Microsoft Business Application Partner Ecosystem with Carissa Allen

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• Professional and personal background 
• Living in Fairbanks, Alaska – childhood, the Northern lights, appreciation for nature 
• Travel experiences and favourite destinations 
• Career journey and working in Microsoft 
• What comes with the role of overseeing Business Application Partner Ecosystem, focusing around customer engagement 
• Having a fresh look at how Sales is going within Microsoft 
• Thoughts on how partners/practices that have traditionally done Dynamics based implementation are evolving moving forward 
• Thoughts on Dynamics becoming broader and practices having mastery in different workloads 
• What Microsoft Readiness is looking going forward and create a system of “drinking from the firehose” 
• Changes in the way Microsoft Partner Network type function and what these changes are in the calendar year 
• How Microsoft deals with Partners feeling of being abandoned by Microsoft after the Dynamics group was moved to Enterprise 
• Women in technology, a roundtable discussion with women during Dynamics 365 Saturday in Scotland 
• “All the Voices” — what inspired the piece and her thinking around it 
• Thoughts on equality and inclusion in tech 
• Thoughts on diversity and inclusion coming through STEM 

Books Mentioned

“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by N. K. Jemisen  

Resources

• ERP
• Microsoft Partner Network 
• Microsoft Readiness

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