RoachFest comes to Bengaluru this September to welcome enterprise architects, decision-makers, and application developers to gain expert insight into future-proofing infrastructures for scalability, resilience, and compliance.
Your ticket isn’t just access to an event—it’s an investment in your team’s success and your infrastructure’s future. Learn straight from industry leaders about how CockroachDB enables seamless global scale, compliance, and performance in an increasingly complex business world.
Attendees can customize their experience by choosing between two tracks, each designed to fit different roles and goals. Be sure to select your preferred track at registration, as only one can be chosen.
Morning: Builder Track
Dive into hands-on workshops and technical sessions led by CockroachDB engineers. Get practical experience with distributed SQL and learn how to scale reliably without complexity. This track is perfect for those looking to dive deep into the technical side of database innovation.
Evening: Outcomes Track
Hear from industry leaders and CockroachDB customers like Fidelity, Groww, Global Payments and Yubi as they share real-world strategies for tackling infrastructure challenges and achieving scale, compliance, and performance. This track is ideal for those focused on outcomes and real-world applications.
JW Marriott Hotel Bengaluru. 24/1 Vittal Mallya Road. Bengaluru, India
Discover how CockroachDB future-proofs your infrastructure for global scale.
Deep-dive sessions on modernization, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Meet industry leaders, partners, and the minds shaping distributed SQL.
Get a front-row seat to data-intensive insights you won’t find anywhere else.
More speakers will be announced soon.
This workshop covers the complete CockroachDB architecture including:
• Distributed SQL fundamentals
• Core architectural components
• Consensus and replication
• Multi-node operations
You’ll build a complete CockroachDB deployment and explore its behavior during various operational scenarios including node failures, cluster scaling, and distributed reads/writes. The workshop demonstrates how CockroachDB automatically redistributes data and maintains consistency even when components fail.
Designed for database administrators, solutions architects, and application developers, the course provides both theoretical understanding and hands-on experience with CockroachDB's core capabilities.
8:00 AM - 9:00
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Main Stage
9:00 - 12:00 PM
2
This comprehensive workshop will guide you through the complete CockroachDB architecture, providing both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The session will cover key topics such as Distributed SQL fundamentals, core architectural components, consensus and replication, and multi-node operations. You’ll gain hands-on experience by building a complete CockroachDB deployment and exploring its behavior in various operational scenarios, including node failures, cluster scaling, and distributed reads/writes. The workshop will demonstrate how CockroachDB automatically redistributes data and maintains consistency even when components fail.
Designed for database administrators, solutions architects, and application developers, the course provides both theoretical understanding and hands-on experience with CockroachDB's core capabilities.
*Registration required
Rob Reid
Technical Evangelist | Cockroach Labs
Shannon Bradshaw
VP of Education | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
12:00 - 12:15 PM
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12:15 - 1:00 PM
4
We recognize that our customers need to adapt to significant increases in workload demand and rely on CockroachDB to be reliable, performant, resilient, and secure. With each release, CockroachDB delivers enterprise capabilities essential for real-world applications with the ultimate goal of empowering our customers to navigate change and achieve success. In this session, we will explore new product features that substantially improve performance and scale, enhance observability, and streamline development efficiency, all built upon a foundation of security. We’ll also expand on our vector data capabilities and migration tooling.
Biplav Saraf
Product Manager | Cockroach Labs
Alicia Lu
Product Manager | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 6:05 PM
7
Rob Reid
Technical Evangelist | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
6:05 - 6:30 PM
8
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, mission-critical business applications face unprecedented demands: scalability, resilience, real-time consistency, and the capacity to adapt swiftly to emerging technologies like GenAI. At Cockroach Labs, we are redefining the limits of operational data, setting new standards for how enterprises manage mission-critical workloads in production.
In this keynote, co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball will share insights into how Cockroach Labs continuously pushes operational boundaries, demonstrating our unmatched ability to future-proof customers’ systems alongside evolving infrastructure demands. Discover how CockroachDB uniquely aligns with the stringent technical requirements of modern organizations, ensuring that data-intensive applications not only perform flawlessly under ideal conditions but excel precisely when faced with real-world challenges. Cockroach Labs stands at the apex of operational data, driving innovation in an increasingly complex and demanding digital environment.
Spencer Kimball
Co-Founder & CEO | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
6:30 - 6:55 PM
9
Yubi, India’s largest debt marketplace, is reinventing their technology and driving change through their platform called YubiOS. With India’s credit ecosystem rapidly evolving, Yubi had to find a way to build banking infrastructure capable of supporting massive transaction volumes while adhering to stringent regulations. Coupled with plans of geographic expansion, the architecture demanded scalability and resiliency from the database layer that could not be met by traditional databases. This session will cover how Yubi is leveraging CockroachDB to unlock the scale, resilience, and flexibility needed to support 10x transaction growth — all while ensuring performance, compliance, and cloud neutrality.
Bharat Krishnamurthy
Chief Technology Officer | Yubi
Main Stage
6:55 - 7:20 PM
10
Discover how financial institutions are embracing cloud and modern data strategies to fuel growth, innovation, and resilience. In this fireside chat, Kiran Jagannath (AWS) and Allen Terleto (Cockroach Labs) will discuss the market forces reshaping payments, banking, and capital markets, and how organizations are leveraging distributed databases to support high-impact workloads. Gain insights into how leading FSI players are modernizing their technology stacks to unlock new opportunities, reduce risk, and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Allen Terleto
VP of Global Partners and Ecosystem | Cockroach Labs
Kiran Jagannath
Head of Financial Services & Conglomerates | AWS India
Main Stage
7:20 - 7:45 PM
11
As a multinational FinTech provider, processing over 32 billion card transactions for 816 million accounts, Global Payments requires globally available architectures with quick disaster recovery while maintaining subsecond latencies. In addition, these workloads require strict adherence to compliance standards. This session will explore the high-level architectural decisions implemented in a cloud-native redesign and cloud migration of a mission critical legacy application. We will explore how leveraging cloud-native technologies achieved extreme fault tolerance in a multi-region deployment, setting new standards for performance and reliability.
Jess Tays
Executive Director of Data Management | Global Payments
Main Stage
7:45 - 8:10 PM
12
As India’s largest retail stockbroker, Groww serves over 50 million customers and has scaled more than 4x in recent years. To support this momentum, Groww was in need of a backend database solution that matches the promise they make to their own customers: super easy to use, lighting fast, and crystal clear. In this session, Kamal Govindraj, Chief Architect at Groww, will share why they chose CockroachDB to help future-proof their infrastructure and how its capabilities compare to legacy database offerings. He will also discuss how they migrated workloads from MySQL to CockroachDB with zero downtime.
Kamal Govindraj
Chief Architect | Groww
Main Stage
8:10 - 8:35 PM
13
As enterprises shift from siloed applications to integrated, cloud-native ecosystems, resilience, security, and scale have become non-negotiable. This panel brings together leaders from Cockroach Labs, Ory, and Teleport to explore how ecosystems, not individual tools, are powering the next generation of enterprise applications. Attendees will learn how together these technologies enable organizations to secure their identity framework while meeting the demands of AI-driven automation and global availability.
Jonathan Clark
Sales Director, EMEA & APAC | Ory
Muneer Taskar
Sales Director, EMEA & APAC | Teleport
Tejas Baldev
Senior Sales Director - APAC | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
8:35 - 8:40 PM
14
Rob Reid
Technical Evangelist | Cockroach Labs
Main Stage
8:40 - 10:00 PM
15
RoachFest is a one-day event in Bengaluru focused on modern database innovation, resilience, and scalability. Attendees choose between two tracks designed to fit their role and goals:
Morning: Builder Track
Dive into hands-on workshops and technical sessions led by CockroachDB engineers. Gain practical experience with distributed SQL and learn how to scale reliably without added complexity. Only one workshop can be selected during registration and include access to the technical breakout session in the afternoon.
Evening: Outcomes Track
Hear from industry leaders and CockroachDB customers like Fidelity, AWS, and Yubi as they share real-world strategies for solving infrastructure challenges and achieving scale, compliance, and performance.
Includes:
Access to (1) workshop of your choice
Technical breakout sessions
Main stage sessions
Meals and networking
Custom swag
We understand that plans can change. Here’s what you need to know about cancellations and transfers:
Cancellations: If you need to cancel your registration, you can by August 29, 2025. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide refunds for cancellations received after August 30, 2025. To cancel your registration, please contact us at events@cockroachlabs.com.
Transfers: If you can no longer attend but want to transfer your pass to a colleague from the same company, we’re happy to assist! Please reach out to our registration team at events@cockroachlabs.com to arrange the transfer.
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