About
Join us for an engaging roundtable bringing together industry leaders and experts in enterprise solutions, DevOps and security. Our panel of experts will share their insights and customer experiences, providing a unique opportunity to learn from those at the forefront of this modern framework.

Attendees will learn:

What Zowe is and what it can do for you
Features of the new Zowe Long-term Support V3
Details about extensions, apps and the Zowe Conformance and Zowe Conformant Support Provider Programs
Real-world customer experiences
Live Q&A
When
Thursday, May 2, 2024 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenters
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Cody J. Brown
Host - Techstrong Learning
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Rose Sakach
Global Product Manager at Broadcom
Rose is a Zowe Squad Lead and Global Product Manager at Broadcom responsible for CA Brightside and solutions that integrate mainframe developers with modern tooling and enable DevOps for the Enterprise. She has published Zowe blogs at medium.com and has led sessions at SHARE, CA World, DevOps.com, and various worldwide Broadcom Product User Groups. She has over 30 years of experience in technology roles including application development, systems programming, operations, product administration, consulting services and product management. Rose is based in Massachusetts.
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John Mertic
Executive Director of Open Mainframe
John Mertic is the Executive Director of Open Mainframe Project. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open source leadership roles at SugarCRM, OW2, and OpenSocial. With an extensive open source background, he is a regular speaker at various Linux Foundation and other industry trade shows each year. John is also an avid writer and has authored two books “The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications” and “Building on SugarCRM” as well as published articles on IBM Developerworks, Apple Developer Connection, and PHP Architect.
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Alan Shimel
Founder & CEO - Techstrong Group
Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
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Jeff Cherrington
Vice President, Product Management, Infrastructure Modernization - Rocket Software
Technology exec with extensive experience providing data processing and packaged software to payments, banking, finance, and other verticals. Conversant with technology delivery on all platforms, from mainframes to phone. Currently focused on product management & marketing, with experience in sales, customer service, and program management within both initial stage start-ups and billion dollar public companies. Proven leader, thorough analyst, committed team player.
Most interested in establishing dialogs with customers & prospects for organizations that identify new or underserved needs, then developing innovative solutions that satisfy those needs delivered quickly to market.
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Joe Winchester
Senior Technical Staff Member - IBM z Systems
Joe is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM z Systems software group, an Open Mainframe Project ambassador, and a founding committer of the Zowe project. He is a frequent presenter at conferences worldwide helping to connect open source technology and practices to the mainframe computing world, and was recently included in the Planet Mainframe list of influential mainframers. Prior to working with mainframe computing, Joe had a background in open source working with the Java Community Process authoring a number of language specification requests, as well as being a team lead for the open source Eclipse IDE.
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