Directions EMEA 2023

Benefiting from 25 years of experience in implementing, customising and supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its predecessor Navision and now the rest of the Microsoft Biz Apps stack, I'm passionate about how technology can drive business growth through consistent and efficient processes whilst giving new levels of insight through reporting and AI. Between my day job of leading one of the UK's biggest SME focused Dynamics partners I have the privilege of being Chairmen of Directions, a association of more than 1200 Dynamics partners worldwide and a Microsoft MVP for Business applications.

Blazej Kotelko is one of the PMs in the Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Denmark but he had worked previously for Microsoft in London, UK and in Poland. With experience in the SMB space, UX design, low-code platforms and partner management he is currently responsible for the success and roadmap of Dynamics 365 Business Central integration with Power Platform.

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Vjekoslav Babić, or just Vjeko as he is known in the community, is a Business Central architect, developer, trainer, author and blogger. With more than two decades of experience in IT, he worked with vast range of technologies, but his passion has always been anything that lingers on the outer edges of BC. Deep down, Vjeko is an incurable hacker who took a long time to realize that he really loves writing code, plain and simple. He immensely enjoys breaking things apart to see how they work. As a frequent speaker at conferences, in his demos, and on his blog, he is always pushing the boundaries of what's possible, connecting the world of Business Central with just about anything that can be plugged into it through some obscure loophole or undocumented interface. Since spring 2010, Vjeko has been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. You can meet him at his blog "Vjeko.com - ideas in the cloud".

Program Manager for the Dynamics 365 Business Central Control Plane team at Microsoft.

Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Partner at 4PS Germany. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure and is a Docker Captain. He is blogging on tobiasfenster.io, where he writes about Business Applications, Docker and Windows Containers, but also tooling like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code and infrastructure automation. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container environments and SQL.

Thorsten has been working at Microsoft in Germany for almost 17 years. During this time, he has filled various roles. Currently and for about 6 years he is PDM for the Dynamics partners in Germany.

Fredrik Hietala is one of the Partner and Customer Success Managers for SMB , with an engineering background in Dynamics NAV and AX

Prinicipal program manager focusing on ISV Success

Shannon Mullins is the CEO and founder of a BC Consulting Group and a Microsoft MVP of Business Applications. She has over 20 years' experience across a wide variety of disciplines and products, including accounting, information technology, professional services, insurance, healthcare, mortgage lending, distribution, manufacturing, project management and deployment and implementation of CRM and ERP systems. Shannon has a deep understanding of the functional aspects of projects, process automation and system design, and the reporting needs and requirements for complex ERP systems. Shannon is a former controller and accountant and holds a master's degree in Accountancy. She currently resides in Nashville, TN and is an experienced international speaker and teacher.

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan works as program manager in the Dynamics 365 Business Central server backend team. He has been working in the dangerous field between customers, partners, support professionals, developers and dba's for many years and done his part of mistakes as a developer before that in his 18+ years in the it industry. He enjoys working with data and databases and really, really enjoys working using KQL. Kennie has no humor.

Aaron Rasdeuschek is the Head of Sales at Finmatics, drawing upon his extensive background as an accountant and software consultant. Leveraging his expertise, he adeptly aids firms in optimizing the realization of their digitalization initiatives, particularly within the realm of accounting and finance.

Yannick (a Microsoft 365 Development & Business Applications MVP) is born and raised in SharePoint, starting out his career in 2011 when SharePoint 2010 was still new and shiny. The changing reality of the cloud made him expand his knowledge to the whole of Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform. He is a Managing Partner and Cloud Solution Architect at Qubix, a Belgium-based consultancy firm, responsible for the technical underpinnings of products and solutions. Problem solving and development are his passion, still working day to day with code. He always asks the important questions: How does it work? What do you want to achieve? Does it have an API? Do we really need development for this? Where's the coffee?

Engineering Manager on the Business Central Application Foundation team, responsible for developing the horizontal features needed, to build world-class business applications upon. Also responsible for driving the business application platform's open-source story forward.

Microsoft UK Go To Market Manager for Dynamics 365

Aleksandar is Product Manager for Dynamics 365 Business Central responsible for regulatory features and geo-expansion. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, he earned recognition as an MVP for Dynamics NAV. He is an experienced lecturer at many global conferences.

In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the Dynamics 365 Business Central world, training hundreds of developers. After Microsoft acquired Navision, he joined Microsoft's Dynamics localization team GDL as a tester, UA specialist, and project lead. For 6 years, he was closely involved with all successive releases. Since he left Microsoft, he has become an active community member by means of his blog. He is a co-founder of the Dutch Dynamics Community and a speaker at conferences. For all his community work, Luc has been awarded MS MVP since 2011. In 2014, he co-founded NAV Skills, supporting Dynamics 365 Business Central pros around the globe with, among other things, webinars until 2019. He has continued ever since to organize webinars under the flag of Areopa webinars. In 2012, Luc started fluxxus.nl, doing miscellaneous projects, including Business Central development courses and automated testing. Luc is one of the main driving forces on test automation in the Business Central community.

Microsoft MVP and working for almost 15 years with Navision/Business Central especially in the construction area in several rolls. Finance consultant, productmanager and now as a technical solution architect at 4PS. Especially focused on the platform and integrations with Business Central.

I have worked 7 years with Dynamics CRM starting from v. 2011 and moving up to Online. Recently I have put all my focus on the D365 Marketing, Power Platform and D365 Sales. Whenever I am not thinking about D365 or Power Platform, I like to keep myself active by volunteering/organizing different events, travelling or lounging in my backyard.

Carlos is an experienced Business Central Developer who excels at seamlessly integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with external systems, focusing on Ecommerce and Payment Platforms. With a career spanning over a decade, Carlos ensures smooth data synchronization and efficient payment gateways across various systems. Apart from technical expertise, he's skilled at simplifying complexity for actionable insights. Currently a Product Developer at Suite Engine, Carlos's commitment to staying updated ensures functional integrations and forward-looking solutions. His successful track record speaks to his role as a reliable integration expert in the business realm.

Senior software engineer and security champ of Business Central

Johan Adenmark is CEO of NAB Solutions and SmartApps. He has been in this guild since Navision Financials 1.1 and had most roles himself. He has not been allowed to write code for many years but is having fun anyway spreading the gospel of Business Central.

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Responsible for building the next generation modern client experiences for Dynamics 365 Business Central's integrations with Microsoft 365 applications such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, etc. and Power Platform.

Søren is an customer onboarding champion and a veteran in the industry, with 27 years of mapping business processes with user desire and technology under his belt ⭐⭐⭐ He has been around the block: In IT departments primarily in manufacturing companies, developing ERP, internal consulting Worked for various XAL/AX/NAV partners in as a systems integrator, developer and consultant Run his own systems integration partner company for 7 years And finally - when he couldn't resist the attraction of Microsoft any longer - joined in 2016 In the Business Central engineering team he drives the investments in making customer onboarding easier, owns the HR module, and cares a lot about the setup experience of Business Central ⚙️✅ He is passionate about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, and is a board member of Women in Dynamics ❤️💚💙💛 In between all of this he enjoys playing in a hard-rock band as a semi-professional musician 🎵🤘🏼

Emmanuel has been a consultant and key account manager in the Dynamics / Business Central environment for over 12 years. Including more than 5 years active in the project business and responsible for holistic solution concepts. Emmanuel currently represents CKL Software GmbH as Partner Manager and Senior Consultant.

Director Program Management Power Apps growth

Henrik has been working in the Microsoft Dynamics business for +12 years in various roles. He is WW SMB Sales Lead for Dynamics365 in the NGO Industry.

Solution Architect and MVP, covering all areas of Business Central. Big user of Power Platform to extend or plug gaps in Business Central. A general curiosity with development but a low code/no code platform suits me better 😊

Esteban is a principal software engineer who has been part of the Business Central service team from the beginning. He has worked on many areas of the service, more recently focusing on load balancing, scalability, and reliability.

Passionate about Microsoft technology, specifically in those related to business applications. I like sports and I'm a Marvel fan

Born in Dortmund, Germany I've started developing for Navision back in 2006. In 2011 I've founded bms and we've grown to a dynamic team – with years of experience. Capable, flexible, perceptive – and with both feet firmly on the ground. Highly innovative – it doesn’t matter whether you are a global player or a family business, we are familiar with all types of operations. With this mix, we have been successfully implementing ERP projects for our customers from a wide variety of industries for more than 10 years – reliably, efficiently and always on an equal footing.

Manuel Büdenbender has various years of experience in the manufacturing and logistics industry, both from a customer’s and from the Software company's perspective.

Elena is a tech leader with 19 years of experience in the Microsoft Dynamics field, spending 9 of those years working directly at Microsoft. In 2013, she started 365 Talent Portal, a company that guides Microsoft Dynamics partners to success by offering innovative and friendly hiring and training services. They help more than 1,000 Microsoft businesses grow and upskill their talent. Elena is really active in the global Microsoft community. She's the IAMCP EMEA President, International Vice-President and also leads the Global Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She's really passionate about diversity and inclusion, not just gender related but also covering race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, neurodiversity, age, education, religion, social background, and even personality. Elena takes the lead on projects to drive awareness of the benefits of inclusive leadership and share best practices from the Microsoft community.

Empowering every AL developer and BC organization on the planet to achieve more

Having worked within the CRM industry for over 20+ years, Hayley is Head of Growth for the Customer Experience applications Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Sales Copilot. From within the product engineering team she works to drive programs that support and grow a customer’s journey with Microsoft’s business applications and her team looks to identify new ways for customers to realize value, while driving greater adoption and business results.

I have been working in controlling and process consulting for almost 20 years. In recent years, I have also been able to gain a lot of experience in BI. As an auditor and tax consultant, I have a slightly different perspective on data than many IT consultants, but I am convinced that combining commercial and IT/ERP knowledge can produce solutions that no one had thought of before.

Peik Bech-Andersen is a freelance solution architect , consultant, Instructor and developer, Implementing solutions all-over the world. He is specialized in advanced manufacturing combined with master data replication and Intercompany solutions. He first saw Navision in 1984 at the beta testing program of PcPlus. He started implementing manufacturing solutions in 1983 on IBM S/36 systems. Since the Dynamics NAV manufacturing module was released, he has implemented at least 50 Manufacturing solutions in all kinds of different businesses. Starting as an accountant in a production company and moving on to implementing systems, he has both the accounting, the development and the implementation background. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he has conducted courses the last 10 years in topics like Dynamics NAV programming, installation, finance, trade, warehouse management and manufacturing. During the many years, he has had countless courses with many participants in 15 countries.

Born and raised in Germany. Primarily worked in the mandatory health insurance sector in Germany. Moved to Denmark in 2009 and worked there in various industries. Worked with different versions of Microsoft NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central. Many years served as a super user. Specialized in B2B integrations and business processes, particularly sales, purchase and warehouse.

I am a developer and a system architect for Dynamics NAV and Business Central. My journey in Dynamics World started in 2010 and since then I had been working for Gold Partners in Poland and Denmark and also helping implementing system for one big global end user. I implemented Dynamics NAV and Business Central across Eastern Europe and Middle East. I had pleasure to work with wonderful people in such countries such as Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Greece, US, and United Arab Emirates.

I'm part of the team of experts at Proximo 3, a specialist Microsoft consulting company. Our team provides consultancy and advice on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects. I'm a passionate believer in applying change management to CRM projects and a certified Prosci practitioner. I've been a Microsoft Business Applications MVP, specialising in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, since 2017.

Lars Black is an accomplished professional with a wealth of experience in the IT sector, spanning over 30 years. Currently serving as the Product & Development Lead for Invoice Workflow and Travel Expense Management at SignUp Software, Lars is a driving force behind innovative solutions that empower organizations.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippeblondet/

Born and raised in the USA, Niklas has been a native of Munich, Germany for the past 20 years. After a career in event sales, a transition was in order to the software world. Now Niklas takes pride in finding new partners that believe in Praxedo's solution and spread this among their customers.

I like technology, but I love when it focuses on making things easier for us and improving everyone's lives, no matter where we come from or who we are. More than 15 years of experience in Biz Apps. Started with Navision in 2003... and nowadays, focused on the full Power Platform & D365 spectrum. Throughout my career I have been involved in the process of new ERP and PMS implementation in international hotel chains, that helped me to acquire a major picture of the hospitality business, being aware of the demands and needs of the sector, and to obtain excellent communications skills with stakeholders. I also took part in the design of data and analytics strategies for hospitality companies. Member of Mallorca Power Platform local community (https://twitter.com/mallorca_power), trying to help, learn and having fun (and some beer...) with my colleagues! Always looking forward to taking part in new projects and non-stop learning!

During his 18 years at Microsoft, Mike has experienced the life of Engineer, Engineering Manager and Product Manager, shipping Visual Studio, AX, NAV and Business Central. Today, he's responsible for increasing the productivity of SMBs through a world-class Business Central desktop UI, integration with Office apps, and AI.

Peter has been with Microsoft since the acquisition of Navision in 2002, and has worked as a program manager in a number of areas and product lines throughout this time. He is currently a program manager on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer tools team, responsible for the AL language, Visual Studio Code tooling, AppSource and extensions.

Finnur has been the Sales Director at AGR for over 13 years. He has worked with international retailers and wholesalers to improve their Supply Chains by implementing best practice processes through AGR´s inventory optimisation solutions. Finnur holds a M.Sc. degree in International Business Administration from the Reykjavik University.

I'm Senior Director of Partner Enablement Experience at Pax8. Pax8 acquired Bam Boom Cloud on 1 February 2023, where I was the CTO. I have over 10 years' experience working with small and medium businesses. With a varied background as a chartered accountant, consultant and CTO, I have seen lots of businesses and lots of systems. I now put that experience to work in making the Microsoft stack more accessible to SMBs. As part of Pax8, we're laser focused on helping our partner and being the world's favourite technology marketplace.

Hendrik is managing partner at Dime Software and leads the Dime.Scheduler product team. His many years of experience as a consultant and passion for business and technology have helped shape Dime.Scheduler to what it is today and where it is headed.

Petras has been in the BC channel for over 10 years now, spending most of that time in NAV to BC migration processes, technology and everything related to it. For the past few years Petras had spent more time in R&D dept., running multiple trials and products to market.

Marquis Caldwell is our ClickLearn Partner & Sales Manager for EMEA and a Track & Field Coach with Sparta Athletics Club. He combines his wealth of knowledge about ClickLearn and goal-oriented methodologies with his coaching skills to demonstrate the benefits and value ClickLearn provides to empower self-sufficient teams striving to reach their professional goals.

Gerdien Cammeraat has 25 years of experience in the software industry of which 20 years in the Dynamics community. She has been responsible for product development teams in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and the other Dynamics products. She is a coaching leader and has a passion for customer centric innovations. In her current role as Services Director at Ciellos, a Microsoft ISV Development Center, she is responsible for the overall delivery of the different service lines and ensuring high customer solution satisfaction. Directions EMEA has a special place in her heart as she was heavily involved in getting the first two editions in Paris and Barcelona to roll.

Riccardo joined Microsoft in 2017, and since then has been working as a software engineer for the Dynamics 365 Business Central Control Plane team. His areas of expertise include a broad range of technologies and services within the Azure stack. He actively contributes to the development and maintenance of the .NET Core based microservices that build the Control Plane layer of the Business Central SaaS platform. Lately, he has worked on several features available in the Admin Center and the underlying APIs, including improvements to updates scheduling, update window, logging of administrative operations and environment soft-deletion.

Experienced leader with more than 20 years of proven expertise in strategic planning, management and execution, coupled with deep industry and technology expertise, including financial services, maritime, construction, retail, media and entertainment, and software. Led highly effective multinational organizations and Fortune 100 customer projects with onshore and offshore divisions in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Designed, developed, built and profitably operated Microsoft ISV companies based on Microsoft Dynamics ERP and cloud automation platforms. Member of the Board of Directors of several multinational software companies.

Seasoned project management expert with a rich history in the technology consulting sector. With a diverse background, led numerous collaborative endeavours, orchestrating multi-functional and cross-departmental ERP and Cloud initiatives to enhance operational efficiencies across multiple indutries. Currently holds the position of Director of Professional Services at Xenatus Global Ltd., a distinguished technology consulting firm operating across the NA, EU, MENA, and GCC regions from its headquarters in Cyprus. SUMMARY · Extensive experience in full D365 / O365 Suite (OnPrem and SaaS) Implementations & Deployments · Strategic Technology Solution Consultancy, Implementation & Support for multiple platforms including ERP / CRM / DAM / EAI / POS · Varied background encompassing Engagement, Project Management, Tech Consulting, Quality Assurance, and more · Tech-savvy expertise honed over 18 Years, implementing tailored solutions

Tharanga Chandrasekara is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central lead technical consultant with over a decade of experience. Tharanga is an active member and community moderator of the official Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Community forum. He regularly shares knowledge with others through his blog, user groups, and webinars. Tharanga strongly believes that "one small piece of knowledge someone shares today could be the cornerstone of a huge concept that changes the world tomorrow". For the past six years, Tharanga has been working for Theta, one of the largest and most competitive IT companies in New Zealand that help organizations – in New Zealand and around the world transform their businesses with technology. Since 2016, Tharanga has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Sharka Chobot is the creator of the CRM product category (1995) and Chief Transformation Officer of Neural Impact. Sharka applies behavioral economics, neuroscience and persuasion psychology to help Microsoft partners develop an effective customer acquisition and go to market strategy. She has over 35 years of technology specific expertise and teaches behavioral marketing at leading universities in Canada. Sharka has worked with hundreds of Microsoft partners on six continents to develop their cloud product, packaging, pricing and vertical market strategy and to accelerate their transition to a SaaS business model.

Peter Christensen (also known as Bugsy) is group engineering manager in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team. Peter has been in Microsoft/Navision since 1988 and has worked on many different parts of the product - both as a developer and as a manager. Currently Peter manages the engineers in the application team, building the future for the Business Central application. In addition to this, Peter also manage the engineering of the Dynamics NAV, GP and SL products.

Enrico Cimitan joined the Microsoft family in 2017 as a software engineer. He initially worked in the Dynamics 365 Business Central application team, and later shifted to features in the client area. Since 2019, Enrico has been contributing to the data connectors and integrations between Business Central and other Microsoft products, including Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Dataverse.

Val Clarke has over a decade of experience in the software industry and has been with 4PS for six years. As General Manager, Val is responsible for overseeing the daily business operations and overall customer satisfaction, evaluating efficiency and performance, developing and implementing strategies for growth, employee recruitment and development and general business improvements.   With strong people management and strategic planning skills, Val is passionate about ensuring that 4PS offers the best possible outcomes for customers and employees. The 4PS core values are fully embedded into her approach to running the business – Val consistently and continuously encourages everyone in the team to follow their heart, learn more and innovate.  Fostering this positive culture keeps the whole team developing and improving while delivering real quality and value to 4PS customers in a forward-thinking and supportive environment.

Responsible for leading the newly formed Microsoft Business Applications EMEA regional 'go to market' team in SMB. Driving solution area marketing strategy, planning and execution through partners to maximise cloud revenue, consumption impact and joint business growth. An IAMCP Board Member with a passion for enabling partner community engagement, driving D&I initiatives and supporting those who are early in their careers.

Since 1998 working with Navision, Dynamics NAV, and now with Business Central and Power Platform. I worked as an end-user, consultant, and developer in different companies. In 2022 I have been awarded Microsoft MVP in the Business Applications category. International Speaker at Directions EMEA, Directions ASIA, and Days of Knowledge Odense. As a MCT I teach Microsoft courses about Business Central, Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate,... I have a blog where I write about these Microsoft technologies: https://blog.msdyn365bc.es. Also, you can see me telling things about Business Central and Power Platform at different community events and on my YouTube Channel: Aprende Business Central en Español (https://www.youtube.com/@rcorella) If you want to know more about me, here you have my Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertocorella/

Joseph Corigliano is an business executive with 32 years of experience in the Busines Applications space including 23 years ex-Microsoft. Joe will be presenting with Ben Reid a program manager at Ciellos who speclaizes in Microsoft Partner Operations and spent 6+ years on the Microsoft Partner Experience team.

Christian Heide Damm is the cloud architect of Business Central and is responsible for the overall design of the Business Central Online architecture. Christian has been part of the entire NAV/BC journey to the cloud and continues to be passionate about all things SaaS and cloud architecture.

Yannick is a sales & marketing manager with a proven track record of sales performance, sales leadership and business strategy with a 14 years experience in Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central at iFacto Business Solutions - a top BC-partner in Belgium. Finding the right solution for each customer where quality and customer satisfaction are key for him. Yannick also provides sales and market insights to the product team of Distri+, an iFacto solution for the wholesale and distribution market.

South African born, UK resident, Mike is a Mechanical Design Engineer & spent 20 years as a Draughtsman in the Dairy industry, a Project Technician & ran the drawing office for NCD/Clover Dairies. At Toyota, he worked as a mechanical designer in body in white. He moved to the UK in 2001, spent 7 years creating & designing 3D technical models. He continued his studies in IT & enhanced his developer & web design skills at Halesowen College. At age 50, in 2008 Mike jumped tracks & began a new career as IT Manager & NAV implementation project leader for SSI Schaefer in Andover, England. With the NAV project successfully implemented, he moved to Evosoft as support office manager, then to Sci-Net in Oxford as a consultant & then to KPMG for a three year corporate engagement. Mike has been a Solution Architect for GCC for the past 2 years - during his career he has successfully implemented many NAV & Business Central solutions.

Customer Services Director at Tecman Working with Navision/NAV/BC since 1999 doing various roles with a partner and an end user

George Delp has over 30 years of experience as a CPA and selling ERP/CRM solutions. He spent the 90s with a Big 6 accounting firm, advising clients on accounting information technology issues. Starting in the 2000s, George moved to full-time sales roles which have led to his current position at US based Stoneridge Software where he leads industry focused manufacturing related sales efforts. Many of his recent US based projects have been multi-national, with his clients having operations in Canada, El Salvador, France, Germany, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP for Business Applications and for Azure, MCT, Azure Certified Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer and a long-time expert on different Microsoft technologies. He has a master's degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin. He works as a CTO for EID/Navlab (Microsoft Partner in Italy) and he's frequently involved on helping customers on moving their business to the Azure cloud. He worked with Packt Publishing on many successful IT books related to Dynamics NAV, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure DevOps, Azure solution development and Power Platform. He's the author of the first Dynamics 365 Business Central Development guide. He's an administrators of the official Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central support forum and one of the main contributors (awarded as MS Dynamics Community Star from Microsoft). He’s a Microsoft Community Champion for Azure. He's the winner of the global "Tech Start of the Year" Digital Revolution Award 2023.

Doyle Dettro, a CPA with an Accounting degree from the University of Illinois, is a seasoned professional currently serving as an Enterprise Sales Executive at Verosoft Design. His career began at Arthur Andersen in Chicago, IL, and in 2002, he co-founded ADNM International. In 2005, he established EmergeNext (now ADNM America) to offer business consulting services alongside ERP implementation. Doyle boasts extensive experience in implementing and designing solutions for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central, particularly in financial, CRM, supply chain, and enterprise software applications. He is also adept at providing financial and accounting consulting services to multinational companies using Microsoft's business platforms. Doyle's visionary leadership and commitment to excellence continue to drive success in the industry.

CEO and co-founder of Seer 365, Sam is well-known and respected within the Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem, having previously grown and sold three successful Microsoft Dynamics businesses, the most recent of which, at its time of sale to a large Global Systems Integrator, was the UK's largest Microsoft Dynamics partner. As an experienced business leader, he has a real passion for improving business efficiency and productivity, which was where the idea for Seer 365 and the GYDE365 platform originally came from. Alongside his team, he is 100% focused on helping Microsoft Dynamics 365 partners, ISV partners, their customers, and Microsoft itself to be more successful. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-dharmasiri-36807318/

I began working with ERP and CRM systems over 25 years ago. Initially starting with development, my primary area of work shifted towards architecture, design, development, and ALM of solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and related technologies. Currently, as the head of R&D and IT at EOS Solutions, I manage a team of 30 people. I oversee the maintenance of over 150 Business Central and PowerApps solutions, most of which are deployed on AppSource.com for global distribution.

Solution Selling Coach, Food Manufacturing Expert, YMCA Advocate, Fighting Irish Fan; Tom is a member of Innovia’s executive leadership team and has been leading the Customer Success team since 2007. He brings to the company 25+ years of experience helping manufacturers and distributors transform technology into a powerful tool that increases their profitability, productivity, and competitive edge. Prior to Innovia, Tom spent 9 years as Vice President of another ERP software consulting firm. He also co-founded and served as President of a regional frozen Mexican food manufacturer for 9 years. Tom volunteers on the Board of Advisors for the NAV User Group (NAVUG), outside the office, Tom serves on the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Michiana, the Region II Committee for Membership Standards of YUSA and enjoys attending games at Notre Dame. He resides in Georgetown KY.

Stacy has been working in the Microsoft Dynamics space since 1996. During those years she has performed various functions, beginning in support and implementations, and moving to sales and account management. Through these roles, and working with partners and customers, Stacy has gained considerable knowledge of business processes and how software can help solve problems. Stacy is currently engaged at Suite Engine to grow and develop our partner channel, and to help our partners and prospects understand how our solutions can help them.

Christian Lehmann leverages his 15 years of executive leadership and consulting expertise in the IT sector to help technology providers accelerate and scale their Microsoft-focused practices. He is passionate about helping partners drive growth, increase margins, scale delivery, improve the pre and post-sales motion and drive cloud business models and behavioural change. As a former CEO of one of Europe’s largest Dynamics resellers, he truly cares about people and can lead any major change – no matter if it is IT-driven, refers to organization development or human resource capabilities. Christian knows how to build project teams that deliver value and helps partners develop strategies that get results. He also brings his former research and expertise as a University Professor of Economics and Business Management at international universities to help partners understand the critical principles and dynamics of behavioural economics and SaaS business model change.

Berny During, MCT CPIM BBA(UNISA), boasts a 26-year tenure as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. With a rich background, he began as product manager at Navision South Africa, later co-founding a successful partner. His impact spans roles from entrepreneurship to being a driving force in some of Africa's largest partners. Berny's expertise extends across fields like Production and Inventory Management, Business Administration, Computer Sciences, Law, Taxation, and Labour Law. Over 25 years, he's empowered thousands worldwide through NAV/BC training, in 20+ countries. Currently, he nurtures Business Central practices, consultants, and developers, also aiding ISVs in transitioning to AppSource apps and promoting Dynamics 365 Business Central. Berny's voice has resonated at industry conferences like Tech-Ed, Directions, and hosted the Navision Africa partner conference. Passionate about knowledge sharing, he finds joy in inspiring business growth and personal development among partners.

Since completing his studies in Business Informatics, Michael has taken the role of ISV sales and partner manager at YAVEON. Pushing for the success of the partners while also doubling the size of the YAVEON partner network in his 4 years, his focus has always been on being successful through verticalization.

Alexander Eck has been an active part of the Microsoft partner ecosystem since 1999, when he founded his company eCONNEX AG with a focus on 365 Customer Sales, Marketing and Service. eCONNEX developed into the leading service providers in DACH and implemented global projects with a focus on the high-tech industry before it was successfully sold to Avanade, a subsidiary of Accenture, in 2011. For IAMCP Germany, the Alex leads the BusinessCircle M&A and co-hosts the BusinessCircle Strategy. Since 2016, Alex and his organization northwise have been supporting shareholders and CEOs in software and technology companies to sell their companies when the time is right.

Experienced Microsoft expert with over 10 years in the field. Knowledge about the complex world of Microsoft licensing, MCPP, CSP and Incentive programs, focused on Business Applications solutions. Possessing a winning combination of solid tech skills and business sense. Eager in helping you in the move towards the Cloud by providing advice on a global level, combining technical background and knowledge with business and customer/partner needs.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimenrum/ I have been working in the IT industry for +30 years and worked for Microsoft in Denmark for 14 years (2006-2020). Always with and through partners.

Leen has been in the Dynamics community for almost 20 years now. First as a driving force behind the marketing strategy of different Dynamics partners. Now as marketing manager of Directions 4 Partners and board member of Women in Dynamics. A hands-on mentality and no-nonsense approach are defining her personal brand. It’s her strong believe that adding a drop off pink into this giant blue ocean (also known as the Dynamics Community) would make a world of difference.

Renato Fajdiga is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/365 Business Central consultant and blogger with more than five years of experience in implementing Dynamics NAV/365 Business Central. He is currently an ERP product manager for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and consultant for Dynamics 365 Business Central, where he works on implementing various Dynamics 365 solutions. From fall 2018, he is MVP and MCT with a focus on Business Applications, especially Dynamics 365 Business Central, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate. He enjoys in everyday learning of new technologies and concepts that optimize customers' processes. Sometimes he gets inspiration and dives into code, but one thing which is for sure his motivation is to solve problems with Dynamics 365 Business Central posted by the community.

Klaus is Co-Founder and CEO of acadon, an ISV focussing on ERP for the Timber industry. Since 2010 he is engaged in the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) and now is treasurer of the German, EMEA and worldwide IAMCP. Klaus is passionate about bringing people together so that everybody can deliver better solutions to customers.

With over 15 years of professional experience, Ugne Fink-Jensen is a seasoned international business negotiator, entrepreneur and speaker. She has a strong background in complex and high-stake IT, tech, and innovation negotiations, having worked as a lead negotiator and senior group counsel at the multi-billion-dollar corporation AP. Møller-Maersk. In addition to her LL.M degree from the University of Stockholm, Ugne has also completed executive education programs from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, and INSEAD. Today, she is the founder of her own legal consulting and negotiation firms and has a proven track record in difficult negotiations in multicultural settings with stakeholders and negotiation partners of various work functions and hierarchic levels.

Several years of experience as Application Engineer and System Developer at AVL. Innovative thinking structures and pioneer in the implementation of new innovative work structures using AI. Driver of the public apps at NAVAX as digital product owner, pioneer and impulse generator in the collaboration with finmatics.

After working as a marketer in cultural enterprises, an unexpected event inspired Noemí to get deeper into new mkt strategies for product-based and SaaS companies and for 4 years she has been Revenue Manager at Triangle. In her day-to-day she focuses on supporting a multidisciplinary team that works on sales, marketing and customer success, to define, launch and execute the growth strategy of the company. When she is not thinking about the next posts for the editorial calendar, recording videos for YouTube and looking into revenue metrics, she is likely to be reading, cooking or enjoying some time with friends.

I have a background of nearly 25 years of implementing, customising and supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (and its predecessor Navision) with a focus on warehouse, logistics and manufacturing functions. I am passionate about leveraging this platform by designing and developing apps to improve both efficiency and insights into business processes.

Solution Architect with more than 30 years of experience, 15 of them in the Microsoft BizApps world. Helping Spanish partners with their Dynamics 365 and Power Platform opportunities.

Frans Gemen is founder and CEO of idyn. He has over 15 years of experience in the BC/NAV community and has a broad network in the BC/NAV ecosystem. His mission is to optimize your Business Central with smart out-of-the-box integrations. idyn started with the very successful Object Manager Advanced; NAV tooling for developers. Connectivity and integration are the key points for the solutions of idyn. Connect your BC with the five different areas of solutions: shipping (ShipIT & Sendcloud), e-commerce (Commerce 365 for Magento), banking (Direct Banking & Cobase Bank Connector), connectivity (ConnectIT 365) and development (OMA for NAV and OMA 365 for BC).

A seasoned Dynamics NAV professional with 17 years of experience in the field. He began his Dynamics journey as an IT Manager for an automotive company that used Microsoft Business Solutions version 2.7 at the time. He then transitioned to the implementation side, working for Microsoft Partners and taking part in all stages of project delivery. He has done Presales, Project Analysis, Product Design and Development, Training and Technical Support. He has delivered projects in various industries and regions, including Cyprus, Europe and the Middle East, using all NAV and BC versions. He has also created and developed various NAV and Business Central modules. Moreover, he has spent the last 5 years working extensively with the Power Platform. He is also an MCT for Business Central and the Power Platform. He is currently an Engagement Manager at Xenatus Global, where he oversees all ISV products and their roadmap, as well as implementing Business Central and the Power Platform solutions.

Steve Gichure is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer with 12 years of experience implementing ERP solutions across Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the US. Stephen has been an active member of the Business Central community in New Zealand for the last 5 years, sharing his knowledge in community events across NZ. He now works as a freelance contractor, focusing on enabling business transformation through software innovations

Experienced General Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry. Skilled in Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Software Implementation. Strong implementation professional with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration focused in Accounting from Rockhurst University. Currently responsible for managing Nolan's North American office while overseeing the quality of new products before they get to market; work 1:1 with customers and partners to ensure they receive the most value out of their products and know how they work.

Andrew’s extensive knowledge has been built from personal experiences with a wide range of companies. His Engineering background has been provided opportunities to work in a variety of operational and management roles. Projects have ranged from new implementations, special projects, and upgrades through to streamlining business operations. 20 years of Business Central and NAV experience means that he can provide a variety of perspectives when working with clients. Andrew has continued his commitment to continuous learning personally and professionally. To support the end users and partners that we work with, he is a MCT, DCP (Dynamics Certified Professional), MCP and Professional Engineer. He has helped clients get the most out of their BC/NAV systems, through integrations, upgrades, and extensions that allow them to deal with their changing business environments. These projects range from integrations, financial operations, rentals, distribution and manufacturing.

Klaus Gregersen is leading the TD SYNNEX Microsoft Bizz Apps business in Europe and has been with TD SYNNEX for the last 10 year. Before joining TD SYNNEX’s European organization Klaus Gregersen was leading the Cloud & Software business in TD SYNNEX Denmark and the TD SYNNEX Microsoft business in all Nordic countries. During the period the TD SYNNEX Microsoft Business Applications has been rolled out to cover 24 European countries, North America, LATAM and APJ. TD SYNNEX is 2023/2024 Inner Circle Member, Global Partner of the Year 2023 in Operational Excellence and Finalist in the Indirect Provider category.

Tomas Grubliauskas is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Business Central Client team. Tomas has 10 years of experience building client experiences in ERP and SMB field. Currently, Tomas is leading Business Central modern client efforts for web and mobile. Tomas is the go-to person for questions about UI, Accessibility, PWA, JS add-ins, Android/IOS apps and browser client.

Coming to VRS from French industrial company Elis, as director for business intelligence, Erlend has comprehensive leadership experience across varied management roles, working closely with customers in complex industries. Erlend has a masters degree in finance and international management from Norwegian School of Economics (UiA) and Oregon State University.

Mark Hamblin is passionate about Dynamics 365 Business Central for manufacturing and distribution and has a deep technical knowledge of the platform.

Nima has 6 years experience in the warehouse space, helping customers optimize their warehouse through Mobile WMS.

Previously a Microsoft Dynamics superuser, Kay has seen both sides of implementation projects. She enjoys working with partners and customers to help them streamline work processes and keep up with an increasingly digital world.

With over 25 years’ experience in the IT business, Niels-Erik Hansen has developed a huge passion for business development and IT strategy. Working with Navision Software and at the Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen for 7 years, I have gained a deep insight into the traditional Dynamics NAV customer and business management software market. I also have a strong background working in the Microsoft Dynamics partner channel, establishing businesses in Europe for international ISVs and distributors. Whether I’m talking to a partner or doing presales activities with a customer, I am dedicated to making life easier for business users and improving the quality and effectiveness of their IT solutions.

Torsten Harnack is the Industry Manager and industry expert responsible for the further development of our solution offering for companies in the process industry with more than 20 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (NAV).

Roozbeh is the Account Executive at Binary Stream Software Inc. He's based in Vancouver, Canada. He's the main point of contact for partners and helps them with onboarding, training, and driving additional revenue with Microsoft-preferred D365 solutions. Alongside a great team of CPAs, Roozbeh helps partners solve their prospect’s business challenges and add desired new functionality. He’s always looking for opportunities to explore new partnerships with new partners, connect with him today: linkedin.com/in/roozbeh-hashemi/

Jule is a 30-year-old ACP Atlassian certified professional with three years of experience at Singhammer IT Consulting AG. Her journey began in BC Consulting before transitioning to a cloud team, working on integrating tools into the Dynamics world. In her new role, she conducted insightful customer interviews, focusing on their requirements in Service Management and the advantages of best-of-breed solutions. She was entrusted with the responsibility of spearheading the establishment of a dynamic and innovative consulting team, aimed at bringing cloud solutions to clients.

Henrik is a Veteran in the NAV and Business Central world. Henrik has worked with clients in a plethora of industries and geographic locations and sizes. Henrik is proud to be known as a dinosaur ...

Tanya Henderson is the founder of Tess Team . Tanya has been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and is passionate about ERP solutions and Power Bi Reporting. Tanya is a solution architect, consultant and trainer who is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Dynamics GP, Dynamics BC and Power BI. She believes in the giving back as an active community Leader through philanthropy in the Salt Lake City region and the Microsoft Technical community.

Ongoing Warehouse Specialist

As Industry Manager, Michael Hering is responsible for discrete manufacturing issues and the further development of our solutions with more than 20 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (NAV).

Content Manager for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Supply Chain Management

Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on bringing the Business Central application to GitHub.

Being part of the Microsoft Dynamics community since 1990, Erik Hougaard has worked with every version and visited all corners of the system. He has worked with NAV for the biggest companies in Denmark and across numerous industries. He is a Managing Partner in EFOQUS, a Canadian Microsoft Partner developing products and solutions with Dynamics 365 Business Central. Erik is an active community contributor passionate about sharing his deep technical knowledge, and he has been awarded a Microsoft MVP Award for his Dynamics NAV contributions every year since 2014. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences and has been blogging about Dynamics since 2013. In 2019 he wrote the BUSINESS CENTRAL FIELD GUIDE to help customers understand the system, with or without external help. In 2020 he added a YouTube channel publishing weekly videos with hacks and insights for Microsoft 365 Business Central programming.

Working as a Product Manager and Product Owner for almost a decade. Joined Wisefish as Product manager in 2022 and is focusing on scaling up Wisefish. Has degrees in Business Administration, Project Management and Inforamation Management.

Fabian Huber is Senior Technical Evangelist at dox42. He is responsible for Sales and Partner management. He presents dox42 to customers and partners at various events, international conferences, and online meetings. Additionally, he is the product manager for dox42 in Business Central. He has built in-depth knowledge and project know-how on process optimization and document automation for various technologies (Microsoft SharePoint, MS Office, Dynamics 365, SAP, etc.). He is also accompanying customers and partners through the entire dox42 implementation process. Furthermore, he holds workshops and trainings for partners and customers, and he supports dox42 in various Marketing activities.

Emmy works with Modern Work and Business Applications CSP go to market growth strategy.

1:st Class Integration Platform

Rob Jackson, a distinguished IT professional, is the Technical Director at Cosmos Data Technologies. With over 16 years of experience in the Microsoft Channel, Rob provides technical enablement, strategy, guidance, and platform expertise, working to enhance business intelligence and analytics offerings, in particular for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. Experienced with a wide range of reporting and analytics tools, Rob's contributions have earned him a reputation as an industry leader.

Henrik is leading the Go to Market strategy regarding Business Applications (ERP) in the Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal). His responsibilities include alignment, execution, and activities across Microsoft resources and investments.

For many years I have been working with implementations of the Microsoft ERP-platforms. Looking into specific ISV solutions for the Business Central platform - the JobManager Extension have had my greatest interest. By implementing the JobManager solution - companies achieves more acurate and better calculations, better planning, making more growth and optimizing Internal Critical Business Processes. These are just some of the benefits along with many others. I succeed when customers increase the usability when investing in ISV modules.

20+ years experience working with NAV and Business Central from the partner channel, Microsoft as well as with large customers. 8+ years with Microsoft working in different roles all with Business Central as main focus area.

Over 15 years working within technical sales in the IT industry, focusing on AI, ERP, CRM and Business Applications.

Thomas is a software engineer working on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team. Thomas has 25+ years of experience in Microsoft and has also worked on other products, like Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O. For the last several years, he has been working on the Business Central team, in areas like client add-ins, designer, personalization, onboarding, data grid, performance, and client UI in general. Recently he has been working on the new framework for Copilot & AI experiences in Business Central.

Rob graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor’s of Engineering in the early 90s. He has read “The Goal” at least 4 times, “Lean Thinking” at least 3 times, and has seen Star Wars more times than he can count (Han shot first!). He is an avid collector of music and, using “The Rolling Stone Top 500 Album List” as a guide, has managed to buy 490 of the 500 best albums of all time (as CDs - the rest are out of print).

Tomas has been working with Dynamics NAV & Business Central since his University studies. He started his journey as a NAV developer but quickly moved to a lead role. For the last few years, he has been leading new developers on their way to understanding both C/AL & AL languages and core Business Central processes. He is very passionate about how to work with data using modern D365 products. He is a huge fan of all open-source programs, including the base/system app ones. He's currently living in Brisbane, Qld, Australia and enjoying the neverending summer.

Over 20 years in Dynamics. Driving Data Strategies for Partners and Customers.

As CEO of NETRONIC, I help SMB organizations to gain operational agility with visual scheduling. I am responsible for NETRONIC's strategy, for innovation, and for our go-to-market. As such, I am the driving force behind providing visual scheduling extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central. I am the host of the Business Central Manufacturing Show (podcast) and author of the "State of Business Central and Manufacturing" report. In my spare time, I am a passionate (and successful) youth football coach and a passionate (and not very elegant) skier.

Dmitry is a Business Central specialist with an impressive 17 years of experience. His journey began in 2004, and over the years, he has held various roles, from a developer to the successful owner of his own company. Highly acclaimed in the Business Central community, Dmitry has earned the prestigious MVP title, showcasing his expertise and passion for the platform through insightful blogs and unwavering dedication. Driven by a passion for innovation and cutting-edge technologies, Dmitry created CentralQ.ai in 2023. This revolutionary AI-powered search platform, fueled by the collective knowledge of the Business Central community, has quickly become an invaluable tool for professionals in the field. With a remarkable talent for transforming ideas into reality, Dmitry continuously pushes the boundaries of what's possible in the exciting world of Microsoft Business Central. MVP, owner - Katson.com

Arend-Jan Kauffmann is CTO at Lumos 365 Ltd., a UK-based partner with a Business Central solution for the energy sector. With over 20 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central and 30 years of experience in the IT industry, he has a solid track record in this business. With a strong focus on architecture, design and integration, he worked in different roles and with a broad range of technologies and platforms, including C/SIDE & VS Code development, C/AL and AL, Microsoft .Net, Microsoft Azure and Office 365. He strongly believes that knowledge increases by sharing it, not by saving it. By delivering workshops and being a frequent speaker at conferences, he can put this into practice. Since 2013 Arend-Jan is awarded as Microsoft MVP Business Solutions.

Kim Dam Klausen is Services Director and Senior Solution Architect at Ciellos. With 25 years of software architecture design and development experience in the tech industry, Kim has worked with numerous customers around the world successfully delivering solutions in the Dynamics ERP and telecommunications space. He is passionate about bringing team members together helping businesses leverage technology to achieve their goals.

My name is Stefan, 34 yo & proud Product Owner from the start at Apportunix. With ten apps under my wings and backed by 12+ years of implementing Business Central, I strive to make the work of end-customers in Microsoft D365 Business Central even more efficient.

Experienced Business Central evangelist

Platform developer for Dynamics 365 Business Central for 15+ years with experience in most areas of the platform. Currently focusing on running Business Central as a service in relation to resource governance, scalability, availability and security, authentication and licensing.

With extensive experience spanning multiple years, I possess adept familiarity with diverse Dynamics Products, including but not limited to Business Central, Finance and Operations and Dynamics Sales. My expertise also encompasses the Power Platform, with a primary focus on developing tailored solutions for the professional service industry.

Ivan has been with Microsoft for 10 years with product since 2001, holding finance consulting and product manager roles within the localization team and then in core Application and Integration teams. For last couple of years, he focused on helping making Business more intuitive, deliver on application product feedback and working on integration between Business Central and Dataverse and Dynamics 365 for Sales.

Ugne Kontare is a Chief Inspiration Officer at Softera Baltic, a leading European cloud-ready company and 2022 Partner of the Year in Lithuania. With a rich history of product development under the SOFT4 brand, Ugne offers insights on creating successful products and managing high-performing teams. Her expertise spans SMB sales, leadership, and a focus on Microsoft Dynamics, with 15+ years of experience in roles like Marketing, Sales, CEO, and Business Development. She can share her wisdom on: 🤝Effective team building and management 🤝Crafting and executing software product strategies for profitability, from analysis to launch. You can always start the conversation with her by sharing hiking and healthy nutrition tips. :) #SOFT4Leasing #SOFT4Lessee #SOFT4RealEstate #SOFT4Factoring

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievgeniikorovin/

All the time !

Software Engineer for the Dynamics 365 Business Central Control Plane team at Microsoft.

Freddy is the Lead for the Business Central MVP group and is trying to make sure that our Most Valuable Professionals gets the information, love and attention they need to assist and make sure we have a good and vibrant community around Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Freddy is responsible for everything around Docker, the BcContainerHelper PowerShell module and our plug-and-play DevOps solution AL-Go for GitHub, which can help partners and customers to run their DevOps processes without the need of a DevOps engineer. All these offerings are open source and Freddy uses among other things his blog (https://freddysblog.com) to evangelize these areas to the community.

Biography

Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen is a principal architect on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team. He has been working on the modern development story since the beginning and wrote the first lines of what would eventually become the new AL compiler. Prior to joining Microsoft, Esben had his own software company, developing project/time management software for Time/system International and later, a combined POS and online reservation system for bowling centers. With over 20 years of experience in software development, Esben has worked on various projects including Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) and Fenway. He later moved to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV team in 2006. Esben is an expert in his field and has been invited to speak at several conferences around the world.

Founded Abakion in 2000

Rembrandt has been engaged in the ERP business for the SME market for the past two decades. During his studies in Business Administration at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he embarked on his entrepreneurial journey at the young age of 20. Fast forward 20 years, he now holds the position of Managing Partner at TCOG, one of the leading independent Dynamics 365 Business Central partners in the Benelux region. TCOG boasts a network of three offices and a dedicated team of over 100 employees. TCOG specializes in serving the Fashion, Retail, and Hospitality sectors, fostering a longstanding and fruitful collaboration with LS Retail for over 15 years

Ieva Kukeviciene, CEO at Simplanova. Ieva spent the last five years in the Dynamics ecosystem, growing the company Simplanova, the official Microsoft ISV development center.

Nikola has joined Microsoft 2007, right after the graduation. He has worked as part of the Client team on the first version of Role Tailored Client and later the first version of Web and SharePoint clients. After the NAV 2013 release, Nikola has joined the application team and was working on APIs and Integrations, Finance area, currently his focus is on driving Upgrade, Cloud Migration and effort on AL test tooling.

My focus is to help Microsoft partners to start a Dynamics 365 practice and/or Partner to Partner collaboration. Active programs: 16 Weeks of Help - Partner Activation Program Dynamics 365 Partner Sales Academy P2P - Partner to Partner setup and coordination 30+ years within ERP & CRM with a focus on SMB and Microsoft Dynamics 365. 13 years at Microsoft in several leadership roles.

Working with our customers & partners to enable digital transformation and create business value through leveraging the Microsoft platform.

15 years of experience in BC (NAV) with focus on financial accounting incl. assets, cost accounting and cash flow. Many years of experience in writing specifications and manuals, hotline activity, project management, product owner NCCA (Cost Accounting) and other Navax apps for NAVAX.

With more than 15 years experience in Dynamics ERP's as well in logistic, food industry or finance. Etienne is now combining use of powerplatform's tools to make ERP end user experience more comprehensive.

Markus Lippert is working for COSMO CONSULT (cosmoconsult.com) as a DevOps Engineer and technical lead for COSMO Alpaca. Born near Ulm in Germany, Markus got his master's degree in computer science and started as a developer for Business Software and .NET. After different positions with development and operations tasks, Markus became DevOps Engineer for COSMO CONSULT. He is blogging on lippertmarkus.com, where he writes about DevOps, Windows Containers and cloud-native technologies, but also tooling like Visual Studio Code. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container orchestration and automation. When Markus isn't busy trying out new technologies, he also loves to work on his personal development by doing sports, hiking or reading.

Partner Development Manager for Distributors | IAMCP Board Member Kate Lipshina is an accomplished professional known for her prowess in forging partnerships and driving tech sector growth. With a background in sales and business development, she's currently the Partner Development Manager for Distributors at a leading tech company. Kate bridges the gap between tech providers and distributors, shaping organizational success. She is an IAMCP board member, which is world's larger independent organization of Microsoft channel partners, where she actively shaping its vision. She also mentors the next generation of tech leaders and advocates for diversity and inclusion in the industry. Kate's career exemplifies dedication and the transformative power of partnerships in tech.

Founder of Tasklet Factory

Sune is a Senior solution Architect and Manufacturing & Supply Chain expert with the Business Central team at Abakion. Sune has +20 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central in various roles within consultancy, product development, sales & presales, business development and management.

Hermen is an accomplished visual thinking expert and design strategist. He collaborates with executives globally to align people and activate vision, strategy, and transformation. His visual approach unlocks the human brain's processing power and boosts inventiveness and co-creation in teams. Hermen has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients in Europe, the United States, Africa, China, and the Middle East for the past decade. Besides client work, Hermen teaches thousands of students worldwide to structure and communicate ideas in his online Visual Thinking course. He regularly volunteers to use his skills and experience to create a positive impact.

Jens has been with Microsoft for more than 20 years and has worked on the Business Central product (and previously Dynamics NAV) for most of this time. He is currently leading the Server Runtime team, so his everyday responsibility is to ensure that the BC backend is always stable and performant.

Henrik Frovst Madsen joined Microsoft in 2001 as a developer on Axapta before joining the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) team and later the Fenway team. For the past 9 years, Henrik has worked on Dynamics NAV in various roles and positions, focusing on client and application, lately also in the context of PaaS and SaaS. He is now engineering manager and is working on simplifying and improving the SCM area in Business Central and driving the Performance Toolkit.

Frank CEO of OctoCon GmbH, Board member of YAVEON GmbH and Board member of Directions EMEA. Frank started his career as a passionate NAV developer. After that Frank worked as Microsoft certified Trainer, consultant and project manager. NAV and the whole BC stack are not only tools to work with, they are until today passion for Frank. Since the early beginning Frank was one of the persons who formed Directions. Frank lives with his family on the countryside in South Germany. In his free time you can find Frank often cycling, on the golf course, running or skiing.

Predrag Maricic is a Software Engineering Manager on the Microsoft Business Central team. He joined Microsoft in 2011, after working for 9 years within the area of financial and ERP software. In Microsoft, he was covering wide range of responsibilities - delivering global features, transforming application test strategy, implementing extension strategy, making the product ready for SaaS and developing artificial intelligence features. Lately, he has been involved in shaping up localization strategy and delivering Business Central worldwide.

Stefan is a developer and a system architect for Dynamics NAV and Business Central. Since 2016, Stefan has been actively involved in various community projects, showcasing his passion for collaboration and knowledge sharing. His largest community contributions are the MSDyn365BC.Code.History on GitHub and the BusinessCentral.LinterCop, a custom analyzer for the AL Language.

My purpose is to help companies to grow business through focusing on customer experience, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. I work with leadership teams to support them in building customer listening programs to better understand top priorities (where experience gaps exist and new potential is untapped) and to help establish practices across organizations to deliver an exceptional customer experience. With 14 years of experience in the Microsoft Dynamics market, I currently work in the role of Partner Experience Lead at Companial. I’m also a passionate ambassador of the CX management profession. I actively speak, write, and consult on this domain. As part of this journey, I co-founded the Customer Experience Managers Association (Towards Customer) in Lithuania where we build CX peers' community, exchange best practices, and seek to contribute to the further development of the CX management profession.

When I was in college I started my career as a .NET developer. In the meantime, I graduated and moved to another city where I accidentally bumped into Dynamics NAV. Step by step, I was more and more in love with it. And now I am a Dynamics 365 Business Central developer with a little knowledge of .NET and JavaScript. Since we have a great community that I have been following for some time now that motivated me to start my blog mmilince.com. I started writing about real-life Business Central things which could help other devs also.

#UserExperienceDesign #Onboarding #FirstRunExperience #InUIGuidance #UnblockingUsers #ReducingFriction #BetterErrorHandling #D365BusinessCentral

6 wonderful years at Microsoft

Klaas truly believes that you can improve everything – as long as you can measure it. He is the founder of Birds and have multiple years of experience supporting companies making their Business Intelligent

As the SMB Channel Sales Lead of Tech for Social Impact at Microsoft Germany, Netherlands and Western Europe, Shalona Moodley brings together 15 years of experience spanning commercial and social businesses. She utilizes this experience to enable Microsoft Partners to empower nonprofits to fight inequality, eliminate poverty, protect the planet, and drive massive impact while driving business growth.

Tim is Director Product Marketing in the WW Microsoft Business Applications Marketing team and leads the field go-to-market strategy for Microsoft Dynamics 365.

I like lots of stuff 👉 Power Platform 💘 Dynamics 365 🚀 Azure 🧙‍♂️ Microsoft MVP ✍ blogs at https://nckr.de Worked for over 10 years with Microsoft Biz Apps as a solution architect / developer, started with Business Central nowadays loving the Power Platform & Azure Building repeatable software at knk Group 🏭

Responsible for Infrastructure and Delivery for Business Central, focusing on improving support processes, stabilization, Cloud Operations and Service Fundamentals

Vincent has been working with Business Central for over ten years. He and his team are responsible for the architecture of Business Central and for driving innovation. During the last years, he has been focusing on modernizing the development tools, modernizing the clients and making Business Central a world class cloud service.

Having worked for 28 years at Microsoft and Navision (acquired by Microsoft in 2002), Michael is, among other things, the father of C/AL and C/SIDE. For the last five years, he has been a director of engineering, responsible for moving Microsoft Dynamics NAV from on-premises to a cloud solution and from a Windows user interface to app-on-device. Today, Michael is co-founder and partner at ForNAV, and focuses on enhancing report for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Worked with Business Central and previous versions since 1994. Special foqus on workflow and the end-user. Specialized in distributed data models, with transaction and traceability.

New Microsoftee, support french partners on business applications for SMC market.

Ferhat took over numerous international warehouse software & planning projects since 2006. More than 10 years of leadership responsibility in warehousing units followed. In 2021 he joined SIEVERS-GROUP to further develop a holistic WMS experience: SIEVERS WMS.

Many years of experience in implementing and modifying Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions. In addition, I also dealt with many solutions from the Power Platform, which has several applications used daily in various business areas. Over the years, I had the opportunity to find myself in different business situations and overcome obstacles creatively. Leader of the Serbian Community named BizSource, which focuses on Microsoft business applications with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Now I want to share my knowledge and experience with you.

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Andrei Panko is a Product Manager on the Business Central engineering team at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen. He started working with Business Central (back then it was Dynamics NAV) as a consultant, developer, and project manager back in 2004, and was an MVP for six consecutive years. Andrei has extensive field experience in the supply chain, and has engaged in many other aspects of the Business Central application and platform as well. His focus is on building solutions with rich business functionality and low implementation cost.

Experienced professional with proven strength in developing long term strategic business sales and marketing capabilities. Passionate about business development and sales enablement through mentoring and coaching of people and teams to deliver results. Strongly motivated by intellectual challenges, the use of quantitative analysis to understand influencing business factors and the application of technology to positively impact business growth. A self-starter with proven experience of influencing change within organisations and a demonstrable track record of influencing business strategy and technology adoption to align with company vision. Strong knowledge of sales cycle, supporting processes and experience in accurate forecast management across multiple touch points to cover reach, frequency and yield requirements. Broad technical background with an understanding of business solutions at an architectural level and a deep understanding of the business productivity stack at both business and functional level. Excellent organisational, communication, project management, negotiation and problem solving skills. Ability/experience of driving change programmatically.

Works on developer docs and tools for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team.

Since 20 years, Nils has been responsible for the development of a lot of deeply integrated extensions/add-ons for Microsoft Dynamics. Now, Nils leads the Anveo product management at Anveo Group.

I started my IT career in the late 90's. In regards to Dynamics and the former Microsoft Business Solution products, I used to work for many years as functional consultant and project manager for partners. I joined Microsoft in early 2017 and I'm super passionate to evangelize and enable the Dynamics ecosystem with the latest capabilities and to support the partners and it's customers on their digital journey.

In the community since 97.

Enthusiastic and positive minded individual focused on Microsoft Technology stack. Love to expand my knowledge regarding the wondering worlds of Microsoft. People first mindset. Collaborator and tech enthusiast. Loves sports.

Heike Peters has over 30 years of experience in the ERP space. Originally from Germany Heike spent the first part of her career implementing ERP solutions across Europe. Since relocating to the United States Heike continued her work with multi-national organizations and helping them collaborate across functional and cultural lines. As an engagement manager at Stoneridge Software Heike is responsible to ensure Business Central implementation clients have a good experience and a successful project outcome.

Nick is a Solutions Consultant with Binary Stream, specializing in functional knowledge of D365 Business Central software solutions, including Multi-Entity Management, Subscription Billing Suite, and Property Lease Management. Prior to his role at Binary Stream, Nick worked in the Public Accounting industry for 3+ years where he obtained his CPA designation in Vancouver, Canada. As an accountant, he specialized in assurance and has evaluated many different ERP solutions and since seen the incredible benefits that Microsoft can offer to their users of Dynamics 365.

Has more than 14 years of professional experience in the field of automation using Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central. Specializes in advising users and setting processes with maximum use standard functionality. She is passionate about Power platform and Viva product and likes solutions where technology can make life easier. Microsoft MVP, MCT.

Experienced Business Central evangelist