NAViGATE 2026 at IBM TechXchange

Most conference sessions about IBM i and AI describe what transformation could look like. This one shows what it actually looks like — from inside two organizations already doing the work. The first proof point is LoanIQ: a live demo built on Silver Lake Financial Group, a fictitious IBM i regional lender. LoanIQ runs in the session. A LangChain agent queries DB2 via Mapepire, invokes an RPG service program to execute a credit decision, and logs the audit trail to DB2. A working agentic system on IBM i infrastructure, live. The second proof point is a real $1B+ IBM i organization in transition — from campaign-based marketing to event-driven agentic engagement. The architecture is in place. The sequencing, the friction, and the crawl/walk/run discipline required to keep transformation from outrunning the organization’s readiness to govern it — that is the work. The Knowledge Distance Problem is not hypothetical here. This session documents it from the inside. Silver Lake Financial Group is not invented for this session. The Signal4i Silver Lake Series has documented the IBM i agentic build across six installments since May 2026. Practitioners who follow the series will arrive knowing the architecture. This session is where it runs. Claude Code surfaces the business logic embedded in decades of RPG and makes it agent-accessible via MCP. Python and LangChain handle orchestration. A React front end closes the loop and the IBM i becomes the intelligence layer. The destination: agents own execution, humans own judgment, IBM i underneath all of it. The technology is not the hard part. The hard part is mapping the org chart to an agentic model, identifying which manual processes can be touched and which can’t yet, and confronting the people who built their roles around coordination work agents are about to absorb. This session goes there — with a working demo, a live dispatch, and six months of documentation leading up to it. Link to Series -> https://signal4i.ai/silverlake-series