SPEAKER 1:
Heathrow Airport.
SAMIT SAINI:
My name is Samit Saini,
and I'm an IT user Adoption
Specialist at Heathrow.
I've been a security
officer for 13 years.
Being a security officer, you
didn't know that you could
come to IT without
a degree or skills.
You needed some talent
or knowledge or experience,
that's how I felt.
I started to learn Power Apps,
and I thought, why does
no one know this?
This is just amazing.
I felt like I found the greatest
secret ever because this
could have so much potential
to change so many things.
I want can make
an impact or make
a difference to help
passengers have the best
journey that they can have.
The first app that I created was
a language app that we use at
Heathrow to help translate to
passengers who are
unable to speak English.
It was such an easy
way to convert
a catalog into an
app within weeks.
As an international airport,
you want to help give
the best service,
that's why I've created
this special assistant app
that helps us identify
how we can give our
reduced mobility
passengers the best
service we can.
Power Apps enabled me
to do a lot of things,
but the great thing about it
is, it made me feel smart.
It changed my life completely.
I couldn't imagine being in IT,
especially with the
skills I had before.
But the skills I have now,
I feel like a big
part of the team,
and I'm making not just a
living but a difference,
and I'm learning
every single day,
and I feel like I've got
such a passion for it now
that my first knowledge
would not stop.
Through these Power Apps,
we have saved 700
pounds a month,
280 hours of manual input data,
and 11,000 sheets of paper.
Basically, we get
to save a tree.
It doesn't matter if you
are a security officer
or a security manager,
we've got this
powerful tool that
anybody can use and
create and learn from.
If I can create this app,
you can create it too.
SPEAKER 1:
Microsoft.