commoneuropecongress2026: Full Schedule

Welcome to Common Europe Congress 2026

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11:50 CEST

Monday June 15, 2026 11:50 - 12:50 CEST

Significant security enhancements have been delivered in recent releases (IBM i 7.5 and IBM i 7.6) as well as technology refreshes (TRs). In this session Carol will describe new and enhanced security-related features and describe how and why you should use them.

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

IBM i Security SME and Senior Advisor, Kisco

What's New in IBM i Security COMMON Europe 2026 pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 11:50 - 12:50 CEST
02 - Auditorium

Systems management

14:00 CEST

Unlocking the Potential of IBM’s Administration Runtime Expert

Monday June 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

04 - RHÔNE 2

Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) is one of IBM i’s most powerful yet overlooked tools. This session reveals how ARE can simplify the management of even the most complex IBM i estates by automating configuration checks, detecting risks early, and ensuring consistent, compliant system environments.Attendees will see practical examples of how ARE reduces manual effort, reduces outages, and strengthens overall business continuity. If you’ve never explored ARE or didn’t realize what it can do, this session will show you why it should be a core part of every IBM i strategy.

Speakers

Rudi van Helvoirt

Technical Director, van Helvoirt Beheer

After having started as a System/38 programmer in 1986. In 1989 the switch was made to system programming and systems management.Being passionate about systems management he founded van Helvoirt Automatisering in 1993.Rudi enjoys helping IBM i customers ever since for running their... Read More →

Ash Giddings

Product Manager, Maxava

Ash Giddings is an IT professional with over 30 years of experience in and around IBM midrange servers. He is the Product Manager at Maxava, a leading provider of disaster recovery, high availability, and cloud-based monitoring solutions for IBM i and beyond. Ash is an IBM Champi... Read More →

Unlocking the Potential of IBM’s Administration Runtime Expert pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
04 - RHÔNE 2

Systems management

15:55 CEST

AI on Power in Action with Spyre

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

02 - Auditorium

Today's IT landscape is changing from traditional logic workflows to agentic AI inferencing. AI agents require low-latency inference and real-time system responsiveness. IBM recognized the need for servers to run AI models along with the most demanding enterprise workloads without compromising on throughput.
To address this demand, clients need AI inferencing hardware that supports generative and agentic AI while maintaining the security and resilience of core data, transactions and applications.
A Linux LPAR with Spyre accelerators is built to enable systems keeping mission-critical data close to mitigate risk while addressing operational efficiency.In this session we will show how mgd's internal IBM i systems are running SAP on IBM i with integrated AI we will show the S1122 we use as production system and the Linux LPAR with Spyre acceleratorswe will demonstrate how we integrate AI in SAP on IBM i and demo AI queries from IBM i CLI

Speakers

Jesper Johansen

IBM Certified Systems Expert & IBM Champion, Molgaard Data A/S

Monday June 15, 2026 15:55 - 16:55 CEST
02 - Auditorium

Systems management

17:05 CEST

IBM i System Administration Basics

Monday June 15, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST

03 - RHÔNE 1

In this session, we will cover the basics of IBM i system administration. Together, we will explore the most commonly used commands, how to browse ACS and 5250, user profile preferences, system management, networking, working with objects, disk space and backups, FTP, jobs, performance, logs, links to IBM i web-based interfaces, and useful ACS parameters. This session is intended for beginner IBM i system administrators, those who are new to the platform, and NextGen participants. It will help you focus on daily system administration tasks and commonly used commands.P.S: Even if you come from a different position and would like to refresh your knowledge of IBM i basics, you are welcome to join.

Speakers

Zouhair Oulli

IBM i sysadmin, Kyndryl

I’m an IBM i system administrator at Kyndryl. I serve as technical director for Common Europe, where I lead the NextGen initiative. For the IBM i community, I enjoy creating educational content and sharing useful knowledge and resources.

IBM i System Administration Management & PASE pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST
03 - RHÔNE 1

Systems management

Company Beginner

17:05 CEST

Protecting Db2 for i Data with Row and Column Access Control (RCAC)

Monday June 15, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST

02 - Auditorium

Data is the new currency, and protecting it is more important than ever. In IBM i environments, safeguarding sensitive information at the database level is a key requirement for compliance, risk reduction, long-term application trust and data consitency. With traditional database methods and additional programming, data access can be restricted, but also circumvented! Db2 for i provides powerful, built-in capabilities for fine-grained security through Row and Column Access Control (RCAC), enabling precise control over which data can be seen and by whom (on user profile and group profile level) —without requiring changes to application code.If RCAC is activated only explicitly registered users can see an access the database data. Even powerful profiles with QSECOFR user classe or *ALLOBJ authority cannot see any data if they are not registered.Since the implemented RCAC rules cannot be circumvented (not even by powerful user profiles) an detailed planning is required, so no data will get lost

Speakers

Birgitta Hauser

ModEdCon

CEC 2026 Row and Column Access Control Birgitta Hauser pdf

Monday June 15, 2026 17:05 - 18:05 CEST
02 - Auditorium

Systems management

08:00 CEST

Ransomware and IBM i

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

02 - Auditorium

Today, there are no known ransomware viruses that run directly on IBM i. However, that does not mean that the IBM i is not at risk. In this session, you will learn how to keep your IBM i system safe from Ransomware attacks. Don't miss this critical session!

Speakers

Janus Hertz

Senior Consultant, IBM

IBM Technology Expert Labs Consultant - IBM Power / IBM i - Security, HA/DR, Virtualization - IBM Northern Europe.

Janus Hertz is a Senior Consultant in IBM Technology Expert Labs. During his 30 years at IBM, he has had various technical roles, working with IBM i and the IBM Power platform the entire time.His current focus areas are IBM i Security & High Availability, including access control... Read More →

Ransomware and IBM i pdf

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

Systems management

10:30 CEST

Securing your IBM i without Destroying your Business

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

02 - Auditorium

The potential to break a critical process when changing your security configuration is real. But with the proper investigation and analysis, security changes can occur without disrupting your business. During this session Carol Woodbury will provide the methods she uses to investigate a system prior to making changes. The goal is to give you the confidence to make IBM i Security changes (system value, user profile, object authority and more) with confidence and without fear of breakage.

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

IBM i Security SME and Senior Advisor, Kisco

Securing your System without Breaking your Business COMMON Europe 2026 zip

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

Systems management

11:40 CEST

Navigator for i, the Tools Within!

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

02 - Auditorium

As an IBM i administrator you’ve either used Navigator for I, or you’re living under an AS/400! While you’re getting this done though, you’ve likely missed many of the capabilities built into Navigator to make your job easier and a better fit for your specific needs and environment.In this session, Tim will go beyond the basic capabilities of Navigator and show you the buttons and the options and capabilities that are built into Navigator for I that turbocharge the capabilities of Navigator for i. Come for the Ooh’s and the Ah’s !!

Speakers

Steve Bradshaw

Friendly Techie, RowtonIT.com

My latest work as the Friendly Techie, includes assisting IBM i with the design and testing with IBM i 7.6 as both Beta Tester and Redbook Author, and as assistant in the design and testing of the new IBM i Migrate While Active tool and the AI based RPG Code Assistant.

I have worked in the IBM Business Partner world for over thirty years now and despite IBM's best attempts I still love them ;-) My career started as an RPG developer but for the last twenty years I have specialised in System Design, installation and management. In 2008 I founded my

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Tim Rowe

STSM - IBM i Business Architect, IBM USA

Tim Rowe is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Architect for Application Development and Systems Management. He has been working on the IBM i operating system since 1989. Tim is a frequent author, industry speaker and... Read More →

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

Systems management