[Kevin 00:07]
So Zoe and I recorded a whole load of mini-interviews at the MVP Summit, and we thought rather than build those into a few larger episodes, we'd release those to you in short little snippets like this. So enjoy a set of our interviews live from Seattle with various people from Microsoft and MVPs. Hello, and I'm here live in Seattle with Vesa Yuvanen. Vesa, would you like to introduce yourself?
[Kevin 00:36]
Yes, please. So my name is Vesa Yuvanen. I'm a Principal Product Manager in the Microsoft 365 platform.
[Vesa 00:42]
So first question, what does Copilot mean to you?
[Kevin 00:46]
Well, for me, it's the assistant and a daily helper for being much more productive than I would have been able to be without it. So there's something which is helping to you, and always been there and easily available and helping really increasing our productivity.
[Vesa 01:02]
And I'm guessing for you that the story of talking about Copilot as well for you is a lot around the extensibility and how people can build out for that as well. That's a strong area.
[Kevin 01:12]
Well, there's a lot of questions, a lot of interest, and it's relatively new still because I think when I think about the enterprise customers, it's all about first understanding what the out-of-the-box features are, and then making that decision to invest in extensibility and adjusting that based on the business. The co-balance itself provides a lot of value out-of-the-box already, but then it really shines when it starts combining those out-of-the-box values with your business-relevant data, and then it gets super interesting, and that's getting more and more attention and features in the future as well.
[Vesa 01:44]
Yeah, and I think it helps that, as people kind of get used to it, it's that next jump excitement as well. And what are your experiences copilot that made a difference.
[Kevin 01:56]
Personally, I think the massive deal for me is that I work ten hours away from Redmond and ten hours away from Seattle. My team is in Seattle, I'm not. So every single evening as I'm sleeping there's still meetings which I don't join because I need to sleep. But then during the daytime I can easily catch up on things and I think it is The golden poster boy, for sure, is the team's meeting recap, because it's such a fundamental piece of the day-to-day work, at least for me, to stay up-to-date on what's happening. I think even this week, there's also situations where I'm not triple booked, I'm five-time booked on.
[Vesa 02:37]
The sixth.
[Kevin 02:37]
Floor, and I can't be in all of those meetings, but you potentially want to be still up-to-date, what was the decisions and the key points, and with Copilot I can be that. great example of increasing the productivity but not really challenging my job or my career or the work that we do. It's just the whites are being more productive in less time.
[Vesa 03:00]
Yeah and is there anything that you're worried about with copilot? Obviously realizing your role you don't want to get too scared with that but I have to say it's very hard doing these at the MVP summit I'm watching what I say, I'm not saying anything.
[Kevin 03:16]
To worry about, not actually really, I think we are heading in a good direction, so as Microsoft is super precise or taking sure, making sure that it's responsible.
[Vesa 03:29]
Copilot.
[Kevin 03:30]
And the information is not getting leaked, all of that stuff, so I'm not really worried about all of that stuff, because the basics always done in the right way. I'm more excited as we get the basics right, as we start evaluating and innovating on top of that, where we will be within 12 to 24 months, considering that 24 months ago we never had heard about GoPart.
[Vesa 03:55]
Which is just crazy thinking about that as well.
[Kevin 03:58]
The speed of innovation is just, and also the GoPart is increasing the speed of innovation as well, because it's also giving us ideas and innovation and inspiration for other things.
[Vesa 04:09]
I love Zoe, and I can't remember if she's talked about this on the show or just between us, but the idea that GitHub Copilot has been used a lot to make Copilot as well, which is lovely. So usually we ask people here what are you most excited about seeing, but obviously there's some things you know you can't talk about, so what are you excited about people doing next with Copilot what they might make happen.
[Kevin 04:33]
I'm super excited to see what's happening after the initial baseline and we're still in this journey for the initial baseline, which is people are starting to use CodePilot, they understand what it does in PowerPoint or in Word or in Teams or in Edge and it's naturally getting part of our day-to-day life because that's what it's intended to be. But then the excitement comes in, okay when the baseline is gone, okay what are we going to do next? All of the extensibility and advanced scenarios that the copilot will enable with the data within the, you know, enterprise corpus or enterprise platform. It's really looking forward to all of those scenarios.
[Vesa 05:09]
Making that happen.
[Kevin 05:10]
And what partners, like Amanate is doing, what partners, what other partners?
[Vesa 05:13]
Are doing. Yeah. And I think it's that things you don't expect that someone's going to take in a way that Microsoft hasn't thought about, others haven't thought about, will be fantastic. We look forward to that.
[Kevin 05:22]
It's a super typical thing. Even traditionally, think of something like SharePoint, a platform which has existed for 20 years. Every single time you go to a conference and see what partners have created, ISVs have created on top of the platform, you are amazed. It's like, wow, I didn't think about that, that's really cool. And that's really the power of the partner ecosystem. So we as a Microsoft, we cannot innovate in the same scale as the global tens of thousands of partners that we have. And it's.
[Vesa 05:51]
Super exciting.
[Kevin 05:51]
To see what's coming out of that.
[Vesa 05:57]
Absolutely be good to see well, thank you very much for your time. Enjoy the rest of the summit. Thank you