Introduction
2026 is going to be a landmark year for the IT world, filled with events that promise fresh breakthroughs, bold ideas, and opportunities to strengthen your edge in the industry while elevating your professional reputation, learning, networking, and making new prospective contacts.
The Expected Events
🎯 M365 Community Day St. Louis
This one-day, in-person event will take place on 1 May at the Microsoft Innovation Hub. It is an alternative to the popular Microsoft Ignite, centered on hands-on use of Microsoft 365 and integration with other services.
The meeting is smaller than other flagship events, but more authentic, with its own local community vibe and interactive, open discussions.
🎯 Community Summit Roadshow Chicago
This conference will be held on 5-6 May in Chicago, providing participants with industry-specific deep-dive sessions, real operational use cases, hands-on support, and networking opportunities. It focuses on business Applications, Dynamics 365 F/SCM, CE, Business Central, and Power Platform.
The main advantage of this event is greater relevance for each attendee through industry-specific accelerators, targeted meetings, and effective templates for different app scenarios.
🎯 European Collab and Bizapps Summit 2026
On 5-7 May, in Cologne, Germany, over 3,000 attendees will gather for one of the largest European conferences - ECS, focused on Dynamics 365, AI, Copilot and Agents, Power Platform, Azure, Dataverse, and Microsoft Fabric. They promise deep business context, combined with technical capabilities, from efficient solution architecture to adoption.
In fact, the European BizApps Summit, European Collaboration Summit, and European AI & Cloud Summit are again coming together at one venue, with numerous sessions across Microsoft technologies.
🎯 DynamicsCon 2026
The large community event in the USA, where UDS Systems is one of the sponsors, will take place in Las Vegas from May 12-16!
With over 3,000 participants and 300+ insightful sessions, the event is really worth attending to discuss innovations in Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure, and to bring together partners, vendors, end users, IT specialists from large companies, and enthusiasts from the Dynamics User Group Community.
Briefly, this is a flagship “by users, for users” specialized events, centered on business Applications, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Power Platform.
The event uses a community-first model thanks to the strong presence of actual system users.
The agenda includes various product- and role-specific tracks with highly practical sessions, AI embedded in business workflows, and vertical industry-specific use cases and solutions.
Our event team is waiting for you at Booth 603, “UDS Systems”!
🎯 Dynamics Minds 2026
This event will take place in Portorož, Slovenia, on 25-27 May. It will bring together Microsoft representatives and fellow Dynamics 365 and Power Platform professionals from around the world at a single venue.
The event's unique feature is that it takes place annually at the same location and time.
This is undoubtedly one of the best partner and vendor events, with its informal setting, unforgettable atmosphere and theme of witchcraft powered by Microsoft technologies.
🎯 CollabDays Madrid 2026
This Microsoft 365 & Modern Work conference will bring together administrators, developers, users, citizen developers, first-line workers, and business users in Madrid on 4 June to learn more about Microsoft 365 apps and services.
It provides accessible, practical learning to a broad audience, including newcomers, and offers opportunities to network and collaborate. The main topics include modern workplace trends, hybrid infrastructure, low-code and no-code innovation, plus Microsoft 365 integrations.
🎯 CollabDays Netherlands 2026
The conference is similar to other global CollbDays events and will be held in Vianen, on 13 June. It will focus on Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Power Platform, with numerous sessions from renowned national and international speakers and new talent, for admins, developers, architects, and other professionals.
In addition to general Microsoft 365, modern workplace architecture, governance, and security, its agenda includes expanding Power Platform and adopting AI best practices.
🎯 Azure Day Roma 2026
On June 19, in Rome, the technical event will be held in a hybrid format: in person and live streaming. It is primarily relevant to system architects, DevOps, software developers, engineers, and other technical representatives because of its focus on Azure environments, architecture patterns, scaling, reliability, and performance. It stays tightly within Azure and cloud engineering with hands-on learning and real implementation experience sharing.
🎯 European Power Platform Conference 2026
On 29 June - 2 July, the event will offer participants at Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, over 100 special sessions and 10 full-day tutorials, with a strong focus on Power Platform technologies, process automation and AI agents.
The event program is perfectly optimized to cover Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, AI Agents, and other Microsoft technologies from top to bottom for professionals of all levels.
It is positioned between community-led events (like CollabDays) and enterprise conferences (like Microsoft Ignite), emphasizing practical low-code and pro-code development with a “how it’s built in real life” approach for successful digital transformation.
🎯 TechCon365 Seattle 2026
On 24-28 August, in Seattle, the USA, a large Microsoft 365, Data and Power Platform conference will take place. The attendees will benefit from 2 optional days of workshops and a 3-day conference, choosing from over 130 sessions in multiple tracks and 25 workshops presented by Microsoft 365, Power Platform, & Microsoft Data's top experts.
They will also get the opportunity to receive in-depth knowledge of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Azure, Copilot, AI, and more.
🎯 Shift+Enter Summit 2026
It is a one‑day, 4 September, community‑driven event in Budapest with fresh insights on Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure, Fabric, Microsoft 365, Teams, Copilot, and a strong focus on practical learning and open knowledge‑sharing.
The summit gathers developers, consultants, data experts, business users, and anyone curious about building with Microsoft technologies. Whether you're just beginning your journey or already deeply experienced, you’ll discover valuable content through hands‑on sessions, face-to-face talks, and collaborative learning. They keep a focus on change in work behavior, not just tools
🎯 Community Summit North America 2026
On 11-15 October in Nashville, Tennessee, a large innovation, education, and training event for Microsoft Business Applications will take place. It is one of the largest independent conferences focused on business applications with a huge focus on real-world adoption across finance, operations, sales, customer service, and supply chain.
The UDS Systems event team participated in the event last year, and we definitely won’t miss the opportunity to take part in it this year, too.
🎯 CollabDays New England 2026
On 16 October an impressive IT event will start in New England, gathering together IT community members who are passionate about Microsoft 365, collaboration, and real‑world solutions.
🎯 Directions EMEA 2026
This Dynamics 365 Business Central Community event will be held on 27-29 October in Paris, France. The venue will unite resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, consultants, and business leaders from across EMEA to explore the latest innovations and strategies shaping the ecosystem.
The conference will particularly focus on Dynamics partners and their employees, ISV companies, and service providers dedicated to enhancing the Dynamics market, as well as any other Microsoft partners interested in learning about Dynamics 365 Business Central.
It will cover all aspects of the participants’ Dynamics business, providing them with comprehensive knowledge and networking opportunities at all levels, including Executive, Technical, Development, Marketing, Sales, and Operations.
🎯 Power Conference 2026
On 2-3 December, a large conference will take place in the Czech Republic, focusing on Power Platform itself, Microsoft AI, Copilot, Fabric, and integration with Microsoft 365 and enterprise systems. The audience is a broad mix of business users and engineers in one place. The speakers will present practical guidance on scaling Power Platform in real organizations.
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