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Join us for an in-depth exploration of agentic AI and its transformative potential on the IBM i platform. This session will primarily explore the core concepts of agentic AI, including autonomy, agency, and decision-making, and discuss how these principles can be applied to drive innovation and efficiency for your business. We will examine the current state of agentic AI and its applications. Plus, we will look at some available options for building agentic workflows with your IBM i. To finish off, we’ll provide a sneak peek at some upcoming projects from IBM i development!

We are living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a period defined by artificial intelligence, automation, and unprecedented digital transformation. But what does it really mean to live with AI, not just use it?  Let’s explore the promises and pitfalls of AI in everyday life. 

Join us for a deep dive into Git where you will learn the essential concepts every beginner should know — from basic commands to working with branches and resolving merge conflicts. Next, we will explore what the modern development lifecycle looks like for IBM i developers using Git which includes uncovering how objects get built and what tools you will leverage to develop locally on your PC. We will also showcase how to leverage CI/CD pipelines (via GitHub Actions) to automate builds, generate impact analysis, and even run RPG unit tests.

This session explores a spec-driven development approach that combines Bob’s LLM-powered IDE capabilities with the BMAD Agile framework to bring architectural governance and compliance to enterprise RPG development on IBM i.
By leveraging structured requirements, architecture definitions, implementation plans, and continuous validation loops, development teams can effectively guide AI agents throughout the entire software lifecycle. We will demonstrate how multi-role AI workflows—spanning analysis, design, implementation, testing, and review—can accelerate delivery while preserving consistency, traceability, and code quality.
Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, attendees will learn how to evolve AI from a simple coding assistant into a reliable engineering team capable of supporting enterprise-grade RPG development.

You already use AI for everyday tasks, so why not put it to work on one of the most tedious projects on your roadmap?
Migrating to modern software often means reworking hundreds, sometimes thousands, of screens and spool files: slow, repetitive, error-prone work that drags on for months.
 
In this 30-minute session, we will show you how PHL Mirror uses AI to turn that grind into a fast, reliable process so you can reclaim time and accelerate your move to a modern application. You will see exactly how it converts existing screens and spools and what it could mean for your own migration.
 
Come find out how to make migration a breeze instead of a burden.

Modernizing RPG applications is essential for keeping IBM i environments efficient, maintainable, and attractive to new developers — but manually converting decades of fixed-format code to modern RPG Free can be slow, tedious, and error-prone. In this session, we’ll explore how AI can dramatically accelerate and improve the modernization process.We’ll walk through how AI tools can analyze legacy RPG code, identify outdated patterns, and generate clean, maintainable RPG Free equivalents. You’ll see examples of accurate AI-assisted rewrites, automated refactoring strategies, and techniques for preserving business logic while eliminating clutter and old syntax. We’ll also discuss best practices for validating AI-generated output, integrating modernization into your CI/CD workflows, and building a sustainable long-term modernization strategy.By the end of this session, you’ll understand how AI can reduce modernization time from weeks to minutes, empower your existing RPG developers, and create a cleaner, future-ready RPG codebase without disrupting the stability of your IBM i applications.

What is Mapepire: Mapepire is an open-source client to connect applications to the Db2 for i database. It’s written in JavaScript and built using secure web sockets.Benefits of using Mapepire:The existing JDBC and ODBC clients take on very heavy loads to deal with a lot of things. This makes the client code complex. This complex code leads to significant performance overhead. Mapepire clients are lighter as the server part of them is going to take care of the “other things” like encoding. It eliminates native dependencies on the client side. Also the server, the protocol and client part of mapepire being open source, the task of creating new clients in other languages will not at all be taxing as is the case with JDBC and ODBC due to them being not well documented. It’s easy to deploy in cloud environments and also easy to install and use as it is available to install through the commonly used package managers (of different languages) like NPM, Apache maven, PyPi and also Yum.How can customers use it:1. A server component has to be installed first and started on the server. This can be done using yum.2. Getting started with the client is easy and it’s either starting up a daemon server object that will connect with the server component or an API in case of Node.js which connects with IBM i.