For the second consecutive year, Open Mainframe Project hosted its flagship event virtually on September 22-23.
The theme of this year’s Open Mainframe Summit expanded beyond the mainframe to highlight influencers with strengths in the areas supporting or leveraging the technology like continuous delivery, edge computing, financial services and open source. Keynote speakers for the event included Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director of Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS); Jason Shepherd, Vice President of Ecosystem at ZEDEDA and Chair of the LF Edge Governing Board; Jono Bacon, a leading community and collaboration speaker and founder of Jono Bacon Consulting; Steve Winslow, Vice President of Compliance and Legal at The Linux Foundation; Tracy Ragan, CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub and Continuous Delivery Foundation Board Member, and more.
The event also highlighted projects, diversity, and business topics that offered seasoned professionals, developers, students, and leaders an opportunity to share best practices and network with like-minded individuals.
Open Mainframe Summit ended with 219 registered attendees that represented 83 companies. During the conference, there were 167 unique users on the platform, a 77% attendance rate, which is a slight increase when compared to last year.
The conference videos are available on the Open Mainframe Project Youtube Channel. Click here for the complete playlist. If you want a quick overview of the news announced at the event, check out John Mertic’s keynote below.
If you would like to read more about Open Mainframe Summit, click here for the 2021 Transparency Report that will reveal attendee statistics, demographics, the most popular sessions, and more.
The conference was made possible thanks to Platinum Sponsors Broadcom, IBM, Rocket Software and SUSE; Gold Sponsors Micro Focus and Vicom Infinity; Silver Sponsor BMC; and Academic and Community Sponsors CD Foundation and FINOS.
With all of the positive feedback received from members, the community, and attendees, we are excited to announce that Open Mainframe Summit 2022 will be held on September 21-22, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA! Sign up for event notifications here.
