The GSE UK Region Conference, an annual event which takes place on November 3-6, in Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, hosts more than 200 hours of technical training from vendors and GSE members. There are several keynote and plenary sessions and a large number of subject streams, each of which covers a specific area of interest, with serves as a cornerstone for collaboration, learning and advancing the future of enterprise computing. For the second year in a row, Open Mainframe Project will have a stream at the conference.
11:00 – 11:45: The Power of the Mainframe Open Education for New Mainframers – Yetunde Obakeye, Linux Foundation/OMP
12:00 – 12:45: Harmonizing Mainframe Ecosystems with a Collaboration Among Linux Distributions – Sarah Julia Kriesch, Kyndryl
13:30 – 14:15: Zowe DevOps as a Curriculum – Richelle Anne Craw, Beta Systems Software AG
14:30 – 15:15: Productive mainframe delivery using open source – a practical demonstration – Bronwyn Davies and Stephen Morgan, PopUp Mainframe Ltd.
15:45 – 16:30: Our Galasa rollout – Joe Sexton, Macro 4 Limited
10:15 – 11:00: Effective strategies for Git and source control on z/OS – Igor Todorovski and Harithamma D, IBM
11:30 – 12:15: Testing Across Boundaries: z/OS to Cloud with Galasa – Louisa Denly, IBM
12:30 – 13:15: Installing and Configuring Zowe – from Zowe to Enterprise deployment – Jakub Balhar, Broadcom Mainframe Software and Joe Winchester, IBM
14:30 – 15:15: Zowe CLI in Action: Enabling Mainframe Automation and Self-Service Portals – Diego Rodriguez, Broadcom Mainframe Software
15:30 – 16:15: Hidden treasures, advanced features, and administrative tips for Zowe API Mediation Layer – Elliot Jalley, Broadcom Mainframe Software
16:45 – 17:30: Automating Mainframe Operations with REST APIs & Zowe CLI Plug-ins – Joshua Powell and Miroslav Strnad, Broadcom Mainframe Software
10:00 – 10:45: Build Your First REST API App to Manage Started Tasks – we’ll show you how! – Jan Prihoda and Sergei Krunevich, Broadcom Mainframe Software
11:15 – 12:00: Driving Operational Visibility for Mainframe Infrastructure APIs with Open Telemetry and the Zowe AP – Elliot Jalley, Broadcom Mainframe Software
12:15 – 13:00: From complainer to committer: How I got involved in open source and you can too – Joshua Waters, Next Retail Ltd. and Dave Nice, IBM
14:15 – 15:00: CBT Tape, a treasure trove of powerups no mainframer should be without – Marcus Davage at BMC Software Ltd and Joe Winchester, IBM
15:15 – 16:00: Updating Legacy Code the Open Source Way: Stories from a Maintainer – Oleksandr Hubanov and Germanas Samrickis, Rocket Software UK Ltd
16:30 – 17:15: Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduction to Modern Observability and OpenTelemetry – Ruediger Schulze and Chris Walker, IBM
10:00 – 10:45: Feilong: Empowering z/VM Adoption – Rajat Sharma, IBM
11:15 – 12:00: The Power Trio: Visualizing Db2 for z/OS with REST, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana – Sujit Neb, BMC Software Ltd
12:15 – 13:00: Zopen: ‘Apt’ly bringing package management to the Mainframe – Russell Wilson, IBM UK LTD.
The full schedule can be found here.
Register for the event here.
