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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Matterhorn 1
Matterhorn 2
Matterhorn 3
9:00am
KEYNOTE 9:00am → 10:30am
Keynotes
10:30am
BREAK 10:30am → 11:00am
Tea Break
11:00am
11:00am → 12:00pm
Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA
Andrew Moore, Ironing out toil as a DBRE · Simon Mudd, Change is always good
MariaDB
11:00am → 12:00pm
Building Resilient Multi-Region MongoDB Deployments Using Native Replica Set Capabilities
Daniel Osuntoyinbo, Wise
MongoDB
11:00am → 12:00pm
PostgreSQL DBA's Troubleshooting toolkit - Distilling 20 Years of Notes and learning
Jobin Augustine, Percona
Postgres
12:05pm
12:05pm → 12:35pm
Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins
Frédéric Descamps, MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB
12:05pm → 12:35pm
Reducing Complexity: Migrating Banking Applications from Hadoop NoSQL to Percona for MongoDB
Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura
MongoDB
12:05pm → 12:35pm
PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win
Suman Michael, HexaCluster · Avinash Vallarapu, HexaCluster
Postgres
12:35pm
BREAK 12:35pm → 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
2:00pm → 2:30pm
Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence
Aditya Seth, Booking.com
MySQL
2:00pm → 2:30pm
Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences
Takis Stathopoulos, Percona · Chetan Shivashankar, Percona
Kubernetes
2:00pm → 2:30pm
Zero-Downtime, Zero-Code: Migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for Mongo
Evgeny Alexandrovich, Bank Leumi
MongoDB
2:35pm
2:35pm → 3:05pm
"JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query."
Marco Tusa, Percona · Dmitry Lenev, Percona
MySQL
2:35pm → 3:05pm
If Database Operators Automate Everything, Why Are You Still on Call?
Natalia Marukovich, Percona
Kubernetes
2:35pm → 3:05pm
Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB
Radoslaw Szulgo, Percona · Sandra Romanchenko, Percona
MongoDB
3:10pm
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Beyond the Dumb Pipe: Solving MySQL Topology Nightmares with the Percona Binary Log Server
Yura Sorokin, Percona
MySQL
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Finding Your Perfect Route: Vectors, Full-Text, and Geospatial Queries with Valkey
Paul Ross, AWS
Valkey
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Tuning PostgreSQL for performance: the role of random_page_cost
Fernando Laudares Carmagos, Percona
Postgres
3:45pm
3:45pm → 4:15pm
When MySQL meets DuckDB: Best practices for columnar engines on MySQL
zongzhi chen, Alibaba Cloud
MySQL
3:45pm → 4:15pm
On-Disk and Redis-Compatible: When Kvrocks beats Valkey and when it doesn't
Martin Visser, Percona
Valkey
3:45pm → 4:15pm
Postgres 19 - What's in it for me?
Alastair Turner, Percona · Andreas Karlsson, Percona
Postgres
4:15pm
BREAK 4:15pm → 4:30pm
Tea Break
4:30pm
4:30pm → 5:00pm
From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit
Sveta Smirnova, Percona
Open Source
4:30pm → 5:00pm
One Valkey, Multiple Tenants: Per-Database Isolation on Kubernetes
Ishan Jain, Mastercard · Gourav Sharma, Hashicorp
ValkeyKubernetes
4:30pm → 5:00pm
Management — the prodigal child is back.
Tibor Korocz, Percona
5:05pm
5:05pm → 5:35pm
MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It just works: Zero-configuration SSL and PARSEC authentication
Sergei Golubchik, MariaDB
MariaDB
5:05pm → 5:35pm
Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM
Ivan Groenewold, Percona
MongoDBPMM

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Matterhorn 1
Matterhorn 2
Matterhorn 3
9:00am
KEYNOTE 9:00am → 10:30am
Keynotes
10:30am
BREAK 10:30am → 11:00am
Tea Break
11:00am
11:00am → 12:00pm
A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap
Marco Tusa, Percona · Chetan Shivashankar, Percona
MySQLKubernetes
11:00am → 12:00pm
Key-value for the relational mind
Martin Visser, Percona · Kyle Davis, Percona
Valkey
12:05pm
12:05pm → 12:35pm
MySQL stories - lessons worth stealing from BigBasket and Percona
Kedar Vaijanapurkar, Percona · Akhilesh Kumar, Big Basket
MySQL
12:05pm → 12:35pm
Moving Less Bytes in Valkey: How One Optimization Broke Two Subsystems and What We Did About It
Daniil Kashapov, Yandex Cloud
Valkey
12:05pm → 12:35pm
What We've Learned Building an AI DBA
Andrew Morgan, SIXTA
12:35pm
BREAK 12:35pm → 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
2:00pm → 2:30pm
Real-World MongoDB: From Kernel Tuning to Query Optimization
Eralp Eryanilmaz, Garanti BBVA
MongoDB
2:00pm → 2:30pm
RTA in PMM: Real-Time Eyes for AI-Assisted Database Troubleshooting
Mattia Simonato, Percona · Fernando Laudares Carmagos, Percona
MongoDBPMM
2:00pm → 2:30pm
Your Retention Policy Is a Legal Position: Databases, Legal Holds, and What Actually Gets Produced
Daniel Garrie, Law & Forensics
2:35pm
2:35pm → 3:05pm
Schrödinger's Backup - It's Only Good Until You Try to Restore It
Neil Armitage, Anaplan
MySQL
2:35pm → 3:05pm
10 tools for your o11y stack
Kris Buytaert
2:35pm → 3:05pm
What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond
Peter Farkas, Percona
Open Source
3:10pm
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Stitching mydumper to Aurora's Binlog: A Cross-Cloud CDC Pipeline at 1.2B Rows
Shimpei Kodama, Gaudiy
MySQL
3:10pm → 3:40pm
From Single Point of Failure to Highly Available: Re-architecting PMM for Production
Tibor Korocz, Percona
PMM
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Trust Is the New License What sovereignty actually demands of the databases you run
Andreas Prins, SUSE
3:45pm
3:45pm → 4:15pm
Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale
Martin Alderete, Booking.com
MySQL
3:45pm → 4:15pm
How to create database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events
Jesús Espino, VictoriaMetrics
3:45pm → 4:15pm
SQL injection is a thing of the past…. & other lies we tell ourselves
Mackenzie Jackson, Aikido Security
Security
4:15pm
BREAK 4:15pm → 4:30pm
Tea Break
4:30pm
4:30pm → 5:00pm
The Rising Tide - Update on Opening MySQL Innovation
Henrik Ingo, Oracle
MySQL
4:30pm → 5:00pm
Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB
Adnan Šupić, Percona
MongoDB
4:30pm → 5:00pm
From Prompt to PR: Shipping AI-Written Data Models Without Losing Trust
Akash Srivastava, Careem · Puneet Singh, Careem
5:05pm
5:05pm → 5:35pm
Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You
Slava Sarzhan, Percona · Kate Obiidykhata, Percona
MySQLKubernetes

Friday, September 11, 2026

Matterhorn 1
Matterhorn 2
Matterhorn 3
9:00am
KEYNOTE 9:00am → 10:30am
Keynotes
10:30am
BREAK 10:30am → 11:00am
Tea Break
11:00am
11:00am → 12:00pm
The Storage Layer Behind Kubernetes Database Operators That Enables Real-World DBaaS
George Kechagias, Percona
Kubernetes
11:00am → 12:00pm
Seamless Major Upgrade in Aurora RDS Postgres
Emanuel Calvo, Workato
Postgres
12:05pm
12:05pm → 12:35pm
When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking Your Agent's Hidden Connections with Graphs
Nyah Macklin, Neo4j
12:05pm → 12:35pm
Running Percona Operators in Production: Lessons from 40+ Databases per Cluster
Verena Traub, b'nerd
Kubernetes
12:05pm → 12:35pm
What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, Clickhouse
Postgres
12:35pm
BREAK 12:35pm → 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
2:00pm → 2:30pm
One Control Plane, Three Databases: Evaluating Open Everest as a Private DBaaS for MySQL, PostgreSQL
Makhshif Tanvir, PureCS
Kubernetes
2:00pm → 2:30pm
When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking
Nima Torabi, Liberatii
2:00pm → 2:30pm
PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: What causes failures, Things I Wish Everyone Knew
Jobin Augustine, Percona
Postgres
2:35pm
2:35pm → 3:05pm
What Is the Fastest Database? Open-Source Benchmarking with HammerDB
Steve Shaw, Creator
2:35pm → 3:05pm
Following the Token: A Practical Guide to OAuth in PostgreSQL
Zsolt Parragi, Percona
3:10pm
3:10pm → 3:40pm
What Happened to the MySQL Query Cache?
Marcelo Altmann, Readyset.io
3:10pm → 3:40pm
PMM High Availability: Building Confidence Beyond Deployment
Shruti Pradhan, Percona
PMM
3:10pm → 3:40pm
Beyond "Postgres is up": detecting failures before they become incidents
Nikolay Sivko, Coroot
3:45pm
3:45pm → 4:15pm
MySQL Time Travel: Practical Row-Level Recovery With Open Source Tools
Daniel Guzman Burgos, DBTrail
MySQL
3:45pm → 4:15pm
What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?
Marcin Gwozdz, Solanica
Kubernetes
3:45pm → 4:15pm
Hanging hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin
La Cancellera Yoann, Percona
Postgres