Stream: Copse
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Have you ever heard “There’s nothing new in mainframe” or “COBOL is a dead-end career path”? These statements are examples of unconscious bias against technologies. Long studied in social situations, researchers know much about unconscious bias. But can we take the lessons of dealing with bias in the realms of diversity and inclusion and apply them to the bias against mainframe technologies? In this session, we’ll explore where unconscious bias comes from, how we can counter the negative effects of it and attempt to apply those lessons to both our personal relationships and mainframe technologies.
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Through 30 years, 2 companies and 8 career changes, two things have remained constant in Misty Decker’s career: mainframes and a passion for helping people. Misty spent most of her career at IBM leading in roles such as system administrator, project management, customer satisfaction, HW development manager and academic outreach. She currently is a Product Marketing Director at Micro Focus helping companies learn how to modernize their existing mainframe applications with concepts such as DevOps, microservices and cloud.
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