Alan Seiden Hosts IT Leadership Summit at POWERUp 2025

Join your IT executive peers and host Alan Seiden for the next IT Leadership Summit—an exclusive event focused on exploring ways to leverage your IBM i investment, improve user satisfaction, and achieve greater professional success.

Organized with COMMON User Group in conjunction with POWERUp 2025, the Summit will take place May 19, 2025 at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. Few seats remain, so contact Manzoor at COMMON soon if you would like to attend!

What to Expect: Ideas and Problem-Solving

As host, Alan creates an engaging and relaxed environment that quickly leads to productive, interactive discussions. Participants get to know each other, exchange insights, and learn what strategies have worked well for others.

Past attendees have found it easy to ask questions and openly discuss the pros and cons of solutions they have tried. They freely exchanged ideas for addressing common challenges faced by IBM i IT Directors—managing new technology such as AI; hiring the right skills; keeping IT aligned with business; getting started with modernization; and other topics. For this event, special guests will share their experiences with 1) AI and 2) finding and training the next generation of talent, further facilitating discussion on those topics.

If you’re eager to learn from peers and contribute to the conversation, this event is for you. Attendees often make connections that endure long after the event.

Reserve Your Seat at the Table

Contact Manzoor Siddiqui, the Executive Director of COMMON, to get additional details about the IT Leadership Summit and reserve your seat.

Potential Topics

If you attend, you will have the opportunity to direct the flow of conversation to your specific concerns. Past discussions have included:

• Skills enhancement/replacement
• Blending teams from different generations
• Effective uses of AI
• Keeping IT aligned with business needs
• Effective modernization strategies
• How to present IBM i options as an alternative to rip-and-replace
• Integration challenges—platforms, data, applications, analytics

See you there!