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.

10:00 CEST

Workshop: IBM PowerVC

Sunday June 14, 2026 10:00 - 13:00 CEST

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This hands-on workshop takes attendees from initial host onboarding to advanced automation in a single 3-hour session. We will start from a preinstalled PowerVC instance so participants can jump straight into adding hosts, importing images, provisioning VMs and perform more advanced CLI tasks to efficiently automate their PowerVC setup. Attendees will leave with sufficient knowledge they can use to tackle the official IBM PowerVC certification.

Speakers

Upendra Rajan

Sunday June 14, 2026 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
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Workshop, Power Hardware

14:00 CEST

Workshop: Visual Explain – Hands-On Experience

Sunday June 14, 2026 14:00 - 17:00 CEST

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Visual Explain is your shortcut to understanding SQL requests and their performance impact on IBM i. In this interactive workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience with the tools used for SQL analysis and optimization.What to expect:Guided labs to help you get started and build confidencePractical exercises demonstrating how to analyze and graphically view SQL statementsInsights into working with Plan Cache snapshots for deeper performance analysisVisual Explain is part of Access Client Solutions (ACS) and has seen significant enhancements in recent years. This workshop will walk you through the latest features and best practices, ensuring you can leverage this powerful tool effectively.By the end of the session, you’ll have the skills to use Visual Explain to diagnose performance issues and optimize SQL queries like a pro.

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Power Performance Specialist, IBM Expert Labs

Morten Buur Rasmussen is a performance Specialist at IBM Technology Expert Labs. Morten has 40 years of experience in the computing field. He started working with the S/38 and AS/400 in 1988 as programmer. Before joining the Lab Services and Expert Labs, he worked for IBM Denmark... Read More →

Sunday June 14, 2026 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
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Workshop

From €51.94