Events & Conferences
Industry Event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
- A gathering for the cloud native ecosystem, covering Kubernetes, infrastructure, observability, security, and production operations. Visit the Oracle booth to meet the MySQL team and discuss database operations in Kubernetes environments.
- MySQL on OKE: Database Operations as Kubernetes State — Michael Marx, MySQL Master Principal Solutions Engineer, MySQL / Oracle. This is a booth lightning talk; the time will be announced.
Industry Event
DOAG 2026 Conference + Exhibition
- DOAG brings together database professionals to explore database technologies, open source, and related IT topics. MySQL team is not involved in this event this year, however the programme includes some interesting MySQL community sessions from the community:
- EMEA Community Tour: Monitoring Your MySQL Server’s Health Trends — Igor Donchovski, Principal Consultant, Pythian & Macedonia MySQL User Group leader. His talk is scheduled for November 17, 11:00–11:45 CET; room Kyjiw.
- MySQL 9.7 LTS - Was gibt's Neues? — Oliver Sennhauser, FromDual. Talk is scheduled for November 18, 10:00–10:45 CET; room Neu-Delhi.
Industry Event
UKOUG Conference Discover 2026
Three days of Oracle technology and applications sessions, community conversations, and networking. MySQL will be represented by Ivan Ma with a session on Community releases and the release model.
The Next Chapter of MySQL (9.7 LTS & MySQL Community Server YY.MM Releases) — Ivan Ma, Principal Solutions Engineer, MySQL / Oracle. Ivan’s session is scheduled for November 23, 11:00–11:45 GMT; room Mezzanine - Muscadet.
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MySQL Event
MySQL Macedonia: Sharding MySQL with Vitess
Join the MySQL Macedonia community for an evening of practical MySQL and Vitess experience, questions, and networking. Entry is free, with registration required; pizza, drinks, and community swag will be available.
- Sharding MySQL with Vitess: Best Practices from the Field — Matthias Crauwels, Enterprise Support Engineer. The session explores sharding keys and vindexes, data placement, query patterns, and migration lessons from production Vitess environments.
- Time: 18:00–20:00 CET
MySQL Event
MySQL Belgian Days 2027
Join us for two days dedicated to MySQL Community Edition, technical knowledge sharing, and open collaboration. Topics include performance, high availability, application development, observability, and opportunities to contribute. Registration and coffee start at 08:30 CET; the programme runs from 09:00 to 18:00 CET on both days.
The speaker lineup and agenda will be announced as they are confirmed. The Call for Papers is open until November 30, 2026, at 23:59 CET. Please register to attend even if you also submit a proposal.
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Industry Event
Open Source Conference 2027 Osaka
A free open source event with technical seminars and exhibitions by communities and technology organisations. MySQL will have a booth and a technical session. The event runs from 10:00 to 17:45 JST, with exhibitions closing at 16:00.
The MySQL session title, speaker, and time will be shared once available.
Industry Event
FOSDEM 2027
FOSDEM brings together open source developers and contributors for technical talks and community exchanges. MySQL will participate in The M-ecosystem devroom, continuing conversations across database servers, storage engines, connectors, proxies, and tools.
The devroom programme will be announced by the organisers. Further updates on a possible MySQL stand will follow once its status is confirmed.
Industry Event
Jfokus 2027
Jfokus brings the software community together for technical sessions, practical examples, and discussions about software development. The Oracle Java team is arranging a booth, and MySQL participation is being explored. The programme includes these Oracle Java sessions:
Using the Final Version of Structured Concurrency to Create an Application on Virtual Threads — José Paumard, Java Developer Advocate, Oracle. Hands-on lab; February 8, 09:00–12:30 CET; room 23.
Java 28 - Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime — Nicolai Parlog, Java Developer Advocate, Oracle. Deep dive; February 8, 13:30–15:00 CET; room C1.
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Industry Event
ConFoo Montreal 2027
ConFoo is a full stack developer conference focused on practical solutions across software development. MySQL and the Oracle Java team plan to support the community meetup, and Scott Stroz has two accepted MySQL sessions.
MySQL Performance Makeover: Watch Me Fix a Slow App Livehttps://confoo.ca/en/2027/session/mysql-performance-makeover-watch-me-fix-a-slow-app-live — Scott Stroz, MySQL Developer Advocate, Oracle. Time and room will be announced.
MySQL Duality Views: One Data Model, Two Superpowershttps://confoo.ca/en/2027/session/mysql-duality-views-one-data-model-two-superpowers — Scott Stroz, MySQL Developer Advocate, Oracle. Time and room will be announced.
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