You never know what's going to bring COBOL to the forefront of people's thoughts, but here we are. Jessielaine Punongbayan,Senior Mainframe R&D Engineer at Broadcom Inc., has made a name for herself over the years as a Systems Programmer and COBOL coder, but has recently been making waves with a series of posts on Medium.com highlighting ways that mainframe usage can be modernized, reinvented, and quite frankly, made more appealing to programmers who haven't grown up around Z systems. In this talk, we find out what drew Jessielaine to mainframe, what's on the agenda for Zowe, how she envisions the future of the technology, and what people can do to get started right now. 

Medium.com posts - https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan

Zowe.org - https://www.zowe.org

Open Mainframe Project COBOL Course - https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/coboltrainingcourse