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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}

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As the #1 sportsbook and premier mobile betting operator in the U.S., FanDuel’s mission is simple: make sports betting easy. Their challenge is keeping pace with millions of customers who expect always-on access and fast performance. A core component of their platform is the financial ledger which tracks all financial transactions between a customer and FanDuel. Last year, FanDuel decided to modernize their ledger and migrate to CockroachDB so that they can future-proof their platform for years to come. Join this session to hear how FanDuel supports a massive audience base with CockroachDB while adhering to regulatory requirements.

Jordan Leach
_{Software Engineering Director | FanDuel}

Alex Chadwich
_{Staff Software Engineer | FanDuel}

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We recognize that our customers need to adapt to significant increases in workload demand and rely on CockroachDB to be reliable and performant. 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 product features that substantially improve performance and scale, enhance observability, streamline development efficiency, and support AI workloads using vector data capabilities. We’ll also discuss our migration tooling which now offers a clear path for organizations looking to move from Oracle to CockroachDB.

Rohan Joshi
_{Product Manager | Cockroach Labs}

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Kelsey Hightower has worn just about every hat in tech sysadmin, developer, operator, leader — and built his career helping people make sense of complexity and find the simplicity that lasts.

In this keynote, he draws from decades of experience at the edge of scale and deep in production to share what real systems teach us about building for the future. As demand grows and environments shift faster than ever, we need systems that are dependable, adaptable, and designed with operators in mind.

Through stories from the field, Kelsey will explore how infrastructure can evolve from something we constantly fight into something we can trust. Whether it’s scaling with confidence or building resilience that lasts, this talk is a reminder that the hardest parts of tech are often the most human.

Kelsey Hightower
_{Former Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Speaker, Author, and Open Source Contributor}

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Squarespace is famous for its design-focused, all-in-one approach to building professional websites without needing to code. With nearly 5 million users worldwide generating terabytes of data, their platform needs to be performant at global scale and deliver always-on availability. To allow their engineers to focus on building new features instead of rearchitecting the database, Squarespace recently made the decision to migrate several use cases off of PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. Discover why Squarespace selected CockroachDB to future-proof its platform.

Gavin McQuillan
_{Senior Staff Software Engineer | Squarespace}

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Cisco, the multi-national technology giant, is on a mission to deliver end-to-end AI protection for enterprises with their new product: Cisco AI Defense. They originally built the platform on PostgreSQL and encountered major hurdles associated with scaling which made it challenging to support over 100,000 tenants and 50M+ tables. This talk will cover why Cisco AI migrated from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB so that they could meet their requirements for global availability, strict security, and compliance. Attendees will hear best practices for modernizing their data platforms, and learn how Cisco AI found the right database to underpin scale, agility, and innovation in enterprise AI.

Arjun Sambamoorthy
_{Co-Founder, Chief Architect & Head of Engineering | CiscoAI}

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