Monday, October 2, 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Registration & Welcome reception
Arlo ART SoHo Rooftop - 231 Hudson St., New York
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
7:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Registration
 
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast
 
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Partners in innovation: How the world's most important businesses are shaping the future of distributed SQL
Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Human-first: How businesses can build better, more resilient tech
Kate O'Neill, Author and Tech Humanist, KO Insights
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Resilient evolution: A modernization and simplification journey with CockroachDB
Mahmoud Nagib, Principal Software Engineer, Booking.com
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Modern financial services panel: challenges and opportunities
Thomas Boltze, Head of Cloud and Engineering Excellence, Santander
Domenic Ravita, Principal Product Evangelist, Cockroach Labs
Jess Tays, Sr. Director, Fortune 500 Financial Services
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
DoorDash’s journey from Aurora Postgres to CockroachDB
Alessandro Salvatori, Principal Engineer, DoorDash
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
How DoorDash manages high-availability CockroachDB clusters at massive scale
Michael Czabator, Software Engineer, DoorDash
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Lunch
 
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Migrating from chaos into consensus
Scott Traver, Senior Software Architect, Spreedly
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Surviving 100x scaling events: Picking the right technologies early
Matthew Seal, CTO, Noteable Inc
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Resilience: A question of mindset, culture, and partnerships
Thomas Boltze, Head of Cloud and Engineering Excellence, Santander
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Fireside chat: Building resilient cloud infrastructure with JPMorgan Chase
Domenic Ravita, Principal Product Evangelist, Cockroach Labs
Nick Stocks, VP - Cloud Platform, JP Morgan
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
 
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
How CockroachDB is helping us do the impossible with global cloud storage
Jacob Willoughby, CTO, Storj
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Yes, you can reduce TCO while meeting strict regulatory requirements
James Lupolt, Database Administrator, Hard Rock Digital
Joe Rizzo, Senior Platform Architect, Hard Rock Digital
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
How we built a faster, more scalable, geo-distributed version of our application on CockroachDB
Jeff Haynie, Chief Technology Officer, Shopmonkey
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Multi-cloud essentials: How we operate CockroachDB at Form3
Rogger Fabri, Lead Engineer, Form3
Mario Morgado, Senior Software Engineer, Form3
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing remarks
 
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Evening Reception
Tribeca 360 Rooftop - 10 Desbrosses St., New York
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
7:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Registration
 
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast
 
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
How we're building CockroachDB to drive modernization and reduce TCO
Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer, Cockroach Labs
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
No brown M&Ms: On foreign keys, isolation levels, and Van Halen
Ben Darnell, Co-Founder & Chief Architect, Cockroach Labs
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Three years of CRDB on Kubernetes: Trials and triumphs
Rasmus Bach Krabbe, Engineering Manager, CSS
Frederik Stenum Mogensen, Software Engineer, CSS
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
 
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
MOLT goes live: Migrating to CockroachDB with minimal downtime
Dustin Cote, Senior Product Manager, Cockroach Labs
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Experience report: Migrating from self-deployed to CockroachDB dedicated
Louis Jia, Director of Software Development, Fortinet Inc.
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
What’s new with the CockroachDB cloud platform
Lakshmi Kannan, Director of Product, Cloud and Security, Cockroach Labs
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
 
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Helping you succeed with CockroachDB
Dingding Lu, Staff Product Manager, Cockroach Labs
Michael Wang, Director, Product Management, Cockroach Labs
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Building a distributed mindset by taking CockroachDB and Kubernetes to production
Megan Janes, Senior Software Engineer, Procter & Gamble
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
R&D leadership panel and AMA
Peter Mattis, Co-Founder & CTO, Cockroach Labs
Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer, Cockroach Labs
Heather Joslyn, Features Editor, The New Stack
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Planning for scale: CockroachDB @ Materialize
Parker Timmerman, Member of Technical Staff, Materialize
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Closing remarks