Journeying from Client Side to Microsoft Partner

The journey from being on the Client Side across into Consultancy at a Microsoft Partner is a significant one.

It's also far more varied in the barriers to overcome than many see on the surface.

Especially when you're Women In Tech, who've already had successful first careers outside of the industry, looking to navigate what is seen as a male-dominated and highly-demanding landscape.

Join three women with very different back stories as they talk candidly through their real-life experiences on:

• What obstacles or barriers slowed us down from making the move
• What eventually drove each of us forward
• What our first 3 / 6 / 12 months were like and how our backgrounds on the Client Side experiences made them so different

And provide advice on:

• What benefits career-changers and Client-Side specialists bring across with them
• What Partner organizations can do to best support such transitioners
• Whether this could be the right journey for you

This jointly-presented session explored how very different the same roles can be on the Client Side and the critical impact this had on each speaker's individual journeys.

It is aimed at:
• Mentors and recruiters who might be looking to support those thinking about making the transition.
• Senior management and line managers in Partner organizations to educate them how they can successfully recruit, onboard, and then continuously enable those making the transition
• Functional Consultants and Solution Architects currently working on the Client Side who are thinking about applying for a position in Professional Services with a Microsoft Partner

In addition to the in-person attendees, the LinkedIn post concerning the session reached 2,300 members, who also had access to the slides from the session at: https://heuristicdev.co.uk/speaker-sessions.

The Shifting Landscape of the Dynamics 365 UI/UX: the DynamicsCon Virtual edition!

In Microsoft's 2023 Release Wave 2, the user interface for managing work orders in Dynamics 365 Field Service underwent a significant overhaul that saw, among other changes, the replacement of its eponymous Business Process Flow (BPF) with a new Dynamic Booking Card.

This session takes that starting point to explore how ALL the First Party apps have seen changes over the last year, through the 2024 Wave 1 & Wave 2 Releases, and through a number of standalone announcements from Microsoft.

These reveal how the apps' future direction is going to transform how we and our customers gather, hold and interact with key data.

AI and Autonomous Agents: the new UI Transmogrifying Microsoft Dynamics 365

For more than a year I publicly explored the Shifting Landscape of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 UI/UX.

Now this journey is evolving, moving on from those 'mere' modifications into the realms of Transmogrification!

Copilots have changed the landscape of business and productivity apps and made AI the new UX.

Project Sophia is completely changing the way Supervisors, Managers and the C-Suite will engage with insights data to support more effective and optimal sales and service lifecycles.

The introduction of 10 new Autonomous Agents into Dynamics 365 is designed to accelerate time to value and configured to scale operational efficiency, elevating customer experiences across roles and functions.

This session will explore what this move from legacy line of business applications to AI-first business processes will look like, using live demos of Copilot in D365 Sales & Service and Project Sophia, and an exploration of the public preview of the CRM D365 Autonomous Agents.

The predecessor editions of The Shifting Landscapes of the Dynamics 365 UI/UX to this brand new session was presented seven times during 2024 at both UK and Regional User Groups, Virtual Round Tables, Scottish Summit, DynamicsCon Virtual and the New Zealand Business Applications Summit (Online track) to excellent reviews.

This new journey of blogs and conference sessions will follow the evolution and transmogrification of the legacy line of business applications to AI-first business processes through 2025.

It premiered successfully at the UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group - London - December 2024. It has been accepted for ColorCloud Hamburg - April 2025.

Duration: 45 - 60 minutes

Level 200: Intermediate

Audience: Decision Makers, Developers, Analysts, Citizen Developers

Main topic tag: Copilot in Dynamics 365
Secondary topic tag: Autonomous Agents