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Thursday, February 12th
11 am ET
As organizations navigate the complexities of modernizing their mainframe systems, they face mounting pressure to balance innovation with operational stability. The challenge is compounded by the rapid adoption of generative AI, evolving workforce skills, and the need to integrate core business systems with cloud and modern architectures.
In this webinar, you’ll uncover practical strategies for modernizing mainframe code. Backed by fresh polling data and expert insights, we will explore critical topics, including transforming monolithic architectures, adopting selective modernization practices, and transitioning to modular, reusable components. This session offers actionable guidance to help organizations modernize with confidence.
Join Guy Currier, Analyst at The Futurum Group, and Mark Schettenhelm, Principal Product Manager at BMC, for an exclusive panel discussion. With decades of combined experience in AI, DevOps, and mainframe modernization, they’ll share insights and practical strategies to help you modernize and innovate.
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.
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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.

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.