Do you know the fairy tale where a professor, an IBMer, a student, a client, and a partner sit down to discuss mainframe education and immediately agree on everything?
Neither do we.
This panel doesn’t deal in fairy tales. It opens up one of the most important and still unresolved questions in the mainframe industry: what does the future of zSkills really look like? As technology evolves rapidly, so do the skills, expectations, and learning paths required to keep pace.
Hosted by Leendert Blondel and Andrey Mitrev, this session brings together diverse perspectives: academia, IBM, students, clients, and partners. After short opening viewpoints from each, the discussion shifts into an interactive, guided conversation aimed at uncovering where we align, where we don’t, and what we might be missing.
This is not a one-way panel. It’s an open forum designed to actively involve the audience in shaping conclusions, challenging assumptions, and contributing ideas.
