GSE UK Virtual Conference 2023

Mainframes are MAD - Modern, Adaptable, Diverse

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Jump To Thursday 9th February

Tuesday 7th February

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Conference Opening Mark Wilson Sponsor: Vertali Limited 08:30 - 09:00
Virtual Room 1 1A Mind the gap: rethinking mainframe talent attraction in the Skills crisis Claire Connor Ensono 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2A UTS Migrations – recent enhancements and best practices Jørn Thyssen Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3A Three Software Asset Management pitfalls and how to overcome them Jim Kyriakakis HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4A Enhancing the foundation of CICS 6.1 John Tilling IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5A How a CM1 SL0 Input Message Sent to IMS Connect Works Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6A Work Life Balance for people who don’t have time for Work Life Balance Resli Costabell Costabell Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7A Snakes, Security and Saving Time Henri Kuiper zDevOps 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8A zIIP Capacity & Performance Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AA Automate and Optimize Using Zowe Conformant REST APIs Elliot Jalley Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1B Exploring MQ in containers with IBM Client Engineering Timothy Quigly IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2B IBM Db2 Administration Foundation – no charge replacement for administrative features in Data Studio and DSM Tom Crocker Rocket Software UK Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3B Green Screen Modernization: Not just another story, but the start of a journey Giovanni Palumbo HCL Technologies 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4B Simplified security and compliance with CICS 6.1 Lewis James IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5B How a 'CM1 SL1' Input Message Sent to IMS Connect Works Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6B Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems and Future Proof Modern Ones Misty Decker 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7B The power of RACF SEARCH command Rogerio Eugenio Malaquias Camargo Kyndryl 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8B LPARs, weights and processors. Holding it all together John Ticic 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9B Sequencing of Parmlib Member events in IPL process Mike FitzGerald Fitz Software & Co. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AB Zowe and Zero Trust Architecture Jakub Balhar Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 2 2C Weaving Mainframe Data into your Data Fabric Jim Wankowski Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3C IBM Z Workload Scheduler - Roadmap and Strategy and what's new with V10.1 Marco Cardelli HCL Technologies 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4C CICS TS V6 Java Update – Architecture, Development and Deployment Phil Wakelin IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5C Using the all new IMS Native z/OS DDL utility for IMS DDL Deepak Kohli Sponsor: IBM 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6C An Introduction to z/OS BCPii – How to control your Z hardware programmatically Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 7 7C zSecure Update Hans Schoone IBM Europe 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 8 8C z16 Capacity Planning Danilo Gipponi EPV Technologies 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 10 AC Zowe v2 install and configuration with schemas Sean Grady Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
60 Minute Break 13:00 - 14:00
Lunch & Learn 13:10 - 13:50
Virtual Room 2 2D Db2 for z/OS Data Sharing: Configurations and Common Issues Mark Rader Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 3 3D Enterprise observability and the mainframe: the past, present and future of distributed tracing Chris Walker IBM USA 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 4 4D Moving to Open API 3 and Hybrid architectures with z/OS Connect and CICS Andrew Smithson IBM UK LTD. 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 5 5D Cloud based Mainframe Application Development: Reality or a Myth? Dana Boudreau Broadcom Mainframe Software 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 6 6D Modernize mainframes workloads with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Fabio Alessandro Locati Sponsor: Red Hat 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 7 7D Ransomware recovery – It is more than just getting your data back Al Saurette Sponsor: MainTegrity Inc 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 8 8D Introduction to Coupling Facility Measurement & Tuning Hints and Tips Peter Enrico EPS 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 9 9D z/OS software management and deployment from OpenShift Chad McIntyre Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 10 AD Zowe Desktop. An extensible thin client for mainframers. Lenny Astrakou Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 14:00 - 15:00
30 Minute Break 15:00 - 15:30
Virtual Room 1 1E Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptographic Suites: How and Why? Nalini Elkins Inside Products 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 2 2E Db2 for z/os and REST Keziah Knopp Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 3 3E IBM z/OS Change Tracker for z/OS V2.5 – Overview and Latest Enhancements! Chris Taylor 21CS 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 4 4E Training, Engaging, and Retaining a Modern Mainframe Workforce! Darren Surch Sponsor: Interskill Learning 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 5 5E Developing for the Mainframe the Git-native Way Vaughn Marshall Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 6 6E WIT Panel Discussion - We're normal, honest. Resli Costabell Costabell Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 7 7E RACF Update Mark Nelson IBM USA 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 8 8E Just Say No: A Case for eliminating I/O Priority Management John Baker 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 9 9E SDSF Security – How does it work on z/OS 2.5 Rob Scott Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 10 AE Explore the Mainframe with Zowe Rudy Pichola Flores IBM UK LTD. 15:30 - 16:30
30 Minute Break 16:30 - 17:00
Keynote: IBM Keynote - Accelerating Application Modernization Meredith Stowell IBM USA 17:00 - 18:00

Wednesday 8th February

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Opening Session Mark Wilson Sponsor: Vertali Limited 08:30 - 08:45
Break 08:45 - 09:00
Virtual Room 2 2F Express Yourself! Marcus Davage BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3F An evolution of Emulator: from Monolithic to web service Deepak Bohra HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4F Ensuring the security of your applications with CICS 6.1 Lewis James IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5F Leveraging z16 AI accelerator: a live demo of deploying and running AI models on Z Anna Shugol IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6F An intro to RACF Exits Mark Wilson Sponsor: Vertali Limited 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7F Controlling Access to your IBM MQ System Gwydion Tudur IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8F Batch Performance Management Mary Solomon SMT Data 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AF Ansible 101 - Let's launch it with ZXplore Bill Pereira Sponsor: IBM 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1G Extend the value of your MQ messages Dale Lane IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2G Multi-row Operations in a Nutshell Emil Kotrc Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3G What is new in IBM Z Service Automation Suite? Wolfgang Schaeberle IBM Europe 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4G CICS Performance and tuning 101 Ezriel Gross Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5G Containerized EGL applications using IBM Business Developer Vatsala Ramachandran HCL Technologies 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6G Galasa - Testing on the Mainframe without knowing the Mainframe! Jade Carino IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7G Ransomware protection and virtual tape Tim Reading Luminex 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8G Measuring z/OS Connect Danilo Gipponi EPV Technologies 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9G GDPS What's New - Recent GDPS enhancements to improve your CA/DR and Cyber Resiliency capabilities Dave Clitherow IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AG Leveraging Ansible for Implementing Self-service Automation, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code Jan Prihoda Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 2 2H Db2 12+ and 13 for z/os Database design and application performance:Features and Usage Susan Lawson YL&A 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3H DB2 understands in-memory is important, so should the application developers Larry Strickland Sponsor: DataKinetics 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4H Embrace and Innovate with Hybrid Cloud Michael McKay Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5H Starting your modernization journey with IMS Haley Fung Sponsor: IBM 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6H Modernize mainframes operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Fabio Alessandro Locati Sponsor: Red Hat 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 7 7H SOX, GDPR, EO, DORA: Regulations Giving You Headaches? David Schuchart Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 8 8H So You Don't Think You're An Architect? Martin Packer IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 10 AH Integrating Mainframe and AWS with Ansible in the DevOps Pipeline Bill Pereira Sponsor: IBM 12:00 - 13:00
60 Minute Break 13:00 - 14:00
Virtual Room 1 1J NetMaster and the benefits of enabling zERT Steve Beerman Broadcom Mainframe Software 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 2 2J Db2 for z/OS 101: Db2 for z/OS Recovery Basics Mark Rader Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 3 3J Anomaly Detection on IBM Z Tim Brooks Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 4 4J Using Ansible to accelerate your automation journey for z/OS and CICS Stewart Francis IBM UK LTD. 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 5 5J Everything you wanted to know about the IMS Catalogue but were afraid to ask Deepak Kohli Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 6 6J The Bombproof approach to Resilience Adrian Green The Bombproof Lifestyle 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 7 7J The ABCs of z/OS Pervasive Encryption Paul Robichaux NewEra Software, Inc. 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 8 8J WLM Management of DDF Work: What can you do and what has changed? Scott Chapman EPS 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 9 9J Modernize business-critical applications with latest compilation technologies and take full advantage of IBM z16 Roland Koo Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 10 AJ How we created a z/OS base image to carry out our enterprise transformation Troy Bishop Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
30 Minute Break 15:00 - 15:30
Virtual Room 1 1K End-to-End Encryption: A Double Edged-Sword Nalini Elkins Inside Products 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 2 2K Db2 for z/OS 101: Continuous Delivery - What is it? How does Db2 do it? Anna McKee Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 3 3K Workload Automation Agent Management Made Easy Daniel Shannon Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 4 4K CICS resource definitions as part of the dev ops pipeline Ezriel Gross Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 5 5K Ansible and Cloud Native Development: The easy answer to automating and modernizing your IMS system Haley Fung Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 6 6K IBM Digital Badging: Mainframe Training's Untapped Superpower! Giles Newson Sponsor: Interskill Learning 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 7 7K What Just Happened That Compromised Your Mainframe? Steven Hosie Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 8 8K WLM - Using SMF 98 and 99 High Frequency Performance Measurements Peter Enrico EPS 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 9 9K SDSF Hidden Treasures Rob Scott Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 10 AK Three Year of Ansible for Z: here is what we've learned Dan Jast Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
30 Minute Break 16:30 - 17:00
Keynote: Broadcom Keynote - Mainframe Value: Bigger Together Greg Lotko Broadcom Mainframe Software 17:00 - 18:00

Thursday 9th February

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Time
Keynote: Opening Session Mark Wilson Sponsor: Vertali Limited 08:00 - 08:15
Keynote: BMC Keynote - “Make Change Your Advantage By Improving the Mainframe Developer Experience“ John McKenny BMC Software Ltd 08:15 - 09:00
Virtual Room 1 1M What's New in MQ Jamie Squibb IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 2 2M Explain explained Julia Carter Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 3 3M Z System Automation - Hybrid Cloud Usage Scenarios Bernd (Josi) Jostmeyer Sponsor: IBM 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 4 4M How to start your CICS Modernisation journey Phil Wakelin IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 5 5M Understanding How a CM0 SL1 Input Message Sent to IMS Connect Works Subhasish Sarkar BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 6 6M Introduction to Enterprise Messaging using IBM MQ Daniel Raper IBM UK LTD. 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7M D4 and The Big Iron Cristian Coraci 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 8 8M Predicting Application Migration Workload Impact Linda Carroll Ensono 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 9 9M Enterprise scale IBM Rational Business Developer Kushagra Goyal HCL Technologies 09:00 - 10:00
Virtual Room 10 AM Interact with Jira & Send Messages to a Slack Channel From a JCL Sujit Neb BMC Software Ltd 09:00 - 10:00
30 Minute Break 10:00 - 10:30
Virtual Room 1 1N Building an Active-Active, Always On, IBM MQ System Vasily Shcherbinin Sponsor: IBM 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 2 2N Sharing is caring in Db2 Javier Estrada Benavides Kyndryl 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 3 3N IBM Z Configuration Manager – Installing OMEGAMON in less than 30 minutes Richard Strong IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 4 4N Upgrading CICS to 6.1 Steve Foley IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 5 5N Overview, usage, and best practices of IMS DEDB SDEP portion and SDEP segment types Anshul Agrawal BMC Software Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 6 6N Gone With the Bytes - A Digital Forensic Saga Cristian Coraci 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 7 7N Building skills and awareness Chiara Baldan Sogei 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 8 8N Modernize Mainframe Storage and Performance to Build Business Resilience Michael McKay Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 9 9N Explore the latest Offerings and developments with IBM Z trial Mark Hostler IBM UK LTD. 10:30 - 11:30
Virtual Room 10 AN Running z/OS development and test workloads in the Cloud with IBM Wazi as a Service Maha Masri Sponsor: IBM 10:30 - 11:30
30 Minute Break 11:30 - 12:00
Virtual Room 1 1O Advent of Code goes Mainframe Henri Kuiper zDevOps 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 2 2O Getting more value from Db2 no matter the version or function level Bob Bersano Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 3 3O Centralize Alerts, Improve Observability and Minimize MTTR Matt McLaughlin Broadcom Mainframe Software 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 4 4O Automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing of your Hybrid Cloud application William Yates IBM UK LTD. 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 5 5O VSEn 6.3, the future of VSE, and other updates Rebecca M Levesque 21CS 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 6 6O Women in the mainframe world – yes we exist and are thriving! Michelle Harris 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 7 7O z16 Crypto Update Eysha Powers IBM USA 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 8 8O SMF 42 I/O statistics John Ticic 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual Room 10 AO From zero to Mainframe CI/CD in a day Stuart Feasey Sponsor: PopUp Mainframe 12:00 - 13:00
60 Minute Break 13:00 - 14:00
Virtual Room 1 1P Introducing the NetMaster Web Portal and Software Solutions Report Paul Schuler Broadcom Mainframe Software 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 2 2P Db2 for z/OS 101: Buffer Pools and Group Buffer Pools Tori Felt Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 3 3P Log and Data Analytics on IBM Z Kekahu Aluli Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 4 4P Cloud Native CICS application development and deployment with the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack Stewart Francis IBM UK LTD. 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 5 5P Are you using Data Studio, Data Server Manager, or Data Management Console and wondering what the strategic direction is for developers and administrators for Db2 for z/OS? Sowmya Kameswaran IBM USA 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 6 6P Wowee it’s Zowe! Hear how open source tooling is opening up IBM Z for new and for experienced mainframers alike Joe Winchester IBM UK LTD. 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 7 7P Demo: Situational Awareness with z16 Crypto Usage Data Eysha Powers IBM USA 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 8 8P All Hands on Deck! Come Together with the Fab Four: Capacity, Performance, Cost Daniel Ruehl 21CS 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 9 9P What’s New in z/OS 2.5? Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 14:00 - 15:00
Virtual Room 10 AP Modernizing z/OS Source Control and Build Without JCL - A User Experience Kevin Cogley Dynatrace 14:00 - 15:00
30 Minute Break 15:00 - 15:30
Virtual Room 2 2Q Db2 for z/OS 101: Db2 and WLM Mark Rader Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 3 3Q Operational Resiliency is back, and bigger than ever! Butch Rambish 21CS 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 5 5Q Could the freely available ChatGPT AI engine be the answer to all our mainframe skills conundrums? Vaughn Marshall Sponsor: Broadcom Mainframe Software 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 6 6Q Improving Business Agility with Data Virtualization Robyn M. Andersen Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 7 7Q The Path to an Encrypted RACF Data Set Mark Nelson IBM USA 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 8 8Q Month to Month – Year to Year Capacity Planning Steven Thomas SMT Data 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 9 9Q Parallel Sysplex Update Stephen Warren Sponsor: IBM 15:30 - 16:30
Virtual Room 10 AQ AppDev workflow.......then & now Craig Hilburn Sponsor: Rocket Software UK Ltd 15:30 - 16:30
30 Minute Break 16:30 - 17:00
Keynote: Datakinetics Keynote - Is The Grass Really Greener? Larry Strickland Sponsor: DataKinetics 17:00 - 18:00
End of Conference 18:00 - 18:10
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