MySQL and HeatWave Summit 2025

April 22-23, 2025
Oracle Conference Center - Redwood Shores, California

Day 1 - Tuesday, April 22

Time	Auditorium	Room 102/103	Room 104
08:00am	Registration, Check in, & Breakfast
9:00-9:45am	Keynote: State of the Dolphin Wim Coekaerts, Executive Vice President, Oracle
10:00-10:30am	Build Generative AI Applications Faster with HeatWave GenAI and Vector Store Nipun Agarwal, Oracle	Effortless Business Continuity with HeatWave MySQL Luis Soares, Oracle	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 1 MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
10:45-11:15am	How PlanetScale Offers Unlimited Scaling for MySQL Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale	Turbocharge Your MySQL with Readyset - Faster Queries, Lower Costs Marcelo Altmann, ReadySet.io
11:30am-12:00pm	Data Warehouse and Lakehouse Analytics at the Speed of Thought with MySQL HeatWave Gaurav Chadha, Oracle	Hidden Gems in MySQL Shell Scott Stroz, Oracle
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch & Partner Showcase
1:00-1:30pm	MySQL Performance for Application Developers Daniel Nichter	Unlocking Database Freedom: Migration from MSFT SQL Server to MySQL Using GenAI Services Henrique Leandro, Oracle	Reimagining MySQL Observability with Open Telemetry Mike Frank, Oracle
1:45-2:15pm	Leverage HeatWave's Multicloud Strategy and Replace Six Services with One – HeatWave Mandy Pang, Oracle	A 5-Star Upgrade: Users, Reviews, Businesses, and MySQL 8 Alexander Martinez, Yelp	MySQL InnoDB - Data Recovery Fred Descamps, Oracle
2:30-3:00pm	Simplicity Meets Innovation - Accelerate Your Machine Learning Journey with HeatWave AutoML Jayant Sharma, Oracle	The Next Generation Optimizer in MySQL Norvald Ryeng, Oracle	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 2 MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
3:00-3:15pm	Coffee Break & Partner Showcase
3:15-3:45pm	Enhancing MySQL Cluster Uptime: Advanced Detection, Mitigation, and Consensus with Group Replication Raja Sriram Ganesan, Uber	The Go-Mysql Library as a Swiss Army Knife Daniël Van Eeden, PingCAP	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 2 (cont.) MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
4:00-4:30pm	Modernize Your Relational Database with HeatWave MySQL Sriram Vrinda, Oracle	MySQL Architectures for the Newly Initiated Scott Stroz, Oracle
4:45-6:00pm	Reception & Happy Hour

Day 2 - Wednesday, April 23

Time	Auditorium	Room 102/103	Room 104
09:00am	Registration, Check in, & Breakfast
10:00-10:30am	Scaling MySQL for the Future: How ProxySQL Powers High-Performance Architectures René Cannaò, ProxySQL	Lessons Learned in Switching MySQL Monitoring from MEM to OEM Krishna Mamillapalli, Datavail	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 3 MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
10:45-11:15am	Trends in Data Processing and Innovations in HeatWave Nipun Agarwal, Oracle	Security and Compliance with MySQL Mike Frank, Oracle
11:30am-12:00pm	MySQL Indexes and Histograms – How They Speed Up Your Queries Fred Descamps, Oracle	The Wherever PC to Anywhere with Oracle Enterprise Solutions Giovanni Morelli, Mazzzing Inc.
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch & Partner Showcase
1:00-1:30pm	MySQL REST Service – Build REST APIs without Writing Code Alfredo Kojima, Oracle	RIP Mysql_Native_Password Ronald Bradford, Kanangra I/O	From Chaos to Control: Monitoring and Compliance Management of MySQL with Enterprise Manager Desiree Abrokwa, Oracle
1:45-2:15pm	Predictive Asset Maintenance Using Heatwave Lakehouse Bhushan Arora, Oracle	Building Gen AI-Powered MySQL On-Premise Database Applications: A Developer's Fast Track to Production Craig Shallahamer, Viscosity North America	MySQL for the Modern Developer Mike Frank, Oracle
2:30-3:00pm	Innovations in MySQL Nipun Agarwal, Oracle	In-depth MySQL Monitoring: From Metrics to Insights Sriram Vrinda, Oracle	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 4 MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
3:00-3:15pm	Coffee Break & Partner Showcase
3:15-3:45pm	Enhance Your Business Continuity with New High Availability Features for MySQL Enterprise Edition Luis Soares, Oracle	Achieving Best Performance with MySQL Seema Sundara, Oracle	Hands-on Lab (HOL) – Session 4 (cont.) MySQL Monitoring and Observability: What's New and Best Practices
4:00-4:30pm	MySQL on IaaS for Mission-Critical Cloud Applications and Multi-Cloud Strategies Benjamin Wood, Oracle	Discover the Power of HeatWave with Simplified App Development and Enhanced Security Mandy Pang, Oracle
4:45-6:00pm	Wrap up & Thank You