BCS + MEC at Community Summit
Nashville, TN • October 11–15, 2026
Come for the Business Central expertise. Bring your spreadsheet, workaround, or process that’s taking more work than it should. Let’s talk through what BC, Power Platform, automation, or AI could do instead.
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What to Expect from BCS + MEC at Summit
Summit brings the Microsoft community together to learn what’s changing, compare notes, and solve real problems from across all the D365 platforms. This year, the BCS + MEC team will be there teaching Business Central, answering questions across the Microsoft stack, and sharing practical ways to use automation and AI.
Learn with Us
Academy training, Business Central sessions, and hands-on help from people who work in BC every day.
Bring Us a Problem
Spreadsheet, workaround, repetitive task, or process that’s gotten harder than it should be? Bring it with you.
Get a Second Opinion
Have a BC question, CRM challenge, reporting issue, or idea for automation or AI? Come talk it through with us.
Learn with Us
Multiple Days to Connect the Dots
From pre-conference Academy sessions to education sessions to medic desks for hands-on help take advantage of it all.
Saturday, October 10
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Go Live with Business Central: Hands-on End-User Workshop
Academy, co-led with Shawn Dorward
Saturday, October 10
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Go Live with Business Central: Hands-on End-User Workshop
Academy, co-led with Shawn Dorward
Monday, October 12
1:45 – 2:45 PM
We'll Do It Live! Building Financial Reports from Scratch
Kristen Hosman + Ben Cole
Tuesday, October 13
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Most common Business Central Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
Kristen Hosman + Reesha Curtis
gOT A sPREADSHEET FOR THAT?
Still Doing This in Excel?
Closing the books
Tracking leads
Managing inventory
Chasing approvals
Handling repetitive tasks
Bring us the spreadsheet, workaround, or repetitive task you’re tired of managing manually.
Maybe it belongs in Business Central. Maybe Power Platform can simplify it. Maybe AI can take part of the work off your plate.
Share your answer for a chance to win Apple AirPods Pro.
Ready to join us in Nashville?
Discount code MountEvans15 is already applied.
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Booth 1029
More expertise. Same relationships.
BCS + MEC brings together Business Central, CRM, AI, and Power Platform expertise to help you figure out what should stay in Excel, what Business Central can handle, and where a better process might save you time.
Meet the Team
The BCS + MEC Team
Stop by Booth 1029 to meet the people behind the sessions, conversations, and ideas. You’ll find deep Business Central expertise from MEC alongside BCS experience across CRM, Power Platform, automation, and AI.
Bring us a question, a challenge, or something you’re trying to improve. We’ll help you think through what makes sense next.
Kristen Hosman
Director, SMB Practice
Gino Pack
Principal Consultant, BC
Lupe Haro
BC Practice Lead
Vince Albaracin
Consultant
Reesha Curtis
Customer Success
Eric Simendinger
Director, Business Development
Can't Join Us in Nashville?
Keep Learning with BCS
Summit is only a few days. The ideas you bring home should last a lot longer. Explore more ways to improve across Business Central, CRM, Power Platform, automation, and AI, or bring us a problem you’d like help thinking through.
Sept. 29 @ 1:00 pm CDT
Is AI in Your Budget Yet?
With budgeting season getting underway, Jackie and Kristen break down what AI really costs, what belongs in the budget beyond licenses, and how to decide where AI is worth the investment.
Late Oct
What We Heard at Community Summit
We’ll bring back the product updates, questions, conversations, and practical takeaways we think Microsoft customers actually need to know.
Nov. 4 @ 1:30 pM cDT
What to Expect from Business Central Now That Release Waves Are Gone
Gino breaks down Microsoft’s changing release approach and what it means for how Business Central customers plan for updates, new functionality, and what comes next.
Convergence • December 8 - 11 • Miami Beach, FL
Responsible AI in Business Central: Data Boundaries, Governance, and Trust for SMB Deployments.
Gino Pack’s session around before you going all-in on agents and AI, you need to get governance right. Gino will cover how to prepare your Business Central environment for the agentic capabilities coming to market.
Want to Talk Before Summit?
Have a specific question or challenge you want to discuss before Nashville? Tell us what you’re working through, and someone from the BCS + MEC team can follow up.
