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Schedule

TimeSessionSpeaker
8:00 AM – 5:00 PMRegistration

Room: Diamond Lounge
9:00 – 10:00 AMBreakfast

Room: Elicium Foyer
10:00 – 10:15 AMOpening Remarks

Room: Elicium 2A
10:15 – 11:00 AMWhat’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 AMDemystifying 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 AMValkey-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 PMLunch

Room: Elicium Foyer
1:00 – 1:45 PMCustomizing 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 PMValkey Keyspace Workshop: A Galactic Guide to Common Use Cases

Room: Elicium 2B
Prithvi Raj
Senior Community Manager & Developer Advocate, Mirantis

Yaxing Chen
Engineering Manager, Apple
1:45 – 2:30 PMDeploying 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, AWS
2:30 – 3:15 PMHarder, 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 PMEffortless 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 PMConnection 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 PMMigrating 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 PMRedis 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 PMClosing Remarks

Room: Elicium 2A