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2018 Agenda & Sessions

We are putting together an exciting agenda for 2019, but in the meanwhile you can peruse the agenda from 2018 to get a sense of our topics and content.

May29

12:00PM - 09:00PM

Registration

6:00PM - 09:00PM

Welcome Reception, Harbor Ballroom

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7:30AM - 8:30AM

Breakfast

8:30AM - 11:30AM

General Sessions Watch the Recording

8:30AM – 8:45AM
General sessions

Welcome

Loren Jarrett, CMO, Progress
8:45AM – 9:45AM
General sessions

Cognitive, Adaptive, Connected: The Progress Vision and What it Means to You

Yogesh Gupta, CEO, Progress

With the volume of data exploding and digital devices proliferating, it’s critical to be able to innovate rapidly, get to market quickly, and provide the best application experiences possible. In this session, Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta examines technology trends and Progress’ strategy and vision for cognitive applications. During this session you’ll see the technology in action and hear directly from customers about how they are building out the applications of the future.

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Corticon Kendo UI Kinvey NativeScript Sitefinity Telerik DataDirect Business Technical
9:45AM – 10:15AM

Break

10:15AM – 10:35AM
General sessions

Driving a Healthcare Digital Transformation at Canopy Health

Pamela Hudson, Chief Information Officer, Canopy Health

With a complex ecosystem of hospitals, disparate computer systems and heterogenous data sources, Canopy Health, like many healthcare organizations faced significant obstacles in creating a patient-friendly, high-impact streamlined digital experience for its customers. In this session, CIO Pamela Hudson discusses how Canopy Health embraced digital transformation in the form of connected care apps that improve the patient experience—and outcomes.

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10:35AM – 10:55AM
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NASA Brings Mars to Earth with a Great UI

Tom Stein, Operations Manger and Senior IT Lead, NASA

After roaming Mars for years, NASA’s Curiosity rover collected a massive amount of raw scientific data, but even experienced scientists had a difficult time mining it and identifying key results. In this session, Tom Stein, Operations Manager and Senior IT Lead at NASA’s Planetary Data Systems Geosciences Node, talks about how they were able to rapidly develop a great UI that makes research data approachable and accessible to both scientists and citizen users alike.

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10:55AM – 11:15AM
General sessions

Predictive Maintenance In The Era of IoT and Cognitive Apps

Kalman Tiboldi, Chief Business Innovation Officer, TVH

As the leader in replacement parts and accessories for material handling and industrial vehicles, TVH is embracing emerging technology and an innovative organizational structure that merges business and IT functions to provide unmatched customer service. In this session, Chief Business Innovation Officer Kalman Tiboldi talks about how IoT data, advanced analytics, digital twins and a move from preventive to predictive maintenance is fueling a transformation within TVH that is poised to disrupt the industry.

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11:15AM – 11:30AM
General sessions

We will be announcing the winners in the first three categories of our App Innovation Awards

11:30AM - 1:00PM

Lunch and Expo

1:00PM - 2:45PM

Breakout Sessions

1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Get Started with NativeScript

Rob Lauer, Sr. Manager, Developer Relations, Progress

So, you want to build native mobile apps for iOS and Android with JavaScript? You’ve certainly come to the right place. In this talk we’ll cover where we are today with NativeScript, take a brief look at some competing frameworks and show you how to build a simple NativeScript app from scratch. You’ll learn how to use the skills of a web developer (JavaScript, CSS and a tag-based markup language) to create truly native cross-platform apps from one codebase.

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NativeScript
1:00pm - 1:45pm

In today’s Industrial IoT era, as more assets get connected at breakneck speed, there is an equally mounting pressure to tackle the multi- billion-dollar problem of unplanned equipment downtime. This session will take you through the joint value proposition of DataRPM and Hortonworks as they leverage the ultimate power of data lakes and cognitive technologies to help slash unplanned industrial asset failures. We take a deep dive to understand how an open source platform like Hortonworks can be used to gain data insights in the data center as well as on the public cloud of your choice.In today’s Industrial IoT era, as more assets get connected at breakneck speed, and zettabytes of data are generated by connected sensors, there is an equally mounting pressure to tackle the multi-billion-dollar problem of unplanned equipment downtime and unscheduled maintenance. This session will take you through the joint value proposition of DataRPM, Hortonworks and AWS as they leverage the ultimate power of data lakes, cloud and cognitive technologies to help slash unplanned industrial asset failures. We take a deep dive to understand how an open source platform like Hortonworks can be used to gain predictive data insights in the data center as well as on the leading clouds, like AWS, by utilizing DataRPM to get ahead of unplanned downtime and avoid it altogether.

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DataRPM Predictive Maintenance Biz
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Leverage Chatbots with Sitefinity and Chatbox

Peter Filipov, Developer Advocate, Progress

With just a day of coding, the Sitefinity development team was able to create a chatbot that fills forms. In this session, you’ll see how Sitefinity goes well beyond the power of a solid CMS with the ability to extend its capabilities as you need them.

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Sitefinity
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Personalize the Multi-Channel Experience with Sitefinity Digital Experience Cloud

Kaloyan Nikolov, Sr. Manager Software Engineering, Progress

In this session we will review the typical stages of a web site customer journey, and walk you through a sample implementation of a customer journey using Sitefinity and Digital Experience Cloud features. We will also spend some time discussing how GDPR impacts customer journey management.

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Sitefinity
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

A Beginner's Guide to Kendo UI

Carl Bergenhem, Product Manager, Progress

Kendo UI is a JavaScript UI component library for building web apps. In this session, we'll discuss the fundamentals, explore the features of some of the most popular/powerful controls, and build some very easy-to-follow examples. There won't be a massive amount of coding and the pace will be comfortable. Best of all, you'll come away from this session knowing Kendo UI well enough so you can start taking advantage of it today.

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Kendo UI
1:00pm - 1:45pm

In this session we’ll cover the latest and greatest in Telerik R2 2018. Come explore new features across the entire Telerik portfolio.

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Telerik Modern UI Technical
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Magical Connections from Salesforce to OpenEdge via Odata

Aaron Burg, Sr. Engineer II, Progress; Dan Mitchell, Principal Sales Engineer, Progress

External objects are similar to custom objects, except they map to external databases such as Progress OpenEdge. This is one of the leading integration patterns for virtualizing data from the cloud which has been available to SAP, Oracle, OpenEdge and SQL Server ecosystems. Join us to learn more about making OpenEdge data readily available on demand, without duplication, to Salesforce platform applications via Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline.

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DataDirect OpenEdge Data Integration Technical
1:00pm - 1:45pm

We’ve got a lot of plans for OpenEdge, including enhancing your ability to deliver continuous operations, improving the developer experience and delivering a SOA architecture. You don’t want to miss this session where we will detail what is to come in the OpenEdge Roadmap.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Foster Innovation and Launch New Products from Within Your Organization

Anton Hristov, Director of Emerging Technologies, Progress

Learn how to create a culture of learning in your own organization by taking a scientific approach to innovation and idea validation. In this session we’ll discuss how you can create a technology incubator to help entrepreneurial employees bring their ideas to life – from launching a MVP (minimum valuable product) to achieving product-market fit and measuring success along the way.

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Business
1:00pm - 1:45pm

Business applications are seeing a deluge of requests from business analysts, data engineers and data scientists to support the exploding advanced analytics market and to deliver ROI from large investments in data analytics. "Open Analytics" is the latest strategy that supplements embedded analytics, to satisfy demand through an open data access layer designed to support analytics across standard interoperable interfaces. We’ll take a look at how data analytics professionals are looking to access data across analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark, and the emerging "bring-your-own-analytics" (BYOA) capability for business applications.

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DataDirect Data Integration Technical
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Breakout sessions

Why Migrate to the Progress Application Server?

Michael Banks, Principal Software Engineer, Progress; Dustin Grau, Principal Consultant, Progress

Our next generation app server, Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge), is the gateway to application modernization. Built on Apache Tomcat, this highly scalable multi-session architecture provides Web server support for browser-based and mobile applications and production ready, out-of-the-box security. Learn about the business benefits and best practices in implementing PAS for OpenEdge and migration considerations from the classic OpenEdge Appserver.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Business
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

What's New in Corticon 5.6 and 5.7?

Jim Arsenault, Director of Software Engineering, Progress

We’ll take an in-depth look at the many features coming in our latest Corticon releases and take you through the product roadmap and what’s to come. You’ll learn more about simplifying batch processing, the ability to document rule assets with greater detail, improved developer productivity features and more.

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Corticon Cognitive Services Business Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

Build for iOS from Windows with NativeScript Sidekick

Todor Totev, Product Manager, Progress

Whether you are a die-hard command-line developer or prefer the ease of point-and-click visual tooling solutions, NativeScript has your back. In this session you’ll learn how to use the most important features of NativeScript Sidekick, your trusted companion in NativeScript development. We will also dive into our tooling offerings and show off how now even Windows developers can develop for iOS, without needing a Mac.

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NativeScript Mobility Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

Ucommerce Framework First Commerce and Why It’s Important to Sitefinity Security

John Prachar, President, Ucommerce

During this session, the Ucommerce team will provide a technical overview of the integration to review the anatomy of an online store using Sitefinity and Ucommerce together. Additionally, the team will provide best practices for extending Ucommerce and the Ucommerce app platform.

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Sitefinity Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

Simplify the Complex Machine Learning Lifecycle

Taj Darra, Data Scientist, Progress

Building machine learning models in the industrial IoT era is a mammoth task. As data volumes rise and supervised machine learning takes a back seat, there is a dire need to streamline this modelling process using unsupervised machine learning models. Join us for this technical viewpoint session which shows you how these complexities can be overcome by using a cognitive approach to machine learning which simplifies creating machine learning systems.

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DataRPM
2:00pm - 2:45pm

In this session we will cover all the latest and greatest that has been included in Kendo UI R2 2018. Come take a lap around the latest release.

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OpenEdge Kendo UI OpenEdge Platform Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

Lessons Learned From an OpenEdge Application Server Migration

Rob Straight, Director of Product Management, Progress; Jeffrey Brown, Sr. Principal Artchitect, Infor

In this session, you’ll hear from an early adopter who made the move to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OE). What went right, what went wrong, and what was the ultimate result?

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout sessions

Pushing Sitefinity Development with MVC

Lino Tadros, Software Solution Architect Partner, Solliance

Choosing the right technology is always tricky. In this lesson we will review why it is better to use Sitefinity MVC instead of WebForms, and all details around the development with it.

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Sitefinity Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm

What really is the difference between GraphQL and OData in terms of consuming and providing APIs? In this session we'll compare and contrast two leading API specifications that are heavily debated within the industry.
Developed by Facebook, GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a server-side runtime for fulfilling those queries by using a type system you define for your data. OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS standard that defines the best practice for building and consuming RESTful APIs.

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DataDirect Data Integration Technical
2:00pm - 2:45pm

Market disruptors from a range of industries and businesses have leveraged Kinvey to get to market quickly and jumpstart their digital business. In this compelling session you’ll get inspired with their stories!

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Kinvey
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

OpenEdge Technical Workshop: Tips and Tricks for the Progress Developer Studio (first come/first serve - limited to 15 participants)

Divyatheja Pachipula, Principal QA Engineer, Progress Stefan Bolte, Principal Sales Engineer

Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge is a tool that can greatly improve developer productivity. Listen in as we cover some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of this product.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
2:00pm - 5:00pm
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OpenEdge Technical Workshop: Best Practices in Securing OpenEdge Applications (first come/first serve - limited to 15 participants)

Rob Marshall, Sr. Principal Consultant, Progress; Marv Stone, Principal Sales Engineer, Progress

In this workshop we'll take a simple character application that uses the classic OpenEdge AppServer and make it more secure. We'll implement OpenEdge Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to provide a level of data security; enable the Client Principal Object to pass authentication and authorization context from the application through the AppServer layer, then enable the OpenEdge Authentication Gateway to provide further database security. We'll also review common items found at customer sites with respect to OpenEdge vulnerabilities as well as industry best practices from an application development and deployment perspective. This will be a hands-on workshop, and participants should have basic knowledge of Progress OpenEdge.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
2:45pm - 3:15pm

Break

3:15PM - 5:00PM

Breakout Sessions

3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Modern Application Development with a Serverless Architecture

Mike Salinger, Sr. Director of Software Engineering, Progress

There’s a lot of new terms floating around out there: microservices, cloud functions, cloud native, serverless microservices—just to name a few. Confused yet? Join us for this session where we’ll clear the air and simplify the jargon.

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Kinvey
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Superior Customer Service with Chatbots Featuring Patient Engagement

Mark Troester, VP Product Management, Progress; Ivan Todorov, Customer

In this session you’ll see how a NativeChat bot can take the pressure off customer support teams by handling the repetitive and routine, leaving your human agents free for more engaging customer interactions. You’ll hear how Bulgaria’s leading Dr. Shterev Hospital achieved its goal of reducing the workload of contact center staff by nearly 50% by automating repetitive tasks like booking appointments and checking schedules, freeing up operator time for issues that require deeper patient engagement.

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NativeChat
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Boost Your App's Emotional Intelligence with NativeScript and Machine Learning

Jen Looper, Sr. Developer Advocate, Progress

Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat, thinking that your mobile apps are both boring and stupid? Even if you've built a performant app with a great UI, you can improve it by leveraging new methods of adding machine learning to create a really useful and enticing mobile app experience. In this talk, you’ll learn some basics of machine learning and how to integrate it into your mobile app, first with some clever APIs, and then with custom trained models using TensorFlow. Come learn how to send your apps back to school and level up their innate ‘intelligence’!

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NativeScript Mobility Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Deep Dive into a Secure Web CMS

Yasen Yankov, Manager of Software Engineering, Progress

Content is king and needs to be guarded properly. In this session we’ll review how Sitefinity implements the latest security and authentication recommendations.

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Sitefinity Web Experience Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Build User-Friendly Forms with Kendo UI and Angular

Alyssa Nicoll, Developer Advocate, Progress

Forms are the most common components seen in web apps today and yet arguably, the hardest to get right. Come to this session and learn how to utilize Forms with Kendo UI in an Angular app.

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Kendo UI Modern UI Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm

Join the DataDirect product team as we share our roadmap for data connectivity. Roadmap themes include enterprise security, big data breadth, hybrid connectivity and API standardization. You’ll also see a live demo of Project Sagamore, the latest innovation in data access to standardize access to disparate web APIs. Join us in this interactive session where we welcome your feedback.

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DataDirect Data Integration Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Experience Sitefinity's All New Content Creation

Jordan Ilchev, Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, Progress

With the release of Sitefinity's reinvented backend, users now have an innovative experience to manage content. The Sitefinity team will take you through this new experience and share what's new and how this will improve end-user productivity.

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Sitefinity Web Experience Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm

This session will describe the various possible approaches to exposing a REST API to your OpenEdge application. It will explain what REST is, how it applies to business applications and which approach is most appropriate for different REST integration use cases and why. It will touch upon considerations such as API documentation, ease of integration, API management and versioning, and in doing so will reference some complementary solutions including Kendo UI Builder and Kinvey.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
3:15pm - 4:00pm

An enterprise typically participates in multiple business networks with various partners, such as suppliers. What if you could maintain a single, secure and easily verifiable data record of transactions within the business network? Currently this task seems impossible due to a lack of trust or consensus on processes between organizations, but blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the way companies communicate, comply with regulatory authorities and do business with each other.

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3:15pm - 4:00pm
Breakout sessions

Essential Tools for Xamarin Developers!

Sam Basu, Developer Advocate, Progress

Cross-platform mobile development has been democratized for .NET developers – thanks to Xamarin & Microsoft. However, professional Xamarin development isn't a piece of cake. Sure, tooling has come a long way, but successful mobile apps need a lot more.
The whole Xamarin technology stack needs deep understanding. Do you know what platforms you can target & how to maximize code reuse? Let’s do a run-down of the essential tools, frameworks and utilities that should be in every Xamarin developer’s arsenal. The ubiquitous IDEs, necessary plugins, cloud backends, deployment tools, testing solutions, network utilities & DevOps workflows – all ready for your app development pleasure. How about adding some cloud-powered AI or Alexa voice assistance to your app? And most professional Xamarin apps need polished performant UI – Telerik UI for Xamarin is your trusted companion here. What can you do to delight your users, maintain developer sanity and deliver high quality apps? Let’s stop trying to boil the ocean and ship apps faster – the right tools help!

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Telerik Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm

Your customer environments are growing in complexity. Data access is essential for your applications from proof to production by connecting with existing policies, and without introducing security risks. DataDirect R&D explains what it takes to securely access your customers’ data from rapidly evolving enterprise data access layers. Learn about how Progress R&D configures and tests the latest data security mechanisms for authentication and encryption across Knox, Ranger, Sentry, Kerberos (including delegation), OAuth, Oracle Wallet, LDAP, enterprise identity and access management, etc.

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DataDirect Data Integration Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Eliminate Risk, Speed Development with Business Rules

Chris Hogan, Solutions Architect, Progress

This session includes a brief introduction to Progress Corticon and an overview of use cases where a BRMS can help, including managing risk in insurance and financial services. We'll also discuss the role of Corticon in the development of cognitive applications.

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Corticon Business
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Share Code Between Web and Mobile with NativeScript and Kendo UI

Sebastian Witalec, Sr. Developer Advocate, Progress

In this talk, we’ll look at what NativeScript makes possible from a code sharing perspective. We’ll build a few Angular components and use them both in the browser and on mobile devices. Then we’ll take a step back and look at the same code from a pragmatic, maintenance-oriented perspective. Come by for practical tips and tricks on sharing code across multiple development environments.

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NativeScript Kendo UI Mobility Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Kendo UI for React Developers

Tara Manicsic, Developer Advocate, Progress

There is no doubt React is the hot library right now, even topping JQuery in job listings (which hasn't been done in a decade). React helps you build UIs and using Kendo UI components makes the task faster and easier. In this session we'll build up a robust application in React using Kendo UI's everyday components like dropdowns and calendars, to the more robust grid and visualization components.

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Kendo UI Modern UI
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

How to Build Beautiful Reports with Telerik Reporting

Richard Zaslaw, Sr. Sales Engineer, Progress

In this session we'll introduce you to Telerik Reporting and why you should adopt a reporting solution. We’ll take you for a tour of the report designer, then show how to create your first report, then how to create more complex reports and how to display them. Whether you are new to Reporting, need a refresher, or are just interested in evaluating Telerik’s Reporting solution, you don’t want to miss this session.

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Telerik Modern UI Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

How to Implement Sitefinity as a Headless CMS

Peter Filipov, Developer Advocate, Progress

Headless CMSs—backend-only content management systems built to act as a content repository—have been talked about a lot, but few organizations have taken advantage of them. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage Sitefinty as a headless CMS from planning to implementation.

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Sitefinity Web Experience Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Connect Everything with the Generic REST Adapter

Tony Lavinio, Sr. Software Architect, Progress;

REST has become the interface of choice for connecting disparate systems. OpenEdge, HDP, Corticon and Kinvey all support RESTful access. In this session, the author covers the fundamental of REST, demonstrates each of these products communicating with REST. Tying them together will be the new DataDirect Generic REST Adapter. The author will also talk about connecting to other existing systems using this adapter.

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DataDirect
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

OpenEdge Legacy Application Modernization by Example

Mike Fechner, Director, Consultingwerk

Got a Progress OpenEdge TTY or GUI application and want to move to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge and an exceptional web application based on Progress Kendo UI? In this session we'll demonstrate real-world proven application modernization techniques that allow harvesting relevant elements of legacy code to allow for reusing them as a foundation of your modern web application. We'll be demoing how even a TTY style UI or Progess Dyamics application can provide valuable bits and pieces for a refactored application.

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OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Technical
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Digital Experience Development Platforms - The Evolving State of the Platform Market

Michael Facemire, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

When the web became all the rage, web development platforms followed closely after, helping companies build a complete set of web offerings. Mobile saw the same progression when companies realized the power of mobile for their customers and employees. But now we're introduced to a new digital channel seemingly every day - chat, voice, PWA, connected home devices, augmented and virtual reality, and more! Digital Experience Development Platforms are the solutions that are just appearing to address this digital portfolio challenge. Join Forrester analyst Michael Facemire as we dive into the emerging trends in this area and how organizations can harness current and emerging technologies to address the new challenges and drive value for their businesses.

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4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout sessions

Cloud-first Applications with OpenEdge and Progress Kinvey

Shelley Chase, Software Fellow, Progress; Ravi Sankar, Software Architect, Progress

As a complete and proven serverless platform, Progress Kinvey provides an open and standards-based architecture that can be run on any cloud. Learn how you can accelerate your OpenEdge application through reusable services and achieve enterprise-level SLAs on a robust, highly-secure cloud-native infrastructure.

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Kinvey OpenEdge OpenEdge Platform Business
5:00PM - 6:30PM

Expo Reception, Harbor Ballroom

7:00PM - 10:00PM

Be our guest for dinner. You are invited to be our guest at one of the wonderful restaurants in the Seaport Area. You will find out which dinner when you arrive at NEXT.

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