This stream is less technical and dedicated to Key user Management Delegates.  The sessions start at 11:00 and a description of each of the sessions is available in the Agenda below.  However, here is an overview:

Dispel the Myths

• Why today’s hardware can be cheaper than paying SWMA and HWMA on your current kit.
• The Storage Explosion – and the plummeting price of Compute and Storage
• Considering Cloud?  Despite what the big boys say, is the Cloud the elixir of all life?
• What is IBM doing to Protect you from Ransomware?
• Flash Copy, SAN Replication, Cloud Backups.
• IBM Finance… yes that’s right… It is free!

Education

• Where will our working teams come from in the future?
• What is your User Group (i-UG) doing to address this watershed
• The benefits of Student Recruitment/placement
• How do we want to move forward?

Meet the Executives

• New and upcoming hardware/Software to revolutionise storage protection
• IBM i Roadmap into the future
• Big wins for IBM and why you should be glad to be on IBM i
• Presentation by User Execs 
• Other IBM i Exec Stories