Yesterday I got back from Milan after some great days, packed with awesome sessions and meeting even more awesome people. As it was the first time for me attending Directions EMEA (or any Directions for that matter) I want to sum up my impressions of this.
I have to be honest: it was a bit unfamiliar being together with so many people after more than 1,5 years of Covid restraints. But that probably made it even better. I genuinely enjoyed meeting so many of you there in person. And since everyone was either vaccinated or tested it was just nice to also share some hugs and handshakes – although I lost count how many times people (me included) were confused if they should do a classical handshake or just a “fist-bump”
After that I joined the sessions from Esben Nyhuss Kristoffersen and Peter Borring (“What’s new: VS Code and AL“), then the IT.Integro session on “Advanced Intercompany“, which was followed by Stefano Demilianis great session about creating serverless enterprise cloud workflows for D365BC. Besides many, many great talks in between the sessions (not only to distract from the food catering ) the sessions “Can BC SaaS handle large customers?” (with Christian Heide Damm and Rayner Vaz) and “Background task processing” (from Agnieszka Potulska-Tylenda and Darrick Joo – also both from MSFT) brought a great ending for the sessions of the 1st day.
On day 2 I attended less sessions to be honest. That was mostly because I was just too nervous It all started again with some great intro during the Keynote of what to expect next from Mike Morton, Dmitry Chadayev and Peter Borring. It was also very nice to see one of our companies product featured during that keynote (if you want to know more about the Digital Consultant, check it out here). But I also knew they were about to show a little video contribution from myself – but I didn’t know when.
