COMMON POWERUp 2025: Full Schedule

Unlock the Power of IBM i at POWERUp 2025!

Join us in Disneyland, California, for POWERUp 2025, the premier conference for IBM i professionals. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just starting your IBM i journey, this event offers unparalleled education, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. Stay ahead of the curve with insights from industry leaders, explore the latest innovations, and connect with a thriving community that shares your passion for IBM i. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge, grow your skills, and power up your career!

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10:00am PDT

What's New and Exciting in RPG

Monday May 19, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

Room 5

Every year in Spring and again in Fall, IBM adds new features to the RPG language. In this session, you'll hear about all of the features that have been added recently, including a quick example of each feature. Once you know the features exist, you can use them in your own applications. Knowing what's new and exciting in RPG will allow you to take advantage of all of the new features in the language.

Speakers

Scott Klement

Managing Partner, ORC LLC

Monday May 19, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Room 5 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programming: RPG

11:15am PDT

PHP Best practices and New and Exciting Updates on IBM i

Monday May 19, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT

Room 5

PHP is moving fast these days. In this session, Alan will share his favorite techniques for creatig APIs and web apps with PHP, plus introduce new PHP 8.4 features and how to prepare for them. Alan will also cover tips on upgrading from older releases, the risks of not upgrading, recent security enhancements, and best practices for PHP on IBM i. As a bonus, Alan offers an inside peek at how PHP is made and built.

Speakers

Alan Seiden

Principal, IBM Champion, Seiden Group

How to modernize and create something new while leveraging your valuable business logic. Supporting developers, mentoring, staff augmentation, architecture, development and programming.APIs, IBM i, open source, web, PHP, Node.js, Python, RPG, ERPs

Monday May 19, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm PDT
Room 5 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programming: PHP

3:15pm PDT

Technical Debt: On the Clock

Monday May 19, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT

Room 5

We've all heard of the National Debt and what a threat it is to our country. What you may not have heard of is the Technical Debt that may lurk in your information systems and is just as big a threat to your business. Join us as address the often sensitive subject and explore five of the worst (best?) examples of Technical Debt - how they manifest, the damage they can cause and how to begin to turn the tide in the right direction. We'll also put it into terms that both management and technical staff can understand.

Speakers

Chris Burns

Monday May 19, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Room 5 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

IT Strategy

4:30pm PDT

VS Code Tech Talk

Monday May 19, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm PDT

Room 5

By now, everyone knows the benefits of using VS Code (and if you don’t you should!). In this “tech session” see how to use VS Code in real-world scenarios. Leveraging client cases, see how our team used VS code, why we chose to use VS code in these situations and how you can do the same. We will discuss VS Code and the IFS, VS and SEU, using VS code for converting files from DDS to DDL, the DB2 for i extension, etc.

Speakers

Leah Avner

Monday May 19, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm PDT
Room 5 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programmer Tools

5:05pm PDT

Keep your source code close and your artifacts closer

Monday May 19, 2025 5:05pm - 5:25pm PDT

Room 5

So you moved your IBM i source code to git but what about your artifacts? It seems like they should be hosted somewhere...into an artifact repository perhaps? If you agree with this statement, then this short session may be of interest to you. Through the use of Jenkins and an artifact repository like Sonatype Nexus or JFrog Artifactory, discover why it may be a good idea to build once, store the result and deploy it many times, to ensure deployment consistency and traceability.

Speakers

Sebastien Julliand

R&D technical advisor, ARCAD Software

Hi, I'm Seb! Let's talk about anything related to software development, on IBM i or not, it doesn't mater to me, I love it all 😁I'm actively contributing to Code for IBM i, and I'm very happy to be able to give back to the wonderful IBM i community.I've been working for ARCAD Software... Read More →

Monday May 19, 2025 5:05pm - 5:25pm PDT
Room 5 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

DevOps