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Percona.connect is headed to London, United Kingdom!

Join us for educational sessions, customer testimonials, networking activities, and more. 
Attendance is free

Location:
CIVO Tech Junction
First Floor, 32-37 Cowper St, London

Date:
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Time:
1:00pm - 6:30pm

 


Agenda

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Registration
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. 
Welcome Message
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.  The Enterprise's Guide to Open Source Database Solutions: Possibilities, Risks, and Success Stories
Selecting, testing, migrating, and implementing a new database to replace a proprietary, licensed version of open source software is a difficult task. Percona’s Solutions Engineering team will share its proven methodology through real-world success stories with deep insight into objectives, challenges, architectures, migration paths, and future vision enjoyed by those who have migrated to open source software to break free of Enterprise licensed versions. This talk will focus on specific success stories in the real-world to share insights gained.
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.  A New Way to Provision Databases on Kubernetes
Discover the advantages and optimal use cases of storage strategies for cloud-native databases, emphasizing scalability and cost-efficiency. Kate provides a comprehensive analysis of the pros and cons of utilizing Kubernetes for database management and introduces an innovative approach to automated database provisioning with the open-source project Percona Everest. Whether you're a developer or an IT manager, you'll find valuable insights for your database management strategy!

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Running MongoDB in the Cloud: How to Reduce Infrastructure Costs Using Open Source Components and Kubernetes
The cost of running a growing enterprise-grade MongoDB environment can quickly get out of control. Costs can rapidly increase to cope with your scaling requirements, regardless of whether you are running a DBaaS or on-premise solution. To make things worse, there are multiple traps awaiting. Choices that seem to be initially not important may make a significant difference at scale. In this session, we'll have a look at typical reasons for this and discuss efficient alternatives built on open source and cloud-native technologies.

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.   Fireside Chat - Why Leading Enterprises Rely on Open Source Solutions
Moderator:
Kate Obiidykhata - Solutions Marketing Manager, Percona
Guest speaker:
Amanda Brock - CEO, OpenUK


4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Easing Your Upgrade to MySQL 8

Major MySQL upgrades can be challenging. Poorly planned and tested upgrades can break applications, render them inoperable, or cause significant performance issues. In this session, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Senior Solutions Engineer, will share best practices for upgrading to MySQL 8. He’ll also discuss how to best support your current End of Life (EOL) software while you plan your move.
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Enabling Highly Available, Secure, Cloud-Native Deployments

When using PostgreSQL for mission-critical applications, high availability, data-at-rest encryption, and a cloud-native approach are essential. While the open source PostgreSQL ecosystem provides various, sometimes conflicting, options for high availability and cloud-native setups, support for open source data-at-rest encryption is limited.
 
In this session, we’ll explore how Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL delivers enterprise-level high availability in cloud-native environments using only open source components. We’ll also show how data-at-rest encryption is planned into the roadmap for Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

5:30 p.m. - 6:30p.m.

Ask me anything and Wrap Up

Networking and Happy Hour!

Speakers

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Takis Stathopoulos

Enterprise Architect



Takis (Panagiotis) Stathopoulos is an Enterprise Architect with Percona, working closely with Percona’s partner community, enabling customers to leverage the potential of open-source databases in the enterprise. Takis Stathopoulos received his diploma (1999), and Ph.D. (2004), in distributed network applications, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens at 1999 and 2004 respectively.

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Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Senior Solutions Engineer

 

Since 2013, Dimitri has been associated with Percona, starting as a Technical Account Manager. In this role, they provided pre-sales assistance, technical expertise, and customer success support. In 2016, they transitioned to the position of Senior Solution Engineer, where they continue to contribute to customer success and provide technical guidance on MySQL and MongoDB implementations.

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Kate Obiidykhata
Product Marketing Manager

 

Cloud Native solutions expert with a focus on market trends and cloud transformation. With 8 years of experience in open-source, including work with CloudLinux OS, AlmaLinux OS, and Percona. Believe in open-source as a better foundation for business success.

Amanda Brock - CEO - OpenUK

Amanda Brock
CEO, OpenUK

 

Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology: open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards and open access AI - with a purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 - 5 February 2025 in London and has produced the ‘23 and ‘24 events.

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