Four Technologies You Will Need in the Future - Donna Westmoreland & Scott Klement

Join us as we talk about four technologies that you need now to set you up for development success:

Learn about the benefits of modern IDEs such as RDi and VS Code.
See how DevOps is going to be the way of the future and is designed to make your life easier.
Explore how CI/CD pipelines are making IT more agile; automation is king!
Embrace the power of REST APIs for integrating IBM i with other platforms.

Scott and Donna look forward to presenting their take on these key concepts and answering your questions on how to adopt them.

Modern IDEs
DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines
Rest APIs

Donna Westmoreland

CTO, Midrange Dynamics North America

Donna Westmoreland, who is CTO for Midrange Dynamics North America, has over 25 years’ experience with IBM midrange systems and supporting consistent software change methodologies. Experience gained from leading major projects, including application modernization, at hundreds of corporations has given her a well-rounded view of development needs, audit requirements, and testing principles.

Scott Klement

Director, Product Development and Support

Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens of awards and accolades, including an IBM Innovation Award, Gary Guthrie Award, Al Barsa Scholarship, John T Earl Scholarship, medals from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the COMMON Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame. IBM has named Scott an IBM Champion for Power Systems.