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| Keynote: | Conference Opening | Leanne Wilson | Vertali Limited | 09:30 - 09:45 | ||||
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30 Minute Break
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| Virtual Room 3 | 3F | Automating Mainframe Operations with REST APIs & Zowe CLI Plug-ins | Joshua Powell | Broadcom Mainframe Software | Open Mainframe Project | VR3 | 16:15 - 17:00 | |
| Virtual Room 4 | 4F | The Next Generation z/OS User Experience | Fiona King | New Technologies | VR4 | 16:15 - 17:00 | ||
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17:30
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| Virtual Room 4 | 4G | From Monitoring to Observability: Evolving Mainframe Operations with OpenTelemetry Principles | Prema Jogdand | BMC Software Ltd | New Technologies | VR4 | 10:00 - 10:45 | |
30 Minute Break
10:45 -
11:15
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| Virtual Room 4 | 4H | From Abend to Insight: How LLMs and MCP Server Tools Are Transforming Mainframe Defect Detection | Krutika Sapkal | New Technologies | VR4 | 11:15 - 12:00 | ||
30 Minute Break
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12:30
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| Virtual Room 4 | 4I | From COBOL to Kafka - A guide to event integration patterns on z/OS | Andrew Smithson | IBM UK LTD. | New Technologies | VR4 | 12:30 - 13:15 | |
30 Minute Break
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13:45
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| Virtual Room 4 | 4J | AI Agents on the Mainframe: How To Automate Documentation at Scale | Collin Smith | New Technologies | VR4 | 13:45 - 14:30 | ||
30 Minute Break
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15:00
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| Virtual Room 4 | 4L | Thriving in Hybrid IT: Overcoming Mainframe and Distributed Tests Barriers | Renato Bognar | New Technologies | VR4 | 15:00 - 15:45 | ||
30 Minute Break
15:45 -
16:15
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| Virtual Room 2 | 2M | Hello Mainframe ? Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents. | Joe Winchester | Open Mainframe Project | VR2 | 16:15 - 17:00 | ||
| Virtual Room 4 | 4M | An Introduction to Observability, OpenTelemetry and IBM Z | Chris Walker | IBM USA | New Technologies | VR4 | 16:15 - 17:00 | |
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17:00 -
17:30
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11:15
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12:30
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| Virtual Room 1 | 1P | From reactive to proactive optimization: evolve your mainframe Asset Management strategy | Simone Catini | Mainframe Audit | VR1 | 12:30 - 13:15 | ||
30 Minute Break
13:15 -
13:45
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| Virtual Room 1 | 1Q | How to Pass a Mainframe Audit | Daniel Burk | IBM GDR | Mainframe Audit | VR1 | 13:45 - 14:30 | |
30 Minute Break
14:30 -
15:00
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| Virtual Room 1 | 1R | Designing for Defensibility: Evidence-Centric Compliance Architecture for Financial Web Platforms | Manasa Uppula | Mainframe Audit | VR1 | 15:00 - 15:45 | ||
30 Minute Break
15:45 -
16:15
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| Virtual Room 1 | 1S | z/OS Danger Zone - data theft | Allen Saurette | MainTegrity Inc | Mainframe Audit | VR1 | 16:15 - 17:00 | |
| Virtual Room 2 | 2S | Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduction to no-code instrumentation with OpenTelemetry | Ruediger Schulze | IBM Europe | Open Mainframe Project | VR2 | 16:15 - 17:00 | |
15 Minute Break
17:00 -
17:15
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