GSE Conference 2025

Unleash Your Digital Excellence

31 March - 04 April 2025
Bilderberg Bellevue Hotel Dresden, Germany

PLATIN SPONSOREN

Broadcom

Broadcom Mainframe Software Division empowers enterprises to amplify the value of their Mainframe investments in ways that drive their business forward. Our market-leading DevOps, AIOps, Security, Data Management, and Core Infrastructure solutions enable clients to adopt common tools using industry standards and integrate mainframe as part of their hybrid cloud. Our commitment to partnership extends beyond software and features Beyond Code programs that give customers the power to achieve greater business success with the platform.

Rocket Software

Modernization. Without disruption.

Rocket is helping customers deploy innovative solutions that enable you to modernize without disruption by optimizing on-prem and embracing hybrid cloud strategies. Trusted by over 12,500 customers and 750 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software is the global technology leader and partner of choice. We empower the world’s leading businesses on their modernization journeys, from core systems to the cloud, including most of the Fortune 500 and small and large enterprises in many industries. With Rocket Software, you maximize your data, systems, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world.

Learn more: www.rocketsoftware.com

GOLD SPONSOREN

rvs systems

rvs-systems GmbH develops, maintains, and supports (mainframe) software products since its foundation in 2008.

Starting off with third party product support, rvs-systems GmbH became an IBM ISV. Our products are based on our team’s comprehensive mainframe knowhow as well as dedicated knowledge of modern architectures to bridge the mainframe and the open world. The zKafka Connector (RzK) is a smart link from any z/OS application to your Kafka cluster.

Based on the long-standing successful business relation with T-Systems International GmbH, the customer base has meanwhile grown to include globally active partners in the IT world and in the automotive sector.

 

UBS Hainer

We organize data for your software development
With our software tools, we support and relieve software developers and IT departments through automated test data management and by optimizing your systems. Our claim for 25 years: Cost reduction, improved performance, shorter processing times and qualified system automation.

Test data management for all systems
UBS Hainer focuses on setting up and optimizing an automated test data infrastructure. The special feature lies in the high flexibility in the provision of test case data as well as in the handling of complex and heterogeneous environments, from which test data with production quality is obtained at the push of a button.

IBA Group

Empowering Digital Evolution Since 1993

IBA Group is a trusted IT service provider and software developer based in Central and Eastern Europe, with over 30 years of experience in supporting global enterprises through digital transformation. Our team of 2,000 professionals works across industries like banking, healthcare, logistics, and telecommunications, focusing on modernizing legacy systems while ensuring security, scalability, and long-term agility.

Mainframe Expertise
Our work with Mainframe systems is central to what we do. For decades, we’ve helped organizations optimize and migrate critical applications built on COBOL, PL/I, DB2, and CICS. We combine deep technical knowledge with practical solutions to transition legacy code to hybrid cloud environments, minimizing risks and preserving the stability of core systems. This experience has made us a reliable partner for businesses looking to modernize without losing the reliability of Mainframe infrastructure.

AI-Driven Modernization
We integrate generative AI (GenAI) into legacy development workflows to simplify and accelerate tasks for developers. For example, our tools enable COBOL code refactoring and modernization directly within widely used IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code. By applying large language models (LLMs), we help teams reduce manual effort, address technical debt faster, and adapt legacy systems to modern requirements— all while maintaining compatibility with Mainframe environments.

Beyond Mainframe
While Mainframe modernization remains a key focus, we also support businesses with cloud migration strategies, DevOps implementation, and data engineering solutions. Our approach balances legacy system optimization with emerging technologies, ensuring seamless integration of AI/ML, advanced analytics, and hybrid cloud architectures.

Why Choose IBA Group?
With a track record of modernizing over 100 legacy systems worldwide, we prioritize practical, results-driven solutions. Our strength lies in combining decades of Mainframe expertise with innovative tools for AI-powered development. Whether it’s maintaining critical systems or enabling agile transformations, we focus on delivering measurable value to enterprises.

We believe in making legacy systems work smarter, not harder—blending their proven stability with modern efficiency.

Connect with us: www.ibagroupit.com

 

EXHIBITORS

Beta Systems

DCI Software AG is part of the Beta Systems Group, a leading independent software provider based in Berlin, which has been supporting companies with complex IT system landscapes worldwide for over 40 years.
Our innovative solutions for workload automation, document management, and information management help you to optimize your business processes and gain a competitive edge.

Benefit from our expertise and our customized solutions – „Made in Germany“.

Infotel

InSoft Infotel Software specializes in mainframe and client server DB2 software. lnSoft’s powerful DB2 utilities give customers a technical „inside-view“ of DB2 their applications. Furthermore, InSoft Infotel is a distributor of leading edge IT solutions in the areas of SIEM, real-time data replication and z/OS MLC management. Founded in 1978 and now part of the Infotel Group, InSoft has a large customer base in many countries comprising of major companies in all branches of industry and business.

Software AG

Trusted by leading brands for over 55 years, Software AG is a pioneer in software innovation with a deep understanding of its value to enterprises. Businesses and governments around the globe depend on mission-critical applications built on the Adabas & Natural development platform. These applications are optimized to meet the most demanding operational SLAs and deliver a unique competitive advantage. By providing data access and connectivity to new apps, cloud databases, analytic platforms, AI and emerging technologies, Software AG helps you accelerate innovation by building on what works.

Vanguard

Founded in 1986 to help customers safeguard mission-critical applications and data, Vanguard Integrity Professionals is the largest independent provider of enterprise security software for addressing complex security and regulatory compliance challenges. Vanguard continuously drives innovation in security software, technology, and training to stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements and an ever-changing threatscape. Led by some of the most knowledgeable minds in the cybersecurity industry, our security solutions lead the industry. Vanguard products are developed and supported in the U.S.A. to the highest standards of quality.

The Vanguard Executive & Innovation Team is comprised of visionaries, cybersecurity experts, and seasoned global executives with diverse backgrounds from the United States Military and industry leading Fortune 500 companies.

Zetaly

Founded in 2006, Zetaly specializes in optimizing mainframe systems. Zetaly offers a suite of solutions across FinOps, ITOps, and PredOps, helping businesses to rationalize resource allocation, enhance service levels, and effectively plan their long-term infrastructure needs.

The company’s flagship product, the Zetaly Data Platform, collects, enriches and exposes mainframe data that empowers enterprises to observe, manage, and optimize the performance of their mainframe and IT ecosystems, ensuring cost efficiencies and alignment with business objectives.

For more information, visit zetaly.io

SPEAKERS from the following companies are also represented

bmc

BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable, and modular solutions to complex IT problems. BMC empowers 86% of the Forbes Global 50 to transform digital operations into opportunity. Our leading portfolio of AI-enabled software connects data, automation, and observability across the business, enabling each customer to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise ready to seize competitive advantage in a world of constant change.

Cancom

As a leading Digital Business Provider, CANCOM accompanies companies, organizations and the public sector into the digital future. The range of services and solutions includes classic system house IT solutions as well as data-based digital solutions, managed services and cloud services. We accompany the digital evolution of our customers with passion and technology and support them in reducing the complexity of their IT and developing new business models. We offer a holistic portfolio for all IT and business requirements.

CROZ

With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, CROZ stands out as a BizTech company specializing in integrating strategy, design, software, data, and AI engineering to redefine the intersection of business and technology.
We are dedicated to future-proofing mainframe platforms through targeted modernization and by nurturing the next generation of mainframe professionals, while also offering strategic managed services to address evolving business needs.

Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading full-service information and telecommunications provider that supports its customers in all aspects of digital transformation.

The company combines IT services and products with future-oriented digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Analytics, Digital Annealing as well as Cloud and Security Solutions – and creates new values together with its customers and partners. The range of products and services can be tailored to individual needs – from conception to implementation, operation and orchestration of digital ecosystems.

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Fujitsu has approximately 4,500 employees and has, with over 10,000 channel partners in these three countries, one of the most powerful partner networks in the industry. www.fujitsu.com/de/.

DIGITAL BADGE SPONSOR

CROZ-Digital Badge Sponsor

With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, CROZ stands out as a BizTech company specializing in integrating strategy, design, software, data, and AI engineering to redefine the intersection of business and technology.
We are dedicated to future-proofing mainframe platforms through targeted modernization and by nurturing the next generation of mainframe professionals, while also offering strategic managed services to address evolving business needs.

FURTHER SPONSORS

CSI International

CSI International (CSI) is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) providing software and consulting solutions to IT organizations who use IBM’s z/OS and 21CS’s VSEn operating systems and related products.

In 1995, Connectivity Systems, Inc., (now CSI International) was founded to provide a native TCP/IP solution for the enterprises using the z/VSE environment. Appropriately named TCP/IP for VSE, it quickly became the de facto standard for the platform.

In 2002, Connectivity Systems acquired B. I. Moyle Associates, Inc. The acquisition of software and engineering talent enabled Connectivity Systems to expand its reach far beyond networking and VSE. The merged company provides z/OS and VSEn solutions addressing systems management, network performance, data management, production control, automation, and security.

CSI International continues to further develop, market, support, and introduce new industry-leading solutions that enhance, optimize, and extend the mainframe experience while reducing the overall cost of IT. Most recently, CSI International has developed Network Folding® to eliminate network congestion and z/Cobol™, a completely re-imagined compiler that allows existing COBOL code to take full advantage of the hardware innovations present in today’s IBM mainframes.