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WORKSHOPS AND SCHEDULE

COMMON Focus 2007 features three days of intense, focused education. There will be 16 in-depth, all-day educational workshops offered – six workshops per day for three days. Both lab and lecture style workshops will be offered—nine lecture style workshops (three per day), and nine lab style workshops (three per day). Just added - Preview i5/OS V6R1 - click here to learn more.

A quick glance at the scheduled workshops for COMMON Focus 2007 is outlined below. You can also view a detailed schedule for each day here.

Remember, though the workshops start early Monday morning, COMMON Focus 2007 will kickoff on the evening of Sunday, October 14th at 6:00pm with a Welcome Reception - it's a great opportunity to meet and network with instructors and fellow attendees.

Read the abstracts for each workshop by day: Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

Or you can download all abstracts as a single PDF file.

Monday Workshops (October 15, 2007)
Title	Speaker
Disaster Recovery Primer - Ready, Set, Plan	Richard Dolewski, WTS Inc.
Modernizing RPG Applications	Paul Tuohy, Comcon
Implementing i5/OS Security	Carol Woodbury, SkyView Partners
(LAB): System i Developer Bootcamp (Day 1 of 3 - Part of 3-day Series) JUST ADDED	Kevin Forsythe, DMC Consulting
(LAB): PHP Essentials	Erwin Earley and Dave Boutcher, IBM
(LAB): WDS and WDSc Guided Tour	Kushal Munir , IBM
Tuesday Workshops (October 16, 2007)
Title	Speaker
Disaster Recovery Workshop: Be Well Prepared	Larry Youngren and Debbie Saugen, IBM
All You Need to Know about SQL in Six Hours	Skip Marchesani, Custom Systems Corp.
System i Access for Web	Doug Beauchene and Jason Hansen, IBM
(LAB): System i Developer Bootcamp (Day 2 of 3 - Part of 3-day Series) JUST ADDED	Kevin Forsythe, DMC Consulting
(LAB): IBM System i Navigator Workshop	Arturo Guttierrez & Nick Fernholz, IBM
(LAB): Hands on VB.net and ASP.Net for System i Developers	Richard Schoen & Bruce Collins, RJS Software
Wednesday Workshops (October 17, 2007)
Title	Speaker
Systems Management Workshop	Larry Bolhuis, Arbor Solutions Inc.
Beyond the Basics with SQL	Skip Marchesani, Custom Systems Corp.
RPG Meets the Web	Paul Tuohy, Comcon
(LAB): System i Developer Bootcamp (Day 3 of 3 - Part of 3-day Series) JUST ADDED	Kevin Forsythe, DMC Consulting
(LAB): Optimize Your System i with IBM Performance Management Tools	Gottfried Schimunek and Aspen Payton, IBM
(LAB): Using Java to Build System i Web Applications	Paul Holm and Tim Eckert, Planet Java
Preview i5/OS V6R1 COMMON’s first annual Focus workshop conference has just added a special presentation by IBM about the upcoming release of i5/OS V6R1. This preview of the upcoming major release, presented by Gottfried Schimunek, IBM, will help you prepare for program conversion and upgrade. This presentation will take place on Wednesday during lunch-time. Application Program conversion will be required to run with i5/OS V6R1 and requires program's creation data (observability). IBM will explain what you can do today (using V5R3 and V5R4) to analyze your current application to make sure it will be converted correctly at V6R1. You will also be pointed to beta releases and systems with V6R1 to perform early remote testing of applications.