Day 1 – Monday, January 31
11:00am – 11:45pm
PLENARY SESSION
Welcome to IMPACT: Learn about the conference and CMG from our Board of Directors
Learn about the conference and CMG from our Board of Directors. We will present on CMG and then have a panel discussion with CMG’s board of directors on Tech, Workforce, and Innovation.
11:45am – 12:00pm
NETWORKING SESSION
Networking Session
12:00pm – 12:45pm
KEYNOTE SESSION
Do You See What I See? Using AR and AI
Sindhuja Parimalarangan, Maitreyi Chitale, Anoush Najarian
12:45pm – 1:00pm
NETWORKING SESSION
Networking Session
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Observability, Cloud
Building a Full Stack Observability Solution using Distributed Tracing
Chinmay Gaikwad
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Innovation
Awards Program
During this special session, we will learn more about the finalists (Capital One, MongoDB, and SoftCity Group) and announce the winner of the first annual award. Afterwards, there will be time in our networking space for attendees to hear from our finalists and winner.
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Innovation, Networking
Finalist Networking
This time is for general networking and a chance to chat with the finalists: Capital One, MongoDB, and SoftCity Group.
Day 2 – Tuesday, February 1
10:00am – 11:00am
Keynote, Plenary Session
Lessons Learned from a Ransomware Attack
Ski Kacoroski
11:00am – 12:00pm
Cloud, Capacity
Cloud Decisions Optimization
Boris Zibitsker
11:00am – 12:00pm
Containers, Engineering
The Freedom of Kubernetes requires Chaos Engineering to shine in production
Henrik Rexed
11:00am – 12:00pm
Observability, Resource Planning, Site Reliability Engineering
Don’t Let Incidents Burden You. The Right Way to do Incident Response.
John Weil, Paul Chu
11:00am – 12:00pm
Innovation
Drones 2 GNSS
Birds of a Feather
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Performance
Perspectives on the USL (Relating scaling to saturation, relative response time, machine structure, and capacity)
Joe Temple
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Performance, mobile
The future of content delivery for mobile applications
Rui Costa
12:00pm – 1:00pm
zOS, Capacity, Resource Planning
Key considerations for managing and optimizing under Tailored Fit Pricing
Chris Walker, Tracy Dean
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Engineering
Boosting Engineering Speed with Cycle Time
Romain Dupas
1:00pm – 2:00pm
zOS
Work Less and Save More
Mark Cohen Austroweik
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Performance, Testing, Capacity
“Game Day” Production Testing
Duane Diggs, Yar Savchenko
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Containers, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Balancing Kubernetes performance, resilience & cost by using ML-based optimization – a real-world case
Stefano Doni
7:00pm – 7:45pm
Plenary Session
Propelling Java at Alibaba Scale
Kingsum Chow
7:45pm – 8:00pm
Networking Session
Networking Session
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Leadership, innovation
The Purposeful Innovator
Carnellia Ajasin
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Capacity, Performance, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
All Hands on Deck! Come Together with the Fab Four: Capacity, Performance, Cost and AI
Dan Ruehl
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Performance, Testing, Software, Development
Continuous Performance Testing: Challenges and Approaches
Alexander Podelko
Day 3 – Wednesday, February 2
11:00am – 12:00pm
Keynote, Plenary Session
Workforce Transformation: Defining your Digital Workplace
Daren Masanda
12:00pm – 1:00pm
zOS, Performance
OpenTelemetry and Mainframe Application Performance Monitoring: How we figured out distributed tracing on Z
Taylor Donner. Aaron Young
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Cloud, Capacity
Global Cloud Environment: Data Analysis and Management Workload
Dmitry Shchemelinin, Mikhail Buinevich
12:00pm – 1:00pm
zOS, Containers
Finding Your Way in the Cloudy DBMS Jungle
Daniel Seybold
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, 5G
5G Wireless Networks and beyond with AI/ML adaption
Mallikharjuna R. Valluri
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Observability, Engineering, Data
Building Observability into Your Engineering Processes
James (Jimmy) McGill
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Observability, Resource Planning, Site Reliability Engineering
Retrospectives: Do We Need Them & Why?
Matthew Dodge
2:00pm – 3:00pm
zOS
System Recover Boost: Hitting the Turbo Button on z/OS
Scott Chapman
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Cloud, Capacity
Putting a dollar value on Cloud Cost Optimisation
Thomas Ballard
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Capacity, Data Center
Physical data center capacity planning – Performance management at scale
Chris Molloy
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Networking Session
Virtual Networking Presented by Blameless
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Performance Engineering, Research
Panel Discussion: Roadmap for Cultivating Performance-Aware Software Engineers
Connie Smith, Kishor Trivedi, Alexander Podelko, Igor Trubin, Gregg Vesondor, Ye Yang, Andre Bondi
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Cloud, Containers, Microservices
Your Mess Needs a Mesh
Shannon McFarland
3:00pm – 4:00pm
zOS, Security
Is the mainframe at the heart of your cyber resiliency strategy?
Chris Walker, Diego Bessone
Day 4 – Thursday, February 3
10:00am – 11:00am
Keynote, Plenary Session, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Capacity, BYOD
Managing 50 Billion Things
Eliot Lear
11:00am – 12:00pm
Redefining a Lean IT Support Team in 2022
Johnny Marrero
11:00am – 12:00pm
Observability, Performance
Modeling, Animation & Observability
Richard Gimarc
11:00pm – 12:00pm
zOS
Mainframe innovation: unlock any data for any application
Chiara Baldan, Laura Guidi, Francesco Borrello
12:00pm – 1:00pm
zOS, Keynote, Plenary
10 tips to reach Mainframe Operational Excellence (or not)!
Marc Beschi
1:00am – 2:00pm
zOS, Observability
Still researching the needle in the haystack on the mainframe?
Brian Hoare
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Leadership, Diversity
Beyond Picture Perfect Diversity: How to Create a Sense of Inclusion
Dima Ghawi
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Capacity, Infrastructure, Observability, Performance
What’s that VM Doing? The Sequel
Debbie Sheetz
2:00pm – 3:00pm
DevOps, Software, Development
DevOps Worked… Why Hasn’t Security Kept Up?
Joni Klippert
2:00pm – 3:00pm
zOS, Resource Planning
Get the business views you need to keep the mainframe profitable
Roberto Pacheco
Day 5 – Friday, February 4
11:00am – 12:00pm
Plenary, Keynote, Software, Development, Performance
Five Design Patterns to Build More Resilient Applications
Derek Bingham
12:00pm – 12:15pm
Networking Session
Virtual Networking
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Velocity: Align, Deliver, and Improve with Engineering Intelligence
12:15pm – 1:15pm
zOS, Cloud
Modernizing Mainframe using Cloud
Bhagvan Kommadi
12:15pm – 1:15pm
Cloud, Capacity, Containers
Containers Beyond Expectations: Managing Physical Desktop Computers with Containers and Kubernetes
Jock Reed
12:15pm – 1:15pm
Cloud, Capacity
Cloud Servers Rightsizing with Seasonality Adjustments
Igor Trubin
1:15pm – 1:30pm
Networking Session
Networking Session
TBA
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Plenary
Conference Closing Remarks and Prize Drawing
The IMPACT Team
