The Cloud Skills Show: Introduction to Power Platform ⚡️
Tags: azure
Published: 2020-10-14 20:22:28

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The Cloud Skills Show returned this Thursday with an episode on Microsoft's Power Platform community. Each week we bring guests together from the technical community in the UK and around the world to talk about learning, professional growth and community.

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Together with my co-host Claire Smyth, we met Rory Neary, Samit Saini and Jese Navaranjan - 3 passionate people from the Power Platform community.

- [Claire Smyth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-smyth-452471/) is the Community Program Manager for Microsoft UK and Ireland, and runs the Microsoft MVP and RD programmes. 

- [Rory Neary](https://www.twitter.com/AzureRory) is a Power Platform Specialist, Community Organiser and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications. He runs the PowerApps4Kids community in London and is currently creating a Power Platform training series.

- [Samit Saini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samit-saini-017ba7144/) is an IT Specialist at London's Heathrow Airport and a Microsoft MVP. He previously worked as a Security Guard at Heathrow, and PowerApps inspired his career change to IT. 

- [Jese Navaranjan](https://twitter.com/JeseNav2) is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Partner Altius, and is also an MCSE, as well as a passionate community contributor. She previously worked at Heathrow (alongside Samit!) on PowerBI, and is now primarily focused on PowerApps. 

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![Pictures of the participants named above](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/m2s58fhg4whyyofoojzp.png)

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Here are the links from today's episode:

####What is Power Platform?####


|  Resource       | URL  |
| ------------- | -----:|
Power Platform – Microsoft Docs|https://aka.ms/cs-powerplat-docs 
Power Platform – Microsoft Learn|https://aka.ms/cs-powerplat-learn
Power Apps – Microsoft Docs|https://aka.ms/cs-powerapps-docs 
Power Apps – Microsoft Learn|https://aka.ms/cs-powerapps-learn 
Power Apps Zero to Hero Course|https://powerplatformlearn.newzenler.com/courses 
PowerBI – Microsoft Docs|https://aka.ms/cs-powerbi-docs 
PowerBI – Microsoft Learn|https://aka.ms/cs-powerbi-learn 
Power Automate – Microsoft Docs|https://aka.ms/cs-powerautomate-docs
Power Automate – Microsoft Learn|https://aka.ms/cs-powerautomate-learn 
Power Platform Fundamentals – Learning Path @ Microsoft Learn|https://aka.ms/cs-powerplatform-fun 
PowerApps Community Blog|https://aka.ms/cs-powerapps-blog 
Power Platform Community|https://aka.ms/cs-powerplat-community 


####[Samit Saini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samit-saini-017ba7144/)####


|  Resource       | URL  |
| ------------- | -----:|
Microsoft Case Study - Heathrow & Power Apps|https://aka.ms/cs-heathrow-powerapps
Video with Satya Nadella|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F24U8tTtgg

####[Jese Navaranjan](https://twitter.com/JeseNav2)####

|  Resource       | URL  |
| ------------- | -----:|
Video: Data Lounge|http://bit.ly/cs-datalounge 
Video: Mixed Reality|http://bit.ly/cs-mixedreality 
Altius Women’s Network upcoming episode|http://bit.ly/altius-women
Video: The Integration of the Power Platform|http://bit.ly/integration-power 
Jese’s YouTube Channel|http://bit.ly/jese-youtube 



####[Rory Neary](https://www.twitter.com/AzureRory)####

|  Resource       | URL  |
| ------------- | -----:|
PowerApps4Kids|https://powerapps4kids.com/
Microsoft Reactor|https://aka.ms/reactor
Rory's Courses|https://powerplatformlearn.newzenler.com/courses 
Rory on YouTube|http://bit.ly/rory-youtube


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Every week we livestream on Microsoft's [Learn TV](https://aka.ms/cs-learntv) and you'll also be able to find the show on Twitter [@MSdevUK](https://www.twitter.com/msdevuk) and on the [Microsoft Developer UK YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAwjqkUtlqX5C6_scGRiclg) account. Join us for this show at these times each Thursday:

|Singapore|Mumbai|Berlin|London|NYC|Seattle|
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|9pm|6.30pm|3pm|2pm|9am|6am|

*Please note, there is no show on Thursday 22nd October due to another event on Learn TV*

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