Conferences / Percona Live
Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam
Sep 9–11, 2026 · Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Conference
- Percona Live Database
- Dates
- Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026
- Venue
- Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre
- Place
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- perconalive.com
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 106 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First European Percona Live since Amsterdam 2019. Speakers: all sessions from the official talk pages (one row per speaker per session; breaks/registration excluded). Talk pages for Amsterdam give only a role line, so affiliations come from the speaker directory company field where present (null when not given). video_url from embedded YouTube recordings / the site videos page. Ticket prices were sold via EventCreate (checkout now closed) and are not published on the site.
Ticket prices
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Sponsors 19
Platinum 2
- Amazon Web Services · Platinum Sponsor
- VillageSQL · Platinum Sponsor
Gold 1
- Liberatii · Gold Sponsor
Silver 7
Community 8
- BuildDevCon · Community Sponsor
- DBTrail · Community Sponsor
- MyDumper · Community Sponsor
- MySQL Brazil · Community Sponsor
- MyVector · Community Sponsor
- OpenEverest · Community Sponsor
- OurSQL Foundation · Community Sponsor
- PostgreSQL · Community Sponsor
Other 1
- OptimaData BV · Water Sponsor
Speakers and talks 106
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casper Coertze | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Upstream First: Building Databases, AI , Communities, and Trust | Video |
| Dennis Kittrell | Percona | Keynote | I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap | Video |
| Dominic Preuss | VillageSQL | Keynote | Eating an Elephant: Converting PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL | Video |
| Jan Wieremjewicz | Percona | Keynote | Contribution Over Control: Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL | Video |
| Kai Wagner | Percona | Keynote | Contribution Over Control: Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL | Video |
| Kate Obiidykhata | Percona | Keynote | Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You | Video |
| Kyle Davis | Percona | Keynote | Your favourite second database | Video |
| Mirko Boehm | The Linux Foundation | Keynote | World of Open Source: European Spotlight 2026 | Video |
| Peter Farkas | Percona | Keynote | Welcome to Percona Live | Video |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona | Keynote | Fireside Chat - the Columnstore Revolution | Video |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona | Keynote | Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI | Video |
| Radoslaw Szulgo | Percona | Keynote | Ready for the Agentic Era: Where Percona for MongoDB Is Going Next | Video |
| Slava Sarzhan | Percona | Keynote | Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You | Video |
| Tarus Balog | Percona | Keynote | MariaDB at Percona | Video |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Keynote | PMM Beyond Monitoring: Observe, Understand, Act | Video |
| Aditya Seth | Booking.com | Speaker | Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence | Video |
| Adnan Šupić | Percona | Speaker | Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB | Video |
| Akash Srivastava | Careem | Speaker | From Prompt to PR: Shipping AI-Written Data Models Without Losing Trust | — |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Speaker | Postgres 19 - What's in it for me? | Video |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Speaker | The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world | Video |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Speaker | The Vector Search Quintet | Video |
| Alkin Tezuysal | ProxySQL | Speaker | Beyond the Proxy: The Expanding ProxySQL Ecosystem | Video |
| Andreas Karlsson | Percona | Speaker | Stopping PostgreSQL collations going wrong | Video |
| Andreas Karlsson | Percona | Speaker | Postgres 19 - What's in it for me? | Video |
| Andreas Prins | SUSE | Speaker | Trust Is the New License What sovereignty actually demands of the databases you run | Video |
| Andrew Moore | — | Speaker | Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA | Video |
| Andrew Morgan | SIXTA | Speaker | What We've Learned Building an AI DBA | — |
| Anna Widenius | MariaDB | Speaker | MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source | Video |
| Arnab Chatterjee | Nomura | Speaker | Reducing Complexity: Migrating Banking Applications from Hadoop NoSQL to Percona for MongoDB | Video |
| Avinash Vallarapu | HexaCluster | Speaker | 800 TB, 6,000 Tenants, Complex Business Logic: A SaaS Platform Moves From Oracle To PostgreSQL | Video |
| Avinash Vallarapu | HexaCluster | Speaker | PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win | Video |
| Bastian Triller | — | Speaker | Before and after PXC upgrades with PMM and Percona Toolkit | Video |
| Bennie Grant | Percona | Speaker | The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world | Video |
| Chetan Shivashankar | Percona | Speaker | A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap | Video |
| Chetan Shivashankar | Percona | Speaker | Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences | Video |
| Daniel Guzman Burgos | DBTrail | Speaker | MySQL Time Travel: Practical Row-Level Recovery With Open Source Tools | Video |
| Daniel Osuntoyinbo | Wise | Speaker | Building Resilient Multi-Region MongoDB Deployments Using Native Replica Set Capabilities | Video |
| Daniil Kashapov | Yandex Cloud | Speaker | Moving Less Bytes in Valkey: How One Optimization Broke Two Subsystems and What We Did About It | Video |
| Dmitry Lenev | Percona | Speaker | The Vector Search Quintet | Video |
| Dmitry Lenev | Percona | Speaker | "JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query." | — |
| Dominik Bay | — | Speaker | Before and after PXC upgrades with PMM and Percona Toolkit | Video |
| Eduardo Ortega Urrego | Slack | Speaker | MySQL + Vitess @ Slack: Managing Databases to Support 1+ Billion Daily Messages | Video |
| Eralp Eryanilmaz | Garanti BBVA Banking Company | Speaker | Real-World MongoDB: From Kernel Tuning to Query Optimization | Video |
| Evgeny Alexandrovich | Bank Leumi | Speaker | Zero-Downtime, Zero-Code: Migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for Mongo | Video |
| Federica Marrella | University of Parma | Speaker | The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world | Video |
| Fernando Laudares Carmagos | Percona | Speaker | Tuning PostgreSQL for performance: the role of random_page_cost | Video |
| Frédéric Descamps | MariaDB | Speaker | Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins | Video |
| George Kechagias | Percona | Speaker | The Storage Layer Behind Kubernetes Database Operators That Enables Real-World DBaaS | Video |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek | ClickHouse | Speaker | What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19 | Video |
| Henrik Ingo | Oracle | Speaker | The Rising Tide - Update on Opening MySQL Innovation | Video |
| Ivan Groenewold | Percona | Speaker | Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM | Video |
| Ivan Groenewold | Percona | Speaker | The Vector Search Quintet | Video |
| Jesús Espino | VictoriaMetrics | Speaker | How to create database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events | Video |
| Kris Buytaert | o11y.eu | Speaker | 10 tools for your o11y stack | Video |
| Kyle Davis | Percona | Speaker | Key-value for the relational mind | Video |
| La Cancellera Yoann | Percona | Speaker | Hanging hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin | Video |
| Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Speaker | A framework for autonomous PostgreSQL | Video |
| Mackenzie Jackson | Aikido Security | Speaker | SQL injection is a thing of the past…. & other lies we tell ourselves | Video |
| Makhshif Tanvir | PureCS | Speaker | One Control Plane, Three Databases: Evaluating Open Everest as a Private DBaaS for MySQL, PostgreSQL | Video |
| Marc Linster | DBtune | Speaker | A framework for autonomous PostgreSQL | Video |
| Marcelo Altmann | Readyset | Speaker | What Happened to the MySQL Query Cache? | Video |
| Marcin Gwozdz | Solanica | Speaker | What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes? | Video |
| Marco Tusa | Percona | Speaker | A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap | Video |
| Marco Tusa | Percona | Speaker | "JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query." | — |
| Martin Alderete | Booking.com | Speaker | Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale | Video |
| Martin Visser | Percona | Speaker | Key-value for the relational mind | Video |
| Martin Visser | Percona | Speaker | On-Disk and Redis-Compatible: When Kvrocks beats Valkey and when it doesn't | Video |
| Martin Visser | Percona | Speaker | The Vector Search Quintet | Video |
| Mattia Simonato | Percona | Speaker | What Is MySQL Doing Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM | Video |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Speaker | What Is MySQL Doing Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM | Video |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Speaker | 800 TB, 6,000 Tenants, Complex Business Logic: A SaaS Platform Moves From Oracle To PostgreSQL | Video |
| Narendra Tawar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You're Not Watching | Video |
| Narendra Tawar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | The Role of PostgreSQL in the AI World | — |
| Natalia Marukovich | Percona | Speaker | If Database Operators Automate Everything, Why Are You Still on Call? | Video |
| Neil Armitage | Anaplan | Speaker | Schrödinger's Backup - It's Only Good Until You Try to Restore It | Video |
| Nikolay Sivko | Coroot | Speaker | Beyond "Postgres is up": detecting failures before they become incidents | Video |
| Nima Torabi | Liberatii | Speaker | When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking | Video |
| Nyah Macklin | Neo4j | Speaker | When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking Your Agent's Hidden Connections with Graphs | Video |
| Paul Ross | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Finding Your Perfect Route: Vectors, Full-Text, and Geospatial Queries with Valkey | Video |
| Peter Farkas | Percona | Speaker | What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond | Video |
| Puneet Kala | Percona | Speaker | Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM | Video |
| Puneet Singh | Careem | Speaker | From Prompt to PR: Shipping AI-Written Data Models Without Losing Trust | — |
| Radoslaw Szulgo | Percona | Speaker | Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB | Video |
| René Cannaò | ProxySQL | Speaker | Beyond the Proxy: The Expanding ProxySQL Ecosystem | Video |
| Robert Treat | — | Speaker | I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That! | Video |
| Sandra Romanchenko | Percona | Speaker | Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB | Video |
| Sergei Golubchik | MariaDB | Speaker | MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It just works: Zero-configuration SSL and PARSEC authentication | Video |
| Sergei Golubchik | MariaDB | Speaker | The Vector Search Quintet | Video |
| Shimpei Kodama | Gaudiy | Speaker | Stitching mydumper to Aurora's Binlog: A Cross-Cloud CDC Pipeline at 1.2B Rows | — |
| Simon Mudd | — | Speaker | Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA | Video |
| Steve Shaw | — | Speaker | What Is the Fastest Database? Open-Source Benchmarking with HammerDB | Video |
| Suman Michael | HexaCluster | Speaker | PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win | Video |
| Sveta Smirnova | Percona | Speaker | The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world | Video |
| Sveta Smirnova | Percona | Speaker | From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit | Video |
| Takis Stathopoulos | Percona | Speaker | Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences | Video |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Speaker | Management — the prodigal child is back. | — |
| Tibor Korocz | Percona | Speaker | From Single Point of Failure to Highly Available: Re-architecting PMM for Production | Video |
| Vadim Tkachenko | Percona | Speaker | When MySQL meets DuckDB: Best practices for columnar engines on MySQL | — |
| Verena Traub | b'nerd | Speaker | Running Percona Operators in Production: Lessons from 40+ Databases per Cluster | Video |
| Vitalii Akimov | Liberatii | Speaker | When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking | Video |
| Yannick Dixken | — | Speaker | Production-to-Dev in One Button: K8s-native PII anonymization for Percona XtraDB Cluster Backups | Video |
| Yura Sorokin | Percona | Speaker | Beyond the Dumb Pipe: Solving MySQL Topology Nightmares with the Percona Binary Log Server | Video |
| Zach Peirce | DigitalOcean | Speaker | When Your Benchmarks Argue Against You | Video |
| zongzhi chen | Alibaba Cloud | Speaker | When MySQL meets DuckDB: Best practices for columnar engines on MySQL | — |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Speaker | Following the Token: A Practical Guide to OAuth in PostgreSQL | Video |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Speaker | The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world | Video |