PUG Challenge Americas
Sunday, November 12
2:006:00Check-In / Vendor Set-Up
6:009:00Welcome Reception
Monday, November 13
8:009:00Check-In / Buffet Breakfast
9:0010:30Opening General Session
Conference Welcome & Overview
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Progress Business Update

JOHN AINSWORTH – EVP/General Manager, Application and Data Platform – Progress
10:3011:00Expo Break
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11:0012:001:00The Future of OpenEdge
Marie Candela, Progress
Model Driven Design in an Agile World
Marian Edu, Acorn IT
Inside The OpenEdge RDBMS: After-Image Log Records And Their Uses
Gus Bjorklund, Parmington Foundation
12:001:001:00Lunch Break
1:002:001:00What to Expect in OpenEdge 12.8
Marie Candela, Progress
PASOE Devops
Julian Lyndon-Smith, Build.One
OpenEdge Application Profiling in VSCode
Paulius Kuprevičius, Baltic Amadeus
SQL in a 4GL World
Paul Koufalis, White Star Software
2:002:150:15Break
2:153:151:00Back to Basics: Keeping Your Database, and the Server It Runs On Healthy
Tom Bascom, White Star Software
Getting Started: Angular From an OpenEdge Developer
Gerry Winning, Wolters-Kluwer Health
Logging: From Files to the Cloud, with No Code Changes
Peter Judge, Consultingwerk
Monitoring PASOE
Roy Ellis, Progress
3:153:300:15Break
3:304:301:00TDD Revisited
Julian Lyndon-Smith, Build.One
Using .NET core with OpenEdge
Mike Fechner, Consultingwerk
How to Secure and Scale Your Modern OpenEdge Application on Amazon Web Services
Paul Guggenheim, PGA Smarts
White Star Software – Commercial Session
Success Stories: How ProTop Helps Businesses Overcome Critical Challenges
Paul Koufalis, White Star Software
4:305:000:30Expo Break
5:006:001:00Protecting Your Data: Best Practices for Ensuring OpenEdge Database Reliability
Adam Backman, White Star Software
Jira Integration Using the OpenEdge HTTP Client
Jeff Ledbetter, Roundtable Software
Implementing and Using the Decorator Design Pattern in Your Application
Peter Judge, Consultingwerk
The New Software Development Shelley Chase, Progress
6:009:00Reception/NetworkingOpenEdge RDBMS Birds Of A Feather: Tips and Lessons Learned for Database Administration
Paul Koufalis, Tom Bascom & Adam Backman, White Star Software
OpenEdge Language and Runtime Birds of a Feather
Shelley Chase, Progress
Tuesday, November 14
8:009:00Buffet Breakfast
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9:0010:001:00Platform Migration Mastery: A Real-World Guide to Successful Transitions
Paul Koufalis, White Star Software
VSCode with OpenEdge
Gilles Querret, Riverside
Log Analytics – What, Why & How
Claudiu Spac, Wayfare
MDBA Services
Roy Ellis, Progress
10:0010:300:30Expo Break
10:3011:301:00Secure Your Data: Using TDE for Full-Database Encryption in OpenEdge
Rob Fitzpatrick, White Star Software
Secure Your Business Application with OpenEdge Advanced Security
David Moloney, Progress
Reporting in Business Applications: Making Sense of Increasing Data Volumes
Marian Edu, Acorn IT
The SmartComponent Library: Rapid Application Development and Modernization for OpenEdge Applications
Mike Fechner, Consultingwerk
11:3011:450:15Break
11:4512:451:00What’s new in OpenEdge ABL
Anil Kotha, Progress
All Types of Data Replication with OE Databases
Dmitri Levin, alphabroader
Improving Project Efficiency with Business Analyst
Jūratė Balčiūnė, Baltic Amadeus
Observability thru OpenTelemetry for OpenEdge Platform
Sunil Jardosh, Progress
12:451:451:00Lunch Break
1:452:451:00Troubleshooting Made Easy: Using OpenEdge Diagnostic Data Collection for Root Cause Analysis
Rob Fitzpatrick, White Star Software
ABL Legacy Code Refactoring – Patterns and Strategies
Mike Fechner, Consultingwerk
Application Performance – Useful Tools and Practices (Case Study)
Claudiu Spac, Wayfare
COMMERCIAL SESSION:
How Cyberquery Removes the Burden of Report Maintenance From OpenEdge Developers
2:453:000:15Break
3:004:001:00Real-Time Visibility: Using the Client Database-Request Statement Cache to Troubleshoot OpenEdge Performance Issues
Tom Bascom, White Star Software
The ZERO Downtime Production Dump and Load
Vladimir Soloviev
Nectarios Daloglou, OmegaServe
Mike Furgal
Using Apache Kafka for Modernizing OpenEdge Applications
Andrius Marcišauskas, Baltic Amadeus
Are You Vulnerable? Securing PAS for OpenEdge
Anil Kotha, Progress
4:004:300:30Expo Break
4:305:301:00Utilizing Google Charts in PASOE/WebSpeed Applications
Scott Blaubach, AppTechnologies
SQL for a Progress DBA
Bob Brennan, Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Using the Factory Pattern: How, When and Why
Peter Judge, Consultingwerk
A Bit Of History
Gus Bjorklund, Parmington Foundation
Wednesday, November 15
8:009:00Buffet Breakfast
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9:0010:001:00Mastering OpenEdge Query Performance: Best Practices and Tools for Optimizing Your Database Queries
Paul Koufalis, White Star Software
Running Classic WebSpeed on PASOE in OpenEdge 12.8
David Cleary, Progress
Progress and Oracle in the World of Other Databases
Dmitri Levin, alphabroder
Readying Your PASOE Application for the Real World
Shelley Chase, Progress
10:0010:300:30Expo Break
10:3011:301:00The Top Configuration Mistakes That Are Hurting Your OpenEdge Database, and How to Fix Them
Adam Backman, White Star Software
Apache Kafka: Using OpenEdge Messaging
Fadi Nasseredine, Progress
Mysteries of ProDataset and Temp-Table Parameters
Mike Fechner, Consultingwerk
11:3011:450:15Break
11:4512:451:00PASOE Web Handler: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Peter Judge, Consultingwerk
Tales From The Secret Bunker 2023
Mike Furgal & Gus Bjorklund, Parmington Foundation
12:4513:451:00Lunch / Conference Wrap-Up