15th CA 2E / CA Plex Conference

15th CA 2E / CA Plex Conference

11:00am CDT

Registration / Hospitality Desk Open TBA

12:00pm CDT

Strategic AI Insights Sessions (lunch + sessions) TBA

5:15pm CDT

AI Technology Roundtable — audience Q&A with AI technical leaders TBA

6:30pm CDT

Special Event: Dinner with Nashville-style cooking demonstration (hotel) TBA

9:00am CDT

Trivia at lunch TBAMark O'Brien AI Insights Slot 6 TBATim Higgins AI loves fresh data! How to Surface IBM i Data in AI platforms TBAMike Pavlak InfoConnect: Surface IBM i Data in AI platforms TBACarla Starling Not Legacy — Ahead of Its Time: The Future of IBM i and how IBM Bob is Changing How We Work on It TBATim Rowe Tokenomics TBAJohn Rhodes

11:00am CDT

Plex show & tell from customers TBAAndrew Leggett / Roger / Jeremy Analyzing and Modernizing 2E Applications using Static Analysis and AI TBAJohn Rhodes / Roger Hammer Working Together on IBM i: Git + Change Management for Innovative IBM i DevOps TBACarla Staling

1:30pm CDT

2E show & tell from customers TBAMark Schroeder Analyzing and Modernizing Plex Applications using Static Analysis and AI TBAJohn Rhodes / Roger Hammer

2:30pm CDT

Plex tips and techniques TBAAndrew Leggett / Jeremy / Roger Griffith / Eric 2E Development with AI Claude Code TBALily Taharudin DDS to DDL (Target database Agnostic). TBAMahadevappa Kanike

3:30pm CDT

2E tips and techniques TBAEamonn Foley / Steve Cast / Mark Schroeder Automated testing of AS-IS and TO-BE systems TBAMaya Najjar Turn Any Synon Application into a REST API and MCP servers TBAMike Pavlak

4:30pm CDT

Controlling CA Plex with AI TBAAndrew Leggett / Borys Vulgarin Modernizing Native Legacy Code Tips TBAKiyoshi Terasawa / Lily Taharudin

5:30pm CDT

Plex as a Foundation, Not a Ceiling: Practical Patterns for Modernizing Without Starting Over TBAHugo Rodriguez ModernizeIT: From Legacy Code to Modern Architecture: Accelerating Application Modernization with AI-Guided Discovery TBATim Higgins Performance Optimization using SQL Procedure (Caching / parallelism ) TBAEric Giron / Borys Vulgarin

9:00am CDT

Creating a Modern UI for Synon Applications TBAMike Pavlak Hands-on workshop: modernizing Plex and 2E application to the cloud using static analysis and AI agentic frameworks. Automated Testing. TBAKiyoshi Terasawa / Lily Taharudin / Mahadevappa Kanike / Maya Najjar Inside ModernizeIT: Live Legacy Code Analysis, Decomposition, and AI-Assisted Modernization TBATim Higgins