GSE UK Conference 2020

Virtually Unstoppable

Time Table

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Monday 2nd November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Conference Opening Mark Wilson Sponsor: BMC 14:00 - 14:15
Keynote: Mark Anzani - A look back at 38 years in IBM Mark Anzani IBM USA 14:15 - 15:15

Tuesday 3rd November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1AA GDPS Update - GDPS V4.3 and recent SPEs - What's New? Dave Clitherow IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2AA Data Privacy Passports Andy Coulson IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3AA Daily monitoring is the first line of defense Carsten Rasmussen SMT Data 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4AA IZWS roadmap and strategy Marco Cardelli HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5AA Collaborate Better with Eclipse Che: The Kubernetes-native IDE for Dev Teams Dejan Milinkovic Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6AA Modernising the Mainframe: the What, How and Why of Zowe Steven Horsman IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1AB OpenShift: Practical experience Malcolm Beattie IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2AB IBM Cloud Tape Connector and DFSMShsm Advanced Archive Paul Carruthers IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3AB Is treating everyone the same the same as treating everyone equally? Sharon Moore IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4AB Title: Introducing the IBM Z Service Management Explorer on Zowe™ Ashok Mahay IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5AB Remote Science on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship James Sutton IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6AB Db2 by the back door Marcus Davage BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1AC Relevancy of CICS in chapter 2 of the journey to cloud and what's the latest for CICS William Yates IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2AC zSecure Update Rob van Hoboken IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3AC Using Zowe for mainframe DevOps with open source tools, SDKs, APIs and more Joe Winchester IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AC Zowe™ Overview and IBM Z Workload Scheduler Zowe extensions Domenico D'Alterio IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AC Creative Thinking Brainware Upgrade Resli Costabell Costabell Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5AC 101 Intro to Mainframe Hardware Lena Rosch IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6AC Introduction to IPCS Georgi Stoychev IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1AD Data Mapping and Transformation Options in App Connect Dominic Storey IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2AD Recovery challenges in Db2 for z/OS Patric Becker Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3AD Ransomware on Mainframes? You bet Al Saurette Sponsor: MainTegrity Inc 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4AD An Exploration of CA OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation Alert Center Michal Hotovec Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5AD Revisiting WLM Options for the Modern Mainframe Scott Chapman EPS 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6AD Reached the IMS Database 4/8gig line, Now What? Nick Griffin Sponsor: BMC 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1AE zCX Performance considerations Nick Matsakis IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2AE Enhancing the Foundation of CICS Jenny He IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3AE Protection and Compliance for Today's Connected Mainframe Stuart McIrvine Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4AE Transforming Your Batch Resiliency Strategy through Analytics and Automation Chris Walker IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5AE Lessons on Optimizing Processor Cache From z15 Upgrade: Case Studies Todd Havekost IntelliMagic 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6AE SQL assurance - A new perspective Steve Solomon Sponsor: BMC 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Keynote: COBOL in its 7th decade Derek Britton Sponsor: OpenText 16:30 - 17:30
30 Minute Break 17:30 - 18:00
Quiz Night 18:00 - 20:00

Wednesday 4th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1AF Are you wasting money because of SIIS? Danilo Gipponi EPV Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2AF How we ran it - z/OS data set encryption project Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw BMC Mainframe Services 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3AF Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler with REST API Federica Gari HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4AF Panel Discussion - Women should be heard and not obscene Resli Costabell Costabell Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5AF AIOps: Automation at its Finest: An Exploration of Alerting Mohamad Joni Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6AF Creating a New Generation of Practical Mainframers Michael Carey 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1AG Is my z15 performing as expected? Danilo Gipponi EPV Technologies 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2AG OpenShift on Z - DevEx Workshop Walk through and Demo Adrian Keward Sponsor: Red Hat 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3AG A Guided Visualisation to Increase Creative Thinking Resli Costabell Costabell Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4AG ISPF Master Class - DSLISTs and Member Lists and UDLISTs (Oh My!) Dan Dirkse 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5AG Automatic Detection of Performance Degradation and Analysis as Part of CI/CD Pipeline Ekaterina Tumanova Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1AH IMS Virtualization with COPE John Butterweck 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2AH Quantum-Safety–embark on the journey Henrik Lyksborg Sponsor: IBM 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3AH Why Automated Testing on The Mainframe is a Strategy You Can’t Refuse Steen Brahe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AH z/OS 2.4 exploitation - retiring assembler modifications Mike Shorkend Shorkend Associates 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5AH What is AIOps? And How Can It Help Me Manage the Mainframe? Michael Kiehl Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6AH IBM Z Skills Programs & Resources - what's new, free and digital! Paul Fairbairn IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1AI Transforming z/TPF to Linux Kurt Acker Sine Nomine Associates 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2AI DevOps Value Stream Management with ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator Jeff Cherrington 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3AI Visualizing CICS performance data in Splunk using CICS Performance Analyzer Ezriel Gross Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4AI Quick wins with In-memory data optimization for Tailored Fit Pricing Andrew Bowker & Larry Strickland 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5AI What's New in MQ ? Jamie Squibb IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6AI RACF and the Parallel Sysplex Mark Nelson IBM USA 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1AJ Java Update for CICS TS 5.6 + UK Customer Java CICS Experience Phil Wakelin IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2AJ Gain visibility into workload interdependencies Daniel Wiegand Sponsor: IBM 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3AJ Understanding TS7700 Object Store for z/OS data Eddie Lin IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4AJ How to Defy Gravity: Overcoming Challenges of Integrating the Mainframe in Multi-Cloud IT Daniel Saunders Luminex 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5AJ Yes, And: How Collaboration Energizes Your Team's Performance Glenn Anderson Legal & General 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6AJ REST APIs and MQ - What choices do you have ? Matt Leming IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
60 Minute Break 16:00 - 17:00
Lunch & Learn 16:00 - 17:00
Keynote: Mainframes and the Moon Mark Nelson IBM USA 17:00 - 18:00

Thursday 5th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1AL RACF vs ACF2 Eamonn McGrath Sponsor: BMC 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2AL Using Splunk to proactively manage Mainframe security and to provide real-time insights for mainframe IT Operation Analytics Colin Knight 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3AL Mental Rehearsal: Visualizing failure to ensure you are ready and prepared Ian MacDonald CITP FBCS ITSM Consultancy 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4AL What Would it Look Like if we Migrated to Git for z/OS Applications Joseph Taffe-Atkins IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1AM Openshift for z Overview Adrian Keward Sponsor: Red Hat 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2AM The history of containers and what this means for IBM Z Jenn Francis IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3AM Streamline mainframe production with the right Key Performance Indicators Marc Beschi ZETALY 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4AM zIIP Capacity And Performance Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5AM Enabling your mainframe to take part in your end-to-end application observability journey Nicole Nemec Sponsor: IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6AM Protecting your MQ messages with encryption Jamie Squibb IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1AN Automation and Measurement makes the DBA job easier Marcin Grabinski 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3AN IMS User Experience with a DevOps CI/CD Workflow Harshit Vijay Sponsor: BMC 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AN Spend less time Administering your OMEGAMON environments! Ashok Mahay IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5AN Mainframes & Malware, an impossible combination? Henri Kuiper zDevOps 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6AN Easy start in zOS with one of the most popular IDEs Kiryl Branavitski IBA Group 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1AO Better MQ z/OS Performance Through Understanding the Internals Gwydion Tudur IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3AO Still manually managing Batch workloads to completion? A risk too far? Kelly Vogt 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4AO Life in the fast lane: zHyperlink John Baker IntelliMagic 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5AO Intro to z/OS Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1AP Minimising HSM CPU and elapsed times Shannon Gallaher IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2AP Efficiently manage your mainframe storage with Mainframe Operations Analytics Roberto Pacheco ZETALY 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3AP 7 Super secrets of a Systems Programmer Chris Van Wagner IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4AP Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about RACLIST and WAY, WAY More! Ross Cooper IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5AP How to install a z/OS product using the new z/OS installation strategy Marna Walle IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6AP Db2 12 SQL - Including Function Levels 501-507 Chris Crone Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Virtual Room 1 1BG zPRO V4 - Turbocharged Management for your Linux on Z Private Cloud James Vincent Sponsor: Velocity Software GmbH 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 2 2BG Install an SMP/E PTF with a web browser? Yes, with z/OSMF! Marna Walle IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 3 3BG Getting insights from your mainframe data with Model9 and AWS BI & Analytics Portfolio Eyal David Model9 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 4 4BG Multi-Factor-Authentication Julie Bergh Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 5 5BG Costs to enable TLS or IPSec for different workload patterns Michael Fitzpatrick IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 6 6BG How TDMF works, how to use it, and day-to-day uses for TDMF with Dev Ops John Hogan 16:30 - 17:30

Monday 9th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Conference Opening - 2nd Week Mark Wilson Sponsor: BMC 14:00 - 14:15
Keynote: Opening Up Mainframe to Empower Digital Innovation Greg Lotko Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 14:15 - 15:15

Tuesday 10th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1AQ Oracle on LinuxONE and IBM Z Philippe Deverge Sponsor: IBM 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2AQ Intro to Storage Georgina Macrae IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3AQ Finetune your mainframe performance through the analysis of WLM and HIS Roberto Pacheco ZETALY 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4AQ So You Don't Think You're An Architect? Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5AQ What's New in Db2 Tools from Broadcom Julia Carter Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6AQ Bring your mainframe source code from the 80s dance floor into the TikTok era Craig Hartwell 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1AR No point in a moat if the drawbridge is open Mark Wilson Sponsor: BMC 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2AR Mainframe Education : A GSE DACH Regional perspective Prof Dr Philipp Brune Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4AR Slashing mainframe data management cost and reducing MSU consumption by 90%, offloading processing to zIIPs Dan Shprung Model9 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5AR Evaluating Latent Demand in the Mainframe Environment Peter Enrico EPS 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6AR z/OS Connect EE update: Making APIs on Z a Reality Anthony Papageorgiou IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1AS Introducing IBM HyperProtect Jenn Francis IBM 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2AS Vanilla mainframe Agile Yuliya Varonina IBA Group 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3AS Break the silos approach through a cross-domain UI and a collaborative tool Wolfgang Schaeberle IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AS z/OS CPU Measurements Demystified Scott Chapman EPS 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5AS CICS Java Application Development for Everyone Stewart Francis IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6AS Accelerating Value in the API Economy with IMS Systems Aman Dwivedi Sponsor: BMC 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1AT z/OS Container Extensions: An Introduction to Running Linux on z Docker Containers Inside z/OS Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2AT It's not new in CICS, But it might be new to you - Using existing CICS technology in pragmatic ways William Yates IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3AT Automating JCL changes through the life cycle David Fleishman 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4AT Performance Degradation and Analysis as Part of CI/CD Pipeline Ekaterina Tumanova Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5AT Automic Automation Intelligence: Manage Your SLAs Across Workload Automation Platforms and Vendors Jennifer Chisik Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6AT Building pipelines for Db2 for z/OS Jørn Thyssen Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1AU IBM z/OS on z15 Hardware Marna Walle IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2AU How investing in your mainframe developers can accelerate Digital Transformation. Brian Crane Sponsor: OpenText 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3AU Addressing the question of 'what if' in capacity management and planning Chris Walker IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4AU Put HSM on an MSU Diet Paul Massengill Luminex 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5AU IBM MQ in Containers, zCX and the Cloud Pak for Integration Matt Leming IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6AU Leveraging VSAM to provide a general high performance document store on z/OS Barb McDonald IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Keynote: IBM eco System Meredith Stowell IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Time for Dinner 17:30 - 19:30
Keynote: Quiz hosted by Macro 4 Macro 4 Sponsor: Macro 4 Limited 19:30 - 20:30

Wednesday 11th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1AV CICS Interfaces - Customer Experiences (Including Z/OS Connect) Rob Stroud 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2AV DB2 vs IMS Marcus Davage BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3AV How to integrate automation in DevOps and Hybrid Cloud applications Bernd (Josi) Jostmeyer Sponsor: IBM 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4AV Supporting your IT environment with automated application performance monitoring Oliver Presland Ensono 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5AV Redhat IBM Update Sebastien Siegert Sponsor: Red Hat 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6AV From Legacy to Infinity & Beyond Dougie Lawson BMC Mainframe Services 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1AW Managing Db2 Workloads. Hints & Tips for Cost Optimization Valery Aranouski IBA Group 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2AW Your KEY to success for Pervasive Encryption and Multi-Cloud Key Management Isabel Arnold Sponsor: IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3AW How to diagnose and solve z/OS application issues with APIs and subsystems Ashok Mahay IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4AW Capacity and Performance before and after a major infrastructure transition Steven Thomas SMT Data 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5AW Shift-Left DevOps with the Growing Zowe Ecosystem Sujay Solomon Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6AW CICS self-service provisioning using IBM z/OS Cloud Broker Steve Foley IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1AX The Next Step in the Evolution of Multi-Factor Controls to Protect Critical z/OS System Datasets and Files Glennon Bagsby NewEra Software, Inc. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2AX Integration testing of z powered hybrid cloud applications with Galasa William Yates IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3AX How to Grow a Mainframer Neal Cash Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4AX CICS Performance Jenny He IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5AX Performance and IMS, Part 1 James Martin Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6AX Using Rest API's to Simplify Workload Automation Daniel Remta Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1AY IBM Z Security and RACF Update Mark Nelson IBM USA 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2AY Understanding how thin provisioning works with z/OS Nick Clayton IBM UK LTD. 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3AY Exploring CA OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation Mainframe Mohamad Joni Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5AY CICS 102: Introduction to CICS Internals Ezriel Gross Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6AY Administration of IMS Ron Bisceglia Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1AZ Common Holes and a Deep Dive into the Top Prevalent Vulnerabilities that Impact zOS and all ESMs Brian Marshall Vanguard Integrity Professionals Ltd 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2AZ zHyperlink update and Global Mirror support Beth Peterson IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3AZ NetMaster - Security Center and RoadMap Paul Schuler Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4AZ Secret Management with IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services Sandeep Batta IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5AZ Integrate IBM Z into enterprise solutions for hybrid cloud visibility Daniel Wiegand Sponsor: IBM 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6AZ Database DevOps for Db2 & IMS Steve Solomon Sponsor: BMC 15:00 - 16:00
60 Minute Break 16:00 - 17:00
Lunch & Learn 16:00 - 17:00
Keynote: Quantum Leigh Chase IBM UK LTD. 17:00 - 18:00

Thursday 12th November

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Virtual Room 1 1BA Best Practices for Mainframe Access Security, Authentication, Compliance, and Data Privacy Malcolm Trigg Sponsor: OpenText 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3BA Upgrading to WAPL Dean Harrison HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4BA EPV on Docker and zCX Danilo Gipponi EPV Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5BA DevOps for DevOps Yuliya Varonina IBA Group 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6BA Taming Python and Db2 for z/os Jørn Thyssen Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:30 - 11:00
Virtual Room 1 1BB Customer case study: Replacing legacy CA products with Cloud Data Management for Mainframe Adi Shtatfeld Model9 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2BB What's New in App Connect Enterprise v11 including zCX Alison Lucas IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3BB What’s new with Workload Automation ESP Edward Blazejewski Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4BB A Day in the life of a Modern Mainframe COBOL Developer Dejan Milinkovic Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5BB DevOps: Git 101 for Mainframers Sylva Bursikova Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6BB Will I Like Mainframe (WiLMA): A project to support recruitment on the mainframe Dr. Herbert Daly University of Wolverhampton 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1BC Intelligent Data Set Level Encryption and Key Rotation Chris Walker IBM USA 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2BC Lloyds Banking Group do AppDev in a dynamically created environment Reg Wilkinson Lloyds Banking Group 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3BC VSAM’s Alive! But we only have 60 minutes to save your performance… Helmut Zwicklbauer 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4BC Controversial z/OS Performance Topics and Guidelines Peter Enrico EPS 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6BC The Cloud Native Developer vs. the DevOps Guru - What's the difference? Richard Gamblin IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
30 Minute Break 13:00 - 13:30
Virtual Room 1 1BD Parallel Sysplex Update Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 2 2BD IBM Z Batch Products-as-a-Service: Compile, Source Management and Reporting in a z/OS Public Mainframe Cloud, License Mainframe COBOL, C++, and other Compilers, Easytrieve, Panvalet and more as-a-Service Vince Re VirtualZ Computing 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 3 3BD Proactively reduce system issues by leveraging machine learning and real time anomaly detection Daniel Wiegand Sponsor: IBM 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 4 4BD I smell a rat - A Linux forensics approach Cristian Coraci 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 5 5BD Security: Digital Certificates on z/OS Basics (Part 1 & 2) Jamieson Walker Broadcom Mainframe Software 13:30 - 14:30
Virtual Room 6 6BD Solutions For Common z/OS Storage Management Problems And Issues Mark Jula Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 13:30 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1BE Db2 for z/OS Utilities Update Haakon Roberts Sponsor: IBM 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 2 2BE MQ Internet Pass-Thru Gwydion Tudur IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 3 3BE Managing and Optimizing workloads in a world without capping. Chris Walker IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 4 4BE Even More Fun With DDF Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 5 5BE What keyring? What certificates? All I know is TLS doesn't work! Wai Choi IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Room 6 6BE The ABCs of IBM Z NetView IP Management Pamela McLean IBM USA 15:00 - 16:00
30 Minute Break 16:00 - 16:30
Virtual Room 1 1BF Bare Metal z15 to Cloud in Two Days Rick Barlow Sponsor: Velocity Software GmbH 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 2 2BF Take more advantage of your z/OS system now! z/OS small enhancements in older release you might have missed Marna Walle IBM USA 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 3 3BF Using “z” data for Mainframe analytics & the loss to your business if you do not Brian Hoare ZETALY 16:30 - 17:30
Virtual Room 4 4BF What’s New in Parmlib Cheryl Watson Watson & Walker, Inc. 16:30 - 17:30
Keynote: Conference Wrap Up & Close Mark Wilson Sponsor: BMC 17:30 - 18:00