Connecting Microsoft Dynamics Users
with Tomorrow's Technology.
November 20th - 21st, 2024 | PNC Arts Annex | 46 W 2nd St Dayton, OH 45402
Connecting Microsoft Dynamics Users
with Tomorrow's Technology.
November 20th - 21st, 2024
PNC Arts Annex
D365 Tech Connect 2024: Full Agenda
Doors open at 8:00AM - get registered and settled in! A light breakfast will be provided during this time.
Join us as we kick off D365 Tech Connect with a few words from Ellipse Solutions' Mikhail Roytman.
Presenter: Jared Hall | Microsoft Principal Program Manager
Summary: Microsoft is providing a wide range of copilot capabilities for Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps to drive greater efficiency and insights with the application. While these experiences are available out of the box, there is also flexibility in extending and customizing the copilot experiences to meet the unique requirements and business processes of each organization.
In this session we’ll see what options are available today for copilot extensions, and the future strategy for customizing these AI experiences with your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations data and business logic.
Sponsor Overview: DynamicWeb offers a robust Commerce Suite that unifies PIM, eCommerce, Marketing, and CMS capabilities with seamless, standard integrations to Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Designed for modern omnichannel experiences, DynamicWeb enables you to power B2B, B2C, or D2C commerce on a MACH-based platform.
Session Overview:
- Ever wondered if you could just LOOK at your data and spot fraud, spam or data errors?
- Learn what "embeddings" means in machine learning
- Use embeddings to find data relations and visualize them
- Extract your Dynamics 365 data and apply generative AI models (hello, Copilot!) to assess similarities
- Present your orders as clusters of similar data and pick out outliers to be reviewed.
Session Overview:
- Evolution of data export
- Export to Azure Data Lake is dead… Long Live Synapse Link!
- Unified Experience for Working with Data from all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Apps
- Practical aspects of conversion of classic RDL Reports, SSRS to Power BI paginated Report
Sponsor Overview: TrueCommerce empowers businesses to elevate supply chain performance and achieve superior outcomes through a single connection to our high-performance global supply chain network. Going beyond standard EDI, TrueCommerce provides a fully integrated ecosystem connecting customers, suppliers, logistics partners, and internal systems.
Enjoy a catered lunch and get a chance to mingle with other attendees and our wonderful sponsors! Towards the end of this break period, we will hear a short presentation from the Dynamics User Group (DUG).
Session Overview:
- Discerning the current pipeline of AI Products and Trends
- Recognizing Process Areas where AI adoption can gain you market share and boost the bottom line
- Empowering Power users with AI infused Power Platform and the Dynamics 365 Stack
- Live Demo of a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain scenario delivering instant returns through AI assisted order entry.
- Tips to disrupt the fear based mindset and drive positive user acceptance in your organization.
Speaker: Rachel Profitt | Microsoft FastTrack Solution Architect
Summary: In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the terms "copilots" and "autonomous agents" are often used interchangeably, yet they represent fundamentally different concepts. This session aims to demystify these terms and explore their unique roles and applications.
Join us as we delve into the core differences between copilots, which assist and augment human capabilities, and autonomous agents, which operate independently to perform tasks.
Through real-world examples and expert insights, attendees will gain a clear understanding of how these technologies can be leveraged to enhance productivity and innovation in various industries. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, a tech professional, or a business leader, this session will provide valuable perspectives on the future of human-machine collaboration.
Sponsor Overview: Vertex simplifies the complexities of global commerce and tax compliance, helping businesses reduce friction, enhance transparency, and confidently meet indirect tax obligations. Integrated seamlessly across customers’ business systems, Vertex software touches nearly every transaction line item an enterprise conducts.
Session Overview:
- Feeling stuck integrating your existing ASP.NET portals and pages with Dynamics D365 Finance and Supply Chain?
- Explore the Power Platform to integrate your existing ASP.NET Portal and pages to Power Pages
- Survey the options on adding login and security to your Power Page. Allowing users to self register and manage there own logic credentials
- Incorporating your existing design to Power Pages to give users that same look and feel
- Eliminate the fears or data collection. How to collect and present similar data from your existing pages
- Integrating your Power Page with Dynamics D365 and passing data from a Power Page to Dynamics D365 and back
Session Overview:
- Learn how AI can help you manage and use Microsoft Azure more efficiently
- Discover how it can help you deploy VMs efficiently, gather resource information and Analyze Usage
- What is it? Who can use it? How much does it cost? (You will like the answers!)
- Understand your Azure environment by gathering resource information, understanding service health events, and analyzing, estimating, and optimizing costs (everyone’s favorite tasks!)
- Deploying resources with the help of Copilot using guided deployments or by having help write a script (So easy anyone can do it!)
- With more features being released regularly we can explore this new product together!
Session Overview:
- In with the new, out with the old… Legacy MRP Architecture vs New Planning optimization Architecture
- Planning optimization uses Microservice's, say whatttt?
- Benefits of switching to Planning optimization and what it brings to the table within Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Is troubleshooting Planning optimization difficult?
- Features, features, features! Wow, quite the list of new functionality that Planning optimization brings.
- How do we upgrade or implement? What all is involved? Do we need to set up all new configuration for planning optimization within Dynamics D365?
Dinner, drinks, trivia, and more! Join us after the conclusion of Day #1 for a Networking Dinner & Happy Hour at The Dublin Pub!
Address: 300 Wayne Ave, Dayton, OH 45410
Good morning D365 Tech Connect! Brain food anyone? Begin Day #2 with a catered breakfast.
Speaker: Ian Jensen | Principal Microsoft Business Applications SME
Summary: Great things are happening with business applications at Microsoft, and Microsoft's new Power Platform Terraform Provider is at the center of it all.
Join Microsoft's Ian Jensen on a tour of a free, open-source tool designed for those IT admins, developers, and managers who have been searching for a truly unified infrastructure management experience across the whole business applications suite. We'll walk through how to use the tool to deploy and manage copilots, D365 resources, Dataverse records, users, and more!
Sponsor Overview: Dooap is a specialized accounts payable automation solution designed for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. Built by experts in both Microsoft Dynamics ERP and the invoice-to-payment process, Dooap was developed to streamline AP automation as Microsoft transitioned to the cloud.
Session Overview:
- Overview of GitHub Copilot and its capabilities
- Step-by-step guide on setting up GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
- Demonstration of how Copilot provides code suggestions and auto-completions
- Examples of writing X++ code and creating extensions with Copilot’s assistance
- Use cases showing improved debugging processes with Copilot
- Tips on leveraging Copilot to enhance productivity and code quality
- Real-world scenarios illustrating time-saving benefits and increased efficiency in Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain development projects
Sponsor Overview: Netstock is a leading demand and supply planning software trusted by over 2,400 customers worldwide to optimize inventory management. Seamlessly integrating with top ERPs, Netstock leverages advanced analytics to help you quickly adapt to market shifts and make strategic, data-driven supply chain decisions for lasting success.
Session Overview:
- Reducing Solution Dependencies through Strategic Solution Segmentation
- Optimizing Flow Management with Service Principal Support in Power Automate
- ALM Accelerator for Power Platform: Benefits and Drawbacks
- Harnessing the Power of Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)
Sponsor Overview: Experlogix empowers thousands of customers and partners worldwide to elevate client engagement, drive growth, and achieve business success. The Experlogix suite provides purpose-built digital solutions that simplify the buying process, regardless of business or product complexity. With seamless integrations and low-code/no-code configurability, Experlogix creates exceptional digital experiences for buyers, clients, distributors, and dealers, making it easier than ever to do business.
Enjoy a catered lunch and get a chance to mingle with other attendees and our wonderful sponsors! Towards the end of this break period, we will hear a short presentation from MSDynamicsWorld (MSDW).
To wrap up day #2 of D365 Tech Connect, attendees, speakers, and sponsors will be split into groups for a team building exercise for charity! More details coming soon!