Open Mainframe Project participates in many events around the world to showcase the modern mainframe and how Linux and Open Source are first class citizens on it.
Check out the upcoming events listed below – and let us know if there is an event we should be at.


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2021 Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) Conference
June 13, 2021 - June 15, 2021

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.