Register for MariaDB Day Sessions 1 Feb 2025

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Time to sign up! The schedule is out for our first 2025 MariaDB Day, in Brussels 1 Feb 2025.

And what a schedule it is, with insightful presentations by top-brass presenters.

The latest new features

First of all, this is the opportunity to get the big picture of the latest new features in MariaDB.

  • Peter Zaitsev of Percona gives an external overview of the “Splendidly wonderful features in MariaDB 11” – looking forward to another one of his top-rated presentations!
  • Sergei Golubchik of MariaDB Plc talks about the newest MariaDB releases released 2025, both MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4 as well as the upcoming MariaDB 11.7 and 11.8 releases

AI, LLM, and Vectors

Second, this is the place to get the latest on AI, LLM and vectors in MariaDB

  • Sergei Golubchik helps us get to know MariaDB’s “Rocket-Fast” Native Vector Search
  • Jags Ramnarayan of SkySQL talks about building GenAI-powered apps with MariaDB’s VectorDB and SkySQL’s AI agents
  • Diego Dupin of MariaDB Plc shows concrete cases of using an LLM with MariaDB

Contributions to code

Third, contributions are central to MariaDB Foundation.

  • Vicentiu Ciorbaru shares the first steps in how to contribute to MariaDB and to your own career.
  • Otto Kekäläinen presents a working prototype for server-initiated instant failover in MariaDB

In-depth topics: Security, Replication, Column-Store

Fourth, we have top presentations on other topics we know our users love

  • Nikita Malyavin and Sergei Golubchik, top security experts at MariaDB Plc and kick off the day with an astronomical title, “When a client and a server are just a PARSEC apart“, where PARSEC is a new authentication plugin, not parallax seconds. MariaDB has made significant advancements in de facto network channel protection over the last year, including also the zero-config SSL.
  • Kristian Nielsen, Chief Architect Replication at MariaDB Foundation, gives another of his celebrated presentations: MariaDB replication: Ease-to-use or easy-to-abuse?
  • Roman Nozdrin of MariaDB Plc helps the audience discover what ColumnStore can really do.

Everyone within a parsec of Brussels – please register and join!

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