IDUG AU 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 IDUG AU Db2 Tech Conference! Enjoy two days full of technical sessions in both Sydney and Canberra as well as complimentary workshops in Sydney that are available to all attendees between the two cities.

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8:15am AEDT

IDUG Welcome

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:15am - 8:15am AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:15am - 8:15am AEDT
Canberra

Platform Cross Platform

8:30am AEDT

S05 | Trends and Directions from the Lab

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT

Canberra

TBD

Speakers

Haakon Roberts

IBM

Haakon Roberts is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based at the Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He is the Director of the Db2 for z/OS and Tools organization and CTO of IBM z Data & AI. He holds several patents and is a leading expert in database management, data integrity... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

8:30am AEDT

S06 | Db2 Strategy Update

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT

Canberra

Join the product management leadership and development leadership to get an update on the Db2 business and the overall investment strategy we have in place for Db2 as we now deliver our first big new version in 5 years with Db2 12.1

Speakers

Miran Badzak

Satya Krishnaswamy

Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform LUW

9:20am AEDT

Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:20am - 9:20am AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:20am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

9:25am AEDT

A15 | Banking on the API economy

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT

Canberra

In this presentation I will discuss the value of REST API and open source to operational scenario’s. I will give concrete, working examples of how the exploitation of available REST API can optimize efficiency and productivity of your operations staff and subject matter experts.

Speakers

Toine Michielse

Broadcom

I have been working with Db2 for z/OS ever since V1. In my career I have worked as COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, IMS/DB2 DBA and DB2 system engineer. I have worked a number of years as a Db2 Lab advocate, supporting IBM customers worldwide. Before joining Broadcom I worked at SwissRe... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

10:15am AEDT

Coffee Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:15am - 10:15am AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:15am - 10:15am AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

10:30am AEDT

A16 | Title TBD

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT

Canberra

TBD

Speakers

Kavitha Murthy

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Hi, I am Kavitha Murthy, a Mainframe Db2 DBA for 20 years now. My work experience has mostly been in Banks and Financial Services. Primarily a Db2 DBA with occasional stints as IMS and Datacom DBA. Worked in India, Singapore and now in Australia from past 5 years.

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

11:20am AEDT

Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 11:20am - 11:20am AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 11:20am - 11:20am AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

11:25am AEDT

A17 | A Day in the life of a Db2 schema

Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT

Canberra

There is a lot of talk about DevOps and agile development and with good reason. But what does this mean for a Db2 for Z/OS database administrator? In this presentation I will provide an overview of how the process of schema management can be organized with well accepted processes and tools. This will help to optimize the time of scarce DBA resources while safeguarding or even improving the quality of deliverables.

Speakers

Toine Michielse

Broadcom

Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

12:15pm AEDT

Lunch

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:15pm - 12:15pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:15pm - 12:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

1:30pm AEDT

A18 | Db2 for z/OS Performance and Monitoring Updates

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT

Canberra

Db2 for z/OS continues to improve the performance and enhance performance monitoring. This session discusses the latest major performance updates, recommendation as well as key monitoring updates on Db2 13. It will also include the recommended set of data collections on the various situations.

Speakers

Akiko Hoshikawa

IBM

Akiko Hoshikawa is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose. As a Db2 for z/OS architect she has overall responsibility for overall performance, product simplification, and strategic integration of AI capability within IBM Db2 for z/OS, including the... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

2:20pm AEDT

Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:20pm - 2:20pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:20pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

2:25pm AEDT

A19 | Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats: Your Strategic Game Plan!

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT

Canberra

Manual

Speakers

Devanand Karunakaran

BMC

Devanand Karunakaran, Senior Solution Engineer at BMC Software. In this role, he helps customers maximize the value of BMC AMI Data Solutions. Dev has previous experience as a Database Administrator, managing Db2 and IMS databases for telecommunications and retail customers. He specializes... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

3:15pm AEDT

Coffee Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:15pm - 3:15pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:15pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

3:30pm AEDT

A20 | Db2 Analytics Accelerator: product updates, VNext, and customer experiences from the field

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT

Canberra

Manual

Speakers

Cünext Göksu

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

4:20pm AEDT

Break

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:20pm - 4:20pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:20pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

4:25pm AEDT

A21 | Taking SQL Functions to the Next Level

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT

Canberra

SQL Functions enable customers to improved productivity, performance, enable cross platform porting, and encapsulate application logic in the database. Db2 for z/OS supports Built in Functions that Aggregate data, operate on scalar data, as well as materialize data as a table. Db2 also enables customers to create functions to in Host languages (such as COBOL or C/C++) or in SQL PL (The ANSI compatible SQL Procedures Language). Finally, Db2 13 also introduced SQL Data Insights which allows easy, function based AI, to be applied to customer data. This session will cover the basics, as well as dig deeper into how to exploit all the Function(al) capabilities of Db2 to take your SQL queries to new levels.

Speakers

Chris Crone

Broadcom

Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Technical Session

Platform z/OS

5:15pm AEDT

IDUG Closing Day 1

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:15pm - 5:15pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:15pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform

5:30pm AEDT

IDUG Reception

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 5:30pm AEDT

Canberra

Thursday March 20, 2025 5:30pm - 5:30pm AEDT
Canberra

Breaks & Meals

Platform Cross Platform