What do you get when you bring together hands-on workshops, SME-led technical demos, networking events, and a gathering of mainframers driving to strengthen the community? You get the 2026 Mainframe Technical Exchanges.
- April 21 – 23, 2026: European in-person event, Prague
(registration open) - June 23 – 25, 2026: Virtual event
(save the date) - October 20 – 22, 2026: North American in-person event, Texas
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The Mainframe Technical Exchanges (MTEs) are technical educational events exclusively for Broadcom customers and partners. They provide direct access to Broadcom Mainframe experts and mainframers from organizations around the world. These three-day events include how-to sessions, product roadmaps, demos, and hands-on workshops.
Attendees gain skills to help amplify the value of their mainframe. In practice, this means building resilience and ensuring compliance across systems, teams, and operations; delivering new capabilities faster and more reliably; and fully harnessing capabilities that drive growth and efficiency. Attendees also have the opportunity to provide feedback on the future of Broadcom solutions and share best practices and challenges.
Each year, the Broadcom team works to both hone the programs from previous years, and create new exciting ways for attendees to learn.
At last year’s event, attendees were able to experience several brand new opportunities, including hands-on workshops, usability sandboxes, open forums, and an Ethical Mainframe Hacking Capture the Flag challenge.
“Hands-on workshops enable the users to get real-time experience in walking through and trying out the product and solution use cases and scenarios,” said Sandeep Sirivolu, who manages hands-on workshops at the event, “In 2026, the Workshops environment is continuing to expand, including new products and latest features across the Mainframe organization.”
This year, the event will feature even more new ways for attendees to learn and explore new ideas. A wide array of sessions across disciplines will be held throughout the week, featuring both Broadcom experts and many customers sharing their own use cases and stories.
The brand new Code4z Developer Day, hosted on April 22, will explore Code4z and the future of AI-enabled Z development.
Capture the Flag participants will even have the opportunity to earn a digital badge for points earned in the challenge.
“I’m excited for attendees to learn what it takes to find security vulnerabilities on the mainframe,” said Chad Rikansrud, Broadcom Software Engineer and Capture the Flag judge. “This challenge is not just for people with security expertise, it’s for anyone with solid system programming and technical skills. Come try your hands on mainframe security challenges and see for yourself!”
Learn more about Broadcom Mainframe Technical Exchanges and make plans to join us in 2026!
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