We’ve just finished a great three days at the MQTC v2.0.1.7 conference in Sandusky, Ohio. MQTC is the only conference dedicated to IBM MQ education, and was again very well attended by speakers, sponsors and attendees. Both Paul and Morag gave technical presentations as we mentioned in an earlier blog post.
For the first time in the 5-year run of this conference, we started the conference with an unopposed session, “What’s New in IBM Messaging”, before splitting into 5 tracks as in previous years. Roger Lacroix, who is the founder of the conference, made some opening remarks prior to that session, and then took his first ever selfie with the audience!
Opening Remarks @ #MQTC2017 (1st selfie ever) https://t.co/PhFMwk5DWJ
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Capitalware Inc. (@Capitalware) September 25, 2017MQGem was a Gold Sponsor of the conference, and so also had a couple of vendor presentation sessions which were presented by Paul; the first on Monday, was about our MQ administration products, MO71 and MQSCX. Then on Wednesday, the second presentation was about our Message Manipulation products, MQEdit and QLOAD.
In the lab room this year, complementing the z/OS platform lab exercises provided by Lyn Elkins and Mitch Johnson, we made freely available our soon-to-be-released education courses. These were available for those people wanting to learn things on the distributed platforms, and a number of people tried them out. Our prize draw this year was to win access to five free courses, when they go live in around a months time. It was very heartening to see people learn new things while doing the courses, and good feedback was received on the exercises.
We also had a booth in the Sponsor Pavilion on Monday and Tuesday evening, where we gave personalised demos of any of the products to attendees who came by, gave out product brochures, free mouse mats, and beer koozies, and collected entries for our prize draw.
Visit our booth at the #MQTC2017 Sponsor's Pavilion, get a mouse mat, beer koozie, product data sheets, and enter o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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MQGem Software (@MQGem) September 25, 2017Yet again, the Kalahari Resort has done this conference proud, and huge thanks go to Capitalware for putting on a great three days.
And that's a wrap. What a great week at #MQTC2017 learning about #IBMMQ. Thanks to Roger and the @Capitalware team for a great event.
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MQGem Software (@MQGem) September 27, 2017Had such a great time at @kalahariresorts with @txmqit at #MQTC2017 & loved the hotel theme. 🦁… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Chantelle /Chant3llo (@Chant3llo) September 27, 2017#MQTC2017 is in the books! Safe travels to everyone, and we look forward to hearing from those we met at the show!
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Avada Software (@AvadaSoftware) September 27, 2017#MQTC2017 has come to an end today. I have had such a great 5 years and I hope to see you all again next year! https://t.co/H6YKv2rxCe
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Capitalware Inc. (@Capitalware) September 27, 2017Other blog posts about the conference:
- The conference presentation material will gradually become available on this page. T.Rob also has his material here.
- Sunday at MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.7
- First Day of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.7
- Second Day of MQ Technical Conference
- Bats of a Feather Session at MQ Technical Conference
- Third Day of MQ Technical Conference
