Over the past weekend, I worked on uplifting the Areopa Website to a new, more modern, slick view. I used the opportunity to give the mindmap visualization of all Areopa webinars a new home on the main website. Check the site out, let me know what you think about the new design!

Areopa Website - Old Design

Before: Original Areopa design

Areopa Website - New Design

After: New modern design

As I was going through with it, I was thinking if I could now visualize something else, so I can keep a different mindmap on the blog. And with Directions EMEA just around the corner, with the record number of sessions, I found my perfect candidate!

It’s never easy to find the sessions you really want to attend, and with over 240 available ones, it’s even harder this year. Are you an AI fan? Or a sceptic? Well, this view will help you find exactly the sessions you are interested in. When the agenda is public, I’ll adjust the entries with the dates and times of sessions.

But before you go off exploring the content, here are a few “fun facts” from the session list:

  • Total sessions: 242
  • Total speakers: 244
  • Busiest speaker: Aleksandar Totovic with 8 sessions! (I’m not surprised, though; he always has so much content to share…)
  • A non-Microsoft speaker with the busiest schedule is AJ Kauffman, with 4.
  • Multi-speaker sessions: 93 (38.4%)

Session types:

  • Session (45 min): 156 sessions
  • Sponsor (45 min): 50 sessions
  • Workshop (105 min): 11 sessions
  • ISV Theatre (15 min): 10 sessions
  • Roundtable (45 min): 7 sessions
  • Deep dive session (105 min): 5 sessions
  • Keynote: 3 sessions

Session levels:

  • 100 Beginner: 87 sessions
  • 200 Intermediate: 124 sessions
  • 300 Advanced: 25 sessions
  • 400 Expert: 3 sessions

Target roles:

  • Consultant: 138 sessions
  • Developer: 121 sessions (and people still say Directions aren’t for devs… 🙄)
  • Leadership: 83 sessions
  • Sales & Marketing: 76 sessions
  • Project Manager: 66 sessions
  • All: 37 sessions
  • HR: 15 sessions

Products:

  • Business Central: 105 sessions
  • Other: 75 sessions
  • All: 40 sessions
  • Power Platform: 16 sessions (This was a bit of a surprise; in the past, there was a much stronger Power Platform presence)

Technical areas:

  • Copilot: 54 sessions (the AI push is obvious)
  • Finance: 46 sessions
  • AL: 40 sessions
  • Admin: 31 sessions
  • API/Interface: 30 sessions
  • Supply Chain: 30 sessions
  • AI/Agents: 22 sessions
  • Sponsor: 22 sessions
  • Warehousing: 18 sessions
  • DevOps: 17 sessions
  • Automate: 9 sessions
  • Dataverse: 8 sessions
  • Integration: 6 sessions
  • Power Apps: 6 sessions
  • Service: 6 sessions
  • PowerBI: 4 sessions
  • Sales: 4 sessions
  • Sustainability: 2 sessions
  • Power Pages: 2 sessions

Interested in what’s under these topics? Well then I won’t keep you waiting any longer, here’s the visualization. You can zoom in and out, move the graph around, and click on the nodes to expand or collapse them. Use the controls below to filter the sessions by your preferences. Click around, explore!

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