9:00am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, The Linux Foundation
9:30am • Keynote: The Sustainability Trailblazers - Nada Santiago, Principal Product Manager, IBM LinuxONE Hardware Solutions
9:40am • Keynote: Securing the Software That Matters - David Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, The Linux Foundation
10:00am • Keynote: Mainframe Modernization Can Transform Your Business - Alan Clark, Director, Open Source and Industry Initiatives, SUSE
10:10am • Keynote: Bridge Gaps and Ignite the Spark for Growth: How Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Creates Value in the Mainframe Industry - Sharra Owens-Schwartz, Vice President, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Rocket Software
12:10pm • Diversity in Tech Luncheon - Sponsored by Broadcom
10:50am • COBOL: Past, Present and Future - Misty Decker & Derek Britton, Micro Focus
11:30am • Demystified: Put Your Web App on the Zowe Desktop in a Flash - Robert Blum, Phoenix Software International
1:30pm • VIRTUAL: Meet the Future of COBOL - Hartanto Ario Widjaya, Singapore Management University; Caitlin Mooney, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jade Walker, M&T Bank; Angie Rositilia Mejia, East Carolina University
3:10pm • A Secure Development Workflow for Mainframe Open Source Projects - Joe Bostian, IBM
3:50pm • A Framework to Automate Cybersecurity Controls and Regulatory Controls Checks on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE Environments - Pradeep Parameshwaran, IBM
4:30pm • Lockdown: Zero-Trust Architecture with Zowe’s API Mediation Layer - Jakub Balhar, Broadcom
9:00am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, The Linux Foundation
9:05am • Keynote: Mentorships: Allyship at It’s Best - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, The Linux Foundation; Jakub Balhar, Broadcom; Elizabeth Joseph & Mike Friesenegger, SUSE
9:25am • Keynote: Zowe Reaches Orbit, Now What Mission Control? - Peter Wassel, Director of Product Management & George DeCandio, Chief Technology Officer, Broadcom Mainframe Division
9:35am • Keynote: Neurodivergency and the Mainframe: A Parallel Universe - Cynthia Coupé, CEO, Outreach Advocacy Resources and Services, Inc
9:55am • Keynote: Hybrid Cloud Strategy with Mainframe Transformation at its Core - Pat Stanard, US Principle Mainframe Architect, Kyndryl
10:05am • Keynote: Learning COBOL is Much More than Just Taking a Class - Misty Decker, Director of Product Marketing, Micro Focus
