Summit Lunch & Learn Series

Jon, Susan, Patrick, Simon and Mike COMING SOON! Check out the Spring 2026 Lunch & Learn lineup below to see the kind of program coming your way in May 2026!

Each of the new 75-minute technical discussions will feature technical tips from Jon, Susan, Patrick, Simon or Mike; a demo of an IBM i development tool by our guest speaker; and a live Q&A.

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Lunch & Learn Sessions — Spring 2026

Date	Tip & Demo Titles/Abstracts
Tuesday May. 12 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	A Bevy Of BIFs - Jon's Take AND Smarter RPG Development: Using X-Analysis and IBM BOB for Better Insight Jon Paris and Ray Everhart Sponsored by Fresche Solutions
Wednesday May. 13 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Overloaded with Procedure Names? Overload the Names Instead! AND Beyond the Copilot: How Agentic Coding Changes Your Engineering Workflow Patrick Behr and Gary Jones Sponsored by Profound Logic Software
Thursday May. 14 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Office Docs via Python on IBM i AND Are you ready for AI on the IBM i? Optimization and guardrails... what you need to know today Mike Pavlak and Jeff Tickner Sponsored by Arcad Software
Tuesday May. 19 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Open Source Goodies You're Missing AND Working Together on IBM i: Git + Change Management for Innovative IBM i DevOps Mike Pavlak and Donna Westmoreland Sponsored by Midrange Dynamics North America
Wednesday May. 20 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Susan's Top RPG Procedure Tips AND AI-Powered Refactoring of Legacy IBM i Application into APIs Susan Gantner, Steve Collins and Nic Hall Sponsored by LANSA
Thursday May. 21 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Simon's top five SQL favorites AND PHP on IBM i in 2026: The Modernization Engine Simon Hutchinson and Alan Seiden Sponsored by Seiden Group
Tuesday May. 26 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	Check yourSELF: Catching SQL Errors in the Act AND Git Going Now! Unleash the Power of Git and CI/CD for IBM i Patrick Behr, Dan Magid and Aaron Magid Sponsored by Eradani
Wednesday May. 27 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	IBM BOB - Your IBM i AI Development Partner AND A word about RPG Tim Rowe and Barbara Morris Sponsored by IBM
Thursday May. 28 1:00 - 2:15 Eastern	A few of Simon's favorite RPG BiFs AND Build an IBM i Web App in Minutes with AI Using Valence 6.4 Simon Hutchinson, Rob Swanson and Sean Lanktree Sponsored by CNX Corporation

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