YugaByte and PostgresConf Announce Lineup for Distributed SQL Summit 2019

Organizers of the Distributed SQL Summit today announced the lineup of speakers who will be presenting at the inaugural event on September 20, 2019 in San Jose, California. Led by YugaByte, in partnership with the Postgres Conference Silicon Valley, the Summit will feature cloud-native data infrastructure experts from Amazon Aurora, Google Spanner, Facebook, Pivotal and more.

From case studies and best practices to technical expertise, the keynote, panel and speaker sessions at the Distributed SQL Summit will help attendees understand what it takes to build, deploy and scale distributed SQL databases as a key part of an enterprise cloud strategy.

"Enterprises from across the globe have begun to understand the unique benefits of distributed SQL versus monolithic systems like Oracle," said Kannan Muthukkaruppan, CEO and co-founder of YugaByte. "We are excited to gather this unique group of experts for the very first time to network and discuss the future of the database industry."

Key sessions include:

• Keynote
  • James Watters, SVP Products, Pivotal

• Panel: Facebook's Distributed Database Evolution
  • Dhruba Borthakur, Co-Founder & CTO, Rockset
  • Jeff Rothschild, Entrepreneur, Engineer & former Facebook VP of Infrastructure
  • Vishal Kathuria, Engineering Manager, Facebook

• An Introduction to Amazon Aurora
  • Kamal Gupta, Head of Engineering, Amazon Aurora

• Google Spanner's SQL Evolution
  • Campbell Fraser, Software Development Lead, Google Spanner

• Transforming the Omni-Channel Experience at Kroger
  • Mahesh Tyagarajan, VP of Engineering, Kroger

• Distributed MySQL Architectures, Past, Present and Future
  • Peter Zaitsev, Founder & CEO, Percona

• Building Microservices in a Cloud-Native World with Distributed SQL
  • Ryan Scheidter, Lead Software Engineer, Cerner

"The Summit has a great lineup of speakers with a range of topics that should appeal to developers, administrators and executives alike," said Ram Ravichandran, CTO of Narvar. "I am looking forward to hearing from Kroger on how they are transforming their business with Distributed SQL, how Facebook and Google pioneered a lot of the work we are we are all benefiting from today, and how Amazon is building a phenomenal business by offering PostgreSQL in cloud."

Registration for the Distributed SQL Summit is now open, to register please visit: https://www.distributedsql.org/

For more information about Postgres Conference Silicon Valley, please visit: https://postgresconf.org/conferences/SV2019

About YugaByte

YugaByte is the company behind YugaByte DB, the open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale applications. YugaByte DB serves business-critical applications with SQL query flexibility, high performance and cloud-native agility, thus allowing enterprises to focus on business growth rather than complex data infrastructure management. It is trusted by companies in cybersecurity, financial markets, IoT, retail and e-commerce verticals. Founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Oracle engineers, YugaByte is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital. www.yugabyte.com