I Left Munich Worried. I Left Lyon Hopeful.

GSE AK IBM Power, Common Europe Congress 2026, and the community we are building — one event at a time.

June had other plans for me. On the 8th, I was in Munich for the GSE AK IBM Power event. A week later, I was parking my car in Lyon after a long drive from Germany for the Common Europe Congress. And this week — June 24th — I stood in front of a Hollerith punched-card machine from the 1880s in the IBM history museum in Ehningen and thought: 140 years of…