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# Directions EMEA 2025

[Read the post](https://www.vondervoort.be/index.php/2025/11/11/directions-emea-2025/) · Vondervoort.be (Arthur van de Vondervoort) · 2025-11-11 · 970 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> A conference attendee reflects on Directions EMEA 2025, highlighting agentic AI as the central theme and covering practical insights from development sessions on topics like GitHub versus Azure DevOps, building knowledge-first AI workflows, and implementing AI agents in Business Central. The post emphasizes how AI tools have become practical and applicable to daily development work beyond just coding.

## Key points

- The author says agentic AI has become usable in daily work this year, with uses beyond coding such as requirements gathering, documentation and telemetry analysis
- New Development, Leadership and Consulting zones hosted small, informal talks; the author would like them listed in the Directions app schedule
- A session comparing Azure DevOps and GitHub suggested moving repositories to GitHub for its Copilot features while keeping a hybrid setup with Azure DevOps
- A knowledge-first workflow session showed how feeding knowledge and context into the development process improves results from AI agents
- The Day 3 community keynote discussed how AI fits into the Business Central ecosystem

## Quotes

- "now, with tools becoming available and real world examples everywhere, I see how I can use it in my daily work" (Demonstrates the shift from AI as potential to AI as immediately applicable in professional contexts)
- "You need to implement Agents now! …But what even is an Agent?" (Captures the urgent practical question facing Business Central developers about agent implementation)

## Context

- Features: Agentic AI capabilities, Copilot integration, GitHub features, AI agent implementation, Knowledge-first development workflow, AI in requirements gathering

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