IBM Orlando User Group

The WebSphere & Liberty Customer Advisory Board has been meeting weekly for over 4 years and has a following of almost 1000 members. We welcome existing and new members to our sessions at TechXchange! Our main focus is to help you build a cost-effective Java strategy. This session will give you deep insights into offerings that are available to you and enable you to shape the next features for 2025/2026.

Whether you:
1. minimize application changes (e.g. maintain Java 8),
2. upgrade Java (and retain WAS ND administration capabilities),
3. move to the Cloud (and upgrade Java, adopt containers, microservices),
4. and/or move to the cloud (IBM or non-IBM managed and containerize).
5. investing in AI and need to know what we can offer

We would like to invite you to join us in an interactive session with a passionate group of experts, who can address your concerns and questions.

Dive into the core capabilities of the IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration (IWHI) environment - including Application Integration, API Management, and Event Automation. Whether you're orchestrating cloud-native services, enabling API-first architectures, or adopting event-driven patterns, this session will connect you with the tools and peers to help you modernize with confidence.

We’ll explore:

• Designing scalable integration flows with modern App Integration
• Innovations and best practices for securing, exposing, and managing APIs across hybrid estates
• Enabling real-time business with low-code Event Automation
• How IWHI unifies these capabilities into a single environment with enterprise-grade governance and control
• What’s next for webMethods under IBM’s integration vision

Unleashing the Power of Scale: Accelerating AI, Cloud, and Archival Workflows.

Join us for an immersive IBM Storage Scale User Group at IBM TechXchange, where innovation meets execution. This year’s agenda dives deep into how IBM Storage Scale is transforming the data landscape from training to inferencing as a service. We’ll kick off with IBM’s vision for Storage Scale, followed by a global perspective from clients like the University of Queensland. Sycomp is pioneering Scale in cloud environments, and how Evolving Solutions is redefining long-term data retention as a premier IBM Business Partner. Get a front-row seat to NVIDIA’s latest in networking and AI for storage, and an exclusive look at the IBM Storage Scale System roadmap and updates.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with experts, gain actionable insights, and shape the future of data at scale. Reserve your seat today and be part of the conversation driving tomorrow’s innovation

Agenda:

• Welcome and Scale Strategy for AI
• The Univ of Queensland: Site Update
• Sycomp: Scale in Cloud environments
• Evolving Sol: Scale for Archiving
• Content Aware Storage for AI Workflows using RAG and KV cache methods
• NVIDIA Networking and AI for Storage
• IBM Storage Scale and Scale System updates (Roadmap)

Join us for the first-ever Instana user community gathering — the Instanauts Global Meetup — at IBM TechXchange 2025!

Born from Japan’s Instanauts_jp user group and now expanding worldwide, this session brings together Instana users, IBM Champions, and product teams to connect, share experiences, and build global community ties. We’ll exchange real-world insights, meet face-to-face with passionate users, and celebrate our shared journey with a group photo (Instana T-shirts welcome!).

Whether you're new to Instana or have been with us for years — this space is for you. Let’s talk observability, community, and the stories that bring technology to life.