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Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings
May -- iSeries professionals in the greater Washington, D.C., area can take advantage of a continuing series of technical seminars organized through the cooperative efforts of two local user groups: Washington Area Midrange and Mid Atlantic Midrange. Go to www.wash-midrange.org/seminars.html for details and a list of upcoming seminars and locations. Next up is "Life Beyond SEU - The New WDSc Toolset for RPG & COBOL Programmers" presented by Susan Gantner May 19, in Richmond, Va., May 20, in College Park, Md., and May 22, in Ft. Washington, Pa.
May -- Information Availability Institute will host a number of free workshops focused on the management and interrelationship of networks, applications, security, databases, servers, and storage. Venues include Detroit (May 6), New York City (May 6), Oklahoma City (May 7), Houston (May 20), and Winnipeg, Manitoba (June 2). Go to www.availabilityinstitute.org for more details.
May-June -- Bytware is conducting several workshops to help customers take advantage of the most valuable features of Bytware's monitoring, security, and paging products. Workshop topics include MessengerPlus, StandGuard, and MessengerConsole. Go to www.bytware.com/edu.htm for more information.
May 6 -- iSeries Network and SafeStone present "Understanding IBM's New Single Sign-On Strategy," a Webinar that discusses IBM's new single-sign-on strategy, which debuted with OS/400 V5R2. IBM's Patrick Botz covers this topic with help from Chris Miller. Click here to sign up.
May 7 -- Help Systems presents a Webinar covering Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise Scheduling from iSeries and AS/400, Unix, Windows, Domino, and SAP. Learn about the benefits of controlling job scheduling from an iSeries box, and which of Help Systems' Robot Automated Operations Solution products can help you. Go to Help Systems' Web site to sign up.
May 19-23 -- IBM presents the IBM Software Symposium 2003 in Munich, Germany. Covering the entire spectrum of IBM solutions, this symposium offers more than 200 technology demonstration points, track education, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and Dr. Henry Kissinger, Nobel Laureate and international statesman, as an external keynote speaker. Go to www-3.ibm.com/events/symposium2003/showcase.shtml for more information.
May 22 -- Tom Huntington, vice president of technical services for Help Systems, will host a Webinar on the company's new Robot/TRANSFORM E-Conference product. TRANSFORM E-Conference translates the content of OS/400-based electronic forms packages from PCL (Hewlett-Packard's printer language) or AFP (IBM's printer language) to PDF. Go to Help Systems' Web siteto learn more.
May-November -- ASNA has added a number of one-day seminars on ASNA Visual RPG and Caviar and running AVR for .NET. Seminars will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina; Hartford, Connecticut; San Francisco; Denver; St. Louis; Houston; and Guildford, England. For a complete list of seminar topics, locations, and dates, go to www.asna.com/0303_ASNA_Visions_seminars.asp.
May 21 -- The Toronto User Group's meeting features "High Availability for the Real World," presented by Mike Warkentin of DataMirror and "EDI and the Internet" presented by Jeff Meltzer of EXTOL. Go to www.tug.on.ca/t_agenda.html#TEC2003 for more information.
May 25-27 -- The COMMON European Congress will hold its 2003 conference in Warsaw, Poland. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European show will present iSeries education, presentations, and a vendor exposition. Go to http://comeur.org/cec2003/ for more information.
May-July -- Aldon Computer Group will present its user group tour at various user group meetings throughout the United States. Go to www.aldon.com/events/user_tour.html for a list of meetings that Aldon will attend.
June 9-12 -- J.D. Edwards presents the Quest Global Conference (formally known as JDE Focus). Staged in Denver, this conference centers on user-driven education, training, and speakers, with a J.D. Edwards focus. Go to the J.D. Edwards Web site for more information.
June 15-18 -- The 2003 iSeries & AS/400 Connection Conference offers four days of iSeries education at the Registry Resort in Naples, Florida. The iSeries educational tracks focus on application development, Java, SQL, e-business, operations, and security. Speakers include Dr. Frank Soltis, Al Barsa Jr., Allison Butterill, Wayne O. Evans, Susan Gantner, Janet Krueger, Jon Paris, Jim Sloan, and Howard F. Arner Jr. Go to www.tramenco.com/naples for more information and registration.
June 23-27 -- IBM presents its iSeries Technical Conference at the Hilton Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas. According to IBM, this is the place where technical experts and programmers can get their questions answered by IBM's best Rochester and Toronto experts. Go to www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/iseries/ for more information.
July 17 -- The OCEAN iSeries User Group will present its 10th annual one-day "Catch the Wave" iSeries technical conference and vendor expo at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 17900 Jamboree Boulevard, Irvine, California. Training sessions will be conducted by Bob Cozzi, Allison Butterill, and Wayne O. Evans, on topics such as RPG IV Advanced Techniques, WebSphere Development Tools, iSeries Security and Infrastructure. Dr. Frank Soltis will be the keynote speaker. Go to www.ocean400.org for more information.
July 20-23 -- LANSA presents its 2003 International LANSA Conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago. The conference includes product education, customer success stories, strategic directions, hands-on labs, and roundtable discussions. The keynote speaker will be IBM's Malcolm Haines of the IBM eServer iSeries Marketing group. Register by May 15 and get a free LANSA stadium blanket. Go to www.lansa.com/conference/index.htm for more information.
September 7-11 -- The COMMON user group presents its fall 2003 conference and expo in Orlando, Florida. Meet industry experts, attend hands-on labs, exchange information with fellow professionals, attend a multitude of educational tracks, and get real-world solutions at the vendor expo. Go to the COMMON Web site for more information and to register.
October 13-17 -- IBM presents an iSeries Technical Conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Orlando, Florida. According to IBM, this is the place where technical experts and programmers can get their questions answered by IBM's most knowledgeable Rochester and Toronto experts. Go to www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/iseries/ for more information.
November 18-21 -- EXTOL will host its 2003 user conference at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Attendees registering during May receive a 30 percent discount and the tutorial program at no charge. Go to www.extol.com/forms/uc2003/confinfo.cfm for more information.
April 28-30, 2004 -- ASNApalooza 2004 will be held at the Westin River Walk Hotel in San Antonio. ASNApalooza is three days of ASNA Visual RPG instruction and technical insight, with an emphasis on the RPG development environment for Microsoft's .NET platform. If you register by May 31, you can attend the conference for $900, a savings of $1,100 off the regular price for registration. Go to www.asna.com/0303_ASNA_Visions_palooza2004.asp for more information.
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