27-29 October 2026 - Paris, France
Directions EMEA 2026
Join us in Paris for Directions EMEA 2026! This year, we’re bringing the Dynamics 365 Business Central community to one of the world’s most iconic cities. Join resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, Distis, MVPs, developers, consultants, and business leaders from across EMEA to explore the latest innovations and strategies shaping our ecosystem. Get ahead with the people who build Business Central.
Normal ticket - 1499 EUR
Group discount 10% for 5+, 20% for 10+
People at the Booth
| Time | Name | Areas that I cover |
|---|---|---|
| 10:50-11:15 | Reem Ellabban | PSS AIBP MEA, Partner sales |
| Jenn Claridge | MVP | |
| Andy Wingate | MVP | |
| Ludwig Kilian | Partner Sales | |
| Farah Saeedi | Benelux BPLead | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Joost Bulsink | Governance & Administration, Usage-Based Billing, Cloud Migration tooling |
| Renato Fajdiga | MVP | |
| Muhammad Omer Saeed | Administration, scalability, availability, Updates, hotfixes and BC operations | |
| Maria Zhelezova | GitHub, Open Source, AL-Go for GitHub | |
| steffen Balslev | Development tools, agentic development, Business Central agents, NL customization, Marketplace | |
| Sherlie Chelladurai | User Research for BC (Expense agent, copilot, payables agent) | |
| 12:00-12:45 | José Antonio García García | Finance, Payables Agents, Evals & Experiments |
| Thomas Redder | Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Thomas Pedersen | Developer tooling, AL Language | |
| Marta-Vladyslava Baranovych | Agents, Evals & Experiments | |
| Robb Delprado | MVP | |
| Peter Nicks | Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Peter Borring | Development tools, Business Central agents, NL customization, Marketplace, page scripting | |
| Haoran Sun | BC-Bench, Evals & Experimens | |
| 12.45-13:30 | Jesper Schulz-Wedde | Agentic Development, BCQuality, GitHub, Open Source |
| Christian Heide Damm | Scalability, performance, Payables Agent, agent strategy | |
| Henrik Krogh Andersen | Partner Sales | |
| Peter Jakobsen | Application, Commercial, Programs | |
| Duilio Tacconi | MVP | |
| Kilian Seizinger | MVP | |
| Nico Charritton | Strategy, GTM, BC + Copilot, UKI | |
| Artur Ventsel | Application, Finance, Localization, Agentic Development | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Alaa BITAR | Microsoft Copilot & Copilot Studio integration, agents and Power Platform |
| Arend-Jan Kauffmann | MVP | |
| Tom Kapitan | MVP | |
| Damien Girard | MCP, AI, Platform | |
| Jens Møller-Pedersen | Agent strategy, AL, Performance, Reliability, Business Central Platform | |
| Christian Baek | Everything - but lets start with anything business related | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Albert Maouad | AIBP Western Europe. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Vesa Krasnikji | Developer tooling, Administration | |
| Tom Kapitan | MVP | |
| Mads Gram | Performance, Runtime, Server, AL | |
| Christina Buhelt | Agentic Development, Privacy, Compliance, Support | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Federico Stanghellini | PSS AIBP Italy. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Marta Carvalho | PSS AIBP Portugal. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Marta Pons | PSS AIBP Spain. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Steven Chinsky | MVP | |
| Rayner Vaz | Complex workloads, scalability, availability, performance, agentic ops | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Tanya Henderson | MVP |
| Kurt Juvyns | OptimAL, GrowthLab, BCTalent, ISVs, MVPs & Disney movies | |
| Prangshuman Das | Expense Agent, Sales Order Agent, Evals, Copilot features, SCM | |
| Alexander Holstrup | GitHub, Open-Source, AL-Go for GitHub | |
| Elaine Kelly | Licensing, migration promos, DUR | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Blazej Kotelko | Microsoft Copilot integration, Microsoft Copilot Studio intergation, agents and Power Platform. |
| Thomas Pedersen | Developer tooling, AL Language | |
| Stefano Demiliani | MVP | |
| Claudiu Ciumedean | Expense Agent, Client, Mobile Clients, Copilot features | |
| Maria Zhelezova | GitHub, Open Source, AL-Go for GitHub | |
| Aleksandar Totovic | Expense Agent, Finance, Localizations | |
| Andrei Panko | Subcontracting, Quality Management, Sales Order Agent, Shopify Connector, SCM | |
| 17:00-17:45 | Nikola Kukrika | pgrade, Cloud Migrations, Business Centra Agents, Test Automation, Design patters, Extensibility |
| Evgenij Korovin | Copilot, Cowork, Agents strategy | |
| Shannon Mullins | MVP | |
| Ksenia Oreshkina | Sustainability, Payables Agent, EDI, Integration to Microsoft Copilot | |
| Maura Cannon | Licensing, migration promos, DUR | |
| Horina Serbanescu | Copilot, Expense Agent, Agents strategy, Clients, Evals | |
| Artur Ventsel | Application, Finance, Localization, Agentic Development | |
| 17:45-20.00 | Expo Reception | |
| Time | Name | Areas that I cover |
|---|---|---|
| 10:50-11:15 | Alaa BITAR | Microsoft Copilot & Copilot Studio integration, agents and Power Platform |
| Cecile Dinh | MVP | |
| Farah Saeedi | Benelux BP Lead | |
| Ludwig Kilian | Partner Sales | |
| Vesa Krasnikji | Developer tooling, Administration | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Jesper Schulz-Wedde | Agentic Development, BCQuality, GitHub, Open Source |
| Marta-Vladyslava Baranovych | Agents, Evals & Experiments | |
| Joost Bulsink | Governance & Administration, Usage-Based Billing, Cloud Migration tooling | |
| Rayner Vaz | Complex workloads, scalability, availability, performance, agentic ops | |
| Stefan Maron | MVP | |
| 12:00-12:45 | José Antonio García García | Finance, Payables Agents, Evals & Experiments |
| Thomas Redder | ||
| Peter Nicks | Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Peter Jakobsen | Application, Commercial, Programs | |
| Tine Staric | MVP | |
| Tom Kapitan | MVP | |
| Nico Charritton | Strategy, GTM, BC + Copilot, UKI | |
| 12.45-13:30 | Christian Heide Damm | Scalability, performance, Payables Agent, agent strategy |
| Haoran Sun | BC-Bench, Evals & Experimens | |
| Predrag Maricic | Application, SCM, Sales Order Agent | |
| Duilio Tacconi | MVP | |
| Tom Paquin | BO | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Peter Rhodin | Business Process PSA WE: Agentic AI, Partner programs, Technical collaboration with partners |
| Maura Cannon | Licensing, migration promos, DUR | |
| Muhammad Omer Saeed | Administration, scalability, availability, Updates, hotfixes and BC operations | |
| Henrik Krogh Andersen | Partner Sales | |
| Milan Milincevic | MVP | |
| Alexandre Pombo | Sales Strategy | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Albert Maouad | AIBP Western Europe. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Federico Stanghellini | PSS AIBP Italy. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Mike Borg Cardona | Integration to Microsoft Copilot, OneDrive, Outlook, Excel, Teams. | |
| Roberto Corella | MVP | |
| Javier Armesto | MVP | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Marta Carvalho | PSS AIBP Portugal. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Marta Pons | PSS AIBP Spain. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| Torben Leth | MVP | |
| Reem Ellabban | PSS AIBP MEA, partner sales | |
| Rebecca Newton | PSS AIBP UKI. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Steven Chinsky | MVP |
| Andrei Panko | Subcontracting, Quality Management, Sales Order Agent, Shopify Connector, SCM | |
| Christian Baek | Everything - but lets start with anything business related | |
| Ksenia Oreshkina | Sustainability, Payables Agent, EDI, Integration to Microsoft Copilot | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Kennie Pontoppidan | Analytics, Document reporting, MCP server, telemetry, performance, AL runtime |
| Blazej Kotelko | Microsoft Copilot integration, Microsoft Copilot Studio intergation, agents and Power Platform. | |
| Stefano Demiliani | MVP | |
| Msangi Masera | MVP | |
| Mads Gram | Performance, Runtime, Server, AL | |
| 17:00-17:45 | Robb Delprado | MVP |
| Andy Wingate | MVP | |
| Prangshuman Das | Expense Agent, Sales Order Agent, Evals, Copilot features, SCM | |
| Maria Zhelezova | GitHub, Open Source, AL-Go for GitHub | |
| MVP | ||
| 17:45-19:00 | Expo Reception | |
| Time | Name | Areas that I cover |
|---|---|---|
| 10:45-11:30 | Federico Stanghellini | PSS AIBP Italy. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Duilio Tacconi | MVP | |
| Milica Djukic | Finance, E-document, Delocalization | |
| Ludwig Kilian | Partner Sales | |
| Farah Saeedi | Benelux AIBP Lead | |
| Damien Girard | MCP, AI, Platform | |
| Steffen Balslev | Development tools, agentic development, Business Central agents, NL customization, Marketplace | |
| Ed Ferretti | Security, Administration | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Albert Maouad | AIBP Western Europe. Commercial collaboration between MS and Partners. Market insights. |
| Stefano Demiliani | MVP | |
| Aleksandar Totovic | Expense Agent, Finance, Localizations | |
| Elaine Kelly | Licensing, migration promos, DUR | |
| Alexandre Pombo | Sales Strategy | |
| Evgenij Korovin | Copilot, Cowork, Agents strategy | |
| Peter Borring | Development tools, Business Central agents, NL customization, Marketplace, page scripting (from 11:15 to 11:50) | |
| Reem Ellabban | PSS AIBP MEA, partner sales | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Alexander Holstrup | GitHub, Open-Source, AL-Go for GitHub |
| Jens Møller-Pedersen | Agent strategy, AL, Performance, Reliability, Business Central Platform | |
| Rayner Vaz | Complex workloads, scalability, availability, performance, agentic ops | |
| Dmitry Katson | MVP | |
| Msangi Masera | MVP | |
| 13:00-14:00 | James Crowter | MVP |
| Andy Wingate | MVP | |
| Milica Djukic | Finance, E-document, Delocalization | |
| Christian Baek | Everything - but lets start with anything business related | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Tom Kapitan | MVP |
| Fredrik Hietala | New Partners, Agentic Implementation, complex customer implementations | |
| Layale Khalifeh | GTM | |
| Christian Baek | Everything - but lets start with anything business related | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Predrag Maricic | Application, SCM, Sales Order Agent |
| Peter Jakobsen | Application, Commercial, Programs | |
| Kamil Sáček | MVP | |
| Maura Cannon | Licensing, migration promos, DUR | |
| Ed Ferretti | Security, Administration | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Ramón Rautenstrauch | MVP |
| Vesa Krasnikji | Developer tooling, Administration |
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