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08:30 CEST

Reception desk open 01 - Expo

09:00 CEST

Opening Session 01 - ExpoTorbjörn Appehl • Nathanael Bonnet • Steve Cast • Juan Manuel Alcudia

09:30 CEST

IBM Keynote 02 - AuditoriumKatarina Gospic • Jonas 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 Licensing 101 12 - IBM RoomBrandon Pederson TBD 03 - RHÔNE 1 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 TBD 02 - Auditorium

11:30 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

11:50 CEST

Common Europe NextGen 11 - "The Stage"Zouhair Oulli IBM Room 12 - IBM Room 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 Serverless architecture and RPG? 04 - RHÔNE 2Niels Liisberg 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 - NDA content 12 - IBM RoomWennie Allen 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 1Kris Whitney • Steve Will Meet Bob - Your New AI Software Development Partner 04 - RHÔNE 2Sanjula Ganepola Introducing the AI Starter Kit 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 4Torbjörn Appehl • Antonio Salcedo • Mike Ryan Unlocking the Potential of IBM’s Administration Runtime Expert 02 - AuditoriumRudi van Helvoirt • Ash Giddings

15:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

15:10 CEST

Arcad Software 05 -RHÔNE 3A CNX: Use AI to Build an IBM i Web App in Under 10 Minutes — No Coding Required! 04 - RHÔNE 2Robert Swanson M81: Differences between HA and Snapshots/FlashCopy 03 - RHÔNE 1Pascal Ruckebusch 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

Panel discussion - Testing in the world with AI. 11 - "The Stage"Pascal Polverini Zero Planned Downtime on AIX: Live Updates for Always-On Enterprises 08 - ST CLAIR 3AShajith Chandran • Sanket Rathi Ansible for AIX and Linux on Power: tips and tricks 09 - ST CLAIR 3BAndrey Klyachkin What's new in TLS Services 12 - IBM RoomDoris Esparza How to build an AI agent for IBM i 03 - RHÔNE 1Jesse Gorzinski Using SQL in Everyday Life 04 - RHÔNE 2Ryan Moeller • Tim Rowe 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 AI on Power in Action with Spyre 02 - AuditoriumJesper Johansen

16:55 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

17:05 CEST

How should you maintain your IBM Platform to get the optimal value for your business needs? 12 - IBM RoomLisa Stampe • Doris Esparza 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 Start with BRMS - Simple understanding and configuration 07 -RHÔNE 4Amelie Salinas How to Validate and Control AI Uncertainty from BOB or Any LLM for Reliable Business Outcomes 04 - RHÔNE 2Pascal Polverini 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 IBM i System Administration Basics 03 - RHÔNE 1Zouhair Oulli Protecting Db2 for i Data with Row and Column Access Control (RCAC) 02 - AuditoriumBirgitta Hauser

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