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.
OGs, or Original Gangsters, are once skilled in C/AL and NAV, but now find AL and BC a bit challenging due to many new language and platform features to learn.
In this session, we'll cover coding topics that might be unfamiliar to many of you. These areas are not often used, sometimes because they are needed only for specific cases, and mostly because different approaches are used to solve problems. They might also be new to you, and you may lack the time or knowledge to explore them (Copilot, anyone?).
Speakers:
Arend-Jan Kauffmann
CTO at Lumos 365 Ltd. | MVP
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.
Arend-Jan Kauffmann
CTO at Lumos 365 Ltd. | MVP
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.
Sessions
BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (for consultants) BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (for developers) OAuth revealed Advanced coding for OGs BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (Repeat) BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (Repeat)
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 "waldo".
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 "waldo".
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).
Sessions
BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (for consultants) BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (for developers) Advanced coding for OGs Chalk ‘n Talk: Business Central Telemetry BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (Repeat) BCTalent: Think You Know Business Central? Prove It in Our In-Product Escape Room (Repeat)