Microsoft Innovation Podcast

• AI Governance: The Shift‑Left Playbook

  Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM  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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• How to Protect Your Power Platform Solutions

  Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM 👉 Full Show Notes https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/774Discover 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• AI Agents: Are We Ready for Fully Automated Workflows?

  Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• From Apps to AI: Future-Proofing Your Tech Skills

  Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM🎙️ Full Show Notes https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/772A 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, teamsMicrosoft 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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• Why AI Compliance Alone Won’t Save Your Business

  Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVMAI 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/aixamineMondra – 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 literacyMicrosoft 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/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

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