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Future-Ready Mainframe Operations – Optimizing your digital foundation for the cloud and AI era
AI and Cloud as Collaborator & Enabler in Mainframe Transformation
Scalable, secure, resilient, and accessible infrastructure, platforms, and data are the foundation of successful digital businesses. The mainframe has long been the benchmark for resilience and security, but in today’s hybrid cloud and AI-driven world, unlocking data and institutional knowledge is essential to driving better business and operational decisions.
AI has emerged as the collaborator – evolving from advisor to partner to operator. Through AI agents and agentic workflows, teams gain digital colleagues that can surface insights, capture institutional knowledge, recommend actions, and even execute them, helping reduce errors and accelerate decision-making.
Cloud is the enabler – liberating data from proprietary silos and providing a secure, integrated environment where information flows freely. This empowers modern analytics, compliance validation, anomaly detection, and ensures that data is available at scale for AI/ML applications, all while protecting critical operations through cyber resiliency and immutable object storage.
Together, AI and cloud reshape mainframe optimization and transformation, augmenting human expertise with trusted digital collaborators and ensuring resilience for the future.
Join IDC, BMC, and Dell for this exclusive dinner conversation where we’ll explore how AI and cloud are reshaping mainframe optimization and transformation.
This event offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with industry experts, exchange perspectives, and share your own experiences in shaping the future of mainframe transformation.
Agenda
IDC, BMC & Dell Technologies Executive Dinner
One day event
Champagne Reception
Guest arrival with welcome drinks to be served
Welcome from IDC, BMC & Dell Technologies
Andrew Buss
Senior Research Director, Infrastructure, IDC Europe
How do you see the cloud changing the way mainframe data can be used for business insights?
What opportunities open up once data is moved from tape and proprietary formats into open file formats? Where do you see the biggest benefits of having data instantly available for AI/ML or analytics applications? What role do cloud-native tools play in making mainframe data more useful and trustworthy?
What is your overall view of AI, and where is your organization today in adopting AI as an advisor, partner, or operator?
How do you see AI evolving from being just an advisor to acting as a true team member for mainframe optimization? Human in the loop to human on the loop – Where is the right balance between Agentic AI execution and human oversight? Where do you draw the line on what AI should or should not do?
What does the future-ready mainframe look like?
How do you approach immutable protection and cyber resiliency in a cloud-native world? Active participant or bystander – how to take advantage of new inbuilt AI capabilities on the mainframe?
Feedback Forms
Coffee Served & Evaluation Forms Distributed
Thank you from IDC, BMC & Dell Technologies
Venue
Kimpton Fitzroy London Hotel
1-8 Russell Sq, London WC1B 5BE
A 3-minute walk from Russell Square Station
Eligibility Criteria
Attendance is reserved for end-customer employees with relevant responsibility (e.g., mainframe, ops, resilience). Registrations from technology vendors, SIs, and consultancy’s may be declined at the organiser’s discretion to maintain audience relevance.