IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

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8:45am BST

K1 AI Mythbusters and Db2 NobleNamik Hrle • Tracy Hutcheson • John Campbell

9:00am BST

IDUG Badging Laboratory IDUG Certification Laboratory

10:00am BST

Coffee Break Archive

10:20am BST

A1 Spotlight: Db2 for z/OS Trends and Directions InfanteHaakon Roberts

10:30am BST

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials Glass 1Davor Rodnis IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials NobleDougie Lawson

11:30am BST

A2 Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for z/OS InfanteJohn Campbell B2 Assessing Your Db2 Security for z/OS Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Data) ArrabidaJørn Thyssen C2 Latest From the Lab PortoMike Springgay D2 Bridging Relational and Data Lake Architectures: Db2 Datalake Tables MariaOlivier Bernin E2 Improved availability and modernization of legacy systems through the evolution of Universal Table Space (UTS) LuisFrances Villafuerte F2 Experiences with CDC Qlik Replicate as Db2 DBA MiragaiaMichael Kühnel

12:30pm BST

2:00pm BST

A3 What’s New in Db2 for z/OS Performance InfanteAkiko Hoshikawa B3 My new besties: the Utilities tables ArrabidaSoledad Martínez C3 Cloud Update: The latest on Db2 Fully Managed Services PortoVenkatesh Gopal D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2 MariaAlexander Veremev E3 Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features LuisSteen Rasmussen F3 Connect, Visualise, Predict: Visualization Db2 Data on z/OS using Python libraries and Machine learning tools. MiragaiaNiraj Garudkar

3:00pm BST

Coffee Break Archive

3:20pm BST

A4 Supercharging Db2 with Generative AI: From Natural Language Queries to Autonomous Performance Optimization InfanteChris Crone B4 Z Data Integration Update ArrabidaCüneyt Göksu • Mateo Tošić C4 Performance monitoring made simple PortoLeo Pedron D4 What's New in V12.1 Security MariaGreg Stager E4 Smarter Db2 REORGs : A Real-World User Story LuisShivam Pratap Singh F4 Insights and experiences from GarantiBBVA's Fast Traverse Block index implementation in production MiragaiaAyşenur Başoğlu • Gülfem Öğütgen

4:30pm BST

A5 Starter’s Guide to Db2 for z/OS Group Buffer Pool Monitoring and Tuning InfanteBart Steegmans B5 Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Environments ArrabidaRahul Bajaj • Aysen Svoboda C5 400 TB of LOBs witin a single Table - Challenges during growth over 25 Years PortoNorbert Menzel D5 Db2 AI Query Rewrite MariaCalisto Zuzarte E5 Power-Up for Db2: A Guide to Modernizing Administration with Python and Ansible LuisNorbert Munkel F5 When REORGs Go Wild: Managing Unexpected Partition Growth in DB2 PBG Tablespaces MiragaiaZoe Andreopoulou • Michal Bialecki

5:30pm BST

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