4-6 November 2025 in Poznan, Poland
Directions EMEA 2025
Join us for Directions EMEA 2025 - experience the latest updates from Microsoft and the ecosystem while connecting with the entire Business Central community, including resellers, add-on providers, Microsoft, CSPs, MVPs, developers, consultants, sales and marketing professionals, and business leaders. Fuel your motivation, inspiration, and success through sharing and collaboration.
05-11-2025
Microsoft presents: What's new in server and database
Join us for an overview of the latest enhancements in the Business Central server and corresponding database from 2025 release wave 1 and 2. Focus will be on features from wave 2.
Speakers:
Jens Møller-Pedersen
Engineering Manager, BC Server Runtime. Making it run faster
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 server is always stable and performant.
Jens Møller-Pedersen
Engineering Manager, BC Server Runtime. Making it run faster
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 server is always stable and performant.
Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan
Microsoft
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 25+ years in the it industry. He enjoys working with data and databases and really, really enjoys working using KQL. Kennie has no humor.
Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan
Microsoft
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 25+ years in the it industry. He enjoys working with data and databases and really, really enjoys working using KQL. Kennie has no humor.
Sessions
Keynote Day 1 Microsoft presents: What's new in financial reporting Microsoft presents: What's new in analytics Microsoft presents: What's new in document reporting Microsoft presents: Introducing MCP server for Business Central Microsoft roundtable: Project Sequioa Microsoft presents: What's new in server and database Microsoft presents: Demoing Power BI apps for prospective and existing customers Microsoft roundtable: Auditing challenges Microsoft roundtable: Localizing Financial Reporting templates