COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025: Full Schedule

WELCOME TO COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

Common Europe, in collaboration with Common Sweden, is delighted to be holding its annual flagship event, Common Europe Congress, in the friendly city of Gothenburg offering extensive education, networking and relaxation opportunities.

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

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10:40 CEST

IBM Power & IBM i Explained

Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:40 - 11:40 CEST

14 - R5/R6

Curious about the greatest business application platform on earth?
Not just that I will go through the "concept", the strange vocabulary you will hear talking to the more senior persons but also learn more about truly unique features that the rest of the IT industry just drooling after.

Speakers

Torbjörn Appehl

Vice President for Common Europe, Common Europe & LOAD System

IBM Champion for Power since 2016, love the IBM i platform since my very first contact with it in 1997. Today I am the CEO for Load System in Sweden. An IBM business partner with focus on IBM Power, IBM Storage, IBM Z and LinuxONE.
CEO for Load System AB in Sweden since January 20... Read More →

Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:40 - 11:40 CEST
14 - R5/R6

IBM i Div.

11:50 CEST

Basics of SQL Tables, Indexes, and Views

Tuesday June 3, 2025 11:50 - 12:50 CEST

14 - R5/R6

In this session, we are going to talk about how to create SQL tables, indexes, and views, so you can go home and do it yourself. Please bring your laptop if you would like to get some hands-on experience.

Speakers

Sven Jansson

Senior developer, Agria Djuförsäkring

I have worked on the IBM i platform since 1995. My technical roles include developer, analyst, database specialist, application security, and communications. I also worked on IBMz for a few years, and I serve on the COMMON Sweden board. I'm a curious person who always wants to learn... Read More →

Tuesday June 3, 2025 11:50 - 12:50 CEST
14 - R5/R6

IBM i App Dev

15:35 CEST

MariaDB Server and MariaDB MaxScale - Enterprise class database technology for IBM Power

Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:35 - 16:35 CEST

14 - R5/R6

MariaDB Server is very popular database for any type of workload, and MariaDB Enterprise Server is the Enterprise database system that builds on this to deliver an Enterprise class database system which together with MariaDB MaxScale provides High Availability, Scalability and world class support and services, all available on the IBM Power platform. In this talk I will cover some of the foundations of MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB MaxScale and what features are provided. There are also many new features in MariaDB Enterprise Server, such as Vector search for AI applications, enhanced JSON support and more, which will be covered.
One particular feature of MariaDB will be coverered in more detail, the ease of migrating from other database systems to MariaDB, in particular Oracle.

Speakers

Anders Karlsson

Principal Sales Engineer, MariaDB

Database Sales Engineer with more than 40 years experience from relational databases. Develops tools and utilities and official MariaDB contributor, assistst in MariaDB implementations, specialized in database migrations. Has worked with many different relational database systems... Read More →

Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:35 - 16:35 CEST
14 - R5/R6

AIX/Linux

From €51.94