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Speakers

Karthik Ranganathan

Employers on the program

  1. 2019–2026Yugabyte28 talks
Events21
Conferences6
Talks2811 keynotes
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events8,34212 in-person events · 1 country

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Distributed SQL Summit
  • Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
  • AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
  • AWS re:Invent
  • Data Council
  • QCon

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 9, 2026Distributed SQL Summit 2026Distributed SQL SummitspeakerUntitled
as YugabyteDB
Jun 29, 2026AI Engineer World's Fair 2026AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)speakerAgent Memory Is a Solved Problem. Agent Learning Is Not.
as Yugabyte
Video
Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:Inventlightning talkBeyond Vector Search: Ultra-Resilient GenAI Apps with AWS Bedrock (sponsored by YugabyteDB)
as YugabyteDB
As AI moves from proof-of-concept to production, standalone vector databases face limits in synchronization, ACID compliance, and resilience. This session shows…Show less

As AI moves from proof-of-concept to production, standalone vector databases face limits in synchronization, ACID compliance, and resilience. This session shows how PostgreSQL-compatible distributed databases address these issues while keeping a familiar developer experience.

Video
Nov 17, 2025QCon San Francisco 2025QConspeakerBeyond Vector Search: Building Ultra-Resilient AI with Distributed SQL
as Yugabyte
As enterprises seek to move AI from proof-of-concept to production, standalone vector databases face limits in synchronization, ACID compliance, and resilience.…Show less

As enterprises seek to move AI from proof-of-concept to production, standalone vector databases face limits in synchronization, ACID compliance, and resilience. This session shows how PostgreSQL-compatible distributed databases address these issues while keeping a familiar developer experience.

Nov 10, 2025Distributed SQL Summit 2025Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteKeynote: Ultra Resilient, Cloud Native AI with Distributed PostgreSQL
as Yugabyte
Video
Jul 24, 2025Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2025Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteHello from the Year 2027! A journey through the AI application architecture of the (not too distant) future
as Yugabyte
Video
Nov 12, 2024Distributed SQL Summit 2024Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteHarnessing Cloud Native Power with PostgreSQL
as Yugabyte
Video
Apr 24, 2024Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2024Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteNo Downtime, No Limits with YugabyteDB
as Yugabyte
Video
Sep 12, 2023Distributed SQL Summit 2023Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteDream Big. Go Bigger: Turbocharging PostgreSQL
as Yugabyte
Video
Apr 20, 2023Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2023Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerEmbrace, Extend, Evolve: Making PostgreSQL Work for Cloud Native Applications
as YugaByte

PostgreSQL continues its reign as the most widely used open source database due to its powerful feature set and rich ecosystem of tools and extensions.

Apr 20, 2023Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2023Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerFuture of Distributed SQL: 3 Things I’m Most Excited About
as YugaByte

Join Yugabyte CTO and co-founder, Karthik Ranganathan, for a quick talk on his vision for the future of Distributed SQL.

Mar 28, 2023Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2023Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteEmbrace, Extend, Evolve – Making PostgreSQL work for a Cloud Native World
as Yugabyte
Video
Sep 14, 2022Distributed SQL Summit 2022Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteDSS Keynote — Back to the Future: Prepare Your Data Infrastructure for Anything
as Yugabyte
Video
Sep 14, 2022Distributed SQL Summit 2022Distributed SQL SummitspeakerFireside Chat with Fiserv: Understanding Operational Requirements of Distributed SQL
as Yugabyte
Video
Apr 7, 2022Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2022Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerThe Biography of a Modern Cloud Native Application
as YugaByte
Modern cloud native applications lead exciting lives - from their birth in the cloud and dealing with massive unplanned success to surviving cloud outages and…Show less

Modern cloud native applications lead exciting lives - from their birth in the cloud and dealing with massive unplanned success to surviving cloud outages and handling customers worldwide.

Mar 30, 2022Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2022Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteThe Big Digital Push: Committing to the Cloud in the Finance Industry
as YugabyteDB
Find out how UnionBank is reshaping the finance industry by being one of the first banks to go completely cloud native. Join UnionBank's transformative leader,…Show less

Find out how UnionBank is reshaping the finance industry by being one of the first banks to go completely cloud native. Join UnionBank's transformative leader, CTOO and CTO Henry Aguda, in this Fireside Chat as he takes us through the latest big tech trends, the journey to modernization and the innovative mindset that kickstarted it all.

Mar 30, 2022Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2022Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteThe Biography of a Modern Application
as YugabyteDB
Sep 21, 2021Distributed SQL Summit 2021Distributed SQL SummitspeakerCloud Native Data Panel
as Yugabyte
Sep 21, 2021Distributed SQL Summit 2021Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteUnlocking the Power of “Any”
as Yugabyte
Sep 21, 2021Distributed SQL Summit 2021Distributed SQL SummitspeakerYugabyteDB and EDB: Postgres for Every Enterprise Use Case
as Yugabyte
Postgres has emerged as the leading open source alternative to legacy proprietary RDBMSs, offering rich enterprise features and ease of use as well as a…Show less

Postgres has emerged as the leading open source alternative to legacy proprietary RDBMSs, offering rich enterprise features and ease of use as well as a thriving ecosystem of contributors and third party tools. In this session, Ed Boyajian, CEO of EDB speaks with Yugayte executives Bill Cook and Karthik Ranganathan about partnering to address the needs of enterprises in their database...

Jan 20, 2021Distributed SQL Virtual Summit Asia 2021Distributed SQL SummitspeakerUntitled
as Yugabyte
Sep 15, 2020Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020Distributed SQL SummitkeynoteClosing Keynote: Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020
as Yugabyte
Sep 15, 2020Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020Distributed SQL SummitworkshopIntroduction to YugabyteDB and Its Architecture
as Yugabyte
Sep 20, 2019Distributed SQL Summit 2019Distributed SQL SummitpanelistPanel: Facebook's Distributed Database Evolution
as YugaByte
Sep 18, 2019Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2019Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speaker6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
as YugaByte
Developing YugaByte DB 2.0 was but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even…Show less

Developing YugaByte DB 2.0 was but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand.

Apr 17, 2019Data Council San Francisco 2019Data CounciltalkDistributed SQL Databases Deconstructed Database internals
as YugaByte
Mar 18, 2019Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019)Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerDesigning database schemas for GDPR-compliance and security
as YugaByte

The General Data Protection Regulation, often referred to as GDPR, came into effect on 25 May 2018 across the European Union.

Slides
Mar 18, 2019Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019)Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerPerformant multi-region Postgres using distributed data storage engine
as YugaByte
Building applications on PostgreSQL that require automatic data sharding and replication, ability to scale out with fault tolerance and geographic data…Show less

Building applications on PostgreSQL that require automatic data sharding and replication, ability to scale out with fault tolerance and geographic data distribution is hard.

Slides

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Tanmai Gopal612026
Franck Pachot5—2025
Denis Magda5—2023
Nikhil Chandrappa5—2021
Vish Phaneendra4—2026
Alan Caldera4—2024
Amey Banarse4—2022
Bill Cook312022
Justin Reock3—2026
Chirag Dave3—2025
Jignesh Shah3—2025
Jim Mlodgenski3—2025
Valerie Parham-Thompson3—2024
Grant Zhou3—2023
Lee Roland3—2023

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.