NAV Techdays 2017 Recap

My favorite week of the year has just ended. I’m in the high speed train from Antwerpen back to Amsterdam, which is over just like that so I don’t have much time to make this anything elaborate.

As per usual, the organization was superb. The venue is fantastic, with a great expo area, lots of good food and drink choices, and the seats in the great rooms are just about the most comfortable seats you can imagine. The Kinepolis is a movie theater that you can also rent for events. I think I speak for everyone when I say this is one of the most important features, and I hope we will never have to move to a different location.

My week started with a full day pre-conference workshop about automated testing in NAV. This workshop was hosted by none other than Luc van Vugt, who, as per usual, delivered a solid day of learning. I had misread the workshop description and the correspondence that we had prior to the workshop, so I did not get everything out of it that I could have, but Luc was so kind to offer assistance to me so that I could do the exercises at home. Any time you have an opportunity to train under Luc, you should take it.

My company was a sponsor, so we had a booth to staff. It was a pleasure to be there and talk to anyone who had any questions about what we can offer.

As per usual, the two conference days were stuffed with 90 minute deep-dive sessions on any topic you can think of. My favorite ones were Waldo’s “Rock ‘n Roll with VS Code”Anders and Nikola’s “Creating great APIs”, and the Docker session by Freddy, Tobias and Jakub. Fortunately for you, you can watch all of the sessions on YouTube, Luc had all of them uploaded within a week of the conference.

I can’t say enough about this conference. For any technical resource in the NAV channel (and I include Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in that category), NAV Techdays is a must to attend, every single year. This is the second time that I’ve gone, and I am still kicking myself for not going the first few years. If I can help it, I will not make that mistake again.

See you next year in Antwerpen!