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Open Mainframe Summit 2021

September 22-23, 2021 | Virtual
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9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome Back - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Open Mainframe Project Room 1

9:10am EDT

Keynote: Edge Computing: Did the Pendulum Just Swing Back? - Jason Shepherd, VP of Ecosystem, ZEDEDA Room 1

9:35am EDT

Keynote: Zowe, The Hottest Platform Turning Execs’ Heads and Unifying User Experiences - Tim Willging, Chief Architect of the z/OS Business Unit, Rocket Software Room 1

9:50am EDT

Keynote: Is OSS Contribution Enabling a Nash Equilibrium for Fintech? - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS Room 1

10:15am EDT

Keynote: Leveraging the Open Mainframe for Hybrid IT - Alan Clark, Office of the CTO, Emerging Technologies, SUSE Room 1

10:45am EDT

Break Stretching Break: Happy Hips

11:00am EDT

API Design when Modernizing the Mainframe – Using Zowe APIML and Choosing Design Approaches and Patterns for Success - John Jakacki & John Mathunny, Broadcom Room 2 The Mainframe, Open Source and Renewal of Financial Systems - Kip Twitchell, IBM Room 1

11:35am EDT

Panel Discussion: For the Community, By the Community: The Evolution of Education for the Modern Mainframe Industry - Viviane Sanches, kyndryl; Darren Surch, Interskill; Robert Dahlberg, VCU; Hartanto Ario Widjaya... Room 2 Introducing ZEBRA - an Incubation Project for ZOWE - Salisu Ali, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria; Andrew Twydell, IBM Intern 2020-2021; Yongkook (Alex) Kim, Vicom Infinity Room 1

12:05pm EDT

Break

12:25pm EDT

USS, Linux on Z or zCX: Where, oh Where to Run Open Source - Tatiana Balaburkina & Vladimir Kudryakov, Rocket Software Room 1 Panel Discussion: The Convergence of Open Source and the Mainframe - Steven Dickens, Fututurum Research; Skyla Loomis, IBM; Jeff Cherrington, Rocket Software; April Hickel, BMC; George Decandio, Broadcom; John Mertic... Room 2

1:00pm EDT

COBOL Mentorship Session Room 1

1:30pm EDT

Break Summer Vibes Party Break

1:50pm EDT

Building a Browser-based Search and Impact Analysis using Zowe as a Bridge - Ami Sadeh, IN-COM Data Systems Room 2 DIY: Zowe Explorer Starter Kit - Jessielaine Punongbayan & Richelle Anne Craw, Broadcom Room 1

2:25pm EDT

Panel Discussion: The Facts about COBOL - COBOL Working Group Room 2 Address Scaling, Availability and DevOps with Containerized Zowe - Sean Grady, Rocket Software Room 1