🌍 Welcome, Elise Bundgaard! We are pleased to announce Elise as the new Region Manager for the Nordic Region at GSE Europe! We look forward to strengthening collaboration and knowledge sharing across our community. 👏 Congratulations, Elise! gse.org/regions/

🗳️ GSE Elections 2027–2031: Both officeholders have been reelected. Peter Groth (Germany) as President and Detlef Felser (Switzerland) as Director Administration & Finance. BDO Switzerland reconfirmed as statutory auditors for 2027–2029. Congratulations to both! 👏

Webinar by our strategic partner Software AG: Future-Proof Your Mainframe — Running COBOL Batch as zIIP-eligible Java. October 29, 2026 | 10:00 am CET. No source code changes. No disruption. Just more zIIP capacity. 👉 softwareag.com/en/events/fut…

If you've ever been on a 2 a.m. bridge call trying to figure out why a mainframe application slowed to a crawl, you already know the drill: chase down a CICS expert, pull data from four different tools, then argue about whose graph is right. ➡️ rocketsoftware.registration.…

Agentic AI on IBM Z — Khadija Souissi, IBM R&D, on how agents don't just generate, they decide and act. Application areas, daily operations impact and the next wave of knowledge worker productivity on the mainframe. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

Agentic AI on IBM Z — Khadija Souissi, IBM R&D, on how agents don't just generate, they decide and act. Application areas, daily operations impact and the next wave of knowledge worker productivity on the mainframe. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

💙 Dear Willi — this time in Leipzig is your last with us, and that is not easy to say. Thank you for the knowledge, the curiosity, and the evenings that would not have been the same without you. Enjoy every moment of what comes next. You will be missed.

Ruediger Schulze, IBM R&D, on modern observability for IBM Z — OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs & traces, hardware-level telemetry via the HMC, zero-code instrumentation and AI workload monitoring. End to end. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

Real-world client implementations from around the globe — Khadija Souissi & Wilhelm Mild (IBM R&D) and Vic Cross (IBM Australia) on the challenges organizations faced and how they solved them. Concrete takeaways for your own environment. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

A 450-year-old mystery, cracked. 🔏 Prof. Norbert Biermann (Berlin University of Arts) shared how he and his co-authors deciphered ~50 lost letters from Mary Stuart, what they reveal about her captivity, and why her ciphers feel surprisingly modern. ➡️ 18th GSE ISP Symposium.

Day 3 — the final stretch. 💪 While the 20th GSE Conference tackles digital sovereignty, the 18th ISP Symposium kicks off with Jason Basler (IBM, USA) on Storage Defender DMS & Data Protect — best practices, implementation and threat hunting. 🔐 ➡️ 18th GSE ISP Symposium

Day 3. 🌅 Ben Haubeck, IBM, on digital sovereignty — what it actually means, what's driving the demand, and how IBM & Red Hat solutions support organizations in reaching the level of sovereignty they need. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

What a day. 📸 The 18th GSE ISP Symposium and the 20th International GSE Conference delivered a packed day of sessions, insights and conversations that matter. From the exhibition floor to the stage — the energy in Leipzig was something else. One more day. See you tomorrow. 💙

COBOL isn't legacy — it just got a serious upgrade. 💪 David McGuire (CSI International) dove into z/COBOL™ for z/OS, VSE and VM. AI, blockchain, crypto, WEB3, SMS/RCS, SPYRE AI Complex. All on the mainframe. Thanks for the input, David! 🙌➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

Relocation, modernization, AI exploration — Michael Tores & Joschka Klein, SDK – Süddeutsche Krankenversicherung, on transforming their mainframe: IBM z16 relocation, VSEn modernization, COBOL + AI with IBM Bob. And lessons learned the hard way. 20th International GSE Conference

KubeVirt & CDI now on ARM and s390x — Thomas-David Griedel & Wilhelm Mild, IBM R&D, on multi-arch VM deployment across Kubernetes and OCP, including converting VMware VMs to run on the mainframe. Demos included. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

Live on stage: Vic Cross, IBM Australia, walked through enabling a Red Hat OpenShift cluster for AI workloads using the IBM Spyre Adapter — attaching adapters, installing Operators, deploying a model and running inferences. ➡️ 20th International GSE Conference

Support shouldn't be a last resort. ⚙️ Andrew Horne & Pallavi Singh (IBM) showed how SP Support moves from reactive to relentless — automation, data-driven workflows, and tools built to cut complexity, accelerate resolution and extend to partners. ➡️ 18th GSE ISP Symposium.

AI moves fast. Your data protection needs to keep up. 🤖 Jeff Placer (IBM, USA) explored what AI and adjacent tech — MCP, RAG, Vector and more — mean for your data, how IBM Storage leverages AI, and what it takes to protect what this landscape creates. ➡️ 18th GSE ISP Symposium.

There's more on a tape cartridge than you might think. 🎞️ Bruno Friess (eXstor GmbH) explored the metadata stored on tape cartridges — SCSI sense codes revealing media lifecycle, drive condition and temperature/humidity, all visualised in Grafana. ➡️ 18th GSE ISP Symposium.