Contributors
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AI Architect
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Cracking the Code to Capacity Sizing for z17
Software Engineer
Technical Session How to Build Real-Time Mainframe Observability Pipelines
DevOps Architect & Evangelist
Technical Session AI-Native DevOps for the Mainframe
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: The Agentic Mainframe: How Networks of Specialized AI Agents Will Change the Mainframe Experience (BMC)
Technical Session Medical Mutual: Git-Driven DevOps Transformation
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Can Your Mainframe Withstand a Ransomware Attack? A Live Cyber Resilience Demonstration (BMC)
Technical Session Stay Irreplaceable as AI Codes
Technical Session Bit Bucket Pittsburgh 2026
Technical Session Opening Session: z/OS and Hardware Track
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Technical Session Db2 GenAI: Auto-Pilot for the Performance Boss Fight
Technical Session Expanding SMF Access to Promote Data-driven Decision Making
Technical Session IntelliMagic Agent Problem Solver
Program Director - z/OS Strategy
Technical Session BYOD Lab: 'Next Generation z/OS' Lab
Technical Session The Next Generation z/OS Overview
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: Closing the Mainframe’s Identity Security Gap Before AI Exploits It (Rocket Software)
Technical Session Securing Access in the Age of AI Adversaries
Technical Session If This, Then That: Making Sense of ACS Routines
Solution Advisor
Technical Session Mainframe Trends and What Users Want
Technical Session How to Maintain HA and DR Readiness During Data Migration with GDPS
Technical Session Improve Your RTO & RPO with a Multi-site Resiliency Solutions
Product Manager
Technical Session Level Up Your IMS Performance: The Ultimate Guide to Reorg Mastery
Software Engineer
Technical Session Alert Orchestration: Curbing Fatigue with Intelligent Forwarding
Technical Session Upgrading to TLS1.3 and PQC Readiness
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Network Security Overview
Principal Client Services Management
Technical Session Tackle Succession Planning Like the Steelers: Build a Legacy That Lasts
Advisory Software Engineer - z/OS Worldwide Technical Support United States of America
Technical Session Tips, Tricks, and Insights into Diagnosing Common IBM z/OS Errors
Technical Consultant
Technical Session Modern Developer Experience: Easytrieve in VS Code
Technical Session The New IBM z17 & LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Family Technical Overview
Product Manager
Technical Session z/OS Parallel Sysplex Update
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Technical Session Stop Showing Data. Start Telling.
Product Manager
Technical Session Mainframe Blind Spots: What You Don’t Know Could be Costing You
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: z/OS Performance Spotlight – Some Top Things You May Not Know (Enterprise Performance Strategies)
Technical Session Real-World Mainframe Performance Metrics and Observations (2026 Edition)
Technical Session What a z/OS Guy Learned About AWS in 12 Years
Technical Session z/OS Performance Topics: The Ones That Divide Us
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: The zSecure Transformation (IBM)
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Can Your Mainframe Withstand a Ransomware Attack? A Live Cyber Resilience Demonstration (BMC)
Technical Session You’re Compliant. You’re Still Compromised
Technical Session Your Next Breach Starts in HR
Product Owner
Technical Session Modern Developer Experience: Easytrieve in VS Code
Technical Session CICS Debugging Techniques - Solve a Case with IBM Support
Technical Session CICS Nuts, Bolts, and Gotchas
Client Technical Specialist - CICS Integration & Security - IBM Z Worldwide Systems Center United States of America
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Geniez GenAI Framework Technical Live Walkthrough (Geniez AI)
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Real world success stories of GenAI on mainframe (Geniez AI)
Technical Session Digital Certificates on z/OS in a 47‑Day World
Technical Session Migrating from Legacy to Enhanced PassTickets on z/OS
Technical Session RACF Update: Summer 2026 Edition
Technical Session Evolving Cryptography on z/OS: Recent Enhancements to ICSF Capabilities
Technical Session From Advisory to Automation: Using CSAF to Track Security Patches on Z
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Software Engineer
Technical Session Mentorship - Mentors, Mentees and Generative AI
Technical Session Technology Futures - IBM's Global Technology Outlook
Instructor United States of America
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Mainframe Assembler Bootcamp Part 1
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Cracking the Code to Capacity Sizing for z17
Technical Session How to Measure the New IBM z17
Technical Session Modernizing WLM Management with the Policy Advisor
Technical Session AI Infused z/OS: Overview and Updates
Technical Session Agentic AI for z/OS: Trust, Governance, and the Path Forward
Technical Session From Insight to Execution: Governing AI Agents on the Mainframe
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: The Agentic Mainframe: How Networks of Specialized AI Agents Will Change the Mainframe Experience (BMC)
Technical Session It’s 2026, Do You Know Where Your Crypto Is?
Technical Session The SOC’s Missing Link: Bringing Mainframe Events into the Light
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Technical Session Dynamic Resources and the IMS Repository (IMSRSC) – What, Why and How
Technical Session Your Job Abended! Now What?
z/OS Performance Expert
Technical Session DB2: Understanding DB2 Usage and Measurement of WLM Enclaves
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: z/OS Performance Spotlight – Some Top Things You May Not Know (Enterprise Performance Strategies)
Technical Session z/OS Performance Topics: The Ones That Divide Us
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Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) AI Driven Mainframe Modernization: Extending the Value of IBM zSystems
Technical Session In the Clouds with DFSMS
Technical Session Unlocking More from DS8000: The Software Behind the System
Security Solution Advisor
Technical Session 10 Legacy Decisions That Are Security Risks Today
Software Developer
Technical Session Operationalizing Real‑Time AI on IBM Z with Machine Learning for z/OS
Technical Consulting
Technical Session Embrace The Future Today By Eliminating Deprecated Objects
Technical Session AI-Native DevOps for the Mainframe
Technical Session When Size Does Matter: Beyond Lines of Code
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Technical Session From Data Deluge to Decisive Action: Mainframe Intelligence with MICS
Technical Session If This, Then That: Making Sense of ACS Routines
Technical Session PDSE Best Practices: Getting the Most Out of Your PDSEs
Engineering Manager
Technical Session From Scripts to Scale: Transforming Automation with OPS/MVS and Ansible
Technical Session Code4z: Boosting Development Efficiency with a Modern Mainframe DevX
Technical Session Intro to IPCS for CICS People
Technical Session Technical Introduction to CICS
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Technical Session Women in IT: Multi-tenured Perspectives
Technical Session AI-Native DevOps for the Mainframe
Technical Session When Size Does Matter: Beyond Lines of Code
Technical Session IODF and HCD: An Introduction for New Sysprogs
Technical Session From 6 Hours to 6 Minutes: Automating z/OS with Ansible
Technical Session Getting Started with Data Center Automation and Agentic AI
Technical Session Expanding SMF Access to Promote Data-driven Decision Making
Technical Session The New IBM z17 & LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Family Technical Overview
CICS Advisory Specialist - Worldwide Systems Center
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Enforcing a Zero Trust Security Strategy in CICS Using Security Discovery
Technical Session Beyond Transaction Security: Using Security Discovery in the Journey to Zero Trust
Technical Session OpenTelemetry Tracing in CICS
Technical Session Open Source and the Mainframe Panel: Ask Me Anything?
Cybersecurity Executive Advisor & Strategist
Technical Session Top 10 USS Security Blunders (And How to Fix Them)
Technical Session (Primer to) The IBM Z Processor Optimization Primer
Technical Session The IBM z17 Water-and-Air-Cooled Performance Brief and LSPR Overview
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Technical Session z/OS 3.2 User Experiences
Technical Session Optimization and Simplification Tips for Deploying z/VM Products
Technical Session CICS TS 6.3 and Beyond: What's New and What's Next
Technical Session CICS is AI-Ready: Embedded MCP Server for Live System Context
Technical Session Can a CICS Agent Do Dump Analysis? - Come and Find Out!
Technical Session Beyond Alerts: Using Generative AI to Explain Mainframe Anomalies
Technical Session Tackle Succession Planning Like the Steelers: Build a Legacy That Lasts
Product Manager
Technical Session Beyond the Vault: Enhancing Your Storage Cyber Resilience
Security Distinguished Engineer
Technical Session It’s 2026, Do You Know Where Your Crypto Is?
Technical Session Introduction to IBM MQ and Problem Determination
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Software Engineer
Technical Session Modern Storage Management UI and APIs
Technical Session What’s New, Not So New, and Coming in DFSMS
Technical Session z/OS Storage Management APIs and Use Cases
Senior Software Architect
Technical Session Simplifying and Opening the Mainframe to Clients with the Zowe Command Line Interface
Technical Session The Future of Mainframe: Zowe, AI, and the New-to-z SME
Senior Manager
Software Architect
Technical Session Mainframe Blind Spots: What You Don’t Know Could be Costing You
z/OS Product Manager
Technical Session BYOD Lab: 'Next Generation z/OS' Lab
Technical Session The Next Generation z/OS Overview
Technical Session Women in IT: Multi-tenured Perspectives
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Hands-On with Ansible on z/CX
Technical Session Learning Ansible through Examples!
Designer
Technical Session How to Measure and Improve Your DevOps Efficiency Using Endevor Insights
Program Director, Product Management and Strategy, Compilation Technologies, and Enterprise Products Canada
Technical Session Accelerating COBOL 6 Upgrade with COBOL Upgrade Advisor
Technical Session Compilers and Programming Languages on z/OS
Technical Session Importance of Semeru (Java) on IBM Z
Technical Session Modernize and Improve Performance of COBOL Applications on z17
Product Manager for AIOps
Technical Session "I Just Want to Fix the Mainframe": Escaping the ServiceNow Swivel Chair
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Technical Session From SMF to AI: Applying Machine Learning to CICS Performance Analytics
Offering Manager
Technical Session Modern Developer Experience: Easytrieve in VS Code
Client Services Consultant
Technical Session Turn Data into Db2 Insights with Python Notebooks
R&D Manager
Technical Session AI-powered Impact Analysis and App Understanding
Technical Session Dynamic Resources and the IMS Repository (IMSRSC) – What, Why and How
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: Broadcom’s Bingo & Bites: Fuel Up and Laugh Out Loud (Broadcom)
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: The Platform Behind the Business: The Talent Multiplier (Broadcom)
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Technical Session 50 Years of Insight: What’s New in IBM Z OMEGAMON
Technical Session Bringing Visibility to Your IBM Z Software Landscape: See Clearly. Run Smart. Pay for What Matters.
Technical Session From 6 Hours to 6 Minutes: Automating z/OS with Ansible
Technical Session Getting Started with Data Center Automation and Agentic AI
Technical Session What's New in IBM Z System Automation 4.4
Technical Session Modernizing Application Development & Delivery at TD: A Case Study
Technical Session Top Guns Share Best Practices
Technical Session Attracting New Talent and Driving Developer Productivity
Technical Session How to Measure and Improve Your DevOps Efficiency Using Endevor Insights
Technical Session Modernizing Application Development & Delivery at TD: A Case Study
Senior IMS Client Services Consultant
Technical Session Level Up Your IMS Performance: The Ultimate Guide to Reorg Mastery
Technical Session What’s New, Not So New, and Coming in DFSMS
Technical Session Python on z/OS - When And Where To Use It
Agile Lead
Client Services Consultant
Technical Session BYOD Lab: A CI/CD Workshop with Zowe CLI and Jenkins
Technical Session Open Source and the Mainframe Panel: Ask Me Anything?
Technical Session All Aboard the Network Express!
Technical Session IPv6 Compliance Updates for z/OS Communications Server
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Performance Update
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Technical Update: Summer 2026 Edition
Product Manager for AIOps
Technical Session "I Just Want to Fix the Mainframe": Escaping the ServiceNow Swivel Chair
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Performing AI Queries with SQL Data Insights Pro
Distinguished Engineer
Technical Session Db2 GenAI: Auto-Pilot for the Performance Boss Fight
Product Owner
Technical Session Beyond Editing in Git - Sync, Build, and Deploy!
Technical Session My All-Time Db2 Top Ten Lists
Technical Session Attracting New Talent and Driving Developer Productivity
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Rocket Software: What if you could talk with your mainframe? (Rocket Software)
Technical Session Rebels With a Cause: Everyday Acts of Leadership
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Solution Architect
Technical Session Alert Orchestration: Curbing Fatigue with Intelligent Forwarding
Vantage Product Manager
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Technical Session Answers in Seconds: Rethinking the Mainframe Skills Gap
Technical Session From Insight to Execution: Governing AI Agents on the Mainframe
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Technical Session Neurodiversity - In Action React or Respond
Technical Session Back to Basics: From SMP/E to Modern Software Update. What’s Changed and What Hasn’t
Technical Session Bit Bucket Pittsburgh 2026
Technical Session Change is Inevitable. Growth is Optional. Adapting, Learning, and Leading in Modern IT Environments
Technical Session Opening Session: z/OS and Hardware Track
Architect of z/OS AI Core Infrastructure. STSM z/OS Development United States of America
Technical Session AI Infused z/OS: Overview and Updates
Technical Session Agentic AI for z/OS: Trust, Governance, and the Path Forward
Security Product Manager
Technical Session Bringing AI to the Heart of the Enterprise with IBM Z
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Expiring Trust: Addressing Impending Digital Certificate Deadlines (Broadcom)
Senior Solutions Advisor, Z Center of Excellence United States of America
Technical Session AI MCP Protocol Explained: The Right and Wrong Use Cases for MCP in z/OS
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Using AI to Speak to Your Mainframe in Natural Language
Technical Session Security Considerations for Implementing GenAI on z/OS
Technical Session BYOD Lab: 'Next Generation z/OS' Lab
Technical Session The Next Generation z/OS Overview
Technical Session Unlocking More from DS8000: The Software Behind the System
Technical Session What's New on the IBM DS8000 G10 Storage Family
Dev Manager, Infrastructure Team
Agile Lead
Security Product Owner
Product Manager
Technical Session From Data Deluge to Decisive Action: Mainframe Intelligence with MICS
Technical Session Broken Databases, Hard Lessons
Principal Product Owner
Technical Session DCOLLECT - Just Add REXX
Technical Session Virtual Tape Migration - Planning for Movement
Technical Session Foundational Mainframe Stability and Resiliency
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Technical Session Modernizing Observability for IBM MQ
Technical Session Smarter Messaging with MQ: Agentic AI, MCP, and More on z/OS
Technical Session What's New in IBM MQ - OTEL, AI, and More
Technical Session Proactive Monitoring Strategies: Static, Dynamic, and Complex
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Technical Session IP Packet Filtering and IPsec on z/OS
Technical Session Upgrading to TLS1.3 and PQC Readiness
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Technical Update: Summer 2026 Edition
Modernization Architect
Technical Session Modernizing the Mainframe with the Modern Muscle of z/COBOL
Technical Session Modernizing the Mainframe with the Modern Muscle of z/Cobol
Db2 Solution Architect
Technical Session Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Can Your Mainframe Withstand a Ransomware Attack? A Live Cyber Resilience Demonstration (BMC)
Client Services Consultant
Technical Session Turn Data into Db2 Insights with Python Notebooks
VP Infrastructure
Technical Session How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CIS Benchmark
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Navigating Global Compliance: A Case Study (Vanguard Integrity Professionals)
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Technical Session Leveraging Git and VS Code Tooling for Your Mainframe Applications
Technical Session MCP Servers for Your Mainframe
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Expiring Trust: Addressing Impending Digital Certificate Deadlines (Broadcom)
Offering Manager
Technical Session Modernizing the Mainframe Developer Experience with Zowe: TD Bank's Strategy for Empowering the Next Generation
Technical Session Modernizing the Mainframe Developer Experience with Zowe: TD Bank's Strategy for Empowering the Next Generation
Technical Session Simplifying and Opening the Mainframe to Clients with the Zowe Command Line Interface
Technical Session The Future of Mainframe: Zowe, AI, and the New-to-z SME
Technical Session The Future of Mainframe: Zowe, AI, and the New-to-z SME
Technical Session Medical Mutual: Git-Driven DevOps Transformation
Technical Session Modernization Means Apps, Not Platform
Technical Session Stay Irreplaceable as AI Codes
Technical Session All Aboard the Network Express!
Technical Session IPv6 Compliance updates for z/OS Communications Server
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Performance Update
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Technical Update: Summer 2026 Edition
Software Engineer
Technical Session The End of TCP? HTTP/3, QUIC, and the z/OS Network Future
Technical Consultant
Technical Session 10 Legacy Decisions That Are Security Risks Today
Technical Session The Secret Life of SAF: What Happens When You Press Enter
Technical Session IPv6 Compliance Updates for z/OS Communications Server
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Performance Update
Software Architect
Technical Session High-Velocity CICS: Delivering Mainframe Data via Low-Latency APIs
Technical Session Tips, Tricks, and Insights into Diagnosing Common IBM z/OS Errors
Technical Session IP Packet Filtering and IPsec on z/OS
Technical Session z/OS Communications Server Network Security Overview
Software Architect
Technical Session How to Build Real-Time Mainframe Observability Pipelines
Product Marketing Engineer
DevOps Architect
Technical Session BYOD Lab: A CI/CD Workshop with Zowe CLI and Jenkins
STSM for Z Integration
Technical Session A Modern Approach to Developing with APIs on Z
Technical Session Neurodiversity and Z
Technical Session Write Your CICS Applications in VS Code - Find Out How!
Technical Session Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry
Technical Session Why Is My Dataset on Volume XYZ123?
Technical Session UNIX System Services: How It Works, and How to Fix It When It Doesn't
Technical Session How to Maintain HA and DR Readiness During Data Migration with GDPS
Technical Session Improve Your RTO & RPO with a Multi-site Resiliency Solutions
Technical Session Fix the JCL Before It Breaks the Job
Technical Session Why Is It Slow, Why Is It Full, and Why Does It Cost That Much
Technical Session The New IBM z17 & LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Family Technical Overview
Technical Session Flying Through Storage Migration Without Turbulence
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Technical Session Smarter, Faster, Leaner: Performance Unlocked with WLM Updates for z/OS 3.2 and IBM z
Technical Session WSC zOS System Programmer Hot Topics From "the Burgh"
Technical Session z/OS Performance Hot Topics and Performance Track Opening
Technical Session DDF Best Practices
Technical Session Tackle Succession Planning Like the Steelers: Build a Legacy That Lasts
Technical Session Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 for z/OS
Technical Session Protecting Your Db2 for z/OS Environment from Cyber Attacks
Agile Lead
Technical Session IBM z17 HMC Round 2 Enhancements
Product Manager
Technical Session AI-powered Impact Analysis and App Understanding
Technical Session Code4z: Boosting Development Efficiency with a Modern Mainframe DevX
Technical Session From Copybooks to SQL: Modernizing IMS Metadata with the IMS Catalog
Technical Session The Future of AI on IBM Z and LinuxONE!
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Technical Session Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry
Technical Session BYOD Lab: z/OSMF Hands-On Lab
Technical Session What's New in z/OS 3.2: Steel City Edition
Technical Session z/OS 3.2 Upgrade: Planning and Technical Actions
Technical Session z/OS Next: Simplification Initiatives, Deprecations, and Migrations
Offering Manager
Technical Session Beyond the Vault: Enhancing Your Storage Cyber Resilience
Technical Session Bringing AI to the Heart of the Enterprise with IBM Z
Technical Session The Future of AI on IBM Z and LinuxONE!
Technical Session What's New in z/OS 3.2: Steel City Edition
Technical Session Accessing IBM Z NetView Off the Mainframe
Technical Session Accessing NetView APIs
Technical Session JES2 z/OS 3.2 Product Update and Latest Status
Technical Session What’s New in SDSF in zOS 3.2
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Build You Own Agent with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z
Technical Session Generative and Agentic AI with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z
Technical Session Securing IMS with Multi-factor Authentication
Technical Session The Value Proposition of IMS on Z - High Availability and Resiliency
Technical Session Modern Storage Management UI and APIs
Technical Session z/OS Storage Management APIs and Use Cases
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) LNL: Changing the game for mainframe developers with IBM Bob (IBM)
Technical Session 50 Years of Insight: What’s New in IBM Z OMEGAMON
Technical Session BYOD Lab: Build You Own Agent with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z
Technical Session Building Intelligent Agents for IBM watsonx Assistant for Z
Technical Session Generative and Agentic AI with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP) PSP: Rocket Software: What if you could talk with your mainframe? (Rocket Software)
Technical Session Mainframes and the Dark Web... Should We Care??
Technical Session Planet Mainframe zRoadshow Summer 2026
Technical Session In the Clouds with DFSMS
Technical Session Object Storage in the Mix for z/OS Storage - Managing with CDA
Technical Session Aliens, Computers and Hollywood
Technical Session How to Captain Your USS Environment (z/OS UNIX) - Sudo, Shells, SSH and Beyond Bourne
Technical Session Open Source and the Mainframe Panel: Ask Me Anything?
Technical Session Top Open Source Powerups No Mainframer Should Be Without
Technical Session How to Easily Exploit Your Off-Peak zIIP Engines and zEDC Compression
Technical Session Storage Management - Dinner
Technical Session Storage Management - Free For All
Technical Session Storage Management - Free For All
User Experience
Technical Session Proactive Monitoring Strategies: Static, Dynamic, and Complex
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Technical Session Automating Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Deployments
Technical Session IBM Secure Execution for Linux
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Product Manager
Technical Session Don’t Be Static – Be Session Manager DYNAMIC