Finding the time to invest in developing your existing mainframe skills and learn new ones is always a challenge, and even more so for experienced mainframers. Yet your professional abilities underpin your day-to-day responsibilities, career potential, and are a critical investment. The modern mainframer today will need to acquire new skills throughout their lifetime and develop into new job capabilities at regular junctures. In this session, we will look at how technical training is changing, automation and AI is impacting workplace education and daily work, and what this means for you as a mainframer both now and in the future.

Whether you are newly exploring the weird and wonderful world of the IBM mainframe and deciding where you career will take you, or you are a seasoned mainframer with many years of experience on Z, this talk will provide valuable insight into how our brain’s learn new skills and tools and techniques to enhance this process.