Mughees Minhas SVP Products, Oracle Corp. Mughees is responsible for overseeing product management and strategy of MySQL Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and OCI Observability and Management technologies.
	René Cannaò CEO, ProxySQL René Cannaò is a database expert and a key contributor to ProxySQL, specializing in MySQL performance optimization, query routing, and high availability solutions. With years of experience working with large-scale MySQL deployments, he has helped companies, including Fortune 500 enterprises, design and implement scalable, resilient database architectures. As an active member of the open-source database community, he regularly speaks at industry conferences and contributes to improving database performance and reliability.
	Marcelo Altmann Senior Software Engineer, Readyset.io Marcelo Altmann is a database professional with almost 20 years of experience working with MySQL. Over the years, he’s contributed code fixes to MySQL itself. As a C++ and Rust developer, he’s passionate about solving tough problems and building tools that make databases faster and more reliable. Marcelo loves sharing what he’s learned, which is why you’ll often find him speaking at MySQL conferences and events. He’s also part of the Oracle ACE program, a recognition of his contributions to the MySQL community. When he’s not knee-deep in code or databases, Marcelo enjoys geeking out over new technologies and connecting with others in the database world. Whether it’s about performance tuning or MySQL internals, he’s always up for a good chat.
	Krishna Mamillapalli Director and Practice Lead of MySQL Services, Datavail Co. Over 16+ years of experience in database architecture and solutions with an extensive technical background in database operations, cloud migrations and modernizations specialized in MySQL. He also has extensive experience in cloud strategies, migrations and supporting opensource database technologies in the cloud. Deep understanding of relational, non-relational and hybrid data models, Krishna’s collaborated with Enterprise customers and led projects that delivered high-end database solutions in Finance, Healthcare, Retail, e-commerce, Manufacturing and Telecommunications industries and help customers. He’s active as a thought leader and presents at database conferences such in SSWUG, IOUG, DBTA and AWS Workshops.
	Scott Stroz MySQL Developer Advocate, Oracle Scott has been a full-stack developer for longer than the term “full-stack developer” has been around. At that time, MySQL was the only constant in his development stack. He is passionate about sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes. Scott is a MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle and is part of the MySQL Community Team.
	Benjamin Wood MySQL Master Solution Engineer, Oracle With nearly two decades of service to MySQL customers across North America, Benjamin Wood works in the sales consulting group of MySQL at Oracle. He helps customers meet challenging technical and business requirements in both on-prem and cloud environments.
	Nicolai Plum Senior Database Engineer, Booking.com Nicolai Plum works in the MySQL Engineering team of Booking.com on database product design and service reliability. His previous roles at Booking.com have ranged widely from managing Linux Systems Administration teams through storage and systems architecture to regulatory compliance and construction project management. In his spare time he travels the world and takes pictures.
	Sveta Smirnova Principal Support Engineer, Percona Sveta Smirnova is a world known MySQL expert. She is author of books "MySQL Troubleshooting" and "MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition", MySQL support engineer with decades of experience, and frequent speaker at international events, including Oracle Open World, Fosdem, Highload. Currently Sveta works as Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona. Her responsibilities include software bugs priority process, production of tools for services teams at Percona, and maintenance of Percona Toolkit.
	Frédéric Descamps MySQL Community Manager, Oracle After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric Descamps started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He then opted for a career in the world of open source by joining one of the first Belgian startups dedicated 100% to free projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona and in 2016 he decided to join the MySQL Community Team as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC.