Dynamics Minds 2025 ๐ธ๐ฎ | The Executive Forum for Partners
The Dynamics Minds conference takes please in Slovenia from 26-28 May 2025! A Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community conference, where brilliant minds meet, mingle and share.
Join the team across all 4 sessions of the Executive Forum series for Microsoft Partners, hosted exclusively by Cloud Lighthouse to light the way on all things Trustworthy AI. Includes insight in becoming the truly strategic AI partner of the future.
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๐๐ผ Session materials by Cloud Lighthouse (posted after the event)
Session 1: Monday 26th, 14:15
Executive Forum: Becoming a Truly Strategic Microsoft Partner
Andrew Welch, CTO + Founder @ Cloud Lighthouse
It is a period of significant technological and business change as Microsoft partners navigate the choppy seas of the AI era. Some partners will thrive. Others may not make it. This session kicks off the DynamicsMinds Executive Track where forward-thinking C-level leaders, managing directors, practice directors, and those in similar roles will come together to learn how to lead their Microsoft partner organizations into the future.
Session 2: Tuesday 27th, 09:00
Executive Forum: Building your Microsoft Partner AI Practice
Ana Welch, Managing Partner @ Cloud Lighthouse
Chris Huntingford, Partner @ Cloud Lighthouse
Weโve been at the forefront of building some of the first AI teams and creating cutting-edge AI solutions. But what does it really take to build an AI practice for the Partner of the Future? Is mastering the latest AI tools the only recipe for success? Or is that rooted more in navigating change management? Through our journey of developing AI teams and driving transformative AI workloads, one truth has become crystal clear: this is all about people and the culture of your organisation. Join us for an engaging session to uncover what that means, how you can elevate your AI practice, and what it takes to stay ahead in the evolving Microsoft Ecosystem.
Session 3: Tuesday 27th, 14:15
Executive Forum: Becoming a Truly Strategic Microsoft Partner
Ana Welch, Managing Partner @ Cloud Lighthouse
Chris Huntingford, Partner @ Cloud Lighthouse
Ioana Tanase, Inclusive AI PM @ Microsoft
Getting your AI to do the thing on a first try is easy right? SAID NO ONE EVER. Turns out, generative AI introduces new risk - "yay", thanks a lot. The Partner of the Future will be deeply invested in AI while remaining keenly aware of the significant legal requirements that any workload or internal tool could entail. These critical legal and ethical responsibilities are the main pillar of innovation. In this talk we will explore what's up with AI risks anyway and explore 5 proven steps of how to fail at mitigations, and 5 lessons to transform your technique from real bad to real rad. If you are new to this topic and want to learn how to create safer AI systems and hot to implement real world practical strategies to implement in your AI products and internal tools, then this talk is for you.
Session 4: Wednesday 28th, 15:15
Executive Forum: Becoming a Truly Strategic Microsoft Partner
Andrew Welch, CTO + Founder @ Cloud Lighthouse
To succeed in the future, partners must make a significant transition from focusing on "apps" to working with their clients more strategically over the long term. Traditional software development projects--big engagements that focused on a single primary technology, with a defined start and end that came back around every time that tech needed to be upgraded--are being replaced by "long and thin" engagements where long-term client relationships are key, being great at BizApps isn't enough, and charging by the hour or day may not work. We'll conclude the DynamicsMinds Executive Track with a discussion of how leaders can move their partner organizations into a more strategic space and set themselves up for the future.
