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SUMMARY:GS UK In-Person Conference 2026 (Whittlebury\, Northamptonshire)
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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. \nMonday\, November 2\n11:00 – 11:45: Youth Talent Program: Building the Next Generation of Mainframe Professionals – Meena Chand\, SMT Data \n11:00 – 11:45: Zowe CLI in Action: Automating Mainframe Operations and Powering Self-Service Portals – Diego Rodríguez Bravo\, Broadcom \n12:00 – 12:45: The Latest in Mainframe Modernization from the OMP – Misty Decker and Ramana Sree\, IBM \n14:15 – 15:00: OpenTelemetry on the Mainframe: Zero-Code Instrumentation\, Semantic Conventions\, and the Collector – Daniel Wiegand\, IBM \n4:15 – 15:00: IBM z17 & LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Singleframe and Rackmount Technical\, Mitchell Bride\, IBM \n4:15 – 15:00: Zero-Code Instrumentation\, Semantic Conventions\, and the Collector\, Daniel Wiegand\, IBM \n15:30 – 16:15: Practical z/VM Automation using Terraform and friends – Vic Cross\, IBM \n15:30 – 16:15: Mainframe as a Democracy: Why Everyone Has a Role in Closing the Skills Gap – Idris Zubair\, Mainframe Open Education Mentee \n15:30 – 16:15: Running Linux containers on z/OS: the latest zCX Enhancements! – Steve Warren\, IBM \nTuesday\, November 3\n10:00 – 10:45: Having Fun with MCP: Building AI-Powered Mainframe Integrations – Germanas Šamrickis\, Rocket Software UK Ltd \n10:00 – 10:45: Modernising z/OS Test Automation: Integrating Galasa into CI/CD Pipelines – Sam Cummings\, Macro 4 \n11:15 – 12:00: Mainframe Evolution: Securing\, Monitoring\, and Scaling with Next-Gen Open Source – Jessielaine Punongbayan\, Dynatrace \n12:15 – 13:00: Modernising z/VM with Feilong – Walter Church\, IBM \n14:15 – 15:00: Enterprise Package Management with RPM and DNF on z/OS – Joe Winchester\, IBM \n15:15 – 16:00: Mainframe Meets Modern: AI Linux OCI Containers on z/OS and Linux on Z – Steve Warren\, IBM \n16:30 – 17:15: CBT Tape\, a treasure trove of powerups no mainframer should be without – Joe Winchester\, IBM and Henri Kuiper\, GSE NL  \nWednesday\, November 4\n10:00 – 10:45: The Clock is Ticking: Migrating to Zowe V3 Before the V2 End of Support – Elliot Jalley and Jakub Balhar\, Broadcom \n11:15 – 12:00: The Open Source Mainframe Modernisation Agent Framework: Building AI-Powered COBOL Modernization – Gustav Kaleta and Julia Kordick\, Microsoft \n12:15 – 13:00: Scaling Open Source Engineering on z/OS with AI-Assisted Workflows – Joe Winchester\, IBM \n12:15 – 13:00: A Better\, Faster\, Easier Way to update your IBM z/OS WLM Policy – Jim Horne\, MVS Systems Programmer \n14:15 – 15:00: Building AI Experiences on Top of Zowe Foundations: Introducing Zowe MCP Server – Jakub Balhar and Elliot Jalley\, Broadcom \n15:15 – 16:00: Hello Mainframe! Using Zowe in an AI World with MCP Agents to talk to z/OS – Joe Winchester\, IBM \n16:30 – 17:15: The Mainframe Escape Room: Solving DevOps Challenges with Zowe – Richelle Anne Craw\, Beta Systems Software AG \nThursday\, November 5\n10:00 – 10:45: ISPF and Zowe Explorer II: More Strange New Worlds – Jim Horne\,  MVS Systems Programmer and Joe Winchester\, IBM \n10:00 – 10:45: NatWest and IBM CICS and Galasa Test Structures – Srinivasa Reddy Bommareddy\, NatWest Group \n10:00 – 10:45: Open Source: More than just Code – Niall Ashley\, Vertali and IBM Champion \n11:15 – 12:00: New products\, features and functionalities for Compilers and Programming Languages on z/OS – Joe Winchester\, IBM \n11:15 – 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 \n12:15 – 13:00: Leveraging Configuration as Code to deploy Zowe Servers – Jan Prihoda and Marketa Muzikova\, Broadcom \nThe full schedule can be found here.\n Register for the event here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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