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Keynotes

Sessions

Accelerating Cloud Migrations with MyDumper
David Ducos
David Ducos
Senior Architect
Percona
Active Security Honeypot for MySQL and PostgreSQL: protecting databases from ransomware attacks
Alexander Rubin
Alexander Rubin
Principal Security Engineer, RDS Red Team Lead, Amazon Web Services
Advisors in PMM: What Should Intelligent Monitoring Actually Look Like?
Tihomir Hadzhiev
Tihomir Hadzhiev
PMM Product Manager
Percona
Tibor Korocz
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
AI-Powered Alert Analysis with ClickHouse Cloud Databases
Robert Hodges
Robert Hodges
CEO at Altinity
Altinity
Auto-tuning the InnoDB Buffer Pool
Julia Offerman
Julia Offerman
Google - Software Engineer
Google
Autopilot With Guardrails: Designing AI-Assisted Database Operations Without Losing Control
Eero Teerikorpi
Eero Teerikorpi
CEO, Continuent
Continuent
Backing the Right Horse to Run MongoDB
Kim Thomas
Kim Thomas
Database Architect, Fiserv
Fiserv
Beyond Manual Caching: How Readyset Offloads MySQL and Postgres Workloads
Vinicius Grippa
Vinicius Grippa
Lead Database Engineer @ Readyset
Readyset
Breaking Through AI Workload Bottlenecks: How OceanBase’s AI-Native Capabilities Empower Enterprise
Echo Li
Echo Li
Oceanbase, Senior Solutions Architect
Oceanbase
Bringing Vector Search to OLTP
Shu Zhou
Shu Zhou
SWE @ Google
Google
CCC Intelligent Solutions Achieves Improved Efficiency with Oracle to AWS PostgreSQL
Subrat Mishra
Subrat Mishra
VP, Technology
CCC Intelligent Solutions
DBdeployer: Bringing the project back to life in 2026
Roberto Garcia de Bem
Roberto Garcia de Bem
Database Engineer - Percona
Percona
dbtrail: Know What Changed. Undo What Broke. Just by Asking. State-of-the-Art Data Recovery for MySQL
Daniel Guzman Burgos
Daniel Guzman Burgos
Creator & Database Engineer
dbtrail
Design Considerations for a simple Extension Framework For MySQL
Dominic Preuss
Dominic Preuss
CEO & Co-Founder
VillageSQL
Efficient and Consistent Time-to-Live (TTL) Implementation in MyRocks at Meta
Abhinav Sharma
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
Yurii Olshanetskyi
Principal Data Engineer | Lead DBA at NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ
From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit
Sveta Smirnova
Sveta Smirnova
Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona
Percona
From Scripts to a Self-Healing MySQL Platform: The Evolution of Our MySQL Automation Infrastructure
Yurii Olshanetskyi
Yurii Olshanetskyi
Principal Data Engineer | Lead DBA at NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ
Grounded Intelligence: Boosting LLMs with Real-Time Graph Context
Nyah Macklin
Nyah Macklin
Developer Relations | Keynote Speaker | Community Builder
Improving PostgreSQL Join Estimates: Statistics and Beyond
Alexandra Wang
Alexandra Wang
EDB, Software Engineer
EDB
Lessons Learned Extending Postgres: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jonah Harris
Jonah Harris
CEO and Co-Founder, NEXTGRES
NEXTGRES
Microsecond Latency at Terabyte Scale: Inside Valkey Search
Allen Samuels
Allen Samuels
Principal Engineer at AWS
Valkey
Karthik Subbarao
Karthik Subbarao
Senior Engineer, Amazon ElastiCache
Valkey
Migrating 155 SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL at Scale: A Health care Success Story
Avinash Vallarapu
Avinash Vallarapu
HexaCluster, CEO, Database Specialist
HexaCluster
Rahul Jain
Rahul Jain
Director - Database, Cloud & Security at Cognizant.
Cognizant
MySQL 8.4 Upgrade: Proven Best Practices for Zero-Surprise Production Migrations
Alok Pathak
Alok Pathak
Principal Database Administrator, Percona
Percona
Abhinav Gupta
Abhinav Gupta
Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Percona
Percona
MySQL Binary Logs: From Replication Tool to Enterprise Event Platform
Brijesh Patel
Brijesh Patel
CWAN, Principal Database Administrator
CWAN
MySQL's Next Chapter: Community-Driven Innovation
Scott Stroz
Scott Stroz
MySQL Developer Advocate
One App, Three Databases: Why Motion uses MongoDB, Elasticsearch, & PostgreSQL — & keeping them all
David Murphy
David Murphy
Senior Database Engineer
Motion
Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads
Avi Press
Avi Press
Founder and CEO at Scarf
Scarf
Opportunities in databases/data engineering and SQL
Dharam Pal Singh
Dharam Pal Singh
Mphasis . Data Architect
Mphasis
Percona docStreamer: Migrating from Amazon DocumentDB to MongoDB
Daniel Almeida
Daniel Almeida
Professional Services Consultant
Percona
pgvector: Advanced Vector Data Management in PostgreSQL
Agustin Gallego
Agustin Gallego
Lead Database Performance Engineer, Percona
Percona
Pinterest's AI DBA
Istvan Podor
Istvan Podor
MySQL Teach Lead at Pinterest Inc
Pinterest
Prompt-to-Performance: Speeding Up Database Administration with AI and Claude Code
Kevin Markwardt
Kevin Markwardt
Staff Engineer for Databases at Flex
Flex
ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database
Ronald Bradford
Ronald Bradford
CTO - ProxySQL
ProxySQL
René Cannaò
René Cannaò
ProxySQL, CEO
ProxySQL
RDS is Crap
Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn
Chief Cloud Economist, Duckbill
Duckbill
Solving MySQL Scalability with Adaptive IO
Krunal Bauskar
Krunal Bauskar
Google - Engineer
Google
Stop Performance Regressions Before Release: Valkey’s CI Benchmarking
Roberto Luna Rojas
Roberto Luna Rojas
Sr Developer Advocate for Valkey
Valkey
Roshan Khatri
Roshan Khatri
Software Engineer (AWS) | Valkey Contributor | Valkey JSON Maintainer
Valkey
Streaming MySQL Changes to ClickHouse: Designing an End to End CDC Pipeline
Javier Zon
Javier Zon
Founder of ScaleDB
ScaleDB
Streamlining MongoDB Deployments with Kubernetes Operators
Ivan Groenewold
Ivan Groenewold
Tech Lead
Percona
Supercharging LLM Inference: KV Caching with Valkey
Chaitanya Nuthalapati
Chaitanya Nuthalapati
Technical Product Manager, Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon
Surviving Database Migrations: Ambitious and a little crazy
Zander Hill
Zander Hill
Database Wrangler and Engineering Leader
Plaid
Take care of the bits and the gigabytes take care of themselves
Kyle Davis
Kyle Davis
General Manager, Redis/Valkey Ecosystem @ Percona
Percona
Tales from the Trenches: How Caches Fail at Scale
Madelyn Olson
Madelyn Olson
Principal Software Development Engineer, AWS
Amazon
The Hidden Lives of Temp Tables: Unraveling MySQL Internal Management
Gabriel Ciciliani
Gabriel Ciciliani
Releem
Releem
The Importance of Realistic Benchmarks
Daniel Almeida
Daniel Almeida
Professional Services Consultant
Percona
The Invisible Charset That Silently Breaks MySQL Replication
Parisa Jamasbi
Parisa Jamasbi
Senior Engineering Manager, Database Infrastructure
PayPal
The Secret life of Alerting
Tibor Korocz
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
TLS for Self-Managed MongoDB: Let’s Encrypt, mTLS, and the Future of Public Certs
Adamo Tonete
Adamo Tonete
MongoDB SME at Amach
Aer Lingus * Amach
Jhonis de Souza
Jhonis de Souza
Senior DevOps at Trilogy
Trilogy
valkey-swift: Lessons from building a production-grade Valkey client library in Swift
Nilanshu Sharma
Nilanshu Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Apple
What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
Robert Hodges
Robert Hodges
CEO at Altinity
Altinity
What’s New in PMM: Real-Time Entities, HA, and More (Live Demos)
Tihomir Hadzhiev
Tihomir Hadzhiev
PMM Product Manager
Percona
Tibor Korocz
Tibor Korocz
Percona, Observability
Percona
When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story
Sergey Pronin
Sergey Pronin
Solanica, Founder
Solanica
Why Your Database Fails in AWS (And It’s Not the Database’s Fault)
Jhonis de Souza
Jhonis de Souza
Senior DevOps at Trilogy
Trilogy
Adamo Tonete
Adamo Tonete
MongoDB SME at Amach
Aer Lingus * Amach
Your AI DBA Will Hallucinate During an Outage
Ewen Fortune
Ewen Fortune
Founder & CEO at SIXTA
SIXTA
Your LLM Will Drop That Table: Making AI-Assisted Database Work Safe
David Murphy
David Murphy
Senior Database Engineer
Motion
Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB
Inel Pandzic
Inel Pandzic
Senior Software Engineer
Percona

Workshops