Data Expert
What to expect
Data experts have a lot to dive into at IBM TechXchange 2025. Whether you’re engineering pipelines, architecting data lakes, or stewarding data governance, we have an experience that will help you make your data more reliable, accessible, and trusted. Join integration walkthroughs, participate in governance workshops and roundtables, and gain insights into the latest best practices for managing the full data lifecycle. You’ll leave equipped with cutting-edge practices to manage data effectively and unlock its full potential on-prem and in the cloud.
Featured experiences
Join data management and governance demos
Get hands-on and see firsthand the latest methods for assuring you data quality is AI-ready
Get involved in product roadmap sessions
Product managers want to hear from you as they share the strategy and direction for Db2, Cognos, FileNet, Informix, and more
Grow your network at peer roundtables
Meet your peers and pick their brains on hot topics like data integration and security
Build your technical agenda
Featured themes & products
Data lakehouse for structured and unstructured data
watsonx.data, IBM Data Lakehouse, IBM Controller, Watson Discovery, Iceberg, Streamsets, DataStage, DataBand
Data monitoring and trust frameworks
IBM Knowledge Catalog
Business analytics and planning
Planning Analytics, Cognos, watsonx BI, Analytics Content Hub
Quantum-safe cryptology and risk detection
Guardium
Data products and platforms
Db2, Netezza, Informix
Featured sessions
You can explore all Data Expert sessions in the Session Catalog. Here’s some of our favorites.
- Enterprise Performance Management with IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Controller (2495)
- Mastering Cognos Analytics Dashboards (1511)
- Offloading/sharing of data between watsonx.data and Db2 (2516)
- Db2/Netezza + Iceberg: Rethinking Data Management with Open Table Formats (2505)
- Day 2 Operations for Managing Streaming Data Integration Pipelines (2358)
- Leveraging a data lakehouse architecture for improved discovery through IBM Data Product Hub (2336)
Featured certifications
Up to three certifications are included in your Full Conference Pass, so you can earn certifications like:
Featured User Groups and open source projects
User Groups
As the global leader in independent Db2 education, IDUG is your resource for the latest solutions in the data sphere
Open source projects
Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines’ execution to native engines
Apache Ranger enables, monitors and manages comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
ClickHouse is the fastest and most resource efficient real-time data warehouse and open-source database
EdgeLake transforms edge nodes into members of a permissioned decentralized network, optimized to manage and monitor data at the edges
Connect with data experts
Get direct answers to your toughest technical questions with access to hundreds of data experts.






Connect with data experts
Get direct answers to your toughest technical questions with access to hundreds of Data and AI experts.









