Conferences / RoachFest
RoachFest 2025 London
Jun 12, 2025 · Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- RoachFest Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jun 12, 2025
- Venue
- Convene 22 Bishopsgate
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- cockroachlabs.com
- Recorded
- 1 sponsors · 13 speaker appearances
- Notes
- One-day event: morning workshops, then main stage. Lightning-talk speakers were collapsed on the agenda page; only the Teleport lightning talk is known (from the 2026 page's 'RoachFest rewind'). AWS was the only sponsor logo ('global sponsor' for 2025 per the announcement blog).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Pass | £149 | — | VAT included; includes one workshop, lightning talks, main stage, meals, swag | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 1
Other 1
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsor
Speakers and talks 13
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Mattis | Cockroach Labs | Keynote | Performance under adversity for the modern enterprise | — |
| Ahmed Mehdi | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | Why Kaizen Gaming bets on CockroachDB for long-term revenue growth | — |
| Andy Woods | Cockroach Labs | Speaker | Building CockroachDB for performance at scale | — |
| Anton Antonov | SumUp | Speaker | How SumUp built a scalable, performant payment system on CockroachDB | — |
| Cassie Zimmerman | Cockroach Labs | Panelist | Navigating data sovereignty & embracing an operational resilience strategy in 2025 | — |
| Dimitris Thanasopoulos | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | Why Kaizen Gaming bets on CockroachDB for long-term revenue growth | — |
| Jeff Hickman | Ory | Speaker | How ChatGPT manages identities for 800M weekly active users | — |
| Jon Maskery | PwC | Panelist | Navigating data sovereignty & embracing an operational resilience strategy in 2025 | — |
| Mahmoud Nagib | Booking.com | Speaker | Resilience, Refactors, and Realities: What We Learned Migrating to CockroachDB | — |
| Muneer Taskar | Teleport | Speaker | Lightning Talk: Resilient zero-trust access with Teleport | — |
| Nikos Roumpoutsos | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | Why Kaizen Gaming bets on CockroachDB for long-term revenue growth | — |
| Rob Lyle | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Navigating data sovereignty & embracing an operational resilience strategy in 2025 | — |
| Rob Reid | Cockroach Labs | Mc | Opening Remarks | — |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250725094812/https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/location/london/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250518105246/https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/payment-london/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260616092521/https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/location/london/
- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfest-2025-announcement/