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7:30am EDT

Registration Sponsor Area

7:45am EDT

Breakfast Sponsor Area

8:30am EDT

Linux for IBM Z Installation Hands-on Workshop - Part 1 2107Richard Lewis Build Your Own Linux 1107Rick Troth What's new with the VSE SSH Client Suite 2201Neale Ferguson zVM: Beyond the Horizon 1201Frederik Hartmann 21CS VSEn Hints and Tips 2104Aleksa Medakovic • Gonzalo Muelas Serrano • Edward Jordinson

9:30am EDT

Coffee Break Sponsor Area

9:45am EDT

Linux for IBM Z Installation Hands-on Workshop - Part 2 2107Richard Lewis z/VM Memory Management Update 1107Romney White Standing up and administering a public-access VM/SP system 2201Paul Novak Rexx Language Primer 1201Rich Smrcina • James Vincent Jumpin' Jack, Flash VSE 2104Steve Weifenbach • Tony Thigpen

11:00am EDT

Linux for IBM Z Installation Hands-on Workshop - Part 3 2107Richard Lewis Saying Hello to z/VM V7.5 Security 1107Brian Hugenbruch Solving Customer Problems with Velocity Software 2201Kurt Acker Lessons Learned From Being Struck by Lightning - Private Cloud on IBM Z and LinuxONE: How to Create a Stable, Manageable, High-Performance Environment 1201Paul Novak A Mainframe Update from Germany 2104Michael Tores

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Sponsor Area

1:00pm EDT

Deploying Encrypted Filesystems in Linux under zVM 1107Phil Tully The Evolution of z/VM - 25 years of innovation 2201Romney White CMS Pipelines Basics 1201Rick Barlow 21CS OLTP transaction looping, you can take care of it! (and other enhancements) 2104Aleksa Medakovic

2:15pm EDT

Putting the ME in MainfraME 2107Arielle Goldberg Visualization is Key 1107Rich Smrcina 21CS: Then, Now, Next 2201Clarence Waldrop GDPS Cyber Resiliency: Securing, Vaulting, and Recovering Critical Data 1201Megan Hampton • Steven Cook A Hardware Primer for System Programmers 2104Alan Altmark

3:15pm EDT

Coffee Break Sponsor Area

3:30pm EDT

A Beginner's Perspective: Q&A With A VCU Student 2107Victoria Castagnola ZIP Through Install with GetShopz 1107Sam Capodicci Express Linux Automation and Networking: Ansible and scripting for z/VM 2201Vic Cross Introduction to RACF Administration on z/VM 1201James Vincent 21CS VSEn Connectors and VSCode - Efficient and modern ways of working with VSEn 2104Edward Jordinson

4:45pm EDT

EMMA: A New Mainframe Education and Apprenticeship Engagement Model 2107Jeff Brown Recommendations for Large-Scale Linux Deployment on LinuxONE 1107Frederik Hartmann CMS Shared File System Administration 2201Rich Smrcina RACF: The Right Way 1201Alan Altmark VSE's Blueprint for Achieving Formula One Success 2104Robert Dougherty

6:45pm EDT

Dinner on Your Own! TBD