This year’s AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) was held in RTP, NC and drove a flurry of content for our AIOps Corner podcast series.  In addition to having Skyla Loomis, General Manager of IBM Z Software as our keynote, we had 2 tracks Monitoring & Observability and Performance Optimization & Automation.  Clients and partners benefited from having the IBM technical subject matter experts in attendance for discussions on driving future product content.

If you follow me on LinkedIn (I encourage you to do so) you have seen a flurry of content coming out.  Just in case you don’t follow me, as an AIOps on IBM Z community member (I encourage you to join) or an organic reader I wanted to consolidate all of the resources here for you to reference and leverage. 

Here are the resources:

•        Recap of AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) 2025 featuring Uwe Gramm, Program Director, IBM Z AIOps.  In this roaming reporter clip, Uwe provides feedback that IBM received from the clients and partners as they try to set the IBM strategy for AIOps in an AI driven world.  Listen now.
•       Truth or myth:   there is no automation on the mainframe featuring Sowmya Kameswaran, IBM STSM and Chief Architect IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.  In this podcast Sowmya and Joe Winchester highlight customer use cases for OMEGAMON and IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.  They talk about the myth that there is no automation on the mainframe by highlighting solutions within the IBM Z AIOps. Listen now.
•        Just cut and paste with OMEGAMON and the new Grafana plug-in featuring Jim Porell, Director, Solutions Advisor at Rocket Software.  Our focus topic for this podcast is IBM Z OMEGAMON with the new Grafana plug-in.  Just cut and paste from your existing tool into the Grafana plug-in, no migration tool needed!  Listen now.
•        For a “New to IBM Z” employee, AIOps “automagically” saves money featuring Virginia Rodgers, Customer Success Manager at 21CS.  Our focus topic for this podcast is mainframe AIOps in the eyes of a “New to Z” employee.  Virginia chats with both Joe Winchester and Rosalind Radcliffe about what she has encountered during her brief career with the mainframe.  Listen now or if you prefer a video, watch now.
•        The role of System Automation in an AI future featuring Paul Koniar, IT Architect specializing in System Automation and NetView at FIS.  Our focus topic for this podcast is System Automation.  Paul says that “AI running on the mainframe with tools like System Automation…will be very beneficial.” “AI has to step in and help the operators do their jobs”.  Listen now.

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Were all of your topics covered?  If not, please comment here and let me know what I should work on going forward…either for a podcast or for the next AOTC!