Around The World With MVPs: The Amsterdam Excel Summit Wraps Up Its Fourth Installment

The Amsterdam Excel Summit presented its fourth installment on April 18th and 19th. And as anticipated, the 2017 summit was another great success!

Organized by Excel MVPs Jan Karel Pieterse and Tony de Jonker, the Amsterdam Excel Summit featured eight one-of-a-kind parallel sessions packed into two tracks. Throughout the two-day event, participants got to engage with 12 speakers - including a handful of Excel MVPs and two Microsoft Program managers - to go deep into Excel, dashboard reports, and Power BI. Even more, Excel enthusiasts delved into the new JavaScript for Office extensibility model with Microsoft Principal Designer Jakob Nielsen.

The summit took place at an Amsterdam City center, called the De Zilveren Toren. Here participants networked over some great lunches, and enjoyed a spectacular view of the city from the 11th floor vantage point.

“Had a great time in Amsterdam [this] past week. Big thanks to Jan Karel Pieterse and Tony De Jonker for inviting me to speak at the Amsterdam Excel Summit 2017 and The Excel Data Analysis And Reporting Masterclass," said Excel MVP Gašper Kamenšek on Linkedin shortly after the event. “Without question, [in the] two top Excel events in Europe.”

About the conference founders

Jan Karel is one of four dutch MVPs, having won his award every year since 2002, for his volunteer work in newsgroups, forums, and for the articles on his website. He is  the owner of JKP Application Development Services, where he develops Microsoft Office solutions

Tony de Jonker has been an MVP since January 2015, and is the owner of the De Jonker Consultancy. With more than 36 years of business experience, he writes Excel columns for various technical magazines.