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Summit Lunch & Learn Series

Jon, Susan, Patrick, Simon and Mike Check out the Spring 2026 Lunch & Learn lineup below, enjoyed by over 1,400 IBM i developers from May 12-28, 2026.

Each of these 75-minute recordings features technical tips from Susan, Jon, Simon, Patrick or Mike, a demo of an IBM i development tool, and a Q&A (and guest appearances by Tim Rowe and Barbara Morris!!).

Watch the recordings of your favorite sessions below!

Lunch and Learn

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		RPG Enums: Not just fancy named constants
AND
IBM BOB - Your IBM i
AI Development Partner
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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