New Pacific Northwest Microsoft Dynamics Event 'Empower' Aims to Fill Convergence Void

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was replacing its user-focused Convergence conference and replacing it with Envision, an event designed for C-level business leaders and department heads.

Even before Microsoft decided to kill Convergence, the event's core comunity of Dynamics users felt that the event had been moving away from its roots, offering less of the original experience to end users looking for functional knowledge.

One company heard the outcry loud and clear in its region and decided to take action. Seattle-based Fine Solutions, a growing Microsoft Dynamics GP, AX, and CRM partner in the Pacific northwest, recently launched its own event, which it is calling Microsoft Dynamics Empower and debuts September 16 in Bellevue, Washington. The event aims to bring together the area's best Dynamics talent, thought leaders, decision-makers, and end users for a full day conference of training, networking, and access to Dynamics resources, according to Fine Solutions.

The sorely-missed culture of Convergence

Dan Fine

"We launched Empower because Microsoft made the shift away from supporting the Dynamics crowd," says Dan Fine, managing partner and CEO of Fine Solutions. "Convergence in the past, especially years ago, was more of a culture thing than it was a technology thing. They covered the technology, but the people created a bond ...