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Joe Winchester interviews Darren Surch about the evolving landscape of mainframe training in the context of AI.
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 i...
People in this episode
Host: Joe Winchester
Guest: Darren Surch
Topics covered
- mainframe training
- AI
- IBM Z
- Interskill Learning
- technology education
Keywords
- mainframe
- AI
- training
- IBM Z
- Interskill Learning
- technology
- education
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Interskill Learning, IBM, IBM Z
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