Talks

Accepted sessions at Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam. Browse all speakers or view the agenda.

Keynotes

Welcome to Percona Live

Peter Farkas

CEO

Percona

Keynote Sep 9 9:00am–9:15am · Matterhorn 1 ▶ Video

Upstream First: Building Databases, AI , Communities, and Trust

Casper Coertze

Senior SDM, Aurora

AWS

Keynote Sep 9 9:15am–9:45am · Matterhorn 1 Open Source ▶ Video

Contribution Over Control: Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL

Kai Wagner

Head of PostgreSQL Product & Engineering

Percona

Jan Wieremjewicz

PostgreSQL Product Manager

Percona

Keynote Sep 9 9:45am–10:00am · Matterhorn 1 Postgres ▶ Video

Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI

Peter Zaitsev

Founder

Percona

Keynote Sep 9 10:00am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 ▶ Video

World of Open Source: European Spotlight 2026

Mirko Boehm

Community Development

Linux Foundation Europe

Keynote Sep 10 9:00am–9:30am · Matterhorn 1 Open Source ▶ Video

Your favourite second database

Kyle Davis

General Manager, Valkey/Redis Ecosystem

Percona

Keynote Sep 10 9:30am–9:45am · Matterhorn 1 Valkey ▶ Video

PMM Beyond Monitoring: Observe, Understand, Act

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Keynote Sep 10 9:45am–10:00am · Matterhorn 1 Observability ▶ Video

Eating an Elephant: Converting PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL

Dominic Preuss

CEO, Co-Founder

VillageSQL

Keynote Sep 10 10:00am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Fireside Chat - the Columnstore Revolution

Peter Zaitsev

Founder

Percona

Keynote Sep 11 9:00am–9:30am · Matterhorn 1 ▶ Video

Ready for the Agentic Era: Where Percona for MongoDB Is Going Next

Radoslaw Szulgo

MongoDB Product Manager

Percona

Keynote Sep 11 9:30am–9:45am · Matterhorn 1 MongoDB ▶ Video

MariaDB at Percona

T

Tarus Balog

General Manager, MariaDB

Percona

Keynote Sep 11 9:45am–10:00am · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB ▶ Video

Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You

Slava Sarzhan

Head of Cloud Native Engineering

Percona

Kate Obiidykhata

Taking the Complexity out of Going Cloud Native

Percona

Keynote Sep 11 10:00am–10:15am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL Kubernetes ▶ Video

I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap

Dennis Kittrell

Head of MySQL Product & Engineering

Percona

Keynote Sep 11 10:15am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Sessions

"JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query."

Marco Tusa

MySQL Tech Lead

Percona

Dmitry Lenev

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

10 tools for your o11y stack

Kris Buytaert

Principal Yak Shaver o11y.eu

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2 Observability ▶ Video

800 TB, 6,000 Tenants, Complex Business Logic: A SaaS Platform Moves From Oracle To PostgreSQL

Michal Nosek

Principal Field Technologist

Percona

Avinash Vallarapu

CEO, Database Specialist

HexaCluster

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 3 ▶ Video

A framework for autonomous PostgreSQL

Luigi Nardi

CEO, Founder

DBTune

Marc Linster

DBtune

DBTune

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres AI ▶ Video

A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap

Marco Tusa

MySQL Tech Lead

Percona

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Tech lead

Percona

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL Kubernetes ▶ Video

Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences

Takis Stathopoulos

Enterprise Architect

Percona

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Tech lead

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes ▶ Video

Before and after PXC upgrades with PMM and Percona Toolkit

Dominik Bay

Network Architect with a hint of DevOps

Bastian Triller

Gamma Placetel GmbH

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Beyond "Postgres is up": detecting failures before they become incidents

Nikolay Sivko

CEO, Co-Founder

Coroot

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Observability ▶ Video

Beyond the Dumb Pipe: Solving MySQL Topology Nightmares with the Percona Binary Log Server

Yura Sorokin

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Beyond the Proxy: The Expanding ProxySQL Ecosystem

René Cannaò

CEO

ProxySQL

Alkin Tezuysal

Chief Strategy Officer

ProxySQL

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 ▶ Video

Building Resilient Multi-Region MongoDB Deployments Using Native Replica Set Capabilities

Daniel Osuntoyinbo

DBRE

Wise

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB ▶ Video

Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA

Andrew Moore

Ironing out toil as a DBRE

Ironing out toil as a DBRE

Simon Mudd

Change is always good

Change is always good

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB ▶ Video

Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins

Frédéric Descamps

Community Advocate

MariaDB Foundation

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB ▶ Video

Finding Your Perfect Route: Vectors, Full-Text, and Geospatial Queries with Valkey

Paul Ross

Senior Specialist Solution Architect - In-Memory Databases

AWS

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey ▶ Video

Following the Token: A Practical Guide to OAuth in PostgreSQL

Zsolt Parragi

Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit

Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineering Coordinator

Percona

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 1 Open Source ▶ Video

From Prompt to PR: Shipping AI-Written Data Models Without Losing Trust

Akash Srivastava

Lead Software Engineer

Careem

Puneet Singh

Staff Software Engineer

Careem

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 3 AI

From Single Point of Failure to Highly Available: Re-architecting PMM for Production

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 Observability ▶ Video

Hanging hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin

La Cancellera Yoann

Senior Database Performance Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

How to create database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events

Jesús Espino

Principal Engineer

VictoriaMetrics

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2 ▶ Video

I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!

Robert Treat

I help people Postgres

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 ▶ Video

If Database Operators Automate Everything, Why Are You Still on Call?

Natalia Marukovich

Software Developer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes ▶ Video

Key-value for the relational mind

Martin Visser

Valkey Tech Lead

Percona

Kyle Davis

General Manager, Valkey/Redis Ecosystem

Percona

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey ▶ Video

Management — the prodigal child is back.

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 2

MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It just works: Zero-configuration SSL and PARSEC authentication

Sergei Golubchik

Chief Architect

MariaDB

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB ▶ Video

MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source

Anna Widenius

CEO

MariaDB Foundation

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 MariaDB ▶ Video

Moving Less Bytes in Valkey: How One Optimization Broke Two Subsystems and What We Did About It

Daniil Kashapov

Valkey Hacker

Yandex Cloud

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey ▶ Video

MySQL + Vitess @ Slack: Managing Databases to Support 1+ Billion Daily Messages

Eduardo Ortega Urrego

Staff Software Engineer - Datastores

Slack

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

MySQL Time Travel: Practical Row-Level Recovery With Open Source Tools

Daniel Guzman Burgos

Creator

DBTrail

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

On-Disk and Redis-Compatible: When Kvrocks beats Valkey and when it doesn't

Martin Visser

Valkey Tech Lead

Percona

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey ▶ Video

One Control Plane, Three Databases: Evaluating Open Everest as a Private DBaaS for MySQL, PostgreSQL

Makhshif Tanvir

Lead Data Platform Engineer

PureCS

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 Kubernetes ▶ Video

Postgres 19 - What's in it for me?

Alastair Turner

Community Technologist

Percona

Andreas Karlsson

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win

Suman Michael

Technical Director

HexaCluster

Avinash Vallarapu

CEO, Database Specialist

HexaCluster

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

Production-to-Dev in One Button: K8s-native PII anonymization for Percona XtraDB Cluster Backups

Yannick Dixken

Freelance Senior Platform Engineer

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 3 MySQL ▶ Video

Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM

Ivan Groenewold

MongoDB Technology Lead

Percona

Puneet Kala

Head of Engineering and Product MongoDB

Percona

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB ▶ Video

Real-World MongoDB: From Kernel Tuning to Query Optimization

Eralp Eryanilmaz

Senior Associate Cloud Big Data Technologies System Engineer

Garanti BBVA

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 MongoDB ▶ Video

Reducing Complexity: Migrating Banking Applications from Hadoop NoSQL to Percona for MongoDB

Arnab Chatterjee

Cloud Native Expert

Nomura

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB ▶ Video

Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence

Aditya Seth

SRE Leader

Booking.com

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Running Percona Operators in Production: Lessons from 40+ Databases per Cluster

Verena Traub

Cloud & DevOps Consultant

b'nerd

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes ▶ Video

Schrödinger's Backup - It's Only Good Until You Try to Restore It

Neil Armitage

Senior DBRE

Anaplan

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

SQL injection is a thing of the past…. & other lies we tell ourselves

Mackenzie Jackson

Developer and security advocate

Aikido Security

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Security ▶ Video

SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You're Not Watching

Narendra Tawar

Senior Database Specialist

AWS

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Security ▶ Video

Stitching mydumper to Aurora's Binlog: A Cross-Cloud CDC Pipeline at 1.2B Rows

Shimpei Kodama

SRE

Gaudiy

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Stopping PostgreSQL collations going wrong

Andreas Karlsson

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 ▶ Video

The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world

Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineering Coordinator

Percona

Bennie Grant

COO

Percona

Zsolt Parragi

Software Engineer

Percona

Alastair Turner

Community Technologist

Percona

Federica Marrella

PhD Researcher in Design

University of Parma

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 AI ▶ Video

The Rising Tide - Update on Opening MySQL Innovation

Henrik Ingo

MySQL Community Architect

Oracle

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

The Role of PostgreSQL in the AI World

Narendra Tawar

Senior Database Specialist

AWS

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 Postgres

The Storage Layer Behind Kubernetes Database Operators That Enables Real-World DBaaS

George Kechagias

Senior Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes ▶ Video

The Vector Search Quintet

Ivan Groenewold

MongoDB Technology Lead

Percona

Dmitry Lenev

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Alastair Turner

Community Technologist

Percona

Martin Visser

Valkey Tech Lead

Percona

Sergei Golubchik

Chief Architect

MariaDB

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1 ▶ Video

Trust Is the New License What sovereignty actually demands of the databases you run

Andreas Prins

Head of Sovereign Solutions

SUSE

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Open Source ▶ Video

Tuning PostgreSQL for performance: the role of random_page_cost

Fernando Laudares Carmagos

Senior Architect

Percona

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB

Radoslaw Szulgo

MongoDB Product Manager

Percona

Sandra Romanchenko

Staff Quality Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 MongoDB ▶ Video

What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?

Marcin Gwozdz

Head of GTM

Solanica

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes ▶ Video

What Happened to the MySQL Query Cache?

Marcelo Altmann

Senior Software Engineer

Readyset.io

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

What Is MySQL Doing Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM

Mattia Simonato

Senior Frontend Engineer

Percona

Michal Nosek

Principal Field Technologist

Percona

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB ▶ Video

What Is the Fastest Database? Open-Source Benchmarking with HammerDB

Steve Shaw

HammerDB

Creator

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2 ▶ Video

What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond

Peter Farkas

CEO

Percona

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 Open Source ▶ Video

What We've Learned Building an AI DBA

Andrew Morgan

CTO, Co-Founder

SIXTA

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 AI

What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19

Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek

Staff Database Engineer

Clickhouse

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres ▶ Video

When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking

Nima Torabi

CEO, Co-Founder

Liberatii

Vitalii Akimov

CTO

Liberatii

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2 ▶ Video

When MySQL meets DuckDB: Best practices for columnar engines on MySQL

zongzhi chen

Senior Technical Expert

Alibaba Cloud

Vadim Tkachenko

CoFounder

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking Your Agent's Hidden Connections with Graphs

Nyah Macklin

AI Developer Advocate

Neo4j

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2 AI ▶ Video

When Your Benchmarks Argue Against You

Zach Peirce

Senior Product Manager, Managed Databases

DigitalOcean

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 ▶ Video

Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale

Martin Alderete

Principal SRE

Booking.com

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL ▶ Video

Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB

Adnan Šupić

Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB ▶ Video

Zero-Downtime, Zero-Code: Migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for Mongo

Evgeny Alexandrovich

DBA Unit Manager

Bank Leumi

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 MongoDB ▶ Video