Akiko Hoshikawa is a Engineer in IBM Data and AI. She is a Db2 for z/OS architect with overall responsibility for performance and the strategic integration of AI capability within Db2,  including the SQL Data Insights and many other optimizations in Db2. She is one of the core SMEs behind creating Db2 AI for z/OS to provide the intelligent self tuning & management in Db2.
She loves hands-on working with customers, providing performance evaluation, tuning, benchmarks, designing performance features to solve customers challenges.