--- id: video/94Lqd7Ap8YQ type: video title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" summary: Partner-focused interview on AI skills in the Business Central ecosystem. The Microsoft speaker says partners should understand AI more deeply, work with other partners, ISPs and Microsoft on long-unsolved customer problems, and train domain experts such as accountants to become AI power users, since AI engineers are scarce. Viewers are urged to visit the BC talent page; the talk is opinion and approach, not product feature details. tier: official language: en tags: - ai upskilling - partner enablement - ai power users - talent shortage - workflow automation - generative ai - bc talent program - domain expertise system: copilot review: state: reviewed by: opus at: "2026-10-07T22:55:46.894Z" flags: [] generated: at: "2026-10-13T00:32:41.360Z" pipeline: 0.2.0 prompts: extract-video: 1 summarize-video: 2 input_hash: 592ab708fd8f32ec4593ffa23f67499aaf9377445381704a6ee8cae85449bc1b evidence: - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=44s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 44 quote: I think we have 150 Microsoft products that have AI functionality in them and that's going to be any product we release going forward - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=181s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 181 quote: The number of people in the world who are AI people, okay, AI people, AI engineers, AI researchers, AI engineers, machine learning people is - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=191s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 191 quote: most normal companies are never going to be able to hire these people because there are not enough - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=216s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 216 quote: we turned lots of accountants and finance people into bc consultants we're going to have to do that - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=275s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 275 quote: Because probably the most important thing they can be doing right now is creating their own workflow or here's a standard workflow. AI is - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=285s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 285 quote: If people can do that, they're now called what is in my jurisdiction called an AI power user. And once we build up a - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=321s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 321 quote: the most important thing all of you should be doing is going to the BC talent page and clicking on learn more - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=342s title: "#BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide" date: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" commit: null t: 342 quote: I have five partners right now in my inbox saying we need to hire AI people. bring us some AI people. I'm saying my links: learn: [] objects: [] features: [] topics: [] localizations: [] videos: [] posts: [] guidelines: [] video_id: 94Lqd7Ap8YQ channel: yt-microsoft source_name: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ published_at: "2025-08-19T12:49:06.000Z" duration_s: 370 captions: full audience: - partner - decision maker chapters: - t: 0 title: Introduction and AI's Impact on Partner Business Models - t: 27 title: Why Partners Must Become More Technical in AI - t: 102 title: Solving Long-Standing Customer Problems Through AI - t: 136 title: The Talent Gap and Upskilling Challenge - t: 191 title: Growing AI Capability in Existing Professional Communities - t: 265 title: Building AI Power Users and Structured Training - t: 310 title: BC Talent Program and Call to Action features: - name: AI Functionality Across Microsoft Products status: unclear t: 44 verified: false status_source: video - name: BC Talent Program status: unclear t: 151 verified: false status_source: video - name: Partner Technical Upskilling in AI status: unclear t: 27 verified: false status_source: video - name: Collaborative Ecosystem for Problem Solving status: unclear t: 70 verified: false status_source: video objects_mentioned: [] quotes: - t: 44 text: I think we have 150 Microsoft products that have AI functionality in them and that's going to be any product we release going forward check: exact - t: 181 text: The number of people in the world who are AI people, okay, AI people, AI engineers, AI researchers, AI engineers, machine learning people is check: exact - t: 191 text: most normal companies are never going to be able to hire these people because there are not enough check: exact - t: 216 text: we turned lots of accountants and finance people into bc consultants we're going to have to do that check: fuzzy - t: 275 text: Because probably the most important thing they can be doing right now is creating their own workflow or here's a standard workflow. AI is check: exact - t: 285 text: If people can do that, they're now called what is in my jurisdiction called an AI power user. And once we build up a check: exact - t: 321 text: the most important thing all of you should be doing is going to the BC talent page and clicking on learn more check: exact - t: 342 text: I have five partners right now in my inbox saying we need to hire AI people. bring us some AI people. I'm saying my check: exact --- # #BCTalent and AI: A Partner’s Guide > Partner-focused interview on AI skills in the Business Central ecosystem. The Microsoft speaker says partners should understand AI more deeply, work with other partners, ISPs and Microsoft on long-unsolved customer problems, and train domain experts such as accountants to become AI power users, since AI engineers are scarce. Viewers are urged to visit the BC talent page; the talk is opinion and approach, not product feature details. [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ) · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2025-08-19 · 6:10 · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus) ## Overview The talk looks at how AI changes partner business models and why partners need to become more technical in AI instead of adopting it at surface level. It says Microsoft has 150 products with AI functionality and that custom-built partner solutions will likely include AI going forward. The speaker describes an industry-wide shortage of AI people, with partners asking for AI hires that are hard to find. The proposed answer is to train existing professionals, in the way accountants and finance people were turned into BC consultants. They would become AI power users who identify suitable workflow steps and build prompt libraries. The talk ends with a call to join the BC Talent Program, which needs more participants and whose structure is still being developed. ## Key points - The speaker says Microsoft has 150 products with AI functionality, any product released going forward will have it, and custom-built partner solutions will probably include AI too. - Partners are told to understand AI in depth rather than blindly making an API call. - Partners, other partners, ISPs and Microsoft are encouraged to work together on long-running customer problems that are still unsolved, rather than relying on a solo hero. - Most companies cannot hire AI engineers and researchers because there are not enough of them, so the capability has to be grown in experts from other problem areas, just as accountants were once turned into BC consultants. - An AI power user is someone such as an accountant, tax preparer or financial analyst who maps which steps of their workflow suit AI and keeps prompt libraries for those steps. - The speaker says upskilling needs more structure than telling people to figure out AI on their own, and asks viewers to go to the BC talent page, click learn more and join. ## Chapters - [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=0s) Introduction and AI's Impact on Partner Business Models - [0:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=27s) Why Partners Must Become More Technical in AI - [1:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=102s) Solving Long-Standing Customer Problems Through AI - [2:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=136s) The Talent Gap and Upskilling Challenge - [3:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=191s) Growing AI Capability in Existing Professional Communities - [4:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=265s) Building AI Power Users and Structured Training - [5:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=310s) BC Talent Program and Call to Action ## Features Every feature below: status not stated. | Feature | At | |---|---| | AI Functionality Across Microsoft Products | [0:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=44s) | | BC Talent Program | [2:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=151s) | | Partner Technical Upskilling in AI | [0:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=27s) | | Collaborative Ecosystem for Problem Solving | [1:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=70s) | ## Quotes - [0:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=44s) "I think we have 150 Microsoft products that have AI functionality in them and that's going to be any product we release going forward" - [3:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=181s) "The number of people in the world who are AI people, okay, AI people, AI engineers, AI researchers, AI engineers, machine learning people is" - [3:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=191s) "most normal companies are never going to be able to hire these people because there are not enough" - [3:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=216s) "we turned lots of accountants and finance people into bc consultants we're going to have to do that" - [4:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=275s) "Because probably the most important thing they can be doing right now is creating their own workflow or here's a standard workflow. AI is" - [4:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=285s) "If people can do that, they're now called what is in my jurisdiction called an AI power user. And once we build up a" - [5:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=321s) "the most important thing all of you should be doing is going to the BC talent page and clicking on learn more" - [5:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Lqd7Ap8YQ&t=342s) "I have five partners right now in my inbox saying we need to hire AI people. bring us some AI people. I'm saying my" Presenters (as heard): Lena Casten, Unknown second presenter.