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What You'll Learn:

• The priorities organizations with mainframe environments cite most often in their delivery strategy today
• The barriers teams cite most often as limiting progress
• AI's current footprint across code, test, build, deploy, and security workflows
• The single hardest part of expanded delivery responsibility
• The capabilities teams expect to accelerate progress over the next 12 to 18 months
Presenters
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Jared Harris
Webinar Host
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Vijayeendra (Vijay) Namasevi
Vice President of Research & Development for BMC’s AMI DevX and AMI Data - BMC
Vijayeendra (Vijay) Namasevi is Vice President of Research & Development for BMC’s AMI DevX and AMI Data portfolios and serves as BMC Software India Country Leader. Based in Bengaluru, he is responsible for driving innovation and execution across BMC’s mainframe development, modernization, and data management R&D organizations.
Vijay joined BMC in December 2025 from IBM, where he built a 27-year career spanning software development, product management, ecosystem partnerships, and acquisition integration leadership. Most recently, he led IBM Z portfolios including IMS, Automation on Z, and Security, and previously led DevOps product management initiatives focused on mainframe modernization and software delivery innovation.
Before moving into executive leadership, Vijay spent nearly two decades with IBM’s CICS organization, progressing from software developer to leader of the CICS India team. He has extensive experience working with global system integrators, enterprise customers, and technology partners to advance modernization strategies for mission-critical mainframe environments.
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Guy Currier
Analyst - The Futurum Group
Guy is the CTO at Visible Impact, responsible for positioning, GTM, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native/12-factor, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs, xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.