Call for Speakers for Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 Now Open

DURHAM, NC--(Marketwired - Jun 11, 2014) - Percona, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced that the Call for Speakers for Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 is open and accepting speaker proposals through August 17, 2014. Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 will take place November 3-4 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Center. Sponsorship opportunities are open, and Super Saver Registration discounts are available through July 13, 2014.

This year's event features new formal tracks, including High Availability, Performance Optimization, Programming, Security, and MySQL in the Cloud. Percona invites proposals for both breakout and tutorial sessions. Breakout sessions are 50 minutes in length including a Q&A. Tutorial sessions are focused on an immediate and practical application of in-depth MySQL knowledge and are targeted at a level between a training class and a conference breakout session. Tutorial speakers should assume that attendees will have laptops to work through detailed and potentially hands-on presentations. Tutorials are typically three hours in length including a Q&A, but submissions will also be accepted for full-day, 6-hour tutorials.

In addition to topics that directly address the formal tracks noted above, the Conference Committee is particularly interested in submissions on the following topics: DevOps, Disaster Recovery, MySQL and NoSQL, MySQL Case Studies, Replication, and Database Administration. Selected speakers will receive a complimentary full conference pass.

Conference Committee
Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 features a mostly new and very dedicated Conference Committee composed of:

• Cedric Peintre, Database Architect at Dailymotion

• Luis Motta Campos, Database Administrator, eBay Classifieds Group

• Morgan Tocker, MySQL Community Manager at Oracle

• Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist for MariaDB

• David Busby, Remote DBA at Percona

• Art van Scheppingen, Head of Database Engineering at Spil Games

Sponsorships
Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 are available. Sponsors become a part of a dynamic and growing ecosystem and interact with more than 300 DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solutions vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Continuent and Codership will serve as Diamond Sponsors for the 2014 event.

Planning to Attend?
Super Saver registration discounts for Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 are available until July 13, 2014.

Visit the Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014.

Percona Live Conferences

What: Percona Live London MySQL Conference 2014
Where: Millennium Gloucester Conference Center
4-18 Harrington Gardens, London, SW7 4LH
When: November 3-4, 2014
Call for Papers Deadline: August 17, 2014

About Percona

Percona has made MySQL faster and more reliable for over 2,000 consulting and support customers worldwide since 2006. Percona provides enterprise-grade MySQL support, Consulting, Training, Managed Services, and Server Development services to companies such as Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC. Percona's founders authored the definitive book High Performance MySQL from O'Reilly Press and the widely read MySQL Performance Blog. Percona also develops software for MySQL users, including Percona Server, Percona XtraBackup, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and Percona Toolkit. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

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