Canadian Technology Summit

Please join us on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1 & 2, 2009 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area of Canada where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all Sybase products, including data management, tools and mobility are welcome to attend. This meeting will feature networking opportunities, product updates and a discussion.

For the first time in our history, this will be a two day event hosting many Sybase professionals, 3rd party vendors, user presentations, senior management participation, etc culminating in an event I would like to call the "Canadian Technical Summit". This event will have two streams - one Data Management and the other Development. You will be able to register for either one or better yet, make sure that you bring a colleague with you so that you can cover both agendas. There is even a planned "cocktail reception" on the Tuesday night (Dec 1st). The event will cover subject areas such as: SMS messaging from PB 12.NET, Taking your PowerBuilder applications to the Web; Data Warehousing, Replication, Sybase and SAS, Data Modeling, Database Monitoring and Performance, ASE and PB tools, Product Futures, Mobility, etc just to highlight some key areas. On the Development side we will see evangelist John Strano showing us the latest PB 12.NET from engineering, best practices and another training session. For Data Management we will have senior VP Brian Vink addressing key product futures, Mobility and presentations on comparing various Data Modeling approaches. You will have access to key Sybase technical staff from Canada and the USA to ask questions about Sybase products, interact with users utilizing the same technologies and gain key information into 2010 based products and features.


In many cases, you will be the first people outside of Sybase to see various leading edge products in action, get an in-depth review of its features, see live demonstrations, hear how others have used Sybase products,  etc and then get  “hands-on” training sessions to boot! But wait, that’s not all – you will get to take home with you free software, door prizes, and special unlimited versions of select Sybase and 3rd party products. This event will be of interest to developers, DBA's, project leaders, analysts, IT managers, consultants, etc who want to see how and why Sybase is now the largest software vendor specializing and focused on mobile information management. We will be showcasing presentations from companies such as: Novalys, Appeon and Bradmark as well just to name a few.

 

The OSUG Dec 1/2, 2009 meeting will be held in Ottawa at Constitution Square in the double Board Room (down the hallway from the Queen's University MBA lecture theatre). Constitution Square is located at 350 Albert Street (at Lyon) just across the street from the Crowne Plaza hotel. Bus access is right to the door and parking is available at the hotel, in Constitution Square and across the street. The Double Board room  is located on the second floor (center) and can be accessed from either the west or east elevators.

 

Here are the preliminary agenda, topics and the planned activities for each day:

 

Day #1 - Preliminary Agenda - Development Stream

Time: Topic:

7:45am       Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am       Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
9:00am       Taking your PB Applications to the Web - Armeen Mazda
10:00am     Coffee Break
10:15am     Taking your PB Applications to the Web - Armeen Mazda - Continued
11:45am      Lunch
12:45pm     Solving your Top Business problems today with PowerBuilder - John Strano
2:15Pm      Coffee Break
2:30pm      Solving your Top Business problems today with PowerBuilder - John Strano - Continued
2:15Pm      Coffee Break
2:30pm      Solving your Top Business problems today with PowerBuilder - John Strano - Continued
4:20Pm      Q & A Session
4:20Pm      Wrap-up

Download the detailed agenda ... click here !

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Day #1 - Preliminary Agenda - Data Management Stream

Time: Topic:

7:30am       Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00am       SUP - Mobilizing SAP, PeopleSoft and Remedy - Anthony Antonello
9:30am       Coffee Break
9:45am       Enterprise Architecture Overview - Chris Baker
11:00am      Bradmark Monitoring Solutions - Cindy Bean
12:00noon    Lunch
1:00pm      ASE Cluster Edition - Anthony Robinson
2:00Pm      Coffee Break
2:15pm      Sybase Analytics - Chris Baker - IQ
3:15pm      Replication Server - Tony Antonello
4:15pm      Q & A Session
4:30pm      Wrap-up

Download the detailed agenda ... click here !

 


5:00pm          Cocktail Reception -  Details to come


 

Day #2 - Preliminary Agenda - Development Stream

Time: Topic:

7:45am       Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am       Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
8:45am       Application Mining - Christophe Dufourmantelle
9:30am       Coffee Break
9:45am       Visual Guard - Christophe Dufourmantelle
10:30am     Customization Studio - Christophe Dufourmantelle
11:15am      PB Protect - Christophe Dufourmantelle
11:45am      Lunch
12:45pm      Introduction to WPF - John Strano
1:45pm      WPF Controls - John Strano
2:15pm      Coffee Break
2:30pm      PowerScript .NET - John Strano
3:00pm      Migrating to WPF - John Strano
3:30pm      Vector Based Graphics - John Strano
4:00pm      XML and "Skins" - John Strano
4:20pm      Unified API - John Strano
4:40pm      Q & A Session
4:50pm      Wrap-up

Download the detailed agenda ... click here !


 

** How to Register **

To register ... Details coming soon

Get ready to learn PowerBuilder like you have never seen before, .NET and database RAD development on "steroids " from Sybase! There is no cost to attend and we hope to see you there!

 

** Out of town Guests **

TBA

 

** BIO's **

 

Anthony Antonello

Mr. Anthony (Tony) Antonello is an eighteen year veteran of Sybase Canada.  Through his years at Sybase, Tony has held many roles including Principal Consultant; District Manager Western Canada, Sybase Professional Services; General Manager, Sybase Canada Sales; and Canadian Technical Manager.

Anthony Robinson

Mr .Anthony Robinson is a Principal Systems Consultant for Sybase based in Ottawa, Canada.  Anthony has been with Sybase since 2000. He worked for Sybase's American Federal team out of Bethesda Maryland until 2004, when he then transferred to Sybase Canada. Before joining Sybase, Anthony was a sales consulant with New Era Of Networks and a functional SAP consultant for SLI Consulting Inc.

 

Christophe Dufourmantelle

Mr. Christophe Dufourmantelle founded Novalys in 1998 and has run the company from that time onward. Before this, he was an Oracle Consultant and also developed for a software department at a French IT company.

 

John Strano

John Strano is a Sybase Technology Evangelist and a charter member of TeamSybase. He has been using PowerBuilder since 1991 and has authored articles for multiple industry periodicals. John has presented Sybase tools on an international basis since 1997. Over the last 15 years John has developed a variety of PowerBuilder applications from single-user scaling up to enterprise-class, web-based projects.

 

Regards ... Chris Pollach

OSUG CoOrdinator - cpollach@travel-net.com

 

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