Speaker Profile Alan Seiden, Consultant Bio Alan founded Seiden Group to enrich IBM i applications with open source technologies such as PHP, Python, Node.js, as well as DB2 for i and RPG business logic. He and his team provide large and small organizations with objective advice, hands-on development, and support. Recognized as an IBM Champion, Alan cultivates a strong, resilient IBM i community by hosting the CIO Summit and fostering new talent. He encourages the next generation to extend the capabilities of the IBM i platform with their open source skills. Alan has led the adoption of open RPM-based PHP with value-added components and support for IBM i teams; co-developed the popular PHP Toolkit with IBM; and was one of the first Zend Framework certified engineers. An award-winning speaker, Alan has been called "the performance guru of PHP on IBM i." He shares his expertise regularly at conferences and user groups such as COMMON, ZendCon, the RPG & DB2 Summit, MAGiC, the Northeast User Groups Conference, OCEAN and WMCPA. In his spare time, Alan plays the trombone and studies and teaches the Feldenkrais Method? of Somatic Education.   Company Alan Seiden Consulting Phone Email Facebook LinkedIn Home Page Home Page Link Presentations January 18, 2023 - Web and API Language Shootout January 18, 2023 - What's new and exciting in PHP for 2023 February 16, 2021 - Impress Your Boss with Open Source November 15, 2017 - Using DB2 and SQL with Open Source Languages on IBM i November 15, 2017 - Bring RPG/COBOL Business Logic to the Web with the PHP Toolkit November 19, 2014 - PHP Tricks for the RPG Programmer: graphics, Excel, PDFs, E-Mail and More. November 19, 2014 - Modernization myths: DDS, DDL and IBM i March 20, 2013 - Web Performance First Aid April 18, 2012 - New PHP Toolkit from Zend and IBM February 16, 2011 - Browser Tools that Make Web Development Easier