Directions EMEA 2025
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.
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"now, with tools becoming available and real world examples everywhere, I see how I can use it in my daily work"
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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