London

_{Location: Cafe}

Rob Reid
<sub>Technical Evangelist, Cockroach Labs

Location: Main State</sub>

Mainstream adoption of distributed SQL is enabling global scale and reach with our data leaders who need to build highly resilient applications. In this keynote from the RoachFest 2024 customer conference, Peter Mattis will discuss what a resiliency architecture means, and how operational big data generated from new applications, regulatory requirements and AI requires a modern resiliency platform to address end-user expectations that adapt quickly to the status quo with zero downtime.

Peter Mattis
_{Co-Founder & CTO, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Join AWS and mLogica for an insightful session on modernizing mission-critical applications in today's cloud-native landscape. As enterprises increasingly embrace digital transformation, the shift from legacy systems to cloud-first environments presents both challenges and opportunities. This session will delve into key considerations, trends, and strategies essential for successfully modernizing databases and applications. Hear expert perspectives from AWS and mLogica offering real-world insights, best practices, and success stories. Whether you are planning a migration or optimizing your existing cloud infrastructure, this session will equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to navigate your digital transformation journey effectively.

Ashwani Kumar
^{EMEA Migration and Modernisation Sales Leader, AWS}

Santino Spagnoli
^{VP Mainframe Engineering, mLogica}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Riskified provides an all-in-one fraud prevention and chargeback protection solution for 750+ e-commerce merchants. The company’s core Chargeback Guarantee application was built on PostgreSQL which wasn’t able to keep up with Riskified’s growth requirements and the company is in the process of migrating to CockroachDB. In this session, Harel Safra and Yoav Shemesh will discuss Riskified’s migration strategy and share lessons learned.

Harel Safra
_{Data Platform Engineering Team Lead, Riskified}

Yoav Shemesh
<sub>Senior Data Platform Engineer, Riskified

Location: Main Stage</sub>

_{Location: Cafe}

Superbet offers sports betting and virtual games and has experienced tremendous growth, expanding to 12 markets in Europe. Initially, the company leveraged an on-premises NoSQL database for its ticketing engine and metadata management. However, as the company expanded rapidly, the team needed more resilient data, simplified operations (no sharding), and a path to the cloud. In this talk, the team will discuss Superbet’s decision making process, why they ultimately chose CockroachDB, and provide tips on migrating to the cloud with CockroachDB.

Sergej Jakovljev
^{Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Happening d.o.o. (Superbet Group)}

Ivan Hrastinski
^{Engineering Manager, Happening d.o.o. (Superbet Group)}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Standing up Enterprise database infrastructure requires extensive sizing, deployment and tuning.of a cluster while managing databases for many different workloads can be costly. In addition, managing multiple roles and permissions for teams is difficult. This session will cover how organizations can enable an Enterprise-ready, fully-managed experience for their teams that dramatically simplifies operations across the entire application cycle while enhancing security and compliance using CockroachDB Cloud. New release announcements will also be covered.

Lakshmi Kannan
_{Director, Product Management, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

_{Location: Cafe}

Rightmove is UK’s number one property website. Alongside helping people find property for sale or rent, they provide a huge range of services to estate agents, new home developers, mortgage lenders, surveyors and more. As the company adopted a cloud first strategy to support its 2+ billion annual site visits, it took the opportunity to modernise the databases. The goals were to reduce architectural complexity, speed up software delivery lifecycles, reduce operational overhead, and enable multi-cloud and multi-regional resilience. In this talk, Andrew Tate, Head of Technology Operations at Rightmove, will discuss the company’s decision to accelerate adoption of CockroachDB as a system of record for mission critical applications, and their learnings deploying and running CockroachDB in production.

Andrew Tate
_{Head of Technology Operations, Rightmove}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Enhancing developer productivity from existing infrastructure requires streamlined applications and data migrations, regardless of the database of origin. In addition, proper defense-at-depth approaches need to be implemented across the database lifecycle. This session will cover how to streamline application development while choosing a resiliency strategy that is best suited for your business continuity goals using CockroachDB. New release announcements will also be covered.

Andy Woods
_{Director, Product Management, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Four years ago, the JPMorgan Chase Bank team nominated CockroachDB to their Hall of Innovation. In this discussion, JPMC’s Grant Murphy will discuss how the bank is building resilient cloud DBaaS infrastructure that can be used at enterprise scale by thousands of developers.

Grant Murphy
_{Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase}

Rob Reid
_{Technical Evangelist, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Rob Reid
_{Technical Evangelist, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

_{Location: Madison Rooftop}