Talks
Approved talks for Percona Live 2026 Bay Area.
More talks are being confirmed and will be added.
Full schedule with dates, times, and rooms will be published soon.
Sessions
Accelerating Cloud Migrations with MyDumper
David Ducos
Senior Architect
Percona
Advisors in PMM: What Should Intelligent Monitoring Actually Look Like?
Tihomir Hadzhiev
PMM Product Manager
Percona
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
AI-Powered Alert Analysis with ClickHouse Cloud Databases
Alkin Tezuysal
Director of Services at Altinity Inc
Altinity
Auto-tuning the InnoDB Buffer Pool
Julia Offerman
Google - Software Engineer
Google
Autopilot With Guardrails: Designing AI-Assisted Database Operations Without Losing Control
Eero Teerikorpi
CEO, Continuent
Beyond Manual Caching: How Readyset Offloads MySQL and Postgres Workloads
Vinicius Grippa
Lead Database Engineer @ Readyset
Readyset
Breaking Through AI Workload Bottlenecks: How OceanBase’s AI-Native Capabilities Empower Enterprise
Echo Li
Oceanbase, Senior Solutions Architect
Oceanbase
CCC Intelligent Solutions Achieves Improved Efficiency with Oracle to AWS PostgreSQL
Subrat Mishra
A leader in with a transformative mindset to enable CCC in implementing digitization with database modernization which enables CCC to achieve better scaling and efficiency and freedom from Oracle.
CCC
DBdeployer: Bringing the project back to life in 2026
Roberto Garcia de Bem
Database Engineer - Percona
Percona
Design Considerations for a simple Extension Framework For MySQL
Dominic Preuss
CEO & Co-Founder
VillageSQL
Driving Innovation in MySQL with Extensions
Dominic Preuss
CEO & Co-Founder
VillageSQL
Efficient and Consistent Time-to-Live (TTL) Implementation in MyRocks at Meta
Abhinav Sharma
Software Engineer, Meta
Meta
From Atlas to EKS: How to Stay Sane — and Save 45% — During a Large‑Scale MongoDB Migration
Yurii Olshanetskyi
Principal Data Engineer | Lead DBA at NielsenIQ
From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit
Sveta Smirnova
Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona
Percona
Improving PostgreSQL Join Estimates: Statistics and Beyond
Alexandra Wang
EDB, Software Engineer
EDB
Lessons Learned Extending Postgres: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jonah Harris
CEO and Co-Founder, NEXTGRES
NEXTGRES
Microsecond Latency at Terabyte Scale: Inside Valkey Search
Allen Samuels
Principal Engineer at AWS
Valkey
Karthik Subbarao
Senior Engineer, Amazon ElastiCache
Valkey
Migrating 155 SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL at Scale: A Health care Success Story
Avinash Vallarapu
HexaCluster, CEO, Database Specialist
HexaCluster
Rahul Jain
Director - Database, Cloud & Security at Cognizant.
Cognizant
MySQL 8.4 Upgrade: Proven Best Practices for Zero-Surprise Production Migrations
Alok Pathak
Principal Database Administrator, Percona
Percona
Abhinav Gupta
Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Percona
Percona
MySQL Binary Logs: From Replication Tool to Enterprise Event Platform
Brijesh Patel
CWAN, Principal Database Administrator
CWAN
One App, Three Databases: Why Motion uses MongoDB, Elasticsearch, & PostgreSQL — & keeping them all
David Murphy
28 years across MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and beyond. Still shipping code. Still breaking things in staging, not production.
Motion
Opportunities in databases/data engineering and SQL
Dharam Pal Singh
Mphasis . Data Architect
Mphasis
Percona docStreamer: Migrating from Amazon DocumentDB to MongoDB
Daniel Almeida
Professional Services Consultant
Percona
Pinterest's AI DBA
Istvan Podor
MySQL Teach Lead at Pinterest Inc
Pinterest
ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database
Ronald Bradford
CTO - ProxySQL
ProxySQL
RDS is Crap
Corey Quinn
Chief Cloud Economist, Duckbill
Duckbill
Solving MySQL Scalability with Adaptive IO
Krunal Bauskar
Google - Engineer
Google
Streaming MySQL Changes to ClickHouse: Designing an End to End CDC Pipeline
Javier Zon
Founder of ScaleDB
ScaleDB
Streamlining MongoDB Deployments with Kubernetes Operators
Ivan Groenewold
Tech Lead
Percona
Supercharging LLM Inference: KV Caching with Valkey
Chaitanya Nuthalapati
Technical Product Manager, Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon
Surviving Database Migrations: Ambitious and a little crazy
Zander Hill
Database Wrangler and Engineering Leader
Plaid
Take care of the bits and the gigabytes take care of themselves
Kyle Davis
General Manager, Redis/Valkey Ecosystem @ Percona
Percona
Tales from the Trenches: How Caches Fail at Scale
Madelyn Olson
Principal Software Development Engineer, AWS
Amazon
The Importance of Realistic Benchmarks
Daniel Almeida
Professional Services Consultant
Percona
The Secret life of Alerting
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
TLS for Self-Managed MongoDB: Let’s Encrypt, mTLS, and the Future of Public Certs
Adamo Tonete
MongoDB SME at Amach
Aer Lingus * Amach
Jhonis de Souza
Senior DevOps at Trilogy
Aer Lingus * Amach
What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
Robert Hodges
CEO at Altinity
Altinity
What’s New in PMM: Real-Time Entities, HA, and More (Live Demos)
Tihomir Hadzhiev
PMM Product Manager
Percona
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story
Sergey Pronin
Solanica, Founder
Why Your Database Fails in AWS (And It’s Not the Database’s Fault)
Jhonis de Souza
Senior DevOps at Trilogy
Aer Lingus * Amach
Adamo Tonete
MongoDB SME at Amach
Aer Lingus * Amach
Your LLM Will Drop That Table: Making AI-Assisted Database Work Safe
David Murphy
28 years across MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and beyond. Still shipping code. Still breaking things in staging, not production.
Motion
Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB
Inel Pandzic
Senior Software Engineer
Percona
Workshops
Hands-On PMM 3: Building a Professional Database Observability Stack
Michael Coburn
Principal Architect at Percona | Open Source Database & Observability Expert
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
Postgres DBA Accellerator
Alastair Turner
Postgres and Community @ Percona
Elizabeth Christensen
Postgres @ Snowflake
