6-8 November 2024
Directions EMEA 2024
Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, ISVs, VARs and their peers. The focus is on helping the SMB market unlock its full potential in technical, business development and strategy with ERP, CRM, and Cloud solutions, including the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Azure.
06-11-2024
Microsoft roundtable: Why you should use a managed DevOps solution!
Around 50% of our partners are still using self-made DevOps solutions, based on BcContainerHelper and Docker.
This session will be an interactive session (roundtable), where we will be requesting your participation/feedback in discussions.
If you are using a self-made DevOps solution, then join this roundtable to learn more about the changes which are coming your way.
If you are using a managed DevOps solution (like AL-Go for GitHub, ALOps or Alpaca), then join this roundtable to discuss and provide feedback on how we can evolve these solutions going forward.
Speakers:
Eric "waldo" Wauters
"Because you can doesn't mean you should"
Eric “waldo†Wauters
Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Dynex bv.
With his 21 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams.  As development manager he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto and Dynex.
   
Apart from that, Eric is also very active in BC community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric's posts, which he invariably signs with “waldoâ€.
Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on github.
His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).
Eric "waldo" Wauters
"Because you can doesn't mean you should"
Eric “waldo†Wauters
Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Dynex bv.
With his 21 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams.  As development manager he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto and Dynex.
   
Apart from that, Eric is also very active in BC community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric's posts, which he invariably signs with “waldoâ€.
Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on github.
His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).
Freddy Kristiansen
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
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.
Freddy is also one of the leads 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 Kristiansen
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
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.
Freddy is also one of the leads 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.
Jonas Blunck
Engineering Manager
Jonas run the Engineering Systems teams for Dynamics 365 Business Central and has been working on build, test and CI/CD systems for the past 20 years.
Jonas Blunck
Engineering Manager
Jonas run the Engineering Systems teams for Dynamics 365 Business Central and has been working on build, test and CI/CD systems for the past 20 years.
Maria Zhelezova
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Software engineer at Microsoft, working on the engineering systems team for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Passionate about working on GitHub and AL-Go.
Maria Zhelezova
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Software engineer at Microsoft, working on the engineering systems team for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Passionate about working on GitHub and AL-Go.
Markus Lippert
Team Manager, COSMO CONSULT
Markus Lippert is working for COSMO CONSULT (cosmoconsult.com) as a Team Manager 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 Team Manager at 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.
Markus Lippert
Team Manager, COSMO CONSULT
Markus Lippert is working for COSMO CONSULT (cosmoconsult.com) as a Team Manager 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 Team Manager at 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.