On June 13-15, Open Mainframe Project will be at the annual ECC Conference, which will be hosted virtually. Several Open Mainframe Project leaders will be in presenting at the conference – check out the schedule below.

Monday, June 14:

10:45 – 11:15 am: How a Student Modernized a Legacy Banking Application

• Misty Decker, member of the COBOL Working Group/Micro Focus
• Sudhanshu Dubey, Open Mainframe Project 2021 Summer Mentee

11:30 am – 12 pm: The Facts about COBOL (panel)

• Moderator: Cameron Seay, Chair of the COBOL Working Group/ East Carolina University
• Moderator: Len Santalucia, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity
• Panelists: Members of Open Mainframe Project’s COBOL Working Group

2:15 – 2:45 pm: Death of the Mainframe? How Open Source Modernized the Mainframe

• John Mertic, Director of Program Management, the Linux Foundation

3-3:30 pm: Teaching Bergen Community College students.  You can do it too! COBOL and Linux skills for the IBM Z Mainframe (Panel)

• Moderator: Len Santalucia, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity
• Vincent Terrone, member of the Open Mainframe Project technical community/ Vicom Infinity
• Emily Vandalovsky, Bergen Community College

Tuesday, June 15:

10:15 – 10:45 am: Watson Integration to Enterprise Open Source Performance Monitor

• Alex Kim, member of the Zowe community/Vicom Infinity
• Salisu Ali, Graduate of the 2020 Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program
• Len Santalucia, Chair of the Open Mainframe Project Governing Board/Vicom Infinity

3-3:30 pm: Create a Fully Automated CI/CD Pipeline for a z/OS Test Environment using Jenkins and Zowe

• Subhasish Sarkar, member of the Zowe community/BMC Software

Open Mainframe Project is also a Bronze Sponsor of the ECC Conference. To learn more about the conference or to register for free, visit the main ECC Conference website: https://ecc.marist.edu/web/conference2021.