Venue
Cornerstone University
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
3000 Leonard Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
3000 Leonard Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
Parking information coming soon!
Nearby Lodging
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.
Event Sponsors
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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.
Schedule
Friday, March 22 2019
Timeslot | Event / Competition / Breakout | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |