--- title: Beating Bottlenecks - A New Approach for Mainframe Delivery description: In this webinar, you’ll hear how life insurance company Woodmanlife achieved $845,000 in savings across 13 releases by implementing automation that worked with their team, not against it. image: https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hubfs/2025.06.18-PopUpMainframe-Social-1080x1080%20(1).png --- Beating Bottlenecks - A New Approach for Mainframe Delivery ![OnDemand-2025.06.18-PopUpMainframe-LandingPage-1540x660](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/OnDemand-2025.06.18-PopUpMainframe-LandingPage-1540x660.png?width=1540&height=660&name=OnDemand-2025.06.18-PopUpMainframe-LandingPage-1540x660.png "OnDemand-2025.06.18-PopUpMainframe-LandingPage-1540x660") ## Sponsored By: ![Screenshot 2025-04-17 130659](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-04-17%20130659.png) ##### On Demand   While studies reveal near-unanimous support, the mainframe community faces bottlenecks in how quickly change can be delivered. Over 90% of all mainframe decision-makers feel their current environment is too restrictive to support the pace of change they need. Brand-new market data from PopUp Mainframe examines the underlying causes and explores a new approach to tackle the challenges, improving the delivery process for the mainframe. This webinar will unveil the survey results and explore a breakthrough solution to accelerating mainframe DevOps efficiency. Top reasons to join: - See what the market thinks are the biggest bottlenecks in mainframe delivery - How popular new tech, including Linux and modern IDEs, is affecting mainframe devops - How to leverage your current hybrid environment to dramatically improve mainframe delivery velocity - Gain access to new Mainframe Market Research # Register Below: We'll send you an email confirmation ![Profile-pic-Oct-2023-450x550-1-modified](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile-pic-Oct-2023-450x550-1-modified.png?width=446&height=446&name=Profile-pic-Oct-2023-450x550-1-modified.png "Profile-pic-Oct-2023-450x550-1-modified") ### Bronwyn Davies ###### Head of Development - PopUp Mainframe Leader of the PopUp Mainframe development team.  Bron's mission is to drive improvements in the technical team around ways of working, automation, and efficiences, to continue to improve the solution provided to customers. ![mugshotmay22 2-modified](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/mugshotmay22%202-modified.png?width=1080&height=1080&name=mugshotmay22%202-modified.png "mugshotmay22 2-modified") ### Derek Britton ###### Senior Strategy Leader - PopUp Mainframe With over 30 years in the enterprise software industry—all of it in the mainframe and application modernization arena—Derek is an accomplished technology leader.  Derek is a member of the management team at PopUp Mainframe. ![1729462620929-modified](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/1729462620929-modified.png?width=197&height=197&name=1729462620929-modified.png "1729462620929-modified") ### Gary Thornhill ###### Founder and Product Leader - PopUp Mainframe ![Guy Currier-modified (2)-1](https://webinars.techstronglearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Guy%20Currier-modified%20(2)-1.png?width=447&height=447&name=Guy%20Currier-modified%20(2)-1.png "Guy Currier-modified (2)-1") ### Guy Currier ###### Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces - The Futurum Group Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, 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, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. 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