Keynote
Michael Howard brings MariaDB’s vision to life at OpenWorks 2023

OpenWorks 2023 Keynote
- Michael Howard , CEO, MariaDB
On-Demand sessions

How Hughes Achieved Scalability and High Availability for Their IoT Smart Plug with SkySQL + Xpand
- John Hundley , Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Michael Malgeri , Principal Solutions Architect, MariaDB

SkySQL vs. AWS RDS vs. GCP Cloud SQL
- Venkat Iyer , VP Engineering, SkySQL, MariaDB

SkySQL – The Open, Unified and Most Productive Cloud Database for Modern Applications
- Jags Ramnarayan , SVP & General Manager, SkySQL

Better Together: MariaDB SkySQL on Google Cloud Platform
- Naman Shah , Product Management Director, MariaDB
- Akshay Ram , Senior Product Manager, MariaDB

Engineer More, Work Less: DBS’ Autonomous Database Journey
- Gnanaprakasam "GP" Chidambarasamy , DBS

Xpand Your Data Possibilities & Pipeline with MariaDB Xpand & Qlik Data Integration
- Adam Mayer , Director, Product Marketing Manager, Qlik
- Ben Grieser , Solutions Architect, MariaDB

Switching from MySQL/Percona to MariaDB
- Pramod Mahto , Sr Support Engineer, MariaDB

Any Number of MariaDB Server, MaxScale or Xpand Nodes by a Couple of Shell Commands
- Timofey Turenko , QA Engineer, MariaDB

Moving Galera from Community Server to Enterprise Server to SkySQL
- Kyle Hutchinson , Customer Engineer, MariaDB

Certified Power Plows Through the Winter Season with MariaDB SkySQL
- Jeremy Miller , R&D Manager and Senior Principal Electrical Engineer, Certified Power
- Adrien Holtzman , Senior Software Engineer, Certified Power
- Kathryn Sizemore , Sr Solutions Architect, MariaDB

MariaDB Shell: An Upgraded Admin Tool
- Luis Lizardo , Customer Engineer, MariaDB

Tips and Tricks for Migrating from Oracle to MariaDB
- Anders Karlsson , Master Principal Sales Engineer, MariaDB

Move to the Cloud with Zero Downtime
- Sebastien Giraud , Solution Engineer, MariaDB

Automate Database Benchmarking with Xbench
- Orlando Moreno , Xpand Senior Performance Engineer, MariaDB

Leveling the Playing Field for Startup and Small Business Data-Driven Operations with SkySQL
- Ellen McKenney , Sales Engineering Manager, MariaDB

SkySQL Observability Services
- Richard Bensley , Sr. Software Engineer, MariaDB

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Replication but Were Afraid to Ask
- Edward Stoever , Sr. Support Engineer, MariaDB

EXSCALATE: Building a Faster, More Efficient & Less Costly Drug Discovery Platform with MariaDB
- Andrea Rosario Beccari , Senior Director EXSCALATE, Dompé farmaceutici SpA

Plug Into Analytics: Connecting ColumnStore to Source Databases with Spider Engine
- Kathryn Sizemore , Sr Solutions Architect, MariaDB

Using Terraform and HCL to Bring IaC to SkySQL Cloud Databases
- Pieter Humphrey , Director of Developer Relations, MariaDB

Deploying MariaDB Data Directly Into ML Models with MindsDB
- Tom Hudson , Engineering Manager, MindsDB

Using MariaDB ColumnStore with Power BI for Visualization and Reporting
- Todd Stoffel , Product Director, MariaDB

What’s New in MariaDB Enterprise Server
- Max Mether , VP, Server Product Management, MariaDB

Fireside Chat: Best Practices for Migrating Your On-Premises MariaDB Deployment to SkySQL
- Sean Clark , Co-founder and CTO, WBX Commerce
- Manjot Singh , Field Chief Technology Officer, MariaDB

ZEP’s Xpand Journey to Reduce Hidden Costs by 40%
- Byungkee Hong , Platform Team Leader, Supercat
- Kwangbok Lee , Staff Architect, Customer Engineering, MariaDB

Xpand Multi-Region High Availability Cluster
- Matt White , Sr. Director, Software Engineering, MariaDB

MariaDB Xpand Under the Hood: From Architecture to Reality
- Anders Karlsson , Master Principal Sales Engineer, MariaDB
- Aman Singh , Customer Engineer & Enterprise Architect, MariaDB

HPC Multi-Cluster Database Deployment: Service Level and Availability Driven Refactoring
- Steven Senator , Los Alamos National Laboratory

Introduction to Configuring and Using MariaDB MaxScale: Database Proxy Made Simple
- Brock Wilson , Staff Architect, MariaDB

SkySQL Observability Architecture
- Bhavin Modi , Sr. Director, Engineering, MariaDB

Getting Started with Geospatial Data in the Cloud Using SkySQL Geospatial PaaS
- Glenn Stowe , Product Manager, MariaDB

MariaDB’s Path to Google Cloud with SADA Systems
- Brian Suk , Assoc. CTO, Sada
- Bryan Alsdorf , Director of IT, MariaDB

Samsung Groupware(Knox Portal), Microservices-based Migration to MariaDB & Zero Downtime Upgrade
- Hojeong Kim , Senior Engineer, Samsung SDS

SkySQL Serverless Analytics Powered by SparkSQL – Part 1
- Saravana Krishnamurthy , VP of Product Management, SkySQL, MariaDB

SkySQL Serverless Analytics Powered by SparkSQL – Part 2
- Saravana Krishnamurthy , VP of Product Management, SkySQL, MariaDB

Panel: Getting the Most from Distributed SQL and Xpand, Lessons from the Trenches
- Kurt Haberkamp , VP, Customer Success, MariaDB
- Aman Singh , Customer Engineer & Enterprise Architect, MariaDB
- Paul Rothrock , Customer Engineer, MariaDB