Call for Speakers | Percona Live Bay Area 2027

The best database talks don’t start with “here’s how it’s supposed to work.” They start with “here’s what broke.”
Percona Live is coming to the Bay Area on May 11–13, 2027 at the Computer History Museum, and the call for papers is open until March 5, 2027. If you run, build, migrate, or secure open source databases, we want your story on stage, especially the parts that went sideways.
Open source databases are built in the open. The knowledge of running them in production should be shared the same way. That’s what Percona Live is for.
This is a practitioner conference. There are no vendor pitches and no product tours, just deep talks on real systems: the query that took down checkout, the migration plan that survived contact with production, the config change that cut your cloud bill in half. First-time speakers and seasoned veterans get the same stage. If you’ve solved a hard problem, you have a talk.
We welcome talks across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Valkey, and the wider open source database ecosystem. This year, we especially want submissions on these themes:
Leave about 10 minutes for questions in either slot. Tell us which length you want when you submit. If your topic fits the other format better, we may suggest it.
Submit it anyway. A narrow topic with real detail beats a broad overview every time, and a 30-minute slot is built for one. One production incident, one benchmark, or one migration done properly is a strong talk.
Submissions close March 5, 2027. The call opens September 29, 2026 and closes at 11:59 PM Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7) on March 5, 2027. Speaking is free.
Questions: perconalive@percona.com.
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