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Presentations
Technical Session
"I Just Want to Fix the Mainframe": Escaping the ServiceNow Swivel Chair
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 315
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Languages, API's and Framework
Operations Management and Automation
Introductory
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
10 Legacy Decisions That Are Security Risks Today
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 308
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
2:00 AM and the Process Failed: Modernizing the Storage Admin’s "Nightmare" Workflow
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 303
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Operations Management and Automation
Performance and Capacity Management
Storage Management
Introductory
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
AI-powered Impact Analysis and App Understanding
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 305
DevOps
Machine Learning/AI
All Audiences
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Alert Orchestration: Curbing Fatigue with Intelligent Forwarding
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 315
Operations Management and Automation
Systems Management and Automation
Intermediate
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Attracting New Talent and Driving Developer Productivity
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 317
Zowe
Soft Skills
zNextGen
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 318
Databases
Security and Compliance
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Beyond Editing in Git - Sync, Build, and Deploy!
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 318
DevOps
Enterprise Architecture
Intermediate
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Beyond the Vault: Enhancing Your Storage Cyber Resilience
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 303
Storage Management
All Audiences
Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Technical Session
Boosting Solution Quality: How Platform Engineering Enables Automated Release Testing
9:45am - 10:05am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 318
DevOps
Enterprise Architecture
Hybrid Cloud
Introductory
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Bridging the Gap: Real-Time Mainframe Integration with Cloud & Distributed Systems Using HostBridge
9:45am - 10:05am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 320
CICS
DevOps
Languages, API's and Framework
Intermediate
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
BYOD Lab: A CI/CD Workshop with Zowe CLI and Jenkins
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 316 BYOD LAB
Languages, API's and Framework
Zowe
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
BYOD Lab: Code4z - End-to-End AI-Powered Developer Experience. Bring Your Laptop!
8:00am - 4:45pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 321
Technical Session
Code4z: Boosting Development Efficiency with a Modern Mainframe DevX
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 320
DevOps
Machine Learning/AI
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Db2 GenAI: Auto-Pilot for the Performance Boss Fight
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 318
Databases
Machine Learning/AI
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
DEI, Open Source Software & Mainframe (MF) Transformation, Illustrated via a MF Database Performance Example
10:30am - 10:50am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 320
Languages, API's and Framework
Open Source
Performance and Capacity Management
Zowe
Women in IT (WIT)
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Disk, Allocate, & Vantage: The Storage Admin's Intermediate Power-Up Guide
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 303
Storage Management
Intermediate
Optimize Storage and Data Movement
Technical Session
Don’t Be Static – Be Session Manager DYNAMIC
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 302
Operations Management and Automation
Performance and Capacity Management
All Audiences
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Evolving Ways of Working for the AI Era: Expanding Teams, Improving Flow, Elevating Impact
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 317
Soft Skills
Women in IT (WIT)
Intermediate
Technical Session
From Data Deluge to Decisive Action: Mainframe Intelligence with MICS
3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 302
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Performance and Capacity Management
Intermediate
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
From Dynatrace to Dashboards: A Customer’s Real-World Observability Transformation
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 315
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Operations Management and Automation
Systems Management and Automation
zNextGen
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
From Scripts to Scale: Transforming Automation with OPS/MVS and Ansible
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 308
DevOps
Languages, API's and Framework
Open Source
Operations Management and Automation
z/OS Systems Programming
Intermediate
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Hello Mainframe! Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents to Talk to z/OS
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 305
Machine Learning/AI
z/OS Systems Programming
Zowe
Soft Skills
zNextGen
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
High-Velocity CICS: Delivering Mainframe Data via Low-Latency APIs
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 319
CICS
Databases
Languages, API's and Framework
Intermediate
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
How to Build Real-Time Mainframe Observability Pipelines
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 315
Operations Management and Automation
Introductory
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
How to Easily Exploit Your Off-Peak zIIP Engines and zEDC Compression
10:30am - 10:50am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 302
Technical Session
How to Measure and Improve Your DevOps Efficiency Using Endevor Insights
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Thursday, August 20 Room 318
DevOps
Operations Management and Automation
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
It’s 2026, Do You Know Where Your Crypto Is?
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 305
Quantum Computing
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Technical Session
Level Up Your IMS Performance: The Ultimate Guide to Reorg Mastery
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 320
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Databases
IMS
Performance and Capacity Management
All Audiences
Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP)
LNL: Broadcom’s Bingo & Bites: Fuel Up and Laugh Out Loud (Broadcom)
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP)
LNL: The Platform Behind the Business: The Talent Multiplier (Broadcom)
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 317/318
Technical Session
Mainframe Blind Spots: What You Don’t Know Could be Costing You
9:45am - 10:05am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 309
Operations Management and Automation
Security and Compliance
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Mainframe Trends and What Users Want
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 309
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Introductory
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Modern Developer Experience: Easytrieve in VS Code
3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 318
Databases
Languages, API's and Framework
zNextGen
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Modernizing Application Development & Delivery at TD: A Case Study
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 319
DevOps
Open Source
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Modernizing the Mainframe Developer Experience with Zowe: TD Bank's Strategy for Empowering the Next Generation
9:15am - 10:15am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 305
DevOps
Zowe
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Neurodiversity - In Action React or Respond
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 317
Soft Skills
Introductory
Technical Session
One Conversation, Complete Visibility: AI is Redefining Mainframe Observability
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 305
Machine Learning/AI
Operations Management and Automation
Performance and Capacity Management
Intermediate
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Open Source and the Mainframe Panel: Ask Me Anything?
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 320
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Enterprise Architecture
Machine Learning/AI
Open Source
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Optimization and Simplification Tips for Deploying z/VM Products
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 304
Linux
z/VM Systems Programming
All Audiences
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Prepare for the Security of Today and Tomorrow with ACF2, Top Secret, and Cleanup
3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 308
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Technical Session
Proactive Monitoring Strategies: Static, Dynamic, and Complex
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 302
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Operations Management and Automation
Performance and Capacity Management
Intermediate
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Sponsored Session (LNL/PSP)
PSP: Expiring Trust: Addressing Impending Digital Certificate Deadlines (Broadcom)
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 319
Technical Session
Resilience Strategies to Move Workload Automation from Firefighting to Flow
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 309
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Data Center Management and Resiliency
Operations Management and Automation
All Audiences
Ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Technical Session
Simplifying and Opening the Mainframe to Clients with the Zowe Command Line Interface
3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 305
DevOps
Hybrid Cloud
Zowe
zNextGen
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Stepping Stones to AI: Realize Value at Every Stage of Your Workload Automation Journey
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 309
Languages, API's and Framework
Machine Learning/AI
Operations Management and Automation
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
Storage Management - Free For All
5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 303
Storage Management
All Audiences
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Tackle Succession Planning Like the Steelers: Build a Legacy That Lasts
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 317
Soft Skills
All Audiences
Manage Workloads and Capacity Planning
Technical Session
The End of TCP? HTTP/3, QUIC, and the z/OS Network Future
2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 309
Network Security and Management
Operations Management and Automation
Intermediate
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
The Future of Mainframe: Zowe, AI, and the New-to-z SME
8:00am - 9:00am EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 305
Machine Learning/AI
Zowe
All Audiences
Integrate with Distributed Systems and Cloud
Technical Session
The Secret Life of SAF: What Happens When You Press Enter
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 315
Security and Compliance
zNextGen
Introductory
Technical Session
The SOC’s Missing Link: Bringing Mainframe Events into the Light
9:45am - 10:05am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 308
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Top 10 USS Security Blunders (And How to Fix Them)
3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT Tuesday, August 18 Room 308
Security and Compliance
Introductory
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Turn Data into Db2 Insights with Python Notebooks
1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT Monday, August 17 Room 301
Databases
Languages, API's and Framework
Performance and Capacity Management
All Audiences
Modernize Data Management and Analytics
Technical Session
Verified, Trusted, Simplified: What’s Ahead in Mainframe Software Maintenance
10:30am - 11:30am EDT Monday, August 17 Room 301
Security and Compliance
z/OS Systems Programming
All Audiences
Sessions
Technical Session
Storage Management - Free For All
5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT Wednesday, August 19 Room 303
Storage Management
All Audiences
Troubleshoot and Resolve Complex Issues
Technical Session
Storage Management - Dinner
6:15pm - 8:00pm EDT Wednesday, August 19
Storage Management
All Audiences
Contributors
Zaid Alattar
Andrew Badgley
Justin Bastin
Harish Bhavanichikar
David Bond
Scott Branstetter
Scott Brod
Libor Cerny
Anna Clayton
Mikulus Cserge
Dawn Damore
Jessica Doherty
Carla Flores
Jeff Fontaine
Jason Fournier
Shivram Garg
Cody Giardinello
Vit Gottwald
Thomas Halinski
Steve Hosie
Brian Jagos
Hunter Johnson
Perry Jones
Michael Jordan
Bindu Kandoori
Dan Kelosky
Michael Kiehl
David King
Steve Klimko
Michal Kramaric
Kalyan Lakkavajjhala
Adia Lemessy
Joseph Leong
Greg Lotko
Vaughn Marshall
James Martin
Dave McKenna
Tom McQuitty
Nanxi Meng
Matheus Milani
Brett Morris
Zach Mullen
Machhindra Nale
Machhindra Narayan Nale
Markus Navarro
Milan Patel
Ravi Patil
Naresh Pillarikuppam
Jeff Pinaroc
John Pinkowski
Joe Poole
Alexandru Popa
Jan Prihoda
Tom Quinn
Vishwanath Ramaswamy
Steen Rasmussen
Diego Rodriguez
Narender Sajnani
Rose Sakach
Phil Schoen
Kevin Segreti
Mihir Shah
Greg Shriver
Sandeep Sirivolu
Michal Supak
Jessica Tonda
Joe Valentino
Praveen Verma
Mark Warren
Russell Witt
Stephen Wolf
Jay Zelnick
Session Chairs
Andrew Badgley
Scott Davidson
Angelica Giraldo
Steven Hosie
Brian Jagos
Michael Kiehl
John Pinkowski
Rose Sakach
Jennifer Scott
Russell Witt