As AL developers, we always start in the same place: the BaseApp.

Before writing any code, we spend time reading existing logic, tracing posting routines, analysing data flow, searching for the right events, and trying to understand why something was built the way it was. That understanding shapes every extension we write.

AI doesn’t replace that work — just like AL didn’t replace good engineering when we moved from C/AL. But it does change how we approach it.

In this session, we explore what AI-driven development in Business Central really means — not just generating code, but bringing agents into your development workflow in a way that makes sense.

We’ll cover:

🔍 Using AI to analyse BaseApp code, flows, and patterns faster and with more context
🧠 Identifying where agents add value in the AL development lifecycle
🔌 Selecting and configuring MCP servers to support AL development in VS Code
🏗️ Designing a development workflow where AI has a defined, controlled role
👥 Establishing shared team guidelines for AI usage, review, and quality control

This is not a “look what AI can do” session.
It’s about using AI in your AL development in a way that adds value — without losing control.

You’ll see real AL code, real BaseApp analysis, and practical integration patterns throughout.

If you’ve been building serious Business Central solutions for years and want to move beyond experimenting with AI toward a structured way of working with it in your AL development — this session shows you how.

Business Central produces an impressive amount of telemetry, but turning that data into meaningful insight still means writing KQL, combining queries, and knowing upfront what you’re looking for.

Or so they say…

In this session, I’ll show what happens when you put an AI agent on top of BC telemetry using BC Telemetry Buddy. Instead of focusing on queries, you focus on questions - letting the agent reason over telemetry patterns to uncover performance issues, errors, and unexpected behavior.

Using real-world examples, we’ll look at how this approach works in practice, how it builds on existing Business Central telemetry data, and why it fundamentally changes the way developers can interact with telemetry in Business Central.

In this full-day, hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to turn Business Central training content into a playable “escape room” experience using the BCTalent.EscapeRoom framework. The first part of the day focuses on understanding how the framework works—what venues, rooms, tasks, hints, validation, and scoring mean in practice—and how these pieces fit together to create a smooth participant journey that feels like a game but still teaches real Business Central concepts.

In the second part of the day you’ll shift from learning the framework to creating with it. You’ll design your own escape room concept (theme, learning goal, and challenge flow) and then build rooms and tasks based on your own ideas. You’ll implement clear, testable task goals, add hints and solutions that support facilitation, and apply validation patterns so progress can be checked automatically and consistently. Along the way, you’ll get guidance on pacing, difficulty, and making challenges “fair” (so success depends on learning, not guessing), plus practical tips for packaging and reusing your content for future workshops or events.

If you don’t have your own idea yet, no problem—I’ll provide a complete, ready-to-build escape room concept with a clear story, objectives, and a set of tasks you can implement step-by-step, so you can focus on learning the framework and shipping a working room by the end of the day.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a working escape room prototype, a set of repeatable design patterns for creating additional rooms and tasks, and the confidence to run or extend gamified learning experiences in Business Central with measurable progress and outcomes.

Prerequisites:

• you’ll need access to your own online Business Central sandbox environment to build and test your escape room against during the workshop.

Workshop date: Tue 9 or Wed 10 June (This is a one-day workshop)

The workshop on 10 June is sold out!