Steve Wozniak to Speak at Fourth Annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015

DURHAM, NC--(Marketwired - Mar 5, 2015) - Percona, the company that makes MySQL and OpenStack faster and more reliable, today announced that Steve Wozniak, the Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist known as "The Woz," will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation at the fourth annual Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 to be held April 13-16, 2015, at The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center. The Woz will be speaking on April 14, 2015. The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo has become the one true MySQL "must attend" event each year, and with the participation of The Woz and other industry luminaries, the 2015 event promises to be the most exciting ever, with a broad range of talks and tutorials by industry experts, along with fun and informative networking events.

Every Percona Live MySQL Conference is full of intense energy as everyone from experts to novices gather to discuss one of the key technologies helping companies around the world transition to high-scale analytics. In addition to the conference sessions, participants can enjoy learning from, sharing with, and just getting to know nearly every important player in the MySQL industry.

Facebook Keynote
Harrison Fisk, Member of the Facebook Database Performance Team, will be among a select list of industry luminaries selected to deliver one of the conference keynotes. "Polyglot Persistence @ Facebook" will explore why Facebook has so many different data solutions deployed at scale and how the company decides to deploy a new one. Fisk will also discuss how Facebook is able to manage all these solutions and what types of optimizations are possible across all the data systems.

MySQL 101 Sessions Announced
Percona has announced the schedule for MySQL 101, an exciting new program that will take place on Wednesday and Thursday of the conference.

Largely driven by the broad demand for (and scarcity of) MySQL expertise across many industries, Percona Live is adding dual tracks for both developers and system administrators that will provide a two-day course on MySQL fundamentals. Hand-picked, industry recognized, instructors will walk developers, sys admins and other technical staff through two days of practical training and include everything they need to know to handle day-to-day MySQL DBA tasks, saving the company time and money and eliminating expensive errors. The motto of this track is, "You send us developers and admins, and we will send you back MySQL DBAs."

Lightning Talks and Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs)
Percona has announced the schedules for these crowd-favorite events.

Lightning Talks - Always entertaining, Lightning Talks provide an opportunity for attendees to propose, explain, exhort, and rant on any MySQL-related topic for five minutes. Lightning Talks will take place Wednesday night, April 15, 2015, during the MySQL Community Networking Reception, which begins immediately following the breakout sessions. This year's topics include:

• "Everything About MySQL Bugs" presented by Seta Smirnova, Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer, and Valerii Kravchuk, Principle Support Engineer at Percona

• "MySQL Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and MariaDB Galera Cluster" presented by Jay Janseen, Managing Consultant at Percona

• "Data Security - Emerging Legal Trends" presented by S. Keith Moulsdale, Partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP

• "WebScaleSQL Meeting/Hacking" presented by Steaphan Greene, Software Engineer at WebScaleSQL

Birds of a Feather sessions enable attendees with interests in the same project or topic to enjoy some quality face time. The BOF sessions will take place Tuesday night, April 14, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This year's topics include:

• "Working From Home - Fun, Facts and Scares" presented by Raghavendra Prabhu, Product Lead, Percona XtraDB Cluster at Percona

• "The Future of MySQL Quality Assurance: Introducing pquery" presented by Roel Van de Paar, Senior QA Lead, and Ramesh Sivaraman, Jr. QA Engineer at Percona

Community Reception
One of the most compelling aspects of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is the networking that takes place, providing the opportunity to make connections that can help enhance a career, facilitate a current project, or inspire new ideas. This year's conference features the Community Networking Reception in the Expo Hall on Wednesday, April 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The event will include the MySQL Community Awards and the Lightning Talks.

Having Fun at the Hyatt
The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is the best place to stay and enjoy all conference activities, including receptions, Lightning Talks and BOFs. Attendees have been known to mingle at the Hyatt bar throughout the afternoon and long into the evening. Percona has reserved a block of rooms, and attendees who make their reservations via the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015 website receive a special rate. Special rates will be available until March 23, 2015, or until the group block is sold out.

Conference Registration Promotions
Advanced pricing discounts are still available but will end on March 8, 2015. Register soon to take advantage of the best conference rates available. A Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Ticket provides you with access to all OpenStack Live sessions. In addition, in the spirit of the new MySQL 101 track, the first 101 people who sign-up for MySQL 101 using the "101" discount code will get their tickets for a $101 -- a $299 savings! Attendees of MySQL 101 will have full access to Percona Live Keynotes and the Expo Hall.

Sponsors
This year's Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is being sponsored by many of the world's top MySQL solution providers and practitioners, including Yahoo, VMware, Box, and Yelp. The complete sponsor list includes:

Diamond Plus Sponsors: VMware
Diamond Sponsors: Yahoo, Deep Information Sciences, Rackspace
Platinum Sponsors: Booking.com, HGST
Gold Sponsors: Pythian, Codership, Machine Zone
Silver Sponsors: Box, Yelp, MariaDB, SpringbokSQL, Tesora, BlackMesh, SolidFire
Exhibit Only Sponsors: Severalnines, Tokutek, VividCortex, FoundationDB, ScaleArc, Moogsoft
Other Sponsors: MailChimp, Nextiva, Devart
Media Sponsors: DBTA, Datanami, InfoQ, JAXenter, Linux Journal, O'Reilly Media

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Sponsors of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015 will become part of a dynamic and growing ecosystem and interact with more than 1,000 DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Visit the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015.

Percona Live Conference

What: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2015
Where: The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
When: April 13-16, 2015

About Percona

Percona has made MySQL and OpenStack and faster and more reliable for over 2,800 consulting and support customers worldwide since 2006. Percona provides enterprise-grade Support, Consulting, Managed Services, and Training services to companies such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC. Percona's founders authored the definitive book High Performance MySQL from O'Reilly Press and the widely read Percona Performance Blog. Percona also develops software for MySQL and OpenStack 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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