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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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Monday, March 17
 

8:30am AEDT

S02 | Db2 Strategy Update
Monday March 17, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
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
avatar for Miran Badzak
SK
Monday March 17, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

B01 | Latest From the Lab
Monday March 17, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
Join the Db2 architects as they cover an overview of this significant new version of Db2 – Db2 12.1.0 and planned ModPaks such as Db2 12.1.1 and Db2 12.1.2. In this session the key highlights of Db2 12.1 will be covered as well as a sneak peak on what is to come through 2025.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

B02 | Secure your data across the Db2 stack
Monday March 17, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
Data today is dynamic, distributed and in high demand as data holds critical information to help organizations make informed business decisions, recommendations, and predications to stay competitive and to provide a better customer experience. All this information is stored in a data repository either on-premises or in the cloud, and native approaches to support security and compliance can be operationally complex and don’t ensure data confidentiality. In this presentation, we will take technical deep dive on how to accomplish automated data discovery, classification, real-time activity monitoring and machine learning analytics to understand, detect and respond to suspicious activity, and discuss the different scalable architectures for monitoring and protecting your data. The session will also emphasis on how you can protect your databases and data against insider and external attacks by understanding how to leverage capabilities such as alerting, blocking, and quarantining users and/or processes of suspicious behaviour. In addition, we will demonstrate how to help your organization support audit and compliance activities for APP, PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and many more. This session will be valuable for novice to seasoned experts that are looking to learn, design and implement a solid data protection model for data across the enterprise.
Speakers
avatar for Pirabu Pathmasenan

Pirabu Pathmasenan

IBM
Pirabu Pathmasenan has over 15 years of experience in Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, Customer Success, and Consulting services; focused on innovation and simplification to help customers achieve their business results. Pirabu currently leads the Security Sales Engineering for the... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

11:25am AEDT

B03 | Wrapping Up Db2 11.5
Monday March 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Now that we have delivered Db2 12.1 to the market – it’s an excellent time to take a holistic look at the baseline of high value capabilities in place leading in to Db2 12.1. This includes capabilities to support a Lake House, new security capabilities, schema level administration capabilities, optimizations for variable data types, the technology preview of the AI optimizer, AI capabilities, multi-model capabilities and much more. This is an overall summary of 11.5.4 through 11.5.9 inclusively.
Speakers
avatar for Les King

Les King

IBM
Les King has impacted the vision for IBM’s Hybrid Data Management strategies, which includes Big Data, Analytics, Database and Cloud Data Services by acting as a trusted advisor both to clients and within IBM.  He has held this post for four years however; Les has 25 years of experience... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

B04 | Modernize your Analytical Workload
Monday March 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
It is time to modernize your analytical workload to meet the demands of your growing data volumes, price-performance requirements, or application modernization needs. This session will cover the new enhancements that have been made to Db2 warehouse solution and will also take a look at post v12.1 enhancements, which will further push the envelope on capabilities and performance in the warehouse space.  
Speakers
avatar for Bryan Tang

Bryan Tang

Bryan Tang is the Senior Product Manager from IBM Hybrid Data Management team.He is responsible for the roadmap and prioritization for Db2 Core Engine and Db2 Warehouse on-premises deployment
Monday March 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

B05 | Achieving Success in Implementation, Migration, and Conversion: A Strategic Approach
Monday March 17, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
PH
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Monday March 17, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

B06 | Db2 Warehouse Update
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Warehouse environments continue to be very much in use in many Enterprises in the Data Platform space. These environments need to provide the high performance requirements that are required of them, and in addition provide a cheaper, integrated option in the larger Data platform context. Learn what Db2 Warehouse has to offer in the on-prem and the SaaS space and how they expose these capabilities that are required of them.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

B06 | Db2 Warehouse Update
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Warehouse environments continue to be very much in use in many Enterprises in the Data Platform space. These environments need to provide the high performance requirements that are required of them, and in addition provide a cheaper, integrated option in the larger Data platform context. Learn what Db2 Warehouse has to offer in the on-prem and the SaaS space and how they expose these capabilities that are required of them.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
Monday March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

B07 | One Data Movement Approach for all Mission Critical Workloads
Monday March 17, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Moving catalog objects and data can become complicated when handling big/little endian formats or row/columnar formats, source/destination differences, constituting object dependencies and managing data integrity. IBM Db2 Bridge is the outcome of our mission in alleviating the pain and making your life easier. Join us!
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
Monday March 17, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session
 
Tuesday, March 18
 

8:30am AEDT

S04 | Db2 12.1 - Optimized Performance and Advanced Feature
Tuesday March 18, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
AP
Tuesday March 18, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

B08 | Database AI Assistant
Tuesday March 18, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
This session will introduce you to the new IBM DBA AI assistant, a new AI powered tool designed for DBAs that provides insights and smart recommendations through a natural language chat interface. Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) in combination with a wide knowledge base and telemetry from your database fleet, the assistant acts as a copilot that can streamline information retrieval and help you to quickly answer questions and troubleshoot problems on your database systems.
Speakers
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
avatar for Shaikh Quader

Shaikh Quader

IBM
Shaikh Quader is the AI architect at IBM Db2. His role involves developing product features to enhance database operations with AI and allow users in implementing AI solutions with Db2. Shaikh also manages research collaborations between IBM and Canadian universities. He and his team... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

B09 | SQL Extensions Db2 11 Onwards
Tuesday March 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
Catchup on all the new SQL capabilities added to Db2 over the course of 11.1, 11.5, 12.1 GA and the recent mod packs. Take a sneak peak at up coming enhancements being considered for a future Db2.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
Tuesday March 18, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

B11 | Db2 Datalake Tables and Integration with the Data Lakehouse
Tuesday March 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
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.
Speakers
KS
Tuesday March 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

B12 | Db2 OLTP SaaS Update
Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Db2 has a wide range of services available across cloud providers like AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud. This session will provide a technical overview of some of the recent updates to these services and offerings as well as provide a sneak peak of what’s to come.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Hilden

Andrew Hilden

IBM
Andrew Hilden is the Chief Architect of Db2 SaaS. He is involved extensively in the development and architecture of several data-oriented cloud services in IBM. In the past 25 years he has worked in development, architectural and leadership roles in Db2 from SaaS to areas like appliances... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

B13 | IBM Db2: A Database of AI, A Database for AI
Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
IBM Db2 has introduced several AI features in recent years. These features fall into two categories: AI for database and database for AI. In the first category, Db2 has AI models in the database to optimize database operations. A key example is the AI query optimizer GA’d in v12. In the second category, Db2 has integrated machine learning algorithms into the database for users' AI use cases. It provides over 200 in-database AI stored procedures that allow users to develop and run ML pipelines within the database. Db2 also supports Python and R UDFs, enabling users to use their external Python and R models from Db2. These AI features improve database operations and simplify enterprise AI workflows. This session will explore Db2’s AI features from both categories and show how you can use them in developing modern data-driven applications and enterprise workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Shaikh Quader

Shaikh Quader

IBM
Shaikh Quader is the AI architect at IBM Db2. His role involves developing product features to enhance database operations with AI and allow users in implementing AI solutions with Db2. Shaikh also manages research collaborations between IBM and Canadian universities. He and his team... Read More →
Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

B14 | Enhancing Uptime and Availability Like Never Before
Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
In this session, we will deep dive the important Backup and Restore enhancements. Likewise, we will go through the pain point of Db2 users and how does the latest enhancement saves time and money for the mission critical applications. Intra-table-space Parallelism (ITP) for backup operations. Automatic Db2 backup enhancements. New Registry variable DB2_VALIDATE_LOG_ON_ARCHIVE. ZLIB compression for backup and log file compression. Offline backup requirement lifted, following a drop member topology change event. Support for database and table space restore involving dropped members in a Db2 pureScale environment. Support for database and table space rollforward through a drop member topology change event in a Db2 pureScale environment. Replication enhancement using the db2ReadLog API in a Db2 pureScale environment. Changes to LIST HISTORY, DB_HISTORY and b2HistoryData data structure.
Speakers
SK
Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

5:30pm AEDT

LUW Badging Exam
Tuesday March 18, 2025 5:30pm - 8:00pm AEDT
Sydney
Tuesday March 18, 2025 5:30pm - 8:00pm AEDT
Sydney
 
Wednesday, March 19
 

8:30am AEDT

W02 | Hands-on Lab 1 Building AI with IBM Db2
Wednesday March 19, 2025 8:30am - 11:20pm AEDT
Sydney
IBM Db2 offers a wide range of AI features, both built-in and external tools, for creating AI systems and solutions. These include over 200 built-in AI stored procedures and tools that work seamlessly with open-source AI ecosystems. In this workshop, participants will explore Db2’s AI support and use a selection of these features to implement practical AI models. The workshop consists of two parts. In the first module, participants will learn how to develop a supervised AI model using Db2’s built-in AI stored procedures. The entire model development and usage will be done using SQL within the database. In the second module, participants will learn how to create a Python model using popular Python packages outside of the database, and then deploy that model back into a Db2 database. By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained fundamental skills and hands-on experience in utilizing these AI capabilities. They will be able to apply these skills to their future AI projects. This workshop is designed to be beginner-friendly and does not require participants to have extensive knowledge in AI. Basic SQL skills and some Python programming skills are sufficient for attending and benefiting from this workshop. Notes: the maximum number of attendees at the workshop will be 30. Also, each attendee will need to bring their own laptop that has internet access and a browser. Also, before the workshop, they need to register for a free IBMid from this link: Create an IBMid.
Speakers
avatar for Shaikh Quader

Shaikh Quader

IBM
Shaikh Quader is the AI architect at IBM Db2. His role involves developing product features to enhance database operations with AI and allow users in implementing AI solutions with Db2. Shaikh also manages research collaborations between IBM and Canadian universities. He and his team... Read More →
Wednesday March 19, 2025 8:30am - 11:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Workshop

11:30am AEDT

W03 | Hands-on Lab 2 Amazon RDS for Db2
Wednesday March 19, 2025 11:30am - 3:20pm AEDT
Sydney
This Hands-On workshop is designed to give you the knowledge you need to use RDS for Db2. The workshop will cover approximately 10 modules covering things like provisioning, backups, recovery and moving data to RDS for Db2. You will be provided a temporary AWS account to work through a series of exercises to reinforce the information that is presented during the workshop.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Hilden

Andrew Hilden

IBM
Andrew Hilden is the Chief Architect of Db2 SaaS. He is involved extensively in the development and architecture of several data-oriented cloud services in IBM. In the past 25 years he has worked in development, architectural and leadership roles in Db2 from SaaS to areas like appliances... Read More →
Wednesday March 19, 2025 11:30am - 3:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Workshop

3:30pm AEDT

W05 | Hands-on Lab 3 Hands-on with Db2 Datalake Tables and watsonx.data Data Lakehouse Integration
Wednesday March 19, 2025 3:30pm - 5:20pm AEDT
Sydney
In this lab, you’ll experience how easy it is to create new datalake tables in Db2, including Iceberg and non-Iceberg tables, using open data formats like ORC and Parquet on object storage. Additionally, you’ll see how datalake tables created in Db2 can be shared directly with the watsonx.data open data lakehouse (and vice-versa) and how data and workloads can be offloaded from the enterprise data warehouse onto a lower-cost data platform. This means that workloads using this data can run wherever it makes the most sense – either through watsonx.data or through Db2’s own native query engine (or even other query engines that support these open formats). This flexibility allows you to optimize your AI and analytics workloads by selecting the right engine, for the right workload, at the right cost.
Speakers
KS
Wednesday March 19, 2025 3:30pm - 5:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Workshop
 
Thursday, March 20
 

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
avatar for Miran Badzak
SK
Thursday March 20, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

B15 | Latest From the Lab
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
Join the Db2 architects as they cover an overview of this significant new version of Db2 – Db2 12.1.0 and planned ModPaks such as Db2 12.1.1 and Db2 12.1.2. In this session the key highlights of Db2 12.1 will be covered as well as a sneak peak on what is to come through 2025.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

B16 | Secure your data across the Db2 stack
Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
Data today is dynamic, distributed and in high demand as data holds critical information to help organizations make informed business decisions, recommendations, and predications to stay competitive and to provide a better customer experience. All this information is stored in a data repository either on-premises or in the cloud, and native approaches to support security and compliance can be operationally complex and don’t ensure data confidentiality. In this presentation, we will take technical deep dive on how to accomplish automated data discovery, classification, real-time activity monitoring and machine learning analytics to understand, detect and respond to suspicious activity, and discuss the different scalable architectures for monitoring and protecting your data. The session will also emphasis on how you can protect your databases and data against insider and external attacks by understanding how to leverage capabilities such as alerting, blocking, and quarantining users and/or processes of suspicious behaviour. In addition, we will demonstrate how to help your organization support audit and compliance activities for APP, PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and many more. This session will be valuable for novice to seasoned experts that are looking to learn, design and implement a solid data protection model for data across the enterprise.
Speakers
avatar for Pirabu Pathmasenan

Pirabu Pathmasenan

IBM
Pirabu Pathmasenan has over 15 years of experience in Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, Customer Success, and Consulting services; focused on innovation and simplification to help customers achieve their business results. Pirabu currently leads the Security Sales Engineering for the... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

11:25am AEDT

B17 | Wrapping Up Db2 11.5
Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Now that we have delivered Db2 12.1 to the market – it’s an excellent time to take a holistic look at the baseline of high value capabilities in place leading in to Db2 12.1. This includes capabilities to support a Lake House, new security capabilities, schema level administration capabilities, optimizations for variable data types, the technology preview of the AI optimizer, AI capabilities, multi-model capabilities and much more. This is an overall summary of 11.5.4 through 11.5.9 inclusively.
Speakers
avatar for Les King

Les King

IBM
Les King has impacted the vision for IBM’s Hybrid Data Management strategies, which includes Big Data, Analytics, Database and Cloud Data Services by acting as a trusted advisor both to clients and within IBM.  He has held this post for four years however; Les has 25 years of experience... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 11:25am - 12:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

B18 | Modernize your Analytical Workload
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
It is time to modernize your analytical workload to meet the demands of your growing data volumes, price-performance requirements, or application modernization needs. This session will cover the new enhancements that have been made to Db2 warehouse solution and will also take a look at post v12.1 enhancements, which will further push the envelope on capabilities and performance in the warehouse space.  
Speakers
avatar for Bryan Tang

Bryan Tang

Bryan Tang is the Senior Product Manager from IBM Hybrid Data Management team.He is responsible for the roadmap and prioritization for Db2 Core Engine and Db2 Warehouse on-premises deployment
Thursday March 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

B19 | Achieving Success in Implementation, Migration, and Conversion: A Strategic Approach
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Manual
Speakers
PH
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

B20 | Db2 Warehouse Update
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
Warehouse environments continue to be very much in use in many Enterprises in the Data Platform space. These environments need to provide the high performance requirements that are required of them, and in addition provide a cheaper, integrated option in the larger Data platform context. Learn what Db2 Warehouse has to offer in the on-prem and the SaaS space and how they expose these capabilities that are required of them.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

4:25pm AEDT

B21 | One Data Movement Approach for all Mission Critical Workloads
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Moving catalog objects and data can become complicated when handling big/little endian formats or row/columnar formats, source/destination differences, constituting object dependencies and managing data integrity. IBM Db2 Bridge is the outcome of our mission in alleviating the pain and making your life easier. Join us!
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
Thursday March 20, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session
 
Friday, March 21
 

8:30am AEDT

S08 | Db2 12.1 - Optimized Performance and Advanced Feature
Friday March 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
Manual
Speakers
AP
Friday March 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:20am AEDT
Canberra
  Technical Session

9:25am AEDT

B22 | Database AI Assistant
Friday March 21, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
This session will introduce you to the new IBM DBA AI assistant, a new AI powered tool designed for DBAs that provides insights and smart recommendations through a natural language chat interface. Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) in combination with a wide knowledge base and telemetry from your database fleet, the assistant acts as a copilot that can streamline information retrieval and help you to quickly answer questions and troubleshoot problems on your database systems.
Speakers
avatar for David Kalmuk

David Kalmuk

IBM
David Kalmuk is a Senior Technical Staff Member & Master Inventor and Data Warehousing Architect for the Db2 family products. David has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in Db2 over the years including BLU Acceleration, Workload Management, Monitoring, as well... Read More →
avatar for Shaikh Quader

Shaikh Quader

IBM
Shaikh Quader is the AI architect at IBM Db2. His role involves developing product features to enhance database operations with AI and allow users in implementing AI solutions with Db2. Shaikh also manages research collaborations between IBM and Canadian universities. He and his team... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 9:25am - 10:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

10:30am AEDT

B23 | SQL Extensions Db2 11 Onwards
Friday March 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
Catchup on all the new SQL capabilities added to Db2 over the course of 11.1, 11.5, 12.1 GA and the recent mod packs. Take a sneak peak at up coming enhancements being considered for a future Db2.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Springgay

Mike Springgay

IBM
Mike Springgay is the Db2 Overall Architect. Prior to that he was responsible for exending Db2's SQL Compatibility features, routine infrastructure, client server connectivity and warehouse engine.
Friday March 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:20am AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

1:30pm AEDT

B25 | Db2 Datalake Tables and Integration with the Data Lakehouse
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
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.
Speakers
KS
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:20pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

2:25pm AEDT

B26 | Db2 OLTP SaaS Update
Friday March 21, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
Db2 has a wide range of services available across cloud providers like AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud. This session will provide a technical overview of some of the recent updates to these services and offerings as well as provide a sneak peak of what’s to come.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Hilden

Andrew Hilden

IBM
Andrew Hilden is the Chief Architect of Db2 SaaS. He is involved extensively in the development and architecture of several data-oriented cloud services in IBM. In the past 25 years he has worked in development, architectural and leadership roles in Db2 from SaaS to areas like appliances... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 2:25pm - 3:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

3:30pm AEDT

B27 | IBM Db2: A Database of AI, A Database for AI
Friday March 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
IBM Db2 has introduced several AI features in recent years. These features fall into two categories: AI for database and database for AI. In the first category, Db2 has AI models in the database to optimize database operations. A key example is the AI query optimizer GA’d in v12. In the second category, Db2 has integrated machine learning algorithms into the database for users' AI use cases. It provides over 200 in-database AI stored procedures that allow users to develop and run ML pipelines within the database. Db2 also supports Python and R UDFs, enabling users to use their external Python and R models from Db2. These AI features improve database operations and simplify enterprise AI workflows. This session will explore Db2’s AI features from both categories and show how you can use them in developing modern data-driven applications and enterprise workloads.
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Shaikh Quader

IBM
Shaikh Quader is the AI architect at IBM Db2. His role involves developing product features to enhance database operations with AI and allow users in implementing AI solutions with Db2. Shaikh also manages research collaborations between IBM and Canadian universities. He and his team... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm AEDT
Sydney
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4:25pm AEDT

B28 | Enhancing Uptime and Availability Like Never Before
Friday March 21, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
In this session, we will deep dive the important Backup and Restore enhancements. Likewise, we will go through the pain point of Db2 users and how does the latest enhancement saves time and money for the mission critical applications. Intra-table-space Parallelism (ITP) for backup operations. Automatic Db2 backup enhancements. New Registry variable DB2_VALIDATE_LOG_ON_ARCHIVE. ZLIB compression for backup and log file compression. Offline backup requirement lifted, following a drop member topology change event. Support for database and table space restore involving dropped members in a Db2 pureScale environment. Support for database and table space rollforward through a drop member topology change event in a Db2 pureScale environment. Replication enhancement using the db2ReadLog API in a Db2 pureScale environment. Changes to LIST HISTORY, DB_HISTORY and b2HistoryData data structure.
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Friday March 21, 2025 4:25pm - 5:15pm AEDT
Sydney
  Technical Session

5:30pm AEDT

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Friday March 21, 2025 5:30pm - 8:00pm AEDT
Canberra
 
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