PowerBuilder User Group Meeting
2026
Berlin
October 19 + 20, 2026
Save the date
October 19 + 20, 2026 ·
Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin
Martin Luther Strasse 1, Berlin, DE 10777
incl. sponsored evening event at Schöneberger Weltlaterne
Early bird: 395 EUR until 2026-09-30, then 470 EUR
Dear PowerBuilder friends!
Registration for the User Group Meeting is open!
- learn all about what’s new in PowerBuilder 2025
- learn tips & tricks
- meet like-minded people
Early bird pricing ends on 2026-09-30. Time remaining:
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Two days packed with PowerBuilder information
plus a sponsored evening event
The meeting takes place right in the heart of Berlin:
Mon, Oct 19, 2026 to Tue, Oct 20, 2026 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm each day)
Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin
Martin Luther Strasse 1, Berlin, DE 10777
Please book your room yourself, directly with the hotel. (https://www.riu.com/en/hotel/germany/berlin/hotel-riu-plaza-berlin/)
Your Speakers
Armeen Mazda
Appeon Inc. CEO
PowerBuilder Roadmap
Learn about Appeon’s future plans for PowerBuilder, including new AI developer features in the upcoming PowerBuilder 2025 R3 and release schedule.
Bruce Armstrong
Development Lead, Integrated Data Services
New Features in PowerBuilder 2025 R2
Learn about the new development features in PowerBuilder 2025 R2.
Topics covered include code editor productivity and navigation improvements, dynamic DPI support, IDE usability enhancements, multilingual runtime resources, SVG support, advanced executable security flags (beta), and updates to PowerServer and PowerClient. The session also highlights key enhancements to DataWindow/DataStore, Jump, Source Control, Solution management, CrypterObject, WebBrowser, RibbonView, and SMTPClient.
Using OAuth2 Authentication with SmtpClient
Learn how to secure your email sending application by implementing OAuth2 with SmtpClient. Topics covered include the core concept of Authorization vs. Authentication, why OAuth2 is vital for securing credentials and enabling features like MFA, the mechanics of the Authorization Flow and Device Authorization Flow, and practical configuration steps for both Azure and Gmail.
Implementing Single Sign-On with PowerBuilder
Learn how to use an OAuth provider to implement single sign-on. Topics covered include implementing the OAuth provider in a Docker hosted Authentik instance; however, the technique is pretty much the same for any OAuth provider.
Using AI to write and maintain PowerBuilder code
Excited about the AI capabilities coming in PowerBuilder 2025 R3?
You don’t have to wait. If your PowerBuilder 2025 projects use the solution format, you can start putting AI to work today.
In this session, we’ll look at using AI to create and update your existing PowerBuilder code from outside the PowerBuilder IDE.
Christophe Dufourmantel
Novaliys S.A.S
AI-Powered PowerBuilder Maintenance: from Code Insight to Action
Through two practical scenarios, we will see how Visual Expert AI can help PowerBuilder teams understand unfamiliar code, identify and assess issues, suggest improvements, and turn analysis results into coordinated remediation actions.
Roland Müller
Power People IT-Services GmbH
E-invoicing/ZUGFeRD with PowerBuilder
- What formats are there?
- Where are the challenges?
- How were they solved?
A field report.
Thomas Enzenberger
Power People IT-Services GmbH
Performance Optimization with AI – A Field Report
How AI, combined with PowerBuilder’s own built-in tools, helped reduce a report’s runtime from 8 hours to 8 minutes.
Marco Meoni
Appeon MVP, PBwink CTO
AI and the Future of PowerBuilder: An Appeon MVP’s Perspective
AI is becoming a daily assistant in software development, opening up new possibilities for code generation, application workflows, and runtime experiences – even in PowerBuilder.
After decades of developing with PowerBuilder, I’ll share my perspective on how AI is changing the way we build, maintain, and modernize applications. We’ll start with a brief background knowledge, then explore the opportunities and challenges AI brings to the PowerBuilder ecosystem and application modernization. I’ll also share a practical example of using AI to support end-user decision-making in PowerServer, and reflect on how our role as developers is evolving – from writing code line by line to guiding AI toward solutions that address real business needs.
Using Generative AI to Build a Web Application from a PB REST API
Let’s be honest: who never hoped that the next version of PB would offer easy full-web deployment? Appeon Web and PowerServer have brought the concept of Installable Web App and Installable Cloud App within everyone’s reach, applications that can be accessed from a web server. But full web also means zero-installation and cross-platform. In this session, you’ll learn how we transformed in few weeks a specific module of a large PowerServer application, designed for a general user base, into a full-web application thanks to generative-AI trained to prepare a Vue.js project based on PB REST API.
Gian Luca De Bonis
Enable Development OÜ – CEO/CTO
Preserving PB investments in modern times
Client/server PowerBuilder apps were built to last — resilient, fast, dependable. But “built to last” isn’t “built for today”: customers now expect cloud access, modern UI, web/mobility, and integration with the tools they already use.
This session maps the real options for PB developers in 2026 — staying current with PB2025, extending reach with PowerServer and PowerClient, embedding modern UI via WebView2, and, for those ready to go further, rehosting business logic in .NET while replacing the presentation layer entirely. We’ll weigh what each path costs, what it preserves, and where AI is starting to shift the economics of the bigger moves.
No single answer fits every application — the goal is a clearer map, so you can match strategy to your own system.
Ludwin Feiten
Power People IT-Services GmbH, Managing Director
Board member of PBUGG e.V.
Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
- How does artificial intelligence work?
- What components make up a typical AI system?
- How do the components interact?
My Own Local AI
- Why run your own local AI?
- How is it built?
- How do you install it?
- A field report!
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Social Evening Get-Together
Venue: Schöneberger Weltlaterne
Motzstr. 61, 10777 Berlin
Meet other developers at a relaxed evening event.
Exchange questions and experiences.
Food and drinks are provided!