Written by Donna Hudi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phoenix Software and Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Marketing Committee
We’re very excited for this year’s IBM’s TechXchange Conference, which takes place on October 21-24 at the Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas! More than 5,000 technical attendees will be on-site to engage, network and attend the more than 1,000 sessions, demos, instructor-led labs and roadmap discussions.
The Open Mainframe Project will be featured as part of the User Group Meetups being held on Day 1 of the 2024 IBM TechXchange event. On Monday, October 21st, attendees will be able to immerse themselves in everything Open Mainframe Project. Whether it is Zowe, Galassa, Mentorship, Mainframe Open Education, COBOL Programming Course, Feilong, Software Discovery Tool, or others…there will be something for everyone.
If you are interested in participating as a presenter, then you are in luck. The Call for Presentations is officially open. Bring your best presentations ideas forward and submit them here: https://bit.ly/3Ur9lCj The CFP will remain open through June 15th and we are excited to see your submissions.
With Zowe v3 on its way, we are looking forward to hearing more about what you should expect. If Galasa is more your thing, then you will be excited to learn all about it. Want to be involved in mentorship, learn about the Mentorship program. And so much more. The User Group Meetups at TechXchange is where you’re going to want to be.
The timeline for the CFP:
- CFP opens: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Deadline to submit CFP: Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 11 pm PDT
- Speaker notifications: Wednesday, July 3
- Schedule announcement: Week of July 8, 2024
Watch this space because we will be sending out more information in the coming days and weeks. In the meantime, get your presentation submissions in and if presenting is not for you, then register. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Submit your CFP here.
Open Mainframe Project is planning the content for October 21 as it pertains to the User Group Meetups or Pre-Conference Day. The Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project are not managing TechXchange. The main TechXchange event is planned and managed by IBM. Learn more about TechXchange here.
