Percona Live 
Open Source Database Conference 2019 in North America has moved to Austin, Texas: a cool place to be, and host to many big names in the tech space. Read what Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager for Oracle, has to say in favor of Austin.
If you need a conference ticket for Austin, put in your proposal now!
Those who are successful with their presentation or tutorial submissions will receive a pass to the full three days of the event. Closing date for the call for papers is Sunday, January 20.
Percona is adopting an industry trend by organizing the conference into 13 separate tracks with one Percona expert coordinating community input for each one. We believe subject-specific mini-committees of experts should provide better results than a single mega-committee covering everything.
The MySQL track is being led by Alkin Tezuysal, Senior Technical Manager
MariaDB is the responsibility of Sveta Smirnova, Principle Support Escalation Specialist.
MongoDB is being driven by Consultant Doug Duncan.
PostgreSQL is being pushed forward by Avinash Vallarapu, PostgreSQL Support Tech Lead
Other Open Source Databases well, this important challenge has been handed to Senior Support Engineer Agustín Gallego
Java Development for Open Source Databases might be of interest to developers and is being led by Rodrigo Trindade, Service Delivery Manager
Kubernetes track is being headed by Mykola Marzhan who is our Kubernetes Technical Lead
Database Security and Compliance will be overseen by Denis Farar, General Counsel and VP of HR (but make no mistake, this is still a track where tech content is very welcome)
Automation & AI topics, at the leading edge of database technology challenges, are the responsibility of Max Bubenick, Platform Lead.
Observability & Monitoring talk selection will be led by Roma Novikov, Director of Platform Engineering – so get those PMM and other OS monitoring proposals at the ready!
Polyglot Persistence is in the hands of our Senior Software Engineer Ibrar Ahmed who is waiting to hear all about your experiences with cross-database applications, data exchange and how to meet the challenges of a hybrid database world.
Migration to OpenSource Databases which is a similar-but-different track full of challenges parallel to that of polyglot applications is being watched over by Marco Tusa, Managing Consultant
Business & Enterprise track will be driven by Brian Walters, Director of Solution Engineering who is keen to hear of your case studies and experiences of the impact of open source databases on your process and organizations.
Cloud is a special case, since it touches on virtually all aspects of open source database technology. If your talk has particular relevance to ‘cloud’ then please add this track with your submission. Similarly Innovative Technologies can apply across the board, and if you have something to share that is truly new, then add that to your track list. Those that are most exciting in the context of cloud or innovative in their approach may be selected for their cloud or innovation merit, whichever track they belong to.
Our track champions will engage with community experts to select papers and shape content. If you would like to contribute by taking on talk selection, please let me know.
New speakers, and those with less experience, are welcome, we are here to help, so first check out my community blog post with links to info and video workshops on how to put together a selection-worthy proposal. Even old-hands might find some inspiration!
All in all, we think this is a great move, with the track champions contributing their passion, experience and knowledge of contemporary open source issues to the development of excellent content. Although we’re changing several things at once, no one gets a prize for standing still. We hope you’ll continue to support and grow with us this great, open source, database focused event! Put a note in your diary to join us from May 28 – 30 in Austin, Texas.
Finally, if you would like to get in touch with any of our track champions, please let me know
