Microsoft Keynote - Day 1

Bryan Goode is the Corporate Vice President of Business Applications & Platform Marketing at Microsoft, where he leads the product marketing team responsible for Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Copilot Studio. These are Microsoft's cloud-based solutions which leverage AI, data and low code to help customers innovate.

Bryan is passionate about empowering customers and partners to transform their business processes with Microsoft's cloud solutions. With 15 years combined tenure at Microsoft, Bryan has a proven track record of driving innovation and growth across Microsoft's cloud portfolio. He was instrumental in launching Microsoft Teams, the fastest growing app in Microsoft's history, and expanding the reach of Microsoft 365 and Windows to new audiences. He also spearheaded the monetization strategies for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Global Industry, accelerating revenue growth and increased customer satisfaction.

Bryan was also responsible for the business strategy and worldwide outbound sales and marketing execution for Microsoft's database server, SQL Server, enabling growth to over $5 billion in revenue.

During a Microsoft sabbatical, Bryan was a successful entrepreneur and senior executive at two VC-backed startups, positioning both for significant growth through product innovation, channel alliance expansion and new customer acquisition.

Bryan has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also an avid traveler, runner and reader.

My team is building and running rapidly growing modern, secure, resilient, and scalable Microsoft Azure-powered Business Central online service, developed following the microservice architecture.

Together with my unbelievably smart colleagues, in a tight feedback loop with our customers, partners, and other Microsoft teams, following DevOps and AGILE development methodologies we envision, design and ship our Online Service, Platform and Partner Tooling scenarios such as service signups, updates, administration, end user and partner access, global and regional services deployment, resource governance, performance, data access, licensing, ISV solutions and per-tenant extensions lifecycle, new programming language capabilities (AL), migration of on-premises data to the cloud and many more.

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.

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan works as program manager in the Dynamics 365 Business Central server backend team. He has been working in the dangerous field between customers, partners, support professionals, developers and dba's for many years and done his part of mistakes as a developer before that in his 18+ years in the it industry. He enjoys working with data and databases and really, really enjoys working using KQL. Kennie has no humor.

During his 20 years at Microsoft, Mike has experienced the life of Test Engineer, Engineering Manager and Product Manager, shipping Visual Studio, AX, NAV and Business Central.
Today, he's responsible for leading Business Central into the AI era and our 'Better together' story with Teams, Outlook, Excel and OneDrive.

Mike Morton is the VP of Microsoft 365 Dynamics Business Central product team. Mike moved to Denmark in 2020 after spending 24 years working at Microsoft in Redmond. The highlights of Mike's time at Microsoft include being a founding member of the SharePoint team, the development of Office Offline, and most recently the Fluid Framework (a core technology of the new Microsoft Loop).