Expect Deep-Dive Learning at AXUG Focus 2016

You may expect a very different AXUG Focus event in 2016 - one dedicated to deep-dive face-to-face workshops.

The Dynamics AX User Group (AXUG) will hold the AXUG Focus 2016 event on June 7 and 8 in Schaumburg, Illinois. The event aims to offer Dynamics AX users the opportunity to participate in 90-minute deep-dive sessions covering topics that will help them do their jobs better. AXUG Focus 2016 runs concurrently with and in the same location as NAVUG Focus 2016.

As AXUG Program Director Heather Williams describes, the Focus events grew out of members' desire to have access to new content face-to-face, rather than virtually, so they can talk and network. AXUG has worked since December with Dynamic Communities, Microsoft and Dynamics AX users in planning the 2016 content.

Williams said of this year's change in format, "In the past, we were treating Focus more like a mini-Summit and we realized last year when we were at the [AXUG Focus] event that the one thing we were missing in the landscape of how members could learn were workshops."

So AXUG officials decided to make this year's Focus event more about workshops, she says.

"We felt that the AXUG Focus event should be like its title - very focused, offering more advanced content for that user who has been there a while, is outside of the beginner phase and wants to get more deep into the product knowledge," Williams says. "It's for users who want that more deep-dive setting where they can spend 90 minutes with a presenter. And ...