Talks 2026

Duck Hunt: An Independent Benchmark of DuckDB-Powered MySQL

November 17, 2026 · DuckDB × MySQL Day 2026 · Online

Yevhen Patlan

Sr. Build / Release Engineer, Percona

#MySQL #DuckDB #Benchmark

DuckDB for MySQL Old Timers

November 17, 2026 · DuckDB × MySQL Day 2026 · Online

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

#MySQL #DuckDB

Twenty Years of Bolting Analytics onto MySQL: Will DuckDB Finally Make It HTAP?

November 17, 2026 · DuckDB × MySQL Day 2026 · Online

Vadim Tkachenko

Co-founder at Percona

#MySQL #DuckDB #Analytics

IGNITE: 10 tools for your Open Source o11y stack

November 18, 2026 · 13:40 · Ballroom 1+2 · OSMC 2026 · Nuremberg

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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

November 18, 2026 · OSMC 2026 · Nuremberg

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

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

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

The History of Open Source Monitoring

November 19, 2026 · 15:30 · Ballroom 1+2 · OSMC 2026 · Nuremberg

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

10 Open Source Tools for your o11y stack

December 1, 2026 · 14:00 · DevOpsCon Munich 2026 · Munich

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

No, we can't do CD in this 'AI' age

December 1, 2026 · 09:00 · DevOpsCon Munich 2026 · Munich

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

Avoiding pitfalls with Postgres and go

November 3, 2026 · 11:30 · Golab · GoLab 2026 · Bologna

Yoann La Cancellera

Senior support engineer @ Percona

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

What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?

October 30, 2026 · 13:35 · Room 2 · KCD Budapest 2026 · Budapest

Kate Obiidykhata

General Manager, Cloud Native

#Kubernetes #cloud #english

Running Monitoring and Observability at Scale

October 27, 2026 · 15:00 · Icinga Webinar: Running Monitoring and Observability at Scale · Online

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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

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

October 23, 2026 · Audit 2 · PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit @ PGConf.EU 2026 · Valencia

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Technical Lead @ Percona

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

October 23, 2026 · Audit 2 · PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit @ PGConf.EU 2026 · Valencia

George Kechagias

Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering @ 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

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