Conference News - 26/11/2012

The 2012 conference in Manchester has now taken place and was a great success.

The slides from the majority of the presentations are now available for download.  Please go to the Previous Events section of the site and pick the sessions that you want, either via the 2012 Agenda page or the 2012 session track listings, and click on the "Download session" links.  Please note that the website is now being reorganised for the 2013 conference, and these instructions may differ from those previously given.

The 2013 conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium, probably (not definitely) on 7^th and 8^th November 2013.

Conference News - 05/11/2012

Download the Agenda App

This year we are proud to announce the EMEA PUG Challenge 2012 App, available for iOS and Android. The app gives you easy access to the complete program of the conference and provides you with detailed information about all the sessions, speakers and sponsors. It is also possible to add your personal notes to sessions and sent tweets during the conference using #pugchallenge. With the favorites function you can easily build your own challenge and get notifications before your favorite session starts.

The app is free to download and install. It has local storage, so no there is no data connection needed while using the app. It is also possible to load agenda updates on demand to the local storage, which needs a temporary wifi or 3G data connection at that moment of course. Please be sure to update the latest version and synchronize the data before the event, while the use of wifi in the hotel is limited.

To download the app, please use one of the following:

Please provide us with feedback about these Apps so that we can even make it better next year. Send your feedback to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or write a review in the Appstore or Google Play.

See you in Manchester!

Conference News - 08/10/2012

Full Programme announced!

Full details of all the presentations for the programme are now available here. We will be regularly featuring information about these presentations on our Facebook page and on the following LinkedIn groups: Progress Software, PUG and OpenEdge Developers.

We have a number of excellent speakers taking part and we are especially proud to present our keynote speakers Jay Bhatt, President and CEO of Progress, Jennifer Smith, Vice President and CMO of Progress and Dan Veitkus, EMEA Vice President of Progress.

Please note that the pre-conference Progress | Corticon workshop, to be held on Wednesday 14^th November 2012, is now fully subscribed.

See you in Manchester!

Conference News - 12/09/2012

Community Speakers and sessions announced

Many of you have been asking for a list of sessions for the conference.  Here it is.  We have a list of sessions to be given by Community speakers, and a list of sessions to be given by Progress Software.

There's a wide variety of sessions, some perennially useful like database optimisation, performance monitoring and improvement; some on modernising your applications, like OO design, modeling and GUI for .NET and some on the latest hot topics, like the Cloud and mobile apps.

There are well-known presenters like Adam Backman, Dan Foreman, Mike Fechner and Bert Tukkers and some new faces as well.

Early Bird Registration ends this week

Save yourself £30 by registering on or before Friday 14th September!

See you in Manchester

EMEA PUG Challenge Team

Conference News - 03/09/2012

See a Premier League football match

Premier League Football Match Saturday 17^th November 2012 – Manchester City v Aston Villa

Manchester United are not the only outstanding football club in Manchester. Since the takeover by Sheikh Mansour in 2009, Manchester City FC has gone from poor relation to deadly rival, pipping United to the post to win last year's Premier League trophy. Their new Etihad Stadium at Eastlands (originally built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games) is just as spectacular as Old Trafford. As United are playing away on the weekend after the conference, we have been looking into organising a trip to the game between Manchester City and Aston Villa on Saturday 17th November. The spectacle of a major UK Premier League match is not to be missed, even if you're not a football fan. We think that the best way to see the match with your EMEA colleagues is with an EMEA PUG Group Booking.

Etihad Stadium – Kickoff 3pm

Group Booking

We now have a number of delegates from the EMEA PUG Challenge going to the match as a group booking. However, entries to this group are now closed.

If you still wish to attend the match and you did not book your ticket in the Group, you may still be able to purchase a ticket yourself between 2-6 weeks before the match day via this link.

Conference News - 26/07/2012

Breaking News .... the first of this year’s speakers and program content

From Progress

Meet Progress Software experts like Bill Wood, VP of Technology, OpenEdge, Shelley Chase, Senior Software Architect, OpenEdge, Rich Banville, Fellow, Dion Picco, Director Product Management for OpenEdge, Dr Mark Allen, Progress CTO and founder of Corticon and Developer Peter Judge as well as the European Senior Solution Consultants Gary Clink, Brent Adonis and Harold-Jan Verlee.

Hear about Progress Software’s Product Roadmap and what it means for products such as Sonic and OpenEdge BPM, OpenEdge 11.

Learn about Progress Software aPaaS strategy and Cloud development and what’s coming in OpenEdge 11.2, Progress Applications for the Mobile Web, the ABL in the future, OpenEdge BPM, Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge, Identity Management, Multi-tenancy, the Database and its performance and ABL best practices.

From the Community

Meet well known Community Experts such as Adam Backman, Tom Bascom, Dan Foreman, Julian Lyndon-Smith, Klaus Erichsen, Mike Fechner, Marian Edu, Mike Furgal, Steven Verstrepen, Robert Prediger, Roland de Pijper, Valeriy Bashkatov, Margus Nairis and others.

Learn about the Object orientation in the ABL, software architectures and application modernisation, user interface technologies such as HTML5, .NET, GUI for .NET, implementing messaging and integration with Active MQ and Sonic, Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting solutions, OpenEdge Architect, the Database including disaster recovery, performance tuning, virtualization, management and hardware purchase recommendations.

Workshop

During the conference Progress Software will be talking about Corticon – their latest acquisition that enables business rules modeling and executing embedded applications. Progress are also preparing a pre-conference workshop on the Wednesday afternoon before the conference. Details to follow.

This is a just a taste of what is going to be on offer - the detailed program will be published soon.

This conference has to be a ‘must see’ for any Progress Software application partner and developer following Progress’ newly announced strategic plan of April 25th this year.

Expected to be the conference for 2012 - book your place now and be part of it!

See you in Manchester!

EMEA PUG Challenge Team

Conference News - 11/07/2012

The last day for Super Early Bird registration is 31st July 2012.  Register now and save £50.00 (€62.00) per delegate.

If you bring your partner to Manchester, he or she is also welcome to attend the evening event on November 15th. The fee for attending the event, which includes transfer to the location (if required), dinner, drinks, music and the entertainment, will be £45.00. Please see the guest programme page for more details and the guest registration form.

Conference News - 22/05/2012

Online registration for delegates is now open.  Please see the registration details page.

Online registration for sponsors is also open.  Please see the sponsorship packages page for more details.

Call for Speaker and Sponsors for the 2012 Conference

After the great success of the last years, the European Progress User Groups will again be organising a technical and business oriented conference, this time to be held on November 15th and 16th in Manchester, United Kingdom. This event is expected to be the premier conference for the Progress community in Europe and the biggest conference of Progress developers in the year 2012.

Our goal is to deliver practical and highly valuable technical and business oriented content to our attendees - people involved in developing, integrating and managing applications:

• Demonstrates techniques and/or technology
• Provides/discusses code examples and illustrative diagrams
• Is informative and instructional
• Provides insight into current software development trends

We are now accepting session proposals for EMEA PUG Challenge 2012, and also calling for commercial sponsors for the event! For details please go to the Call for Speakers page.