Registration + Networking Lunch

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Mezzanine

Opening Remarks

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Future-proofing operational data at scale

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.

Spencer Kimball

Co-Founder & CEO | Cockroach Labs

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Scaling to support America’s #1 sportsbook

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.

Jordan Leach

Software Engineering Director | FanDuel

Alex Chadwich

Staff Software Engineer | FanDuel

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Building CockroachDB for performance at scale

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.

Rohan Joshi

Product Manager | Cockroach Labs

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Break

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

20+ years of building systems that outlast the
chaos

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.

Kelsey Hightower

Former Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Speaker, Author, and Open Source Contributor

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Why Squarespace adopted CockroachDB for better global performance at scale

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.

Gavin McQuillan

Senior Staff Software Engineer | Squarespace

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Journey from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB: Scaling Cisco AI Defense for resilience, compliance, and growth

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.

Arjun Sambamoorthy

Co-Founder, Chief Architect & Head of Engineering | CiscoAI

Location: Tao Bistro and Nightclub | Venetian Resort

Room: Opium

Closing Remarks

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Room: Mezzanine

Closing Reception

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Room: Mezzanine