2020 will be yet another exciting year. Stay tuned!

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Come join us to deepen your knowledge

I. Current and emerging topics and top IBM and industry speakers:
The conference main education themes are: Emerging technologies, Open Source, AI,
Machine learning, Application Development, Db2 and SQL, System Management and
Customer cases.

II. Workshops / deep dives and sessions offered by IBM and industry experts:
Steve Will, Chief Architect IBM i; Scott Forstie, Business Architect Db2 for i,
Doug Mack, WebQuery specialist; Thomas Decorte, Machine learning, R and Python;
Fabian Michel, Client Technical Architect.
Industry experts Erwin Earley, Open Source specialist; Niels Liisberg, Appl Dev;
Liliane Van Winckel, App Modernization, Koen Decorte, Application Development;
and Rudi van Helvoirt, Systems Management.

III. Vendor solutions in their own slots:

Do not miss 12 Vendor Solutions of 20 minutes after the breaks in their own slots. It's
Education and latest products information enhancing your own solutions.

See full announcement here. Register here.

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See session abstracts and speaker bios here

Dear IBM i colleagues,

Common Europe iTour, a collaboration between Common Europe and the local Common country organizations, sponsored this year by Syncsort, comes to Belgium and Common Luxembourg with the exciting theme: “IBM i Security and Modernization”.

Avoid traffic jams, start with a comfortable lunch, learn in 4 sessions and end with a relaxing networking drink.

THE FIRST is a double sessions on“IBM i security best practices” that runs through the 6 layers of security,
-Access control (multi-factor authentication, elevated authority management and system access management)
-Data privacy (protecting data at-rest and in-motion from unauthorized access with encryption, tokenization, and masking)
-Compliance monitoring (detecti ng security incidents and compliance deviations and monitoring/blocking views of sensitive Ddb2 data)
-SIEM integration for enterprise-wide security monitoring and analytics

THE SECOND session is a “Deep dive into Data privacy” on protecting data at-rest and in-motion from unauthorized access with encryption, tokenization, and masking.

THE THIRD session “Building streaming data pipelines from IBM i databases” explains connecting data from IBM i systems with modern applications and data platforms.

Register here

See session abstracts and speaker bios here

Agenda (subject to change)

• 12:15 – 13:00 Networking Lunch
• 13:00 – 13:15 Welcome from Common Belgium
• 13:15 – 14:00 Building Streaming Data Pipelines from IBM i Databases - Mariusz "Max" Gieparda, Syncsort
• 14:00 – 14:45 Best Practices in IBM i Security – part 1 - Andreu Rul, Syncsort
• 14:45 – 15:05 Networking Coffee break
• 15:05 – 15:50 Best Practices in IBM i Security – part 2 - Andreu Rul, Syncsort
• 15:50 – 16:35 A Deep Dive into IBM i Data Privacy Technology Options - Andru Rul, Syncsort
• 16:35 – 16:45 Benelux Power 6-7 Nov 2019 and Common Europe Congress 15-18 June, Montpellier, France
• 16:45 – 17:30 Closing and Network drink

Venue: IBM Client Center, Avenue du Bourget/Bourgetlaan 42, Evere 

Register here

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