AEK 27 – Forever Young
- Karl Donaubauer
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
This picture shows one reason why I still organize on-site conferences: Personal contact, whether in the conference room or after midnight at the hotel bar, gives the event additional quality and human touch.
For the German Access Developers Conference (AEK27) on Oct 18-19 in Nuremberg, Germany, almost 90 participants from Central European countries have registered a month in advance. We are therefore hoping for another full house this year.
In pre-COVID times, we had around 200 participants at 2-3 conference venues. Those days are over, partly because of the remote meeting trend, and partly because after 33 years of Access, more and more colleagues have retired or faded into Nirvana.
Nevertheless, Access' persistent niche position and the expected full house reminded me that one of the inspirations for the domain name of this website was Dylan's "Forever Young". Speaking of which... current technology and changes to Access are reflected in the AEK agenda:
New Access Features
Microsoft's Access Team with the features planned for this autumn and their next plans (direct line to Redmond)
Other News and Updates
All Access news from a developer and community perspective
The important changes in the coming SQL Server 2025
AI
Current AI buzzwords for developers and what you really need to know about them
Smart Access development in 2025 – AI integration demo with a practical Access project
Security and Performance
Hit Me Baby One More Time – Security vulnerabilities in Access?
Hit Me Baby Three More Times – Live-Hacking SQL Server
Super Quick Lookups – SQL from slow to fast
Extending Access
exGrid – ActiveX enabling things hardly achievable with Access' own resources
Swiss Army Knife 3.0 – more elegant GUI components yet with Access own resources
Using PowerQuery via Excel Automation – what works and what stumbles
You can find details on the AEK agenda page (and have them translated from German if necessary).
In addition there will be short presentations and discussions in a relaxed atmosphere at the AEK evening reception (GitHub, project demos, AI critics etc.).
In recent years, non-participants and non-German speakers have also benefited from the event because I published highlights of the Access team's sessions on my YouTube channel. I plan to do the same this time.