6:00 PM

Registration Welcome and Virtual Platform Logistics

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Conference Welcome
Message from Dr. Murray, President of Marist College
Registration Welcome and Virtual Platform Logistics

9:30 AM - 10: 30 AM

Keynote Speaker
Greg Lotko
General Manager and Senior Vice President, Mainframe Software Division
at Broadcom
Opportunity Unfolding: Tracking the Adoption of AI in IT Ops

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

David Follis, IBM
Twitter, The NYC, Batch jobs, Watson Sentiment Analysis, and Sarcasm

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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Casimer DeCusitas, Marist College
Quantum Computer Algorithms and Programming

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11:30 - 12:00 PM

Panel: Privakey's Journey to the Secure Cloud with Linux on IBM Z

and LinuxONE and Improving Security and Customer Experience for

High Risk / High Value Digital Transactions
Moderator: Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity
Alex Kim, Vicom Infinity
Vincent Terrone, Vicom Infinity
Pat Kelly, Privakey
Brian Ross, Privakey

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch and Fitness Break
Select from four fitness videos created by Marist College students
Sponsored by Vicom Infinity and Privakey

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Keynote Speaker
Scott Crowder
Chief Technical Officer and Vice President, Quantum Computing,

Technical Strategy and Transformation for IBM Systems, IBM
Entering the Quantum Decade

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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

David Santeramo, Mainline Information Systems, Inc.
AI in Cybersecurity Operations

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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Juan Arias, Marist College
Machine Learning in Healthcare Pay-for-performance

Reimbursement Models

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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Invited Speaker
John Cohn
IBM Fellow at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM
IBM/MIT/ Watson Lab Research in AI

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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Ravi Chandran, XtremeData, Inc.
Re-Thinking DataPrep on the z-Architecture

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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tamer Abuelsaad, IBM
Designing an Intelligent Tutoring System for Early Childhood Learning
Vocabulary Acquisition

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Cindy Rodriguez, Hemanginiben Chaujan, Deepthi Srinivasan, Marist College
Wine Match- What's the Wine for you?

Utilizing Machine Learning for Wine Tasting & Pairing

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Kevin Bruckner, IBM
Art with IBM Watson

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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Art Gallery Tours
Immerse yourself in tours of Marist College faculty personal art studios

and private collections. Learn about their creative techniques 

and their passions.
Sponsored by IBM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Eitel Lauria, Edward Presutti, Eric Stetson, Marist College
A Two-stage Boosted Classification Framework for Improving Early

Detection of Freshmen Attrition

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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Sudha Dhanwada, IBM
Getting Smart with z/OS Security

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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Piyush Garewal, Marist College
Emerging Technology that has failed- The Fall of Google Glass

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10:00AM - 10:30AM

Markus van Kemp, IBM
Being Socially Distance with AI

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10:30 AM - 11:00AM

Phillip Teplitzky, HP Marin & Touro College
Solving the COBOL/Mainframe Skills Gap

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10:30AM - 11:00AM

Scott Sigalas, IBM
Introduction to IBM z/OS Container Extensions

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11:00 AM - 11:30AM

Paul Newton, IBM

Technology Trends and Issues, a Financial Viewpoint

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11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Daniel Yost, Casimer DeCusatis, Marist College
Lattice-Based Cybersecurity in the Quantum Era

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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Michael Guarino, Pablo Rivas, Casimer DeCusatis, Marist College
Towards Adversarially Robust DDoS Attack Classification 

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12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch and Fitness Break
Select from four fitness videos created by Marist College students
Sponsored by Broadcom and Mainline

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Aaron Kippins, Michael Gildein, Bradley Huntington, Charles Ropes, IBM
Minecraft on Z/OS

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1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Clem Martins, Robust Designs
ZOWE: Can an Old Z/OS Mainframer Learn New Tricks?

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1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Joseph Gulla, MSP TechMedia
Enterprise Middleware Software -- Firmly Established Yet Transforming to Meet New Needs

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1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Misty Decker, IBM
A Whole New Master the Mainframe

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2:00 PM – 2:30 PM  

Meghan McGrath, IBM
Counting Beans: Changing Financial Infrastructure in the Asia Pacific Region

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2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Kaylin Moss, Zacharie Happel, Marist College
Trusted Identity Management System Using Blockchain

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2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Marc Hobler, Mainline Information Systems
Data Virtualization for all things Intelligent

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3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Michael Bauer, Broadcom
Introduction to Zowe, The First Ever Open Source Mainframe Project

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3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Shelly Meierarend, IBM and Jeff Bisti, IBM
IBM Z and LinuxONE Skills - IBM Academic Initiative Presentation

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4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Abdullah A. Jassim, Saifuldeen A. Mohammed, University of Baghdad
New Initiative - Watson for Enterprise Firmware and Hardware Management

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4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Daniel Jast, IBM
Using Modern Tooling to Automate the Deployment of Applications and Middleware on Z

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