A one-day database event like no other
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 12:00PM – 5:30PM PT
TAO at Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. 3377 S Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NVRoachFest comes to Las Vegas this October to welcome enterprise architects, decision-makers, and application developers to gain expert insight into future-proofing infrastructures for scalability, resilience, and compliance.
Your ticket isn’t just access to an event—it’s an investment in your team’s success and your infrastructure’s future. Learnstraight from industry leaders about how CockroachDB enables seamless global scale, compliance, and performance in an increasingly complex business world.
Discover how CockroachDB future-proofs your infrastructure for global scale
Deep-dive sessions on modernization, resilience, and operational efficiency
Meet industry leaders, partners, and the minds shaping distributed SQL.
Get a front-row seat to data-intensive insights you won’t find anywhere else.
Co-Founder and CEO,
Former Google Cloud Distinguished
Engineer, Speaker, Author, and Open
Source Contributor
Product Manager,
Senior Staff Software Engineer,
Sr. Director of AI,
Host, Big Ideas in App Architecture,
Staff Software Engineer,
Software Engineering Director,
More speakers will be announced soon.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Mezzanine
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, mission-critical
business applications face unprecedented demands: scalability, resilience, real-time consistency, and the capacity to adapt
swiftly to emerging technologies like GenAI. At Cockroach Labs,
we are redefining the limits of operational data, setting new
standards for how enterprises manage mission-critical
workloads in production.
In this keynote, co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball will share
insights into how Cockroach Labs continuously pushes
operational boundaries, demonstrating our unmatched ability
to future-proof customers’ systems alongside evolving
infrastructure demands. Discover how CockroachDB uniquely
aligns with the stringent technical requirements of modern
organizations, ensuring that data-intensive applications not
only perform flawlessly under ideal conditions but excel
precisely when faced with real-world challenges. Cockroach
Labs stands at the apex of operational data, driving innovation
in an increasingly complex and demanding digital environment.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
As the #1 sportsbook and premier mobile betting operator in
the U.S., FanDuel’s mission is simple: make sports betting easy.
Their challenge is keeping pace with millions of customers who
expect always-on access and fast performance. A core
component of their platform is the financial ledger which tracks
all financial transactions between a customer and FanDuel. Last
year, FanDuel decided to modernize their ledger and migrate to
CockroachDB so that they can future-proof their platform for
years to come. Join this session to hear how FanDuel supports
a massive audience base with CockroachDB while adhering to
regulatory requirements.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
We recognize that our customers need to adapt to significant
increases in workload demand and rely on CockroachDB to be
reliable and performant. With each release, CockroachDB
delivers enterprise capabilities essential for real-world
applications with the ultimate goal of empowering our
customers to navigate change and achieve success. In this
session, we will explore product features that substantially
improve performance and scale, enhance observability,
streamline development efficiency, and support AI workloads
using vector data capabilities. We’ll also discuss our migration
tooling which now offers a clear path for organizations looking
to move from Oracle to CockroachDB.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
Kelsey Hightower has worn just about every hat in tech sysadmin, developer, operator, leader — and built his career helping people make sense of complexity and find the simplicity that lasts.
In this keynote, he draws from decades of experience at the edge of scale and deep in production to share what real systems teach us about building for future. As demand grows and environments shift faster than ever, we need systems that are dependable, adaptable, and designed with operators in mind.
Through stories from the field, Kelsey will explore how infrastructure can evolve from something we constantly fight into something we can trust. Whether it’s scaling with confidence or building resilience that lasts, this talk is a reminder that the hardest parts of tech are often the most human.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
Squarespace is famous for its design-focused, all-in-one approach to building professional websites without needing to code. With nearly 5 million users worldwide generating terabytes of data, their platform needs to be performant at global scale and deliver always-on availability. To allow their engineers to focus on building new features instead of rearchitecting the database, Squarespace recently made the decision to migrate several use cases off of PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. Discover why Squarespace selected CockroachDB to future-proof its platform.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
Cisco, the multi-national technology giant, is on a mission to deliver end-to-end AI protection for enterprises with their new product: Cisco AI Defense. They originally built the platform on PostgreSQL and encountered major hurdles associated with scaling which made it challenging to support over 100,000 tenants and 50M+ tables. This talk will cover why Cisco AI migrated from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB so that they could meet their requirements for global availability, strict security, and compliance. Attendees will hear best practices for modernizing their data platforms, and learn how Cisco AI found the right database to underpin scale, agility, and innovation in enterprise AI.
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Opium
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Mezzanine
Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort
Room: Mezzanine
Gear up for RoachFest ‘25 by checking out the sights and sounds of last year’s event. Want to dive deeper?Watch full session recordings at our on-demandvideo hub.
At Cockroach Labs, we are redefining the future of data management with our innovative, cloud-native database solutions. Our flagship product, CockroachDB, is designed to help organizations scale with confidence, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and seamless performance across multi-region environments. Trusted by enterprises worldwide, we empower teams to build resilient applications while minimizing downtime and complexity. With a focus on reliability and scalability, Cockroach Labs is committed to helping businesses meet the demands of a rapidly evolving digital landscape
