World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Building with IBM Bob

Maximilian Jesch

Can an AI agent safely untangle decades-old legacy code? Discover how IBM Bob goes beyond simple autocomplete to securely modernize enterprise architecture and automate CI/CD workflows.

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1:13 min

Introduction to IBM Bob and software modernization

Sunil Murthy

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6:35 min

Modernizing legacy COBOL mainframe systems using AI agents

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1:02 min

Multi-agent AI for migrating legacy COBOL to Java

Julia Kordick

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3:23 min

Migrating legacy COBOL systems using generative AI tools

Chris Heilmann

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2:46 min

Deploying AI agents for enterprise legacy code modernization

Neel Sundaresan

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3:03 min

Evaluating AI agents for iterative legacy code modernization

Michael Friedrich

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