MIDWEST
COLLEGIATE
COMPUTING
CONFERENCE
2019

March 22-23, 2019
mwc3.org

TITLE SPONSOR:
IBM

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Venue

Cornerstone University
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
3000 Leonard Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525

Parking information coming soon!

MWC3 has negotiated a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn across the street from the Eberhard Center for your convenience if you would like to stay in downtown Grand Rapids Friday night, March 24. The block of rooms has been reserved for our schools at a reduced rate through March 7, 2023. If you do not reserve room(s) by that date, the block will be relinquished.

Click here to reserve rooms for you school if desired.

Co-Chairs

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Speakers

Awards Dinner & Keynote Address

Paul Newton is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist at the IBM Innovation Center in Dallas where he assists IBM Business Partners and entrepreneurs on System z and helps enable university faculty to use z/OS-based technology in existing curriculum. He joined IBM in 1998 after 25 years of applying mainframe technology to a variety of industries. IBM responsibilities included assisting Independent Software Vendors port software products to z/OS and Linux on IBM Z systems.

Breakout Sessions


Learn Cybersecurity

Learn IBM Mastering the Mainframe

Learn Project Management

Competitions

Competitions denoted with Learning Competition are competitions that do not require any prior knowledge to participate in and will contain some instruction prior to the start of the competition.

Learning Competition

Learning Competition

Learning Competition

Learning Competition

Learning Competition

Learning Competition

Schedule

Friday, March 22 2019

Timeslot Event / Competition / Breakout
07:30 a.m. Check-In & Registration
08:00 a.m. Breakfast and Announcements
08:15 a.m. Vendor Time
08:30 a.m. Python Development
Network Design
Visual Studio and .NET Development
11:00 a.m. Vendor Time
11:15 a.m. Lunch and Panel
12:30 p.m. Vendor Time
12:45 p.m. Learn Cybersecurity
Learn IBM Mastering the Mainframe
Learn Project Management
01:45 p.m. Vendor Time
02:00 p.m. Cybersecurity
Mainframe Systems with IBM Z Xplore
Project Management

Saturday, March 23 2019

Timeslot Event / Competition / Breakout
07:30 a.m. Check-In & Registration
08:00 a.m. Breakfast and Announcements
08:15 a.m. Vendor Time
08:30 a.m. Java Development
System Analysis and Design
Microsoft Office Solutions
11:00 a.m. Vendor Time
11:15 a.m. Lunch and Panel
12:30 p.m. Vendor Time
12:45 p.m. Learn Cybersecurity
Learn IBM Mastering the Mainframe
Learn Project Management
01:45 p.m. Vendor Time
02:00 p.m. Mainframe Systems with IBM Z Xplore
Project Management
Cybersecurity

Contact

Dr. John H. Reynolds

Conference Coordinator

mwc3foundation@gmail.com

(616)-204-7315