AJ is a 'recovering consultant' with 15 years of experience working with Business Central and its predecessor NAV and is a Microsoft MVP since 2018. He is a prolific public speaker and has been presenting sessions on Business Central, Power BI, sales and leadership topics at Partner and User-Group conferences since 2012. Before joining DSWi as a Partner and COO in 2018, he served as a practice leader, presales specialist and product evangelist at well-known NAV partners in North America. AJ is a member of the Business Journals Leadership Trust and a recipient of multiple accolades, most notably the BCUG / NAVUG All-Star and the Directions North America Under 40 Excellence awards.

Growing the SMB segment for Dynamics 365, Business Applications and PowerApps territory

Aida Seifi Labrosse is Partner Group Engineering Manager for Business Central Platform, Service and Partner tooling. Aida and her teams are focusing on building and running a highly available, secure, stable, and performant cloud service; besides continuing to innovate on developer tooling, enriching AL language, enhancing extension life cycle management and modernizing the developer and administrator experience . Aida joined Microsoft in 2003 first as a student intern and then as a full-time engineer working on Microsoft Business Framework as part of Visual Studio team. She moved to NAV in 2006 working on different areas of the product including web client, application, server, and reporting. In 2015 Aida led the team that conceptualized and drove the delivery of NAV SaaS service that transformed the product from a monolith on premise desktop solution to a componentized world class cloud solution known as Dynamics Business Central today.

• Passionate business development executive • Enabling growth and success with Dynamics 365 • 20+ years of experience within Microsoft Dynamics 365 business development • 10+ years helping Microsoft Dynamics Partners with offer development and commercial growth

I am wholeheartedly passionate about Microsoft's mission statement: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. I am an advocate to help women to digitally up-skill and find careers that lead to financial stability. In my spare time, I am proud mum of two beautiful children, Bikram Yoga lover and aspire to sail around the world one day. ERP Implementation| Business Analysis| Accounting / Operations| Project Management

A Microsoft Dynamics Business Central solution architect, with a wealth of technical, financial & commercial skills acquired across various demanding roles. I have implemented full project life cycle across a wide range of industries, such as healthcare, financial services, retail, education and hospitality, to name a but a few. Implementation ranged from NAV version 4 to Business Central on SaaS version 19.

Aaron O’Donoghue is the Partner Manager EMEA at Trintech, having joined the organisation in 2020 after 10 years spent building partner eco-systems and supporting the Sales organisation at BlueJeans Network, NextThink, and FalconStor Software. At Trintech, he is responsible for building programs and a partner community to drive growth.

In regard to Dynamics 365 and the former Microsoft Business Solution products, I used to work for 12+ years as functional consultant and project manager for partners. I joined Microsoft in early 2017 and I'm super passionate to evangelize and enable Business Applications partners with the latest capabilities and to support customers on their digital journey.

Go To Market Manager - Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain

Aleksandar is Program Manager for Dynamics 365 Business Central responsible for regulatory features and geo-expansion. On previous role in Microsoft, he was responsible to help partners in building new knowledge related with business applications. Before joined to Microsoft he was an MVP for Dynamics NAV. He is experienced lecturer on many global conferences.

On his way to obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from UQAM's School of Management, Alexis has been working at Verosoft Design (VSD) since 2012 and is now acting as the Director of Software Solutions and Applications Development. He is an active and highly technical leader with proven experience in business software solution development. He oversees technical resources and activities while leading design, development, and validation activities himself and ensuring that technical choices and software architecture are suitable to meet functional and non-functional requirements (performance, availability, stability, robustness, scalability, etc.). He leads the software engineering teams and is responsible for ensuring that software products and technology comply with industry standards in our target markets. He has implemented DevOps and Azure expertise and aspires to become the lead architect for SaaS and mobile solutions developed by Verosoft Design.

8½ years with Microsoft. 2 years and 10 months with focus on Business Applications. I primarily focus on customers with 200+ employees

Gudrun responsibilities at LS Retail is to manage devops, localizations and delivery processes of LS Central currently in 40 countries. Gudrun has been involved in various retail projects, developing, consulting and training partners in different countries around the world. Before she became a Product Director, her responsibilities at LS Retail were as a senior developer/consultant, Training Manager and Development Director for LS Central.

Solution lead in the devops team

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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Monica Ahuja is a Software Engineer within the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team who has been working across the full stack of Business Central since 2016. Monica works on the next generation Modern Client experiences by working on Business Central's integration with office products such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, etc. Monica holds Master's degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Denmark.

From Chile, I moved to Thailand to pursue international studies, and I fell head over heels with the country. ⠀ ⠀After spending ten years there, fate intervened, and I landed in The Netherlands. Throughout this journey, I have been blessed to encounter mentors and colleagues who encouraged me to face each challenge with zeal and enthusiasm. While my family and friends ensured that I never lost hope during adversity. ⠀ When Microsoft appointed me as their official Partner Success Evangelist, I knew that I made the right decision in pursuing my passion for data and people. I consider this new role as a privilege to support our partners in building robust relationships, centralizing the usage of Microsoft cloud. You may think of me as your go-to source for real-time informative Microsoft Partner Support. ⠀ ⠀ More importantly, I center my business relationships on building. Free time, I like to relax, walk with my dog, meditation.

Simon has been with Microsoft for the past two years as a software engineer. He’s currently part of the App Core team, which is mainly responsible for the core application components such as manufacturing and warehouse management.

Søren is a veteran in the industry, with 26 years under his belt. The journey of business solutions started in 1999 with Axapta, later Dynamics AX, NAV, BizTalk and various integration technologies. Søren has worked at end customers, in the partner ecosystem, and driven a solution integration partner company himself, before joining Microsoft in 2016. In the Business Central engineering team he has been the lead on expanding product availability around the world, and is currently the lead for Microsoft’s focus on easier customer onboarding to Business Central.

Heidi has specialised in the development of manufacturing, supply chain and warehousing solutions for most of her 35-year career, and has been developing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its predecessors for approximately 20 of those years. Heidi currently maintains Clever WMS Devices and Clever MES.

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.

Dynamics 365 Business Central Solution Architect and MVP

Andrius Čyvas has 19 years of NAV/Business Central experience in a variety of roles, including development, design, and implementation of custom Dynamics NAV solutions. For the past five years, Čyvas has been leading ISV development center activities and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Partners at Companial. He has helped Partners on their journey to Extensions 2.0 by providing training sessions, workshops, and consulting on individual projects. He’s also responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Extension maintenance service for Companial Partners.

More than 9 years in Microsoft helping companies on their digitalization process to be more successful

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

Professional Experience More than 20 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC More than 24 years of experience within different ERPs (Sage X3, Oracle Applications and Dynamics 365 BC) University Invited Teacher Career started in Portugal and moved to London 4 years ago Different Roles in Consulting (Business Consultant, Functional Consultant, Project Manager, Programme Manager, Engagement Leader, Team Leader, Site Manager, Product Manager and Solution Architect) Vertical Experience Fashion, Food and Pharmaceutical (Retail and Manufacturing) Services Some Personal Food, Wine and Gin Lover Runner (finished 4 marathons), Trekker (finished 10 ways of Camiño to Santiago), Padel and Bodyboarding

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.

Vjekoslav Babić, or just Vjeko as he prefers to go by in the community in an attempt to simplify his absurd Slavic name, is a Business Central architect, developer, trainer, author and blogger. With more than two decades of experience in the IT, he worked with vast range of technologies, but his passion has always been anything that had to do with the web and mobile worlds. Vjeko is an incurable hacker who took quite a long time to realize that the one thing he really loves is writing code, plain and simple. As a frequent speaker at conferences, in his demos, and on his blog, he always pushes the boundaries of what's possible, connecting the world of Business Central with just about anything that can be plugged into it. 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".

Elena is a tech leader with 18 years of experience in the Microsoft Dynamics channel, 9 of which she worked directly for Microsoft. In 2013 she founded 365 Talent Portal to help partners build and nurture top tech teams with flexible and affordable hiring and training solutions. They support over 1,000 businesses and 10,000 Dynamics professionals around the world. Deeply passionate about diversity and inclusion, Elena proactively runs various initiatives to attract more women to the Dynamics channel and educates partners on how to successfully hire and retain female talent. Elena is heavily involved in the Microsoft international community, she is the IAMCP EMEA President and Global Diversity &Inclusion Committee Chairperson.

10+ years with Business Central working on almost all aspects of the product.

Oliver Bartl has been working in the cloud business for various companies for 12 years. Since 2020, he has been responsible for business development and has been establishing new business areas for the collana IT Group. The topics "App Business“ and "Modern Workplace" are currently the focus of his activities.

Marketing Professional with 6 years of experience

Having worked within the CRM industry for over 20+ years, Hayley is Head of Growth for the Customer Experience applications Dynamics 365 Sales, Viva Sales, Commerce & Customer Voice. 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.

Christian Bauer is CEO and Software Architect of dox42 - an extensive software product for document automation and data integration. Christian has gathered profound experience from hundreds of ERP-, CRM-, SharePoint-, Workflow- and other Software-projects in various industries over the last 30 years. Enthusiastic about the software-lego philosophy, he is a frequent speaker on many conferences and webinars to pass his knowledge to others.

Jannik Bausager is Principal Group Program Manager for the Dynamics 365 Business Central team which defines the scope and the future for the Business Central application (finance, sales, purchase, inventory, warehouse, manufacturing, and project) and our clients (web client, mobile apps), and also our integrations to the Power Platform and M365 products. Jannik has 29 years of experience within the IT industry. His experience ranges from product development, consultancy, sales, and strategy development. He has been 3 years in Asia as country sales manager.

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.

Thorsten has been a consultant and key account manager in the Dynamics environment for 25 years. Previously, he was employed in industry as a financial controller. After 15 years of project business at various VARs, he has now been in charge of CKL Software GmbH for 10 years.

As the Managing Director of Solver, Jose M. Palau is responsible for developing all aspects of the region, including sales, software and professional services delivery capabilities. He is an expert in helping companies improve their financial and operational reporting, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation processes. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 2008.

Maciej is Cloud Solution Architect specialized in Operations part of Business Applications products at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft he's been a part of Dynamics implementations throughout EMEA both for on-prem and cloud solutions. His industry focus is manufacturing. Currently the main goal of his work is empowering partners in implementing and extending the latest products/versions of Dynamics 365 portfolio as well as supporting partners in placing their services and solutions on the market.

I have been working with NAV/BC for 15 years, the last 5 of which I have lucky enough to be heading up Presales for the NAV People. I've only missed one year of Directions since 2012 and I get a great deal of pleasure in seeing how our product has evolved over the years. I spend my days getting to understand the nitty gritty of how businesses tick, how we can best create a solution that can really make a difference to them.

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.

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Responsible for the Business Central Web client and integration to Microsoft 365 apps and services.

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 Dynamics 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.

Begin. Even if you have no idea if it will work.

As the product manager for K3 Pebblestone, Aly was instrumental in transitioning the fashion wholesale solution from a traditional, one code base, on-premise platform into an extension, code base cloud solution. She was responsible for shifting K3 Pebblestone from a NAV-based vertical solution, which had existed in the market for more than 25 years, into the new Business Central era. K3 took this opportunity to completely reinvent and rebuild K3 Pebblestone into a solution that is ready for the next 25 years. Aly first decided she wanted to sign up as a speaker at Directions following the Women’s Lunch in Milan last year. She said: “After hearing all the lovely ladies tell their very personal stories at the lunch, I realised that sometimes women need to be a little braver, step up, and tell their story. This is when I realised that I should do exactly that. And here we are, I’m ready to share my story.”

Ove has been working in the ICT industry since 1984, have been working as Network Engineer at outsourcing company, Systems engineer at IT-dep Financial company, TAM at vendor listed on NasdaQ, Systems Integrator as CEO, Distributor as Product manager, CAM in Scandinavia for vendor listed on stock exchange i Germany. Since 2011 Ove has been working with Microsoft 365 and since 2016 with Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Ove has the ability to explain IT in plain language. His desire is to free up time for customers he is working with. In his free time he is skiing downhlll, hiking, biking and traveling. Ove has a wonderful family that he is spending time with when not working.

I'm the CTO here at Bam Boom Cloud. Our aim is to simplify cloud technology, making the latest Microsoft Cloud solutions affordable and easy to implement. 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 a co-founder of Partner Economics, George is accomplished and forward-thinking with over 30 years’ experience strategically propelling Microsoft partner businesses forward. A thought leader and pioneer in the areas of Partner Business Model and Cloud Transformation, George has worked on strategic projects with Microsoft and Navision since 1997. George has also held senior roles including CEO of Aston Group NA, board member of several ISV’s and large-scale VAR’s and most recently was Chief Revenue Officer for jet Global, the world’s largest Microsoft Dynamics ISV by unit volume. Having been involved in more than 100 sales and purchase of related Microsoft Dynamics partners, he knows where the value lies in these businesses. A strategic thinker, his expertise has been utilized to create significant bodies of work, including the channel transformation strategy for Microsoft’s partner ecosystem Cloud transition.

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.

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

Petras Butenas, founder at Simplanova, has been in the BC channel for over 9 years now, mostly invested in NAV to BC migration technology and everything related to it. For the past few years Petras had invested time building chatbots and training people for building solutions on their own.

Martynas Butrimanskas has 14 years of NAV/Business Central experience in a variety of roles, including analyzing, designing, developing, and testing business solutions for various NAV/Business Central versions. For the past four years, Martynas has been leading the Business Central department at Companial.

Marquis Caldwell is our ClickLearn Sales Manager for EMEA and a Track & Field Coach with FIF Athletics Club. His goal-oriented methodologies, together with his coaching skills come hand in hand when demonstrating 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/Navision world. She has been responsible for product development teams in BC and F&O and encouraged her teams to build Power apps to complete the product. Most of her recent experience has been at an ISV, but she was often involved in interesting discussion with several VAR’s on the business models going forward. But strategy sessions with customers are probably the best ones to help shape her opinions on what the market needs. Directions EMEA has a special place in her heart as she was heavily involved in the 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 Azure, Service Fabric, DevOps, security, deployments, REST APIs.

Dmitry is the Group Product Manager for Business Central online service, platform, and partner tooling. Dmitry’s team of Product Managers defines product vision and strategy by leveraging a deep understanding of the customer and partner ecosystem, experience, and competitive market, identifies short-and long-term investment opportunities, and drives the product roadmap from definition and planning through development, release, and uptake by the end users. The areas owned by Dmitry and his team span many scenarios ranging from security, scalability, performance, and resource governance, to signups, updates, administration and troubleshooting to management of the ISV solutions and experiences, per-tenant extensions, programming language capabilities (AL), DevOps tooling and other.

I'm a Chartered Accountant, and used NAV for many years before I started consulting at Bam Boom Cloud. I came in with an end user perspective on the software, with an accounting edge. Since then, I have been honing my expertise in D365 Business Central and the Power Platform, by delivering implementations with complex integrations, leveraging Microsoft technologies. I now lead a team of consultants, looking after the interest and success of our existing customer base.

Tharanga Chandrasekara is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central lead technical consultant with over 10 years 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 personal 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 6 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 Impact 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 30 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. Sharka is

Great products and entrepreneurship deserves the best commercial conditions. Building a commercial strategy, create sales plans – and lead the plans to actual results – that is what I do!

Anya Ciecierski has worked in sales and marketing in the Microsoft Dynamics channel since 1999. She is the co-founder of ERP Software Blog, CRM Software Blog, and ERP Cloud Blog. These sites focus on educating companies in the software selection process with more than 90,000 readers each month and encourage collaboration between 150 ERP and CRM partners across the world. Anya is committed to the idea of “using the power of the group” to benefit the community. She is also the founder of the Channel Marketing Academy online peer network.

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.

Since 1998 working with Navision, Dynamics NAV, and now with Business Central and Power Platform. I worked as end-user, consultant, and developer in different companies. 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)

Vicky has been in the Dynamics community for 16 years. Her organization Bam Boom Cloud has won Business Central Partner of the Year twice. Bam Boom Cloud is a pure SaaS high volume business -laser focused on making Dynamics easy for SMBs. They have operations in UK, USA, Canada and Germany. Vicky is a strongly believes in creating a more equitable community where who you are, where you come from and who you love should not matter.

Vicky has been in the Dynamics community for 16 years. Her organization Bam Boom Cloud has won Business Central Partner of the Year twice. Bam Boom Cloud is a pure SaaS high volume business -laser focused on making Dynamics easy for SMBs. They have operations in UK, USA, Canada and Germany. Vicky is a strongly believes in creating a more equitable community where who you are, where you come from and who you love should not matter.

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, an association of more than 1200 Dynamics partners worldwide and a Microsoft MVP for Business applications.

Ryan Cunningham is the Vice President of Power Apps, Microsoft’s low-code application development offering. Ryan has led Power Apps to be the most widely adopted Low Code Application Platform on the market across Office 365, Dynamics 365, and standalone applications – helping everyone from citizen developers to professionals accelerate their delivery of enterprise line of business applications. Ryan holds advanced degrees from the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics and is a frequent presenter on the low-code movement.

Passionate Microsoft Dynamics 365/Power Platform professional with more than 15-years’ experience and strong understanding of the Microsoft products, currently leading Power Platform and D365 CRM team at Companial. Helping partners to build powerful Power Platform Solutions.

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.

Jonathan is a 30-year tech veteran, with the last 10 being at Microsoft. He is the Program Manager of the Business Applications and Platform (BAP) Security Team, which is responsible for all of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform services.

As Marketing Manager 4PS Group, Bianca de Bruin is responsible for 4PS Group's international marketing strategy. Bianca started at 4PS in 2018. In just a few years, she expanded the marketing team from just two marketers to an international team with 10 specialists. Customer satisfaction, customer retention and ambassadorship are key for this driven and experienced marketer. This is why Bianca builds valuable relationships with customers and leads based on the inbound strategy. She of course never loses sight of the work happiness of her team members either. Indeed, if there is one thing Bianca believes to be true, it's that you achieve the best results if people do what they do best and what they enjoy doing. Driven by that vision and strategy, she works with marketers in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and partners worldwide on inspiring campaigns targeting companies in the global construction industry.

Robb is a 24-year veteran of the Navision, NAV, and BC world. He has spoken at Convergence, Directions and multiple User Group Conferences. He is an MCT, MCP, and an inactive CPA.

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, Azure Certified Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) 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 has worked with Packt Publishing for many successful IT books related to Dynamics NAV, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure DevOps and Azure solution development. He's the author of the first Dynamics 365 Business Central Development guide. He's one of the 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).

Enabling employees to engage with their customers using technology is what I do. I’ve learned that creating teams with the same goal and empowering them is the biggest factor for success. That for me is the basis of why I am falling for the Power Platform. It enables business teams to contribute to their own success. They can (co-) create apps, automate their processes and create their own insights. I love to engage with end-users and fulfill their wishes while I’m sitting right next to them.

Partner Success Account Manager | Advanced Support for Partners

Microsoft Dynamics 365 content lead, previously docs lead for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

I assist our Business Applications ERP partners to be reach their full technical potential. Having had a background in the engineering org at Microsoft, I try to blend in various technologies in our stack to solve common user needs.

Working on the core server behind Business Central as part of the Server-Runtime team.

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.

Robert has spent more than 5 years working in the Microsoft Channel ecosystem. He enjoys the opportunity to work strategically with partners all around the world on a daily basis. At Aptean, Robert is responsible for enabling Microsoft Dynamics ERP partners to help grow their business towards profitable lines of business by leveraging Aptean’s Food and Beverage ISV solution.

Steve Endow is a Microsoft MVP who works with Dynamics 365 Business Central

Deann oversees the European expansion of Shopify, the global commerce platform powering millions of modern, high-growth brands including Gymshark, Huel, War Paint for Men and Ooni. She leads Shopify’s strategy to help European merchants sell on every surface and drive retail innovation hand in hand with Europe’s most exciting businesses. In her role, she also drives the expansion of Shopify’s European ecosystem, with the objective to empower merchants to deliver the experiences they want for their customers and drive forward innovation through its partners and developer community. An experienced technology executive, Deann’s career spans over two decades in a range of leadership and C-level roles for ecommerce and SaaS businesses, such as eBay, Mettr and Sizmek.

For the past 21 years, I worked on leading and designing mission-critical business applications for different industries, from banking to automotive, from telecommunications to sports. Today I'm proud to be part of Microsoft's Power Platform R&D team, working on making the cloud better for our customers with Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365.

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.

Developing Classic Client/NAV/BC since 2014 VS Code Extension Developer of AL CodeActions since 2019

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 and holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure. 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.

As an international tech lawyer and business negotiator, Ugne is on a mission to help business leaders make better deals. Ugne‘s in-depth understanding of the Microsoft industry dates back to 2010-2014, when she headed the legal department of 1ClickFactory. After that, she worked as a lead negotiator at the multi-billion corporation AP. Moller-Maersk, where she negotiated complex and high-stake IT and tech contracts. Today Ugne is a founder of Legal4Partners, a consulting firm helping Microsoft partners mitigate risks, and Firm&Fair, a global business negotiation agency. Due to her solid experience, real-life insights, and high-energy presentations, Ugne inspires (Microsoft) business leaders to rethink their current approach to contracting and make deals driven by expertise, not on autopilot.

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 3 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.

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 Consultant, Power Platform Developer Luise helps customers around the globe to improve their business processes and to get rid of everything that only keeps them busy without adding value in a meaningful way. She is a member of the M365 PnP team and supports developers in extending Microsoft 365. She loves all things community, open-source, stickers, and the number 42.

Jannik Frommherz is Manager Solution Advisory DACH at Jedox. Prior to Jedox, he worked in sales management and controlling for a global manufacturing company for five years. As he has personally conducted P&L and sales planning with international subsidiaries, he understands the importance of powerful, integrated solutions for planning, analysis, and forecasting. He holds degrees in management from Reutlingen, Dublin as well as Mannheim.

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. I am currently responsible for Clever Shipment Management, Clever WMS Plus and Clever Comments.

As the VP of Strategic Alliances at ClickLearn, Daniel Garcia is very committed to adding value and building mutually beneficial long-term relationships. He collaborates with Microsoft ISVs who share the belief that user adoption plays a strategic role in generating high customer retention and preventing churn. His mission is simple, help enterprise customers succeed with their business-critical systems.

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).

BizApp GMT Lead the Netherlands

After a career in IT- and project management Stefan is now an independent interim manager helping customers to bridge the lack of internal management capacity; either as a program and project manager or as part of the internal management organization, e.g. as head of IT or similiar. Stefan knows the classical project management methods like PMbook as well as he is a big friend and early adopter of agile. But he knows that the most important success factor of a project is the human being working together to solve a mutual problem.

Stephen 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 through community events across NZ. He now works as a freelance contractor, helping partners & customers achieve their business transformation goals through software innovations.

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Computer scientist at Microsoft. Software Engineer on the platform team of Business Central.

Before joining TD SYNNEX’s European organization Klaus Gregersen was leading the Cloud & Software business in TD SYNNEX Denmark and in the Nordic region for Microsoft’s Cloud & Software solutions. As a member of TD SYNNEX’s European organization Klaus Gregersen has been leading the development and roll-out of the Dynamics 365 Transform Program in Europe. During the period TD SYNNEX won the Global Microsoft Partner of Year the Award for Indirect Providers in 2021 and 2022 and the 2021/2022 Inner Circle Award for Business Applications.

Having a background of working in luxury hotels all over the planet, Luisa looks at the world of e-commerce with a fresh pair of eyes, always keeping her main goal in mind: Customer Convenience and Centricity. Almost doubling the conversion rate of partner deals in her region, the numbers proof her point: sales is only the outcome of the most important goal – building a trusting relationship with our partners.

Nicolas has been working with business management and development for more than 20 years, and has utilized digitalization tools in all aspects ranging from ERP to CRM. He is dedicated to ensuring a high ROI on all implemented solutions, and delivers extensive knowledge within strategic devolopment, optimal deployment of technologies all combined with a strong commercial mindset. With VRS we enable companies to release the full potential of their employees, while maintaining a positive and balanced work/life distribution for employees in a globalized environment.

Anne Hall is the founder of ITagree – The Agreement Lifeguard, providing legal agreements-as-a-service globally. Anne recognized that IT companies struggled with customer agreements so she decided to put her 25 years’ experience as an IT lawyer to use in an innovative way, establishing ITagree in 2016. ITagree provides access to the specific types of legal agreements needed by IT companies, quickly and cost-effectively, helping them to reduce business risk. ITagree’s agreements have been developed and refined to suit the needs of IT companies in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries. Commencing her legal career at a leading national law firm in New Zealand in 1991, Anne soon specialized in IT law. In 1999, she established an IT law firm, advising Microsoft partners on ERP projects and other clients in multiple industry sectors on their IT projects. Anne now primarily looks after Microsoft partners around the world through ITagree.

Experienced and passionate about growing your Dynamics 365 business! Want to learn how to leverage your partner benefits with Microsoft or as a CSP provider? Then I can help. With a wealth of experience within technology and FMCG with field marketing and sales, I love to continue learning new things and helping others succeed.

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

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, he gained a deep insight into the traditional Dynamics NAV customer and business management software market. Niels-Erik also has a strong background working in the Microsoft Dynamics partner channel, establishing businesses in Europe for international ISVs and distributors. Whether he is talking to a partner or doing presales activities with a customer, he is dedicated in making life easier for business users and improving the quality and effectiveness of their IT solutions. And yes, it is now all about the Cloud.

Michael Hartmann is the Chief Marketing and Portfolio Officer at Companial. With his team he manages the portfolio of services that Companial offers to partners and positions Companial as the prime partner in the Dynamics and Power Platform partner ecosystem. He also is accountable for the ISV engagement within the Companial board. Prior to Companial, Michael was the CEO for QBS, one the two companies that created Companial, for 5 years. Michael Hartmann came to QBS Group with an extensive experience in the ICT sector. He worked for 21 years at Microsoft where he had several leadership positions, such as Sales and Marketing Manager for Microsoft’s SAP Alliance and Marketing Director for Germany. Prior to leading QBS Group, he was the European Middle East and Africa Timezone Lead for Microsoft’s SMB business as well as the Global Lead for Dynamics SMB Partners. Michael is married and has 3 children, together with his family he lives in Munich.

Monique Hayward is the Senior Director for Business Applications Ecosystem Marketing at Microsoft Corporation. She leads the team responsible for the marketing strategy and programs to accelerate the growth of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products with independent software vendors and systems integrators. Prior to Microsoft, Monique worked for 22 years at Intel Corporation, leading teams and managing strategic programs in marketing, communications, and business development in Information Technology, Data Center Platforms, Software & Services, Global Diversity, Mobile Platforms, and Corporate Marketing. She also did a two-and-a-half-year assignment as the Chief of Staff and Technical Assistant to Intel’s first Chief Technology Officer. Monique also has experience in PR and marketing communications at Tektronix, American Greetings, and the U.S. Department of State. In addition to her corporate marketing career, Monique is also an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She co-founded DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts, a personal chef service in the Phoenix metro area, in June 2019. Previously, Monique owned and operated Dessert Noir Café & Bar in Beaverton, Oregon, and served as a partner in Cerise Noire Software, a mobile software applications company. In February 2009, Monique released her debut book, Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don’t Tell You About Being a Woman Entrepreneur, featuring a foreword by Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman. Her latest book, Get Your Hustle On! It’s Not Just About Getting a Job, But Building a Rewarding Career, was released in February 2014.

Strongly focused on leadership, business transformation, and innovation management in the sphere of business applications for more than 25 years. Passionate about continuous re-thinking of product management processes and re-inventing real product values in rapidly changing markets. As CEO of Comsol Unternehmenslösungen AG responsible for organisation development and business unit of channel products .

Michael has been working at Microsoft for more than 20 years and the past 15 of these years on Microsoft Business Central. During the years Michael has primarily been working on the Business Central clients and is the architect for the Business Central clients.

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.

As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 expert, Birgit spent over 17 years working on the partner side in sales, marketing, pre-sales consulting, and sometimes project management before joining Companial as a Partner Success Manager. Despite living and loving Dynamics 365 Business Central from the bottom of her heart, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (especially Sales & Marketing) have also crept into her heart and have been a Game-Changer in several business situations. Birgit's slogan is "Dynamics 365 and Power Platform are rock stars"

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

John is the CTO at POS ONE. John has led the development project of the new POS solution, POS365. John has 30+ years of experience in ERP development and partner sales. This includes the development of three ERP systems from scratch. John has been working on .Net from the beginning and has embraced all Microsoft technologies since then. During this period, John has led small and large development teams creating cutting-edge business products in Europe, Asia, and the US.

Rachel has over 20 years finance experience and is Head of Customer Engagement for Bam Boom Cloud. In her role, Rachel focuses on making the very best Microsoft Cloud technology simple to implement and effective and accessible to SMB organisations so they can innovate and transform. Her team do this by offering low cost, fixed price, fixed scope technology solutions specifically designed for SMBs, sold directly to customers or through our network of global partners. She is passionate about building strong relationships in the Microsoft Partner community to improve customer experience and drive growth. Outside of work, Rachel is a taxi driver for her two daughters and also enjoys exercising, bike riding and eating out with friends and family.

Kristen is a schooled accountant with a diverse background of accounting experience and brings these experiences and knowledge in working with small businesses to provide the solutions to fit their unique accounting needs. In addition, she is extensively involved in the Microsoft Dynamics community and regularly offers her valuable knowledge in open forums, interviews, and conference appearances. Kristen serves on the advisory committee for Dynamics User Group (DUG). Her services and experience have earned her a renowned name, four consecutive GPUG All-Star nominations, a Granite Award, and Dynamics 365 All Star Award nomination. Kristen has also been recognized as a Microsoft MVP three years in a row, a recognition reserved for top technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. As a Microsoft Certified Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant, she demonstrates a high level of domain expertise and can tackle even the most challenging projects.

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.

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.

Originally from a banking background, Kelly has nearly two decades of marketing experience in various industries. Since joining Bespoke XYZ in January 2020, Kelly has spent her time building a solid foundation from which Bespoke can scale effectively - this includes rebranding, repositioning and establishing a successful partner channel. Passionate about inclusivity, and for raising awareness about how people can switch careers and join the tech sector, Kelly was recently elected to the IAMCP UK board where she draws on her own experiences to help other partners learn how best to leverage Microsoft resources.

Software Engineer working in application group for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

10+ years working for Microsoft, now member of Control Plane team, helping in building a world class cloud platform for Business Central.

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Henrik is leading the Go to Market strategy regarding Business Applications in the Norwegian market. His responsibilities include alignment, execution, and activities across Microsoft resources.

Lau has been working with Microsoft ERP-platforms for more than 25 years+. Currently he is responsible for the Scandinavian partner – channel market - regarding the CfMD JobManager extension. For several years he has been the lead on expanding the entire partner network and expanding the knowledge of the JobManager extension for the Microsoft D365 Business Central. Prior to this he has been working with Manufacturing Execution Systems/MES on platforms as IBM AS/400, C5, XAL, Axapta/F&O, Navision and D365 Business Central. Today he is the lead on onboarding new customers and partners on the Business Central platform.

20+ years experience working with NAV and Business Central from the partner channel, Microsoft as well as with large customers. 7+ 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.

Prinicipal program manager focusing on ISV Success

Business Central Product & Development Lead at SignUp Software Sweden.

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 really enjoys studying new technologies as well as sharing his thoughts with other people and is hugely passionate about how to work with data using modern D365 products. He is focusing on larger projects for mid-size companies but did many projects for companies of various sizes around the World. He has recently moved to Brisbane, Qld, Australia to enjoy the neverending summer.

As a Channel Sales SMC I work closely with the Swiss Microsoft Partner ecosystem (managed and unmanaged) to facilitate D365 and Power Platform sales in the Swiss SMB Market.

Kamil has been in the Dynamics Channel for over 20 years. He created and started a reporting and BI Practice over 15 years ago. As a Managing Director of Data Courage, he has created a Jet Reports and Jet Analytics Distribution Channel in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the last 15 years team at Data Courage helped implement Reporting and BI for over 650+ companies in over 30 countries using Jet and Power BI. Having this experience, he has worked on establishing a new path for Data Analytics using state of the art Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning algorithms which help in getting valuable business insights from Data.

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.

In his role as CEO and Co-Owner of NETRONIC, Martin is responsible for the company’s strategy as well as for all go-to-market activities. As such, Martin invented the concept of visual scheduling and is NETRONIC’s executive sponsor of the Microsoft Dynamics-related business.

Anne drives the User Experience Research efforts in Business Central. She makes sure the voice of the end-user is heard as part of the development process by carrying out different types of research with end-users including investigating specific domains and testing new features.

Claus is the CEO of the danish software company POS ONE. They have been in the Point-of-Sales business for more than 25 years and have worked with Navision and Business Central from the beginning. Claus has worked with IT and business development his entire career and held senior positions in several technology companies in the US and Europe.

More then 20 years experience around NAV and now Business Central. Originally ERP and IT manager at end user site - later working for a Microsoft Gold partner in support and projects and now since over 12 years having my own company for workshops, support and more. Next to this author of several book series for NAV and Business Central in German as well some soft skill books.

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.

I have been involved in the development of enterprise resource planning systems and the evaluation of operational data since 1995. Since 1999 I am self-employed and since 2003 shareholder and managing director of datenkultur GmbH. Starting in 2006, I was instrumental in establishing the Jet Reports product in the German market. In the following years I extended my knowledge to Dynamics, data warehouse, analysis services and Power BI. I always keep my knowledge up to date on these topics. I regularly publish articles on these topics and am often invited as a speaker.

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.

Ursula Koller has been Corporate Marketing Lead at Companial (previously QBS Group) since 2020. Her experience in Marketing with well-known companies in the IT industry (A-Brands), such as Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft, includes a strong focus on the B2B partner business. As a result, she has extensive expertise in the field of business software.

B2B marketing executive with over 15 years of experience specifically within the IT industry. Been in the Microsoft Dynamics channel for over 10 years where I have been able to unite my interest for the ever changing world of marketing with my inner-accountant who loves a spreadsheet that balances. What I enjoy most about my job: always learning about the latest marketing trends that are forever evolving // being creative about go-to-market strategies // coming up with cool activities for our prospects, clients and employees // finding ways to be more efficient to do more with less. What I love to do when I'm not working: My suitcase is always close by as I caught the travel bug at a young age and have visited 35 countries by the time I turned 35 // I love good food: I don't discriminate from fast food to super posh, as long as it is tasty! // Playing soccer and ultimate frisbee: I'm convinced that I was a puppy dog in my past life

Anke has been immersed in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem for more than 15 years. She has developed a deep understanding of vertical and horizontal solutions and become an expert in business process optimization especially for food & beverage customers. She is responsible for Product Management, especially for the ‘Fresh’ Sub-vertical and for the connector app Aptean Advanced Workflow.

Ugne Kontare is a Chief Business Development Officer, representing one of the most successful cloud-ready companies in Europe, Softera Baltic, Partner of the Year in Lithuania, 2022. Having developed multiple solutions under the SOFT4 brand, several of which has successfully gained the market share and partners' recognition, while several were killed after years of development, Ugne is ready to share the lessons learnt along the way on how to build and manage products that sell. With a background in the SMB sales and leadership, Ugne’s career expands over several industries, most of time dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics. With over 15 years of experience in various roles, such as Marketing, Sales, CEO, Business Development, Ugne shares her knowledge and tips on how to: - Build and manage an effective team; - Market and sell Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC in the cloud; - Develop and implement strategies launching and managing a software product – from analysis to profits.

Walt started at COSMO CONSULT as a student in 2008 and has been working intensively in the Business Central area ever since. Starting with Dynamics NAV 5.00, he has also been involved with older versions such as Navision Attain 3.10 and has continuously followed the evolution of Business Central. His focus is on developing reusable horizontal and vertical solutions that are used all over the world in various industries. Design pattern, modern technology, and very high code standards are a big passion and run through every of his developments. He is a full stack developer with a wide range of programming languages and systems. In his spare time, he enjoys working with wood (hobby carpenter), running long distances, or playing the piano.

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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.

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.

Esben joined Microsoft in 2003 as a Senior Software Development Engineer working on Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). He moved to the Dynamics NAV team in 2006. Before joining Microsoft Esben had his own software company that developed project/time management software for Time/system International and later a combined POS and online reservation system for bowling centers. Today Esben is a Principal Architect on the Business Central team.

Founded Abakion in 2000

Björn has been working in the BI area for many years before co-founding navida in 2013. Since then his technical focus is on the Microsoft BI Stack and mainly on Power BI.

Lillian is Director Channel and leads the Channel business in Crayon Norway. She is committed to helping Crayon’s Partners realize the ROI of their cloud investments, and believes that a strong partnership based on value and transparency is an important part of the cloud journey. She includes and challenges - with great respect for our Partners’ investments in technology. Lillian has solid insight and understanding of the various Microsoft licensing agreements, ISV programs and the incentive programs for Partners. In addition to being Director Channel in Crayon, she is Chairwoman of the Board of IAMCP Norway, a global member organization for Microsoft Channel Partners. Lillian has 15 years of experience from Telecom and started in Crayon in 2017.

Martin, Jesper and Christian from Arrow. 3 guys: one geek, one man with a vision and one Commander in Chief!

My first experience with Microsoft's ERP was in 2005 when I had the opportunity of deploying Microsoft Business Solutions - Navision 4.0. Throughout the following years, I have had the opportunity of dealing with ERP's in various roles, such as: presales, functionality consultant, solution architect, CAL developer, sales and finally as a CEO :). I now find myself in this wonderful city Hamburg to discuss something that lovingly extends Business Central - Power Apps.

Application Expert in Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central area. More then 10 years ago, i've started my adventure with NAV24 as co-owner and consultant Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Now, i'm working with tree worlds: NAV24, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and PowerPlatform!! I've finished my studies related to manufacturing - engeenering degree. Privately, husband, father of two daughters :)

15 years at Microsoft and 9 years Partner Success Account Manager in the Advanced Support for Partner business. Strong focus on D365 BC partner.

Organization Facilitator, Project Manager, Developer

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 cloudnative 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.

Miguel Llorca is a technologist and entrepreneur, with more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. Passionate about technology and business, he has solid experience as a director and consultant, both technological and business processes. Has participated in large number of national and international projects, accompanying companies of multiple sizes and sectors in their digital transformation process, performing and leading ERP implementations and integration projects. Awarded by Microsoft with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award since 2014, currently in the categories of “Business Applications” and “Office Apps & Services”, for his contributions to the technical communities. Miguel is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, instructor and author at LinkedIn Learning and a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. Proud father of PowerTips: https://powertips.es Microsoft MVP Profile: http://mvp.microsoft.com/es-es/mvp/Miguel%20Llorca-5000938

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.

Patricia has been working in ERP as a consultant for more than 30 years. She specialized in the international business and global implementations. At this moment she is responsible at Arquiconsult for the Neashore and International business.

Frank is Board member of Directions EMEA, Board member YAVEON GmbH and Co-Founder and CEO of OctoCon GmbH (Germany). Frank started his carreer as a NAV developer. After some years as Microsoft certified trainer, consultant and project manager his actual job is the management of OctoCon. In addition his passion is the work for 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.

Evangelist of Azure & Cloud Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Azure DevOps, IoT and PowerApps. A deep knowledge of .Net Architecture & Development combined with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Microsoft AL development for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Common Data Service and modern APIs. This broad spectrum of technologies helps to turn our customer challenges into solutions, find new business approaches and shape the future.

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.

Robert joined Microsoft 20 years ago with the acquisition of Navision. Prior to that, he worked for Navision for 7 years. He is an Escalation Engineer on the Business Central North America support team.

Armin is a seasoned B2B consultant and salesperson focused on the EMEA market and its unique needs. At Binary Stream, Armin is focused on supporting partners with onboarding and training materials, and helping them drive additional revenue with Microsoft-preferred D365 solutions. Backed by a great team of CPAs, Armin helps partners to solve their customers' business challenges and add desired new functionality. He’s always looking for opportunities to explore new partnerships with new partners, connect with him today: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armin-mohajer

Shalona Moodley is a Business Applications Channel Sales Lead at Microsoft Netherlands. Working with Microsoft’s partners, it’s her mission to help small and medium organizations realize their full potential through the Microsoft Business Applications portfolio, highlighting the tech innovation happening every day across Biz Apps and how this is shaping the industry through digital and cloud-first business transformations. During her 6-plus years at Microsoft in South Africa and The Netherlands, she harnessed her passions to build channel success by over-delivering on her responsibility to accelerate revenue growth through the development and health of the Microsoft partner ecosystem. She is currently integrating into Dutch society by learning Dutch and enjoys visiting different cities of The Netherlands.

With my background in strategic consulting and management, I have been supporting Dynamics 365 Business Central partners all around Europe for more than 6 years. My current focus as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Germany is to be an ambassador for the latest innovation of Dynamics 365 ERP. I work closely with customers and partners to ensure project success and new ways of working.

Shannon Mullins is the Chief Revenue Officer of Arbala Systems 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.

During the six years of my presence at MultiSoft Ltd., I had the opportunity to work in several parts of the sales team. Right now, I am in the partner manager position. It means that I work for the international market, helping partners sell our unique add-ons and applications for Dynamics NAV and Business Central worldwide.

Lajos is driving AppVision as co-founder and Product Manager. He's started working with EPR systems and related technologies in 2004. Nowadays he had more than 15+ years of experience regarding the Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central product, which includes consulting, development, project management, and pre-sales practices. In the last couple of years, he’s turned his attention to cloud technologies and online applications and successfully managed to launch the first Microsoft Dynamics NAV Software-as-a-service offering on the Hungarian market.

A member of Binary Stream's senior leadership team responsible for global go-to-market strategy and business expansion into new verticals and regions through new and existing partnerships, through Microsoft, and by working directly with end-users. Khaled has led multiple organizations from no market share to success by prioritizing customer and partner benefits and working in sync within a broader ecosystem.

Working for 10 years with Microsoft Biz Apps as a solution architect / developer, started with BC nowadays loving the Power Platform & Azure

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 fifteen 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.

Karina Nielsen is a senior leader and executive in Dynamics. She has served as CEO in ERP for the past 25 years. Karina has proven success transforming Microsoft partner strategy into business success. Her experience covers marked, business & organizational leadership, driving sales and business growth within digital transformation, and managing the strategic & operational growth within an organization. At Ciellos, Karina is looking to impact the speed of digital transformation with Dynamics365 and bringing high level consulting and services to partner and customers in the ERP space. Her focus is always on results - and customer plus people centric solutions. She has a proven track record of developing highly motivated & efficient management teams where business success comes from the individual being successful and empowered to influence and effectively take informed decisions while feeling responsibility towards the entire business. Trust is key!