MariaDB Day – Brussels

Sunday, February 01, 2026, Brussels
Silversquare delta, Avenue Arnaud Fraiteur 15-23, 1050 Brussels – Belgium
We’re pleased to announce MariaDB Day Brussels, a full-day community event dedicated to the present and future of MariaDB.
This event will bring together maintainers, contributors, partners, and users for a focused day of updates, insights, and announcements from across the MariaDB ecosystem. Expect a clear view of where MariaDB stands today — and where it is heading next.
What to expect
- Latest updates from the MariaDB world
- Core server development, ecosystem initiatives, and community progress
- New announcements
Fresh initiatives, collaborations, and strategic directions - Technical and strategic sessions
From engineering deep dives to real-world adoption stories - Community and partner perspectives
How MariaDB is being used, extended, and relied upon in practice - In–person discussions
Space for direct conversations with people shaping MariaDB today
MariaDB Day Brussels is designed for developers, architects, DBAs, contributors, and decision-makers who want first-hand insight into the evolution of MariaDB — beyond headlines and release notes.
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Schedule
11:00
10m
Anna Widenius, Kaj Arnö
Opening
11:10
30m
Nikita Malyavin, MariaDB plc
11:40
20m
Steve Shaw, HammerDB
How MariaDB Achieved 2.5× OLTP Throughput in Enterprise Server 11.8
12:00
30m
Michael “Monty” Widenius, MariaDB plc
12:30
30m
Lunch break
13:00
30m
Jan Lindström, MariaDB plc
MySQL 8.0 Galera Cluster to MariaDB Galera Cluster migration: Theory and Practice
13:30
30m
Peter Zaitsev, Percona
14:00
30m
Nikita Malyavin , MariaDB plc
Seamless Schema Changes: Mastering Non-Blocking ALTER TABLE in MariaDB
14:30
30m
Coffee break
15:00
20m
Paul Clevett, Wolf Software Systems Ltd
Rebuildilng Code with CodeWolf and Mariadb Galera Cluster with Vector Databases
15:20
30m
Nick Deninng, Diegesis
15:50
30m
Alejandro Duarte, MariaDB plc
Deploying RAG Without the Plumbing: MariaDB’s Unified Approach
16:20
10m
Coffee break
16:30
30m
Dirk Hillbrecht, Cantamen
17:00
20m
Andrija Vučinić, Automattic
17:20
20m
Carl Schwan, Nextcloud
17:40
20m
Roman Agabekov, Releem
Running MariaDB When Nobody Wants to Be the DBA: From Manual Guesswork to Safe Automation