From Dynamics Practice to the Power Platform with Phil Topness

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• Meet Phil Topness and learn more about where he lives and his family background 
• How Phil spends his time does when not working 
• Talks about his travels and career background 
• Phil’s journey into technology 
• Find out more about Phil as a Microsoft business applications MVP 
• What Phil earned being an MVP and his area of specialization 
• Learn with Phil about his role at Microsoft 
• A discussion about Phil’s Dynamics Practice journey 
• Power Platform journey and how did Phil get into the Power Platform 
• Phil’s transition from Dynamics Practice to Power Platform and how it started? 
• How do the CAT team offer help to their customers? 
• Phil talks about the CAT team’s future. 
• Describes Phil’s day-to-day activity as part of the CAT team 
• Microsoft Oakdale Project 
• Phil’s thoughts in the next 18 months about the growth in the technology area  
• Advice to people in a consulting industry having a Dynamics background who haven't pursued on the Canvas Apps, Oakdale, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents 
• Discover the frivolous Apps Phil has created 
• The role of the CAT team within Microsoft 
• What do they do? 
• What are their responsibilities? 
• Who are their main customers? 
• How do they deliver an outcome to customers?

RESOURCES

How to get started: https://learn.microsoft.com
PowerCAT's big list of resources: https://aka.ms/powerappsresources
Power CAT Architect's Series: https://aka.ms/pparchseries 

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