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The Toronto Users Group for System i proudly presents its 15th annual Technical Education Conference on April 22 - 24 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.  

Attention: Developers, Managers, Operations Staff, Support / Helpdesk Staff, Systems Specialists, and Consultants!

Learn how you can leverage technology to provide your users a better, easier, more intuitive, faster, and more cost effective experience at TEC 2008: TUG's 15th Annual Technical Education Conference and Vendor Showcase April 22 - 24, 2008 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North.

TEC 2008--Two full days of seven tracks of great sessions and speakers

*Award winning IBM and industry speakers

Topics include: DB2 Web Query, RPG IV, ILE, PHP, SQL, EGL, HMC/LPAR, security, Power 6 hardware, system management, high availability, professional development. Attendees will receive: 

*CD of session materials

*Conference Certificate

*Keynote Speaker

*Vendor Showcase

"Real POWER is what educated staff can bring to application development and ultimately the end user experience. It is truly not about the Power chip, or the powerful tools--it is about what these empower an educated developer to bring to the application and hence the end user."

Every year is a good year to attend TEC, and this year is no exception. With V6R1 being released just prior to TEC, there is a vast amount of information to be learned.

Speakers 

In typical fashion, TUG has planned another stellar cast of speakers, including favorites Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Barbara Morris, Jackie Jansen, Trevor Perry, and many more. We are lucky to have a great relationship with the IBM Toronto Lab and have all of the experts imparting their invaluable knowledge for your benefit.

Schedule

There is so much to choose from, you may not know which session to attend. Hopefully you will have others from your company to cover the sessions you cannot get to. You will receive a CD with all of the session handouts of the conference so you will have all of the information at your fingertips. With the programmer in mind, we have sessions on RPG, ILE, RSE, EGL, DB2 Web Query, CL, security, plus much more. Many companies have operations staff to educate, so we have greatly increased our offerings in this area by covering backup and recovery, backup encryption, high availability, BRMS, HMC, PTFs, iSeries Navigator, TCP/IP, Work Management, and more. With team leaders and project managers in mind, we also have two full days of professional development sessions.

We have an Executive Breakfast for the executives of your company talking about IBM Rational strategy for System i by George Farr and Todd Britton, a vendor showcase of great products and services, an expert panel discussion on the topic: "Your Future and the System i Future, Are They the Same?," a lunch and keynote address by David Burnett from End to End Networks, and the great hands-on labs at the IBM Toronto Lab.

We also have some excellent vendor sponsored sessions:

Day 1

11:10 Information Builders--iWay: Everything Should Work Together

1:30 Seagull Software--Good Green vs. Bad Green: Considerations for System i Application Modernization

2:55 Tango/04--1-2-3: Infrastructure, Security & Applications. The New Trend in Monitoring Strategies

Day 2

9:45 EXTOL--Essential Integration for Resource Constrained Companies

11:10 Information Builders--WF: Because Everyone Makes Decisions

Be sure to put TEC 2008 at the top of your list and register today. Check our Website for more details. Call 905-607-2546, email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or go online to register at www.tug.ca/tec.