Nav TechDays is the name of a new conference, organized by mibuso.com. The goal of this conference is to offer 2 days full of – technical only and highly relevant – sessions, related to Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV.
Nav TechDays will take place on
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 May 2011, at Metropolis Business & Communication Center in
Antwerp (Belgium).
UPDATE 19/07/2010: Due to the broad range of Dynamics NAV conferences within the EMEA region, we have decided to reschedule our NAV TechDays conference. Instead of May 2011, this 2-day conference will be rescheduled to October 2011. A final date has not been decided upon, but we expect it will take place in the 2nd half of October 2011. UPDATE 3/02/2011: To avoid possible conflicts with the existing Convergence EMEA and Directions US events, we have decided to set the date for the NAV TechDays 2011 to Thursday 29 & Friday 30 September 2011.NAV TechDays is the place where some of the best developers and leading business owners cross paths, exchange ideas, find partners and conceive projects. It is where community ties are strengthened and where boundaries will be broken. It is where you want to be to make things happen. If you are passionate about Microsoft Dynamics NAV, then you need to be at
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Kindly let me know if there exists any conference regarding NAV in India. Looking forward hearing from you.
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Its very hard to organize or implement any kind of Navision event in India. There are a number of issues, but the core ones are how Navision partners work there.
Firstly there is a very low percentage of Navision Developers/Consultants that are dedicated to Navision. Most companies want multi-skilled personnel, so that if they get a new contract they can quickly switch people around. Also on company resumes, if they have 15 developers each of which are certified in T-SQL, AX, NAV, GP, SAP, Sharepoint, C# etc. They will list them individually as 15 Navision developers, 15 SAP consultants etc. Thus giving them a wider market to get development contracts for. Of course on paper it looks good, but the down side is it means that the company can not really afford to have extensive training for every consultant on every product. And if they sent the 15 people to a 2 day Navision conference, they would then need to send them to AX, SAP SQL etc. Which just can't be expected.
Next there is the urgency of billing. Companies can not afford to lose 2 days of billable work, so its difficult for the Developers/Consultants to get time off, and because of the long hours they work, none of them want to go to conferences on Weekends or in the evening when they should send time with their families.
Then there is the distance. If a large conference is organized in The US or Europe, people will travel all over to be there. In India this is less common. You wont get 500 consultants having their company pay for an airfare AND three nights in a hotel AND pay salary AND lose 3 days of billable time. So you would have to repeat the conference in each major center, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Then simply the cost. Technical people need to be flown from all over the world to host the event. A facility is needed, those people need to be put up in Hotels and they need air fares paid and their salaries. THis would relate to entrance fees of around 10,000-20,000 INR per attendee. Partners are just not willing / able to pay these sorts of entrance fees for their people when it is just covering one skill set. ANd its hard to find enough developers and consultants that can afford this them selves.
Events such as TechEd can be successful in India, because it covers many skill sets. But until there is a lot more product specialization, and Navision is considered as a "career path" and not just one of the skills, its very difficult.
Please update your agenda.
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How about Indonesia, is there any chance to be the host of NAV TechDays? 2050 maybe [-o<
Andwian
i hope i'll be there too...i can't stand the idea to be in this forum since 2006 and have known (face to face) only one member of the community (stevedivimast :thumbsup: )
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It's just that in October there usually are plenty of MS events (Technical Airlift, PLC, Convergence, etc.) , plus there are some "private appointments"
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very true......
Sorry for the delay in replying.
Actually I see Indonesia as a strong growth market for Navision. if there was a Navision event organized there I would be very interested to attend.
The registration form is available at http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp .
We hope to see many of you in Antwerp.
He will talk about:
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/agenda.asp
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/speakers.asp
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/sessions.asp
The conference fee is 290 EUR (excl. 21% VAT) if you register on or before 20 May 2011.
After 20 May, the fee is 340 EUR (excl. 21% VAT). This price is for the 2 days (there won't be offered any one day tickets).
The conference fee does not include any accomodation costs. All registrants are liable to pay Belgian VAT at 21%.
Register through http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp
The session details will be updated soon.
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/sessions.asp
This session showcases the administration improvements introduced in Dynamics NAV '7.0'. Demos for this talk include how easy NAV administrators can manage NAV Server Instances, without the need for programming skills. Differences between problem solving at hand or automating your IT processes are explained. Furthermore the Management Console based UI will be demoed.
Level: 200 - Intermediate
Speaker: Stefan Omdahl
Bug-free Development in NAV
Developming something from scratch is difficult enough, and making sure stuff always works, and always works as intended, becomes a growing trouble as the codebase grows even if you've personally written each line of code, and know it by heart. However, when you inherit a codebase with several thousands existing objects, such as NAV, touching feature A may bring down feature B, and fixing feature B may break features C and D and E.
Test-driven development has been around long ago and has taught developers that testing before developing is the best way to go. But alas, in NAV, we had no testability features, those that would simplify or even enable proper testing approach. On top of all this add the debugger which leaves far too much to be desired, and you have a recipe for generating thousands of lines of untested code. And an unstable system which can collapse at a slightest breeze. Thankfully, NAV now comes not only equipped with good testability features, but also Microsoft has provided us with test scripts for the whole ERP. This presentation will teach you how to harness those tools, how to develop bug-free applications, how to test before development, and after all - why this all matters.
Level: 300 - Advanced
Speaker: Vjekoslav Babić
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/sessions.asp
The conference fee is 290 EUR (excl. 21% VAT) if you register on or before 20 May 2011.
After 20 May, the fee is 340 EUR (excl. 21% VAT). This price is for the 2 days (there won't be offered any one day tickets).
The conference fee does not include any accomodation costs. All registrants are liable to pay Belgian VAT at 21%.
Register through http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp
To participate in this draw, your registration (for the full 2 conference days) AND payment needs to be received on or before 30 June 2011. The iPad's will be drawn and handed out at the evening reception on Thursday 29 September 2011.
3 reasons why you should attend this conference:
He is Director of Engineering at the Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen. He was Navision a/s employee no. 5, the original creator of the C/AL language and co-author of C/SIDE and the Dynamics NAV Client.
Attend the conference to get familiar with the transformation process and to learn the tricks & best practices from experts.
Learn how to use the full potential of RDLC reports, and what is going to change in the new version.
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp
Register (& pay) before 30 June 2011, and make chance to win one of the two iPad 2's!
If you have registered but didn't receive an invoice, then we didn't receive your payment.
PS: I'll keep the cap ;-)
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He is Director of Engineering at the Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen. He was Navision a/s employee no. 5, the original creator of the C/AL language and co-author of C/SIDE and the Dynamics NAV Client.
Attend the conference to get familiar with the transformation process and to learn the tricks & best practices from experts.
Learn how to use the full potential of RDLC reports, and what is going to change in the new version.
If you want to connect with your peers then use this opportunity to meet Microsoft product managers and NAV partners.
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp
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The agenda is complete.
You can see on the conference site who else is going.
The event will be top-notch.
So there is no reason to wait to register!
http://www.navtechdays.com/2011/registration.asp