IBM Z Customer Council – Lansing, MI
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June 12, 2025
10:00 AM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Join us!
There have been many developments in the IBM Z world, and we would like to highlight some of the most exciting topics.
We will kick off this day by introducing you to the newest installment of hardware releases in the IBM Z Systems and LinuxONE family. Mitch Bride will speak to the exciting new capabilities of the recently launched z17 and LinuxONE 5.
After lunch, we will get into how our customers are leveraging IBM’s growing AI capabilities to help their entire workforce leverage the Z platform. Rafael Nunes Martins will share how you can build different user personas to provide a repository of documented and readily available information about your Z environment using watsonx assistant for Z.
We will then have Nicole Camara go into further detail on IBM’s AIOps guidance – how our clients detect, decide, and act upon Z system performance and observability events to reduce bottlenecks and mean time to remediation.
Julie Bergh will then provide us an update on the latest mainframe security trends in the marketplace and what our customers are doing to fortify their mainframe security posture.
Finally, we will round out our presentations with an overview on IBM’s safe-guarded copy capabilities.
After our technical overview sessions, please stick around to join us for Happy Hour!
AGENDA
| 9:00 AM | Arrival and Registration |
| 11:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 11:15 AM |
z17 and LinuxONE Mitchell Bride, IBM |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 12:45 AM | IBM watsonx Assistant for Z Rafael Nunes Martins, IBM |
| 1:30 PM |
AIOps for Z Nicole Camara, IBM |
| 2:15 PM | Break |
| 2:30 PM |
Mainframe Security Best Practices Julie Bergh, IBM |
| 3:30 PM |
Safe-guarded Copy |
| 4:00 PM | Happy Hour |
For more information, contact your IBM representative or Julian Basey – [email protected].
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