Send us a textCarme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen join in another episode recorded directly at Directions EMEA to discuss Diversity in Dynamics, formerly known as Women in Dynamics. We discuss the recent change towards a broader focus on Diversity in general, why and how that happened and what it means for the organization in the future. We also talk about ways to get involved and why now is a great moment to do so. Last but not least Søren talks about his own story and why he shared it via a blog post on diversityindynamics.org

Send us a textShannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker join this episode directly at Directions EMEA in Vienna to discuss community events. They discuss the challenges this brings, the dos and don'ts for speakers, how Microsoft influences things in our ecosystem and the events they like most. And of course they touch upen Directions EMEA itself

Send us a textMarco Heimeshoff, trainer, speaker and software developer, joins the show to discuss Domain-Driven Design. Where does it come from, why does it matter, how can you implement it and how can you get started with it. He also shares his community activities like the KanDDDinsky conference and the Virtual Domain-Driven Design Community at VirtualDDD.com

Send us a textThorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of SpinKube means and what the future could bring in the WebAssembly world. 

Send us a textNatalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the conference, of course touch on AI and explain why we all like the conference so much.

Adrian Mouat, James Spurin, and Nigel Poulton delve into the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, discussing its impact on the future. They share insights on community engagement, Docker's evolution, and the importance of cloud native tooling. The podcast also includes a humorous anecdote about encountering a graffiti artist's tag during a boat trip.

Send us a textVivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pro-code support and the dynamics in fusion teams

Send us a textRalf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other architectural approaches, discuss drawbacks and adoption best practices and close it off with real life examples and some misconceptions. Ralf also shares the idea of his latest podcast Decode AI. 

Send us a textJosh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the overall picture and then dive into the details of the possibilities to integrate Canvas Apps into Business Central (see https://joshanglesea.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/business-central-embedded-canvas-app/ for Josh's original blog post on that topic). In the end, Josh also shares the recent AI advancements that came to the Power Platform.

Send us a textArtificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show to discuss AI in Business Central. We start by talking AI in general and how it will impact all of us, then we look deeper into the recently introduced AI functionality in Business Central, including the new prompt dialog and the Business Central Copilot. Jacob and Mike also share their learning curve on AI and what they see coming next.