Call for Papers

GSE Nordic Technical Conference – Reykjavík, Iceland, June 10-14 2009

Dear Colleagues

The GSE Nordic Region Conference Steering Committees have had a planning meeting recently, where we did the detailed planning for the next conference, which will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 10-14 2009.

We have already some very interesting topics planned, but we still need some contributions from you. Speakers with real experience are the most popular during the conference, and we know you are all doing a great job with the IBM family of database, transaction and messaging and infrastructure products on the mainframe platform out there. Please, consider what you can do for the conference and your colleagues in the Nordic region.

We know that it takes a lot of time and effort to build a presentation, when you are not a professional speaker or an IBM or vendor representative, so to especially encourage user experience presentations we have added the incentive of a user speaker discount of 2.000 DKK deducted from the conference fee. The steering committees can also help you develop your session and be your sparring partner during the whole process, if you wish.

On the wish list for the conference are subjects like:

· 64 bits
· Application Development for Web 2.0
· Application Modernisation
· Batch modernization
· Bridging applications
· Business Process Choreography
· Business Process Management
· CICS and DB2
· CICS and Event Processing
· CICS and Java
· CICS and Web 2.0
· CICS and Web Services
· CICS and WebSphere MQ
· CICS Performance
· CICS Problem Determination
· CICS Systems Management
· CICS Transaction Gateway
· CICS-DB2-WMQ Big systems
· COBOL
· COBOL
· DB2 and triggers
· DB2 and XML
· DB2 cultural sort
· DB2 distributed quest
· DB2 Federation
· DB2 Queue Replicator
· DB2 Real time statistics
· Eclipse
· EDA
· Enterprise modernisation
· Gryphon
· IMS and RRS
· IMS and SOA
· IMS and XML
· IMS Callable API
· IMS Callout
· IMS Connect
· IMS CSL
· IMS Knowledge Based Log Analysis
· IMS Open DB
· IMS OTMA
· IMS Security
· IMS SOAP Gateway
· IMS SPOC
· Information Lifecycle Management
· IP Interconnectivity
· Java Application Performance
· Java Batch Compute Grid
· Java tuning on z
· JMS and native MQ
· Message Beans
· Metadata strategies
· Mixing modern Web programming and CICS applications
· Monitoring Java applications with DB2
· PL/I
· Problem Determination Tools
· Publish Subscribe MQ
· Pure Query in DB2
· Rational Developer for System z
· Rational Developer for z
· Recursive SQL
· Service Buses
· SOA
· SSL and security
· Storage solutions
· Testing
· The CICS Explorer
· User Defined functions in DB2
· Using SysPlex Distributor with IMS
· WAS for z
· WAS XD for z
· Web 2.0 in IMS
· Web Services in batch
· WebSphere Transformation Extender
· WMQ
· WMQ Clients
· WMQ file transfer edition
· WMQ Low latency
· WMQ V7 Application Programming
· z10

If you think you can share some of your experience with us please contact either of:

· Svenn-Aage Sønderskov, JN Data, +45 63 63 66 65,

· Anders Öhrnberg, Volvo Information Technology, +46 31 322 43 02,

· Jørgen Malmstrøm, EDB Business Partner, +47 995 56 420,

· Michael Erichsen, CSC, +45 36 14 63 44,

The conference has taken the adjective Technical, which we take seriously. This conference is now the primary place in the Nordic area to learn new technologies on the mainframe platform and particularly how to use them in your daily professional life.

The motto for the GSE is give and take,so come and enjoy four days and find that the more you give, the more you will actually also take.

Best regards,
For the GSE Nordic Region Steering Committees,
Michael Erichsen