Session Grid

This Session Grid presents the entire RPG & DB2 Summit line-up. The first day consists solely of optional Headstart Workshops. Next comes the 3-day Conference, with each conference day offering four tracks of interactive sessions plus plenty of opportunities to network with speakers, other attendees, and the vendors whose products make your jobs easier.

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Monday, October 16, 2017 - Headstart Seminar Day

	Headstart Track 1	Headstart Track 2	Headstart Track 3	Headstart Track 4
7:30 - 8:30	Headstart Workshop Registration / Breakfast
8:30 - 5:30	SQL for the RPG Programmer Paul Tuohy	Hands-On RSE/RDi Workshop Susan Gantner	Hands-On with Procedures & Service Programs Jon Paris	Hands-On PHP Workshop Mike Pavlak
-	Lunch for Workshop Participants served 12:30 to 1:30
3:00 - 6:00	Conference Registration

Schedule of sessions and/or speakers are subject to change

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - Conference Day 1

	RPG Track 1	RPG Track 2	RPG Track 3	DB2 Track
7:30 - 9:00	Late Registration
7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast in Park Ballroom
8:30 - 8:50	Opening Session
9:00 - 10:15	Development Strategies on Power Paul Tuohy	21st-century CL Ted Holt	My Favorite Things about RSE (aka RDi) Susan Gantner	Db2 for i - Strategy, Enhancements and more Scott Forstie
10:15 - 10:45	Morning Break
10:45 - 12:00	Handling the Weird Stuff in RPG Programs Paul Tuohy	Advanced Data Structures (Now with Free-Form) Jon Paris	Hidden Gems in Db2 for i Scott Forstie	The DB2 for i Database Engineer Mike Cain
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch & Expo Kick-Off — Entertainment begins at 12:30
1:30 - 2:45	Overview of HTML, CSS and Javascript Liam Allan	SQL Procedure Language for RPGers Ted Holt	Fun with CCSIDs: Unicode & More in RPG Barbara Morris	Introduction to Database Design & Modeling Tom McKinley
3:00 - 4:15	A Pattern for Reusable RPG Code Scott Klement	Strategic Modernization with PHP on IBM i Alan Seiden	Look what you can do with RDi Susan Gantner	Advanced SQL Data Definition Lang Elements Tom McKinley
4:15 - 4:45	Afternoon Break and Exhibitor Showcase
4:45 - 6:00	Working with JSON in RPG Scott Klement	RPG Open Access - By Example Jon Paris	Intro to Python for RPGers Mike Pavlak	Adv SQL Data Manipulation Language Elements Mike Cain
6:00 - 7:15	Welcome Reception and Exhibitor Showcase
7:15 - 9:00	RPG & DB2 Summit Dinner

Schedule of sessions and/or speakers are subject to change

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - Conference Day 2

	RPG Track 1	RPG Track 2	RPG Track 3	DB2 Track
7:00 - 9:00	Breakfast
7:30 - 8:10	Speed up Mobile & Web Development Fresche Solutions Mike Pavlak	Continuous Integration: Git, Jenkins and JIRA Arcad	Create Web & Mobile Apps with No Programming CNX Rob Swanson
8:20 - 9:00	MODERNIZATION YOUR WAY: APIs and Web Services Rocket Robert Young		Profound Logic: Agile Modernization for IBM i Profound
9:15 - 10:30	Programming RPG With Style Paul Tuohy	SQL Aggregation without Aggravation Ted Holt	ILE Essentials: Modules, Pgms & Service Pgms Susan Gantner	Advanced SQL Procedure Language Elements Tom McKinley
10:30 - 11:00	Exhibitor Showcase and Morning Break
11:00 - 12:15	The World of Node.js on IBM i Scott Klement	What's new in RPG: V7.3 + PTFs for 7.2 & 7.3 Barbara Morris	ILE Essentials: Act Groups & Binder Language Susan Gantner	Deep Dive into DB2 Row/Column Access Control Mike Cain
12:15 - 1:30	Exhibitor Showcase and Lunch
1:30 - 2:45	Consuming Web Services from RPG with HTTPAPI Scott Klement	DB2 & SQL with Open Source Languages on IBM i Alan Seiden	Using Free Tools - By Example Jon Paris	Deep Dive into DB2 Temporal Mike Cain
2:45 - 3:45	Exhibitor Showcase, Prize Drawing, Summit Photo & Break
3:45 - 5:00	Calling Watson from RPG Scott Klement	Embedded SQL - the Basics Paul Tuohy	What ILE can do for you Barbara Morris	News for DB2 Web Query & Query Modernization Robert Bestgen
5:15 - 6:30	Open Source Q&A and Roundtable Discussion

Schedule of sessions and/or speakers are subject to change

Thursday, October 19, 2017 - Conference Day 3

	RPG Track 1	RPG Track 2	RPG Track 3	DB2 Track
7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
8:00 - 8:45	Open-Source ILE Liam Allan	RPG Free Form in a Nutshell Jon Paris	Fun!(damentals) of Table-driven programming Ted Holt	DB2 SQL OLAP Support in 7.3 Tom McKinley
9:00 - 10:15	RPG Subprocedures - Beyond the Basics Susan Gantner	PHP Tricks for RPGers: Excel, PDF, Email, etc Alan Seiden	Embedded SQL - Beyond the Basics Paul Tuohy	Prepare Data for Analysis...the Automated Way Robert Bestgen
10:15 - 10:45	Morning Break
10:45 - 12:00	Debugging with RDi Susan Gantner	Intro to XML Basics & Generating XML with RPG Jon Paris	SQL in CL? Why Not?! Ted Holt	Intro to DB2 SQL Performance Tools & Methods Tom McKinley
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:15	RPG User-defined Functions & Table Functions Scott Klement	Processing XML with RPG Jon Paris	RPG Tricks and Techniques Paul Tuohy	Design It / Build It / Secure It / Tune It Tom McKinley
2:30 - 3:45	Providing RPG Web Services on IBM i Scott Klement	Web Requests using Embedded SQL Liam Allan	This session intentionally left blank ----	30 SQL Tips in 60 Minutes Ted Holt
3:45 - 4:15	RPG & DB2 Summit Wrap-Up and Feedback

Schedule of sessions and/or speakers are subject to change