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December 3, 2025Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 virtual Synergy DevPartner Conference. It was a fantastic gathering of our worldwide DBL community, and we were thrilled to share product updates, bring you industry insights, and showcase the exciting opportunities you have to advance your software.
We appreciated the lively audience participation in the Chat, and we’d like to extend an extra thanks to those of you who completed our post-conference survey. Your feedback confirmed that the sessions were engaging and delivered real value, with many comments highlighting “valuable insights” and “great content.” We’ll use your suggestions to make future events even better.
If you missed any sessions—or want to revisit them—you can watch the recordings on our YouTube channel, including Q&As with the speakers.
You’ll find the following sessions in our conference playlist:
- Welcome and Conference Kickoff. President and CEO William Mooney shares key company updates, including an announcement of his upcoming retirement and introduction of his successor, Neithard Foley.
- Synergy Product Update: Latest Features & Roadmap. Taras Yakovchuk, Software Development Associate Manager, and Marty Lewis, Staff Software Engineer, present new and upcoming features across the Synergy product set.
- Keynote: Building the Future: Event-Driven Architectures and Intelligent Applications. Tyler Akidau, CTO of Redpanda, discusses motivations for modernizing legacy systems, the role of streaming platforms in enabling AI/ML in production, and a glimpse into the future of intelligent, agentic capabilities.
- Real-time Integration with Synergex’s Streaming Platform. Solutions Architect Steve Ives highlights how Synergex’s Streaming Integration Platform enables high-performance, real-time data replication using Kafka-compatible technologies.
- Retrofitting Legacy Applications for AI. CTO Jeff Greene shares how Synergex is shaping the future of enterprise applications written in DBL to seamlessly integrate with AI technologies.
- Keeping Synergy Modern. Staff Software Engineer Marty Lewis shares how we approach modifications to our language and tools and delves into some of the new features built to enhance compatibility, performance, and long-term support.
- Synergy Repository Deep Dive. Staff Software Engineer Marty Lewis demonstrates recent improvements in the Repository, including powerful new tools for editing schemas directly in Visual Studio Code and the ability to export the repository into individual schema files.
- Modernizing AFIDS Application with Harmony Core. Technical Specialist Kuldeep Singh from TPF Software Inc. shares how his company is using Harmony Core to expose business logic through APIs and enable a more modern, responsive front end.
- Static Analysis for Synergy Code: Smarter Scanning, Better Code. Software Engineer Oliver Chu demonstrates the capabilities of a static code analysis tool we’re developing and walks through a real-world scenario showcasing how it can deliver helpful insights for your team.
- AI in Software: A Panel on What’s Real and What’s Next. Synergex and industry experts explore the evolving role of AI in the software industry, separating hype from reality when it comes to real-world applications of AI in line-of-business applications.
- Final Thoughts | Closing Remarks. Sales & Marketing Director Rachel Gibson recaps our conference week, announces next year’s in-person 2026 conference, and brings President and CEO Bill Mooney and future President Neit Foley back for some final comments.
We hope you’ll find some time to watch and learn from the recorded sessions. If you’d like to explore any of the topics further, we’d love to talk with you. Reach out to your account manager or email synergy@synergex.com.
And be sure to mark your calendar for next year’s in-person Synergy DevPartner Conference, October 27–29, in Sacramento, California. In addition to technology presentations and networking opportunities, we’ll be celebrating Synergex’s 50th anniversary and CEO Bill Mooney’s retirement—a milestone event you won’t want to miss!