GSE UK Virtual Conference 2024

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Time Table

Jump To Monday 22nd April
Jump To Tuesday 23rd April
Jump To Wednesday 24th April
Jump To Thursday 25th April

Monday 22nd April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: IBM Z New Innovations and Skills Meredith Stowell IBM USA 16:00 - 17:00

Tuesday 23rd April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Conference Opening Mark Wilson Vertali Limited 08:30 - 08:45
Break 08:45 - 09:00
Virtual Room 1 1A Transforming Customer Interactions using Generative AI Deepak Chopra BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2A Part 1 -Embrace change - How to Move to IMS Catalog, Directory, and DDL in IMS Snehal Nalage BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3A AI AI AI what has Turing started ;) Henri Kuiper zDevOps 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4A What's new in the foundation of CICS TS 6.2? Jenny He IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5A What’s new in MQ Alex Chatt IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6A Navigating the Fast Lane: Beginner's Guide to Advanced Db2 Performance Tuning Saurabh Pandey BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7A Five Different Performance Insights: A Practical Overview Mary Solomon SMT Data 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8A Think Your Mainframe’s Secure? Think Again Michael McKay Rocket Software UK Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 9 9A Discover exciting enhancements in Z ChatOps Wolfgang Schaeberle IBM Europe 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AA Achieve world-class High Availability and Disaster Recovery with IBM GDPS Ivan Deleuze IBM 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1B Youthful Perspectives within an Aging Workforce Dana Conway Lloyds Banking Group 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2B Part 2 -Embrace change - How to Move to IMS Catalog, Directory, and DDL in IMS Snehal Nalage BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3B AI is the rocket fuel for unlocking value on mainframe data Eddie Roe IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4B Ansible and z/OS Cloud Broker in action with CICS TS Andrew Twydell IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5B Migrating your MQI application to JMS Matt Leming IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6B When reality "derails" capacity planning for Db2 z/OS Michal Bialecki IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7B Drawers, Of Course Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8B Extended compliance reporting with zSecure Audit Marina Zografova IBM The Netherland 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9B Building integrated experiences for ZXP and OMPCOBOL with ZOSMF and SMAPI Ross Cruickshank IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AB What’s new in SDSF for z/OS 3.1 Rob Scott Rocket Software UK Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Lunch & Learn 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1D Applying for Jobs: Reality vs Fiction Niall Ashley Vertali Limited 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2D Deal with growing cybersecurity risks and do Real-time and after-the-event IMS analytics, all at the same time Santosh Belgaonkar BMC Software Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3D What role does replication play in a successful mainframe modernisation project? Charles Struijve Precisely Limited 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4D Thinking about concealing your gender identity as a woman on a resume? Swathi Javvaji Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5D Using SmartTrace to Diagnose Real World Network Issues Phillip Schoen Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6D Getting into the Mainframe Business Devonte’ Hawkins IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 7 7D Do I really know how my FICON infrastructure is connected! SMF data can be used to help you see what you have and how it is connected. John Ticic IntelliMagic 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 8 8D Encrypting the RACF database: A demonstration and some considerations Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw GSE UK 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 9 9D Time for a check-up? Boost your operational resiliency with proactive performance health analysis. Chris Walker IBM USA 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 10 AD Modernization starts with your Code Anthony Anter BMC Software Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1E Crafting Your Narrative: The Art and Science of Building a Powerful Personal Brand Anthony Anter BMC Software Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2E Testing on the mainframe without knowing the mainframe Louisa Seers IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3E Modernize mainframes workloads with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Fabio Alessandro Locati Red Hat 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4E The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations Scott Brod Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5E Panel Discussion Aileen Wynne Allied Irish Bank, P.l.c. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6E Run-It-Back - Db2 for z/OS all new 2024 SWAT Tales Anthony Ciabattoni IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 7 7E Case Study:  Successful Performance Optimization Miroslava Barahona Rossi Kyndryl 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 8 8E Freeze attackers in their tracks How instantaneous detection and suspend/resume revolutionize cyber resiliency Al Saurette MainTegrity Inc 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 9 9E Improve Enterprise Automation Agility by Leveraging REST Philip Strohecker Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 10 AE Real time data sharing via Z in-memory cache Vishal Gupta IBM 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Virtual Room 1 1F Cybersecurity & Pokémon? Surely not... Niall Ashley Vertali Limited 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 2 2F Welcome to Zowe, the new face of mainframe computing Joe Winchester IBM UK LTD. 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 3 3F Bridging the gap: COBOL – Java. Take it to the next level with Python, Go and Node.js Chandni Dinani IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 4 4F Bring REST APIs to your mainframe applications Andrew Smithson IBM UK LTD. 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 5 5F NetMaster: Benefits of enabling zERT Phillip Schoen Broadcom Mainframe Software 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 6 6F New Dimension of Resiliency and Recovery using Db2, Cyber Vault and Safeguarded copies Anthony Ciabattoni IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 7 7F I/O, I/O It’s Home to Memory We (Should) Go Scott Chapman EPS 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 8 8F Proactive Incident Management with AI/ML for Anomaly Analytics Tim Brooks IBM 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 9 9F Advanced memory browse using SDSF Rob Scott Rocket Software UK Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 10 AF CFP: Talk topic: Auto-provisioning zVM accounts with Node.js and SMAPI Ross Cruickshank IBM 16:30 - 17:30

Wednesday 24th April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1G What’s new in VSP 5000 family Alain BEAUREGARD Hitachi Vantara Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2G Ensuring Data Continuity: Hybrid Cloud Strategies for Resilience in IMS Environments Anshul Agrawal BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3G Ansible for z/OS 101 Sujit Neb BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4G COBOLEval: How Well Can Large Language Models (LLMs) Write Code? Gabriel Gordon-Hall bloop AI Limited 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5G Storage Violations in CICS - prevention, detection and recovery Steve Foley IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6G Driving Down Database Development Dollars Marcus Davage BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7G The pitfalls and tradeoffs in allocating mainframe costs to the business Steven Thomas SMT Data 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8G The ABC´s of dashboarding your mainframe statistics using Grafana Toine Michielse Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 9 9G What’s New in z/OS 3.1? Steve Warren IBM USA 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AG Lend Your Voice to Your Mainframe: An Experiment Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1H Why object storage and why now? Mike Liberman BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2H Dynamically manage aspects of your IMS Connect environment without recycling IMS Connect Divyam Bhatia BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3H Art Teacher to Db2 Consultant Elitsa Popova BMC Mainframe Services 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4H AI-Driven Insights: Transforming Application Performance Management in a Hybrid IT Environment Rod Dyson Rocket Software UK Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5H Experiences on upgrading to CICS TS 6.1 Rob Stroud National Westminster Bank (Natwest) 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6H Db2 13 Application Development Topics Emil Kotrc Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7H Parallel Sysplex Performance Topics Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8H Where does your Ansible code come from? Fabio Alessandro Locati Red Hat 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9H IzWS Past, Present and Future Marco Cardelli HCL Technologies 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AH Automate IBM on Z infrastructure to deliver cloud native services Diego D'addeo Sogei 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Lunch & Learn 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1J Unlocking Rapid Data Recovery and Minimizing Downtime John Crossno Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2J Introduction to Ansible on z/OS Andrew Hughes IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3J A Day in the Life of a Db2 for z/OS Database Administrator Peter Plevka BMC Software Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4J Achieving Code Reuse across Different Mainframe Integration Architectures Edoardo Luppi HCL Technologies 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5J CICS Security Definition Capture and Validation Mark Lawrence IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6J How to Build an Internal Mainframe Talent Pool Darren Surch Interskill Learning 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 7 7J Db2 for z/OS Data Sharing: Performance Considerations Mark Rader IBM USA 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 8 8J Anti-Malware for z/OS: What does it mean? Bryan Childs IBM USA 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 9 9J What’s new in OMEGAMON to support integration with hybrid cloud operations and monitoring z/OS workloads. Steven Solomon Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 10 AJ Address space 101 – Understanding what an address space is Rob Scott Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1K What’s new in PowerMax storage for Mainframe Bruce Klenk DELL Technologies 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2K "Best of" the ISPF Master Classes Dan Dirkse MindSpring 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3K The Next Generation of Mainframers Michael Bauer Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4K Unit Testing Reimagined from a Developer perspective Petr Vacula Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5K What’s New in z/OS Communications Server: z/OS 3.1 CS Update Sam Reynolds IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6K Application Modernization – Considered those Db2 for z/OS Capabilities? Maryela Weihrauch IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 7 7K Db2 for z/OS 101: Db2 and WLM Keziah Knopp IBM 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 8 8K RACF Update Mark Nelson IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 9 9K Enhanced OMEGAMON implementation and configuration with the latest IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager toolkit updates. Matthias Tschaffler Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 10 AK How to achieve true Continuous Availability for your applications on IBM Z Steve Wall IBM 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Virtual Room 1 1L Building a Cyber Shield for Your Data Al Saurette MainTegrity Inc 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 2 2L Take the Leap to IMS Pervasive Encryption Gary Turner BMC Software Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 3 3L Customer in Production: Our modernisation journey Tom Slattery IBM UK LTD. 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 4 4L Git native development is here, now what? Anthony Anter BMC Software Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 5 5L Utilizing GenAI to query databases with sensitive data Michal Hotovec Broadcom Mainframe Software 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 6 6L Db2 for z/OS and REST access: How can you provide REST access to your Db2 resources? Tori Felt IBM 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 7 7L Enterprise: Generations Reg Harbeck Mainframe Analytics Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 8 8L Fundamentals of z/VM Security and Cyber Resiliency Brian W Hugenbruch IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 9 9L IBM and IntelliMagic bring Vision to IBM Z in the cloud Jean-Marc van der Kolk Intellimagic 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 10 AL What's new with ZOAU? Anthony Giorgio IBM 16:30 - 17:30

Thursday 25th April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1M Managing and monitoring mainframe Environments with Modern Tools, Unisphere for PowerMax UI, Dell Cloud IQ and REST API Paul E Martin DELL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3M How can we use AI and user behavior for better security monitoring David Lea BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4M Elevate your DevOps Game with Jenkins for Python Applications: Multi-Platform Deployment Sujit Neb BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5M What’s new in the IBM MQ REST API and MQ Console Gwydion Tudur IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7M Hard Skills through the looking glass: An AoC '23 Retrospective Henri Kuiper zDevOps 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8M Resilient Horizons: Mainframe DORA Unveiling Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Benoit Baufays Deloitte 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 9 9M Upgrading IzWS Anna Dawson IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AM Cyber Resiliency, DORA, regulations…Why is being resilient so difficult! Rebecca M Levesque 21st Century Software 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1N Improve your RTO & RPO with a multi-site resiliency solutions Anthony Morales IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2N Deploying a CICS Application on Z using Ansible Tom Slattery IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3N “It’s just one straw”, said 8 billion people! Wendy Rentschler BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4N When Units Tests Just Aren’t Enough, Application Integration is Key William Yates IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5N Getting the most out of your MQ Accounting and Statistics (Distributed platforms) Morag Hughson MQGem Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6N Unleashing Hidden Business Value: Db2 for z/OS and SQL Data Insights Vineet Dumir IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7N Pragmatic Python for Systems Programmers Steven Perva Ensono 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8N zSecure Admin WebUI Akash Shah IBM The Netherland 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9N Modernize mainframes operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Fabio Alessandro Locati Red Hat 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AN SSO and the Mainframe; Are You Ready to Leverage It? Elliot Jalley Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1O Ransomware protection for your Mainframe data Brett Quinn DELL Technologies 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2O What Every z/OS System Programmer needs to know about AI Edit Steve Warren IBM USA 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3O Automation & Containers - Two guaranteed areas of the mainframe future Sujit Neb BMC Software Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4O Mission impossible: Collaboration! Hizir Cagin Bektas Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5O CICS Interdependency Analyzer in Devops Mohit Padwa HCL Technologies 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6O Passing the Db2 technical interview Javier Estrada Benavides Kyndryl 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 7 7O z/OS 3.1 Experiences with Dedicated Memory David Betten IBM USA 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 8 8O Db2 Security: Safeguarding Your Data Klaudiusz Konieczka Ensono 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 9 9O How does Open Telemetry Improve Observability of the Mainframe? Ruediger Schulze IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 10 AO Empowering Legacy: Bridging the Gap with Mainframe Modernization Yogini Upadhye BMC Software Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1P Unlocking Mainframe Data Resilience: A 'live' demo of Data Protector for z Systems (zDP) Gary Smoak DELL Technologies 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2P What to do when it all goes wrong at 3am Chris Harvey Vertali Limited 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3P My GenZ Mainframe Experience: Db2 Installation on z/OS Anna McKee IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4P IBM Hybrid Cloud based mainframe DevOps (CI/CD) for development, testing and production René De Vleeschauwer Ikan Development 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5P CICS Resource Builder & Resource Override Chris Hodgins IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6P SQL performance monitoring with analytics and interactive visualization through Grafana Vi An Lieu REWE Group 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 7 7P Game Theory and Mainframe Event Management - Monitoring 100s of LPARS Linda Carroll Ensono 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 8 8P Advanced Trends in Authentication - Evolution of Software Defined Federated Authentication Apurv Raj Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 9 9P Streamline System Alerts and Monitor z/OS using SYSVIEW’s Cutting-Edge Technology Zaid Alattar Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 10 AP Creating a modern Web user interface from legacy 3270 screens with Virtel Screen Redesigner Sebastian Dewar Virtel 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1Q A Roadmap to Leverage Object Storage Glenn Wilcock IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2Q Embrace DevOps for IMS Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3Q Mainframes at 60 Daniel Ruehl 21st Century Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4Q Killer Crypto with Go on z/OS Bill O'Farrell IBM 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5Q CICS Liberty Profile: Java on the Mainframe in Sixty Minutes Ezriel Gross Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6Q Db2 application recovery tips, tricks and best practices Tom Crocker Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 7 7Q The Highs and Lows: How does HiperDispatch Really Impact CPU Efficiency? Scott Chapman EPS 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 8 8Q Defending the APF, methods new & old Bryan Childs IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 9 9Q Secure Engineering - How to develop authorized code without compromising z/OS system integrity Rob Scott Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 10 AQ Automating PTF Maintenance Using an Open-First Approach Jan Prihoda Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Virtual Room 1 1R Lessons on SQL Pagination in Db2 for z/OS Emil Kotrc Broadcom Mainframe Software 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 2 2R Understanding How a CM0 SL1, CM1 SL0 and CM1 SL1 Input Message Sent to IMS Connect Works Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 3 3R Navigating Mainframe Education: Empowering Every Generation Sean Rooney Broadcom Mainframe Software 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 4 4R Everyone is talking Platform Engineering, why should I care Anthony Anter BMC Software Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 5 5R CICSPlex SM - A Minimalist Approach Ezriel Gross Rocket Software UK Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 6 6R The Right Stuff: Effective Skills and Learning Strategies for the Mainframe Community Laticia Carrow DDC IT Services 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 7 7R Young and Seasoned Linda Carroll Ensono 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 8 8R Don't be the one: How one line of code can compromise your system integrity Scott Woolley IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 9 9R Using GIT with ISPF, yes you really can! Henri Kuiper zDevOps 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 10 AR Kvant - Openstack - for Linux on IBM z and LinuxONE Paul Knight TES Enterprise Solutions Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Keynote: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Mark Wilson. Vertali Limited 17:30 - 18:00
End of Conference 18:00 - 18:10
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