Connect directly with top Dynamics 365 and Power Platform experts for focused, fast-paced conversations designed to help you solve challenges, grow your skills, and exchange ideas.
✨ No fluff. Just practical insight from the people shaping the BizApps universe.
⏲️ How it works?
- Up to 3 mentees per mentor
- 15 minutes of focused mentoring
- When time is up, mentees switch tables and meet another mentor
🏢 Expo Hall, 12th Floor
Monday
11:00 – 12:00
Sharon Smith – MVP
Mentis Arcana: Where minds meet magic – and solutions scale, Senior Dynamics 365 Solution Architect @ Capgemini
- The MVP programme: becoming one and surviving the first year
- Founding a Community-led organisation: the challenges, the rewards, and those ‘unknown unknowns’
- Being a good mentor and a good mentee
- Becoming a conference speaker
- How to navigate conferences and events
Tina van Heerden – Microsoft
Solution architect @ Microsoft
- Career growth
- Networking
- Working at Microsoft
Máté Tóth – MVP
Soft Skill Sorcerer, Intelligent Automation & AI Architect @ Xebia
- Transferable skills
- Public speaking
- Career switching
13:30 – 14:00
Stefano Demiliani – MVP
Serverless Wizard, CTO
- Business Central
- AI
- Azure
- Integration
Roberto Corella – MVP
Robyn, Business Central & Copilot Agent Developer @ DYNASOFT 2008 SLU #Business Central and Power Platform world. Best together
- Business Central
- Expense Agent Business Central
- Copilot Studio
14:00 – 15:00
Neill Riordan
Galactic Nomad, Director @ KPMG, #Elegant design does not mean functional
- D365 F&O solutioning
- ERP delivery
- D365 Finance
- ERP enterprise design
Jinnie Wong – Microsoft
The Agentic Systems Voyager, Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft
- AI for Finance & Business Analytics: How AI and Copilot can transform finance, reporting, and decision-making
- Dimensional Data Modeling & Power BI: Teaching how to build scalable, business-friendly analytics models and reports
Tina van Heerden – Microsoft
Solution architect @ Microsoft
- AI + ERP
Patrick Mouwen
The Headless Jedi — Headless Without the Chickens, D365 Commerce Solution Architect @ 365Connect
- Headless D365 Commerce for B2B and B2C — building custom e-shops, mobile apps, and call-center frontends on top of CSU APIs
- D365 Commerce CSU deep-dive — licensing, deployment, API operation, performance, extensions
- ERP + Commerce + Azure integration architecture — integration patterns, APIM, transformation strategy
- AI agents and MCP on top of D365 Commerce — what’s real today, what Microsoft ships vs. what you build yourself
Tuesday
11:00 – 12:00
Cecilia Flombaum – Microsoft
The Celestial Strategist, Business Apps – Ecosystem Lead @ Microsoft
- What will happen to my business when ERP/CRM projects are shorter and cheaper?
- How do I transform my company into an AI adoption Advisor?
- How do I align to the Microsoft story to keep selling ERP and CRM?
Ivica Ivancic – Microsoft
Senior Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
- Partnering with Microsoft
13:00 – 13:45
Julie Yack – MVP
Translating rocket science into real-world solutions, Head of Interstellar Workforce Acceleration
- Re-skilling/up-skilling
- Mid-life crisis
Vlad Sarov – MVP
Dynamics Alchemist, COO @ RapidStart-Dynamica Labs
- Starting career
- Career moves between tech, non-tech, and sales roles
Jinnie Wong – Microsoft
The Agentic Systems Voyager, Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft
- Career Growth in Data, AI, and Analytics
- Guiding professionals on transitioning into modern analytics, AI, and data-focused careers
Areti Iles – MVP
AI Missions Commander, Head of Professional Services – AI Business Solutions @ Telefonica Tech | Speaker | Mentor | User Group Leader | Microsoft MVP
- Career Development
- Team Leadership
- Women in Tech
- Microsoft Community Engagement
- MVP Program
- Public Speaking
16:30 – 17:15
Sebastian Sieber – MVP
Seb the Sorcerer, Global Technology Director @ proMX
- Copilot and AI Adoption
- AI Strategy
Nathan Sweeney – MVP
Automated Robot Producer, European AI Lead @ KPMG
- AI
- Foundry
- Business Transformation
- Technical Enablement
Raffaele Rialdi – MVP
RafWiz, Senior Software Architect
- Generative AI
- Large Language Model architecture
- Agentic Architecture
- AI-driven Software Development
- Prompt Engineering
- OCR Models
- Document Ingestion
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Semantic Search
Wednesday
10:00 – 10:45
Neill Riordan
Galactic Nomad, Director @ KPMG, #Elegant design does not mean functional
- Fasttrack recognised solution architect
- Setting up AI teams
- Long term delivery resource team planning
Sharon Smith – MVP
Mentis Arcana: Where minds meet magic – and solutions scale, Senior Dynamics 365 Solution Architect @ Capgemini
- All the Dynamics 365 Apps and what being a Solution Architect for the First Party Apps looks like now in an AI-first era
- General career guidance for those working in the Dynamics ecosystem
Jinnie Wong – Microsoft
The Agentic Systems Voyager, Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft
- Product Management for Technical Professionals: Helping engineers, analysts, and consultants grow into strategic product thinkers
- Bridging Business and Technology: How to translate business problems into technical solutions and communicate across teams
- Leadership Through Influence: Leading cross-functional initiatives, building trust, and driving adoption without direct authority
11:00 – 12:00
Nick Doelman – MVP
Cyber Titan, World’s strongest Power Platform specialist
- Power Pages
- Dataverse
- Visual Studio Code for Power Platform makers
- Model-driven Power Apps
- Agentic development
Julie Yack – MVP
Translating rocket science into real-world solutions, Head of Interstellar Workforce Acceleration
- Power Platform all-up
13:15 – 14:00
Heidi Neuhauser – MVP
Connector Conjurer, Vice President @ Reenhanced
- Dynamics 365 CE (Sales, Customer Service, Marketing)
- Power Automate (beginner, intermediate)
- System Administrator (CRM/CE)
- User Adoption
- Training
Ivica Ivancic – Microsoft
Senior Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
- Dynamics 365 Contact Center
- 1st party agents in Dynamics 365 Customer Service & Contact Center
