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Two days of inspiration,
collaboration, and connection

RoachFest joins together the most innovative minds in SaaS, finance, media, retail, and logistics to share how they’re solving their most pressing challenges — and building their most impressive apps.

apps

Glimpse the next evolution of app architecture through keynotes and real-world examples.

deep

Connect with a who’s-who of category leaders to learn first hand how they built and scaled their applications.

connect

Dive deep with CockroachDB engineers to learn how to more easily deliver flawless apps at scale.

Speakers

Kate O'Neill
Author and Tech Humanist
KO Insights
Thomas Boltze
Head of Cloud and Engineering Excellence
Santander
Dustin Cote
Senior Product Manage
Cockroach Labs
Mahmoud Nagib
Principal Software Engineer
Booking.com
Nate Stewart
Chief Product Officer
Cockroach Labs
Heather Joslyn
Features Editor
The New Stack
Michael Czabator
Software Engineer
DoorDash
Rasmus Bach Krabbe
Engineering Manager
City Storage Systems
Louis Jia
Director, Software Development
Fortinet Inc.
Lakshmi Kannan
Director of Product, Cloud and Security
Cockroach Labs
Matthew Seal
CTO & Co-Founder
Noteable Inc.
Peter Mattis
CTO & Co-Founder
Cockroach Labs
Mario Morgado

Mario Morgado

Senior Software Engineer
Form3
Frederik Mogensen
Software Engineer
City Storage Systems
Parker Timmerman
Member of Technical Staff
Materialize
Jess Tays
Sr Director Data Management
Fortune 500 FinServ company
Lisa Namphy
Director, Developer Relations
Cockroach Labs
Alessandro Salvatori
Principal Engineer
DoorDash
Joe Rizzo
Senior Platform Architect
Hard Rock Digital
Jeff Haynie
Chief Technology Officer
Shopmonkey
James Lupolt

James Lupolt

Database Administrator
Hard Rock Digital
Spencer Kimball
CEO & Co-Founder
Cockroach Labs
Domenic Ravita
Principal Product Evangelist
Cockroach Labs
Jacob Willoughby
CTO
Storj
Ben Darnell

Ben Darnell

Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Cockroach Labs
Scott Traver
Senior Software Architect
Spreedly
Michael Wang
Director, Product Management
Cockroach Labs
Dingding Lu
Staff Product Manager
Cockroach Labs
Mikael Austin
Account Executive
Cockroach Labs
Rogger Fabri
Lead Engineer
Form3

Schedule

Day 0
October 2, 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
Registration opens
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
Welcome reception at ART SoHo (Arlo Hotel)
Day 1
October 3, 2023
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM ET
Registration and breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Main stage and sessions
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Lunch
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Main stage and sessions
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Evening reception at the Tribeca 360 Rooftop
Day 2
October 4, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET
Registration and breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Main stage and sessions
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Main stage and sessions

Passes

Early bird
Through June 23
$150
Regular
June 24 – August 4
$250
Full price
August 5 – October 2
$350

RoachFest ’22 highlights

Here’s a look at some of the speakers and talks
from our first RoachFest last year.

The journey of CockroachDB in Netflix

Shahar Zimmerman
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Shengwei Wang
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Watch

CockroachDB @Twitter

Jigar Bhati Staff Software Engineer, Twitter Watch

Keynote: The state of the database

Spencer Kimball CEO & Co-founder, Cockroach Labs Watch
2023 Sponsors

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