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preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days

At a glance

Next event
Jan 28–29, 2027Brussels, Belgium
Call for papers
Open until Nov 30, 202621 days left
Audience
150 attendees2025
Tickets
Free1 price, 2025
Sponsorship
Packages not published
Sponsors
No sponsor lists
Program freshness
95#76 of 143 · 0% reruns
Similar conferences
MySQL BR Conf, MySQL & HeatWave Summit, Percona Live
Organizer
Oracle MySQL Community Team
Category
Database
Website
mysqlandfriends.eu
Social
X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Mastodon · YouTube
Typical place
Brussels, Belgium
Topics
Database systems

Free, registration-only fringe event run by Oracle's MySQL Community Team in Brussels on the Thursday/Friday before FOSDEM, at the ICAB Incubator (Etterbeek). Started in 2017 as the one-day 'pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day' (lefred's posts say 'since 2017' and, once, 'since 2018'); the 2019 edition was the third. Two days from 2020 ('pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days'); renamed 'MySQL Belgian Days' in 2024 when FOSDEM rejected the MySQL devroom, then 'preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days' (2025-2026); the 2027 call for papers uses 'MySQL Belgian Days 2027'. No editions in 2021-2022 (FOSDEM was online). Typically day 1 is community/ecosystem speakers and day 2 Oracle MySQL engineers, ending with the MySQL Rockstar awards; the Belgian 'Party Squad' community dinner (separately ticketed) follows on Friday night. 2017-2018 editions are before this database's scope. No sponsor lists are published (Oracle hosts; logos on mysqlandfriends.eu relate to the community dinner and devroom, not the Belgian Days). Social accounts are Oracle MySQL's (the event has none of its own); Mastodon is the MySQL Community account linked from mysqlandfriends.eu.

Speakers it attracts

The 64 people who spoke at preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.

25%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 78% of conferences
8have keynoted another conference
27%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit
Where they work (43 with a known employer type)Vendors 79%Practitioners (end-user companies) 19%Universities & research 2%

Most established speakers

Events72019–2027
Sponsoring companies00 sponsorships
Speaker appearances159

Activity by year

Sponsors

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.

No sponsor lists recorded

Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

0204020192020202120222023202420252026
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Events

DatesEventPlaceFormat / statusAttendanceSponsorsSpeakers
Jan 28–29, 2027MySQL Belgian Days 2027Brussels, BelgiumAnnounced———
Jan 29–30, 2026preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026Brussels, Belgium——46
Jan 30–31, 2025preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2025Brussels, Belgium150—23
Feb 1–2, 2024MySQL Belgian Days 2024Brussels, Belgium120—28
Feb 2–3, 2023preFOSDEM MySQL Days 2023Brussels, Belgium——17
Jan 30–31, 2020preFOSDEM MySQL Days 2020Brussels, Belgium——34
Feb 1, 2019pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day 2019Brussels, Belgium110—11

Attendance over time

075150201920242025

Reported attendance for 3 of 7 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

Oracle77Percona13Uber6Booking.com5PlanetScale5ProxySQL4VillageSQL2Altinity1Canonical1CERN1DBdeployer1GitHub1Huawei1Jump Trading1Meta1

Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

Similar conferences

Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.

  1. MySQL BR Conf0.50
  2. MySQL & HeatWave Summit0.35
  3. Percona Live0.35
  4. FOSDEM0.23
  5. Oracle AI World0.17

0 Cluster: Google · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft crowd →

Sponsors over the years

No sponsors recorded

Sources