Acumatica Virtual Developer Conference 2022

It's a wrap! Our Virtual Developer Conference that was held this past June 15th & 16th has come to a conclusion for another year!

The Acumatica Virtual DevCon is an annual two half-day virtual developer conference that provides our developer community with the deep knowledge & tools they need to build great applications & integrations, fully utilizing Acumatica’s cloud xRP platform.

This year’s event included topics on the xRP Framework, Web Services, as well as the sessions on Acumatica Developer Fundamentals, Workflow, and Performance. As always, the DevCon was anchored by Mike Shchelkonogov, Chief Technology Officer - and one of our Founders - discussing our developer roadmap.

Update: All the slides, sample code, and recorded sessions are now available!

Simply go to each of the sessions you are interested in below and expand the session by clicking on the blue arrow.

Registration is now closed! But we will be back next June.

2022 Virtual DevCon Sessions Schedule

(U.S. Pacific Time)

Jun
15
Wednesday
9:00 am
9:30 am
Ali Jani
Ali Jani
Welcome & Keynote

Ali kicked off this year’s DevCon as the keynote speaker, setting the stage with an overview of Acumatica’s developer platform & strategy, demonstrating some of the key technologies used by Acumatica that provide a wide array of opportunities for developers in building great solutions for their customers.

Session Slides

9:30 am
10:30 am
Nayan Mansinha
Nayan Mansinha
xRP Framework Fundamentals & Best Practices

Kicking off the sessions, Nayan presented the fundamentals of the xRP Framework and updated the audience on the feature & functionality enhancements over the past year.

Session Slides

10:40 am
11:40 am
Samuel-Oliver Lavigueur
Samuel-Oliver Lavigueur
Web Services

Samuel-Olivier provides an overview and update on our Web Services capabilities as well as provide the fundamental background and tools to provide integration with your applications and other third-Party applications.

Session Slides

Postman Collection use in this presentation

11:50 am
12:50 pm
Sergey Nikomarov
Sergey Nikomarov
Acumatica Developer Fundamentals - Part One

This year our theme for day one is Acumatica Developer Fundamentals. Besides the xRP Framework and Web Services, we are including additional fundamental developer content which will level-set and help developer efficiencies in developing Acumatica applications and integrations.

In part one, Sergey will focus on Visual Studio environment settings, VS extensions; and update attendees on the latest features of our VS extension, Acuminator.

Session Slides (Original)

Session Slides (Full)

Acumatica CodeSnippets (GitHub)

1:00 pm
2:00 pm
Evgeny Afanasiev
Evgeny Afanasiev
Acumatica Developer Fundamentals - Part Two

In part two of our Acumatica Developer Fundamentals, Evgeny and others shared sessions on Postman tips & tricks; covered Acumatica Developer Tools; and provided Deployment & Maintenance guidance.

Session Slides (Postman Tips & Tricks)

Session Slides (Acumatica Dev Tools)

Session Slides (Deployment & Maintenance)

Acumatica Postman Collection used in the session

Jun
16
Thursday
9:00 am
9:10 am
Mark Franks
Mark Franks
Welcome & Recap of Day One

Mark kick-offed day two of our developer conference with a short recap of day one and provided a preview of the day’s sessions.

Session Slides

9:10 am
10:10 am
Gabriel Michaud
Gabriel Michaud
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

Gabriel shared his best practices on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of Acumatica applications.

Session Slides

Acumatica CI/CD Demo (GitHub)

10:20 am
11:20 pm
Doug Johnson
Doug Johnson
Acumatica Workflow

Doug provided an overview and updated our attendees on our Workflow services engine. Alex from our platform engineering team demonstrated managing workflow in code.

Session Slides

Sample Project

Sample Code 1

Sample Code 2

11:30 am
12:30 pm
Dmitrii Naumov
Dmitrii Naumov
Acumatica Performance Optimization Best Practices

Dmitrii shared the theoretical and practical aspects of Acumatica application performance best practices in his session.

Session Slides

12:40 pm
1:40 pm
 Mike Shchelkonogov
Mike Shchelkonogov
Acumatica Developer Roadmap

In our last session of the conference, Mike presented our latest developer roadmap and key initiatives for the Acumatica xRP Platform for 2022-2023.

Session Slides

1:40 pm
1:50 pm
Mark Franks
Mark Franks
Wrap-up & Call to Action

Mark wrapped up the virtual developer conference and gave our call-to-action for Acumatica’s developer community.

Our Speakers

Shchelkonogov Mike
Mike Shchelkonogov
Acumatica, Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Mike Shchelkonogov

Mike has more than 17 years of experience in software project management, ERP software design and implementation. He was Director of Engineering for Parallels, the leading provider of desktop virtualization, OS containers, and control panel software. He was responsible for the development of Parallels Business Automation line of products. Prior to joining Parallels, Mike was the CTO of SWsoft consulting division, responsible for the implementation of custom ERP solutions and providing customer support.

He received a Master of Science degree (1996) in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Boulanov Andrew
Andrew Boulanov
Acumatica, Founder & Head of Platform Development
Andrew Boulanov

Andrew has 26 years of experience in information technology, predominantly in ERP products and platform design and development. He has been a part of Acumatica since the company’s inception. Prior to Acumatica, Andrew led the development office of SWSoft, working on the Solomon IV ERP system for Solomon Software, and then Great Plains.

Andrew holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from the Kharkov Institute of Radio Electronics.

Naumov Dmitry
Dmitry Naumov
Acumatica, Sr. Solution Architect
Dmitry Naumov
Dmitry has worked for Acumatica for the past 7 years and has experience in working with various Acumatica technology areas – from developing various features in Financials to web services APIs. Currently, he is working directly with ISV partners to improve their applications on the Acumatica platform.
Lesin Stan
Stan Lesin
Acumatica, Sr. Application Developer
Stan Lesin

Stan has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise business systems. He spends his time looking for new ways to improve the development experience of those who use the Acumatica Framework. As a C# developer, he has solid experience in designing friendly and convenient code APIs that help developers to concentrate on actual problems they solve using those APIs.

Lavigueur Samuel-Oliver
Samuel-Oliver Lavigueur
Acumatica, Sr. Technical Account Manager
Samuel-Oliver Lavigueur

Samuel works with Acumatica’s VAR & ISV developers, assisting them in building robust solutions in a variety of vertical and horizontal markets. He received his degree in computer engineering from the University of Sherbrooke.

Michaud Gabriel
Gabriel Michaud
Velixo, CEO
Gabriel Michaud

Former head of Acumatica Montreal Labs, Gabriel is now an independent ERP consultant helping organizations get the most of their ERP with customization, integration and business process optimization. He is also the author of Velixo Reports, an Excel-based reporting tool that brings the power of Acumatica financial and project reporting to your spreadsheets.

Afanasiev Evgeny
Evgeny Afanasiev
Acumatica, Technical Account Manager
Evgeny Afanasiev

Technical Account Manager at Acumatica. Evgeny strives to augment our ISV partners technical capacity through guidance and mutual collaboration, ensuring that our customers have modern, high- quality solutions to employ.

Franks Mark
Mark Franks
Acumatica, Sr. Platform Evangelist
Mark Franks

Mark is responsible for Acumatica’s Developer Community and making life for developers great, if not the best experience ever. If that’s not the case for you, please contact him (mfranks@acumatica.com) and let him know how he can make your experience better.

Nikomarov Sergey
Sergey Nikomarov
Acumatica, Sr. Developer
Sergey Nikomarov
Sergey joined Acumatica in 2017 and started as an application developer on the OEM team, where he did a lot of Acumatica Framework development – along with doing several customizations.  An example is a large customization for automated budget control for Censof, an OEM partner.  In 2019, he joined the Platform Development team as a system developer.  And most recently, Sergey is responsible for Acuminator and our RVT  development and maintenance.  Participating in a number of internal Acumatica hackathons, Sergey was part of the winning team – along with Vladimir Panchenko – that created Acuminator.  In a subsequent hackathon, his team extended it further in developing the Code Map with some other improvements to Acuminator.
Mansinha Nayan
Nayan Mansinha
Acumatica, Developer Support Lead Developer
Nayan Mansinha

Mr. Mansinha has over 20 years of experience in IT related to business application development and professional services. Distinguished professional with a proven track record as Project Lead, in Project Development, Architecture Design, Framework design, and Component modeling and building. Before joining Acumatica, his experience includes developing custom modules in Dynamics SL at Lee Technologies, the industry’s most trusted and respected data center solutions provider, and was one of the core developers at Everest Software focusing on ERP product development and customizations.

 

Mr. Mansinha holds an Associate degree in the field of Computer Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology, Pune, India. He is also MCITP in Installation & Configuration for Microsoft Dynamics® SL

 

Johnson Doug
Doug Johnson
Acumatica, VP Product Mangement
Doug Johnson

Doug is in charge of showing people the specifics about what makes Acumatica’s Cloud ERP software awesome for our customers and partners.