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• Family and Career background of Hayden – where he and his family lives and what’s his home city famous for  
• The things he enjoys doing with his family during his spare time 
• Hayden’s role and his responsibilities in Microsoft and its importance 
• Hayden and his team’s mission and goal 
• The opportunity for business to modernise, digitise and create a competitive advantage 
• A discussion on what he sees around customer profile 
• The things he does to make the new Power Platform licencing technology available to all 
• Microsoft plans to achieve the 500 million apps that are going to get created in the next five years – according to Satya Nadella (Inspire) 
• What thinking does the community need to change to achieve this? 
• Opportunities available for people who are changing or switching careers  
• Talks about how customers should be looking at the Power Platform from the Office 365 
• Hayden’s thoughts on companies adopting the Power Platform and resources internal teams at present 
• Shares examples in various industries where AI capability is being implemented 
• For the FY20 what Business App partners should be focused on this financial 
• What option Hayden sees for SMB Partner to play as they move forward 
• Shares his opinion on what a modern Microsoft Business Application Partner looks like 
• What should Microsoft Business Application Partner be doing to be successful? 
• What should partners do to improve their chances of success? 
• The role for the professional developer along with the IT professional in a world of low code applications for the citizen developer

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