April 14-17, 2024
Directions North America 2024
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
Directions NA 2024 was the largest yet, with a turnout of 1,286 attendees, of which 346 were first-timers. The event hosted 291 sessions and workshops for the attendees who represented 30 countries, 42 states and 6 Canadian provinces.
04-16-2024
Microsoft presents: The lead heaven opportunity and sales cycle of days
Do you want to turn your leads into customers faster and easier than ever before? Join us for this exclusive session and discover how you can achieve lead heaven by approaching Shopify customers. Learn how to shorten your sales cycle from months to days, optimize your conversion rates, and increase your revenue. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your sales performance and boost your business growth.
Speakers:
Andrei Panko
Product manager: SCM, Warehouse, Jobs, Service, Manufacturing, and e-Commerce (Shopify Connector)
Andrei Panko is a Product Manager on the Business Central engineering team at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen. He started working with Business Central (back then it was Dynamics NAV) as a consultant, developer, and project manager back in 2004, and was an MVP for six consecutive years. Andrei has extensive field experience in the supply chain, and has engaged in many other aspects of the Business Central application and platform as well. His focus is on building solutions with rich business functionality and low implementation cost.
Andrei Panko
Product manager: SCM, Warehouse, Jobs, Service, Manufacturing, and e-Commerce (Shopify Connector)
Andrei Panko is a Product Manager on the Business Central engineering team at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen. He started working with Business Central (back then it was Dynamics NAV) as a consultant, developer, and project manager back in 2004, and was an MVP for six consecutive years. Andrei has extensive field experience in the supply chain, and has engaged in many other aspects of the Business Central application and platform as well. His focus is on building solutions with rich business functionality and low implementation cost.
Sessions
Microsoft presents: New warehouse, mobile and barcode related scenarios in 2024 release wave 1 Microsoft presents: What's new in AI and application Microsoft presents: What's new in service and project management Microsoft presents: Shopify B2B and Business Central Microsoft presents: The lead heaven opportunity and sales cycle of days Microsoft roundtable: Service and project management Microsoft roundtable: Manufacturing Microsoft Q&A: Strategy for Copilot in Business Central
Jannik Bausager
Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
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.
Jannik Bausager
Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
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.
Lotte Cordt Ihlemann
Principal Product Manager
Lotte Cordt Ihlemann is a Partner and Customer Success Manager and has been with Microsoft for more than 20 years. Over the years Lotte has been working in various global roles within marketing, product marketing, and partner enablement for Business Central and earlier Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX. Currently driving Business Central global partner readiness and communication, Microsoft's community, event and content strategy at key SMB business application conferences, strategic alliance management and projects securing the customer base.
Lotte Cordt Ihlemann
Principal Product Manager
Lotte Cordt Ihlemann is a Partner and Customer Success Manager and has been with Microsoft for more than 20 years. Over the years Lotte has been working in various global roles within marketing, product marketing, and partner enablement for Business Central and earlier Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX. Currently driving Business Central global partner readiness and communication, Microsoft's community, event and content strategy at key SMB business application conferences, strategic alliance management and projects securing the customer base.