About
What You'll Learn:

• Exclusive Market Insights: Explore new survey data on mainframe application modernization trends, including platform strategy preferences, code transformation approaches, and the growing role of AI-powered tools.

• Strategic Modernization Priorities: Discover how to identify which parts of your applications to modernize and how to prioritize efforts for maximum impact.

• Real-World Applications: Hear how organizations are successfully transforming monolithic architectures into modular, maintainable components while preserving business logic refined over decades.

• Balancing Innovation and Stability: Understand how to evolve applications continuously rather than pursuing risky wholesale migrations, delivering immediate value while reducing project risk.
When
Thursday, February 12, 2026 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -5:00)
Presenters
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Jared Harris
Webinar Host
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Mark Schettenhelm
Principal Product Manager - BMC Software
Mark is a Principal Product Manager at BMC and a recognized DevOps evangelist with extensive experience working with development teams worldwide in Source Control Management, Testing, DevOps, and Application Portfolio Analysis. A frequent conference speaker, webinar presenter, blogger, and columnist, Mark is passionate about bringing Agile and DevOps practices to mainframe development and helping teams adopt modern methodologies to drive continuous improvement.
His thought leadership has appeared in Enterprise Executive and Enterprise Tech Journal, and he regularly contributes to DZone.com and SHARE Tech Watch. In his current role, Mark leads BMC’s solutions for source control management, and deployment.
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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.