Experts from Pegasystems and AWS reveal how AI-powered tools now modernize decades-old mainframe systems in weeks instead of years—unlocking trapped data faster than ever.

Topics Include:

• Session covers accelerating mainframe modernization using AWS Transform and Pega Blueprint
• Agenda: challenges, joint solution, value prop, customer story, rollout mechanism
• Mainframe costs rise 20-30% yearly, straining IT budgets significantly
• Monolithic systems create long time-to-market, hurting competitiveness against newer rivals
• Mainframe data stays locked away, blocking AI adoption and innovation
• Retiring mainframe skills outpace new workforce training, compounding the problem
• AI now enables analyzing decades-old code bases within weeks, not years
• AWS Transform extracts business logic; Pega Blueprint visualizes modernized target applications
• Five-step journey: Transform, Pega Foundry, Blueprint, then deployment via Infinity platform
• Three Transform agents handle code, data, and activity analysis separately
• Data analysis covers data lineage and data dictionary schema extraction
• Outputs feed a knowledge graph, enabling natural language queries anytime
• Transform deterministically identifies distinct data paths from mainframe systems
• Data paths get grouped into business functions, each modernizable independently
• Final steps extract business logic and generate plain-English requirements
• Blueprint agent enriches Transform outputs, enabling intuitive workflow design
• Blueprint offers runtime previews and is publicly accessible at pega.com
• Pega Infinity platform handles both batch and online mainframe workloads
• Insurance company Unum modernized 1.5M lines of COBOL in three months
• Experience-Based Acceleration program delivers modernized, working code within four-to-six weeks

Participants:

• Surender Kumar – Director, Mainframe Modernization, Pegasystems
• Ujwal Bukka – Sr Partner Solutions Architect, Business Apps, Amazon Web Services
• Sourav Sarkar – Sr Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Mainframe & Legacy Modernization, Amazon Web Services

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Discover how Zuora turned its own billing platform inward to track AI costs down to the individual engineer, giving CFOs the trust and auditability they demand.

Topics Include:

• AWS's Achint Naveen opens, introduces Zuora as a key partner
• Audience poll reveals AI monetization is still a struggle
• Zuora's Katherine Shealy introduces the company's AI monetization focus
• Zuora powers monetization for global brands like Twilio, Zoom
• Their platform spans CPQ, billing, metering, and revenue recognition
• Usage-based pricing has flipped seat-based SaaS models upside down
• AI companies face a 20-point margin gap versus SaaS
• Companies juggling multiple pricing models face major hidden complexity
• Traditional pricing models are breaking down under AI's dynamic costs
• Zuora's framework aligns teams early through an NPI-style process
• Their tech lets companies iterate pricing at engineering speed
• Zuora now tracks its own AI costs internally too
• Zuora AI runs on AWS Bedrock and AgentCore infrastructure
• AWS's Achint details the full stack behind Zuora AI
• AgentCore Memory gives Zuora's agents secure, persistent context

Participants:

• Katherine Shealy – Principal Product Marketing Manager, Zuora
• Achint Naveen – Sr Account Manager, Amazon Web Services

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Sophos CSO Simon Reed reveals how attackers now operate like leveraged businesses—and how AI is making both sides of the cyber arms race dramatically more sophisticated.

Topics Include:

• Intro: Simon Reed, CSO at Sophos, joins Kamil Davidov.
• Sophos defends 625,000+ organizations with AI-native Fusion platform.
• Sophos MDR runs the world's largest agentic SOC.
• Simon's journey: cybersecurity since 2001, from graffiti to warfare.
• Cyber threats framed as constant toxicity, not occasional lightning strikes.
• Sophos spans small business to enterprise, giving unique threat visibility.
• Attackers now operate as leveraged, ecosystem-driven businesses, not lone actors.
• AI dramatically increases attack quality, speed, and sophistication.
• AWS Local Zones cut latency for Sophos's threat intelligence cloud.
• IntellX connects every product to real-time global threat data.
• "Good day" means finding novelty before attackers exploit it.
• Worst days: sudden, unpredictable supply chain compromise scenarios.
• Sophos updates protection across 600,000 customers within minutes.
• Decisions made fast, on incomplete data, balancing speed and risk.
• Sophos has pursued AI and deep learning for eight-plus years.
• Agentic AI's next phase reduces laborious human security work.
• Simon prioritizes class-based, automation-scale defenses over budgets.
• Sophos cut data platform costs 30%, migrated ahead of schedule.
• Advice: hyper-engage AWS account teams, push for more.
• Closing story: Sophos helped stop ransomware hitting hospitals during COVID.

Participants:

• Simon Reed – Chief Security Officer, Sophos
• Kamil Davidov – Sales Leader Israel ISV-BizApps, Amazon Web Services

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