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8 April 2025

IBM TechXchange Virtual Event

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IBM Z Day: Special Edition

8 April 2025   |   10AM - 5PM ET   |

IBM Z Day: Special Edition is a free 1-day enterprise computing virtual conference for anyone and everyone! Hear the latest about IBM Z and join our lineup of global thought leaders who will highlight industry trends and innovation spanning AI, Hybrid Cloud, Quantum-Safe Security, and more!

IBM Z - always open | on | secure

Something big is coming..

Join us April 8th from 10 AM to 5 PM ET to connect, learn, and be inspired by what's brewing in the labs, hear from community members as they share experiences, discover new and exciting innovation, learn how to adopt a hybrid cloud infrastructure that integrates AI and data for real-time insights, accelerate your digital transformation and modernization journey and hear what's on the minds of thought leaders. 

1-DAY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

150+ INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

130+ COUNTRIES

LEARNING PLATFORM FOR ALL

Conference Tracks

Your virtual hands-on with the newest IBM Mainframe.

Unlock more business value by bringing advanced AI to mission-critical data and workloads on the IBM zNext platform. With up to 8x on-chip AI processors per core, it’s an engineered stack designed for scale, performance and security so you can do more at the core of your business. Now YOU can be one of the first to see the newest mainframe up close, deep dive into the innovation and design, and engage with the teams who build the systems that run 70% of the world's transactions. Learn about the innovative new chips that drive new AI use cases and enable billions of inferences per second. Join to raise the bar with IBM again on industry firsts and transformational improvements that simplify business as we know it.

IBM zNext

Get AI value TODAY - no new data center / server farms required!

The AI+ era is enabling new opportunities, however, it can place significant demands on IT. Now teams can fuel growth today, while keeping vital data and applications secure, scaling energy efficient AI with minimal impact to performance. Learn how to readily access and exploit mainframe data for maximum AI model inferencing. Exploit Gen AI and multiple models to improve prediction and accuracy leveraging AI accelerators and an optimized stack. Discover use cases from fraud to money laundering to anomaly detection, all enhanced with IBM Z technology to unlock more value.

AI & Data

Get more from your team, your IT, yourself.

Fast track operational efficiencies and accelerate app development using assistants, agents and automation to extract the most value from your IT investments and talent. Now you can use AI and automation to improve developer productivity and code quality, like one client did in a pilot, saving 80% of developer time. Streamline and simplify IT operations with integrated AI for incident resolution and application health to reduce time to resolution. Help practitioners with guided actions to increase productivity and ramp up learning.

App Dev & IT Ops

IBM Z Day SE - Journeys

IBM Z Day SE offers 3 exciting journeys, each with a distinct path offering an engaging, one-of-a-kind experience tailored to your interests. Discover enriched insights and recommended sessions that will create a memorable and impactful IBM Z Day SE for you!

      Security - Learn about advanced encryption to protect data and secure your digital future

      New to Z - Curated for early tenure mainframe professionals

      Developer - Featuring technical sessions of particular interest to developers

IBM Z Day SE - Badges

Given the overwhelming response to last year's IBM Z Day knowledge certificates, you have the opportunity to earn up to four (4) industry-recognized IBM digital skills badges!

Steps to Earn: 

Get started with IBM Z Foundations - Level 1 here

More information on required sessions and quiz to earn IBM Z Day SE AI & Data and Security badges coming soon!

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Keynote Speakers and Featured Thought Leaders

Ross Mauri

General Manager, IBM Z & LinuxONEIBM

Meredith Stowell

Vice President, IBM Z EcosystemIBM

Tina Tarquinio

Vice President, Product Management, IBM Z and LinuxONEIBM

Skyla Loomis

General Manager,IBM Z SoftwareIBM

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