Talks 2026

Standardizing the Future: Navigating the Chaos of "Open Source AI"

October 7, 2026 · 11:20 · Terrace 2 A (Floor 2) · Open Source Summit Europe 2026 · Prague, Czechia

Peter Farkas

CEO @ Percona

#Ai #open-source #Open-Source

What Happens After You Fork an OSS Project?

October 11, 2026 · Community Over Code 2026 · Glasgow, UK

#Community #Opensource #Open Source

Co‑founder of Percona

User/ Contributor/ Vendor Communities - Why all three are important for project success

October 13, 2026 · 15:20-16:00 GMT · Community Over Code 2026 · Glasgow, UK

#Community #Opensource #Open Source

Co‑founder of Percona

eBPF for AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis

October 19, 2026 · 01:00 · All Things Open 2026 · Raleigh

Managing the Postgres Developer Firehose with hackorum.dev

Co‑founder of Percona

#Open-Source

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October 19, 2026 · Valencia PostgreSQL User Group · Valencia

Kai Wagner

Head of Product & Engineering PostgreSQL, Percona

Designing a new SQL language feature: Key joins

October 20, 2026 · 11:15 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Andreas Karlsson

Principal Engineer @ Percona

Joel Jacobsson

Postgres Community

pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work

October 20, 2026 · 16:05 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Stefan Fercot

Senior Software Engineer at Percona

Swap or Stop? How a Little Swap Can Keep PostgreSQL Running

October 20, 2026 · 01:00 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Technical Lead @ Percona

The Anatomy of a PostgreSQL Backup CRD: pgBackRest, Multi-Repo, and Tiered Storage

October 20, 2026 · 01:00 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

George Kechagias

Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering @ Percona

The Monday We Learned Who Maintains Our Backups

October 20, 2026 · 14:45 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Jan Wieremjewicz

David Steele

pgBackRest Maintainer

What Actually Goes Wrong with Postgres on Kubernetes

October 20, 2026 · 15:55 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Natalia Marukovich

#Cloud #PostgreSQL #kubernetes

Leaving Oracle and SQL Server for PostgreSQL: What Could Go Wrong

October 21, 2026 · 14:35 · SM1-A · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Avi Vallarapu

CEO and Chief of Products at HexaCluster

Michal Nosek

Networking Observability Essentials - How to Know if the Network is at Fault with eBPF

October 21, 2026 · 01:00 · P99 CONF 2026

#Observability #conference #english #software

Co‑founder of Percona

Finally a Postgres Communication Hub for Experts and Newcomers

October 22, 2026 · 09:25 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Kai Wagner

Head of Product & Engineering PostgreSQL, Percona

Rethinking PostgreSQL Configuration

October 22, 2026 · 14:55 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Zsolt Parragi

A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation?

October 23, 2026 · 09:00 · Audit 3B · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Floor Drees

Principal Program Manager at EDB

Alastair Turner

PostgreSQL Evangelist, Percona

Avoiding pitfalls with Postgres and go

November 2, 2026 · GoLab 2026 · Bologna

Yoann La Cancellera

Senior support engineer @ Percona

#Golang #PostgreSQL #italian #programming #software-development

Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+

November 5, 2026 · Heapcon 2026 · Belgrade

Peter Farkas

CEO @ Percona

#english #heap #performance #serbia

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Observability for Vector Search: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying To You

November 18, 2026 · Open Source Monitoring Conference 2026 · Germany

Radoslaw Szulgo

Sandra Romanchenko

#MongoDB #PMM #Vector-Search #Open-Source #Tech #ai #cloud #monitoring #observability #open-source

What Databases Reveal About the True Cost of Kubernetes

November 18, 2026 · Nerdearla México 2026 · Mexico City

#Kubernetes #Opensource #developer-conference #spanish #web

Co‑founder of Percona

PostgreSQL TDE took a decade. What now?

September 30, 2026 · 01:00 · Prague PostgreSQL Meetup

Jan Wieremjewicz

Analisando servidores MySQL com o PMM: um passo a passo

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September 26, 2026 · 14:00 · MySQL Brazil Conference 2026 · Brazil - São Paulo

Fernando Laudares Camargos

Percona, Senior Support Engineer

Best practices to migrate from MySQL 8.x to MySQL 8.4 without suprisses

September 26, 2026 · 01:00 · MySQL Brazil Conference 2026 · Brazil - São Paulo

Aldo Junior

Jr MySQL DBA @ Percona

MySQL Performance - And what my query has to do with it?

September 26, 2026 · 01:00 · MySQL Brazil Conference 2026 · Brazil - São Paulo

Roberto Garcia de Bem

Support Engineer, Percona

#Community #MySQL

Segurança vs. performance no MySQL

September 26, 2026 · 18:30 · MySQL Brazil Conference 2026 · Brazil - São Paulo

Jean da Silva

Support Engineer at Percona

State of MySQL Ecosystem

September 26, 2026 · 14:00 · MySQL Brazil Conference 2026 · Brazil - São Paulo

Co‑founder of Percona

Open Source in the Age of AI

September 25, 2026 · 01:00 · Nerdearla Buenos Aires 2026 · Buenos Aires

#Ai #Opensource #Open-Source #Tech #technology

Co‑founder of Percona

#MongoDB #kubernetes #Open-Source #Tech #technology

MongoDB en Kubernetes

September 23, 2026 · 10:10 · Nerdearla Buenos Aires 2026 · Buenos Aires

Ivan Groenewold

pg_tde, The why, the how and the real-world use cases

September 22, 2026 · 01:00 · Toulouse PostgreSQL User Group · Toulouse

Dimitri Vanoverbeke

Sr. Solutions Engineer @ Percona