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Making Your Early-Career Impact in the M... Niall Ashley
Nishka Sardar
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Niall Ashley
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Chris Knowles
Rob Scott
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AI for the Modern Mainframe Network Engi... Aileen Wynne
Claire Connor
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THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED - Being Aware... Zakeer Suleyman
Shigeki Kimura
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AI centric z/OS application development... Joe Winchester
Peter Haumer
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Achieving Zero Trust In The Z Environmen... Rui Feio
Adnan Can
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How do you make it go faster and use les... Chris Knowles
Colin Paice
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Chris Knowles |
Step-by-Step Automation: Regex, sed & VT... Ricki West
Pavel Zlatnik
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WAVEZ 102
Ricki West
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Mastering System Synergy: A Guide to Int... Robert Stroud
Rakesh kumar Singh
Aman Sahni
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Aileen Wynne
Giovanni Creato
Abdellah Zarrafa
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Network Management
Aileen Wynne |
Measuring AS activity with SMF 30 Nathan Appleby
Danilo Gipponi
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Capacity & Performance
Nathan Appleby |
Impostor Syndrome - Are you good enough? Dr. Herbert Daly
Niall Ashley
Elitsa Popova
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
Dr. Herbert Daly |
Db2 from the Inside Out: Directory, Cata... Marcus Davage
Saurabh Pandey
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Beyond the Batch: Unlocking Business Val... Zakeer Suleyman
Sai Kaushik Ponnekanti
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Zakeer Suleyman |
Accelerating Mainframe Development with... Joe Winchester
Claire Connor
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Joe Winchester |
Beyond the Surface: Tackling Mainframe V... Sue Parsons
Cynthia Overby
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Behind the curtain: The journey of a pro... Tom Baskerville
Sudha Dhanwada
Laura Sperling
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Tom Baskerville
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Welcome to Z-City-A Street-Level Tour of... Chris Knowles
Aditya Srivastava
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WAVEZ 102
Chris Knowles
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Latest update on security in CICS TS 6.3 Robert Stroud
Mark Pocock
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CICS
Robert Stroud |
Aileen Wynne
Navya Ramanjulu
Edward Seidl
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Network Management
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Can we all share fairly? Detection and r... Nathan Appleby
Scott Chapman
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Capacity & Performance
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Dr. Herbert Daly
Abi Bettle-Shaffer
Sarah Burne James
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
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IBM Z Cyber Vault Explained - Soup to Nu... Geoff Eggleston
Nathan Brice
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Automate the heck out of every LPAR! Joe Winchester
Bronwyn Davies
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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself... Rui Feio
Thomas Conley
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Marcus Chalklin
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Joe Winchester
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Chris Knowles
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IP Routing on z/OS Part 1: the basics Aileen Wynne
Edward Seidl
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Network Management
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Blending Art and Science: The Performanc... Martin Packer
John Baker
Jerry Street
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Capacity & Performance
Martin Packer |
Training for Emerging Security Threats -... Dr. Herbert Daly
Andy McCandless
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
Dr. Herbert Daly |
All About Db2 for z/OS Packages Colin Knight
Anna McKee
Mark Rader
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Colin Knight |
GDPS quality resiliency on LinuxOne? Yes... Geoff Eggleston
Steven Cook
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Bang for your zOS buck with Go Anthony Papageorgiou
Mackenzie Malainey
Bill O'Farrell
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Mainframes and the Dark Web - 2026 Reboo... Rui Feio
Mark Wilson
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Db2 for z/OS 101: What you should know a... Ricki West
Mark Rader
Anna McKee
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Ricki West
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THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED ... ChatDb2 -... Chris Knowles
Bruno Mileu
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Chris Knowles
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(Primer to) The IBM Z Processor Optimiza... Nathan Appleby
David Hutton
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Capacity & Performance
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IP Routing on z/OS Part 2: Dynamic routi... Aileen Wynne
Edward Seidl
Grant Mericle
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Integrating z/OS from an iPaaS? There’s... Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Andrew Smithson
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Zcrafter - Claude code for the Mainframe Alzares Stephens
Victor Taiwo
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Career Toolkit Essentials: How Communiti... Dr. Herbert Daly
Natalie Carrillo
Giovanni Palumbo
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COBOL playbook for modernizing core busi... Joe Winchester
Chandni Dinani
Roland Koo
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Single Signon for zOS with Client Certif... Rui Feio
Colman O'CARROLL
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Able baker to Zulu: What I wish I'd lea... Elitsa Popova
Joe Winchester
Steven Perva
Reg Harbeck
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An IBM Champion’s Guide to Advocacy Chris Knowles
Niall Ashley
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Chris Knowles
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Automating Mainframe Operations with RES... Maemalynn Meanor
Joshua Powell
Miroslav Strnad
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Open Mainframe Project
Maemalynn Meanor |
The Next Generation z/OS User Experience Geoff Eggleston
Fiona King
Rolando Perez
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New Technologies
Geoff Eggleston |
Improve your RTO & RPO with a multi-site... Mikhael Liberman
Ben Younger
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Bring your mainframe data to your AI Age... Alzares Stephens
Andrew Smithson
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Reinvent storage for artificial intellig... Zakeer Suleyman
Alain Beauregard
Dennis Seiffert
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XMIT Unpacked Bringing Mainframe Transmi... Anthony Papageorgiou
Henri Kuiper
Philip Young
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Cybersecurity and Data Set Encryption –... Sue Parsons
Cecilia Lewis
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Conquering CodePages, the Rosetta stone... Tom Baskerville
Joe Winchester
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Modernization is a Human Story Aileen Wynne
Richelle Anne Craw
Jessielaine Punongbayan
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Women in IT
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From Monitoring to Observability: Evolvi... Geoff Eggleston
Prema Jogdand
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New Technologies
Geoff Eggleston |
Introduction to HA/DR best practises wit... Mikhael Liberman
Kris Dzialek
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Mikhael Liberman |
Data Gravity and IBM Z: Bringing Process... Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Vishal Gupta
Mehmet Goksu
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Jakob-Julius Storgaard |
Confidently Accelerate Mainframe Transfo... Anji Stephens
Deepak Chopra
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Anji Stephens |
No Data Left Behind: The Complete Guide... Dougie Lawson
Aditya Srivastava
Madhura Joshi
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Dougie Lawson |
Embracing AI Without Compromising Mainfr... Rui Feio
Claire Connor
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The Hidden Shield: Mainframe Security, U... Niall Ashley
Simran Sharma
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Building Mainframe Career Resilience: St... Dr. Herbert Daly
Darren Surch
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From Abend to Insight: How LLMs and MCP... Geoff Eggleston
Krutika Sapkal
Sandeeproop rai
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New Technologies
Geoff Eggleston |
Beyond the Bits: A Deep Dive into Mainfr... Mikhael Liberman
Aayush Singh
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Storage
Mikhael Liberman |
Making IBM Z Data AI-Ready for Hybrid Cl... Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Vishal Gupta
Mehmet Goksu
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Hybrid Cloud
Jakob-Julius Storgaard |
The Future of Z: Scaling Productivity wi... Anji Stephens
Vineet Dumir
Anil Kumar Surya Prakash Puvvadi
Anil Kumar Kandikattu
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From Project to Product: Value Stream Ma... James Harper
Spencer Hallman
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End-to-End Mainframe Data Resilience Sue Parsons
Ira Miga
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LinkedIn isn’t just for boomers Niall Ashley
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Elitsa Popova
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Niall Ashley
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Understanding Unix System Services. Bo... Lukas Jaks
Joe Winchester
Steven Perva
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Lukas Jaks
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From COBOL to Kafka - A guide to event i... Geoff Eggleston
Andrew Smithson
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Geoff Eggleston |
Integrating Object Storage with Batch pr... Mikhael Liberman
Andrew Wilt
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Storage
Mikhael Liberman |
Modernizing IMS Backup and Recovery - Th... Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Sujata Mane
VR6
Hybrid Cloud
Jakob-Julius Storgaard |
Running AI/ML Workloads on Mainframes: R... Anji Stephens
Sameer Satyavolu
Vaidehi Bhonge
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From Prompt to Production: Multi-Workflo... James Harper
Stephanie Marino-Cundari
Louisa Muschal
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James Harper |
Keys to the Kingdom: Managing Cryptogra... Sue Parsons
Brian Hugenbruch
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Niall Ashley
Anthony Giorgio
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WAVEZ 101
Niall Ashley
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Simplifying CICS configuration: harnessi... Robert Stroud
Ledina Hido-Evans
Kiera Bennett
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Robert Stroud |
AI Agents on the Mainframe: How To Autom... Geoff Eggleston
Collin Smith
Andrew Toews
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New Technologies
Geoff Eggleston |
OpenTelemetry: Enabling Mainframe Integr... Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Ruediger Schulze
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Hybrid Cloud
Jakob-Julius Storgaard |
Let Me Make This as Clear as Robert: Exp... Marcus Davage
Anna McKee
Mark Rader
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Joe Winchester
Roland Koo
Jennifer Rowan
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From Monolith to Microservices: Using AI... Anji Stephens
Sunil Mishra
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Why Mainframe Student Societies Deserve... Dr. Herbert Daly
Zaid Darsot
Nishka Sardar
VR2
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Dr. Herbert Daly |
Unlocking Mainframe Knowledge: Using AI... Jenny He
Claire Connor
VR3
CICS
Jenny He |
Thriving in Hybrid IT: Overcoming Mainfr... Geoff Eggleston
Renato Bognar
VR4
New Technologies
Geoff Eggleston |
Let's Roll! Maximizing Availability and... Nathan Appleby
Charles Gaskell
VR5
Capacity & Performance
Nathan Appleby |
Let’s Talk About Unsupported Software Eddie Roe
David Stephens
VR6
LSWG
Eddie Roe |
Protecting your Db2 for z/OS environment... Colin Knight
Jørn Thyssen
VR7
Db2
Colin Knight |
All about SMP/E (System Modification Pro... Dougie Lawson
Pratik Ghatpande
VR8
IMS
Dougie Lawson |
Modernizing Applications with Python & C... Joe Winchester
Steven Pitman
VR9
AppDev
Joe Winchester |
Mainframe Under Siege: Real-Time Threat... Rui Feio
Al Saurette
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Security Working Group
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Hello Mainframe ? Using Zowe in an AI W... Maemalynn Meanor
Joe Winchester
Andrew Toews
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Open Mainframe Project
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Robert Stroud
Jakob-Julius Storgaard
Ezriel Gross
VR3
CICS
Robert Stroud |
Enhancing z/OS performance data to get n... Nathan Appleby
John Ticic
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Capacity & Performance
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Who's Knocking At the Door? Best Practic... Colin Knight
Denis Tronin
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Continuous Compliance: Security Automati... Sue Parsons
Henri Kuiper
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Modern Machines, Modern Metrics Martin Packer
Martin Packer
John Baker
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Capacity & Performance
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Pervasive encryption with DB2 for z/OS Marcus Davage
Sandip Bhange
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Joe Winchester
Anthony Papageorgiou
Gustav Kaleta
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Mastering Digital Certificates: The Keys... Rui Feio
Jan Prihoda
Chip Mason
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Daniel Bradbury
Gwydion Tudur
Toby Keegan
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Integrating CICS with AI - MCP server in... Jenny He
Khadar Mohamed
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Jenny He |
Veneta Sapoundjieva
Brian Hugenbruch
VR4
Mainframe Skills & Learning
Veneta Sapoundjieva |
An Introduction to Observability, OpenTe... James Harper
Chris Walker
VR5
New Technologies
James Harper |
Bringing Mainframe into the Future: Open... Colin Knight
Christoph Theisen
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Vibe Coding: What Enterprise Developers... Anji Stephens
Vaidehi Bhonge
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Why the binary artifact repository is a... Joe Winchester
Dennis Behm
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Pen Testing 101: Mastering Mainframe Pe... Rui Feio
Ray Overby
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From reactive to proactive optimization:... David Ahearn
Simone Catini
Giovanni Palumbo
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Modernizing the Core: Orchestrating CICS... Jenny He
Mihir Shah
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Our GSAP Journey: From Zero to z/OS Andrey Mitrev
Alessandro Cavallo
Aaron Stoddart
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
Andrey Mitrev |
Use AI to gain business insights from yo... Marcus Davage
Richard Ruppel
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Marcus Davage |
Defensively Ambitious: LLMs and Assisted... Ben Davis
Jared Hunter
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Expanding SMF Access to Promote Data-dri... Nathan Appleby
Todd Havekost
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The CICS Developer’s Guide to Working Sm... Joe Winchester
Andrew Twydell
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The Hacker Whodunnit: Know your cyber a... Rui Feio
Niall Ashley
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Planning Your Mainframe Processor Upgrad... Martin Packer
Scott Chapman
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Seamless Integration between Java and CO... Jenny He
Robert Stroud
Srinivasa Reddy Bommareddy
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Step Up the Skills Ladder: Continuous Le... Veneta Sapoundjieva
Richelle Anne Craw
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
Veneta Sapoundjieva |
PAVS, what are they, what is there signi... Mikhael Liberman
Rahul Gupta
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Storage
Mikhael Liberman |
The latest and greatest in z/OS 3.2! Wh... Eddie Roe
Steve Warren
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Why Data Science Students Should Care Ab... Ben Davis
Amirthavarshini Vimaleshwara Raja
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Traditional Mainframe Development practi... Joe Winchester
Giovanni Creato
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RACF Update: z/OS 3.2 and More! Sue Parsons
Mark Nelson
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Designing for Defensibility: Evidence-Ce... David Ahearn
Manasa Uppula
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Mainframe Trends 2026: Insights from the... Aileen Wynne
Amanda Hendley
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Women in IT
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The Anatomy of ‘Why?’. Taking Control of... Veneta Sapoundjieva
Clementine Gribble
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
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Introduction to ICF Catalog Support Mikhael Liberman
James Steel
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Storage
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Understanding, debugging, tracing and tr... Eddie Roe
Joe Winchester
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AI-Driven Framework for Zero-Downtime Cl... Ben Davis
Pradeep Kumar Nangunoori
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Nathan Appleby
Mary Solomon
Frank Tidemand
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Capacity & Performance
Nathan Appleby |
Semeru (Java) on z/OS: Key Updates & Why... Anji Stephens
Thaksena Rangarajan
James Tang
Danja Papajani
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AppDev
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Crypto Discovery and Inventory for z/OS Sue Parsons
Asha Shekharappa
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Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduc... Maemalynn Meanor
Ruediger Schulze
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IBM Concert for Z, an AI-Powered Mainfra... Anna Dawson
Domenico D'Alterio
Jack Jia
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Service Management
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EMMA: an implementation of a mainframe a... Dr. Herbert Daly
Cameron Seay
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Mainframe Skills & Learning
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z/OSMF Storage Management Plugin - SMS L... Mikhael Liberman
Alexis Kapica
Zahed Hossain
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What's new in SDSF for z/OS 3.2 Eddie Roe
Rob Scott
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REST API (S3) for Unstructured (object)... Joe Winchester
Peter Sobik
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Emily Popovic
Thaksena Rangarajan
John Lee
Jon Furminger
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