The OCEAN User Group of Southern California will host its 17th annual day-long “Catch the Wave” IBM Power Systems/System i technical conference and vendor expo on Friday, July 16.
Featuring educational tracks for Power Systems/System i application development, e-business Web tools, security and infrastructure as well as Web modernization and integration tools, the conference will also include a vendor expo that will include 15 premier solution providers including five free product-specific vendor presentations.
The event will be held at National University, 3390 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The entry fee will include all training materials as well as lunch and a Catch-the-Wave starter continental breakfast.
Training sessions will be conducted by superstar subject matter experts including Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Mike Pavlak, Jeff Olen, John Earl, Craig Pelkie, Paul Holm, Mike Rede, Terry Larkin, and others. All trainers are experts on the IBM Power Systems and System i platforms as well as Windows and Internet environments. Presentations by the selected leading experts have been extremely well received in the past by user groups throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Cost is $145 for members of OCEAN or any other IBM user group, and $245 for non-members before June 15 and $200 for members and $300 for non-members after that date.
Event Highlights
Following is a list of highlights attendees can expect when they attend:
- Application modernization will be the primary focus—blending of strategic technologies
- Expert education sessions for users of IBM Power Systems/IBM System i
- Tracks: 25 sessions for application development (power programming—application modernization); PHP; new technology; Web development (MS .Net, PHP, Web services, new features of IBM i 7.1, SOA); Power Systems infrastructure and systems management, BladeCenter technology
- There will be five free vendor presentations in addition to the 25 fee-based classes
- Audience: RPG programmers, application development managers, operations/systems administration—tech support, infrastructure managers, IT management, project managers
- Vendor solutions expo—featuring 15 vendors of IBM Power Systems solutions
- Registration forms may be printed out from here: Technical Conference Registration and then faxed/mailed to the organization.
The OCEAN seminars will be fee based, but the vendor expo will be free and open to the public. The conference is expected to draw between 150 to 200 attendees.
About OCEAN
The OCEAN User Group is a COMMON Affiliate Member and a nonprofit professional organization. For more information, and periodic updates on speakers and topics, check the website, www.ocean400.org, contact Bob Langieri, conference chairman, at 949-240-0438 or write
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