COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025: Full Schedule

WELCOME TO COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

Don’t forget to reach out to your local country user group to get the discount code for the congress!

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. It’s also a great opportunity for exploring the city… so why not take a family mini-break as well.
Congress education areas targeted are IBM Power hardware, Application Development, Advanced RPG, Open Source tools and Languages, System Management, Db2 and SQL, IBM Storage, IBM i services and microservices, Security and Compliance and much more.
There will be two AIX / Linux tracks, to emphasize the Power Systems character of Common Europe.
Top IBM Business Architects and industry experts have already agreed to share their knowledge on the latest announcements, customer cases as well as practical subjects.
The congress content includes:

3 ½ days of latest education delivered by top IBM and industry leading speakers punctuated by large breaks offering maximum networking,
Three-hour in-depth workshops, 60 minutes’ education sessions and solution provider’s special slots,
A Solution Providers’ Centre open for 2 ½ days with top European and worldwide technology companies at their booths presenting innovative practical solutions that will enhance our solutions,
A Congress Dinner in the hotel with live entertainment.

We have negotiated special room rates in the Congress hotel itself,
The Common Europe Organization Team looks forward to seeing you in picturesque Gothenburg.

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

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08:00 CEST

Upgrade VIOS to 4.1. Fully automated! LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST

11 - R9

I had two weeks between the years and ca. 160 Virtual I/O Servers to upgrade. It means I had ca. 30 minutes (or less) per upgrade. It is more than enough time if you use automation like Ansible. I describe how I automated my VIOS upgrades and what problems I've got on the way.

By Andrey Klyachkin

Speakers

Andrey Klyachkin

Managing Director, eNFence

I help companies build standardized, completely automated and agile IBM Power infrastructure.➤ It minimizes your time to market for new apps and features.➤ It optimizes your IT operational costs.➤ It enhances your security.WHAT HAVE I ACHIEVED?➤ POWER DevOps (https://www.power-devops.com... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
11 - R9

AIX/Linux, IBM Power

10:20 CEST

A story of real Multi- Hybrid Cloud, or reality? LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST

11 - R9

This presentation show how you can run multi-cloud and hybrid cloud systems using IBM Power. The most important question is, can you really run your application in a cloud native way, or are you just being cloud naive?
If your workload does support running in a cloud native way, can you run on multiple clouds?
Now that you can run on multiple clouds, can you run in a hybrid cloud setup.
This presentation debuncts the myths around multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and other cloud solutions, with a small demonstration of what multi- hybrid- cloud could really do if implementent correctly.

Speakers

Toshaan Bharvani

CTO, VanTosh

Toshaan Bharvani is a IT consultant, currently self-employed at VanTosh, with a interest in Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware. He started his IT interest at a very early age, when his father gave him his first own PC components. Ever since he has been interested in IT... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST
11 - R9

AIX/Linux

11:30 CEST

Leverage Red Hat Ansible to automate your IBM Power Systems LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30 - 12:30 CEST

11 - R9

Red Hat Ansible is a mighty Configuration Management System that can help you to automate all IT processes.
This capability is foundational for the success of Ansible, since automating all processes, end-to-end, with the same tools is the key to highly efficient and effective automation.
One of the less-known capabilities of Ansible is its ability to manage Power systems.
Now Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can run on your IBM Power systems, so you can use it to automate without compromises!

By Fabio Alessandro Locati

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
11 - R9

AIX/Linux

12:40 CEST

TBD LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:40 - 13:05 CEST

11 - R9

Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
11 - R9

Solution provider

14:05 CEST

KVM in PowerVM

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:05 - 15:05 CEST

11 - R9

Exploring KVM in PowerVM. New use cases and reference architectures.

By Hugo Blanco

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:05 - 15:05 CEST
11 - R9

AIX/Linux

15:20 CEST

Open Source on IBM Power

Wednesday June 4, 2025 15:20 - 16:20 CEST

11 - R9

This presentation talks about Open Source on IBM Power, the initiatives ongoing within the OpenPOWER foundation, the open source community and the state of open source on IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power

Speakers

Toshaan Bharvani

CTO, VanTosh

Wednesday June 4, 2025 15:20 - 16:20 CEST
11 - R9

AIX/Linux

16:30 CEST

How Generative AI can be used within your business - safely LIMITED

Wednesday June 4, 2025 16:30 - 17:30 CEST

11 - R9

Businesses are investigating how they can add business value with Generative AI, but are facing common challenges such as cost, security, and data privacy limitations. This session will look at common use cases for Generative AI, and how IBM Power capabilities can help deliver on those use cases in a safe and secure manner.

By Andrew Laidlaw

Speakers

Andrew Laidlaw

Senior Power Technical Specialist, IBM

A Technical Specialist with IBM Power covering the UK & Ireland.Feel free to talk to me about any interesting topics in technology at the moment, and in particular how they relate to the Power platform that we all know and love. That includes (but is not limited to):AIModernisationAutomationHybrid... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
11 - R9

COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

From €204.79