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BeNeLux Power 2018: Expo, Workshops, Certifications, Conference 8-9 October

Benelux Power 2018

Vandervalk Hotel, Eindhoven, Netherlands 08-09 October, 2018

Benelux Power brings together hundred plus Power System experts, users, vendors and like-minded
professionals under one roof to network, learn, and share best practices. Education is delivered by
industry experts, IBM developers.

Reserve your seat already here.

The top-notch speakers planned for the moment are IBM Executives Alison Butterill, Huibert van de Putte
for keynote and Carol Woodbury, Jesse Gorzinski, Koen Decorte, Manfred Sielhorst, Liliane Vanwinckel,
Lora Powell, Rudi van Helvoirt, Steve Bradshaw and Willy Ceuppens. Others are in pipeline.

The 7 three hour workshops and deep dives of 8 october and 20 sessions of 9 October offer education on
the following topic areas:

Application Development

DB2 or SQL

Emerging Technology

Open Source

System Management

RPG

IBM i Security and beyond

Workshop or Deep Dive

The 3rd edition of Excellence Awards gives the once in a year opportunity
to clients and BP/ISV's to showcase their innovative solutions.
See the full annoucement here

Event well-wishers, partners and sponsors:

Topic: Events

JSON, Performance Monitoring, Announcements and New Year Reception, 27 February 2018

Start: 27/02/2018


A utoWorld, Parc du Cinquantennaire 11 Jubelpark, 1000 Bruxelles More details below Register here

Dear Colleagues,

Common Belgium is proud to invite you for the 2018 kick-off event. It will be a day of modernization and tradition. First we have modernization: you will know what JSON is and see its practical examples. The recent Power9 announcements will tell you why you should start preparing for upgrades already this year. Then we have tradition: a prestigious museum visit, AutoWorld, and a delicious dinner.

This education rich event and New Year Reception is free for members or first event participants putting their toes to COMMON Belgium waters.

Fill in the evaluation form before dinner to receive a prize and qualify to win a free registration* to COMMON Europe Congress, 17-20 June, Warsaw, Poland.

* Free CEC registration prize (€ 625) only for COMMON Belgium paid members of 2017 or 2018 by 28th February.

Looking forward to seeing you in great numbers,

COMMON Belgium Board

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Speaker details and abstracts available here.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 13:30 to 21:00 hours

Location - A utoWorld, Parc du Cinquantennaire 11 Jubelpark, 1000 Bruxelles

• 13:30 Welcome coffee

• 14.00: Event opening - Philippe Vanden Bussche, President COMMON Belgium

• 14.10: Recent Power Systems and IBM i announcements summary - Fabian Michel, IBM Belgium

• 14.40: Predictive Performance Management - Fabian Michel, IBM Belgium

• 15.15: JSON - what is it and why should I know it? - Koen Decorte, CD Invest, Belgium

• 16.00 Coffee break

• 16.15: COMMON Europe Congress,Warsaw, 17-20 June 2018 - Ranga Deshpande, President COMMON Europe

• 16.25: JSON - some practical examples with RPG and SQL - Koen Decorte, CD Invest, Belgium.

AutoWorld museum visit

• 17:15 Guided visit

• 18:15 Drinks with the free CEC 2018 registration prize draw in the end

• 18:45 Dinner

Venue: AutoWorld (Parc du Cinquantennaire 11 Jubelpark, 1000 Brussels)

Registration: http://www.common.be/P9_JSON_NY_Reception_2018

PS: COMMON Europe Congress, Warsaw, Poland.

Call for presentation open only up to 31st January.

http://www.comeur.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3300

Benelux Power 2017 & COMMON Europe iTour

Start: 15/11/2017

Register now for Benelux Power and COMMON Europe iTour: http://www.common.be/Registration_BP2017_and_CE_iTour

GDPR - Managing the data effectively in an ever changing world.

COMMON Europe iTour is free for BE, NL & LU user group members

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to our Benelux Power annual flagship event in its 5th year
and the Excellence Awards for the 2nd year.

There are 3 simultaneous 3 hours full education deep dives in the morning on
1) GDPR - Hints and Tips, 2) Modern Application Development,
3) Hints and Tips for IBM i System management.

The COMMON Europe iTour in the afternoon , going to 12 European countries
is coming to Benelux also. Its sponsors this year are Vision Solutions and
Arcad Software. There are 4 red hot topics with the theme:
GDPR - Managing the data effectively in an ever changing world.

Do not miss this education rich event.
Boards of COMMON Belgium, COMMON Netherlands and COMMON Luxembourg
Register now: http://www.common.be/Registration_BP2017_and_CE_iTour

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Speaker details and abstracts here, more info coming soon..

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 9:30 to 18:00 hours

Location - H otel Vandervalk, Aalsterweg 322, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Agenda (subject to change) -

Benelux Power 2017 and Expo

Three parallel deep dive 3 hours sessions in 3 rooms:

1) GDPR - Hints and Tips, Stephan Leisse, Vision Solutions

2)Modern Application Development - Floyd Del Muro, Arcad Software

3) Hints and tips for IBM i Systems Management, Rudi van Helvoirt, Helvoirt Automatisering

08:30 to 09:00 Welcome coffee & registrations in Expo

09:00 to 10:20 Deepdive part 1

10:20 to 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 to 12:00 Deepdive part 2

COMMON Europe iTour

12:00 – 13:00 Registration and Lunch in Expo

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome - Common Country Presidents & sponsors

13:15 – 14:00 Make the POWER i server a Data Warehouse - sharing DB2 data on other technologies – Vision Solutions

14:00 – 14:45 How to standardize an IBM i environment for GDPR compliance – Arcad Software

14:45 – 15:15 Networking and coffee break

15:15 – 16:00 Migrate and Upgrade While Active – Vision Solutions

16:00 – 16:45 DevOps and its seamless integration with GitHub, Jira and Jenkins – Arcad Software

16:45 – 16:50 Group photo

16:50 – 17:30 Closing drink + Excellence Awards

Speaker details and abstracts here, more info coming soon.

Registration: http://www.common.be/Registration_BP2017_and_CE_iTour

Thank you sponsors

PowerAI + Image Manipulation on IBM i, Brussels IBM Client Center 5 October 2017

Start: 05/10/2017

IBM Client Center, Brussels More details below Register here

http://www.common.be/Registration_Power_AI_and_Image_Manipulation_on_IBM_i

This "PowerAI + Image Manipulation on IBM i" event is FREE for COMMON user group members
or a first activity to non-members.

Dear colleagues,

Why should you come to this event organized by COMMON Belgium? Today, all of us
have a mobile phone in our pocket or purse. Taking a picture has become second nature.
But this phone is not simply for personal use, it is also a business instrument.
And Koen Decorte will show us how to send these images and other data to your IBM i.
And he will not just stop there he will show us how to manipulate those images along with
their data for our business applications.

Artificial Intelligence on Power Systems is yet another topic with a big buzz today.
It is our future. IBM Belgium’s Franz Bourlet will demystify it in the opening presentation.

Further, we also care to give you a stress free learning experience. To avoid traffic jams,
we start at 10:30 with a welcome coffee, offer you lunch and a relaxed networking drink
after the event, all finishing at 15:45 so that you can avoid the traffic jam for joining
your dear ones.
Your registration offers you free parking in the basement.

And like always, there will be a prize for everybody returning the evaluation form.

Looking forward to seeing you in great numbers,

The COMMON Belgium Board
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See speaker details and abstracts here.

Thursday 5 October 2017, 10:30 to 15/45 hours

Location - IBM Client Center (Avenu Bourgetlaan 42, 1130 Brussels )

Agenda:
* 10:30 Welcome coffee,

* 11:00 Welcome and introduction by Philippe Vanden Bussche, President

* 11:05 Announcement Benelux Power and CE iTour by Ranga Deshpande, VP & Events Manager

* 11:10 PowerAI by Fabian Michel, IBM Belgium

* 12:10 Sandwich lunch
* 12:45 IBM i mobile - Use your smartphone or webcam to send data
to your IBM i by Koen Decorte
* 13:55 Coffee break
* 14:15 Visual recognition on IBM i by Koen Decorte

* 15:15 Networking drink
*15:55 End of the event

Registration: http://www.common.be/Registration_Power_AI_and_Image_Manipulation_on_IBM_i