FOCUS 2026

February 17 - 18 2026 | FREE to Members

Gain in-depth IBM i education from these half-day virtual workshops that deep dive into various IT topics. Learn more about each topic and ask questions from the recognized IBM i experts. This in-depth workshop event is FREE to MEMBERS.

Our Speakers

Scott Forstie

Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

Ann Wilkerson

Ann Wilkerson is a Lead User Interface Developer in IBM i. Since joining the Rochester lab in 2021, she has played a key role in advancing the IBM i platform through contributions to IBM Navigator for i, IBM i Services, and IBM i Migrate While Active. Ann specializes in designing intuitive, secure, and high-performing interfaces, with a focus on security, networking, and the Integrated File System (IFS).

Simon Hutchinson

Simon Hutchinson has worked with IBM midrange servers and the RPG programming language since 1988—starting in the U.K. and continuing in the U.S. for over 35 years. He is best known for his long-running blog, RPGPGM.COM, where for more than 12 years he has shared practical insights and examples in RPG, SQL, and CL.

Ryan Moeller

Ryan Moeller is a software engineer working on Db2 for i, specifically on the SQL Query Engine (SQE) team. He joined the team in the Rochester, MN development lab in 2020. Ryan specializes in SQL, database development, and query performance analysis.

Sebastien Julliand

Hi, I’m Seb! I am the R&D Tech Lead for i and me – IT Training and Solutions GmbH and an active contributors to IBM i open source projects.

Let’s talk about anything related to software development, on IBM i or not, it doesn’t mater to me. RPGLE, Java, TypeScript…I love them all equally 😁

I’m actively contributing to Code for IBM i and other open source projects, and I’m very happy to be able to give back to the wonderful IBM i community.

Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews is a Principal Security Consultant, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), and Team Lead for the IBM i Security and Authentication Technology Expert Labs team in Rochester, MN. An IBM Certified Thought Leader and The Open Group Distinguished Technical Specialist, Robert has specialized in IT security since 1994, helping organizations worldwide strengthen their security posture.

Dawn May

Dawn has been involved with COMMON for over 20 years and has been a consistent volunteer since 2008. She’s been a member of the strategic education team, a subject matter expert, and a speaker. Now, as President of COMMON, she’s focused on leading COMMON as the industry leader of IBM i education, networking, and community.

Barbara Morris

Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN opcodes and overloaded prototypes.

Birgitta Hauser

Birgitta Hauser worked on the IBM i and its predecessors since 1992. She graduated with a business economics diploma, and started programming on the AS/400 in 1992. Currently she is an independent consultant and works in Consulting, Application Modernization on IBM i and especially Database Modernization on Db2 for i. She also provides individual programming on IBM i to her customers.

Koen Decorte

Koen Decorte is owner of CD Invest, an international IBM business partner with offices in Belgium and Spain. CD-Invest is specialized in innovating and modernizing IBM i applications.

His focus is mainly on integrating and using open source applications on IBM i.

Liam Allan

I am a developer and open-source advocate. Ask me about Node.js, VS Code, app deployment and CICD 🙂

Pascal Polverini

Through a broad range of products, services and infrastructure optimization, Pascal Polverini leads his international team to face complex business challenges, solve problems, manage critical issues and grant results with innovative IT solutions for all those companies running on IBM i.

Aaron Magid

Aaron Magid, Chief Architect at Eradani, has over a decade of experience in software development and technology. He specializes in modernizing legacy systems like IBM i/AS400 using Python, Node.js, and Java. Aaron excels in bridging old and new technologies together for clients, helping them connect modern solutions to existing systems.

Our Schedule

February 17th

Room One

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Incorporating SQL Views into Your Development Strategy with Simon Hutchinson

10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: SYSTOOLS – A Master Class with Scott Forstie

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Tools, Tricks, and Tips to Enhance your SQL Performance Ryan Moeller

Room Two

8:30 AM – 10:30 PM: HA/DR Session with Sarah Jacob

10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Work Management Magic with Dawn May

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Kerberos SSO End-to-End: Fundamentals, Flows, and Advanced Troubleshooting with Robert Andrews

February 18th

Room One

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Design Your Own VS Code Extension and Extend Code for IBM i with Sebastien Julliand

10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: IBM i (SQL) Services – The Best of the Best! with Scott Forstie

Room Two

8:30 AM – 10:30 PM: Mastering IBM Navigator for i: Modern Web-Based Management of your IBM i with Ann Wilkerson

Room One

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Capitalize Your IBM i Testing History and Automate Testing with Pascal Polverini

10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: ListAgg and Split – Grouping, Aggregating and Dividing Again with Birgitta Hauser

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: One Dashboard to Rule Them All: IBM i Monitoring Workshop with Aaron Magid

Room Two

10:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Making My RPG Application Universally Understood with Barbara Morris

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Code for IBM i Deep Dive with Liam Allan

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