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.
The use of object storage and open data and table formats, like Parquet, ORC, and Iceberg, are becoming common place in data management. Db2 has embraced this with the introduction of a new datalake table type, which allows Db2 table data to be stored outside of the database, using these open formats. In this session, you’ll learn more about datalake tables, including use cases, benefits, and how to create and work with them. Additionally, you’ll see how this and other new capabilities allow Db2 to tightly integrate with watsonx.data, IBM’s hybrid, open data lakehouse platform. The data lakehouse is the latest architecture in the evolution of data management, but rather than a replacement for enterprise data warehouses, the data lakehouse is poised to bring value by augmenting and optimizing them.
