COMMON POWERUp 2025

COMMON POWERUp 2025

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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8:00am PDT

IBM Placeholder Room 1 Intro to the SQL Procedural Language Room 4Kent Milligan IBM Power's Differentiated Memory Roadmap Room 10Bill Starke Live Demo: Managing PowerHA Solutions Room 2Brian Nordland You're Fired! ... Now What? Room 3Steve Wolk Improving Software Quality via Development and Testing Room 5Scott Klement A Practical Guide to IBM i Authority Collection Room 7Carol Woodbury • Steve Riedmueller Pros and cons of using block level replication with IBM i Room 11John Kinne Fix Managment Room 6Sarah Jacob Selecting your Power Hosting Environment Room 9Steve Bradshaw • Larry Bolhuis Setting Up Virtual I/O Server Room 12Steven McIver IBM i Security Best Practices Room 8Robert Andrews

9:15am PDT

Surfing the Net: The Neural Net Room 7Jonathan Zak SQL Plan Cache Uncovered Room 4Kent Milligan What is Journaling good for? Beyond journaling for logical HA/DR replication Room 6John Vriezen 21st Century Leap: Upgrading IBM i Skills and Systems Efficiently Room 1Jim Buck How to shift even more left in testing Room 3Jeroen Van Dun Lights out monitoring and Obervability Room 10Gurvinder Singh Breaking Up a Monolith Room 9Brian May Automating PowerVS in Hybrid Cloud scenarios Room 12Jose Pereira HMC, IBM i, FSP, BMC, and Firmware: Putting all the pieces together. Room 2Pete Massiello IBM Navigator for i – As seen by Scott Room 5Scott Forstie

11:15am PDT

OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Functions – much more than running numbers! Room 3Birgitta Hauser End-to-end development: Modern IBM i development stack Room 10Liam Allan Level Up Your IBM i: Redundancy & Robustness in a Hybrid World Room 1Dave Wiseman OS AND POWER SYSTEM UPGRADE TESTING Room 7Yvonne Enselman AI Meets Node.js: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in JavaScript Room 4Michael Dawson Case Study: Improving performance in RPG programs with SQL Room 9Gregory Simmons TLS for ACS and Navigator Room 8Amy Williams Your Next Power System is Just Around the Corner. For Storage, You have Options! Room 11Richie Palma • Larry Bolhuis Navigator for i - An Administrator's View Room 12Ann Wilkerson

1:30pm PDT

IBM Placeholder Room 1 Simple Steps to Improving Data Security on IBM i Room 3John Westcott How Refactoring Helps Bulletproof Your Application Room 5Scott Klement Navigator for i from a Developer's Perspective Room 7Ann Wilkerson Stored Procedures for Hybrid Development Room 4Mike Pavlak VS Code and Code for IBM i Hidden Gems Room 9Sebastien Julliand Web & API Language Shootout Room 6Alan Seiden Disk-level encryption isn’t enough Room 8Bill Hammond Live Demo: Deploying PowerHA and Independent ASPs Room 11Brian Nordland 36 IBM I Tricks & Treats Room 10Rob Mineo A Live Demo of Navigator for i Room 12Ann Wilkerson Keep Your System up to Date: Image Catalogs - How They Changed my Life! Room 13Jeff Carey

3:00pm PDT

Forget ODBC! Here’s a New Db2 Connector Room 4Sanjula Ganepola ListAgg and Split – Grouping, Aggregating and Dividing again Room 5Birgitta Hauser Visual Explain - IBM's SQL Performance Show-&-Tell Room 10Vern Hamberg Accelerate your Excel! Room 3Steve Wolk Building Resilient Power Systems Through Modern High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies Room 2David Contreras How Developers/Analysts Control the Expectations of What Can Be Done for the Organization with AI Room 7Michael McArdle Test-Driven Development: Clean Code that Works Room 6Patrick Behr Aye, I love Procedure Driven RPG Room 9Gregory Simmons Moving to a Higher Level: Password Resilience Room 8Robert Andrews Data Resiliency, surviving a cyber attack Room 11Tony Owens Work Management Optimization Room 12Sarah Jacob

5:00pm PDT

GROK Magic: Turning IT Problems into Possibilities Room 7Jim Buck Simon's top 10 SQL favorites Room 4Simon Hutchinson Tame the IFS with SQL Services Room 5Scott Forstie Planning a Smooth Move of your IBM i to the Cloud Room 9Larry Bolhuis AI Throughout Your Day! Room 3Steve Wolk Modern, Buildable Projects with IBM i Project Explorer and Bob Room 2Sanjula Ganepola The Magic of Rest APIs for IBM i Room 6Tim Rowe Broaden Your Reporting Capabilities Using Python Room 13Mike Zaringhalam Dive Deep into IBM i Security Internals Room 8Carol Woodbury Snapshots, FlashCopy & Cybersecurity Resilience with Safeguarded Copy with IBM i Room 11Brian Nordland Things i-Love about IBM i Room 1Steve Bradshaw Use Service Commander to manage ALL your stuff Room 12Jesse Gorzinski