The document provides details about an IMS Technical Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia on May 21-22, 2014. It will include sessions on various topics presented by speakers from IBM, BMC, and Fundi. International speakers include Shyh-Mei Ho from IBM who will discuss IMS trends and directions. Local speakers will also present on topics like using SQL with IMS databases and achieving high transaction rates of over 100k TPS with IMS. The conference aims to provide attendees with information on modernizing and integrating IMS, managing IMS environments, and migrating to the new IMS v13 release.