Join MySQL engineers, developers, DBAs, and community members at conferences and local gatherings across Europe, Asia, and North America. This roundup includes confirmed MySQL team appearances, community-led sessions, and a preview of activities being planned. Explore the events below to find opportunities to learn, share practical experience, and connect with the community.

Conferences

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

November 9–12, 2026 | Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

  • A gathering for the cloud native ecosystem, covering Kubernetes, infrastructure, observability, security, and production operations. Visit the Oracle booth to meet the MySQL team and discuss database operations in Kubernetes environments.
  • MySQL on OKE: Database Operations as Kubernetes State — Michael Marx, MySQL Master Principal Solutions Engineer, MySQL / Oracle. This is a booth lightning talk; the time will be announced.
  • More details and registration

DOAG 2026 Conference + Exhibition

November 17–19, 2026 | NürnbergConvention Center (NCC), Nuremberg, Germany

  • DOAG brings together database professionals to explore database technologies, open source, and related IT topics. Although the MySQL team is not involved in the event this year, the program includes the following sessions from the community:
  • EMEA Community Tour: Monitoring Your MySQL Server’s Health Trends — Igor Donchovski, Principal Consultant, Pythian & Macedonia MySQL User Group leader. His talk is scheduled for November 17, 11:00–11:45 CET; room Kyjiw.
  • MySQL 9.7 LTS – Was gibt’s Neues? — Oliver Sennhauser, FromDual. Talk is scheduled for November 18, 10:00–10:45 CET; room Neu-Delhi.
  • More details and registration

UKOUG Conference Discover 2026

November 23–25, 2026 | Novotel London West, London, United Kingdom

  • Three days of Oracle technology and applications sessions, community conversations, and networking. Ivan Ma will represent MySQL with a session on MySQL Community Server releases and the release model. The Next Chapter of MySQL (9.7 LTS & MySQL Community Server YY.MM Releases) — Ivan Ma, Principal Solutions Engineer, MySQL / Oracle. Ivan’s session is scheduled for November 23, 11:00–11:45 GMT; room Mezzanine – Muscadet.
  • More details and registration

MySQL Belgian Days 2027

January 28–29, 2027 | ICAB Incubator, Brussels, Belgium

  • Join us for two days dedicated to MySQL Community Edition, technical knowledge sharing, and open collaboration. Topics include performance, high availability, application development, observability, and opportunities to contribute. Registration and coffee start at 08:30 CET; the program runs from 09:00 to 18:00 CET on both days.
  • The speaker lineup and agenda will be announced as they are confirmed. Interested in speaking? The Call for Papers is open until November 30, 2026, at 23:59 CET. Speakers submitting a proposal should also register to attend.
  • Submit a talk proposal
  • More details and registration

Open Source Conference 2027 Osaka

January 30, 2027 | Osaka Business Development Agency (Sansokan), Osaka, Japan

  • A free open source event with technical seminars and exhibitions by communities and technology organizations. MySQL will have a booth and a technical session. The event runs from 10:00 to 17:45 JST, with exhibitions closing at 16:00.
  • The MySQL session title, speaker, and time will be shared once available.
  • More details and registration

FOSDEM 2027

January 30–31, 2027 | ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium

  • FOSDEM brings together open source developers and contributors for technical talks and community exchanges. MySQL will participate in The M-ecosystem devroom, continuing conversations across database servers, storage engines, connectors, proxies, and tools.
  • The organizers will announce the devroom program. MySQL stand participation is still to be confirmed. More details and registration

Jfokus 2027

February 8–10, 2027 | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Jfokus brings the software community together for technical sessions, practical examples, and discussions about software development. The Oracle Java team is arranging a booth, and MySQL participation is being explored. The program includes these Oracle Java sessions:
  • Using the Final Version of Structured Concurrency to Create an Application on Virtual Threads — José Paumard, Java Developer Advocate, Oracle. Hands-on lab; February 8, 09:00–12:30 CET; room 23.
  • Java 28 – Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime — Nicolai Parlog, Java Developer Advocate, Oracle. Deep dive; February 8, 13:30–15:00 CET; room C1.
  • More details and registration

ConFoo Montreal 2027

February 24–26, 2027 | Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • ConFoo is a full stack developer conference focused on practical solutions across software development. MySQL and the Oracle Java team plan to support the community meetup, and Scott Stroz has two accepted MySQL sessions.

Sangam / MultiCloud Tour India — in planning

February 2027, tentative | Cities and venues to be confirmed, India

  • We are exploring MySQL participation in the next Sangam / MultiCloud Tour. Dates, locations, and the number of cities are still being discussed. Further details will follow once confirmed.
  • More details and registration

MySQL User Group Meetups and Regional Community Activities

MySQL Macedonia: Sharding MySQL with Vitess

November 24, 2026 | 18:00–20:00 CET | Base42, Skopje, North Macedonia

  • Join the MySQL Macedonia community for an evening of practical MySQL and Vitess experience, questions, and networking. Entry is free, with registration required; pizza, drinks, and community swag will be available.
  • Sharding MySQL with Vitess: Best Practices from the Field — Matthias Crauwels, Enterprise Support Engineer. The session explores sharding keys and vindexes, data placement, query patterns, and migration lessons from production Vitess environments.
  • More details and registration

BCOUG Meetup — Vancouver

December 2026, tentative | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; venue to be confirmed

  • A meetup is being discussed for the week of December 7, with December 11 currently under consideration. The date, venue, program, and registration details will be announced once confirmed.
  • More details and registration: to be announced.

UKOUG MySQL Webinar

December 2026 or January 2027, tentative | Online

  • We are working with UKOUG on an online MySQL session to connect developers and DBAs and build momentum for further activities in the UK. The date, speakers, and programare being discussed.
  • More details and registration: to be announced.

London MySQL and GenAI Meetup

Early February 2027, tentative | London, United Kingdom; venue to be confirmed

  • An in-person meetup is being explored during Heather VanCura’s visit, with an overview and technical content. February 1–3 is the current planning window; the final date, venue, and agenda will follow.
  • More details and registration: to be announced.

More regional activities in development

Dates and registration details for the following activities will be shared as plans are confirmed:

  • India: We are exploring the return of MySQL User Camp, with opportunities for local technical sessions and community exchanges.
  • New York, USA: A further meetup is being considered; timing may move from December into the new year.
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands: Planning is under way for a follow-up to the October 8 meetup.
  • Cyprus: A new MySQL User Group is in development, with an introductory webinar and a later in-person gathering being considered.
  • Saudi Arabia: We are exploring an in-person meetup following the October 5 webinar.
  • For more details watch for announcements from local MySQL User Groups

Stay connected

Follow the MySQL Community for new dates, speaker announcements, registration links, and ways to get involved: