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.

16:45 CEST

Latest game-changers in the MariaDB Server - Catalogs and Vectors"MariaDB Server continues to redefine database performance and efficiency with groundbreaking features in its latest Long-Term Support (LTS) releases.

Tuesday June 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:45 CEST

08 - R11/R12

With MariaDB Server 11.8 LTS, MariaDB Vector introduces advanced vector search capabilities, empowering applications with real-time analytics, superior semantic search, and efficient AI-driven functionalities directly within the database.Looking ahead, the upcoming MariaDB Server LTS release will feature MariaDB Catalogs, a robust multi-tenancy solution tailored specifically for cloud and SaaS providers. MariaDB Catalogs optimizes hardware utilization through true isolation between tenants, significantly enhancing resource efficiency and reducing overall infrastructure costs. By consolidating workloads securely within a single server instance, service providers can dramatically lower their total cost of ownership while ensuring exceptional performance and scalability.

By Monti Widenius

Speakers

Michael "Monty" Widenius

Creator of MySQL and MariaDB, CTO of MariaDB, MariaDB

Tuesday June 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
08 - R11/R12

AIX/Linux

14:00 CEST

AI Throughout Your Day!

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

08 - R11/R12

Tired of all the hype surrounding AI? Would you like to be more productive using AI - today - but you're not sure where to start? Or maybe you've scratched the surface with AI, but want to learn more? Either way, this is the session for you! Here we skip the theory and dive straight into real-world applications that boost productivity and streamline daily tasks using AI based tools. Join us for this session and leave with tangible skills to supercharge your productivity, while producing better results, with less effort!

Join this session to learn how to:
- Craft professional emails, reports, and letters in a fraction of the time
- Dive into data analysis without the headache
- Help you write code better and faster
- Unlock your creative side to make art you'll be proud of - even if you can't draw a straight line!
- Use AI throughout your day for personal and fun tasks as well as at work
- Get the most out of the many diverse AI tools available today for maximum productivity
- Whether you're new to AI or just looking for practical ideas, you'll leave with real examples and skills you can start using immediately for both professional and personal tasks. Join us to learn how to put AI to use for you today!

Audience:
Everyone who is curious about AI and would like to be more productive at work and in their personal life will benefit from this session. AI isn't just for data scientists anymore - it's a valuable tool we can all benefit from every day!

Speakers

Steven Wolk

CTO, PC Richard & Son

Steven Wolk is the CTO for PC Richard & Son. Founded in 1909, PC Richard is a family owned and operated chain of over 65 appliance, electronics, and mattress superstores located throughout NY, NJ, CT, and PA. Steve's deep background in retail began on the sales floor while in college... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
08 - R11/R12

Personal Development, AI

15:20 CEST

ListAgg and Split - Aggregating, Summarizing and Decomposing Data and Strings

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

08 - R11/R12

In this session you will learn a lot of (new) SQL tricks, such as generating all kinds of totals an sub-totals with SQL, Creating Pivot Tables, Accumulating Strings over multiple rows ... decomposing everthing, i.e. convert a pivot table with multiple columns into a table with multiple rows, decompose a *.csv table.

Speakers

Birgitta HAUSER

Database and Software Architect, BIRGITTA HAUSER - MODERNIZATION

Birgitta Hauser worked on the IBM i and its predecessors since 1992. She graduated with a business economics diploma, and started programming on the AS/400 in 1992. She worked and works as traditional RPG Programmer but also as Database and Software Architect, focusing on IBM i... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 15:20 - 16:20 CEST
08 - R11/R12

IBM i

From €51.94