IBM Champion. Over 40 years IBM i developer. Open Source on IBM i guru. Ex Royal Navy. Born in London - Made in the Royal Navy. Editor of PowerWire, the independent IBM Power newsletter.

Claude Muller is President of Common Luxembourg.

"David Spurway is the IBM Power AI and Sustainability Principal, which sees him running around Europe, the Middle East and Africa, talking about how our servers and solutions can help customers run mission critical applications reliably and for less money. I talk all over the world about IBM Power, sometimes in person, regularly in virtual events, doing presentations which are tailored to my audience to entertain and inform. I work with customers to show them how they can lower their costs and also help lower their carbon footprints. I also work with customers to show them how they can use AI to modernise and deliver new business functions."

Fabian is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist at IBM Belgium. He holds a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. His area of expertise is infrastructure solutions design. He has 25+ years of experience in Power Systems. Fabian wrote the first technical paper about Flash storage & IBM i and developed the FLiP tool to predict Flash storage impact on IBM i workloads. Both earned him worldwide recognition. Often sought by clients as a trusted advisor, he is also a frequent speaker at customer events.

Jan van de Griendt is president of Common Netherlands.

Jesse Gorzinski works for the IBM i development lab in Rochester, MN. He is a Senior Business Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) responsible for open source technologies on the platform. Jesse, who was doing RPG programming at the age of 18, is an expert on application development on IBM i, as well as system access and modernization.

Jesse Gorzinski is a longtime enthusiast of open source software (OSS). Jesse drives companies to success by leveraging the benefits of both legacy systems and cutting-edge technologies in harmony. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies and also has applied experience in the finance/mortgage industry, where he specialized in data backup/recovery, process optimization, and information integrity. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science as well as a Master of Business Administration degree.

Koen Decorte is owner of CD Invest, an international IBM business partner with offices in Belgium and
Spain. CD-Invest is specialized in innovating and modernizing IBM i applications.
Koen studied philology and computer linguistics.
His focus is mainly on integrating and using open source applications on IBM i.
Koen is IBM Champion since 2018 and CEAC (common europe advisory board) member and
also the Common Belgium Treasurer.

Ludovic Gasc has been passionate about Open Source, bioinformatics, and hardware for over 20 years. He has worked with various start-ups and scale-ups in Telecom and IoT, and has contributed to several Open Source software projects within the Python, Java, and JavaScript ecosystem. Moreover, he has worked as a DevOps/SRE specialist to deploy and maintain a real-time communication solution in a multi-cloud environment (4 clouds) with the help of Ansible. Currently, he specializes in modernizing the IBM Power platform using the Open Source/RedHat stack and AI.

Niels has developed IBM i middleware used in numerous applications worldwide. He is the architect of the IceBreak application server for IBM i. Over the years he has contributed to the IBM i community with presentations, demos, and loads of open source: ILEastic and noxDB to name a few projects. IT Transformation, modernization and tools around this process is his passion and he moves anything from 5250 into an era of microservices and containers. At the same time, he is also a member of CEAC and is an IBM Champion – 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Philippe Vanden Bussche was on the IBM i platform when it still had other names.
He is Common Belgium president, IBM champion and CEAC member.

Shrirang “Ranga” Deshpande, PhD
Vice-President and Events Organizer, Common Belgium
The Former President Common Europe www.comeur.org
IBM champion
Common Europe Hall of Fame

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 business applications.
He is an early adopter of the IBM i GUI’s, System Object Access that later evolved into System i Navigator and recently Navigator for i.
He has been involved in IBM i BRMS for the past 20 years, helping to improve the backup strategy of IBM i data.
Rudi is member of the COMMON Europe Advisory Council, an IBM and End User Experts strategy think tank for the IBM i.
On top of that IBM made him an IBM Champion since 2020.
In 2020 van Helvoirt Automatisering was acquired by EASI in the Netherlands

Sean Flanagan is Global Vice President Technical Sales Leader for IBM Cloud and IBM Power.
He leads teams that help clients and partners get the most out of IBM Cloud and IBM Power solutions, helping shape any purchases to be the best fit for their business needs.
He's also an IBM Quantum Ambassador, a prestigious credential that recognises his expertise and passion for quantum computing and its application.

I am an IBM Champion and seasoned software engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the IBM i field and its ecosystem (you can throw RPG or TypeScript at me, I'll be equally happy!). I also have a strong experience in CI/CD and DevOps and I've been
involved in a few Open Source projects, especially Code for IBM i for which I'm part of the Core Team and one of it's most active contributor.

As a Tech Lead and R&D Advisor at ARCAD Software, I also developed good communication skills; especially when it comes to explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical people.

IT consultant architecting and implementing security solutions mainly in the IBM i and AIX area. I am also a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Specialties: Cryptography, Single Signon, Security assessments, Access Control concepts and implementation, IBM i networking, IBM i cryptographic programming, LDAP, IBM PowerSC, IBM PowerSC MFA. I am also the developer of the IBM i Syslog Reporting Manager (SRM).

Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his time also helping customers understand what is possible on our platform when it comes to modernization.

Tonny Bastiaans is World Wide Product manager Power System at IBM. Started more than 20 years ago as an engineer on RS6000 systems (the predecessor of Power). He moved via several roles to his current role. With his technical background he is bridging the gap between technic and business and is transforming technical value to business value.
Tonny is married with two kids (boy and girl). In his free time he likes running and soccer (watching and doing)

I am the CTO of Remain Software, home of TD/OMS and various other products. I am a committer and project lead for various Open Source projects.

In my, not existing, free time, I like to gaze at the stars, shoot some pool, and enjoy my family.