Hello and thank you for considering leading a session at the Directions for Enterprise conference in Copenhagen. Speakers are critical to our events success and we are delighted that you are considering sharing your expertise with our community. We are particularly keen to encourage people who have not spoken before and that have fresh new ideas and perspectives to bring.

The Directions for Enterprise conference will take place at the Tivoli Congress Center in Copenhagen from 23rd to 25th of September.

The conference is for Dynamics 365 F&SCM partner professionals, everyone from developers, consultants, architects, Sales and Marketing and Management. The objective are to get community experts and Microsoft to share their knowledge, best practices and future vision with others. 

That means to have the best chance of getting your session onto our schedule, you should consider carefully all the following guidelines and ensure you give us as complete and accurate submission as possible.

It’s critically important that you understand all the do's and don'ts to be a speaker at Directions for Enterprise especially our rules for promotion and ethics and that we have a clear idea of the topic you will talk about and the audience it’s applicable to.

New speakers

This is our speaker portal where you can manage everything around your session and presentation(s). In this tool you can find all the deadlines, speaker contact, bio, templates and tags, together with social banners to promote your session and the ability to upload your presentation(s).

Please ensure your bio has a picture of yourself and a link to your LinkedIn profile. If your session is accepted this picture and information will be used in the social banner for your session and in the speaker overview on our website and in our conference app.

Session title & description

Sessions are initially selected or rejected by reviewing just the title, description and target audience of your submission. Its therefore critically important that we can fully understand what the session will teach attendees and why this topic that is important for our Dynamics for Enterprise partner community to learn.

We also limited the maximum number of sessions which can be submitted to four per person but we would suggest that is unlikely that we will have capacity to schedule more than two for any speaker.

Typically we get a large number of sessions submitted on similar hot topics and have to choose just the best one or two submissions. In previous years we have asked speakers with similar proposed sessions to collaborate and expect to do the same again. It is however true that session proposals that are unique but still relevant to Dynamics for Enterprise partners have a higher chance of being accepted.

The session title and description, if accepted, will be published to our conference web site and app. If you wish to add anything you do not want to be made public then please add it to the notes section only.

Target audience & product

The submission asks you to specify your target audience and the products it relates to. Please be precise and keep this to your primary targets, those that ‘tick too many boxes’ are likely to be instantly discounted.

Similarly we need to know what level of existing expertise will ensure an attendee gets the most form your sessions. Is it primarily an introduction, deep dive or a what’s new aimed at existing experts?

People will attend your sessions based on these tags and we know that speakers get very poor ratings when they find it’s not substantially applicable to them.

Session type

We will be planning for the following session types:

• 45 minutes General presentation sessions

• 105 minute Deep Dive technical sessions (Attention: Here we have only a very limited number)

Except for in Sponsor Sessions, self-promotion or promotion of a product, service or any other offering of your or allied company, is prohibited. Any feedback of a ‘hard sell’ in other sessions can result in you being disqualified as a speaker at any and all future events.

Ethical responsibility

The Directions for Partners team believes in the importance of a globally connected Dynamics community that advocates a diverse, inclusive, equal and fair industry based on the values of excellence, mutual respect, freedom of speech and progressiveness.

Therefore we do not tolerate any form of favouritism, hurtful language, discrimination, abuse, marginalisation or insulting behaviour on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, religion, background, skin colour, religious belief, sexuality, gender identity, socio economic class, caste, disability or age at or related to the conference and in the sessions. Please ensure that be aware of these polices and behave accordingly.

Expected timeline

• May 31 = end of call for speakers

• June 15 = first speaker confirmations

• July 31 = final session confirmations

•Mid of August = publish session schedule

Coverage of expenses

We are pleased to offer the following for the session owner: 

• Full Conference Ticket:

Every main session speaker (session owner) will receive a complimentary full conference ticket. Co-speaker(s) will also be eligible for free admission, provided they make a significant contribution to the presentation and had to spend significant time preparing their content. Please note that for example panel members do not quality for this free admission. This is not valid for sponsor sessions.

• Accommodation:

Accommodation expenses will be covered for main session speaker (session owner) only. Kindly note that hotel bookings will be handled by our Directions for Partners team. This is not valid for sponsor sessions.

 Rejection of a session

If your session proposals are rejected, we will inform you at the latest by mid-August and delete all the provided information. Speakers who have submitted a proposed session but suffered rejection, we will offer the possibility to purchase a ticket at the super early bird price until four weeks before the event starts.