FOCUS 2025
February 25 - 26 2025 | FREE to Members
Gain in-depth IBM i education from these half-day virtual workshops that deep dive into various IT topics. Learn more about each topic and ask questions from the recognized. This in-depth workshop event is FREE to MEMBERS.
Our Speakers
Barbara Morris
Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN opcodes and overloaded prototypes.
Birgitta Hauser
Birgitta Hauser worked on the IBM i and its predecessors since 1992. She graduated with a business economics diploma, and started programming on the AS/400 in 1992. Currently she is an independent consultant and works in Consulting, Application Modernization on IBM i and especially Database Modernization on Db2 for i. She also provides individual programming on IBM i to her customers.
Koen Decorte
Koen Decorte is owner of CD Invest, an international IBM business partner with offices in Belgium and Spain. CD-Invest is specialized in innovating and modernizing IBM i applications.
His focus is mainly on integrating and using open source applications on IBM i.
Liam Allan
I am a developer and open-source advocate. Ask me about Node.js, VS Code, app deployment and CICD 🙂Â
Pascal Polverini
Through a broad range of products, services and infrastructure optimization, Pascal Polverini leads his international team to face complex business challenges, solve problems, manage critical issues and grant results with innovative IT solutions for all those companies running on IBM i.
Scott Forstie
Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.
Aaron Magid
Aaron Magid, Chief Architect at Eradani, has over a decade of experience in software development and technology. He specializes in modernizing legacy systems like IBM i/AS400 using Python, Node.js, and Java. Aaron excels in bridging old and new technologies together for clients, helping them connect modern solutions to existing systems.
Our Schedule
February 25th
Room One
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: VSCode4i – Database Extension with Scott Forstie
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Deep Dive: Turbocharging IBM i Development with the Latest Development Tools with Aaron Magid
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Focus on ACS – Database Features with Scott Forstie
Room Two
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Securing IBM i in the Age of Cyber Threats with Koen Decorte
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Modernization Without Madness: The Practical Guide to IBM i Application Transformation with Koen Decorte
Room Three
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: SQL Views and UDTFs – Powerful Features for Masking SQL Complexity with Birgitta Hauser
February 26th
Room One
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Capitalize Your IBM i Testing History and Automate Testing with Pascal Polverini
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: ListAgg and Split – Grouping, Aggregating and Dividing Again with Birgitta Hauser
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: One Dashboard to Rule Them All: IBM i Monitoring Workshop with Aaron Magid
Room Two
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Making My RPG Application Universally Understood with Barbara Morris
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Code for IBM i Deep Dive with Liam Allan
