15th CA 2E / CA Plex Conference

Session 1 -Tim Rowe- IBM

Not Legacy — Ahead of Its Time: The Future of IBM i and how IBM Bob is Changing How We Work on It
IBM i was built for what the industry is only now catching up to — and in this session, we’ll prove it. We’ll cover the Power11 roadmap, hybrid cloud integration, IBM i’s industry-leading security and reliability, and the real cost advantages that make it hard to beat. Then we’ll show why IBM i is uniquely AI-ready today, thanks to the depth of SQL Services that make connecting modern tools to your business data straightforward.
In the second half, we get hands-on with Bob and the Premium Package for i — an AI assistant built specifically for IBM i. We’ll show how operators and administrators can use Bob to review audit journals, investigate job logs, monitor system performance, and understand unfamiliar programs — all through natural conversation. No migrations, no rewrites. Just actionable intelligence from the system you already run. Come for the platform vision. Leave with a tool you can use on Monday morning

Session 2- Mike Pavlak- programmers.ai

AI loves fresh data! How to Surface IBM i Data in AI platforms
Discover how InfoConnect platform bridges the gap between IBM i and today’s AI ecosystem. In this session, you’ll learn how real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) streams live DB2 data from IBM i to modern data platforms with little to no coding and without impacting production performance. We’ll demonstrate how to make IBM i data available to AI agents and workflows, enabling intelligent automation, natural language interfaces, and real-time decision-making. Whether you’re beginning your AI journey or expanding existing IBM i capabilities, this class provides practical strategies for integrating trusted enterprise data with the latest AI technologies.

Session 3- John Rhodes- CM First Group

Tokenomics
AI coding agents promise faster modernization — but the bill arrives in tokens, and pure-LLM translations of RPG can compile cleanly while preserving 0% of business behavior.
Through five real code examples, this session unpacks the economics of agentic development for CA 2E and CA Plex shops: deterministic analysis and transformation with CM evolveIT at the core, AI where judgment pays, and no LLM vendor lock-in.

Session 4- Carla Starling- Midrange Dynamics

InfoConnect
Discover how InfoConnect platform bridges the gap between IBM i and today’s AI ecosystem. In this session, you’ll learn how real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) streams live DB2 data from IBM i to modern data platforms with little to no coding and without impacting production performance. We’ll demonstrate how to make IBM i data available to AI agents and workflows, enabling intelligent automation, natural language interfaces, and real-time decision-making. Whether you’re beginning your AI journey or expanding existing IBM i capabilities, this class provides practical strategies for integrating trusted enterprise data with the latest AI technologies.

Session 5-Tim Higgins- A&I Technologies

Legacy modernization efforts are often slowed by limited visibility into complex applications, undocumented business logic, and unclear modernization pathways. In this product showcase, discover how ModernizeIT helps organizations accelerate modernization through AI-guided discovery, analysis, and planning. We'll demonstrate how teams can gain actionable insights into legacy applications, visualize architecture and dependencies, generate documentation, and identify opportunities for modernization—all within a unified platform designed to reduce risk and improve decision-making.

Go beyond the overview and see ModernizeIT in action. In this hands-on technical workshop, our modernization consultant will take a real legacy application through the platform's end-to-end workflow, demonstrating how source code is analyzed, documented, decomposed, and transformed into modernization-ready outputs. Attendees will follow the modernization journey step by step and gain practical insight into how engineering teams can accelerate modernization efforts while maintaining transparency and control.