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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.
Sunday, June 14
 

10:00 CEST

Getting stared in the world of SQL performance 08 - ST CLAIR 3ARudi van Helvoirt Workshop: Advanced Ansible Workshop on IBM Power ST CLAIR 2Upendra Rajan • Chris Gibson Workshop: IBM i Modernization Workshop with AI 09 - ST CLAIR 3BBenoit Marolleau Workshop: IBM PowerVC ST CLAIR 1Upendra Rajan Workshop: Manage and optimize IBM FlashSystem deployments in real‑world scenarios 10 - ST CLAIR 4Guillaume Legmar

13:00 CEST

Lunch (for Workshop attendees) ST CLAIR FOYER

14:00 CEST

Advanced IBM AIX Live Update Workshop ST CLAIR 2Upendra Rajan • Chris Gibson IBM i Security Auditing Deep Dive: Unlocking the Power of the Audit Journal 08 - ST CLAIR 3AKurt Thomas Workshop 4 09 - ST CLAIR 3B Workshop 5 10 - ST CLAIR 4 Workshop: Visual Explain – Hands-On Experience ST CLAIR 1Morten Buur Rasmussen

18:00 CEST

First timers introduction 02 - AuditoriumJuan Manuel Alcudia • Steve Cast

19:00 CEST

Welcome Reception 01 - Expo
 
Monday, June 15
 

08:30 CEST

Reception desk open 01 - Expo

09:00 CEST

Opening Session 01 - ExpoJuan Manuel Alcudia

09:30 CEST

IBM Keynote 02 - AuditoriumJonas Ullberg

10:20 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

10:30 CEST

The stage 11 - "The Stage" What's new in AIX 7.3: New features, capabilities and best practices 08 - ST CLAIR 3AUpendra Rajan • Chris Gibson LibrePower: A Community-Driven Renaissance for IBM Power 09 - ST CLAIR 3BHugo Blanco IBM i Client Innovation Stories 03 - RHÔNE 1Steve Will • Brandon Pedersen What is IBM Bob and how can Bob work for you! 04 - RHÔNE 2Tim Rowe Panning for Performance Gold with Visual Explain 05 -RHÔNE 3ARyan Moeller Power Processor Roadmap: Power11, Memory Architecture, Enterprise AI, and Chiplets 06 - RHÔNE 3BBill Starke The Future of Storage with IBM FlashSystem 10 - ST CLAIR 4Neil MCGOVERN It's How You Say It: A Guide To Effective Public Speaking 07 -RHÔNE 4Jonathon Sawdon Using SQL in Everyday Life 02 - AuditoriumRyan Moeller • Tim Rowe

11:30 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

11:50 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" AIX Roadmap and Platform Innovations: Performance, Security, Availability and Operational Simplicity 08 - ST CLAIR 3ASanket Rathi Document Intelligence on Power 09 - ST CLAIR 3BMirza Ćutuk IBM i Migrate While Active: minimizing downtime with Partition Mirroring, Assisted Save/Restore, or Manual Migration Methods 03 - RHÔNE 1Nicolae Chirea VS Code for IBM i: focus on Debugging and Unit Testing 04 - RHÔNE 2Philippe Bourgeois Reinventing IBM i: The Journey from RPG to Python 05 -RHÔNE 3AKoen Decorte What is new on IBM Power Virtual Server 06 - RHÔNE 3BTonny Bastiaans IBM Flash Storage Made Smarter: Observability & AIOps with Storage Insights 10 - ST CLAIR 4Prabira Acharya It's How You Say It: A Guide To Effective Public Speaking Part 2 07 -RHÔNE 4Jonathon Sawdon What's New in IBM i Security? 02 - AuditoriumCarol Woodbury

12:50 CEST

Lunch in Expo 01 - Expo

14:00 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" A Wishlist for the Future of IBM's Unix Beyond 2040 08 - ST CLAIR 3AHugo Blanco Event Driven Power Infrastructure 09 - ST CLAIR 3BToshaan Bharvani IBM i in 2026 - Collaborative Strategy in the Era of AI 03 - RHÔNE 1Steve Will Meet Bob - Your New AI Software Development Partner 04 - RHÔNE 2Sanjula Ganepola Git for Beginners on IBM i 05 -RHÔNE 3AJesse Gorzinski Deliver generative AI solutions on Power with Spyre accelerator and ecosystem 06 - RHÔNE 3BThibaud Besson IBM Power Cyber Vault 10 - ST CLAIR 4David Spurway Roundtable discussion: IBM Power skills gap in Europe - What can we do about it? 07 -RHÔNE 4 How to build an AI agent for IBM i 02 - AuditoriumJesse Gorzinski

15:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

15:10 CEST

M81 03 - RHÔNE 1 Sponsored session 2 04 - RHÔNE 2 Sponsored session 3 05 -RHÔNE 3A Sponsored session 4 06 - RHÔNE 3B Sponsored session 5 07 -RHÔNE 4 Sponsored session 6 08 - ST CLAIR 3A Sponsored session 7 09 - ST CLAIR 3B Sponsored session 8 10 - ST CLAIR 4 Thinkwise: From RPG to AI-ready: on IBM i 02 - AuditoriumVictor Klaren

15:35 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

15:55 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Zero Planned Downtime on AIX: Live Updates for Always-On Enterprises 08 - ST CLAIR 3ASanket Rathi Ansible for AIX and Linux on Power: tips and tricks 09 - ST CLAIR 3BAndrey Klyachkin IBM i 7.6 and the latest TRs by the Architect 03 - RHÔNE 1Tim Rowe Serverless architecture and RPG? 04 - RHÔNE 2Niels Liisberg Git, Jenkins and Nexus walk into an IBM i… 05 -RHÔNE 3ASébastien Julliand From Insight to Autonomy: The Future of Agentic Operations on IBM Power 06 - RHÔNE 3BHeather Lavergne Next-Gen High Availability and Disaster Recovery for IBM i: Leveraging IBM Power and FlashSystem for Zero Downtime Operations 10 - ST CLAIR 4Nicolae Chirea Role of User groups, Why join, why create 07 -RHÔNE 4 Unlocking the Potential of IBM’s Administration Runtime Expert  02 - AuditoriumRudi van Helvoirt • Ash Giddings

16:55 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

17:05 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" KVM Virtualization on IBM Power 08 - ST CLAIR 3ABrian King Powering the Hybrid Cloud: A Year in Review for OpenShift on IBM Power 09 - ST CLAIR 3BAlfonso Cancellara Application Modernization Database 04 - RHÔNE 2Birgitta Hauser New Improved Rest API support for IBM i 05 -RHÔNE 3ATim Rowe 2026 Client Outcomes for AI with IBM Power 06 - RHÔNE 3BSebastian Lehrig Building Resilient Architectures with PBHA and PBR on FlashSystem 10 - ST CLAIR 4Guillaume Legmar Beyond Chatbots: Understanding the AI Agent Revolution 07 -RHÔNE 4Adam Shedivy IBM i System Administration Basics 03 - RHÔNE 1Zouhair Oulli Protecting Db2 for i Data with Row and Column Access Control (RCAC) 02 - AuditoriumBirgitta Hauser
 
Tuesday, June 16
 

08:00 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Icinga Stack on IBM Power 08 - ST CLAIR 3AToshaan Bharvani Watsonx.Data on IBM Power - Modern Analytics for Enterprise Data 09 - ST CLAIR 3BFrederic Dubois Accelerate your SQL Queries with SMP 03 - RHÔNE 1Ryan Moeller Under the Hood - A Deep Dive into the SQL Query Engine 04 - RHÔNE 2Ryan Moeller The new age of Agentic AI 05 -RHÔNE 3AJesse Gorzinski Resource Groups in Power11 - learn about working principles and benefits 06 - RHÔNE 3BBartlomiej Grabowski Backup, Restore and Archive: A new choice for IBMi & Distributed Systems 10 - ST CLAIR 4Shreya Nair The Human Edge: How to Stay Relevant in an AI World! 07 -RHÔNE 4Steven Wolk AI agents for IBM i systems administration 02 - AuditoriumJesse Gorzinski

09:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

09:10 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Key Note AIX/Linux 08 - ST CLAIR 3A Key Note Storage 10 - ST CLAIR 4 KEY Note IBM i 03 - RHÔNE 1

10:10 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

10:30 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Deisn your own VS Code extension and extend Code for IBM i 08 - ST CLAIR 3ASébastien Julliand • Bena Benouar Understanding RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server and Surround Workloads 09 - ST CLAIR 3BCesar Bertran A Journey to the Truth....with AI and Ansible! 03 - RHÔNE 1Steven Wolk RPG Unit Testing Made Easy In VS Code 04 - RHÔNE 2Sanjula Ganepola Living with AI During the Fourth Industrial Revolution 05 -RHÔNE 3ACharles Guarino Power Processors & IBM i: A Brief History of the Past 25 Years 06 - RHÔNE 3BBill Starke Rethinking IBM i HA – When traditional HA and DR are no longer enough 10 - ST CLAIR 4Jesper Johansen Ready for that next step? Why the hell do you want to be in IT management? 07 -RHÔNE 4Mike Davison Securing your IBM i without Destroying your Business 02 - AuditoriumCarol Woodbury

11:30 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

11:40 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" AI Accelration for Power with Spyre 08 - ST CLAIR 3ABrian King AI Agents: Best Practices for the Next Era of Software 09 - ST CLAIR 3BMirza Ćutuk What can software High Availability do for you? 03 - RHÔNE 1Katharina Karner JSON, SQL, XML done easy with noxDb 04 - RHÔNE 2Niels Liisberg Introducing the AI Starter Kit 05 -RHÔNE 3AJesse Gorzinski Power11 announcement & AI on Power 06 - RHÔNE 3BJean-Manuel Lenez Enhancing IBM i Operational Resilience with IBM FlashSystem Technology 10 - ST CLAIR 4Ed Yeates Are you a Sail or an Anchor? 07 -RHÔNE 4Larry Bolhuis Navigator for i, the Tools Within! 02 - AuditoriumLarry Bolhuis • Tim Rowe

12:40 CEST

Lunch 01 - Expo

14:00 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" IaaS - Manage Power Systems with IBM PowerVC for Private Cloud 08 - ST CLAIR 3AThierry Huche Surround and Extend: Using Linux on Power to Modernize Your Core Apps 09 - ST CLAIR 3BChristine Wyatt What's New in Db2 for i 03 - RHÔNE 1Ryan Moeller VS Code and Code for IBM i Hidden Gems 2.0 04 - RHÔNE 2Sébastien Julliand Build your agentic agile team for your RPG legacy application 05 -RHÔNE 3AMauro Sanfilippo Unlocking Power11: Modern Licensing and Enterprise Pools 2.0 Enhancements 06 - RHÔNE 3BTurgut Genc NextGen FlashSystem - Designed to Adapt, Engineered to Perform, Built to Protect - Technical Details 10 - ST CLAIR 4Carlos Fuente From AI to EQ: 10 Ways to Elevate Your Professional Skills 07 -RHÔNE 4Ian Jarman A Practical Approach to IBM i SQL Performance 02 - AuditoriumMorten Buur Rasmussen

15:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

15:10 CEST

Sponsored session 1 03 - RHÔNE 1 Sponsored session 2 04 - RHÔNE 2 Sponsored session 3 05 -RHÔNE 3A Sponsored session 4 06 - RHÔNE 3B Sponsored session 5 07 -RHÔNE 4 Sponsored session 6 08 - ST CLAIR 3A Sponsored session 7 09 - ST CLAIR 3B Sponsored session 8 10 - ST CLAIR 4

15:35 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

15:55 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Automate your AIX patch management 08 - ST CLAIR 3AAndrey Klyachkin The Container Diet: Shrinking Container Images on IBM Power for Fun and Profit 09 - ST CLAIR 3BAlfonso Cancellara Compliance and security management on IBM i with IBM PowerSC 03 - RHÔNE 1Thomas Barlen SQL Services for the Developer 04 - RHÔNE 2Ryan Moeller Breathing New Life Into RPG: AI as Your Modernization Partner 05 -RHÔNE 3AKoen Decorte What’s New in Network Performance with Power11 06 - RHÔNE 3BAlexander Paul From Roadmap to Results : delivering customer value with AI driven Storage 10 - ST CLAIR 4Gabriel Rodriguez A Life in IBM i: What Hundreds of Conversations Have Taught Me 07 -RHÔNE 4Charles Guarino Compliance and security management on IBM i with IBM PowerSC 02 - AuditoriumThomas Barlen

16:55 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

17:05 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" EDB Postgres on IBM Power: The Enterprise Ready PostgreSQL Platform 08 - ST CLAIR 3AFrederic Dubois TBD 09 - ST CLAIR 3B Common Misconceptions in the IBM i Performance Area 03 - RHÔNE 1Morten Buur Rasmussen Code for IBM i – What’s New, What’s Next 04 - RHÔNE 2Sanjula Ganepola Exploring Mapepire, the new way to access Db2! 05 -RHÔNE 3AJesse Gorzinski Engineering Sovereign Ready Systems - A Practical Path to Operational Resilience and Quantum Era Readiness 06 - RHÔNE 3BAnne Leslie IBM FlashSystem Updates and Roadmap 10 - ST CLAIR 4Andrew Martin Personal development 07 -RHÔNE 4 Using Navigator to Securely Manage your IBM i 02 - AuditoriumTim Rowe

18:05 CEST

Expo fun - Prize draw, challenges and more 01 - Expo
 
Wednesday, June 17
 

08:00 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 11 - "The Stage" Open Source AI: A comprehensive overview and challenge of "openwashing" 08 - ST CLAIR 3AAlfonso Cancellara TBD 09 - ST CLAIR 3B IBM i and AI: Let's Design the Future 03 - RHÔNE 1Steve Will Getting Started with SQL Functions and Procedures 04 - RHÔNE 2Ryan Moeller Modern DevOps on IBM i - Builds, Tests, and Impact Analysis 05 -RHÔNE 3ASanjula Ganepola Bringing AI to Production with IBM Power 06 - RHÔNE 3BFlorian Dahlitz What's new in TLS Services 10 - ST CLAIR 4Doris Esparza Personal development 07 -RHÔNE 4 Systems management 02 - Auditorium

09:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

09:10 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room The stage 12 - IBM Room Power your Pipeline 08 - ST CLAIR 3AToshaan Bharvani TBD 09 - ST CLAIR 3B IBM i 03 - RHÔNE 1 Db2 for i from the comfort of your VS Code 04 - RHÔNE 2Sébastien Julliand Mastering Advanced SQL Data Types in ILE RPG: From LOBs to XML 05 -RHÔNE 3AAntonio Salcedo Zero-Trust Reinvented: Hardening IBM Power with PowerSC and CyberVault 06 - RHÔNE 3BAhmed Mashhour IBM Storage 10 - ST CLAIR 4 Personal development 07 -RHÔNE 4 Common Misconceptions in the IBM i Performance Area 02 - AuditoriumMorten Buur Rasmussen

10:10 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

10:30 CEST

Modernizing AIX with Open Source: Toolbox, DNF, AI, and the Roadmap 08 - ST CLAIR 3ASanket Rathi TBD 09 - ST CLAIR 3B IBM i 03 - RHÔNE 1 The Hidden Superpowers of IBM i: Features You Didn’t Know You Already Have 04 - RHÔNE 2Koen Decorte The Next Level of Integration: Building Hybrid AI-Powered Workflows with n8n and IBM i 05 -RHÔNE 3AMarcin Ogoń Securing your VIOS server 06 - RHÔNE 3BThomas Barlen IBM Storage 10 - ST CLAIR 4 Personal development 07 -RHÔNE 4 Learn more about the SQL system manager approach 02 - AuditoriumRudi van Helvoirt

11:30 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

11:40 CEST

Ask the experts AIX/Linux 08 - ST CLAIR 3AAndrey Klyachkin • David Spurway • Mirza Ćutuk • Upendra Rajan • Alexander Paul • Chris Gibson • Toshaan Bharvani • Alfonso Cancellara • Sanket Rathi • Frederic Dubois • Hugo Blanco • Cesar Bertran • Brian King Ask the experts IBM i 02 - Auditorium

12:30 CEST

Closing cermony 02 - Auditorium
 
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