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5 October 2026 | Prague, Czechia
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Monday, October 5
 

07:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Monday October 5, 2026 07:30 - 17:00 CEST
Congress Hall Foyer, Level 0

Monday October 5, 2026 07:30 - 17:00 CEST
Congress Hall Foyer, Level 0
  Registration

09:00 CEST

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Monday October 5, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Keynote Sessions

09:10 CEST

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Monday October 5, 2026 09:10 - 09:50 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 09:10 - 09:50 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Keynote Sessions

09:50 CEST

One Year From the Hallway: The State of the Valkey Operator - Joe Heyburn, Braze & Björn Svensson, Ericsson
Monday October 5, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
A year ago at Valkey Keyspace in Amsterdam, a group of us stood in a hallway comparing notes on running Valkey on Kubernetes. None of the operators we'd tried supported all the deployment models Valkey has to offer. By the end of the conversation we'd agreed the community needed an operator that did, one that's fully community-driven and endorsed by the Valkey org itself... so we decided to make...
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Speakers
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Joe Heyburn

Staff Engineer, Braze
Joe is a technical lead across In-Memory Databases and Observability teams at Braze, during a pivotal period of high growth for the company. Managing databases such as Valkey on Kubernetes, unlocking its performance to allow it to scale with Braze, while creating tooling to aid in... Read More →
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Björn Svensson

Open Software Developer, Ericsson
Björn Svensson is an Open Source Developer at Ericsson with over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, dedicating the last 6 years exclusively to open source development across a wide range of projects. He is a maintainer of Valkey clients and active in the valkey-operator... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Ecosystem/Integrations

10:20 CEST

Beyond Throughput: Production Lessons From Running Write-Heavy Valkey Clusters - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Palo Alto Networks & Aditi Gupta, Disney+ Hotstar
Monday October 5, 2026 10:20 - 10:50 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Synthetic benchmarks measure how fast Valkey can run. Production measures how long it remains predictable, and those are different questions. Under sustained, high-volume write ingestion, as in a production-scale CDC pipeline, raw throughput is rarely the limiting factor. Instead, clusters become unstable when replication falls behind during resharding, memory amplification exhausts available...
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Shuva Jyoti Kar

Principal Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Shuva is a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, architecting secure enterprise AI platforms. An open-source contributor and author of the upcoming books: Engineering the Data Agent Control Plane (O'Reilly), Agent Skills in Action (Manning), and The Agentic Mind(Apress), his work... Read More →
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Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II, Disney+ Hotstar
Aditi Gupta is a Software Engineer II at Disney+ Hotstar, where she builds and operates distributed backend systems powering one of the world's largest streaming platforms (72M+ peak concurrent viewers) . Her work focuses on distributed systems, production reliability, observability... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 10:20 - 10:50 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Architecture

10:50 CEST

Measuring Valkey Saturation With Active-Time and Eventloop Metrics in 9.1 - Himanshu Sangshetti, Mem0
Monday October 5, 2026 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Your Valkey server reports 100% CPU. Is it saturated? You cannot tell from that number, and it isn't a monitoring bug. Valkey's main thread and I/O threads busy-wait for work. A thread waiting burns CPU exactly like a thread working. In one reported case, throughput swept from 217K to 452K QPS- a 2x increase, while main-thread CPU sat flat near 100% the entire way and total CPU pinned at 400%....
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Himanshu Sangshetti

Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Mem0
Himanshu Sangshetti is an MTS at Mem0 (60k+ Github stars).

With a background in AI, cloud, and DevOps, he builds the memory layer for AI agents and helps engineers design and operate them in production.

An AWS Community Builder, HashiCorp Ambassador, and former AWS Cloud Capt... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Performance

11:20 CEST

Coffee Break
Monday October 5, 2026 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3
  Meals+Breaks+Special Events

11:50 CEST

No Client Changes Required: Making Existing Workloads Faster With Less RAM - Rain Valentine, Amazon
Monday October 5, 2026 11:50 - 12:10 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
For most Valkey deployments, the first wall you hit isn't CPU, it's memory capacity. So what if simply upgrading gave a large fraction of that memory back — with no client changes, no re-sharding, no application rewrites? This talk goes behind the scenes on the memory-efficiency work that has quietly reshaped Valkey since its earliest releases. Measured on the same hardware across successive...
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Rain Valentine

Valkey Contributor, Amazon
Rain Valentine is a Valkey contributor working on core data structures and performance. Her 50+ Valkey commits include a B+ tree ordered index for sorted sets, improvements to the core hashtable, and string storage. She works on performance characterization across ARM, AMD, and Intel... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 11:50 - 12:10 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Performance

12:10 CEST

Where Did All My Memory Go? Tuning Valkey Memory Usage at Scale - Edith Puclla & Hieu Nguyen, Percona
Monday October 5, 2026 12:10 - 12:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Each datatype in Valkey (Hash, List, Set, Sorted Set) can be encoded internally as a different object depending on how many elements a key of those types has in order to balance between the memory footprint and performance. While this approach suits the majority of Valkey deployments. If your Valkey instances have a large number of keys, a little tuning can significantly reduce your memory...
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Edith Puclla

Technical Educator, Percona
Edith, a Technical Educator for Valkey at Percona, is a passionate contributor to the world of open source. Throughout her career, she has successfully contributed to the Apache Airflow project during her internship with Outreachy. She is also an Ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing... Read More →
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Hieu Nguyen

Database Engineer, Percona
Hieu is a Database Engineer focused on distributed databases, Kubernetes, and real-time data processing. He contributes to the Valkey ecosystem and enjoys building open-source tools, improving database operations, and sharing practical knowledge through technical writing and conference... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 12:10 - 12:20 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Performance

12:20 CEST

Beyond Fork(): Memory-Efficient Snapshots & Full Sync for Valkey - Jim Brunner, Amazon AWS
Monday October 5, 2026 12:20 - 12:40 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Why should a 50GB database require 100GB of RAM just to take a backup or sync to a replica? Valkey’s Forkless Save & Sync capabilities decouple data persistence from the memory-intensive forking process, eliminating the memory spikes that lead to out-of-memory (OOM) issues. We will compare traditional fork-based persistence against the new forkless model, highlighting the impact on system...
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Jim Brunner

Valkey Maintainer, Amazon AWS
Born in the age of "core memory", Jim has developed software on everything from mainframes to microcontrollers and has coded in dozens of languages. He is passionate about APIs, algorithms, and performance, with a deep respect for maintainability and operational excellence. When not... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 12:20 - 12:40 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Features (Valkey 10.0)

12:40 CEST

Beyond Compatibility: Debugging Tail Latency in a Production Valkey Migration - Anyang Li, Booking.com B.V.
Monday October 5, 2026 12:40 - 13:00 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
After a Booking.com accommodation reservation, our post-booking service caches reconstructible reservation and order data for web/mobile journeys. To retire self-managed Redis OSS, we first used ElastiCache for Valkey with cluster mode disabled, retained Jedis to limit scope, and routed reads/writes to the primary for read-after-write consistency. At 10% traffic, cache-read p99 rose ~5→15 ms; at...
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Speakers
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Anyang Li

Software Engineer I, Booking.com B.V.
Anyang Li is a software engineer at Booking.com who builds and operates high-throughput post-booking services. His work focuses on distributed systems, observability, reliability and production performance. He recently worked on a staged Redis OSS-to-Valkey migration, turning its... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 12:40 - 13:00 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Use Cases/Adoption

13:00 CEST

Attendee Lunch
Monday October 5, 2026 13:00 - 14:15 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 13:00 - 14:15 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3
  Meals+Breaks+Special Events

14:25 CEST

Large Scale Redis To Valkey Migration Along With GLIDE - Premkumar Patturaj, Freshworks
Monday October 5, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
We run 840+ Redis 7.2.12 instances on AWS EKS serving ~1.64M operations per second. Facing a performance ceiling, fragmented client tooling, and a licensing dead-end after Redis left BSD, we migrated the entire fleet to Valkey 8.1.5 — with zero application code changes and sub-five-minute rollback. This talk is an evidence-first walkthrough. We'll cover what actually changed under the hood...
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Premkumar Patturaj

Director of Engineering, Freshworks
Have 15 years IT exp and 10 years of Freshworks experience. Works on Relational database and NoSQL's
Monday October 5, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Performance

14:45 CEST

Why AI Agents Forget: Engineering Memory Systems with Valkey - Sanika Kotgire, ZS Associates
Monday October 5, 2026 14:45 - 15:05 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
LLMs can write code, answer questions, and execute tasks, but they have one major limitation: they forget. Every new conversation starts from scratch unless we explicitly build systems that preserve context, state, and memory.In this talk, we'll explore what it actually takes to give AI agents memory. Rather than focusing on prompts or models, we'll focus on the infrastructure layer that sits...
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Sanika Kotgire

AI Engineer, ZS Associates
I'm an AI Engineer & Data Engineer passionate about building intelligent, scalable, and cloud-native systems. I'm an AWS Community Builder, public speaker, technical writer, and Author of Soaring Brimstone's Flight. I actively organize and lead AI, cloud, and developer-focused... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 14:45 - 15:05 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Use Cases/Adoption

15:05 CEST

Caching the LLM Stack: Where Valkey Fits To Cut Latency and Cost - Kristiyan Ivanov, BetterDB
Monday October 5, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Agent workloads make a lot of LLM calls. A surprising number of them are redundant. Every call you serve from cache is latency and money you don't pay for. There is no single cache, but a stack, and Valkey can fit at every level - from the cheap and brittle to the smart and careful. Exact-match response caching on vanilla Valkey. Embedding caches, the layer most people forget, which saves you...
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Kristiyan Ivanov

CTO and Founder, BetterDB
Kristiyan is Founder and CTO of BetterDB, where he builds Valkey-native observability and caching tooling. He contributes to Valkey and previously worked at Redis as an Engineering Manager on developer tooling. He spends most of his time on monitoring and obvservability, which extented... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Use Cases/Adoption

15:35 CEST

Coffee Break
Monday October 5, 2026 15:35 - 16:05 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 15:35 - 16:05 CEST
Forum Hall Foyer, Level 3
  Meals+Breaks+Special Events

16:05 CEST

Reduce LLM Inference Cost up To 80% Using a KV Cache With Valkey - Chaitanya Nuthalapati, Amazon Web Services
Monday October 5, 2026 16:05 - 16:25 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Agentic AI applications are GPU intensive and expensive to run. KV caching allows reuse of computed work for repeated context to reduce latency and costs by up to 80%. This talk explains how KV caching works and walks through a production architecture using vLLM as the inference engine and Valkey as a distributed cache. The talk examines performance implications of cache tuning with LMCache and...
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Chaitanya Nuthalapati

Senior Technical Product Manager, Amazon Web Services
Chaitanya is a Senior Technical Product Manager in AWS In-Memory Database Services, focused on Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey. Previously, he built solutions with generative AI, machine learning, and graph networks. Off the clock, Chaitanya is busy collecting hobbies, which currently... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 16:05 - 16:25 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Ecosystem/Integrations

16:45 CEST

Securing Valkey in Production: Developer Best Practices for Auth, ACLs, and Data Protection - Sakshi Nasha, Cohesity
Monday October 5, 2026 16:45 - 17:05 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
Are you sure your in-memory datastore is truly secured against unauthorized access, accidental key overrides, and data exposure in production? Securing Valkey goes far beyond setting a single cluster password. As microservice architectures scale, developers must balance zero-trust isolation with low latency. In this talk, we bridge the gap between application code and Valkey security models. We...
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Sakshi Nasha

Senior Software Engineer, Cohesity
Sakshi Nasha is a Software Engineer with a passion for building software and driving diversity in tech. An open-source enthusiast and OpenSearch Ambassador, she actively contributes to FOSS communities and speaks internationally on topics including GO, APIs, Security, PostgreSQL and... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 16:45 - 17:05 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Features (Valkey 10.0)

17:05 CEST

A Field Guide To Your First Valkey Operator PR - Sagar Utekar, CrowdStrike
Monday October 5, 2026 17:05 - 17:15 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
The Valkey ecosystem is bigger than the server: operators, Helm charts, clients, and tooling, all short on contributors. I recently went from running Valkey to landing merged PRs in the Valkey operator: priorityClassName support so cache pods survive scheduling pressure, and an e2e test verifying failover when a primary receives SIGTERM. This talk is the field guide I wish I'd had. Concretely:...
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Sagar Utekar

SRE, CrowdStrike
The Valkey ecosystem extends beyond the core server, but its operators and tooling are short on contributors. After landing my first operator PRs adding priorityClassName support and SIGTERM failover tests, I built the field guide I wish I’d had. This talk covers picking issues... Read More →
Monday October 5, 2026 17:05 - 17:15 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Contributing
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17:15 CEST

Closing Keynote: Where is Valkey Going?
Monday October 5, 2026 17:15 - 17:35 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3

Monday October 5, 2026 17:15 - 17:35 CEST
Chamber Hall, Level 3
  Keynote Sessions

18:00 CEST

Attendee Reception
Monday October 5, 2026 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
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