Progress OpenEdge World Tour Australia 2026

Progress OpenEdge World Tour Australia 2026 May 12th - 15th, 2026!

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Join us at the Progress OpenEdge World Tour 2026 in Australia and meet Mike Fechner as he shares hands-on insights into modernizing OpenEdge applications with AI-powered technologies.

Dates & Locations

May 12th – Melbourne
May 13th – Sydney
May 15th – Brisbane

The OpenEdge World Tour brings together developers, IT leaders, and the global OpenEdge community to explore the latest innovations in AI, modernization, security, and developer productivity.

Session Highlight

Accelerating OpenEdge Modernization with AI Developer Tools and MCP Connector

In this session, Mike Fechner shares real-world experience from successful modernization projects, demonstrating how legacy OpenEdge GUI applications can be transformed into modern web applications using AI-powered developer tools and the OpenEdge MCP Connector.

Learn how combining MCP with tools like Windsurf and Devin accelerates delivery, reduces effort, and enables new intelligent enterprise applications. The session also provides an outlook on how AI systems can securely interact with OpenEdge applications - retrieving data and executing business logic in future-ready architectures.

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Be part of the OpenEdge community, connect with experts, and discover how AI is shaping the future of application development.

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If you have any questions, please contact us: info@consultingwerk.de.

Mike Fechner

Lead Modernization Architect

Mike Fechner, Lead Modernization Architect at Consultingwerk, started working with Progress over 30 years ago. Since then, he has supported Progress Application Partners and end customers in adopting the latest OpenEdge and Progress features to enhance and extend existing applications.

With his strong framework design expertise, he has laid the foundation for the development of many successful OpenEdge applications.

Mike specializes in object-oriented programming in ABL, software architecture, GUI for .NET, web technologies, and a broad range of Progress products including OpenEdge, Telerik, and Corticon. He is deeply involved in software modernization projects on a daily basis and is a passionate modernization enthusiast.

He is a well-known and active member of the international OpenEdge community and a frequent presenter at conferences around the world. Mike serves as a board member of the German PUG as well as a board member of the PUG Challenge.

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