S1E02 - Directions ASIA 2025 Recap

Returning from his first trip to Directions ASIA, AJ Ansari recaps all the major announcements and shares his impressions of the event held at the Avani+ Riverside hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Got questions about what you heard? Write AJ on his LinkedIn profile at bit.ly/ajansari.** Note: Please excuse background noise - this episode was recorded in a loud hotel lobby and we didn't have access to anything except for a phone and airpods. **Guess where Directions ASIA is going next year? Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam!Chapters:00:00 Intro00:34 Impressions about Directions ASIA 2025 and reflecting on my sessions01:54 Announcement: Price change coming October'2502:24 Announcement: CPOR for CSP Business Applications02:58 Reminder: CSP Deployment Vouchers for Business Central through June 30, 202503:15 Announcement: Business Central Update Management will allow skipping updates03:58 AI & Business Central: 2025, the year of the AI Frontier Firm04:52 Announcement: Autonomous Agent experiences coming to Business Central05:07 Announcement: Timeline announced for ability to extend 1st party agents and build own Autonomous Agent experiences in BC05:53 Announcement: How Agent experience usage in BC will be billed06:55 Announcement: Business Central AI Test Toolkit07:35 Business Central events coming up in the next few weeks08:04 Reminder: Sign up for 8 hour Copilot Studio Workshop on June 10/11 at BC TechDays (only 4 seats left)08:40 Final Thoughts and upcoming OnlyBCFans Office Hours Livecast reminder - Coming this JuneMemorable line from the episode: In 2025, Human-Agent teams will upend the org chart and every employee will become an "Agent Boss"Details of BC Price Change Announcement: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/blog/no-audience/2024/04/12/new-pricing-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-effective-october-2024/#msdyn365bc #businesscentral #microsoftpartner #directions4partners #onlybcfans