MVP Reconnect profile
Microsoft documents four MVP awards, SharePoint User Group UK leadership, consulting, CTO work and speaking across the UK and internationally.
INDEPENDENT TRAIL
Receipts, basically.
A personal site is easy to write. Third-party records are harder to manufacture. This is the public trail that says the work really happened.
Hosting the North West user group
Chris O’Brien’s write-up after a SUGUK session thanks Mark Stokes for hosting the event and inviting him to speak — a contemporary trace of the community-organiser years before the MVP award.
Office 365 talk announced before the event
A contemporary SharePoint User Group Geneva post advertises the March session and introduces Mark as travelling from England to present “Considering Office 365? Here’s everything you need to know!”
Red Plane launch
Independent coverage of the consultancy launch, including earlier consulting work with national brands and the focus on using emerging technology to improve how businesses operate and communicate.
Early AltspaceVR community sessions
A contemporary write-up about SharePoint Saturday VR says Collab365 had already run a session in AltspaceVR and credits Mark with helping kick things off there.
Microsoft Flow Conference
Microsoft’s own conference archive lists “PowerApps And Flow, Better Together – Mark Stokes” and describes the session’s middleware/request-response architecture.
SharePoint development community call
Microsoft’s SharePoint developer community archive records a live Flow demo by Mark Stokes on the July 26 PnP SIG call.
PowerApps Virtual Summit
A Microsoft Community announcement for the March 2019 Collab365 PowerApps Virtual Summit lists Mark among the speaker line-up.
Keysight / Attollo
NN/g’s 2021 Intranet Design Annual winners page lists the Keysight team and the Attollo contributors, including Mark Stokes.
Recorded sessions and workshops
The surviving academy archive indexes sessions across Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate and Microsoft 365, plus longer Employee Directory and Change Management workshops.
Old workshops revisited for the agentic era
Collab365 later published companion guides to earlier workshops, using the original builds as a baseline for how Power Platform development had changed in the AI-native era.
Back to in-person speaking
The Bletchley Park speaker programme documents the current return to the stage, including the Agentic Development session.
Because a twenty-year story should have timestamps.
None of this makes every idea right. It does show that the current work did not appear out of nowhere.