Day 1: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023  

Registration &Check-in 3:00 p.m.  

Host address 5:00 p.m. 

Drinks and Food 5:00 p.m.‒8:00 p.m. 

Welcome Night Presentation 6:00 p.m. 

    

Day 2: Thursday, March 9th, 2023

Morning 

Registration, Check-In, Breakfast: 7:00 a.m.‒9:00 a.m. 

Welcome to Micro Focus #DevDay.

Welcome and Opening Remarks.: 9:00 a.m.‒9:15 a.m. 

Session: Managing the Pace of Change within the New Digital Economy: 9:15 a.m.‒9:45 a.m. 
Join us for a closer look at why modernization still matters, including a new view into COBOL and mainframe applications that enable a smarter strategy for your digital transformation journey.

Session: Customer Success Spotlight: 9:45 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. 
Hear from your peers as they share their stories of COBOL and mainframe modernization.  Join us for a closer look at customer success supporting application, process, and infrastructure modernization.  Explore the technical details of their digital transformation journey including the latest tools, technologies and thinking required to deliver faster on new business requirements.

Networking Break: 10:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Session: Application Modernization- Create new value from existing programs and data: 10:30 a.m.‒11:30 a.m.
You’ve moved your COBOL and mainframe applications to modern hardware, but what’s next?  Join us for a closer look at how to re-use core business applications and data to enable new use cases. Explore how to leverage analysis tools, code slicing and refactoring to quickly API enable COBOL or mainframe programs for deployment to virtual, container and cloud platforms.  See how COBOL, .NET and Java integration delivers a new modernization roadmap for core business systems.

 

Session: Process Modernization- Go Agile and accelerate application delivery: 11:30 a.m.‒12:30 p.m. 
Ready to move faster and deliver new on new requirements? Join us for a new look at modern mainframe and COBOL application delivery.  Explore how to leverage popular Agile and DevOps tools alongside unit testing and continuous integration practices. Streamline source code management and scale application development using next generation tools from Micro Focus.

Lunch: 12:30 p.m.‒1:30 p.m. 

Afternoon 

Session:  Infrastructure Modernization- Make your move to modern platforms: 1:30 p.m.‒2:30 p.m. 
Running COBOL applications on mainframe or distributed platforms and ready to make a move?  Join us for a closer look at the next generation of infrastructure modernization technology for COBOL and mainframe applications.  Explore how to migrate existing COBOL and mainframe applications to distributed, virtual, container or cloud-based environments using Micro Focus modernization technology.

Session: Networking Break: 2:30 p.m.‒2:45 p.m. 

COBOL Modernization: Moving beyond migration 2:45 p.m.‒3:30 p.m. 
Looking for the latest in COBOL development and modernization? Explore how to bridge legacy COBOL to the world of Object-Oriented programming, .NET and Java Byte Code using COBOL modernization tools from Micro Focus.  Discover how to build and test composite applications and deploy COBOL directly to .NET or Java byte code running under the Java Virtual Machine.

Session: Ask the Experts Q&A: 3:30 p.m.‒4:00 p.m. 

Join us for an interactive discussion and gain the insights needed to help shape your future application strategy. Pose your technical questions to our panel of Micro Focus experts. Gain new insights into your most important COBOL and mainframe issues, including product roadmaps, best practices, and how-to topics.

#DevDay Wrap Up & Certificates: 4:00 p.m.‒4:15 p.m. 
That’s a wrap.  Join us for a few final thoughts and key next steps following today’s Micro Focus #DevDay event.  Gain access to new technical resources helping you to continue your education and journey towards COBOL and mainframe modernization.
 

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