GS-UK Virtual Conference 2026

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Time Table

Jump To Tuesday 21st April
Jump To Wednesday 22nd April
Jump To Thursday 23rd April

Tuesday 21st April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Workgroup Room Time
Keynote: Conference Opening Leanne Wilson Vertali Limited 09:30 - 09:45
15 Minute Break 09:45 - 10:00
Virtual Room 7 7A Ready Player One? Roy Boxwell Software Engineering GmbH Db2 VR7 10:00 - 10:45
30 Minute Break 10:45 - 11:15
Virtual Room 7 7B Db2 from the Inside Out: Directory, Catalog, Logs & BSDS Explained Saurabh Pandey BMC Software Ltd Db2 VR7 11:15 - 12:00
30 Minute Break 12:00 - 12:30
Virtual Room 7 7C CBT Tape Tools for DB2 Klaudiusz Konieczka Ensono Db2 VR7 12:30 - 13:15
30 Minute Break 13:15 - 13:45
Virtual Room 7 7D Protecting your Db2 for z/OS environment from cyber attacks Jørn Thyssen Rocket Software UK Ltd Db2 VR7 13:45 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
30 Minute Break 15:45 - 16:15
Virtual Room 3 3F Automating Mainframe Operations with REST APIs & Zowe CLI Plug-ins Joshua Powell Broadcom Mainframe Software Open Mainframe Project VR3 16:15 - 17:00
Virtual Room 4 4F The Next Generation z/OS User Experience Fiona King IBM USA New Technologies VR4 16:15 - 17:00
End of Day's Sessions 17:00 - 17:30

Wednesday 22nd April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Workgroup Room Time
Virtual Room 4 4G From Monitoring to Observability: Evolving Mainframe Operations with OpenTelemetry Principles Prema Jogdand BMC Software Ltd New Technologies VR4 10:00 - 10:45
Virtual Room 8 8G No Data Left Behind: The Complete Guide to IMS Database Recovery Aditya Srivastava BMC Software Ltd IMS VR8 10:00 - 10:45
30 Minute Break 10:45 - 11:15
Virtual Room 4 4H From Abend to Insight: How LLMs and MCP Server Tools Are Transforming Mainframe Defect Detection Krutika Sapkal BMC Software Ltd New Technologies VR4 11:15 - 12:00
Virtual Room 8 8H Fast Path Unplugged: The DEDB Internals Every IMS Engineer Should Know Aditya Srivastava BMC Software Ltd IMS VR8 11:15 - 12:00
30 Minute Break 12:00 - 12:30
Virtual Room 4 4I From COBOL to Kafka - A guide to event integration patterns on z/OS Andrew Smithson IBM UK LTD. New Technologies VR4 12:30 - 13:15
Virtual Room 8 8I Backup and Restore IMS Catalog Directories with BMC AMI Backup and Recovery solutions Yogesh Darekar BMC Mainframe Services IMS VR8 12:30 - 13:15
30 Minute Break 13:15 - 13:45
Virtual Room 4 4J AI Agents on the Mainframe: How To Automate Documentation at Scale Colin Smith Gestell New Technologies VR4 13:45 - 14:30
Virtual Room 8 8J Zero Data Loss for IMS RECON datasets: Unlocking PIT Recovery with BMC AMI Backup&Recovery Solutions Yogesh Darekar BMC Mainframe Services IMS VR8 13:45 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 4 4L Thriving in Hybrid IT: Overcoming Mainframe and Distributed Tests Barriers Renato Bognar Eccox Software. New Technologies VR4 15:00 - 15:45
Virtual Room 8 8L All about SMP/E (System Modification Program/Extended) - It's SiMPlified!!! Pratik Ghatpande BMC Software Ltd IMS VR8 15:00 - 15:45
30 Minute Break 15:45 - 16:15
Virtual Room 2 2M Hello Mainframe ? Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents. Joe Winchester IBM UK LTD. Open Mainframe Project VR2 16:15 - 17:00
Virtual Room 4 4M An Introduction to Observability, OpenTelemetry and IBM Z Chris Walker IBM USA New Technologies VR4 16:15 - 17:00
End of Day's Sessions 17:00 - 17:30

Thursday 23rd April

Stream Session Presentation Title Speaker Company Workgroup Room Time
30 Minute Break 10:45 - 11:15
30 Minute Break 12:00 - 12:30
Virtual Room 1 1P From reactive to proactive optimization: evolve your mainframe Asset Management strategy Simone Catini HCL Technologies Mainframe Audit VR1 12:30 - 13:15
30 Minute Break 13:15 - 13:45
Virtual Room 1 1Q How to Pass a Mainframe Audit Daniel Burk IBM GDR Mainframe Audit VR1 13:45 - 14:30
30 Minute Break 14:30 - 15:00
Virtual Room 1 1R Designing for Defensibility: Evidence-Centric Compliance Architecture for Financial Web Platforms Manasa Uppula Virtusa Mainframe Audit VR1 15:00 - 15:45
30 Minute Break 15:45 - 16:15
Virtual Room 1 1S z/OS Danger Zone - data theft Allen Saurette MainTegrity Inc Mainframe Audit VR1 16:15 - 17:00
Virtual Room 2 2S Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduction to no-code instrumentation with OpenTelemetry Ruediger Schulze IBM Europe Open Mainframe Project VR2 16:15 - 17:00
15 Minute Break 17:00 - 17:15
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