commoneuropecongress2026: Full Schedule

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08:00 CEST

Tuesday June 16, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 CEST

Join us for an in-depth exploration of agentic AI and its transformative potential on the IBM i platform. This session will primarily explore the core concepts of agentic AI, including autonomy, agency, and decision-making, and discuss how these principles can be applied to drive innovation and efficiency for your business. We will examine the current state of agentic AI and its applications. Plus, we will look at some available options for building agentic workflows with your IBM i. To finish off, we’ll provide a sneak peek at some upcoming projects from IBM i development!

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

STSM and Senior Business Architect - AI and Open Source, IBM

Experienced business architect from IBM and a specialist in the IBM i platform. My passion is enabling enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence and open source technologies.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2

10:30 CEST

Living with AI During the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

We are living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a period defined by artificial intelligence, automation, and unprecedented digital transformation. But what does it really mean to live with AI, not just use it? Let’s explore the promises and pitfalls of AI in everyday life.

Speakers

Charles Guarino

CEO & IBM Champion, Central Park Data Systems

Charles Guarino believes in the “power” of IBM Power Systems. His career reflects his dedication and interest in bringing the platform and its solutions to others and as a result has been recognized as an IBM Champion.

He is a member of COMMON’s Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame and a proud recipient of the Al Barsa Memorial Scholarship Award. Additionally, he participates on COMMON’s Strategic Education Team. Other professional endeavors have included the roles of President and monthly Q&A host... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2

11:40 CEST

Git for beginners

Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:40 - 12:40 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

Join us for a deep dive into Git where you will learn the essential concepts every beginner should know — from basic commands to working with branches and resolving merge conflicts. Next, we will explore what the modern development lifecycle looks like for IBM i developers using Git which includes uncovering how objects get built and what tools you will leverage to develop locally on your PC. We will also showcase how to leverage CI/CD pipelines (via GitHub Actions) to automate builds, generate impact analysis, and even run RPG unit tests.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

STSM and Senior Business Architect - AI and Open Source, IBM

Experienced business architect from IBM and a specialist in the IBM i platform. My passion is enabling enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence and open source technologies.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:40 - 12:40 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2

14:00 CEST

Build your agentic agile team for your RPG legacy application

Tuesday June 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

BMAD is An AI-driven agile development framework with 21 specialized agents, 50+ guided workflows, and scale-adaptive intelligence that adjusts from bug fixes to enterprise systems.

Speakers

Geoffrey Pascal

Technology Engineer, IBM

Mauro Sanfilippo

Group CTO @smeup | IBM Champion | CEAC Member, smeup

Group CTO @smeup | IBM Champion | CEAC Member | Startup Mentor | CTO @s2capital CVC

I'm CTO for smeup, an important Italian ISV, building enterprise software.
Throughout my whole life, I’ve been having a lot of fun with every single piece of the software development: from microco... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2

15:10 CEST

15:55 CEST

Breathing New Life Into RPG: AI as Your Modernization Partner

Tuesday June 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:55 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

Modernizing RPG applications is essential for keeping IBM i environments efficient, maintainable, and attractive to new developers — but manually converting decades of fixed-format code to modern RPG Free can be slow, tedious, and error-prone. In this session, we’ll explore how AI can dramatically accelerate and improve the modernization process.We’ll walk through how AI tools can analyze legacy RPG code, identify outdated patterns, and generate clean, maintainable RPG Free equivalents. You’ll see examples of accurate AI-assisted rewrites, automated refactoring strategies, and techniques for preserving business logic while eliminating clutter and old syntax. We’ll also discuss best practices for validating AI-generated output, integrating modernization into your CI/CD workflows, and building a sustainable long-term modernization strategy.By the end of this session, you’ll understand how AI can reduce modernization time from weeks to minutes, empower your existing RPG developers, and create a cleaner, future-ready RPG codebase without disrupting the stability of your IBM i applications.

Speakers

Koen Decorte

CTO, IBM Champion, CD-Invest

Koen Decorte is the founder of CD-Invest nv, a Belgian IBM i consultancy with over 30 years of expertise in ERP/CRM and open source development, IBM i platform modernization, and PEPPOL e-invoicing services. CD-Invest is home to several IBM Champions and serves enterprise clients... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:55 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2

17:05 CEST

Exploring Mapepire, the new way to access Db2!

Tuesday June 16, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

What is Mapepire: Mapepire is an open-source client to connect applications to the Db2 for i database. It’s written in JavaScript and built using secure web sockets.Benefits of using Mapepire:The existing JDBC and ODBC clients take on very heavy loads to deal with a lot of things. This makes the client code complex. This complex code leads to significant performance overhead. Mapepire clients are lighter as the server part of them is going to take care of the “other things” like encoding. It eliminates native dependencies on the client side. Also the server, the protocol and client part of mapepire being open source, the task of creating new clients in other languages will not at all be taxing as is the case with JDBC and ODBC due to them being not well documented. It’s easy to deploy in cloud environments and also easy to install and use as it is available to install through the commonly used package managers (of different languages) like NPM, Apache maven, PyPi and also Yum.How can customers use it:1. A server component has to be installed first and started on the server. This can be done using yum.2. Getting started with the client is easy and it’s either starting up a daemon server object that will connect with the server component or an API in case of Node.js which connects with IBM i.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

STSM and Senior Business Architect - AI and Open Source, IBM

Experienced business architect from IBM and a specialist in the IBM i platform. My passion is enabling enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence and open source technologies.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

IBM i application development 2