The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, which Microsoft gives to independent technology experts who share their knowledge with the community.
Karen Abecia is a Microsoft MVP, professor, entrepreneur and international speaker who teaches Excel, dashboards and AI through YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram. · From Excel Expert to Microsoft MVP
Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies who has worked with GitHub Copilot since its early days and experimented with coding agents in open source for over a year. · GitHub Copilot, Clean Context, Automated…
Becoming a Microsoft MVP is about giving back, and consistency matters more than perfection for content creators. · Building Communities That Last
Leon Gordon is a five-time Microsoft MVP who runs a Microsoft Fabric consultancy and focuses on what happens after the AI demo excitement. · From Pilot to Production
In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, host Mirko Peters sits down with Microsoft MVP Fabio Bonolo to explore how AI, Microsoft Copilot, and modern workplace technologies are transforming the future of work. Fabio shares his journey from sales executive to…
Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used collaboration platforms, but many of its most valuable capabilities remain overlooked. In this episode, we uncover the features, settings, and best practices that Microsoft rarely highlights—helping IT…
Many professionals use Excel every day without realizing how far it can take their careers. In this interview, Microsoft MVP Karen Abecia tells Excel users, data enthusiasts and educators how spreadsheets, dashboards and AI tools like Copilot shaped her…
In this episode of the m365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP and Copilot adoption expert Edyta Gorzoń about why successful Microsoft Copilot adoption is far more than a technical deployment project. The conversation focuses on the gap many…
Building a successful Managed Service Provider today requires far more than device management and helpdesk support. Customers expect proactive security, cloud expertise, and modern identity protection from day one. In this episode of the M365 Show, Mirko…
Finance teams have ERP data, Power BI reports, Excel everywhere and now AI agents, yet agents do not automatically understand what revenue or margin means in their business. This conversation with Rishi Sapra is for data, BI and finance leaders who want…
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Heather Cook shares her remarkable journey from studying theater to becoming one of Microsoft's most influential community leaders. Her Microsoft story began more than 25 years ago when she joined the original SharePoint "Tahoe" project, helping write the…
Why do so many enterprise AI projects never leave the pilot stage? Five-time Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon explains for data leaders and Fabric teams how value-first proofs, governance by design and strong semantic models turn AI demos into production systems. In…
Custom integrations have long been one of the biggest bottlenecks in enterprise applications, but Dataverse MCP is changing that. In this episode of the M365.fm podcast, Mirko Peters is joined by Microsoft MVP Nathan Rose to explore how the Model Context…
Microsoft Project Online is approaching retirement, and organizations are facing a critical decision: simply replace an aging project management tool or use the opportunity to modernize how projects are delivered across the business. In this episode, Joe…
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. Every conference keynote, every boardroom discussion, and every technology roadmap seems to be focused on AI. But beyond the excitement and endless headlines, one question remains: how do organizations move from AI…
Mastering Advanced Excel Formulas for Smarter Data Analysis · Mirko Peters Welcome back to the podcast companion blog! In today's data-driven landscape, staying ahead of the curve means constantly evolving how you interact with numbers, sp…
Fabio Bonolo is a Microsoft MVP who moved from sales executive to Microsoft thought leader. In the episode he discusses how AI, Copilot and modern workplace technologies transform the future of work. · From the episode: The Future of Work with Fabio Bonolo [MVP]
Who is Karen Abecia?
A Microsoft MVP, professor and entrepreneur known as an Excel educator, who teaches Excel, dashboards and AI in a practical way to a large audience online. · From the episode: From Excel Expert to Microsoft MVP
Who is Rishi Sapra?
Rishi Sapra is a Microsoft MVP who describes a journey from Excel and Power Query to Power BI, Fabric and AI. In the episode, he talks with Mirko Peters about the architecture needed to move beyond traditional dashboards toward context-aware analytics. · From the episode: From Financial Data to AI-Ready Decisions
Who is Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen?
A Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, author, speaker, tech writer, open-source maintainer, community organizer and former GitHub Star with experience in frontend, cloud-native systems and automated testing. · From the episode: GitHub Copilot, Clean Context, Automated…
Who is Heather Cook?
A Microsoft community leader who began in theater, joined the SharePoint Tahoe project over 25 years ago, became a Microsoft MVP and later joined Microsoft full-time. · From the episode: Building Communities That Last
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