Agenda & Sessions

Progress has remained steadfast in strategizing and delivering new capabilities in support of OpenEdge 12. Join us to hear from Progress product management leaders on where OpenEdge will go next.

There are many valuable DevOps tools to help you successfully host your OpenEdge applications in a modern setting. Join the OpenEdge engineering team to learn more about these tools.

Empower your business to adapt to today’s business landscape with OpenEdge 12.2. Join our live panel and see how 12.2 enables you to make your apps more agile, scalable and available than ever before.

BI and analytics fuel today’s industry leaders, but these systems need quality data. See how Pro2 offers real-time data replication without disrupting operations to drive proactive decision-making.

In this discussion, we'll explain how an OpenEdge customer was able to create two replication targets of databases that are over a terabyte and had everything up and running in under 45 minutes.

Today’s digital consumers have high expectations for applications, with even a moment of downtime having huge ramifications. See how OpenEdge 12 was designed to deliver Five 9’s availability.

While migrating to the cloud has its benefits, it may require big modernization investments. But what if you could decrease the cost of on-prem application management without migrating?

The new Multi-Threaded OpenEdge Database Server for ABL can perform the same workload in one-third of the time. See how at this session, where we dive deep into the performance enhancements.

Come and learn from the Progress Customer Success team about the lessons learned while helping customers and partners move their deployments to OpenEdge 12.1.

If there’s one certainty about software architecture, it’s the fact that it’s continuously evolving. In this session, we explore the concept of MicroServices and the pros and cons of this approach.

Explore how Progress evolved from agile organizational aspiration to actual implementation. We’ll discuss everything from customer-driven development to our Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Compelling digital experiences are important for all users of your business applications. This session discusses best practices for evolving your OpenEdge app to provide modern digital experiences.

Your feedback is essential for making iterative improvements across all of our products. Come learn about the Progress Idea Portals and CVP programs, and how your participation helps shape the future!

This session covers what makes a Progressive Web App great, lessons we can learn from PWAs that can apply to any application, and reasons why every web app should be a PWA.

VR unlocks limitless possibilities for visualizing Big Data. Learn how VR can productively disrupt business processes and experience the possibilities during the session's live VR demonstrations.

Whether you’re building widgets, SPAs or mobile apps, Sitefinity enables you to go beyond the website with a wealth of frontend options like Material Design, React, Angular and Vue.

Sitefinity 13.0 brings new widget designers that offer a consistent experience across content, pages and widgets. Join this session for a guide on how to configure, develop and deploy widgets.

Performance has always been a top priority for Sitefinity. This session covers the latest in performance enhancements, including full integration with CDN and geo-distributed deployment.

The new Sitefinity backend delivers on its promise of streamlined, user-friendly management of classifications. In this session, we get a feel for the new admin experience.

As a truly decoupled CMS, Sitefinity lets you use your frontend framework of choice to build client-side apps and pages. Join this session to see the Page Layout API in action and how to build a SPA.

Want the ultimate in content editing? Content Pipeline is everything you need. In this session, we demonstrate how to leverage content staging and site sync for content promotion.

The best Plan B is the one you never have to use. In this session, we look at the best ways to keep your Sitefinity websites up and running—and performing at their best.

Our resident DevOps team has spent hundreds of hours configuring, testing and optimizing. Now, they’re here to share cloud migration best practices so you can make a seamless transition.

Want to share your solution with the Sitefinity community—and maybe monetize your hard work as well? Join this session to learn all about the Sitefinity Marketplace, where you can do both.

Integrating an acquired company is no small task, and that includes the website. Join the Progress digital team as they share tips for executing a post-acquisition web migration strategy.

Every marketer wants to use the best tools, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessary to succeed. Join this session to see what tools our digital team uses and why we often go against the norms.

Modern digital experiences need to go beyond the website. In this session, we look how the various components of Sitefinity add up to be more than the sum of its parts so you can “wow” your audience.

We’ve been putting extra effort into polishing the Sitefinity cache. Join this session and learn how to boost your site’s performance by taking full advantage of the inbuilt caching tools.

Custom forms are a staple in Sitefinity, but many don’t use them to their fullest. In this session, we review the latest enhancements to custom forms and showcase the true power of Sitefinity forms.

In today’s digital world, content management alone isn’t enough. Campaign Manager helps you take the next step, enabling you to build campaign-specific web assets even faster.

With all the confusing acronyms and jargon in the martech space, choosing the best platform can be needlessly confusing. In this session, we break it down so you can make the right choice.

The value organizations can gain from investing in digital customer experience is immense. Learn how to deliver a seamless experience at every digital touchpoint and drive conversions even faster.

Learn how using ML benefits private collectors and museums by helping to identify and categorize various types of lace.

We’ll look at each of the new features of ES2020, what’s likely to be approved soon and how each of you can get involved in shaping the future of the language.

This session about the critical role of web accessibility examines strategies, best practices, tips for training clients, plus tools with ready-made accessibility capabilities—like Progress Kendo UI.

Let’s demystify bots. We’ll explore ROI, developer frameworks and hosting. You’ll learn about the tools and services that enable developers to build smarter bots—the next generation of apps.

Learn how to create pixel-perfect Angular or React applications from your Sketch artboards via an innovative round-trip workflow from our new tool - Unite UX.

Come dig into the Telerik and Kendo UI R2 2020 goodies and see how to get even more out of your .NET and JavaScript apps with new themes, controls and functionality to cover even more use cases.

Need to modernize your legacy apps? Join us to learn how to use WebMap, Kendo UI, and Test Studio to transform your classic Windows app to the web, mobile devices and the cloud.

Explore automated testing and see how Test Studio enables tight collaboration between testers, SDETs, and developers to continuously deliver high quality, modern .NET web apps.

Learn how Test Studio can help bring QA and Development together by empowering non-technical resources and plugging right into your CI/CD systems.

It's an exciting time to be a .NET developer - from .NET Core to Blazor and everything in between. Join Sam and Ed as they unpack the latest in the .NET space.

The JavaScript landscape changes regularly and sometimes it’s tough to keep it all straight. Join Alyssa and TJ as they walk through the latest front-end frameworks and libraries.

Learn how to leverage Sitefinity's included Kendo UI for jQuery and see how you can enhance your site with the power and elegance of Kendo UI.

Shiny UI doesn’t always mean good UX. Come discover UX fundamentals from a developer’s perspective, explore some tools of the trade and learn how we can all build better software together.

Selecting a framework to take your solution to the mobile space can be overwhelming. Learn about the different mobile options—from Xamarin to Flutter to NativeScript and more—and the benefits of each.

Blazor is an emerging client-side UI platform from the ASP.NET Core team, offering a powerful way to build large-scale apps with a modern component-based architecture. This session is all about Blazor.

Join us for a look into what's new in Angular and learn how you can take advantage of the latest changes to this popular framework.

We’ll demo implementing Telerik Reporting Engine/REST Service in a .NET Core app for Linux and Windows, plus the HTML5 Report Viewer for accessing deployed reports from an Angular, jQuery or MVC/Core view.

This session introduces you to the basics of building web-based business applications using the power of OpenEdge and Kendo UI.

Telerik Reporting comes bundled with DataDirect ODBC drivers, letting you connect your report to today's most popular databases. Learn how to create high performing, visually stunning reports easily with Telerik Reporting and DataDirect.

Apply your C# skills to build your first virtual reality app using Unity3D. We’ll iron out some of the peculiarities of game development, nail down the VR UI and interactions and build something useful.

Need to improve user experience, but don't know where to start? Learn simple yet powerful UX principles and tricks to radically improve your digital products.

This session looks at lessons learned developing native mobile apps for iOS and Android and how to apply those lessons to the web.

A look back at a year of Progress, plus a look forward into the strategic product roadmap of WhatsUp Gold.

A look back at a year of Progress, plus a look forward into the strategic product roadmap of MOVEit.

Alerting is a crucial component for effective network monitoring, but a poorly configured alerting system can be a nuisance. In this session, we explore alerting techniques that set your IT teams up for success.

Learn how to maximize your IT infrastructure with WhatsUp Gold and discover how you can support Cisco devices out of the box, monitor wireless devices, support VoIP and backup Cisco configurations.

Got questions about WhatsUp Gold? We've got the answers! This casual meet and greet with the WhatsUp Gold team is your chance to ask any questions you have, plus get the latest tips and tricks.

Learn how to use WhatsUp Gold to get notifications on issues before they are reported. Get coverage from the network edge to the cloud and avoid business downtime on your network.

More data assets are moving to the cloud, yet a large portion of critical data remains on-prem. Learn how DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline helps you adapt to this ever-changing hybrid data landscape.

The rise of REST APIs has been swift, but it’s never been easy for analytics tools relying on SQL to query against them. See how Progress can helps companies quickly and codelessly solve this problem.

Got questions about WhatsUp Gold? We've got the answers! This casual meet and greet with the WhatsUp Gold team is your chance to ask any questions you have, plus get the latest tips and tricks.

Got questions about MOVEit? We've got the answers! This casual meet and greet with the MOVEit team is your chance to ask any questions you have, plus get the latest tips and tricks.

With MOVEit Managed File Transfer, you get complete visibility and control over file transfer activities. Discover why MOVEit MFT is used by companies globally and how you can benefit from it as well.

While you can go the DIY route for FTP and file transfer scripts, it does carry risks. See how data transfer automation can protect your business from needless maintenance, FTP sprawl and data loss.

With many business units using unregulated apps, IT must be diligent in assessing the security of their data. In this session, we look at the importance of securing data in transit and at rest.

Modern companies need scalable data warehouse environments that don’t require additional infrastructure investment. See how DataDirect connectors can accelerate your cloud data warehouse productivity.

The DataDirect team is constantly innovating and iterating on its development processes. See how we built our “factory” for rapidly creating data connectivity tools that exceed customer expectations.

While new DevOps apps often simplify development, they may also obfuscate your view of the process. See how our new connectors help easily and quickly access and report on data from these DevOps apps.

While martech apps offer great insight into siloed operations, getting a pan-enterprise view can be difficult. See how you can access and report on data from these apps with DataDirect connectors.

Sometimes, only you can build that perfect connection. See how OpenAccess SDK puts the power in your hands so you can build a custom, fast and secure bridge between your data sources and your apps.

While accessing and integrating data from REST APIs is appealing, the task is fraught with pitfalls. In this session, we help you navigate these pitfalls to effectively access your API data.

What’s the difference between GraphQL and OData? In this session, we'll dive deep to compare and contrast two leading API specifications that are heavily debated within the industry.

Progress products work great both independently and as combined solutions. In this session, we look at how DataDirect, Sitefinity, Corticon and OpenEdge can work together to power even greater digital experiences.

We’ll demo building an app using Kinvey, exploring features like the cloud datastore, authentication and serverless functions—all from the developer’s perspective with code samples.

Explore the Progress Labs frameworks, processes and best practices we’ve developed to foster innovation and drive new offerings.

It's time to leverage machine learning like the tech giants do, but in a way that's within reach. Learn about the complex problems Progress seeks to solve with data scientists and smarter solutions.

Learn about the latest UI innovation in chatbot collaboration between business users and developers.

Go beyond apps and learn how Progress plans to apply AR solutions across field workforces such as landscaping, physical product demos, and more.

Marketing owns many critical business apps but knows little of monitoring and management. See a demo of self-service alerting across trends in marketing, sales data and system health over SMS, email, Slack or Teams.

Learn about how Fiddler can help your development teams deliver modern apps with fewer bugs, better performance and apps that are secure.

Learn how to establish objective, coherent architectural principles to create a common thread within your app architecture, how to document and define those principles and deal with future violations.

Let's discuss some common component decomposition pitfalls and strategies for making sure that the components you have in your system are just right.

Learn how we’ve successfully digitally transformed our sales enablement cross-functional efficiencies from HR, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to drive more effective customer conversations.

In this “hands on” workshop we’ll identify specific actionable steps to increase the success rates of your sales team.

In this workshop we’ll identify actionable steps and the crucial content required to recruit and grow your sales team.

As key opportunities are identified, how do we prepare sales to have maximum impact?  This session helps identify key departments and the impact they have on selling motion and customer experience.

Learn the basics of MOVEit Managed File Transfer. We’ll cover core principals of Secure File Transfer, how to configure tasks using MOVEit automation, plus an introduction to MOVEit Cloud for PCI and HIPAA compliance.

Learn how to demonstrate Network Monitoring to your customers and partners, including Network Monitoring principles, managing resources, and how to configure WhatsUp Gold to work in any environment using any technology.

Learn the basis of Autonomous Rest Connector in order to demonstrate the capabilities of the solution to your customers and partners. We’ll cover real-time connectivity between REST data and ODBC/JDBC tools and apps, plus best practices in how to consume APIs through Autonomous REST Connector's codeless configuration/intelligent sampling.

Get comfortable with Hybrid Data Pipeline in order to demonstrate HDP to your customers and partners. We’ll cover the principals of how it integrates data quickly, no matter where the data lives—on-site, in the cloud or both.

Sales Engineering combines the best of technical acumen and sales prowess. This session covers the seven principal functions that accelerate the sales cycle by implementing best practices

Learn how Progress can support you in the sales process with examples of materials, demo environments, license consideration and support forums. You’ll leave confident to position, demonstrate and prove core Progress products. 

Learn best practices for responding to requests for tender info. Using the RFPIO cloud-based platform that Progress uses, we’ll discuss how to speed up response time, answer questions related to any underlying Progress product and improve interactivity between you and your Progress account team. 

See how Progress positions and demonstrates Autonomous Rest Connector. You’ll also get details on how to access the full collateral, including demo environments, case studies, recommended next steps to implementation and private partner support channels. 

See how Progress positions and demonstrates DXP and the full Sitefinity suite. You’ll also get details on how to access the full collateral, including demo environments, case studies, recommended next steps to implementation and private partner support channels. This session will also include a product roadmap.

See how Progress positions and demonstrates MOVEit and MOVEit Cloud. You’ll also get details on how to access the full collateral, including demo environments, case studies, recommended next steps to implementation and private partner support channels. This session will also include a product roadmap.

Learn how Progress positions and demonstrates WhatsUp Gold. You’ll also get details on how to access the full collateral, including demo environments, case studies, recommended next steps to implementation and private partner support channels. This session will also include a product roadmap.

Learn how Progress positions and demonstrates Hybrid Data Pipeline. You’ll also get details on how to access the full collateral, including demo environments, case studies, recommended next steps to implementation and private partner support channels. This session will also include a product roadmap.

In conflict areas across the globe, UNHCR works tirelessly to meet the everyday needs of thousands of displaced families. See how UNHCR uses Corticon to improve the lives of these affected people.

The world is turning to JavaScript to create applications and processes in serverless environments. Learn how you can use Corticon to deploy critical business rules within serverless environments.

Microsoft is a powerhouse player in the modern digital landscape. See how you can quickly and codelessly connect to Microsoft apps with Corticon to get superior business rules capabilities.

With business rules informing enterprise-wide processes, traditional business rules management is evolving. See how Corticon is being used in this evolving landscape to address DPA, RPA and BPM needs.

Easy to use, powerful and accurate, Corticon tames the complex rules that manage your business without user, performance, platform or language limitations. This session offers an overview of Corticon.

Client logging can help you analyze issues related to your application code. In this session, we take an in-depth look at client logging and offer recommendations for improving your code debugging.

This presentation introduces concepts and sample implementations for managing dependencies in OOABL applications, highlighting dependency injection, service locators, builders and factories.

Swagger is a powerful definition format for describing and creating RESTful APIs. Join us for more about Swagger and how it assists in the consumption and ease of developing from the specified APIs.

Unit testing is used to eliminate bugs at the code or unit level. Join us for insight into writing and structuring unit tests, considerations for writing code and mocking of dependencies.

Poor indexing or an inadequate understanding of Progress indexing rules can negatively impact app performance. This session explores how to create new indexes and use existing ones more efficiently.

There are times when the ABL algorithm will not be able to read JSON data directly into a temp-table or ProDataSet. This session dives into more advanced techniques for those occasions.

CDC is a new OpenEdge feature that unlocks new possibilities, like migrating platforms that were previously too difficult. Join us to learn about CDC and how it helps solve some migration woes.

Startup parameters may not sound like the most captivating topic, but that’s where you’d be wrong! Join us for a look at some useful OpenEdge startup parameters—including some you may not know about.

Wondering what source code analysis could offer your team? This session will explore the basics of code analysis and look at SonarQube, a code analysis tool that can analyze your OpenEdge codebase.

Do you have a legacy GUI (or even TTY) application? Do you need to migrate to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PASOE)? In this presentation, we will show examples from real-world projects that illustrate how to implement the application layers required for moving from the fat client to services on the AppServer. We will also show practical examples of solutions for state management and interaction with the user interface from AppServer code.

Do you find the data you need quickly and efficiently, with nothing extra, every time you write a query? This session explores the DB engine index and why you may not always get what you expect.

Programs that worked fine for years can develop unexpected problems after simple changes. This session offers best practices for making records and transactions behave exactly as you wish.

Just because your app is built on a legacy framework, that doesn’t mean you have to ditch a proven system just to modernize it. See how some businesses are modernizing by augmenting their systems.

Identity Access Management (IAM) has become increasingly time consuming, and it's not your core business anyway. This session looks at KeyCloak for IAM and how it works with Progress products.

OpenEdge Replication is a great product, but it’s even better with a few tips and tricks. Get some best practices that will help you successfully deploy, monitor and maintain OpenEdge Replication.

Better hardware doesn’t always mean better performance. In this session, we look at how these performance issues happen and dive into the corrections needed to improve performance.

You face a lot of risks to your data, but a good recovery plan can go a long way. This talk covers the business planning portion of recovery planning, focusing on the who, what, where, when and why.

Ensuring the integrity of your OpenEdge backups can be a time-consuming job. In this session, we look at the fundamentals of a good backup strategy, including online backups and After Imaging.

In this session, we look at how Progress stores the schema data for its tables, fields and indexes and demonstrate how this structured data can be modeled using ProDataSset technology.

Virtual system tables offer a very flexible, powerful way of monitoring Progress databases. This session covers issues with VSTs, how they work, undocumented characteristics and the schema.

Get an introduction to OpenEdge and Docker in this session. We look at the database and PASOE in containers, talk Kubernetes and OpenEdge, and wrap things up with next steps and case studies.

Writing class files is easy. Writing good class files requires a new school of thought—especially for procedural developers. In this session, we discuss best practices for the OOABL.