Session Evaluation

* Skills acquisition
* Education
* Neuroscience
* Memory

In this session, we will take a detour into the field of neuroscience to look at how the human brain functions as it acquires new skills. 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 will need to acquire new skills throughout their lifetime and develop new job capabilities at regular junctures. What impact is the growing presence of automation and AI in the workplace having on this process, and do these tools make the process of learning new skills easier or more demanding of you?

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.