Conferences / Percona Live
Percona Live 2026 Bay Area
May 27–29, 2026 · Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, United States
- Conference
- Percona Live Database
- Dates
- May 27, 2026 – May 29, 2026
- Venue
- Computer History Museum
- Place
- Mountain View, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- perconalive.com
- Recorded
- 13 sponsors · 96 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First Percona Live in-person conference since Denver 2023 (Percona replaced the 2024 conference with one-day Percona.Connect city events). Two days of sessions (May 27-28) plus a hands-on workshop day (May 29). Speakers: all sessions from the official talk pages (one row per speaker per session; breaks/exhibit excluded); video_url from the site videos page (YouTube), slides_url from the site slides page. Ticket prices were sold via EventCreate; only the Super Early Bird rate is quoted on the archived site.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Early Bird | $399 | Mar 22, 2026 | Registration page: "Super Early Bird pricing ($399) for Percona Live ends March 22". Other tiers not published on the site. | perconalive.com |
Sponsors 13
Platinum 3
- Amazon Web Services · Platinum Sponsor
- VillageSQL · Platinum Sponsor
- VMware · Platinum Sponsor
Gold 1
- NEXTGRES · Gold Sponsor
Silver 7
Media 1
- The New Stack · Media Sponsor
Other 1
- Chainguard · T-Shirt Sponsor
Speakers and talks 96
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Keynote | Driving fully open source enterprise readiness for Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Andy Pavlo | Carnegie Mellon University | Keynote | Databases: The Final Boss of Agents | Video |
| Dominic Preuss | VillageSQL | Keynote | Driving Innovation in MySQL with Extensions | SlidesVideo |
| George Kechagias | Percona | Keynote | One Platform, Three Engines: Open Source DBaaS Patterns on Kubernetes | SlidesVideo |
| Heather VanCura | Oracle | Keynote | The Path to MySQL Open Innovation | Video |
| Ivan Groenewold | Percona | Keynote | Open Software for MongoDB: Where Percona Fits | Video |
| Jakob Lorberblatt | DigitalOcean | Keynote | Scaling Global User Management in MySQL with ProxySQL | Video |
| Kate Obiidykhata | Percona | Keynote | One Platform, Three Engines: Open Source DBaaS Patterns on Kubernetes | SlidesVideo |
| Kyle Davis | Percona | Keynote | The unreasonable effectiveness of key/value databases | SlidesVideo |
| Madelyn Olson | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | From Our Customers to the Community: How AWS Contributes Upstream | Video |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Keynote | What Percona delivers for MySQL, and what's coming next | Video |
| Peter Farkas | Percona | Keynote | Welcome to Percona Live | Video |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona | Keynote | The State of Open Source Database Ecosystem in 2026 | Video |
| Tihomir Hadzhiev | Percona | Keynote | Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI | Video |
| Tomas Ulin | VillageSQL | Keynote | Driving Innovation in MySQL with Extensions | SlidesVideo |
| Vadim Tkachenko | Percona | Keynote | OurSQL Foundation - the future of MySQL Ecosystem | Video |
| Abhinav Gupta | Percona | Speaker | MySQL 8.4 Upgrade: Proven Best Practices for Zero-Surprise Production Migrations | SlidesVideo |
| Abhinav Sharma | Meta | Speaker | Efficient and Consistent Time-to-Live (TTL) Implementation in MyRocks at Meta | SlidesVideo |
| Adamo Tonete | Amach | Speaker | TLS for Self-Managed MongoDB: Let’s Encrypt, mTLS, and the Future of Public Certs | SlidesVideo |
| Adamo Tonete | Amach | Speaker | Why Your Database Fails in AWS (And It’s Not the Database’s Fault) | SlidesVideo |
| Adrian Luna Rojas | Kforce | Workshop | Cache me if you can, Valkey edition | — |
| Agustin Gallego | Percona | Speaker | pgvector: Advanced Vector Data Management in PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Workshop | Postgres DBA Accellerator | — |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Speaker | Follow my Leader - connecting Postgres client applications after server failover | SlidesVideo |
| Alexander Rubin | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Active Security Honeypot for MySQL and PostgreSQL: protecting databases from ransomware attacks | Video |
| Alexandra Wang | EDB | Speaker | Improving PostgreSQL Join Estimates: Statistics and Beyond | Video |
| Allen Samuels | Valkey | Workshop | Build Real-Time Discovery and Recommendations with Valkey Search | — |
| Allen Samuels | Valkey | Speaker | Microsecond Latency at Terabyte Scale: Inside Valkey Search | Video |
| Alok Pathak | Percona | Speaker | MySQL 8.4 Upgrade: Proven Best Practices for Zero-Surprise Production Migrations | SlidesVideo |
| Andrew Morgan | SIXTA | Speaker | Your AI DBA Will Hallucinate During an Outage | Video |
| Avi Press | Scarf | Speaker | Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads | SlidesVideo |
| Avinash Vallarapu | HexaCluster | Workshop | Building Highly Scalable PostgreSQL Platforms: Internals, Tuning, HA Automation | — |
| Avinash Vallarapu | HexaCluster | Speaker | Migrating 155 SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL at Scale: A Health care Success Story | Video |
| Brijesh Patel | CWAN | Speaker | MySQL Binary Logs: From Replication Tool to Enterprise Event Platform | SlidesVideo |
| Chaitanya Nuthalapati | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Supercharging LLM Inference: KV Caching with Valkey | Video |
| Christian Rauber | Broadcom | Speaker | Open-Source DBs on VKS: Automated DBaaS via Percona & VMware Cloud Foundation | Video |
| Corey Quinn | The Duckbill Group | Speaker | RDS is Crap | Video |
| Dan Bentley | VillageSQL | Speaker | Design Considerations for a simple Extension Framework For MySQL | Video |
| Daniel Almeida | Percona | Speaker | The Importance of Realistic Benchmarks | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Almeida | Percona | Speaker | Percona docStreamer: Migrating from Amazon DocumentDB to MongoDB | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Guzman Burgos | DBTrail | Speaker | MySQL Time Travel: A Safety Net for AI Agents in Production | Video |
| David Ducos | Percona | Speaker | Accelerating Cloud Migrations with MyDumper | Video |
| David Murphy | Motion | Speaker | One App, Three Databases: Why Motion uses MongoDB, Elasticsearch, & PostgreSQL — & keeping them all | Video |
| David Murphy | Motion | Speaker | Your LLM Will Drop That Table: Making AI-Assisted Database Work Safe | — |
| Dharam Pal Singh | Mphasis | Speaker | Opportunities in databases/data engineering and SQL | — |
| Eero Teerikorpi | Continuent | Speaker | Autopilot With Guardrails: Designing AI-Assisted Database Operations Without Losing Control | Video |
| Elizabeth Christensen | Snowflake | Workshop | Postgres DBA Accellerator | — |
| Fernando Ipar | Life360 | Speaker | Your AI DBA Will Hallucinate During an Outage | Video |
| Gabriel Ciciliani | Releem | Speaker | The Hidden Lives of Temp Tables: Unraveling MySQL Internal Management | Video |
| George Kechagias | Percona | Speaker | Composing a Multi-Database DBaaS from Open Source Kubernetes Operators | SlidesVideo |
| Guy Lubovitch | FalkorDB | Speaker | Store Your AI Agent's Memory and Context in a Knowledge Graph | SlidesVideo |
| Istvan Podor | Speaker | Pinterest's AI DBA | SlidesVideo | |
| Ivan Groenewold | Percona | Speaker | Streamlining MongoDB Deployments with Kubernetes Operators | SlidesVideo |
| Javier Zon | ScaleDB | Speaker | Streaming MySQL Changes to ClickHouse: Designing an End to End CDC Pipeline | SlidesVideo |
| Jhonis de Souza | Trilogy | Speaker | TLS for Self-Managed MongoDB: Let’s Encrypt, mTLS, and the Future of Public Certs | SlidesVideo |
| Jhonis de Souza | Trilogy | Speaker | Why Your Database Fails in AWS (And It’s Not the Database’s Fault) | SlidesVideo |
| Jonah Harris | NEXTGRES | Speaker | Lessons Learned Extending Postgres: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Video |
| Julia Offerman | Speaker | Auto-tuning the InnoDB Buffer Pool | Video | |
| Karthik Subbarao | Valkey | Workshop | Build Real-Time Discovery and Recommendations with Valkey Search | — |
| Karthik Subbarao | Valkey | Speaker | Microsecond Latency at Terabyte Scale: Inside Valkey Search | Video |
| Kevin Markwardt | Flex | Speaker | Prompt-to-Performance: Speeding Up Database Administration with AI and Claude Code | SlidesVideo |
| Krunal Bauskar | Speaker | Solving MySQL Scalability with Adaptive IO | Video | |
| Kyle Avants | Percona | Speaker | Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes | Video |
| Kyle Davis | Percona | Speaker | Take care of the bits and the gigabytes take care of themselves | Video |
| Madelyn Olson | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Tales from the Trenches: How Caches Fail at Scale | Video |
| Matthew Boehm | Percona | Workshop | Migrating to MySQL High Availability with PXC | — |
| Michael Coburn | Percona | Workshop | Hands-On PMM 3: Building a Professional Database Observability Stack | Slides |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Workshop | MongoDB on Kubernetes 101: A Hands-On Guide | Slides |
| Nyah Macklin | Neo4j | Speaker | Grounded Intelligence: Boosting LLMs with Real-Time Graph Context | — |
| Parisa Jamasbi | PayPal | Speaker | The Invisible Charset That Silently Breaks MySQL Replication | Video |
| Rahul Jain | Cognizant | Speaker | Migrating 155 SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL at Scale: A Health care Success Story | Video |
| René Cannaò | ProxySQL | Speaker | ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database | SlidesVideo |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | Using AI-Powered Alert Analysis on ClickHouse® Databases in Cloud Environments | Video |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? | Video |
| Roberto Garcia de Bem | Percona | Speaker | DBdeployer: Bringing the project back to life in 2026 | SlidesVideo |
| Roberto Luna Rojas | Valkey | Workshop | Cache me if you can, Valkey edition | — |
| Roberto Luna Rojas | Valkey | Speaker | Stop Performance Regressions Before Release: Valkey’s CI Benchmarking | Video |
| Ronald Bradford | ProxySQL | Speaker | ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database | SlidesVideo |
| Roshan Khatri | Valkey | Speaker | Stop Performance Regressions Before Release: Valkey’s CI Benchmarking | Video |
| Scott Stroz | Oracle | Speaker | The Next Chapter of MySQL: What’s new in Versions 9.7 | Video |
| Sergey Pronin | Solanica | Speaker | When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story | SlidesVideo |
| Shu Zhou | Speaker | Bringing Vector Search to OLTP | Video | |
| Subrat Mishra | CCC Intelligent Solutions | Speaker | CCC Intelligent Solutions Achieves Improved Efficiency with Oracle to AWS PostgreSQL | Video |
| Sveta Smirnova | Percona | Workshop | Beyond apt install: Building Safe MySQL Test Environments | Slides |
| Sveta Smirnova | Percona | Speaker | From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit | SlidesVideo |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Speaker | The Secret life of Alerting | Slides |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Speaker | What’s New in PMM: Real-Time Entities, HA, and More (Live Demos) | Slides |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Workshop | Hands-On PMM 3: Building a Professional Database Observability Stack | Slides |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Speaker | Advisors in PMM: What Should Intelligent Monitoring Actually Look Like? | — |
| Tihomir Hadzhiev | Percona | Speaker | What’s New in PMM: Real-Time Entities, HA, and More (Live Demos) | Slides |
| Tihomir Hadzhiev | Percona | Speaker | Advisors in PMM: What Should Intelligent Monitoring Actually Look Like? | — |
| Victor Cui | OceanBase | Speaker | Breaking Through AI Workload Bottlenecks: How OceanBase’s AI-Native Capabilities Empower Enterprise | SlidesVideo |
| Vinicius Grippa | Readyset | Speaker | Beyond Manual Caching: How Readyset Offloads MySQL and Postgres Workloads | Slides |
| Yurii Olshanetskyi | NielsenIQ | Speaker | From Scripts to a Self-Healing MySQL Platform: The Evolution of Our MySQL Automation Infrastructure | — |
| Yurii Olshanetskyi | NielsenIQ | Speaker | From Atlas to EKS: How to Stay Sane — and Save 45% — During a Large‑Scale MongoDB Migration | SlidesVideo |
| Zander Hill | Plaid | Speaker | Surviving Database Migrations: Ambitious and a little crazy | — |
Sources
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/talks/
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/videos/
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/slides/
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/registration/
- https://perconalive.com/2026-usa/venue/
- https://perconalive.com/llms.txt
- https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-live-2026-is-back-in-the-bay-area-heres-why-you-dont-want-to-miss-it/