IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

9:00am BST

C201 From Db2 First Responder to Emergency Technician - The problem determination master workshop MariaOlaf Depper • Thomas Rech E201 Building AI Applications with a Serverless Database Workshop JoaoAndrew Hilden

2:00pm BST

C202 Believe It. Try It. Master Db2 Pacemaker on Any Cloud in 4 Hours. MariaNisha Choudhary • Thomas Rech

11:30am BST

C2 Latest From the Lab PortoMike Springgay D2 Bridging Relational and Data Lake Architectures: Db2 Datalake Tables MariaOlivier Bernin F2 Experiences with CDC Qlik Replicate as Db2 DBA MiragaiaMichael Kühnel

2:00pm BST

C3 Cloud Update: The latest on Db2 Fully Managed Services PortoVenkatesh Gopal D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2 MariaAlexander Veremev

3:20pm BST

C4 Performance monitoring made simple PortoLeo Pedron D4 What's New in V12.1 Security MariaGreg Stager

4:30pm BST

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

10:20am BST

C6 Zero Downtime Dreams: A Newcomer’s Guide to Db2 Resilience PortoIqbal Goralwalla • Damir Wilder D6 Permitting, masking and trusting, a deep dive into 3 new Db2 12.1 security features MariaGreg Stager E6 High Availability Q-replication in a heterogeneous Db2 HA environment LuisSven Heidorn

11:30am BST

C7 Db2 AI Query Optimizer: Smarter Plans, Less Tuning PortoLiam Finnie D7 Near zero downtime migration to Db2 12.1 MariaChristiane Beyer E7 Why this query runs so slow? Step-by-step SQL troubleshooting with MON_GET interfaces and event monitors LuisKamil Kuduk

2:00pm BST

C8 Db2 Meets Generative AI: Agentic AI, Vector Search, and Beyond. PortoJillian Quiller • Mike Springgay D8 SQL in Action: One Statement to Rule Them All - MERGE and integrated SQL operations MariaMichael Tiefenbacher

4:30pm BST

C9 Mining db2mon PortoKen Shaffer D9 More SQL tricks with Db2 MariaAndreas Weininger

10:20am BST

C1 Db2 Spotlight Session / Latest News PortoDavid Kalmuk C10 Experiences with the AI Query Optimiser PortoMark Gillis D10 Make you data comparable by VECTORizing MariaMartin Heitkämper

11:30am BST

C11 DB2 Backup and Recovery - back to the basics PortoDale McInnis D11 Data Lake Architecture for Scale: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Best Practices based on BaFin's first data lake MariaOlaf Stephan

2:00pm BST

C12 Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL PortoDavid Kalmuk D12 Meta-Programming the Migration: Automating Zero-Disk Loads from Oracle RDS to Db2 OpenShift via Federation and Python MariaRobert Proffitt

4:30pm BST

B13 Introduction to SQL-PL ArrabidaLes King C13 A brief history of a query: from the PreparedStatement to the ResultSet - how queries gets executed in Db2 database? PortoKamil Kuduk D13 Db2 LUW Table Partition Management MariaDavid Lynch E13 Efficient Scans on Columnar Tables LuisAndreas Weininger F13 Do you think you know pureScale? Come test your knowledge MiragaiaChristian Garcia-Arellano

5:40pm BST

C14 Db2 for LUW Expert Panel Porto

9:00am BST

C15 A Modern Approach to Db2 Backup & Recovery: Snapshot Technology with Cloud Integration PortoThomas Rech D15 Db2 Upgrade Lessons the Manuals Don’t Teach You MariaIqbal Goralwalla • Damir Wilder E15 Vibe Coding with a Serverless Database LuisAndrew Hilden

10:20am BST

C16 Fine-Tuning Db2 Datalake Tables Performance PortoOlivier Bernin D16 Db2 as Containerized Deployment MariaVijaya Katikireddy

11:30am BST

D17 Using Db2 for more than just relational data MariaAndreas Weininger

2:30pm BST

C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop MariaHafsa Ali • Javeed Mohammed