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.

15:00 CEST

Sponsor session: Control all your IBM i applications and systems from your current monitoring solution, extremely easily!

Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:25 CEST

06 - R17

Not happy with the IBM i monitoring level of your existing tool such as Nagios, PRTG, SolarWinds, Zabbix, etc ?
In addition, IBM recently stopped the support of their Nagios plugin for IBM i and said that Control for i is the recommended replacement.

Discover how “Control for i” adds instantly 200 ‘Plug & Play’ IBM i checks and how your tool is enhanced without any development required.

If you already know Control for I, come to see what’s new in the version 4.

You will also acquire knowledge on how it is easy to automate answers or trigger a program to well-known messages in MSGQ or System Log.

Learn how you will become more proactive: with high accuracy probes you are alerted of problems before they become critical; this improves the service continuity and reduces emergency response costs).
Note: “Control for i” is compatible with 90% of most commonly used monitoring tools.

Sponsor speakers

Pascal Ruckebusch

Président, Technical Director, M81

Pascal Ruckebusch adopted IBM i at the exact beginning of AS/400, three decades ago, and never left it … Pascal's experience on IBM i covers system and application development, training and operations. Twice CTO of 2 major IBM business partners in France, his technical skills and... Read More →

Sponsors

M81

M81 is a company specialized in system software running on IBM i operating system (also known as OS/400 or i5/OS), to help IT teams to better manage their systems.
The products made by M81 address complex areas, but are very simple to implement and IT teams can work with them very... Read More →

Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:25 CEST
06 - R17

Solution provider

16:30 CEST

Can cloud help me in accomplishing my DR and Cyber Resiliency goals

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

06 - R17

in this session we are going to find out how cloud can help you to accomplish your Disaster Recovery and also your Cyber Resilience goals.

Also the reason for cloud as a DR environment will be discussed.

Speakers

Tonny Bastiaans

offering manager, IBM

Tonny Bastiaans is World Wide Product manager Power System at IBM. Started more than 20 years ago as an engineer on RS6000 systems (the predecessor of Power). He moved via several roles to his current role. With his technical background he is bridging the gap between technic and business... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
06 - R17

IBM i System Management, Strategy

09:10 CEST

Compliance and security management on IBM i with IBM PowerSC

Thursday June 5, 2025 09:10 - 10:10 CEST

06 - R17

Managing the security and compliance on different IBM i systems and partitions can be a challenging task. Changing a setting is quite simple, but automatically checking if a security setting remains the same over time and getting notified about a change is a challenge. IBM offers a product called IBM PowerSC. This product uses compliance profiles to perform the necessary security configuration and monitors that the systems remain compliant. It offers a single user interface that lets you monitor the compliance and security of all your IBM i, Linux on Power, AIX, and VIOS partitions on your Power System. It provides more security functions for malware detection, PTF level currency checking, and more. This session shows you what PowerSC is, how it works, and based on the Center for Internet Security (CIS) IBM i benchmark how to apply a compliance profile. You also see the reporting capabilities of the product, which offers administrators and auditors a comprehensive overview of the security state of your IBM i landscape.

Speakers

Thomas Barlen

Senior Managing Consultant, IBM

IT consultant architecting and implementing security solutions mainly in the IBM i and AIX area. I am also a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Specialties: Cryptography, Single Signon, Security assessments, Access Control concepts and implementation, IBM i cryptographic programming... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 09:10 - 10:10 CEST
06 - R17

Power Hardware / Storage

From €51.94