of compliance and governance, which is why I tell clients, you can use ChatGPT, but where does it go from there?”
• “Copilot is about the data. Copilot is not going to access anything that you don't already have access to.”
• “Start off with a pilot group. I always start off with executives that probably have access to everything anyway.”
• “Treat it as if it's an assistant. Give it very detailed instructions when you're working with it.”
• “You can't, you're not going to hurt anything. Just look Copilot, just do it.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
• Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
• Teams - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app
• SharePoint - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

✅Keywords
copilot, microsoft 365, ai, productivity, compliance, governance, workflow automation, agentic ai, roi, onboarding, training, purview, teams

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