iPOWER 2026

Cecilia Howlin has been working on this platform from the very beginning. On her first job at IBM Argentina, she learned S/38. And never left the platform, since she thinks it never appeared other operating system as good as this one.
She usually worked on technical issues, like installing and configuring operating systems, teaching on different topics, defining Application standards and organizing information on systems, defining Security standards and implementing them, controlling and auditing Security, analyzing and optimizing system performance.
She loves programming things, promoting automation functions, all related to the same technical issues. Her company works hard on Security Software and Consulting.
In the past years she decided to learn more on IBM i (future of the platform, Modernization) and began coming to the annual Common meeting in USA. She ventured in new subjects like consumption of web services, migration of traditional database files to SQL objects, inclusion or SQL in conventional programming, using of DB2 Web Query. Now continue learning in new tools like VsCode, and Bob as AI in IBM I.
Also she believes there is always an opportunity to give back, on what she learned along her working life.