Self-serve wealth management. Power grid management. Airline logistics management. Industries and technologies together continue to push today’s boundaries. The powerful, robust, and flexible mainframe platform – and its ecosystem – is pivotal to ensuring today’s most influential and innovative companies thrive. Mainframers have been at the heart of great leaps in progress, like space travel, airline reservations, ATMs, and more, for decades. Greg Lotko, SVP & GM, Broadcom Mainframe Software Division, invites you to take a moment to celebrate the modern mainframe – and the individuals behind moving progress forward. This highly skilled and tight community is BIGGER TOGETHER. Their commitment and spirit have positioned leaders for 60 years to innovate, foster integration, and shape new industries – in essence, to keep the world humming.

Join Phil Buckellew President of the Infrastructure Modernization Business Unit at Rocket Software, as he explores the impressive 60-year legacy of mainframe technology and its pivotal role in today’s tech landscape. Engaging in a conversation with Steven Dickens, they delve into the profound impact of the mainframe on daily life and their indispensable role across various industries. In the present-day scenario, mainframes are advancing, seamlessly integrating with modern technologies like AI, demonstrating their flexibility and enduring significance amidst rapid digital transformation. The dialogue reflects on the evolution of this enduring technology through the decades, emphasizing why it remains a critical component of our digital infrastructure and how it will continue to shape our world in the years ahead.

Join us for an enlightening discussion with John McKenny, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation at BMC Software, as he looks ahead to the future of mainframe technology. In this thought-provoking video interview, John will explore the evolving landscape of mainframes, their critical role in fostering innovation and efficiency, and their exciting prospects in light of emerging technologies like Generative AI and Hybrid Cloud. Gain valuable insights into how mainframes are poised to adapt and thrive in the coming years, driving new levels of performance and efficiency across industries.

Join us as we celebrate six decades of groundbreaking technology and honor the pioneers who have shaped its legacy. VirtualZ proudly stands at the forefront of innovation as the first female and Native American-founded mainframe software company.

Jeanne Glass, Founder and CEO of VirtualZ, alongside Vince Re, Co-Founder and CTO, will share their collective journey of reimagining the mainframe and cloud landscape. In hybrid cloud environments, challenges often stem from data access issues. The complexity of running applications across mainframe, cloud, and distributed environments introduces added costs, time, data inaccuracies, and security risks.

In this session, we will explore new paradigms for accessing data from any platform, anywhere, and leveraging it to power better applications and experiences. Whether you need real-time, read-write access or ad-hoc access, we will discuss solutions.

Let’s commemorate the 60th anniversary of the mainframe — and discuss propelling the industry forward into a new era of diversity, disruption, and opportunity.

“On April 7th, 1964 the entire concept of computers changed” said an old IBM add. The success story of the mainframe started with a number of key architectural and strategic decisions that later came to be known as “IBM’s $5 billion gamble”. Eddy Ciliendo is the Vice President of Strategy at 21CS and he has personally witnessed half of the mainframe’s 60 year history. In this session Steven Dickens and Eddy Ciliendo will explore some of those strategic decisions and how they have shaped the mainframe but more importantly also how those decisions will shape the next 60 years of IBM Z.