Fall Carolinas zCouncil – Charlotte, NC
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November 7, 2024
8:30 AM EST - 4:00 PM EST
Join Us!
There have been many developments in the IBM Z world, and we are bringing in IBM technical executives to the Carolinas to speak to you! Our theme for the Raleigh session on Oct. 29 is DevOps and AIOps while the theme for Charlotte on Nov. 7 is AI and Automation.
Registration closes November 4th at 10 AM
Our first speaker will be Elpida Tzortzatos, IBM Fellow and CTO of AI on IBM Z. She leads the platform’s work on AI and will share current stories of the capabilities, use cases, and value AI workloads on IBM Z bring to our clients.
The morning will wrap up with a discussion by Maryela Weihrauch, IBM Distinguished Engineer in the Washington Systems Center, to discuss new capabilities to share data in near real time with a new data store on prem or in the cloud hosted by IBM’s watsonx.data solution. IBM Data Gate for watsonx.data is built on the technology that powers the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator and provides new options to share mainframe data managed by Db2, IMS, and VSAM.
The afternoon will feature a double session by Mike Fulton, IBM Distinguished Engineer in Z Application Foundation. He will discuss work he leads to make developers’ lives better, specifically:
- Open Source for z/OS – how it has gone from virtually nothing to a significant
number of tools and technology. - The move away from proprietary to common and consistent software.
- Providing generative AI software to improve productivity and eliminate
drudgery for all forms of z/OS developers.
The afternoon will have a brief TechByte highlighting three recent blog posts by Marna Walle, IBM STSM in z/OS, on installation options for new open-source products like IBM Semeru, Python, ZOAU, and the Open Enterprise Foundation. DeWayne Hughes, Principal Z Client Architect, will share comments from a recent conversation with Marna.
AGENDA
| 08:30 AM | Gather & Networking |
| 09:00 AM | Introductions |
| 09:15 AM |
Latest Use Cases and Updates for AI Workloads on IBM z16 and LinuxONE Elpida Tzortzados, IBM Fellow and CTO, AI on IBM Z and LinuxONE |
| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 10:50 AM |
Exploiting IBM Z Data with Data Gate and watsonx.data Maryela Weihrauch, IBM Distinguished Engineer |
| 11:50 AM |
Lunch |
| 01:00 PM |
Open Source Software for z/OS to Standardize on Modern Tooling Mike Fulton, IBM Distinguished Engineer |
| 02:10 PM |
TechByte – Installation Options on z/OS Open Source Software DeWayne Hughes, IBM Principal Z Architect |
| 02:15 PM |
Break |
| 02:30 PM | Infrastructure as Code and New Open Source Solutions for z/OS Mike Fulton, IBM Distinguished Engineer |
| 03:30 PM |
Closing |
Co-Sponsored in part by:
For more information, contact your IBM representative or hosts Tali de Gourville – [email protected] or DeWayne Hughes – [email protected]
Venue: Bank of America, Charlotte 150
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