UPCOMING EVENTS		VENUE
11-14 June 2023	Common Europe Congress – Workshops and Presentations	Diplomat Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
20 June 2023	IBM TechConnect Belgium – Keynotes and parallel tracks, all IBM IT products and technology	SILO, Brussels, Belgium
18-19 September 2023	Advances SQL in-depth, Birgitta Hauser	To be confirmed
16 October 2023	IBM i Security update 2023, Thomas Barlen	To be confirmed
6-7 November 2023	Benelux Power 2023	To ne confirmed
PAST EVENTS
23 May 2023	General Assembly, 7.5 & 7.4 TRs, SQL Performance Tuning	IBM HQ, Brussels, Belgium
12-13 March	Customer Stories – a combined Common Belgium and Common Denmark event	Bruges, Belgium

23 May 2023 – Auditorium IBM Belgium, 42 Av du Bourget, 1130 Brussels (Evere)

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AGENDA (subject to change):

23 May –

• 12:00 –13:00 Networking Welcome Lunch
• 13:00 –13:15 Common Belgium General Assembly –
  Philippe Vanden Bussche, President, Common Belgium
• 13:15 –14:45 IBM i announcements: 7.5 TR2 and 7.4 TR8 –
  Fabian Michel, IBM Belgium
• 14:45 –15:05 Networking Coffee
• 15:05 –16:20 SQL Performance Tuning for developers –
  Koen Decorte, CD-Invest
• 16:20 –16.30 Common Europe Congress, Prague, 11-14 June 2023,
  Ranga Deshpande, Vice-President, Common Belgium
• 16:30 –17:30 Networking Drinks

Abstracts –

1. IBM i announcements: 7.5 TR2 and 7.4 TR8 –
Fabian Michel, Senior Power & Storage Technical Specialist, IBM Technology, Belgium

IBM i continues to evolve. This session will cover all the content of the recently announced Technology Refresh 2 (TR2) for IBM i 7.5 (including IBM i 7.4 TR8).

Fabian will highlight the new features and benefits for SQL application developers and database engineers. There will also be a host of enhancements to IBM i Services, IBM i Access client solutions, IBM Navigator for i, IWS, Open Source and much more to discover…

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2. SQL Performance Tuning for developers –
Koen Decorte, Founder, CEO and Owner, CD-Invest

What Every Developer Should Know About SQL performance

SQL performance tuning is a difficult task, especially when working with large amounts of data, where even slight changes can have a significant (positive or negative) influence on performance. Administrators or a DBA will look at performance from a different point of view than a developer. In many cases building the suggested index or analysis using some tools may not be the right answer. The problem-solving might simply require a totally different approach.

Developers should learn to use SQL the right way with performance on their mind.

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Common Belgium members –

Use the discount code obtained in mailing to save minimum €300 while attending common Europe Congress. See full congress information and registration here

Non-members –

1. Become individual member (€ 100/year) or Company member (€250/year for 3 or more persons) to save € 425/participant on congress registration in this early bird period (standard member rate € 1050)?
2. And with company membership if 3 persons attend the congress, your company saves € 1275.
3. And if you are 5+ from the same company you have even an additional 15% discount.
4. Contact us at info@common.be

Do not wait, act now.

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Register now to reserve your seat https://comeur.org/cb-new-year-2023-registration/

Already member or become member to win the big prize of €1050,- Common Europe Congress 11-14 June 2023, Prague, Czech Republic https://comeur.org/

EVENT FREE FOR PAID MEMBERS AND GUESTS, 150€ FOR OTHERS.

VENUE:

CROWNE PLAZA BRUGGE
Burg 10, Bruges, 8000 | Belgium

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AGENDA:

13 March –

• 9:00 –9:30 Welcome
• Welcome from Common Belgium – Philippe Vanden Bussche, President, Common Belgium
• Welcome from Common Denmark – Jesper Hemmet Omer, Chairman, Common Denmark
• 9:30 –10:30  JORI (furniture) Case study 3D configurator, Geo-marketing, ….
• 10:30 –11:00  Break – networking
• 11:00 –12:00 Logitrans (lifting equipment)Utilize IBM I to Customer websites, instead of just running M3 ERP.
• 12:00 –13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 –14:00 Winsol (pergola’s) MES on shop floor including links to node.js applications to transform data
• 14:00 –14:15 Short break
• 14:15 –15:15 HT-Bendix (wholesale) Old ERP solution ? –Not if you modernize it!
• 15:15 –15:45 Coffee & networking
• 15:45 –16:45  ID-Logistics (warehousing specialist) conversion of 5250 screens to web including auto translation
• 16:45 –17:00 short break
• 17:00 –17.10 Common Europe Congress, Prague, 11-14 June 2023,
  Ranga Deshpande, Immediate Past President, Common Europe

Win a free registration to the congress by joining a raffle (only for CB paid members and having returned the evaluation form)

• 17:10 –18:00 Debate How can we expand our network and use the shared knowledge
• 18:30 Network dinner (offered FREE to guests or up to 3 persons from paid member companies or paid individual members till March 5, 90€ for others.)

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14 March (optional)

• 9:00 –12:00 – Networking and knowledge sharing Common members meet and share experiences and ideas in informal ways
• 12:00 – 13:00  Lunch
• 13:00 – 15:00 – City tour guided by local Common Belgium member
• 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break 
• 15:30 – 18:00  On your own in the city or goodbye to new friends
• 18:30 – Dinner Common Denmark members and Common Belgium friends

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VENUE HOTEL:

CROWNE PLAZA BRUGGE
Burg 10, Bruges, 8000 | Belgium

Rooms can be booked till 1 February at the negotiated price and later upon availability and day’s price. Book here https://book.passkey.com/go/powercustomerdays

Contact Birgit De Peuter meetings@cpbrugge.com if booking later than February 1.

A New Year full of Peace, Joy and Good Health.

Dear Members, Sponsors and Friends,

A new year means excitement! The Common Belgium team has already worked hard to plan yet another year rich with to the point education bringing your skills to a new level that your business demands from you. And all this with knowledge and experience sharing through Enhanced Networking Time. Look at these stunning activities:

• A webinar to “Ask Everything about 360° Security” to a well-known Belgian Expert in February,
• An in-person “Customer Stories and New Year Dinner” event in March, in collaboration with Common Denmark in the picturesque city of Bruges, and with its prestigious prize of a free registration to Common Europe Congress, already save the dates 13-14 March,
• An important announcements and education event in April,
• The General Assembly and its accompanying education in May,
• The most coveted Common Europe Congress 2023 in architectural splendour city of Prague, Czech Republic, already save the dates 11 – 14 June,
• And of course, our annual flagship event, “Benelux Power 2023”, probably early November.

We wish you all a wonderful family time, a well-deserved Yearend break and a New Year full of Peace, Joy and Good Health.

Yours sincerely,
Philippe Vanden Bussche, Shrirang “Ranga” Deshpande, Koen Decorte,
Corneel Theben-Tervile, Liliane Van Winckel, Marc Verbruggen
and Ingo Hesemans (IBM Liaison)

Common Belgium Team