Alan Seiden Hosts IT Leadership Summit at POWERUp 2025

IT Leadership SummitJoin 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!

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Solving IBM i Skills & Knowledge Transfer Challenges

Heidi SchmidtHeidi Schmidt draws on science to solve one of the biggest issues facing CIOs today—how to transfer knowledge of core business applications and processes to younger developers, while fostering new skills that lead to innovation.

At the CIO Summit in Dallas, March 23, 2020, Heidi will share her experience with collaborative learning and other techniques that aid generational change and find untapped potential within development teams.

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CIO Summit Features DB2 for i Briefing with IBM’s Scott Forstie

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Scott Forstie (left) with Alan Seiden at a previous CIO Summit

In recent years, Db2 for i Business Architect Scott Forstie and his team have rapidly strengthened the IBM i database, improving the sophistication of its SQL query engine, and adding to its galaxy of IBM i services. What’s more, they have several years’ worth of new enhancements in the pipeline.

CIOs and IT Directors can meet Scott at the CIO Summit on March 25, 2019, Charlotte, North Carolina, for an IBM i strategy briefing.

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Highlights from Seiden Group’s October 2018 Events

We hope you enjoy this photo (and video) tour of Seiden Group experiences at the CIO Summit, the RPG & DB2 Summit, ZendCon & OpenEnterprise 2018, and COMMON Fall.
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Next IBM i CIO Summit to be held October 16-17, 2017, Minneapolis

IBMi CIO Summit In late April in Manhattan, Seiden Group had the pleasure of hosting its first IBM i CIO Summit.

Now we’ve gone a step further, teaming up with System i Developer partners Susan Gantner, Jon Paris and Paul Tuohy, to organize an IBM i CIO Summit “Plus.” The event will be held October 16-17, 2017, in Minneapolis, in conjunction with the RPG & DB2 Summit.

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