I'm hoping to see some familiar faces (and meet some new users!) from our community at the upcoming IBM TechXchange Conference at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, which takes place from 21-24 October.

With the latest version 13 of IBM App Connect Enterprise product recently announced, and due for release on 27th September, this conference will be a great opportunity to explore all the latest and greatest capabilities we have to offer.

For anyone wanting to track me down, I'll be at the following sessions all focussed on IBM App Connect Enterprise.

• Instructor-led Lab: New to ACE? Everything a Developer Needs to Know About IBM App Connect Enterprise! [1669]
  So you are a developer, but you've never experienced ACE before? This hands on session is designed to give you a good hands on knowledge of the IBM App Connect Entperise Toolkit environment to kick start your IBM Integration journey. You will experience the value of the ACE Web Admin UI and Toolkit Debugger whilst implementing an OpenApi v3 REST API in ACE. You will also experience the Message Flow Exerciser tool whilst extending the REST API in the ACE Toolkit. The REST API provided will show how easy it is to configure ACE to communicate with messaging systems such as MQ and Kafka. At the end of this lab, you will have experienced, integration servers, Credential Vaults, Open API Editor tools as well as MQ and Kafka nodes.   Monday Oct 21st 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT  South, Lagoon C, Level 2

• Technology Breakout:  Empower Your Application Integration With the Latest Innovations in IBM App Connect Enterprise [3096]
  This session will showcase all the very latest features included in the recent release of IBM App Connect Enterprise, including our development tools, and features for system administration and monitoring. We will explore message flows created in both the ACE Designer (Web browser based) and the ACE Toolkit (Eclipse based IDE) authoring environments. We will also demonstrate how to do connector discovery when interacting with third party applications and services, and show how to securely store credentials in the product's vault. Tuesday Oct 22nd 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT South, Jasmine A, Level 3

• Technology Breakout: Accelerating Deployment Agility with DevOps and Pipelines for IBM App Connect Enterprise [3097]
  DevOps and Pipelines are important tools in your kitbag to deliver high quality, repeatable deployments. Join this session to dive into DevOps for ACE, where we’ll explore DevOps techniques for traditional on-premises deployments, as well as how to evolve your pipelines on the journey to containers!
  Wednesday Oct 23rd 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT South, Jasmine A, Level 3

• Technology Breakout: Tips and Tricks for App Connect Enterprise Development and Administration [3098]
  This session will provide best practices discussions including the latest product capabilities, how to exploit the unit testing framework for defining a baseline for regression testing, how to optimize deployments for best performance and all kinds of tips and tricks to ease your development and administration ACE product journey! We will also cover changes you can make incrementally to future-proof your ACE deployments and position yourself for potential future moves to containers or the public cloud.  Thursday Oct 24th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT South, Jasmine A, Level 3

• Instructor-led Lab: App Connect Enterprise - Managing Integration with DevOps, Pipelines, and More [1696]
  Use an OpenShift Pipeline to package an App Connect Enterprise message flow and deploy it to App Connect Enterprise software, App Connect Enterprise Certified Containers in OpenShift and also to ACEaaS on AWS using its new public administration API. The deployed message flows use a fictitious scenario surrounding a coffee ordering website and enable the demonstration of callable flows which can be used to distribute workload between local and remote servers in a hybrid cloud architecture.  Thursday, Oct 2411:15 AM - 12:45 PM PDT South, Lagoon H, Level 2

Make sure you register today for the: TechXchange Conference from October 21-24, 2024 Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas.

IBM Community Members can get a 30% discount to the Conference using the details here, so I look forward to seeing you there!