AI Copilot as Partner: Focus on Your Specialty

00:00:06 Mark Smith
Welcome to the MVP show. My intention is that you listen to the stories of these MVP guests and are inspired to become an MVP and bring value to the world through your skills. If you have not checked it out already, I do a YouTube series called How to Become an MVP. The link is in the show notes. With that, Let's get on with the show. Welcome back to the MVP show. Today's guest is from Colombia. Welcome, Amal.

00:00:40 Amal Hosni Viteri
Hi, Mark. Thanks for the invitation, and I'm very excited to be here.

00:00:45 Mark Smith
I'm so pleased to have you on. I think you're the first Colombian I've had on the podcast ever.

00:00:52 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, it's a basic.

00:00:54 Mark Smith
That's so cool. It's so cool. I always like to start with My first question was always food, family, and fun. What do they mean to you?

00:01:06 Amal Hosni Viteri
Really, I like the Arabic food because my father is Arabic, but my mom is Colombian, and it's a mix for food, Arabic and Colombian food. For fun, I practice squash and take very... elements for gym and other things for exercise because every time I check the my computer and every time it's sit up and I need to exercise and I miss my family because I live in Bogota but my family lives in Pasto in the south of the Colombia and it's like the simple spaces for share with my parents, with my brother, with my sisters. And I like it to share quality time with my family in the Narino, in Pasto especially.

00:02:05 Mark Smith
Nice. What's the national language of Colombia? Is it Spanish?

00:02:10 Amal Hosni Viteri 
Yeah, it's Spanish.

00:02:12 Mark Smith
Very good, very good. So I didn't realize you're colonized by the Spanish as well. Yes.

00:02:17 Amal Hosni Viteri
Do you know Colombia?

00:02:19 Mark Smith
I've never been. I have never been. I haven't done any of South America at all yet, travel wise. I've been to close to 50 countries, but I've still got to do South America.

00:02:31 Amal Hosni Viteri 
Please come on and welcome to Colombia.

00:02:34 Mark Smith
Yes, yes, that will be amazing. Tell me about how did you get involved with things like M365 Copilot?

00:02:45 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, I work with 365 Copilot, but I think it's necessary to share or know about innovation because the innovation is a goal for the organizations. It's necessary for share the content and think the AI in other perspective. This innovation in Copilot is a contribute to our work teams. with your disability, decisions, data, and it's amazing for collaboration on automation. It's innovation we propose. Copilot is very nice in the context and knowledge about the context, the organization of me, of the people, and it's flexible and built to share many cycles many times for sprints or teams for test, refine, and improve other products. And in my case, I use Copilot because it's only up in 365. I take Teams, SharePoint, and I think it's very complete, it's very necessary, and It's crucial for especially Latin American startups because integrates development, operations and things and especially takes decisions about data. And this is the first and the most important thing for me in the space of Copilot.

00:04:34 Mark Smith
Before you got involved in Copilot, what work were you doing?

00:04:39 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, it's a Many, many years. I work, really in my case, I work many times with DevOps and Scrum. DevOps for integrates development and operations. And Scrum is a methodology. In other hand, it's a flexible structure. And only work with DevOps because every time I use Excel for the decisions and make data. and prepare many mathematics forms. And oh wow, when I know Copilot, I know with how can you use the technology for complete your organization. I changed my mind and work with the know about more for Copilot and thinking different, thinking of sorry the box and have a visually many general visual for many things.

00:05:47 Mark Smith
So I'm interested, how big is Microsoft in Colombia? Is it, is there a large community of people? Are all the companies mainly using this product?

00:05:59 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, in this moment, Microsoft have many things in my government style, in the public style, but when use Copilot and share Copilot with a test for the organizations, many prepaid organizations use Copilot. Yeah. And okay, it's more security. I have more security, it's most confidence. Copilot not me, it's my partner and I think very well and change the mind for the people When Colombia arrives at AI, the people test many tools, ChatGPT or Gemini or others, but when knows Copilot knows your style of life, knows your context, your style for write, for reading a Outlook mail, for your answers and your things. And in my case, or the organizations with my people collaborative, think about the necessary, know your context. For take decisions, first, and for preparing for ideation, for development models for innovation and implementation of AI. And in this moment, Copilot arrives in Colombia and used in the public and the private states or organizations.

00:07:46 Mark Smith
And are there many Copilot MVPs like you in Colombia?

00:07:51 Amal Hosni Viteri
I really think I have two. I know only me because in my case, I first MVP in Microsoft 365. because the pandemic and use of remote work. I use every time Teams and prepare many dynamics or funny tests for my Teams. But when change the mind or change the structure for Microsoft 365, I changed to Copilot. And I know it's me, but I think I have one more. But it's the only women in Colombia in copilots.

00:08:39 Mark Smith 
That is so cool. My wife on the weekend just became a copilot MVP.

00:08:47 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, that's nice.

00:08:48 Mark Smith
Yes, it's very nice. It's very nice. From a community, you know, what you do in the Colombia community, as in, are there many events where people come together and learn off each other? or around the Microsoft technology.

00:09:07 Amal Hosni Viteri
Yeah, in Colombia have many communities, especially in Microsoft topics, because works with the universities, university plus the organizations, we propose amplify their impact or becoming chains and connect innovations, communities or students and partners and MVPs, Latin American MVPs and others for change. models for work in the country. But really, in my experience, Microsoft have many communities and many people around the cycle, around the communities, learning and prepare and assisting to the events and have many events, especially in the central cities. And in my case, I'm from the south, another city, not a central city. And this is from Bogota to Pasto, share knowledge and share mentoring or volunteer events to share only know about the Copilot, about Microsoft 365, or other things about Microsoft because Microsoft have many gifts or things for test your technology and for contribute to communities, especially in other cities, in other central cities, in other cities.

00:11:02 Mark Smith 
In your role as, so you're in innovation, right?

00:11:08 Amal Hosni Viteri
Really, I am development. I am developer. I work many years ago in C+, C#, and Netcore. But I work in my owner company and changed my role for chief innovation offices because I think the innovation is not only technology. is innovation, is the process, is the things, is the many things of the people, of the team, of the alliance, and changed my mind and my role for the innovation. But every time, think in code lines and write code lines every time with my team.

00:12:00 Mark Smith
When it comes to Copilot and Let's say you're showing other companies what the technology can do. What do you like to show them from Copilot? What features, what parts of Copilot excites you the most?

00:12:17 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, it's a good question. In the last time, the many events and the people answer to me about what's copilot. I look the icon in my computer, I look the copilot in my edge, but I don't know what is copilot. And my first answer to that question is, I don't know, because I don't know in this time, not that, but with the past time, My first thing is, okay, the first topic is what is AI and how do you use with proposed and ethical of AI because it's open to many people and many information and no filters and no things and this is my first topic. And later that situation I share how to copilot is your partner, not replace people, no change responsibilities because the AI is only time you feel scarred. I lost my work with AI. But I try to share the pilot is a partner for management for optimization and automation automation that many things operative things and reduce other things for you and you focus in your specialty you. Explain your speciality and share your know and share your speciality, your engineer, psychology and your experience and take the Copilot and use for you. This is the most important because lots of information, have many questions, it's in the time. In Latin American, it's not, it's a poor information about that because it's in English and in the Spanish, the information is different and the people, okay, no, I don't like English, I like Spanish, I don't know, I don't find information, I can use that, et cetera, et cetera. And the focus for my role or my MVP role in Copilot is share content about the use of Copilot in Spanish and in a natural language, not technical language, not prepare your agent and the power automate and the flaw because the people is scarred and oh my gosh. In my first meet with Copilot, I am scared. Wow, you prepare my work in five minutes? You write my code in two seconds? Oh my gosh, boom. But when I understand it's a tool for more focusing my speciality, I change the perspective. I changed the thing, I changed my mind and I try to share the people, my journey to technology and Copilot with my partner, my friend in this moment because know me and me prepare my day or organize my e-mail and oh, it's a little work for me. And I'm ready for the special and focused work.

00:16:51 Mark Smith
Nice. Are you also using it in GitHub for your development work?

00:16:57 Amal Hosni Viteri
Yeah. Yeah, I use GitHub. I use Copilot with my team in GitHub for share many code lines. But every time I think it's necessary, the double check. the human double check about the code, about the resume, about the text for you preparing compilot, because if it's true, it knows me and prepare about the context, but it's not my mind, it's not my pencil. And I try to review and double check, but use for How for ideas, for example, for OK, I don't have idea. I try to prepare more ideas, more innovation in this tool or in this program or in this web or in others. OK, Copilot, please bribe me, please like me. It's a life for me and make my mind for prepare the all things.

00:18:11 Mark Smith
This has been wonderful talking to you and getting your perspective on it. And that journey that you've gone through has been brilliant. Amal, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

00:18:22 Amal Hosni Viteri
Oh, thanks to you for the invitation.

00:18:27 Mark Smith
Hey, thanks for listening. I'm your host, Business Application MVP, Mark Smith, otherwise known as the nz365guy. If you like the show and want to be a supporter, check out buymeacoffee.com forward slash nz365guy. Thanks again and see you next time.