Agenda: BMC Connect 2024

Monday, October 14, 2024
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM	BMC HelixGPT 23.x: Fundamentals Administering (ILT) Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Arrivals and Registration
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	BMC HelixGPT Hackathon: Team Challenge Preparation Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Welcome Reception sponsored by Materna
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast sponsored by CyberMAK
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote: Discover the New BMC Ayman Sayed, BMC Ali Siddiqui, BMC Luke Bradley, Vodafone Group Services Jesús García Alonso, BBVA Laura Johnson, CSG Hayden Whitten, ANZ Margaret Lee, BMC Swapna Bogle, Moody's Corporation Jeff Hardy, BMC
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	AI-Powered Change Risk Advisor: Elevating Decision-Making in Complex IT Environments Gyanendra Rana, BMC Software Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness	Orchestration & Operationalization—The Next Step in Your DataOps Journey Basil Faruqui, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation				Meeting Business Targets with SAP and Control-M at IPG Juli Engelsman, IPG Brian Vaughn, IPG			The Data Differentiator: Supercharging Security Compliance and IT Strategy with BMC Helix Discovery Shafi Ambattuparambil, BMC Jason Campbell, CGI Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness		Live Customer Spotlight: Making Waves with ServiceOps — the Vodafone Story Andreia Martins, Vodafone Heather Gilbank, Vodafone Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			Generative AI - Transform Your Business, Daily Operations, and Organization for Success Ankita Sharda, Google Cloud Strategies & Technologies for Success				Strategy and Roadmap for BMC AMI Portfolio John McKenny, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Hands-on Lab with BMC Helix Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM	Enterprise Service Management: Customer Perspectives and Successes Juergen Hauser, BMC Chas Eddingfield, CIC John Rolls, DNV AS Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness		Technology and the American Dream Deepak Chandran, BMC Gunal Kannan, BMC Strategies & Technologies for Success				Customer One: How BMC SaaSOps Deploy BMC Helix Stela Udovicic, BMC Daniel Lever, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			From the Mainframe to the Cloud: How Customers Are Using AWS Services and BMC's Control-M to Streamline Application Modernization Pranav Deshmukh, AWS Basil Faruqui, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation			Modernizing Workflow Orchestration and Cloud Adoption at Banque Nationale du Canada Francois Limoges-Daigneault, Banque Nationale du Canada Italo Melotti, Banque Nationale du Canada April Hickel, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation				Unleashing Innovation: BMC AMI DevX with Generative AI Tony Anter, BMC Mark Schettenhelm, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Test Drive for BMC AMI DevX Tools Tony Anter, BMC Tim Ceradsky, BMC Nick Guillemette, BMC Michael Oseni, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM	Lunch sponsored by VBT Software
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM	What's New in Control-M 21.3 Robby Dick, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation	Customer Panel: How Are You Planning to Deploy and Leverage GenAI? Suresh Ravoor, BMC Jesús García Alonso, BBVA Doug Smith, PwC John Rolls, DNV AS Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness				Revolutionizing Mainframe DevOps: Industry Analyst Meets the Minds Behind BMC AMI DevX Steven Dickens, The Futurum Group Anthony DiStauro, BMC Dave Jeffries, BMC Mark Schettenhelm, BMC Mark Sigler, BMC Clyde Hallman, BMC Platform & Application Modernization			The FHLBank Chicago BMC Helix Control-M Migration Story Sarah Panaligan, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago Service Orchestration & Automation		How AIOps Simplifies Operations and Accelerates RCA at Moody's Luzon Dickerson, Moodys Gyanendra Rana, BMC Software Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			Boosting BMC HelixGPT capabilities with Generative AI & Oracle Data Science Sachin Menon, Oracle				Taking Those First Steps in Your Cloud Journey Chad Reiber, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM	Hands-on Lab with BMC Helix Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Customer Perspectives: Solving Complex Workflow Orchestration Challenges at Discover Financial Services Gur Steif, BMC Software Tony Piecz, Discover Financial Service Orchestration & Automation	The Innovation Playbook: Navigating the New Age of Technology Advancement Eric Anderson, BMC Strategies & Technologies for Success				Infosys LEAP Integration with BMC Helix Vineeth Veedu, Infosys Limited Strategies & Technologies for Success			Enable Shift-Left Practices with Automated Testing Tony Anter, BMC Nick Guillemette, BMC Platform & Application Modernization		Transform IT Operations with BMC Helix AIOps and Operations Management: Strategy and Roadmap Kiran Diwakar, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			BMC HelixGPT: Reimagining Service Management with GenAI Anthony Okumura, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness				From On-Premises to the Cloud: Customer Migration Stories with BMC Helix Alex Prieto, BMC Kristin Andersen, Wegmans Food Markets Osmar Pimentel Junior, TecBan Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Happy Hour sponsored by Blue Turtle and Mobile Reach
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Pizza with Engineers
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast sponsored by SDN/NIT
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote: Your Technology and Business Future with BMC Ram Chakravarti, BMC Jon Ozanne, Balfour Beatty Jeff Hardy, BMC
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Detect and Respond to Unauthorized Changes – Key Strategies for IT Stability, Compliance, and Security Kevin Brunette, Evolven David Swanson, Evolven Strategies & Technologies for Success	Crushing the Daily Field Services Roller Coaster with FSM for BMC Helix Nasrin Azari, Mobile Reach Justin Boeckler, Mobile Reach Mike McKee, Mobile Reach Francois Seegers, Blue Turtle Technologies Strategies & Technologies for Success				Widen Your World: How BMC and VBT Software Solutions Fuel Turkish Airlines' Global Expansion Ahmet Mahir Tuzcu, TURKISH TECHNOLOGY Oya Yenidogan, TURKISH TECHNOLOGY Osman Cayli, VBT SOFTWARE INC. Strategies & Technologies for Success			Orchestrate Company-Wide Downtimes and Patches with Control-M Ioannis Arvanitidis, Schwarz IT KG Lukas Marschner, Schwarz IT KG Strategies & Technologies for Success		Mastering Hybrid IT: Unifying ITSM, ITAM, and FinOps for Complete Control and Cost Efficiency Jonathan Van Horn, Flexera Timothy Boudreau, Flexera Strategies & Technologies for Success			Customer Study: How a Major Telco Transformed Infrastructure Observability at Scale Bertrand Martin, Sentry Software Strategies & Technologies for Success				Revolutionizing Customer Service Management Across Industries: How a Telco’s Gen-AI Powered Journey with BMC Helix for CSM Can Inspire FinServ, Retail, Healthcare, and Beyond Tasnim Pithapurwala, CyberMAK Information Systems Raúl Álvarez, BMC Strategies & Technologies for Success
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Say Yes to Mainframe DevOps Tony Anter, BMC Tim Ceradsky, BMC Platform & Application Modernization	Orchestrate Complex Data Pipelines into the Data Cloud to Superpower BMC HelixGPT Use Cases Amanda Blevins, BMC Brandi Coleman, BMC Ryan Manning, BMC Software Strategies & Technologies for Success				BMC Helix ESM Strategy: HR, Facilities, Security, HPM & CSM Juergen Hauser, BMC Stephan Groth, MAHLE International GmbH Tasnim Pithapurwala, CyberMAK Information Systems Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			Customer Zero: BMC IT's Best Practices and Benefits for AIOps and ServiceOps Andy Abrams, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness		Orchestrating Data File Transfers in a Hybrid Landscape Volker Scheithauer, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation			Live Customer Spotlight: How ANZ Bank Is Driving Modernization and Optimization with Control-M Hayden Whitten, ANZ Service Orchestration & Automation				Customer Love: How BMC Is Accelerating Your Success Mark Fries, BMC Kristen Sanders, BMC Jithesh Ambala Pad, BMC Strategies & Technologies for Success
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Hands-on Lab with BMC Helix Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Test Drive for BMC AMI DevX Tools Tony Anter, BMC Tim Ceradsky, BMC Nick Guillemette, BMC Michael Oseni, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Lunch sponsored by Fusion
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Live Customer Spotlight: How Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. Is Laying the Foundation for AIOps with BMC Helix Discovery Pamela Fisher, Wegmans Food Markets Peter Lerminiaux, Wegmans Food Markets Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness	Optimize and Modernize Your Key SAP S/S4HANA® Processes with Control-M David Leigh, BMC Software, Inc. Jehangir Khan, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation				Build and Extend Custom Applications with BMC Helix Innovation Suite and Business Workflows Juergen Hauser, BMC Andi Kunz, Fusion Global Business Solutions Digital Employee Experience			How AI and Data Trends Are Influencing the BMC Helix Service Management Strategy and Roadmap Ryan Manning, BMC Software Digital Employee Experience		Edward Jones’ Mainframe DevOps Journey: From Legacy Systems to Agile Innovation Michael Davis, Edward Jones Platform & Application Modernization			How Discover Financial Services Transformed from Legacy Data Scheduling to DataOps Suping Chen, Discover Financial Services Service Orchestration & Automation				BMC AMI Platform: Revolutionizing Mainframe Modernization with AI-Infused Innovation Anthony DiStauro, BMC Platform & Application Modernization
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM	BMC HelixGPT Hackathon: Team Challenge Digital Employee Experience
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM	First Citizens Bank: Leveraging Automation with Control-M to Support the Bank’s Growth Phil Raeihle, First Citizens Bank Service Orchestration & Automation	Netreo, Stackify Application Performance Monitoring, and BMC Helix AIOps Andrew Anderson, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness				Using BMC Helix to Meet FFIEC/DORA Requirements Dave Martinez, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			Crafting Your Narrative: The Art and Science of Building a Powerful Personal Brand Tony Anter, BMC Strategies & Technologies for Success		Beyond the Hype: Real-World Successes with AIOps Kiran Diwakar, BMC Jason Campbell, CGI Jesús García Alonso, BBVA Heather Gilbank, Vodafone Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness			The Strategic Value of KPIs for Development Managers Clyde Hallman, BMC Platform & Application Modernization				Orchestrating Workloads at a Digital Healthcare Partner Lars Mahrendorf, TK Service Orchestration & Automation
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM	Hands-on Lab with BMC Helix Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Certification Testing
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Netreo and BMC Helix: Driving Value with Integrated Network Observability Andrew Anderson, BMC Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness				Customer Panel: Unlock the Full Potential of Your IT Environment with BMC Helix Discovery Shafi Ambattuparambil, BMC Chas Eddingfield, CIC Eric Herman, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Daniel Mueller, SAP Accelerated IT & Business Effectiveness					Control-M Strategy and Roadmap Guy Eden, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation					Mastering Demand, Project, and Resource Management - Driving Efficiency and Innovation with BMC Helix for Portfolio Management Stephan Groth, MAHLE International GmbH Andi Kunz, Fusion Global Business Solutions Strategies & Technologies for Success
3:30 PM - 5:15 PM	DataOps Orchestration in Production with Control-M: Hands On Service Orchestration & Automation
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM	Fast-Tracking Success with a 7-Week BMC Helix Implementation Shay Cohen, Amdocs Strategies & Technologies for Success			Elevating Digital Customer Experience with BMC Helix Control-M: Our Key to Unified Success Mark Lally, BMC Chiranjeevi Vegi, BMC Service Orchestration & Automation				The Brave One—hosted by Women in Sales Network and sponsored by NimbusNow & VPMA Iona Holloway, Brave Thing Strategies & Technologies for Success				Live Customer Spotlight: The Power of Control-M for DataOps in Financial Services Organizations Tony Piecz, Discover Financial Chris Haynes, Raymond James Financial Service Orchestration & Automation				Discover the Real-World Impact of BMC Helix Capacity Optimization at Experian Kiran Diwakar, BMC Michael Donnelly, Experian Strategies & Technologies for Success
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Closing Celebration

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Discover the new BMC over three exciting days of networking and knowledge.