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Next week will see the IDUG EMEA Tech Conference in Brussels, Belgium. I hope to meet many DB2 users again. Part of preparing for a conference is to read over the agenda and get a rough idea of which sessions to attend. Here are the sessions you will likely find me in the audience (or on stage), my focus is DB2 LUW.

Monday and Tuesday start off with keynotes in the morning. The DB2 conference closes with a keynote on Thursday. All are a must. For the rest of the time there are up to 6 tracks to choose from and here are some of the sessions I already picked and recommend:

• Monday, 10:40 to 11:40, C01 - DB2 LUW 11.1 : A Technical Overview with Matt Huras is kind a must for the DB2 LUW crowd to get all the insights into the current release.
• Monday, 12 to 13, D02 - To Cloud, or not To Cloud? Reasons to go “off premise” with DB2 with Steve Rees will probably see great discussions. This is a topic I am discussing with many customers.
• Tuesday, 14:30 to 15:30, F06 - R You Ready to be a Data Scientist? with Paul Turpin hopefully gives me more background in R and data analysis. That session also nicely plays with:
• Tuesday, 17 to 18, E08 - Interactive Reports and Presentations - Powered by DB2 and Jupyter Notebooks with Henrik Loeser. In that session I am going to show notebooks as interactive computational environments and using different APIs for DB2.
• Wednesday, 8:30 to 9:30, C09 - 11 Great DB2 Questions from Stack Overflow (Answers Included) with Henrik Loeser. The day starts early with this introduction into how to use the Q&A site Stack Overflow to solve your DB2 problems and to make utilize their “open data” knowledge base for deeper analysis.
• Wednesday, 9:40 to 10:40, C10 - OMG! Experience is a Hard Teacher – Lessons Learned #1with Melanie Stopfer. I plan to stay in the same room for an entertaining and experience-rich session with Melanie.
• Wednesday, 13:40-14:40, is the DB2 LUW Expert Panel, another must.
• Wednesday, 16:20 to 17:20, D13 - db2audit in a nutshell – advantages and challenges with Markus Fraune covers a topic many companies are looking into due to increased compliance requirements and rules & regulations.
• Thursday, 8:30 to 9:30, C15 - Exploiting Cloud Storage with DB2 for LUW with Phil Nelson is another early, but interesting session digging into new territory.

See you in Brussels next week!