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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:
  1. 3 ½ days of latest education delivered by top IBM and industry leading speakers  punctuated by large breaks offering maximum networking,
  2. Three-hour in-depth workshops, 60 minutes’ education sessions and solution provider’s special slots,
  3. 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,
  4. 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.
Venue: 11 - R9 clear filter
Monday, June 2
 

09:00 CEST

IBM ISV Advisory Council (Invitation only)
Monday June 2, 2025 09:00 - 13:00 CEST
11 - R9
Speakers
avatar for Tim Rowe

Tim Rowe

STSM - IBM i Business Architect, IBM
Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his... Read More →
Monday June 2, 2025 09:00 - 13:00 CEST
11 - R9
 
Tuesday, June 3
 

10:40 CEST

A gentle introduction to containerization and OpenShift on IBM Power LIMITED
Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:40 - 11:40 CEST
11 - R9
The world of application containerization can be intimidating at first.
Fear not ! In this session, we’ll take things step by step, breaking down the complexities into manageable, easy-to-understand pieces.
With simple explanations and concrete examples we’ll explore the containerization fundamentals, its advantages in modern software development, and how OpenShift enhances the management, scaling, and deployment of containers.
And of course, everything we demonstrate will be running on IBM Power, so we’ll also see how this powerful platform supports modernization projects and cloud-native applications.
Speakers
avatar for Alfonso Cancellara

Alfonso Cancellara

Technical Account Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
Alfonso Cancellara is a Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, specializing in OpenShift.Before taking on this role, he worked at Red Hat as a Senior Technical Support Engineer, where he developed a deep understanding of client pain points, building a strong foundation in empathy and... Read More →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 10:40 - 11:40 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux

11:50 CEST

Opensource Lifecycle Management on AIX LIMITED
Tuesday June 3, 2025 11:50 - 12:50 CEST
11 - R9
BFF, RPM, DNF, Toolbox... Everything you should know about opensource packages on AIX, how to install and manage them.

By Andrey Klyachkin
Speakers
avatar for Andrey Klyachkin

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 →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 11:50 - 12:50 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux

14:00 CEST

Leverage Event-Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time LIMITED
Tuesday June 3, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
11 - R9
In today's complex IT environments, it is more important than ever to automate tasks and processes. Event-Driven Ansible is a new feature of Ansible that allows you to automate IT tasks based on events that occur in your IT environment. This session will provide an introduction to Event-Driven Ansible, including what it is, how it works, and the benefits of using it. We will also discuss some examples of how Event-Driven Ansible can be used in real-world scenarios.
Speakers
avatar for Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat
Fabio Alessandro Locati - commonly known as Fale - is an EMEA Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat, public speaker, published author, and Open Source contributor. His main areas of expertise are Linux, containers (ie: Kubernetes), automation (ie: Ansible), security, cloud (mainly... Read More →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux

15:15 CEST

SPS LIMITED
Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:15 - 15:40 CEST
11 - R9
Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:15 - 15:40 CEST
11 - R9
  Solution provider

15:50 CEST

Event Driven Power Infrastructure
Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:50 - 16:50 CEST
11 - R9
This presentation is about event driven infrastructure and how you can facilitate autoremediation in case of problems, using Ansible, Icinga2, Request Tracker and webhooks, you can create an elastic auto-scaling infrastructure to optimize the capacity for your workload and dynamically scale your batches, and capcity usage.
Speakers
avatar for Toshaan Bharvani

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 →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 15:50 - 16:50 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux

17:00 CEST

MariaDB Server and MariaDB MaxScale - Enterprise class database technology for IBM Power LIMITED
Tuesday June 3, 2025 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
11 - R9
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
avatar for Anders Karlsson

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 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux
 
Wednesday, June 4
 

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
avatar for Andrey Klyachkin

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
avatar for Toshaan Bharvani

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
avatar for Toshaan Bharvani

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 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
avatar for Andrew Laidlaw

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
  AI
 
Thursday, June 5
 

09:10 CEST

BSD on IBM Power, the forgotten Open Source Operating System LIMITED
Thursday June 5, 2025 09:10 - 10:10 CEST
11 - R9
This presentation talks about BSD on IBM Power, while it is well known that IBM Power supports, IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power, there is also support for BSD on IBM Power.
The currently supported BSD variants are FreeBSD and OpenBSD, these operating systems provide a UNIX setup that provides open source software native to IBM Power.
Thursday June 5, 2025 09:10 - 10:10 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux

10:20 CEST

Ubuntu on Power! LIMITED
Thursday June 5, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST
11 - R9
In this session we will explore the different Canonical solutions and use cases available for IBM Power.

By Hugo Blanco
Thursday June 5, 2025 10:20 - 11:20 CEST
11 - R9
  AIX/Linux
 
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