MySQL and HeatWave Summit 2025

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

MySQL and HeatWave Summit is a free, two-day event where MySQL developers, DBAs, experts and users come to learn about the latest MySQL innovations. This is a unique opportunity to hear from the MySQL engineering team, community experts, and users who will share their in-depth knowledge developing and deploying business critical applications in the cloud and on-premises. This year, we're celebrating 30 years of MySQL, and we want you to be part of this special milestone!

Day 1 - Tuesday, April 22

Time	Auditorium	Room 102/103	Room 104
08:00am	Welcome & 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	Building AI-Powered MySQL Database Applications: A Developer's Fast Track to Production Craig Shallahamer, Viscosity North America
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 Indexes and Histograms – How They Speed Up Your Queries Fred Descamps, Oracle
4:45-6:00pm	Reception & Happy Hour

Day 2 - Wednesday, April 23

Time	Auditorium	Room 102/103	Room 104
09:00am	Welcome & 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 Architectures for the Newly Initiated Scott Stroz, 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	Routing Guidelines – Smarter Query Routing for InnoDB Cluster 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	Hidden Gems in MySQL Shell Scott Stroz, Oracle	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

Interested in the Customer Advisory Board?

Following the MySQL and HeatWave Summit, Oracle will be hosting a Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting on April 24th that gives customers and partners an opportunity to help shape the future direction of the MySQL and HeatWave product roadmaps. If you are an existing customer or partner, you can learn more about the program by visiting the MySQL and HeatWave CAB overview page »