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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 IBM i 7.6 and the latest TRs by the Architect 03 - RHÔNE 1Tim Rowe 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 4Joe Hayward • Shreya Nair TBD 07 -RHÔNE 4 Ransomware and IBM i 02 - AuditoriumJanus Hertz

09:00 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

09:10 CEST

Key Note AIX/Linux 08 - ST CLAIR 3A Key Note Storage 10 - ST CLAIR 4Neil MCGOVERN KEY Note IBM i 03 - RHÔNE 1

10:10 CEST

Break 01 - Expo

10:30 CEST

Design your own VS Code extension and extend Code for IBM i 08 - ST CLAIR 3ASébastien Julliand • Ben Yeris Benouar Understanding RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server and Surround Workloads 09 - ST CLAIR 3BCesar Beltran Accelerate your SQL Queries with SMP 03 - RHÔNE 1Ryan Moeller How to Make the Most Out of Advisory Connect and Expert Labs Assets in IBM i Subscription Bundles 12 - IBM RoomEric Barsness • Claude Roustan • Yan Zhuo IBM i Client Innovation Stories 11 - "The Stage"Steve Will • Brandon Pederson 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 NDA Session 12 - IBM RoomWennie Allen 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 1Katherina Karner JSON, SQL, XML done easy with noxDb 04 - RHÔNE 2Niels Liisberg Git for beginners 05 -RHÔNE 3AJesse Gorzinski Transforming 5250 Screens to React Framework with AI based tools 07 -RHÔNE 4Markus Litters Power11 announcement & AI on Power 06 - RHÔNE 3BJean-Manuel Lenez Enhancing IBM i Operational Resilience with IBM FlashSystem Technology 10 - ST CLAIR 4Ed Yeates Navigator for i, the Tools Within! 02 - AuditoriumSteve Bradshaw • Tim Rowe

12:40 CEST

Lunch 01 - Expo

14:00 CEST

IBM Room 12 - IBM Room 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 3BPawnesh Kachroo • Christine Wyatt The role of QA & Testing strategies and automation in DORA Compliance, business processes continuity & ROI evaluations. 11 - "The Stage"Pascal Polverini 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 3AGeoffrey Pascal • Mauro 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

Shield Advanced Solutions: Modern Monitoring for the IBM i 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 HMC, IBM i, FSP, BMC, and Firmware: Putting all the pieces together. 03 - RHÔNE 1Pete Massiello 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 AIX Live Update and new features and improvements 09 - ST CLAIR 3BChristian Sonnemans Common Misconceptions in the IBM i Performance Area 03 - RHÔNE 1Morten Buur Rasmussen Don't Panic! A Stress-Free Guide to TLS on IBM i 07 -RHÔNE 4Tom Wellmann 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 Using Navigator to Securely Manage your IBM i 02 - AuditoriumSteve Bradshaw • Tim Rowe

18:05 CEST

Expo fun - Prize draw, challenges and more 01 - Expo

19:30 CEST

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