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SUMMARY:GS UK In-Person Conference 2025 (Whittlebury\, Northamptonshire)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMonday\, November 3\n\n\n11:00 – 11:45: The Power of the Mainframe Open Education for New Mainframers – Yetunde Obakeye\, Linux Foundation/OMP \n\n\n12:00 – 12:45: Harmonizing Mainframe Ecosystems with a Collaboration Among Linux Distributions – Sarah Julia Kriesch\, Kyndryl \n\n\n13:30 – 14:15: Zowe DevOps as a Curriculum – Richelle Anne Craw\, Beta Systems Software AG \n\n\n14:30 – 15:15: Productive mainframe delivery using open source – a practical demonstration – Bronwyn Davies and Stephen Morgan\, PopUp Mainframe Ltd. \n\n\n15:45 – 16:30: Our Galasa rollout – Joe Sexton\, Macro 4 Limited \n\n\nTuesday\, November 4\n\n\n10:15 – 11:00: Effective strategies for Git and source control on z/OS – Igor Todorovski and Harithamma D\, IBM \n\n\n11:30 – 12:15: Testing Across Boundaries: z/OS to Cloud with Galasa – Louisa Denly\, IBM \n\n\n12:30 – 13:15: Installing and Configuring Zowe – from Zowe to Enterprise deployment – Jakub Balhar\, Broadcom Mainframe Software and Joe Winchester\, IBM \n\n\n14:30 – 15:15: Zowe CLI in Action: Enabling Mainframe Automation and Self-Service Portals – Diego Rodriguez\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n15:30 – 16:15: Hidden treasures\, advanced features\, and administrative tips for Zowe API Mediation Layer – Elliot Jalley\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n16:45 – 17:30: Automating Mainframe Operations with REST APIs & Zowe CLI Plug-ins – Joshua Powell and Miroslav Strnad\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\nWednesday\, November 5\n\n\n10:00 – 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 \n\n\n11:15 – 12:00: Driving Operational Visibility for Mainframe Infrastructure APIs with Open Telemetry and the Zowe AP – Elliot Jalley\, Broadcom Mainframe Software \n\n\n12:15 – 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 \n\n\n14:15 – 15:00: CBT Tape\, a treasure trove of powerups no mainframer should be without – Marcus Davage at BMC Software Ltd and Joe Winchester\, IBM \n\n\n15:15 – 16:00: Updating Legacy Code the Open Source Way: Stories from a Maintainer – Oleksandr Hubanov and Germanas Samrickis\, Rocket Software UK Ltd \n\n\n16:30 – 17:15: Instrumenting the Mainframe: An introduction to Modern Observability and OpenTelemetry – Ruediger Schulze and Chris Walker\, IBM \n\n\nThursday\, November 6\n\n\n10:00 – 10:45: Feilong: Empowering z/VM Adoption – Rajat Sharma\, IBM \n\n\n11:15 – 12:00: The Power Trio: Visualizing Db2 for z/OS with REST\, OpenTelemetry\, and Grafana – Sujit Neb\, BMC Software Ltd \n\n\n12:15 – 13:00: Zopen: ‘Apt’ly bringing package management to the Mainframe – Russell Wilson\, IBM UK LTD. \n\n\nThe full schedule can be found here. \nRegister for the event here.
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