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Exactly 3523 days have passed between the first session that I have delivered in this decade at Microsoft WinDays<\/a> in Croatia, and the last session yesterday at ESPC<\/a>, in Prague, Czechia. In these 10 years, I was speaking at 137 conferences, on three continents, delivering in total around 250 sessions. At the beginning of the decade, I was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional<\/a> (MVP award), at the end of the decade I was awarded Microsoft Regional Director<\/a> award. Both those Microsoft awards mean a lot to me in terms of recognition of the time and work I have been investing in the past ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the beginning of the decade, I left the company I cofounded, to which I still feel attached to, and in which I spent a decade prior to it – daenet<\/a>. It fills me with pride when I see that they are thriving and doing very well, ten years later. That the foundation we have laid at the day one was rock solid. It was not an easy decision for me to make that move then, but it felt right, and in retrospective it was a right thing to do. In the past ten years, I was leading projects for some of the largest European and world companies, I was the lead architect for the projects in two of big four accounting companies, for the largest telecommunication operator in Europe, helped to deliver an intranet for one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world\u2026 this list could go on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Towards the end of the decade, I have accepted an offer from two people who are more than friends to me \u2013 Frane<\/a> and Toni<\/a> – and joined SysKit<\/a> as a Chief Strategy Officer, where I am blessed to work in a group of extremely talented young people, helping to deliver the ultimate governance solution for the Microsoft 365 platform. I am not exaggerating when I say that I have never experienced such a passion, love and energy that SysKit invests into its products. When you walk into SysKit\u2019s offices in Zagreb, you will see Toni\u2019s famous \u201cThere is no time for bad software\u201d slogan printed on the wall, and the company is truly living it. You will be hearing much more from us in the years to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the beginning of the decade, Toni, Nenad<\/a> and me have started SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatics (SPC Adriatics), an annual conference focused \u2013 well \u2013 on SharePoint and Project \u2013 Microsoft\u2019s products that we knew something about. It was a one-day event with 150 people, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in legendary Hotel Aristos. Our slogan for that conference was \u201cProbably the best SharePoint Conference in the world\u201d, which we chose more in a funny manner, inspired by a certain beer commercial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As always in life, we tried to remain faithful to the slogans we choose. At the end of the decade, the European Collaboration Summit<\/a>, the conference that SPC Adriatics became, is<\/strong> the leading Microsoft 365 conference in the world. It is, with well over 2100 attendees, by far the largest conference in our industry in Europe, and one of the two largest in the world. But that doesn\u2019t actually matter \u2013 our goal, as a community-initiated event, is to be inclusive, to be kind, and to be welcoming for everyone. We value the same way the big corporate customers (thank you for coming \u2013 you are the foundation of our industry!) and students who cannot afford two thousand Dollar or Euro tickets (thank you for coming \u2013 you are our future!). Inclusion starts with wealth \u2013 we feel that we could not call ourselves inclusive, or truly European, if we in the start exclude people based on their buying power.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are very well aware of our position, but also of our obligations. We are – and we will be \u2013 helping smaller community events all over Europe, in organizational way, through marketing activities, and financially \u2013 they are our family. The last year, we had dear friends from Thrive Conference in Slovenia<\/a>, Office 365 Connect Netherlands<\/a>, and ESPC<\/a> with us in Wiesbaden, even during the closing ceremony on our stage. We see it as our mission, but also as our duty as the leading and the largest conference in our industry in Europe, to be inclusive and helpful for other community and for-profit events. We will continue doing that, because we are one community, and only as such we are relevant and strong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the personal note, I cannot stress enough how blessed I am to be working with Elena<\/a>, Margit<\/a>, Martina<\/a>, Anita<\/a>, Spence<\/a>, Toni<\/a>, Nenad<\/a>, Fitz<\/a>, Vesa<\/a>, Matthias<\/a>, Aleks<\/a> and all the other people who are involved in the conference organization, some of them on day-to-day basis, and some as members of the content team, or on specific tasks. Those are the people that fill me with energy and motivate me every single day. They are the people who are making it all possible. We have six different languages as our mother-tongs within this team, but we understand each other without words. We don\u2019t speak about our diversity \u2013 we are living it. And I couldn\u2019t be prouder than I am, to lead such an extraordinary team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This decade\nis winding up. I have a few more days of work, and then a longer break. I will\nbe using this time to recuperate, and to make some decisions and plans for the\nnext decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have big\ngoals with SysKit. Nothing less than creating the best and the ultimate\ngovernance tool for Microsoft 365, the only one customers will ever need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n European Collaboration Summit is partnering with Microsoft Teams<\/a> group in Redmond, and becoming their strong partner in Europe. We could not be more excited about everything that this partnership is going to bring to our attendees \u2013 incredible things will happen in June 2020 in Wiesbaden, Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alongside the European Collaboration Summit, we are starting a new conference, European Cloud Summit<\/a>, which will focus solely on Azure technologies. We have set up the best possible team for that conference as well \u2013 beside Elena, Margit, Spence and me, that conference will be delivered by Damir<\/a> (Azure MVP, RD – my former business partner from daenet, and a person whom I blindly trust and often consult about various things), Jussi<\/a> (Azure MVP, RD \u2013 my dear crazy and trusted Finnish friend, who often functions as my feedback pillow, and with whom I can have long focused and productive conversations), Mustafa<\/a> (Azure MVP, my lovely, crazy and insanely intelligent Bosnian friend, who is a win for every possible team) and Jessica<\/a> (Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, former MVP, whose task will be to bring some sanity into our work 😊).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is to\nthe next decade.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/blog.sharedove.com\/adisjugo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/adis_header-1024x364.jpg\")
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