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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Hanh

Lovelace

Boole

Learning Lab

Grand Hall

8:00am

BREAK 8:00am → 8:45am

Badge Collection & Breakfast

8:45am

KEYNOTE 8:45am → 8:55am

Welcome to Percona Live

Peter Farkas, Percona

8:55am

KEYNOTE 8:55am → 9:25am

Databases: The Final Boss of Agents

Andy Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon University

9:25am

KEYNOTE 9:25am → 9:40am

What Percona delivers for MySQL, and what's coming next

Barrett Chambers, Percona

9:40am

KEYNOTE 9:40am → 9:55am

One Platform, Three Engines: Open Source DBaaS Patterns on Kubernetes

Kate Obiidykhata, Percona · George Kechagias, Percona

9:55am

KEYNOTE 9:55am → 10:15am

From Our Customers to the Community: How AWS Contributes Upstream

Jignesh Shah, AWS

10:15am

KEYNOTE 10:15am → 10:30am

The State of Open Source Database Ecosystem in 2026

Peter Zaitsev, Percona

10:30am

KEYNOTE 10:30am → 10:45am

OurSQL Foundation - the future of MySQL Ecosystem

Vadim Tkachenko, Percona

10:50am

EXHIBIT 10:50am → 5:30pm

Sponsor Exhibit Showcase in the Grand Hall

10:50am

BREAK 10:50am → 11:10am

Break

11:20am

11:20am → 11:50am

Using AI-Powered Alert Analysis on ClickHouse® Databases in Cloud Environments

Robert Hodges, Altinity

ClickHouseAI

11:20am → 11:50am

Migrating 155 SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL at Scale: A Health care Success Story

Avinash Vallarapu, HexaCluster · Rahul Jain, Cognizant

PostgreSQL

11:20am → 11:50am

Accelerating Cloud Migrations with MyDumper

David Ducos, Percona

MySQLCloud

11:20am → 11:50am

The Secret life of Alerting

Tibor Korocz, Percona

PMM

11:55am

11:55am → 12:25pm

TLS for Self-Managed MongoDB: Let’s Encrypt, mTLS, and the Future of Public Certs

Adamo Tonete, Amach · Jhonis de Souza, Trilogy

MongoDB

11:55am → 12:25pm

Your AI DBA Will Hallucinate During an Outage

Fernando Ipar, Life360 · Andrew Morgan, SIXTA

11:55am → 12:25pm

Take care of the bits and the gigabytes take care of themselves

Kyle Davis, Percona

Valkey

11:55am → 12:25pm

Surviving Database Migrations: Ambitious and a little crazy

Zander Hill, Plaid

MySQL

12:30pm

12:30pm → 1:00pm

Tales from the Trenches: How Caches Fail at Scale

Madelyn Olson, AWS

Valkey

12:30pm → 1:00pm

The Hidden Lives of Temp Tables: Unraveling MySQL Internal Management

Gabriel Ciciliani, Releem

MySQL

12:30pm → 1:00pm

The Importance of Realistic Benchmarks

Daniel Almeida, Percona

MongoDB

12:30pm → 1:00pm

What’s New in PMM: Real-Time Entities, HA, and More (Live Demos)

Tihomir Hadzhiev, Percona · Tibor Korocz, Percona

PMM

1:00pm

BREAK 1:00pm → 2:00pm

Lunch

2:05pm

2:05pm → 2:35pm

Pinterest's AI DBA

Istvan Podor, Pinterest

2:05pm → 2:35pm

When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story

Sergey Pronin, Solanica

Cloud

2:05pm → 2:35pm

What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?

Robert Hodges, Altinity

ClickHouse

2:05pm → 2:35pm

Supercharging LLM Inference: KV Caching with Valkey

Chaitanya Nuthalapati, AWS

Valkey

2:40pm

2:40pm → 3:10pm

MySQL Time Travel: A Safety Net for AI Agents in Production

Daniel Guzman Burgos, DBTrail

MySQLAI

2:40pm → 3:10pm

Lessons Learned Extending Postgres: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Jonah Harris, NEXTGRES

PostgreSQL

2:40pm → 3:10pm

One App, Three Databases: Why Motion uses MongoDB, Elasticsearch, & PostgreSQL — & keeping them all

David Murphy, Motion

MongoDBElasticsearchPostgreSQL

2:40pm → 3:10pm

Auto-tuning the InnoDB Buffer Pool

Julia Offerman, Google

MySQL

3:10pm

BREAK 3:10pm → 3:40pm

Break

3:45pm

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Backing the Right Horse to Run MongoDB

Kim Thomas, Fiserv

MongoDB

3:45pm → 4:15pm

ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database

Ronald Bradford, ProxySQL · René Cannaò, ProxySQL

ProxySQLPostgreSQL

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Microsecond Latency at Terabyte Scale: Inside Valkey Search

Allen Samuels, Valkey · Karthik Subbarao, Valkey

Valkey

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Streaming MySQL Changes to ClickHouse: Designing an End to End CDC Pipeline

Javier Zon, ScaleDB

MySQL

4:20pm

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Streamlining MongoDB Deployments with Kubernetes Operators

Ivan Groenewold, Percona

MongoDB

4:20pm → 4:50pm

pgvector: Advanced Vector Data Management in PostgreSQL

Agustin Gallego, Percona

PostgreSQLAI

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Your LLM Will Drop That Table: Making AI-Assisted Database Work Safe

David Murphy, Motion

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Opportunities in databases/data engineering and SQL

Dharam Pal Singh, Mphasis

MySQLPostgreSQLValkey

5:30pm

EXHIBIT 5:30pm → 7:00pm

Booth Crawl in the Grand Hall (Food and Drinks Provided)

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Hanh

Lovelace

Boole

Learning Lab

Grand Hall

8:00am

BREAK 8:00am → 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am

KEYNOTE 8:45am → 9:15am

Driving Innovation in MySQL with Extensions

Dominic Preuss, VillageSQL · Tomas Ulin, VillageSQL

9:15am

KEYNOTE 9:15am → 9:25am

The unreasonable effectiveness of key/value databases

Kyle Davis, Percona

9:25am

KEYNOTE 9:25am → 9:35am

Driving fully open source enterprise readiness for Postgres

Alastair Turner, Percona

9:35am

KEYNOTE 9:35am → 9:50am

Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI

Tihomir Hadzhiev, Percona

9:50am

KEYNOTE 9:50am → 10:00am

Open Software for MongoDB: Where Percona Fits

Ivan Groenewold, Percona

10:00am

KEYNOTE 10:00am → 10:30am

Scaling Global User Management in MySQL with ProxySQL

Jakob Lorberblatt, DigitalOcean

10:30am

KEYNOTE 10:30am → 10:45am

The Path to MySQL Open Innovation

Heather VanCura, Oracle

10:50am

EXHIBIT 10:50am → 5:30pm

Sponsor Exhibit Showcase in the Grand Hall

10:50am

BREAK 10:50am → 11:15am

Break

11:20am

11:20am → 11:50am

Improving PostgreSQL Join Estimates: Statistics and Beyond

Alexandra Wang, EDB

PostgreSQL

11:20am → 11:50am

CCC Intelligent Solutions Achieves Improved Efficiency with Oracle to AWS PostgreSQL

Subrat Mishra, CCC Intelligent Solutions

PostgreSQL

11:20am → 11:50am

From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit

Sveta Smirnova, Percona

MySQL

11:20am → 11:50am

Why Your Database Fails in AWS (And It’s Not the Database’s Fault)

Jhonis de Souza, Trilogy · Adamo Tonete, Amach

Cloud

11:55am

11:55am → 12:25pm

Grounded Intelligence: Boosting LLMs with Real-Time Graph Context

Nyah Macklin, Neo4j

11:55am → 12:25pm

Prompt-to-Performance: Speeding Up Database Administration with AI and Claude Code

Kevin Markwardt, Flex

11:55am → 12:25pm

Autopilot With Guardrails: Designing AI-Assisted Database Operations Without Losing Control

Eero Teerikorpi, Continuent

11:55am → 12:25pm

Breaking Through AI Workload Bottlenecks: How OceanBase’s AI-Native Capabilities Empower Enterprise

Echo Li, OceanBase

12:30pm

12:30pm → 1:00pm

From Atlas to EKS: How to Stay Sane — and Save 45% — During a Large‑Scale MongoDB Migration

Yurii Olshanetskyi, NielsenIQ

MongoDB

12:30pm → 1:00pm

Composing a Multi-Database DBaaS from Open Source Kubernetes Operators

George Kechagias, Percona

Cloud

12:30pm → 1:00pm

Design Considerations for a simple Extension Framework For MySQL

Dan Bentley, VillageSQL

MySQL

12:30pm → 1:00pm

The Next Chapter of MySQL: What’s new in Versions 9.7

Scott Stroz, Oracle

MySQL

1:00pm

BREAK 1:00pm → 2:00pm

Lunch

2:05pm

2:05pm → 2:35pm

RDS is Crap

Corey Quinn, Duckbill

Cloud

2:05pm → 2:35pm

DBdeployer: Bringing the project back to life in 2026

Roberto Garcia de Bem, Percona

PostgreSQLMySQL

2:05pm → 2:35pm

Bringing Vector Search to OLTP

Shu Zhou, Google

MySQLCloud

2:05pm → 2:35pm

Solving MySQL Scalability with Adaptive IO

Krunal Bauskar, Google

MySQL

2:40pm

2:40pm → 3:10pm

Beyond Manual Caching: How Readyset Offloads MySQL and Postgres Workloads

Vinicius Grippa, ReadySet

MySQLPostgreSQL

2:40pm → 3:10pm

Efficient and Consistent Time-to-Live (TTL) Implementation in MyRocks at Meta

Abhinav Sharma, Meta

MySQL

2:40pm → 3:10pm

The Invisible Charset That Silently Breaks MySQL Replication

Parisa Jamasbi, PayPal

MySQL

2:40pm → 3:10pm

MySQL Binary Logs: From Replication Tool to Enterprise Event Platform

Brijesh Patel, CWAN

MySQL

3:10pm

BREAK 3:10pm → 3:40pm

Break

3:45pm

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Open-Source DBs on VKS: Automated DBaaS via Percona & VMware Cloud Foundation

Christian Rauber, Broadcom

Cloud

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Active Security Honeypot for MySQL and PostgreSQL: protecting databases from ransomware attacks

Alexander Rubin, AWS

MySQLPostgreSQL

3:45pm → 4:15pm

MySQL 8.4 Upgrade: Proven Best Practices for Zero-Surprise Production Migrations

Alok Pathak, Percona · Abhinav Gupta, Percona

MySQL

3:45pm → 4:15pm

Percona docStreamer: Migrating from Amazon DocumentDB to MongoDB

Daniel Almeida, Percona

MongoDB

4:20pm

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads

Avi Press, Scarf

Open Source

4:20pm → 4:50pm

valkey-swift: Lessons from building a production-grade Valkey client library in Swift

Nilanshu Sharma, Apple

Valkey

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Stop Performance Regressions Before Release: Valkey’s CI Benchmarking

Roberto Luna Rojas, Valkey · Roshan Khatri, Valkey

Valkey

4:20pm → 4:50pm

Store Your AI Agent's Memory and Context in a Knowledge Graph

Guy Lubovitch, FalkorDB

4:50pm

EXHIBIT 4:50pm → 5:30pm

Sponsor Exhibit Showcase in the Grand Hall

Friday, May 29, 2026

Hanh

Lovelace

Boole

Learning Lab

9:00am

BREAK 9:00am → 9:30am

Breakfast

9:30am

9:30am → 12:30pm

Beyond apt install: Building Safe MySQL Test Environments

Sveta Smirnova, Percona

MySQL

9:30am → 12:30pm

Build Real-Time Discovery and Recommendations with Valkey Search

Karthik Subbarao, Valkey · Allen Samuels, Valkey

Valkey

9:30am → 12:30pm

Building Highly Scalable PostgreSQL Platforms: Internals, Tuning, HA Automation

Avinash Vallarapu, HexaCluster

PostgreSQL

9:30am → 12:30pm

Hands-On PMM 3: Building a Professional Database Observability Stack

Michael Coburn, Percona · Tibor Korocz, Percona

PMM

11:10am

BREAK 11:10am → 11:25am

Break

11:25am

↩ continues 11:25am → 12:30pm

Beyond apt install: Building Safe MySQL Test Environments

Sveta Smirnova, Percona

MySQL

↩ continues 11:25am → 12:30pm

Build Real-Time Discovery and Recommendations with Valkey Search

Karthik Subbarao, Valkey · Allen Samuels, Valkey

Valkey

↩ continues 11:25am → 12:30pm

Building Highly Scalable PostgreSQL Platforms: Internals, Tuning, HA Automation

Avinash Vallarapu, HexaCluster

PostgreSQL

↩ continues 11:25am → 12:30pm

Hands-On PMM 3: Building a Professional Database Observability Stack

Michael Coburn, Percona · Tibor Korocz, Percona

PMM

12:30pm

BREAK 12:30pm → 1:30pm

Lunch

1:35pm

1:35pm → 4:35pm

MongoDB on Kubernetes 101: A Hands-On Guide

Michal Nosek, Percona

MongoDBCloud

1:35pm → 4:35pm

Migrating to MySQL High Availability with PXC

Matthew Boehm, Percona

MySQL

1:35pm → 4:35pm

Postgres DBA Accellerator

Alastair Turner, Percona · Elizabeth Christensen, Snowflake

PostgreSQL

1:35pm → 4:35pm

Cache me if you can, Valkey edition

Roberto Luna Rojas, Valkey · Adrian Luna Rojas, KForce

Valkey

3:05pm

BREAK 3:05pm → 3:25pm

Break

3:25pm

↩ continues 3:25pm → 4:35pm

MongoDB on Kubernetes 101: A Hands-On Guide

Michal Nosek, Percona

MongoDBCloud

↩ continues 3:25pm → 4:35pm

Migrating to MySQL High Availability with PXC

Matthew Boehm, Percona

MySQL

↩ continues 3:25pm → 4:35pm

Postgres DBA Accellerator

Alastair Turner, Percona · Elizabeth Christensen, Snowflake

PostgreSQL

↩ continues 3:25pm → 4:35pm

Cache me if you can, Valkey edition

Roberto Luna Rojas, Valkey · Adrian Luna Rojas, KForce

Valkey

4:35pm

CLOSING 4:35pm

That's a wrap — thank you! See you in Amsterdam →