Micro Focus #DevDay50 - Atlanta
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Micro Focus's #devday has hosted over 50 events in 5 years, focusing on COBOL and mainframe innovation to address IT challenges with hands-on technical demos, expert panels, and networking opportunities. The latest event gathered over 5,000 attendees from various industries and showcased new product releases while promoting modernization and collaboration among professionals. Participants emphasized the event's value in learning, networking, and skill development within modern application development practices.
Micro Focus #DevDay50 - Atlanta
- 1. 200+ 40+ 100 4 2 #DevDay: innovationbynumbers That’s 50 events in 5 years of taking COBOL and mainframe innovation out to the dev community, helping .NET, Java and COBOL developers solve today’s IT and industry challenges. #DevDay is the go-to name for anyone seeking key insights, looking for live technical demonstrations—and the opportunity to meet their business buddies and professional peers in a cool setting. Showcased 6 product demosnew #COBOL and #Mainframe releases ‘Ask the Expert’ panels 40 blogs & tech tracks 14 focused on 6 of today’s popular modernization priorities: major partners press visits authors’ signings: guest speakers 3,000 many hangovers Poured nearly cups of coffee event for the COBOL and mainframe developer community show-stopping weather events (snow, ice, hurricanes) and one pain in the a*s (power outage) Whatis#DevDay? What’snext? Weagree!Here’stheword fromtheMicroFocus #DevDayTeam 5,000+attendeesfrom many industries and sectors: financial services government logistics computer software consulting services healthcare retail manufacturing academia (plenty more I’m sure) Laurie Wallmark Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code Paul Kelly Visual COBOL: A Developer’s Guide to Modern COBOL Hosted 100 developer-led sessions with tech tips and best practices Hosted 1000s of networking opportunities— and free lunches (that’s right—they do exist!) Created Inspired Welcomed 6cool hashtags (you know who you are!) including Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Scandinavia, and 15 major US cities Launched Welcomed The Survived IBM Microsoft Astadia DXC HPE Select Computing Cognizant DataVantage Unicon Transvive University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Columbus State University IT-oLogy Vivit 1 2 3 4 5 6 #COBOLRocks #DevDay #AppDev #Mainframe #COBOL #DevOps Helped nurse Chicago Detroit Dallas Houston Atlanta NYC Washington, D.C. Charlotte Boston Unveiled dozens of products —every new release of our latests products from v2.3 onwards including new support for Visual Studio and Eclipse, Agile Development, DevOps, .NET, JVM, Docker and Cloud Prompted at least 8 reasons to keep coming back to DevDay: 1 2 “Learn and network with peers” “See what’s new” 1 2Discover Be first for Micro Focus product roadmaps and future strategies. Skill up Get under the hood of modern appdev delivery tools and practices. 3 4Network Hang with industry experts and peers. Get the inside track. Learn Experts use #DevDay to showcase the latest Micro Focus Appdev and modernization tech. 5 6Hear New customer stories testify how Micro Focus tech has solved their IT and business challenges. Innovate Quickly modernize your core business systems with our help. 7 8Deliver You can make better software, faster. You just need to know how. Explore Faster application delivery using Agile and Enterprise DevOps practices. 9 10Progress Take your COBOL, cloud, containers, mobile and managed code forward. Tackle There’s no skills crisis when .NET, Java and modern tools from Micro Focus deliver a skills strategy for long-term success. 11 Extend Your community can only grow when you build new relationships with local organizations, vendors, developers, experts and practitioners. … a unique opportunity for those working with COBOL or mainframe-based applications to see the latest Micro Focus development technology, while sharing stories and best practices. If that’s you, this is your must-attend event.” … a great venue for customers to learn how Micro Focus technology can help them with their modernization goals, and an opportunity to collaborate, share real-life experiences, and learn how they might address similar modernization challenges.” Ed Airey, Director Solutions Marketing … undoubtedly our most popular customer event. It’s a place for hands-on learning and discussion with industry experts. #DevDay has helped thousands of client delegates.” Derek Britton, Product Director Bob Schoppert, Senior Solution Engineer “Build a relationship with Micro Focus” 3 “See what Micro Focus offers us” 5 6 “Take our first steps towards modernization” “Learn what we can think about for the future” “Better our skills”7 8 “Understand how your products can fuel modernization” 4 This year there are 11 more great reasons to go: Micro Focus #DevDay is… ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ I am a veteran of 49 DevDays, and so frequently talk to attendees. Many tell me the technical content we showcase at DevDays—perhaps a Visual COBOL capability—can stick with them for years into the future.” Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect, Technical Services ‘‘ #DevDay microfocus.com Micro Focus hosts #DevDay50 on January 29th in Atlanta. .NET / Java Integration REST and services-based architectures COBOL data access and RDBMS integration Agile development and DevOps practices The mainframe at the heart of the digital enterprise Moving COBOL workloads to the Cloud #1 3 Orlando Pittsburgh Cincinnati Nashville Seattle San Francisco The first & fiftieth Hit 50 locations worldwide “ “ “ “ “