Date: Monday, February 24, 2025
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am EST
Where: Magnolia 3

Speaker: 
Misty Decker, Director, IT Strategy Consulting, Kyndryl

Mainframe modernization can often mean large and complicated projects, but new AI technology promises to deliver modern applications much more quickly and easily. But how many of those promises are reality or are they just wishful thinking and marketing materials? In this fun, interactive session, we’ll play a game called ‘Real or Hype’. We’ll explore the ways AI has the potential to help mainframe modernization initiatives, and you’ll get to vote if it’s real or hype:

•  AI models with mainframe data
•  Integrating AI applications with mainframe transactions
•  AI for application understanding
•  AI for COBOL to Java refactoring
• AI for observability

Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST 
Where: Baltimore 2

Speakers: 
Eduardo Henrique Rocha, Associate Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architect, Marci Formato, Director and Principal Architect and Brenno Oliveira Fernandes, Senior Lead, Software Engineering, Kyndryl

Kyndryl is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI to elevate our capabilities and deliver exceptional service to our customers. This session delves into how AI and code assistants augment our workforce's skills, enabling them to perform tasks more efficiently and effectively. Additionally, we will discuss how these AI-driven tools are integrated into Kyndryl's proprietary platform, Kyndryl Bridge, which serves as our single pane of glass for managing and optimizing IT services. 

Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Where: Baltimore 1

Speaker: 
Misty Decker, Director, IT Strategy Consulting, Kyndryl 

You've upgraded your hardware and your software, but are you actually taking advantage of the capabilities included? In this "cheat sheet" style session, you'll get an overview of the latest advancements over the past four years so you can make your wish list of capabilities you'd like to implement.

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 7:30am – 8:30am EST 
Where: Annapolis

Speakers: 
Eduardo Henrique Rocha, Associate Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architect, Brenno Oliveira Fernandes, Senior Lead, Software Engineering, Kyndryl; Sowmya Kameswaran, Chief Architect, IBM watsonx Assistant for Z

In this presentation, we will provide recommendations and examples on how Kyndryl has been leveraging generative AI assistants to increase our efficiency in day-to-day tasks such as problem determination and log analysis, speeding up repetitive tasks, doing research about a topic and much more. We will provide a set of guidelines on when and how to interact with your generative AI code assistants in a way that augments your capabilities and allows you to increase your reach but still learn in the process. Finally, we will demonstrate how to apply these recommendations and guidelines in real world scenarios.