First timer
Available throughout the registration period if you've never attended a VSI-run OpenVMS Bootcamp (i.e. since 2024).
First timer pass: $100.00
Join us in New Hampshire
Located on the Atlantic coast just an hour north of Boston, Portsmouth is a historic seaport with a vibrant downtown, full of local restaurants, indie shops, and waterfront views. Its walkable streets and relaxed atmosphere make it a great place to connect, learn, and unwind with the OpenVMS community.
Fees and Dates
Registration for Portsmouth 2026 OpenVMS Bootcamp closes on September 25th, 2026.
If you have questions regarding registrations, please reach out to info@vmssoftware.com
Available throughout the registration period if you've never attended a VSI-run OpenVMS Bootcamp (i.e. since 2024).
First timer pass: $100.00
Get an early bird discount by registering before July 31st, 2026.
Early bird pass: $200.00
From August 1st, 2026 onward.
Regular pass: $250.00
For confirmed speakers.
Speaker pass: Free
For recognized OpenVMS Ambassadors.
Ambassador pass: Free
Why attend?
The Bootcamp brings together everyone involved in OpenVMS environments, from strategic leaders to hands‑on engineers. Each group gets something different out of the experience:
What are Bootcamps?
Optional training
Add a focused training program to your Bootcamp experience at no extra conference price. These programs take up most of the conference schedule, so they are a strong value-for-money option for attendees who want a structured, hands-on learning path while still joining the main presentations and social events.
This three-day course provides students with a focused introduction to System Management on an OpenVMS system.
Wentworth - 0/12 seats confirmed
Signup closes 09-OCT-2026 09:34
Interaction
A large part of the Bootcamp’s value comes from the conversations around the sessions.
Many attendees find that a single discussion or insight helps unlock their next step.
Platform
Travel Info & Booking
This year’s Bootcamp will be held at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel, a modern waterfront hotel in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Just steps from restaurants, shops, and the historic seaport, it’s the perfect setting to mix business with a breath of New England charm.
The hotel is easily accessible from two nearby airports:
Getting around:
We’ve partnered with the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel to offer our guests a discounted rate for the duration of the Bootcamp. Follow the link below to book your room at this exclusive price!
What Past Attendees Say
Here is what past Bootcamp attendees had to say about our previous events.
It was a great experience for me, as I reconnected with great people after seven years.
Fernando Rocha
CEO at ARS Servicios Profesionales
Organization was excellent! As a speaker, I was very impressed to find everything set up for me. Definitely coming back next year.
Tom Wade
Consultant at Tom Wade Consultancy
This was my first VMS Bootcamp and I was very impressed with the organization and execution of the event.
William Cox
VMS Ambassador
Plan your sessions
Speaker: Karl-König Königsson
This session shows how organizations can retain the reliability of OpenVMS while enabling AI access to operational data by migrating to Mimer SQL and adding a Model Context Protocol(MCP)-based AI layer. This MCP layer is published as an OpenSource project on GitHub (https://github.com/mimersql/mimer-mcp).
Breakout AIDatabasesOpen Source
Speaker: Lorin Ricker
Discover how AI is transforming coding practices and its implications for VMS engineers, from pair-programming to product development.
Breakout AIModernizationProgramming
Speaker: Dan Fleury
Application debug without debug. Using non-standard tools to fix a problem.
Breakout PerformanceProgramming
Speaker: Nic Clews
Using BACKUP correctly for your systems
Breakout Backup and RestoreTroubleshooting
Speaker: John Seder
In general, backing up data ranks pretty low on on the list of "fun things to talk about in IT", but investing time in a proper backup strategy can save the day if/when you need to restore lost data quickly.
Breakout Backup and RestoreHigh AvailabilityStorage
Speaker: Robert Gezelter
Explores preserving build artifacts like compilation listings and linker maps for troubleshooting OpenVMS production executables and ensuring accountability.
Breakout CompilersDevOpsProgrammingTroubleshooting
Speaker: Jeff Allen
This demo underscores the importance of building tools to become a better developer. The focus here is on DCL. I will show off some useful tools I've designed and then detail how I go about designing new tools from scratch.
Lab AlphaItaniumOpen SourceProgrammingx86
Speaker: Robert Brooks
Details of building VMS along with problems faced building layered products will be discussed.
Breakout DevOpsModernizationProgramming
Speaker: Norm Lastovica
Become a performance detective
Breakout AlphaClusteringCompilersDatabasesHigh AvailabilityItaniumMonitoringPerformance
Speaker: Darya Zelenina
Overview of VSI strategy in 2026 and 2027
Keynote AIAlphaCloudClusteringDatabasesDevOpsItaniumMigrationModernizationOpen SourcePerformanceStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: John Reagan
Compiler update and linker & image activator details
Breakout CompilersProgrammingx86
Speaker: Andrea Arthur
DCL Tips and Tricks using lexical functions
Breakout AlphaClusteringItaniumMonitoringx86
Speaker: Brad McCusker
Discover the power of DFU (Disk and File Utilities) for OpenVMS through live demonstrations of practical techniques, hidden capabilities, and real-world problem solving. Bring your questions and challenges—we may even uncover something unexpected together.
Breakout MonitoringPerformanceStorage
Speaker: Alan Muir
What to check, when to check it, and how to recognize normal vs abnormal system behavior.
Breakout High AvailabilityMonitoringPerformanceSecurityStorageTroubleshooting
Speaker: George Zachos
A behind-the-scenes look at how DevOps practices can be applied to OpenVMS, covering automation, development workflows, and infrastructure management, with a hands-on introduction to selected tools and concepts.
Lab DevOpsModernizationProgrammingx86
Speaker: John Seder
These terms seem to be used interchangeably, but let's discuss why they are different. We'll see why (and how) OpenVMS is so "BC/DR-Friendly".
Breakout Backup and RestoreClusteringHigh Availability
Speaker: Kobe Smith
How to deploy changes safely, avoid outages, and recover when things go wrong.
Breakout Backup and RestoreHigh AvailabilityItaniumMigrationStoragex86
Speaker: Robert Gezelter
This session teaches using OpenVMS DEBUG for production issue analysis without restarting images, focusing on ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP and SET PROCESS/DUMP=NOW for non-disruptive troubleshooting.
Breakout DevOpsHigh AvailabilityProgrammingTroubleshooting
Speaker: Hein van den Heuvel
Revisit Macro, Perl, and DCL programming on OpenVMS, exploring their current relevance and practical applications.
Breakout Open SourceProgramming
Speaker: Alan Muir
Discover how to advance from OpenVMS basics to becoming your organization's go-to expert through passion, curiosity, and collaboration.
Breakout
Speaker: Adam Hoff-Nielsen, Jackie Tressler
Shift the OpenVMS conversation from legacy preservation to strategic business value.
Keynote MigrationModernization
Speaker: Camiel Vanderhoeven
A deep dive into OpenVMS engineering progress, roadmap, and priorities, covering x86-64, compilers, networking, security, and core OS advancements.
Keynote CompilersMigrationModernizationNetworkingSecurityx86
Speaker: Vahe Margaryan
Covers OpenSSH V10 on OpenVMS, including post-quantum security, DSA removal, and upgrade planning.
Breakout NetworkingOpen SourceSecurity
Speaker: Camiel Vanderhoeven
New to bootcamp? Have questions? Learn what bootcamp is all about.
Breakout
Speaker: Lorin Ricker
Practical Git usage on OpenVMS, addressing Files-11 challenges, repository strategies, and migration from legacy systems.
Breakout Backup and RestoreDevOpsMigrationModernizationOpen SourceProgramming
Speaker: Camiel Vanderhoeven
Strategies for selecting cost-effective, supported x86 hardware for OpenVMS, with guidance on interpreting the official platforms list.
Breakout Modernizationx86
Speaker: Debbee West
This session will describe the timetable for replacing your system manager.
Breakout
Speaker: James Preciado
Practical guide to installing and configuring OpenVMS x86 on Single Board Computers, with demonstrations and use cases for education and hobbyists.
Lab ModernizationOpen Sourcex86
Speaker: Lucas Hartfiel, Michael O'Hare, John Adams
A brief overview of OpenVMS troubleshooting tools
Breakout Troubleshooting
Speaker: James Preciado
Explores Systems on a Chip, Single Board Computers, and their potential as OpenVMS x86 platforms, business challenges and possible role of the Hobbyist Program's.
Breakout ModernizationOpen Sourcex86
Speaker: Liam Bainsfair
We will be discussing in-depth the results of extensive benchmarking of KVM virtual disks used by your OpenVMS guest, and how configuration options affect the performance.
Breakout CloudModernizationPerformanceStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Brett Cameron
Many organizations rely on often decades-old OpenVMS applications that continue to deliver critical business value.
Breakout MigrationModernizationProgrammingx86
Speaker: Hein van den Heuvel
MONITOR MODE command can give some wonderful insights into where the system is spending is time guiding us to where improvements are most likely to be effective.
Breakout MonitoringPerformanceProgrammingTroubleshooting
Speaker: Matthew Sutherland, Robert Brooks
This presentation will focus on the most seen storage connectivity and presentation issues from the perspective of the support engineer, and attempt to bring order to the chaos that is fibre passthrough, KVM cockpit, ESXi GUI, SAN arrays, and fibre adapters in hypervisors.
Breakout High AvailabilityStorageTroubleshootingVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Keith Parris
How to optimize performance for your OpenVMS cluster.
Breakout ClusteringHigh AvailabilityMonitoringNetworkingPerformanceVirtualization
Speaker: Jeff Murch, Dušan Dželebdžić
Experiences and lessons learned over a 5 year long journey migrating two long term customers to the cloud.
Breakout CloudClusteringMigrationModernizationNetworkingOpen SourcePerformanceStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Denys Beauchemin, Jon Power
Migrating from Rdb to other RDBMS on x86
Breakout DatabasesMigrationProgramming
Speaker: Andrea Arthur, Dan Fleury
Real-world lessons from migrating OpenVMS to Charon on Nutanix, including planning, performance optimization, and minimizing downtime.
Breakout AlphaClusteringHigh AvailabilityMigrationPerformanceVirtualization
Speaker: Lucas Hartfiel
A fast, practical introduction to OpenVMS concepts, navigation, and system essentials for those coming from Linux or Windows.
Breakout
Speaker: Robert Gezelter
This session teaches how to write data structure formatting routines for OpenVMS DEBUG, improving data examination efficiency for developers.
Breakout ProgrammingTroubleshooting
Speaker: Vadim Saifutdinov
This presentation will show some common ways to debug your program using the OpenVMS Debugger in the screen mode, and also through VMS-IDE
Breakout ProgrammingTroubleshooting
Speaker: Norm Lastovica
Explore common OpenVMS assumptions
Breakout ClusteringMonitoringNetworkingPerformanceProgramming
Speaker: Nikolaos Tavoularis, Anush Chatikyan
Discover the OpenVMS Online Upgrader, an automated solution for seamless OS upgrades with minimal downtime.
Breakout High AvailabilityModernizationx86
Speaker: Dan Fleury
OpenVMS Performance Management
Breakout AlphaItaniumPerformancex86
Speaker: Dan Fleury, Lorin Ricker, Andrea Arthur, Nic Clews
Panel discussion about OpenVMS issues
Panel AlphaBackup and RestoreClusteringCompilersItaniumMigrationMonitoringNetworkingPerformanceProgrammingSecurityStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Camiel Vanderhoeven
Learn about OpenVMS V9.2-4 field test participation, new features, and VSI's role.
Breakout ModernizationPerformancex86
Speaker: Athanasios Andriopoulos
Discover how OpenVMS supports governance, security, and compliance through platform capabilities, engineering practices, and operational controls.
Breakout ModernizationMonitoringSecurity
Speaker: Brett Cameron
OpenVMS environments can hold decades of valuable business data and a wealth of operational insight, however much of this valuable information often remains trapped inside perceived legacy data silos.
Breakout CloudModernizationMonitoring
Speaker: Brad McCusker
OpenVMS systems can run for decades. The people who support them usually don't. Learn how to preserve undocumented knowledge and prepare your environment for the next generation of administrators.
Breakout Backup and RestoreClusteringHigh AvailabilityMonitoringNetworkingStorageTroubleshooting
Speaker: Robert Gezelter
This session focuses on writing thread-safe, re-entrant, and reusable code for OpenVMS x86-64, addressing challenges in multithreaded environments.
Breakout AlphaItaniumMigrationProgrammingx86
Speaker: Clair Grant
We will look at the upcoming OpenVMS native build (version 9.2-4).
Breakout CompilersPerformanceProgrammingx86
Speaker: Vadim Ilves, Vahe Momjyan, NIkolai Ershov, Aleksandr Krupnov, Fynn Papadopoulos
A half-day hands-on lab working through the x86 port of a realistic Alpha-era VMS codebase.
Lab AIMigrationModernizationProgrammingx86
Speaker: Debby Chang, Robert Jeffcott
Access your most valuable OpenVMS data in production applications. See a live demo of how CONNX provides real-time access—using replication and Change Data Capture to keep platforms like Snowflake continuously synchronized, without disrupting your existing systems.
Breakout CloudDatabasesModernization
Speaker: Keith Hare, Tom Musson
The JCC LogMiner Loader is a useful utility for replicating Rdb databases to other database platforms both for data analysis and as part of a database migration.
Breakout DatabasesMigration
Speaker: Tatyana Krupnova, Olena Malishenko
Learn how signed system images protect OpenVMS from tampering and unauthorized changes, ensuring secure boot and runtime integrity.
Breakout ModernizationSecurityx86
Speaker: John Seder
While stories about cyber security events (such as breaches and ransomware attacks) pop up in the news almost daily, where does OpenVMS stand when it comes to security vulnerabilities?
Breakout MonitoringSecurity
Speaker: Wolfgang Burger
A guide to migrating Oracle/RDB to SharkSQL, covering challenges, best practices.
Breakout ClusteringDatabasesHigh AvailabilityMigrationModernizationProgramming
Speaker: Wolfgang Burger
Learn about SharkSQL V5.1's key features, usage terms, and support model from Wolfgang Burger, CEO of WDB Technologies GmbH.
Breakout ClusteringDatabasesPerformanceSecurity
Speaker: Tatyana Krupnova, Vahe Momjyan, Athanasios Andriopoulos
How to manage workforce risk, train new talent, and build sustainable support models.
Breakout MigrationModernization
Speaker: Rafael Martins
Storage performance: methods, tools and numbers
Breakout Backup and RestoreMonitoringPerformanceStoragex86
Speaker: Hein van den Heuvel
How to setup and use T4 to graph OpenVMS Monitor data.
Breakout MonitoringPerformanceTroubleshooting
Speaker: Adam Hoff-Nielsen, Jackie Tressler
Learn how to optimize OpenVMS costs through operational efficiency, modernization, and informed decision-making without application rewrites.
Breakout MigrationModernizationPerformance
Speaker: Vahagn Aleksanyan
TCP/IP V7 brings FreeBSD's networking stack to OpenVMS, enhancing performance, security, and multiprocessing. This session covers benefits, engineering challenges, and a demo on x86-64.
Breakout ModernizationNetworkingSecurityx86
Speaker: Lorin Ricker
Secrets of TPU, the VMS Text Processing Utility
Breakout CompilersModernizationProgramming
Speaker: John Adams, Lucas Hartfiel, Michael O'Hare
Drawing from real OpenVMS support cases, this session explores a range of noteworthy and interesting incidents that challenged assumptions and required creative troubleshooting.
Breakout MonitoringPerformanceTroubleshooting
Speaker: Doug Gordon
Recent security-related changes in VMS.
Breakout ModernizationSecurityx86
Speaker: Paul Jacobi
The evolution of VMS from proprietary to industry standard network storage.
Breakout CloudClusteringModernizationNetworkingPerformanceProgrammingStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Camiel Vanderhoeven
Introduction to the new bootcamp platform and phone app
Breakout
Speaker: Debbee West
This session will discuss why and how to configure a BIND server.
Breakout AlphaHigh AvailabilityItaniumNetworking
Speaker: Denys Beauchemin, Jon Power
Live demo of AI-assisted migration from Rdb to Postgres for COBOL, Pascal, and Fortran code.
Lab AIDatabasesMigrationModernization
Speaker: Alan Muir
Top VMS Failures (and How to Fix Them)
Breakout MonitoringPerformanceStorageTroubleshooting
Speaker: Christian Moser, Norm Lastovica
Details of recent significant advancements
Breakout PerformanceProgramming
Speaker: Nic Clews
Understand OpenVMS virtual memory operation, how virtual memory works
Breakout ModernizationPerformance
Speaker: Brett Cameron
OpenVMS remains a rock-solid platform for mission-critical workloads, but today the expectations placed on it have changed. Enterprises now require that OpenVMS systems look and behave like first-class citizens in modern, hybrid IT environments.
Breakout CloudDevOpsMigrationModernizationMonitoring
Speaker: Dave Sullivan, Robert Brooks, Liam Bainsfair
The session is a follow-on to using tools and VSI branded products to make your upgrades or migrations successful.
Panel AlphaCloudClusteringHigh AvailabilityItaniumMigrationModernizationPerformanceStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Nikolaos Tavoularis
A demonstration of VM tools for OpenVMS virtual machines, covering time synchronization and graceful power operations.
Breakout CloudModernizationx86
Speaker: Michail Tatas
This presentation explores Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI), a high-performance storage controller designed for virtualized environments.
Breakout ModernizationPerformanceStoragex86
Speaker: Eugeny Fostakosvky
Updates to the VSI documentation site, plus a brand-new how-to resource
Breakout Modernizationx86
Speaker: Darya Zelenina, Camiel Vanderhoeven
Questions for VSI management and engineers
VSI Panel
Speaker: Keith Parris
This session describes how to optimize your use of Host-Based Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS.
Breakout High AvailabilityMonitoringPerformanceStorage
Speaker: Victoria Solodovnikova
Learn how OpenVMS x86 assigns disk device names and understand controller support across ESXi and KVM environments.
Breakout NetworkingStorageVirtualizationx86
Speaker: Karl-König Königsson
Discover the new capabilities and improvements in Mimer SQL 11.1, the latest version of the relational database system.
Breakout DatabasesModernization
Speaker: Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, Constantinos Revelas
Hands-on iSCSI workshop covering practical configuration of OpenVMS x86 as an iSCSI initiator for enterprise storage environments.
Lab High AvailabilityModernizationNetworkingStorageVirtualizationx86