5:30 PM

Early Registration

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Sponsored by BlackRidge Technology

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast- Student Center- 3rd Floor

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Roger Norton, Dean, Marist College

9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

Keynote Speaker

Don Duet, President and COO of Vapor.io

Edge Computing in Perspective

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10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM

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Concurrent Sessions

Len Santalucia, Vicom Infinity

Collaboration and Growth in Open Source Enterprise Computing with Open Mainframe Project

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Philip Grabowski, Pittsburgh Technical College

The Gamification of IBM Enterprise Z in Higher Education Enhancing Self-Efficacy of Students

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Daniel Gisolfi, Marist College

Essential Blockchain

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11:20 AM - 12:00 PM

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Concurrent Sessions

Misty Decker, IBM

But Wait, There’s More! The IBM Z Academic Initiative

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Paul Cronan, David Douglas, University of Arkansas

The First Academic Blockchain Center of Excellence: The University of Arkansas Story

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Casimer DeCusatis, Marist College

Security Operations Center (SOC) Demonstration

12:00PM - 1:00 PM

Sponsored Lunch: Great Hall overlooking the Hudson River, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Sponsored by Mainline Information Systems

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

Keynote Speaker

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Emeritus, IBM; Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow, MIT

The Changing Nature of Innovation in the 21st Century Digital Economy

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2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

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Concurrent Sessions

Joanne Crimi, Jodi Everdon, Harold Ramsey, IBM

New Technology Introduction Early Client Programs

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Andrew Brezovsky, Aparicio Carranza, Marist College

Cryptocurrency, Billions of Growth

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Casimer DeCusatis, Marist College

Identity Based Security for Commercial Blockchain Cloud Services

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Abdullah A. Jassim, University of Baghdad

New Approaches in Autonomic Intelligence: Deep Autonomic Intelligence and Knowledge Driven Enterprise (DAIKDE)

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2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

3:00 PM - 3:40 PM

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Concurrent Sessions

Academic Panel: How We’re Creating Mainframers

Moderator: Misty Decker, IBM

Paul Cronan, University of Arkansas

Philip Grabowski, Pittsburgh Technical College

Tal Parmenter, Illinois State University

Robert Owor, Albany State University

Lorraine Newell, BOCES

Harry Williams, SHARE and Marist College

Open Mainframe Project and SHARE

Christopher Byrnes, Marist College

Marist Digital Identity Initiative

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3:50 PM - 4:20 PM

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Concurrent Sessions

Paul Newton, IBM

Blockchain – Beyond Cryptocurrency Slot Machine

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Bryan Childs, IBM

Enterprise Knights of IBM Z

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Pablo Rivas, Marist College

Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: An Overview, Analysis of Trust, and Ethical Issues

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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Featured Speaker

Tony Sager, SVP & CTO Commercial Markets, BlackRidge Technology

Securing IoT for Blockchain based Healthcare

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Jill O’Sullivan, Sayem Shahrier, Farmingdale State College

Disruptive Technologies Driving Student’s Advantages

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Robert Lynch, Marist College

Assuring Time Accurate Transactions: Precision Time Protocol for Finance and Banking

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5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Monday Evening Corporate Sponsored Event

Sponsored by IBM

Riverfront Barbecue

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Hot Breakfast: Great Hall overlooking the Hudson River, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Sponsored by CA Technologies

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

Keynote Speaker

Markus van Kempen, Executive Architect and Venture Capitalist, IBM

IoT – Making Sens(or) of the World

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10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

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Concurrent Sessions

Jim Kokoszynski, CA Technologies

Let’s Get Real About Self-Driven IT Ops

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Alan Eliscu, Bergen Community College

Creative Approaches to Implementing Mainframe Technology in the Curriculum

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Tony Sager, BlackRidge Technology and Casimer DeCusatis, Alissa Sytsma, Marist College

An Innovative Hyperledger Blockchain to Eliminate Fraud from Philanthropic Giving

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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

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Concurrent Sessions

Chi Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology

Securing New Business Models for IoT – Empowered by Big Data, Blockchain and AI

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Rahmira Rufus, North Carolina A&T State University

The Next-Generation of Cybersecurity Innovation: An Approach to Securing Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise Architectures

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Chris Boehm, CA Technologies

CLIs and DevOps – The Secret Sauce to a Brighter Mainframe

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Brian Gormanly, Marist College

Pirates Say AR! The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Augmented Reality

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11:40 AM - 12:10 AM

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Concurrent Sessions

Joseph Gulla, MSP TechMedia

Thought Leadership from the Trend z Blog, IBM Systems Magazines and Destination z

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Philip Teplitzky, Touro College

A General Systems-Based Ecological Model of Information Technology

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Robert Cannistra, Marist College

Michelangelo and IoT – A Reverse Engineer’s Toolkit

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12:10PM-1:00 PM

Sponsored Lunch: Great Hall overlooking the Hudson River, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Sponsored NewEra Software, Inc.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Nelly Goletti Theatre

Keynote Speaker

Bill Thirsk, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Marist College

Private Cloud Services at the Enterprise Level

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2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Coffee Break and Technology Showcase

2:20 PM - 3:10 PM

Student Panel

Moderator: Alan Labouseur, Marist College

Alissa Sytsma, Marist College

Robert Lynch, Marist College

Sadik Erisen, Bergen Community College

Rahi Barot, Bergen Community College

Christine Eyler, Pittsburgh Technical College

Sydney Trout, Pittsburgh Technical College

Micheal Asik, Robert Morris University

3:10 PM
 

Closing Remarks: Roger Norton, Dean, Marist College

Nelly Goletti Theatre

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

MU3202 & MU3203

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Post Conference Workshops (Sign up at the registration desk- limited to 10 attendees per session)

Bryan Childs, Elizabeth Noel, IBM

Z Escape!

Bryan Childs, Elizabeth Noel, IBM

Z Escape!