In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Darren Surch, CEO of Interskill Learning and Lifetime IBM Champion.  Joe and Darren discuss Interskill Learning’s place in the mainframe industry, delivering over a million hours of mainframe training annually and powering 80% of IBM badges awarded for IBM Z training, and how both the importance and the nature of mainframe training is changing to keep pace in the Age of AI.  They discuss the staggering potential of AI as a productivity tool for mainframers, and the concern that without ongoing training, cognitive surrender will see mainframe skills erode, and they chat about the IBM Champion program, the Open Mainframe Project, Joe’s mainframe t-shirt collection, and much more. 

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, we highlight clips from the Ask me Anything session Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow hosted at the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC 2026).  Rosalind fields questions from Jill Sweeney and Cassie Fosberg from FNTS; Bruno Guimaraes from Banco Bradesco; and Paul Koniar from Fidelity Information Services.  FNTS was interested in the integration of IBM Z AIOps solutions with ServiceNow and Agentic AI solutions; Banco Bradesco was interested in Observability and OpenTelemetry and FIS was interested in IBM Concert for Z.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Executive Producer Mary Gorczynski goes rogue and interviews Wayne Bucek, Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Z AIOps, and MP Welch, Mainframe Performance Specialist for a Financial Institution.  While at the AIOps Technical Council 2026 event, the 3 talk about MP’s success with IBM Z AIOps solutions including IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics and Common Data Provider.  They discuss moving from correlated solutions for analytics, to the possibilities with IBM Concert for Z to eliminate the noise to deliver value faster.  Beyond that they look towards progressing to a future focused on agentic AI with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.  MP tells us that “AI doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be better than HI (Human Intelligence)”. 

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Director AIOps on IBM Z.  The focus of the discussion today is an overview of the 2025 accomplishments in the IBM Z AIOps portfolio, that were driven by customer feedback to help them simplify their mainframe operations.  Sreekanth dives into IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision; IBM watsonx Assistant for Z; IBM Concert for Z; and IBM Z Observability Connect.  They discuss the phases of Observe, Optimize and Automate across the IBM Z AIOps framework and talk about the importance of the future with OpenTelemetry and Agentic AI.  The future is all about “less stress” and providing the agent that will help clients to be more productive faster.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Kevin Stoodley, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO for IBM Z.  Kevin and Joe cover a wide range of topics including what role the  CTO for IBM Z  plays in the context of delivering the IBM Z tech stack, how IBM is combining the power of  agentic AI solutions with existing operational focused technologies and what value that brings to clients and their operations organizations, how IBM Z17 and the Telum II Accelerator can reduce anti-fraud times in the banking industry, as well as how the IBM Spyre Accelerator can enable the integration of agentic AI solutions working together across complex operations infrastructures.  “We need a revolution”.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Abdul Hafiz, Principal Mainframe Engineer at an International Airline.  The focus of this episode is the automation journey from IBM Z NetView and IBM Z System Automation to a future with AI using IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to help you automate your commands.  Abdul tells us that “After implementing IBM System Automation, this process became fully automated with a single command.  The entire switch is completed in less than 5 minutes, consistently and correctly every time.”

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, guest host Brett Allison, Program Director for IBM Z AIOps interviews Brian Craft, Assistant Vice President at USAA.  The focus of this episode is learning how USAA uses IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision with IBM Apptio to provide lines of business with total cost transparency into business applications.  The IBM solution will enable them to eliminate 300-400 batch jobs.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, is joined by the IBM producers of the podcast series, Mary Gorczynski, GTM Marketing Manager and Chris Sayles, Digital Marketing Strategist.  This Year in Review episode explores the 20 episodes of 2025, with clips from Mary’s top episode selections.  As always Chris tries to unveil some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of Joe and the future of his famous t-shirt collection!  Joe closes the episode with the key topics for 2026.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Phaedra Boinodiris, IBM Global Leader for Trustworthy AI for IBM Consulting.  Our focus topic for this podcast is to understand what Trustworthy AI means for your organization with the evolution from predictive AI to generative AI to agentic AI.  What does it all mean?  

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jennifer Graham, Mainframe Consultant at Nationwide Insurance.  Our focus topic for this podcast is Automation - past, present, and future: moving from today’s daily operations to the vision of Operations with AI.  Jennifer takes Joe through a day in her current life with IBM Z System Automation, IBM Z NetView, IBM Z OMEGAMON and IBM Z Software Asset Management on a path to what she would like to see for Operations in the future.  They end with a discussion on IBM Concert for Z and how it might help her to plan for the future by introducing AI.

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