_{Location: Convene | Floor 3}

This comprehensive workshop will guide you through the complete CockroachDB architecture, providing both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The session will cover key topics such as Distributed SQL fundamentals, core architectural components, consensus and replication, and multi-node operations. You’ll gain hands-on experience by building a complete CockroachDB deployment and exploring its behavior in various operational scenarios, including node failures, cluster scaling, and distributed reads/writes. The workshop will demonstrate how CockroachDB automatically redistributes data and maintains consistency even when components fail.

Designed for database administrators, solutions architects, and application developers, the course provides both theoretical understanding and hands-on experience with CockroachDB's core capabilities.

*Registration required

_{Location: Leadenhall Hub 1}

This workshop will focus on key strategies for managing globally distributed data, offering practical insights and hands-on experience in building resilient, high-performance systems that operate across multiple geographic locations. Topics covered include multi-region cluster architecture, resilience strategies, performance optimization, and data placement control. Participants will gain a deep understanding of how to design and implement clusters spanning multiple regions, build systems that can withstand region-level failures, optimize performance in distributed environments, and manage data placement for efficiency. During the workshop, you'll also build a complete multi-region deployment capable of withstanding region-level failures, while addressing real-world challenges like cross-region write latency, data consistency across time zones, and providing low-latency access to geographically distributed clients.

Designed for database administrators, cloud architects, and application developers who need to design resilient, high-performance database systems that operate across multiple geographic locations.

*Registration required

_{Location: Leadenhall Hub 2}

_{Location: Convene | Floor 3}

Rob Reid
_{Technical Evangelist
Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

No database operates under perfect conditions in the real world. And today, ensuring systems can withstand outages is more challenging than ever. Over the past decade, distributed SQL has gained mainstream traction thanks to its ability to deliver IT resilience — even in the face of disaster scenarios. The infrastructure landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, pushing organizations to rethink how they future-proof their systems, especially now with the rapid emergence of GenAI. It's increasingly critical for enterprises to evaluate database performance not just in controlled environments, but under the harshest real-world scenarios. In this keynote, co-founder and CTO Peter Mattis will address the development of an evolved benchmarking framework designed for today’s demands — and why modern systems must do more than perform well in ideal conditions: they must stay resilient and deliver consistent performance when adversity strikes.

Peter Mattis
<sub>Co-Founder & CTO | Cockroach Labs

Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum</sub>

As a global fintech leader, SumUp required a scalable database to support its new payment processing engine with zero downtime. Facing challenges with Amazon RDS, they turned to CockroachDB for a fully managed, highly available solution that could meet their use case requirements. Learn how SumUp is leveraging CockroachDB to meet performance SLAs, reduce operational overhead, and future-proof their payments infrastructure.

Anton Antonov
_{Engineering Manager | SumUp}

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

A look into how Ory was able to address OpenAI's complex requirements around access control, security, and scalability for its fastest growing application: ChatGPT.

Jeff Hickman
<sub>Head of Customer Engineering | Ory

Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum</sub>

_{Location: Convene | Floor 3}

We recognize that our customers need to adapt to significant increases in workload demand and rely on CockroachDB to be reliable and performant. With each release, CockroachDB delivers enterprise capabilities essential for real-world applications with the ultimate goal of empowering our customers to navigate change and achieve success. In this session, we will explore new product features that substantially improve performance and scale, enhance observability, and streamline development efficiency. We’ll also expand on our vector data capabilities and migration tooling.

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

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

Kaizen Gaming, one of the world’s largest GameTech companies, serves 13 million active customers across Europe, the Americas, and Africa. With plans to enter 12+ new markets, the company recognized that infrastructure limitations could impact expansion. In particular, rapid business growth led to challenges with their SQL server reaching its scalability limits, increasing operational complexity and causing performance degradation and reliability issues. During this session, discover why Kaizen Gaming selected CockroachDB to run on OpenShift to power their wallet application – a critical component for all revenue generating services including its online casino and sportsbook.

Dimitris Thanasopoulos
_{CTO, Kaizen}

Nikos Roumpoutsos
_{Head of Payments Platform, Kaizen}

Ahmed Mehdi
_{Director of Technology Platform, Kaizen}

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

^{Location: Convene | Floor 3}

During the panel, industry experts from AWS and PwC will discuss proven methods for adhering to complex data sovereignty regulations in the EU, and discuss how to embrace operational resilience initiatives. They will touch on how organizations can meet GDPR and DORA requirements, as well as the technologies that can help deliver end-to-end solutions that reduce risk, costs, and complexities of regulatory compliance. Whether you're planning on expanding your business into new regions, or looking to optimize your current compliance and/or resilience strategy, this session will equip you with the knowledge you need to run a successful business in the EU and beyond.

Rob Lyle
_{Principal Solution Architect, FSI, AWS}

Jon Maskery
_{Partner, UK Financial Services Consulting, PwC}

Cassie Zimmerman
<sub>Senior Director Global Cloud Alliances, Cockroach Labs

Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum</sub>

Booking.com, a global leader in online travel, serves a vast global customer base and processes millions of transactions daily. A few years ago, the company adopted CockroachDB so that they could modernize its Order Management Platform to support its Connected Trip vision. By leveraging CockroachDB’s built-in transactional support, change data capture, inherent resilience, and online schema changes, the team is streamlining their infrastructure and reducing complexity for several key use cases. In this talk, Mahmoud will share why CockroachDB was chosen, the benefits gained, and key lessons from modernizing a mission-critical system.

Mahmoud Nagib
_{Principal Software Engineer, Booking.com}

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

Rob Reid
_{Technical Evangelist, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

_{Location: Convene | Floor 3}