Arnab is a senior executive at IBM with experience in designing and delivering application-enabled business transformation to major corporations. He has held leadership roles in both professional services and Fortune 500 corporate environments.
Arnab has extensive experience in managing operations for professional services teams (technology, BPO & product engineering) across multiple industries.
After 20 years as Research VP at Gartner, and over 35 years in IT, Jim has business, technical and modernization insight that is almost unmatched. Digital transformation and application modernization were a key element of his research, planning and APM initiatives. He currently consults with companies who benefit from his broad perspective in product and business development, as well as his ability to future-proof IT so that it continues to support evolving business initiatives.
Topics include: Understanding digital transformation, Societal and generational aspects, mobile cloud, Key findings from market analysts.
Chris is widely recognized as a thought leader in IBM i modernization and is a regular speaker at conferences, events, and in webinars. Since joining Fresche in 1988, he has helped hundreds of companies worldwide develop and execute successful application management and modernization strategies, across a variety of platforms, languages, databases, and technologies.
Trevor Perry will lead you, IT Industry Analyst and CIO Advisors into an engaging round of discussions on key initiatives in the market and have an open dialogue with attendees on top CIO issues and concerns.
Mike Pavlak has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. After years of developing applications using RPG, CL and PHP he managed IT development and IT for power protection manufacturer Tripp Lite. Later Mike was instrumental in developing the adoption of PHP as a primary solution for web development on IBM i working with Zend Technologies. Today, as an IT Strategist, Mike helps companies around the world approach the challenges of modernization and open source technologies. In addition to several roles as a volunteer with COMMON the premier IBM midrange user group, Mike also teaches PHP & Python classes part time at Moraine Valley Community College in Suburban Chicago.
As IBM continues to embrace open-source technologies such as Node.js, PHP and Git on IBM i, there are more and more compelling reasons to make open source a part of your IT strategy.
