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IBM Z and LinuxONE Community Newsletter - September 2026

By Natalie Carrillo posted 23 days ago

  

Upcoming Must-Attend Events

Here are a few events that will give you the opportunity to connect with the community. Take a look and choose the option that works best for you.

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Wednesday, October 14: Storage

Virtual | Free | Earn a Badge

Join us for a full day dedicated to Storage, featuring live technical sessions, interactive Q&A, expert panels, and real-world discussions.

Register for the series and don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your expertise.

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October 17–18: IBM Z Datathon

Global Virtual Event

The IBM Z Datathon is a 24-hour global challenge where students collaborate to solve real-world problems.

Students: Register now and participate in one of the world’s largest datathons.

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October 26–29, 2026: IBM TechXchange 2026

Atlanta, GA

The hands-on conference where developers and technologists learn, build, and innovate with AI, hybrid cloud, and enterprise technologies on IBM Z.

Register now to join the community and stay ahead of what’s next.

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November 18, 2026: IBM Z Day

Virtual | Free | Earn Badges

IBM Z Day is a free 1-day enterprise computing virtual conference for anyone and everyone! Hear the latest about IBM Z and LinuxONE, and join our lineup of global thought leaders who will highlight industry trends and innovations.

Sign up today! Don't miss this opportunity to join the largest IBM Z technology event of the year and connect with experts, innovators, and peers from around the world.

Community Showcase

Advocacy

Meet Today’s Architect: Sarah Julia Kriesch

Help amplify IBM Z Day 2026

Sarah Julia’s journey with mainframes started at university where she had the opportunity to attend a mainframe summer camp at the Academic Mainframe Consortium. There she saw firsthand the possibilities of mainframe computing, especially its ability to handle multiple operating systems in parallel, with thousands of VMs in a single system.

Sarah Julia credits her passion for mainframe computing with helping her land her job as a senior mainframe consultant. Mainframe also powers her work in the open- source space, where she works on the openSUSE Project and lends her talents to the group as a release engineer specializing in LinuxONE applications and technology. Her volunteer efforts provide not just a sense of community but also purpose.

IBM Z Day, the largest IBM Z tech event of the year, returns on November 18! Thousands of technologists, developers, architects, and industry experts from more than 165 countries will come together to explore AI at the Core and the future of enterprise computing. Don't let your network miss this once-a- year opportunity to learn from the experts driving innovation across IBM Z and LinuxONE.

Share IBM Z Day with your colleagues, peers, customers, and partners, and help expand the reach of the year's premier IBM Z learning event. The ideas, technologies, and connections that shape the future don't happen every day. By amplifying IBM Z Day, you'll help others discover new opportunities, gain valuable expertise, and connect with a global community of innovators.

Learn more about Today's Architects

Share this opportunity. Inspire new connections. Amplify innovation.

What's New

New IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems now available

With the newly expanded portfolios of IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 now generally available, more organizations can now deploy the newest systems and take advantage of expanded deployment flexibility, AI readiness, enterprise resiliency and security-by-design capabilities.

Learn more

Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

The new processor is being developed to allow organizations to run Arm-native Linux environments simultaneously with z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, while benefiting from IBM’s established security, reliability, and scale.

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Video Spotlight

Why Mainframes Power the World's Money

Payments infrastructure is now being discussed as critical national infrastructure. Meredith Stowell, VP of IBM Z Ecosystem, explains what this means for banks and payment providers.

Video Spotlight Watch the full interview

Interested in Open Source? Read the August Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report.

Thank you for being part of this vibrant, skilled and diverse community!





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