I hope you’ve already
made your plans to be there, but if you haven’t there’s still time to get your
manager’s approval, make your travel plans, and be where all the in-the-know IT folks
will be the last week of February, the SHARE
conference in Fort Worth, Texas!
If you’ve ever
attended a SHARE conference before then you know why I’m looking forward to this
event. With 300+ industry speakers, 500+ sessions and 1,000+ attendees, SHARE offers
a world of phenomenal educational opportunities delivered by renowned industry
leaders. If you attend, you can benefit from user-driven technical sessions,
insights from colleagues, and hardware and software product education all in
one place. SHARE attendance guarantees you access to the latest
enterprise IT news, prominent industry leaders — including IBM executives — and
product highlights on emerging technologies, bringing priceless value to your
daily work.
The Spring 2020 event
offers more educational opportunities and training than ever before, including
content that spans 8 IT disciplines, including:
- Application
Development
- Database Systems
- Middleware
- Networks
- Operating Systems
(z/OS, z/VM, Linux)
- Security
- Storage
- Systems Management
SHARE began as the
first-ever enterprise IT user group way back in 1955… but it has continued to grow
and expand over the years> Today it offers an unparalleled opportunity to
learn about enterprise IT and to interact with your peers.
What Will I Be Doing
SHARE?
As usual, I hope to
attend many different sessions to learn what is new out there, especially with
regard to my core areas (mainframe and Db2). Check out the agenda here.
I also will be
delivering a Lunch and Learn session this year, sponsored by Infotel,
on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. This presentation, titled Improving
Db2 Application Quality for Optimizing Performance and Controlling Costs,
will be presented with a free lunch! So be sure to sign up, then come eat and
at the same time, learn about the impact of DevOps on database. I’ll talk about
the issues and trends then Colin Oakhill of Infotel will discuss how their SQL
quality assurance solutions can aid the DevOps process for Db2 development.
You
can RSVP for Lunch and Learn sessions by using the link provided during
the registration process.
Pre-registration is highly encouraged and space is available on a first-come,
first-served basis. If you have already registered and did not RSVP, you can
log in to your registration and add your RSVP.
If
you have not RSVPed you can still attend the Lunch and Learn session, on a
first-come, first-serve basis. Seating opens up to everyone at 12:35 p.m. (10
minutes prior to the session start time).
Later that evening (Tuesday) on the second day of the SHARE expo hall I'll
be hanging at the Infotel booth, so if you have any
questions we didn’t answer in the Lunch n’ Learn session, you can ask us at the
Infotel booth. Be sure to stop by and say hello, take a look at Infotel’s SQL
quality assurance solutions for Db2 for z/OS, and register to win one of 2 of
my Db2
application performance books that will be raffled off. If you win, be
sure to get me to sign your copy!
The Bottom Line
SHARE is the place to be this February
2020 to learn all about what’s going on in the world of enterprise computing. I
hope to see you in Fort Worth for SHARE… and if you are going, be sure to track me
down and say “Howdy!”
