What I wish I knew when I started my IBM i Career is a practical roadmap for early-career and aspiring IBM i professionals looking to build momentum within the ecosystem. Drawing from real-world experience, this session explores how conferences, mentorship, community involvement, and side projects can accelerate growth and create meaningful career opportunities. Attendees will learn how to engage strategically at IBM i events, approach interviews with confidence, identify skill gaps, and build credibility within the community. The session also addresses common misconceptions about networking and professional development in the IBM i world. Participants will leave with clear, actionable steps they can immediately apply to strengthen their career trajectory and become active contributors to the IBM i ecosystem.

Sessions presented by industry experts as part of N2i's "Getting Started" series.

IBM i environments support business-critical workloads that require continuous availability, efficient resource management, and fast response when operational conditions change. Join Heather Lavergne, Product Manager, IBM Power Automation; and Hari Muralidharan, Senior Technical Staff Member, Systems Management Architect, IBM Power; for an IBM i Guided Tour focused on practical use cases for IBM Power Autonomous Operations. The session will explore how AI-driven insights, Power system telemetry, and automated operational actions can help teams identify capacity pressure, investigate emerging issues, reduce repetitive work, and improve the speed and consistency of systems management. Heather and Hari will discuss where Power Autonomous Operations can complement the expertise of IBM i system administrators, what teams should consider when introducing progressive levels of automation, and how governance and human oversight remain part of the operating model. Attendees will leave with concrete scenarios for evaluating the technology in their own IBM Power and IBM i environments.

Maintaining a healthy IBM i environment requires more than simply reacting to problems when they occur. Critical system events, performance degradation, and application failures can quickly impact productivity, uptime, and business operations. The challenge is identifying and responding to these issues before they escalate. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how absMessage helps organizations reduce administrative overhead, improve operational efficiency, and maximize system availability. By automating monitoring, alerting, and response processes, absMessage enables teams to address issues before they become critical, while intelligent escalation ensures the right personnel are notified at the right time. From routine operational tasks to major system events, absMessage helps IT departments maintain visibility, reduce workload, and keep IBM i environments running at peak performance.

This session is a dive into IBMi Command Line tooling with a hands-on introduction and its role in the OS. Learn how CL commands are structured and used to interact with the IBMi environment, navigate into SHELL and other interfaces like QSHELL and PASE, and explore the broader IBM ecosystem. Walk away with a solid understanding of essential CL commands to work more efficiently on the IBMi platform.