Sessions 2024

Tuesday, October 15 – General Sessions

Kickoffs and Roadmaps, followed by a special event Tuesday Evening

2:00PM – 2:30PM

Registration

Registration/Hospitality Desk Open.

2:30PM – 3:30PM

Welcome / Sponsor Introductions

Roger Griffith, President, Plex/2E User Community wiil kick off the conference. Conference Sponsors will be introduced, and each will give a short intro about their respective companies and how their technologies can help the CA Plex/2E community.

Moderator Roger Griffit, Mark O’Brien

3:30PM – 4:30PM

IBM Keynote: IBM i, AI, and the World of Modern Development

IBM i is a truly amazing platform. It started life as AS/400 over 36 years ago, and with its visionary architecture and an eye to the future continues to meet and often exceed the needs of our user community. With the world of AI running headlong toward us, what are we to do? For the IBM i development team, we are actively embracing AI to help our users take advantage of this amazing technology while continuing to honor the pillars this platform has known all these years: security, reliability, cost performance and future-proofing the core business applications your business depends on.

Tim Rowe
STSM – Application Development and Systems Management
IBM i ISV Council
IBM i Development Lab

4:30PM – 4:45PM

Break

4:45PM – 5:45PM

Microsoft Keynote: Microsoft and the CoPilot Revolution 

Discover the landscape of conversational AI solutions with Microsoft’s CoPilot offerings in this comprehensive session. We’ll start with an in-depth look at CoPilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft’s flagship AI experience that is transforming how users interact with everyday applications. Explore how you can extend M365 CoPilot to meet custom scenarios, tailoring its capabilities to fit specific business needs.

We’ll also delve into the new frontier of low-code AI solutions, made possible through CoPilot Studio and the Power Platform. These tools open up AI development to a broader audience, empowering users of all technical backgrounds to build and deploy conversational AI without deep coding expertise.

Finally, we will address the professional developer’s perspective, focusing on the engineering considerations for building CoPilots from the ground up. Learn best practices for designing robust, scalable, and secure AI solutions that align with Microsoft’s ecosystem.

Richard DiZerega
Principal Engineering Lead
Microsoft

6:00PM – 8:00PM

Opening Reception

Join the community for a game of golf.

Wednesday October 16th – Hands On Sessions

We are currently scheduling multiple tracks of hands-on sessions based on speaker availability and timing for content. We are moving these tracks into their time slot as they are confirmed and scheduled.

7:30AM – 8:30AM

Registration

Registration/Hospitality Desk Open

8:30AM to 9:30AM

Modernization Roundtable

Modernization Roundtable with Industry Experts

Moderator Roger Griffith, Mark O’Brien

9:30AM – 10:30AM

Midrange Dynamics ALM

9:30PM – 10:30PM

CA Plex 7.3

Broadcom regularly publishes service packs for CA Plex. We look at recent enhancements made since the last conference. If you have any urgent enhancement requests, please bring them to this discussion – we can talk about potential workarounds and techniques to get the attention of Broadcom.

10:30AM – 10:45AM

Coffee

10:45AM – 11:45AM

CA 2E Show and Tell

Most of the users in the 2E community have found ways to give their 2E applications unique features outside of what 2E offers at face value. We look at several customer applications – bring your questions.

10:45AM – 11:45AM

Sodisa Success Stories

12 noon – 1:30PM

Lunch

Family Feud

1:30PM – 2:30PM

Ferraloy RPG to COBOL

1:30PM – 2:30PM

Barreau du Quebec-Ai/Plex

2:40PM – 3:40PM

CM evolveIT

2:40PM – 3:40PM

A&I Test Data Manager

3:40PM – 4:00PM

Break

Grab some coffee or water

4:00PM – 5:00PM

Sponsor Sessions

4:00PM – 5:00PM

Sponsor Sessions

5:00PM – 6:00PM

CA 2E Tips and Techniques

There are many obscure features in 2E that are not documented, but in many cases known to many in the 2E Community. Most of these are only known to the 2E Community by word of mouth, and many of these might only be known by one person. Some of these are so powerful, and beneficial, you will wish you had known them decades ago. This session will attempt to gather as many of these tips and techniques as possible and share them with the 2E Community by your fellow attendees.

5:00PM – 6:00PM

CA Plex Tips and Techniques

There are many obscure features in Plex and WebClient that are not well documented, but in many cases known to many in the Plex Community. Most of these are only known to the Plex Community by word of mouth, and many of these might only be known by one person (I bet I can show you one that nobody else is aware of). Some of these are so powerful, and beneficial, you will wish you had known them decades ago. This session will attempt to gather as many of these tips and techniques as possible and share them with the Plex Community.

7:00PM – 9:00PM

Special Event

Thursday October 17th: Hand-On Labs

Deep dive Thursday.

9:30AM – 11:30AM

Basics Microsoft Azure Open AI Studio

This workshop will demonstrate how to incorporate Microsoft Azure Open AI Studio to assist in customizing user interface interaction in your existing web application. You will learn how to set up an Azure AI instance and configure it for use in business applications.

9:30AM – 11:30AM

2E Modernization

This workship will share our approach to reimplementing your 2E legacy application while keeping the business specific capabilities and bringing new technoligies with CA Plex and Webclient. You will get some hands on experience with the modernized functions.

11:30PM – 12:30PM

Lunch

12:30PM – 2:30PM

Advanced Microsoft Azure Open AI Studio

This workshop demonstrate AI usage in a few real scenarios. We share our experience and steps to achieve the goal that including design, prompt amd RAG. We hope AI becomes more useful than just using AI chat service on Browser after this workshop.

12:30PM – 2:30PM

Plex Modernization

In this workshop we’ll be expanding Plex Java/WebClient applications with third-party libraries, and introduce a new transformation technique for refactoring Plex applications.

2:30PM – 3:00PM

Post Conference

Wrap up and farewell.