28 August 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Times are listed in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Registration Room: Diamond Lounge | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 AM | Breakfast Room: Elicium Foyer | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 AM | Opening Remarks Room: Elicium 2A | |
| 10:15 – 11:00 AM | What’s New in Valkey 9 Hear updates about what’s new in Valkey 9 and beyond Room: Elicium 2A | Madelyn Olson Principal Software Engineer, AWS |
| 11:00 – 11:50 AM | Demystifying Valkey Clustering: Architecture, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability The session highlights best practices, operational insights, and recent advancements, positioning Valkey Cluster as a scalable and resilient choice for modern data workloads. Room: Elicium 2A | Harkrishn Patro Senior Software Engineer, AWS |
| 11:00 – 11:50 AM | Valkey-bundle: One Stop Shop for Real-Time Applications In this session, we’ll explore how Valkey can elevate your application development. Learn how to leverage the Valkey engine’s speed and flexibility to create efficient, reliable systems whether you’re building a startup MVP or scaling enterprise workloads. Room: Elicium 2B | Roberto Luna Rojas Developer Avocate, AWS |
| 11:50 AM – 1:00 PM | Lunch Room: Elicium Foyer | |
| 1:00 – 1:45 PM | Customizing Valkey with Rust: Buildling High-Performance Modules This session dives into customizing Valkey with modules written in Rust-offering a modern, memory-safe alternative for extending core functionality. Room: Elicium 2A | Dmitry Polyakovsky Sr. Software Developer, Oracle Cloud |
| 1:00 – 2:30 PM | Redis to Valkey – Upgrade and Downgrade Compatibility Room: Elicium 2B | Yaxing Chen Engineering Manager, Apple |
| 1:45 – 2:30 PM | Deploying Valkey at Enterprise level with LDAP Authentication and Auditing Valkey-ldap and ValkeyAudit sign significantly enhance Valkey’s suitability for enterprise environments by addressing critical requirements for secure authentication and compliance auditing. We will demonstrate how to use and configure these modules with practical examples. Room: Elicium 2A | Ricardo Dias Principal Software Engineer, Percona Martin Visser Valkey Tech Lead, Percona |
| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Building Valkey-Timeseries This talk covers the journey of building a time series database from scratch in Rust, focusing on: enhancements over RedisTimeseries, architecture decisions and design patterns for time series data, performance and memory optimizations, and parallel processing for multi-series and multi chunk operations Room: Elicium 2A | Clayton Collie Intinerant Software Engineer |
| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Effortless Platform Engineers: Multi-Cluster Valkey Deployments with k0rdent We’ll explore how Valkey can be seamlessly deployed across clusters using k0rdent, a Kubernetes-native multi-cluster management platform designed for platform teams. Room: Elicium 2B | Prithvi Raj Senior Community Manager & Developer Advocate, Mirantis |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Connection Storms: Detecting and Defusing Outages Before Valkey Crashes In this lightning talk, we’ll dive beneath the surface to show what really happens during a connection storm – from floods of unacknowledged SYN packets to overloaded Linux conntrack tables. Room: Elicium 2A | Vadym Khoptynets Senior Software Engineer, AWS |
| 3:30 – 3:45 PM | Migrating 15k Redis Servers to Valkey A summary of how we migrated our entire Redis customer fleet to Valkey at AIven. Room: Elicium 2A | Bogdan Petre Senior Engineer, Aiven |
| 3:45 – 4:00 PM | Redis to Valkey – Upgrade and Downgrade Compatibility Attendees will gain invaluable insights into the design principles and practical strategies we rigorously applied to ensure not just upgrade safety, but robust, enterprise-grade rollback capability. Room: Elicium 2A | Satheesha Gowda Software Engineer, Apple Inc |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Closing Remarks Room: Elicium 2A |