Re: Conferences 2017

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recommend the RPG-DB2 Summit run by Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, and Paul 
Tuohy - very much covering these areas of interest.

It is not a huge conference - typically upwards of a couple hundred 
attendees - its possible to have better times with the speakers and 
organizers.

http://www.systemideveloper.com is the place to learn about it. I've 
attended several times and even helped a little with a workshop once.

There's always the COMMON annual meeting in the spring - if you are a 
member of a local user group, I believe you can attend under that group 
and not be a member of COMMON itself - although that's not a bad thing.

There is a specific track on modernization.- this conference is more 
expensive than RPG-DB2 Summit, quite a bit larger with benefits and 
issues related to that.

http://www.common.org is the main site. I've attended many times, both 
as employee of a software vendor and on my own. I also volunteer in a 
couple functions.

HTH
Vern

On 12/12/2016 6:59 PM, Don Brown wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> (Cross posted on Midrange-l, web400 and ftpapi)
>
> I am looking at my training budget for 2017 and would like to attend one
> of the larger conferences that is either totally IBM i focused or very
> close.
>
> The main areas of interest could be summarised to;
> Modernisation
> Integration
>
> Would be interested in any suggestions or recommendations as to your
> "Conferences not to be missed"
>
> We use a lot of the tools discussed on these forums and have recently
> completed a couple of small projects in PHP.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Don Brown