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Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Early Bird registration discounts are available until February 4, 2018, and sponsorship opportunities are still available.

Conference breakout sessions will feature a range of in-depth talks related to each of the key areas. Breakout session examples include:

• Database Security as a Function: Scaling to Your Organization’s Needs – Laine Campbell, Fastly
• How to Use JSON in MySQL Wrong – Bill Karwin, Square
• Scaling a High Traffic Database: Moving Tables Across Clusters – Bryana Knight, GitHub
• MySQL: How to Save Bandwidth – Georgi Kodinov, Oracle
• MyRocks Roadmaps and Production Deployment at Facebook – Yoshinori Matsunobu, Facebook
• Securing Your Data on PostgreSQL – Payal Singh, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
• The Accidental DBA – Jenni Snyder, Yelp
• How Microsoft Built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the Cloud – Jun Su, Microsoft
• MongoDB Cluster Topology, Management and Optimization – Steven Wang, Tesla
• Ghostferry: A Data Migration Tool for Incompatible Cloud Platforms – Shuhao Wu, Shopify, Inc.

Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 is the premier open source database event. The theme for the upcoming conference is “Championing Open Source Databases,” with a range of topics on MySQL, MongoDB and other open source databases, including time series databases, PostgreSQL and RocksDB. Session tracks include Developers, Operations and Business/Case Studies. A major conference focus will be providing strategies to help attendees meet their business goals by deploying the right mix of database solutions to obtain the performance they need while managing complexity.

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center

Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference 2018 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center, at 5101 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054.

The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center is a prime location in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Enjoy this spacious venue with complimentary wifi, on-site expert staff and three great restaurants offering Tuscan cuisine, classic American or tantalizing Sushi. Staying for a couple of extra days? Take time to enjoy the Bay Area and enjoy a day in San Francisco located only an hour away. You can reserve a room by booking through the Hyatt’s dedicated Percona Live reservation site.

Book your hotel using Percona’s special room block rate!

Sponsorships

Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference 2018 are available and offer the opportunity to interact with the DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Contact live@percona.com for sponsorship details.

 

The Call for Papers for the fifth annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo) taking place April 18-21, 2016, in Santa Clara, California, is now officially open!

Ask yourself… “Do I have…”

• Fresh ideas?
• Enlightening case studies?
• Insight on best practices?
• In-depth technical knowlege?

If the answer to any of these is “YES,” then you need to submit your proposal for a chance to speak at Percona Live 2016. Speaking is a great way to broaden not only the awareness of your company with an intelligent and engaged audience of software architects, senior engineers and developers, but also your own!

Tracks/Topics: 

This year, the conference will feature a variety of formal tracks, including New and Trending Topics, Big Data, Analytics, Security, Scalability and Performance, Architecture and Design, Operations and Management, Development, Case Studies, and Sponsored Talks. Speaker proposals are welcome on a variety of related technologies, including MySQL^®, MongoDB^®, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, Redis, Docker and many more. Focus areas can include Devops, High Availability, Programming, Web Services, Optimization and other areas of interest.

Community Voting:

In an effort to involve the community in the selection of speaking sessions, Percona has implemented a community voting process. After a speaker submits a proposal they are provided a link to share with the community asking for their vote. The more highly ranked proposals will continue onto the next phase of the voting process with the conference committee.

Action Items:

With the call for papers ending NOVEMBER 29th, the time to submit is now! Here’s what you need to submit:

1) Pull together your proposal information:

-Talk title

-Abstract

-Speaker bio, headshot, video

2) Submit your proposal here before Nov 29th: SUMBIT

3) After submitting, you will be given a direct link and badge to advertise to the community. Tweet, Facebook, blog… get the word out about your submission and get your followers to vote!

That’s all it takes! Looking forward to your submissions!

Sponsoring/ Super Saver Tickets! 

*Interested in sponsoring? Take advantage of early sponsorship opportunities to reach the influential Percona Live audience. Sponsorship Information

*Want to attend at the cheapest rate possible? Super Saver tickets are on sale NOW! Register today.

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