World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Migrating from COBOL with AI: A Moonshot Demo

Still terrified of touching massive legacy mainframes? Discover how a fault-tolerant, multi-agent AI framework systematically reverse-engineers and translates complex COBOL programs into modern Java.

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6:35 min

Modernizing legacy COBOL mainframe systems using AI agents

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Migrating legacy COBOL systems using generative AI tools

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Analyzing COBOL mainframe migration challenges with AI

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Deploying AI agents for enterprise legacy code modernization

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Leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate system migration

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Evaluating AI agents for iterative legacy code modernization

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