CMG Be Curious Series | Featuring Art Gutowski, President of SHARE
April 22, 2026CMG’s Toronto Regional brought together mainframe experts, technology leaders, and practitioners at the IBM Canada Software Lab to explore how artificial intelligence is changing mainframe operations, observability, resilience, application development, and performance.
Now you can revisit highlights from the July 28, 2026 event and watch available session recordings on demand.
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One Conversation, Complete Visibility: AI is Redefining Mainframe Observability
Presenter: Michael Kiehl, Senior Manager, Product Management | AIOps & Automation, Mainframe Software Division | Broadcom
Imagine asking a single question and watching AI investigate across your entire z/OS environment — correlating performance metrics with console messages, tracing dependencies across CICS, MQ, DB2, and IMS, and delivering a purpose-built dashboard. We’ll showcase how AI and autonomous agents are reshaping the mainframe observability landscape, and we’ll be honest about what we’ve learned along the way, including security considerations.
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From AIOps to Agentic Systems: Why Monitoring Is Not Enough (and Never Was)
Presenter: Arvid Trubin, PhD, CSSE Associate, AWS Solution Architect Certified, TruTech Development, LLC
Most AIOps solutions today detect and explain anomalies, but they rarely act. In critical environments like IBM Z mainframes, this gap can prevent true operational resilience. This presentation argues that effective AIOps requires a shift from passive observation to autonomous control, built on a foundation of rigorous workload modeling.
Drawing on a patent-backed framework, the session will explore the progression from simple metrics to autonomous infrastructure, including workload modeling that connects business activity to system resource consumption, context-aware analysis that segments diverse workloads for more precise service-level decisions, and automated execution that enables true agentic capabilities.
Attendees will learn why reliable system models are a prerequisite for self-healing infrastructure and how organizations can evolve from reactive monitoring to proactive, autonomous control.
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Mainframe 101 – An Introduction and Update to Mainframes
Presenter: Jonathan Gladstone, IT Educator & Consultant
Mainframes continue to power many of the world’s most demanding business systems, yet they remain one of the least understood enterprise platforms. This course-based badge session provides a structured introduction to modern mainframe computing, explaining how today’s IBM Z systems support high-volume transaction processing, virtualization, resiliency, security, and hybrid enterprise architectures.
Participants will gain a practical understanding of mainframe architecture, workload management, system configuration, and key cost considerations, while exploring how the platform has evolved to support cloud integration, AI, and modern application development. Whether you’re new to the mainframe or looking to refresh your knowledge, this session offers a solid foundation for understanding why mainframes remain a critical part of enterprise IT.
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The Value of Z Performance
Presenter: John Baker, IBM
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Broadcom Beyond Code
Presenter: Michael Kiehl, Broadcom Mainframe Software
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Move Beyond Silos: Unify Your MF Observability and ITSM Tools for Effective Mainframe Service Management
Presenter: Matheus Milani – Product Manager, The WatchTower Platform, Mainframe Software Division | Broadcom
Go beyond the silo. Join us to see how you can transform your Mainframe ITSM and ServiceNow implementation by leveraging WatchTower to provide the unified data you need for proactive and efficient operations. Combined observability can speed problem-solving, identify and resolve problems faster, and move you from a reactive to a proactive operational model. Map Mainframe dependencies to the CMDB for proactive issue prevention and easier management. Improve efficiency and reduce errors!
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GenAI-Infused Tools for Z: An AI-Powered Mainframe Resilience Platform — Solutions vs. Alerts
Presenter: Jack Jia, IBM Software
This session will explore how AI-powered IT operations management platforms can help organizations simplify operations, proactively manage risks, and improve resiliency by unifying siloed data into actionable insights.
The presentation will focus on the shift from alerts to solutions, including observability across infrastructure, anomaly detection, proactive remediation, and expert guidance supported by generative AI.
Attendees will see these concepts illustrated using IBM Concert for Z as a use case, showing how GenAI-infused tools can help teams isolate and diagnose operational issues, collect events and metrics from disparate data sources, and support faster resolution of mainframe operational challenges.
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AI Lightning Talks: How to Improve Performance with AI
Presenters:
Anoush Najarian, Software Engineering Manager, MathWorks
Sindhuja Parimalarangan, Senior Performance Engineer on the MATLAB Performance Team, MathWorks
Nayara Aguiar, Senior Performance Engineer, MathWorks
- Performance Skills in the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit — Anoush Najarian, Software Engineering Manager, MathWorks
- Speeding Up the FSDA Toolbox with AI — Sindhuja Parimalarangan, Senior Performance Engineer for MATLAB, MathWorks
- Performance Optimization of Generated Code for Embedded AI — Nayara Gomes de Aguiar, PhD, Senior Performance Engineer/Embedded AI, MathWorks
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