The GS UK Region Conference, an annual event which takes place on November 2-5 in Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, hosts more than 200 hours of technical training from vendors and GS UK members. There are several keynote and plenary sessions and a large number of subject streams, each of which covers a specific area of interest. The conference serves as a cornerstone for collaboration and the future of enterprise computing, and for the third year in a row, Open Mainframe Project will have a stream at the conference.
Monday, November 2
11:00 – 11:45: Youth Talent Program: Building the Next Generation of Mainframe Professionals – Meena Chand, SMT Data
11:00 – 11:45: Zowe CLI in Action: Automating Mainframe Operations and Powering Self-Service Portals – Diego Rodríguez Bravo, Broadcom
12:00 – 12:45: The Latest in Mainframe Modernization from the OMP – Misty Decker and Ramana Sree, IBM
14:15 – 15:00: OpenTelemetry on the Mainframe: Zero-Code Instrumentation, Semantic Conventions, and the Collector – Daniel Wiegand, IBM
4:15 – 15:00: IBM z17 & LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Singleframe and Rackmount Technical, Mitchell Bride, IBM
4:15 – 15:00: Zero-Code Instrumentation, Semantic Conventions, and the Collector, Daniel Wiegand, IBM
15:30 – 16:15: Practical z/VM Automation using Terraform and friends – Vic Cross, IBM
15:30 – 16:15: Mainframe as a Democracy: Why Everyone Has a Role in Closing the Skills Gap – Idris Zubair, Mainframe Open Education Mentee
15:30 – 16:15: Running Linux containers on z/OS: the latest zCX Enhancements! – Steve Warren, IBM
Tuesday, November 3
10:00 – 10:45: Having Fun with MCP: Building AI-Powered Mainframe Integrations – Germanas Šamrickis, Rocket Software UK Ltd
10:00 – 10:45: Modernising z/OS Test Automation: Integrating Galasa into CI/CD Pipelines – Sam Cummings, Macro 4
11:15 – 12:00: Mainframe Evolution: Securing, Monitoring, and Scaling with Next-Gen Open Source – Jessielaine Punongbayan, Dynatrace
12:15 – 13:00: Modernising z/VM with Feilong – Walter Church, IBM
14:15 – 15:00: Enterprise Package Management with RPM and DNF on z/OS – Joe Winchester, IBM
15:15 – 16:00: Mainframe Meets Modern: AI Linux OCI Containers on z/OS and Linux on Z – Steve Warren, IBM
16:30 – 17:15: CBT Tape, a treasure trove of powerups no mainframer should be without – Joe Winchester, IBM and Henri Kuiper, GSE NL
Wednesday, November 4
10:00 – 10:45: The Clock is Ticking: Migrating to Zowe V3 Before the V2 End of Support – Elliot Jalley and Jakub Balhar, Broadcom
11:15 – 12:00: The Open Source Mainframe Modernisation Agent Framework: Building AI-Powered COBOL Modernization – Gustav Kaleta and Julia Kordick, Microsoft
12:15 – 13:00: Scaling Open Source Engineering on z/OS with AI-Assisted Workflows – Joe Winchester, IBM
12:15 – 13:00: A Better, Faster, Easier Way to update your IBM z/OS WLM Policy – Jim Horne, MVS Systems Programmer
14:15 – 15:00: Building AI Experiences on Top of Zowe Foundations: Introducing Zowe MCP Server – Jakub Balhar and Elliot Jalley, Broadcom
15:15 – 16:00: Hello Mainframe! Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents to talk to z/OS – Joe Winchester, IBM
16:30 – 17:15: The Mainframe Escape Room: Solving DevOps Challenges with Zowe – Richelle Anne Craw, Beta Systems Software AG
Thursday, November 5
10:00 – 10:45: ISPF and Zowe Explorer II: More Strange New Worlds – Jim Horne, MVS Systems Programmer and Joe Winchester, IBM
10:00 – 10:45: NatWest and IBM CICS and Galasa Test Structures – Srinivasa Reddy Bommareddy, NatWest Group
10:00 – 10:45: Open Source: More than just Code – Niall Ashley, Vertali and IBM Champion
11:15 – 12:00: New products, features and functionalities for Compilers and Programming Languages on z/OS – Joe Winchester, IBM
11:15 – 12:00: Shift the “How,” Elevate the “What”: How AI Redefine Workload Management and next-gen mentorship – Nanxi Meng and Kelsey Colberg, Broadcom and Jim Horne, MVS Systems Programmer
12:15 – 13:00: Leveraging Configuration as Code to deploy Zowe Servers – Jan Prihoda and Marketa Muzikova, Broadcom
The full schedule can be found here.
Register for the event here.
