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 Intro

00:34 Impressions about Directions ASIA 2025 and reflecting on my sessions

01:54 Announcement: Price change coming October'25

02:24 Announcement: CPOR for CSP Business Applications

02:58 Reminder: CSP Deployment Vouchers for Business Central through June 30, 2025

03:15 Announcement: Business Central Update Management will allow skipping updates

03:58 AI & Business Central: 2025, the year of the AI Frontier Firm

04:52 Announcement: Autonomous Agent experiences coming to Business Central

05:07 Announcement: Timeline announced for ability to extend 1st party agents and build own Autonomous Agent experiences in BC

05:53 Announcement: How Agent experience usage in BC will be billed

06:55 Announcement: Business Central AI Test Toolkit

07:35 Business Central events coming up in the next few weeks

08:04 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 June

Memorable 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/

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