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9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Open Mainframe Project

9:15am EDT

Keynote: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

9:35am EDT

Keynote: A Recipe for Innovation - Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainframe Division, Broadcom

9:55am EDT

Keynote: The Cloud you Want, the Privacy and Security you Need - Ross A. Mauri, General Manager, IBM Z, IBM Corporation

10:15am EDT

Keynote: Creating an Innovation Layer on the Mainframe: Modern, Smart, Open, and Secure - Milan Shetti, President, Z Systems Business Unit, Rocket Software

10:35am EDT

Keynote: Software Transparency and Dependability: Next Steps - Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation

10:45am EDT

Break

11:00am EDT

Panel: A New World is Dawning; The Mainframe Imperative that Lies Before Us - Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity; Brent Schroeder, SUSE; George DeCandio, Broadcom Inc; Tim Willging, Rocket Software; Meredith Stowell... Virtual 1 Zowe - What it Means for Mainframe Modernization, the Landscape of z/OS, How it Works, What it Delivers, and its Future - Joe Winchester, IBM Virtual 2

11:35am EDT

Panel: White Collar, Blue Collar, What is New Collar? - Sudharsana Srinivasan; Meredith Stowell; Theresa Hans; Clayton Thomas Slaughter; Nathan Jones, IBM Virtual 1 Panel: Hear from New Mainframers Sharing their Journeys - Joe Winchester & Robbie Avill, IBM; Jessielaine Punongbayan, Broadcom; Simge Helvaci, IBM Virtual 2

12:05pm EDT

Break

12:25pm EDT

Lightning Talk: How Zowe and Open Source Made Me Talk to the Mainframe (literally) - Yongkook (Alex) Kim, Vicom Infinity Virtual 1 Zowe Conformance: High-reliability Extensions for Mainframe Tools, Guaranteed - Rose Sakach, Broadcom Virtual 2

1:00pm EDT

OMP Mentorship Project: Summer Internships and Beyond - Robert Dahlberg, Virginia Commonwealth University Virtual 1 An Open Source Delivery and Deployment Model for the Security Conscious - Peter Fandel, Rocket Software Virtual 2

1:30pm EDT

Break

1:50pm EDT

COBOL and the Modern Mainframe Movement - Jessielaine Punongbayan & Richelle Anne Craw, Broadcom Virtual 2 Cloud Foundry Orchestrated by Kubernetes on Linux on IBM Z - Vlad Iovanov, SUSE & Dan Pavel Sinkovicz Virtual 1

2:25pm EDT

COBOL - Working Groups, Working-Storage - Derek Britton, Micro Focus Virtual 2 Beyond the Mainframe Security Features, it is Time to Learn about Open Source Software Security - Javier Perez, IBM Virtual 1

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome Back - John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Open Mainframe Project

9:10am EDT

Keynote: Mainframes and Blockchains - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

9:30am EDT

Keynote: On Ramp to Open DevOps for Mainframe - George DeCandio, Chief Technology Officer, Broadcom Inc, Mainframe Software Division

9:45am EDT

Keynote: Shattered Assumptions: Digital Transformation in the New Norm - Meredith Stowell, Vice President Z Ecosystem, IBM

10:00am EDT

Keynote: Building Upon Zowe: How Rocket is Building Commercial Software for Zowe Users - Haseeb Jawad, Director, Product Management & Sean Grady, Senior Software Architect, Rocket Software

10:15am EDT

Break

10:30am EDT

A 360 Degree View on LinuxONE Security & Compliance - Pradeep Parameshwaran, IBM Virtual 1 Open Source as Common Ground Between the z/OS Enterprise and Everyone Else - Joe Bostian, IBM Virtual 2

11:05am EDT

Lightning Talk: Ansible on Z: A True Open Development Experience - Demetri Dimatos, IBM Virtual 2 Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-Service Automation for IBM z/VM - Mike Friesenegger, SUSE & Ji Chen, IBM Virtual 1

11:20am EDT

Lightning Talk: Bringing COBOL into Modern Applications with Zowe CLI - Ishmael Pazniak, EPAM Systems, Inc. Virtual 2

11:35am EDT

Break

11:55am EDT

Automatic Installation of Linux on Z with Tessia - Alexander Efremkin, IBM Virtual 1 Keeping Up with the Times: Adopting Zowe as a Modern Mainframe Developer - Jessielaine Punongbayan & Richelle Anne Craw, Broadcom Virtual 2

12:30pm EDT

An Introduction to the IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux (on IBM Z and zOS Container Extensions) - Eli Dow & Flavio Bergamaschi, IBM Virtual 1 ZoweOut: The Interactive Learning Experience - Jessielaine Punongbayan & Richelle Anne Craw, Broadcom Virtual 2

1:00pm EDT

Break

1:20pm EDT

Open Source Tool to Modernize the Build of the z/OS Development, using Jenkins and Git - Jerry Edgington, Western & Southern Financial Group Virtual 1 Mainframe Performance on Commit - Ekaterina Tumanova & Petr Klomfar, Broadcom Virtual 2

1:55pm EDT

Panel: Observability in Mainframe DevOps - April Hickel, BMC; Julie Bergh; Rocket Software; Jeanne Glass; VirtualZ Computing Virtual 1 Leveraging Open Source and Hybrid Cloud for zOS - A Rube Goldberg Evolution to COTS Value - Jim Porell, Rocket Software Virtual 2