We are delighted to invite you to celebrate 30 years of MySQL at upcoming MySQL meetups and events. Above the celebration we also would like to give a technical update on the latest advancements in MySQL. Your presence will make this celebrations memorable!

MySQL Meetups:

EMEA:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: MySQL 30 Years Celebration with RoOUG, Bucharest, Romania, June 3, 2025
    • MySQL, together with Termend Software Consulting and the local Romanian Oracle User Group, are hosting a unique event to celebrate MySQL’s 30th anniversary and share the technical update with the community. Come to join us!
      • Date: June 3, 2025
      • Time: 5:45-8:30pm EEST
      • Place: Bulevardul Lascar Catargiu 47-53, Bucharest, Romania, 010665
      • Agenda:
        • 5:45-6:00pm – Welcome & NetworkingCheck-in, snacks & drinks, mingle with fellow developers and DBAs, by Adrian Boboc, the HeatWave Sales Director, Oracle
        • 6:00-6:25pm – MySQL Innovation: 30 years of History of MySQL & and why MySQL continues to be the world’s most popular open-source database, by Frédéric Descamps (lefred), the MySQL Community Manager, Oracle
        • 6:25-7:10pm – Reshaping Data Journey; From Data to GenAI with Oracle HeatWave, by Adi Hochmann, EMEA Market Strategy Lead, Oracle HeatWave
        • 7:10-7:30pm – Practical Demo – tech session, by Frédéric Descamps (LeFred) MySQL Community Manager, Oracle
        • 7:30-7:45pm – 💬 Q&A + Community Open Mic, Networking & Celebration
      • More details and Registration

JAPAC:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: MySQL 30 Anniversary event with ACMUG, May 23-24, 2025
    • ACMUG community and MySQL will hold the MySQL 30th Anniversary Celebration in Chengdu. The ACMUG community and MySQL will join hands with TiDB, Mobile Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, JD Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Woqu, Tencent Cloud, Wanli Database, DBdoctor and other first-tier vendors to conduct in-depth discussions on topics such as MySQL technology evolution, cloud native practices, and distributed transformation.
      • Date: May 23-24, 2025
      • Time: 1-6pm both days CST
      • Place: Studio on the 4th floor, Chengdu Shusheng Technology (Jiaojiao), IMC International Plaza, No.188 Jiqing 4th Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, China
      • Agenda: 
        • May 23, 2025
          • 13:00 – 13:40 “Sakila at 30” – Xu Tiaotiao, Oracle_MySQL Chief Solution Engineer
          • 13:40 – 14:20 “Evolution of RDS MySQL Kernel AliSQL” – Chen Zongzhi, Alibaba Cloud_Database Product Business Unit – RDS Head
          • 14:20 – 15:00 “DBdoctor: Database Performance Diagnosis and Optimization Based on DeepSeek – Practical Implementation” – Zheng Xiang, Hisense JUHAOKAN_Database Head
          • 15:10 – 15:50 “35 – Year Database Journey” – Ding Yan, China Mobile Cloud Haishan Database Senior Technical Research Expert
          • 15:50 – 16:30 “At Thirty, Is MySQL Still Viable?” – Ye Jinrong, Wanli Database_Head of Open – source Ecosystem
          • 16:30 – 17:10 “TDSQL Application Cases in Financial – grade Core & Exploration of Next – generation Engine Architecture Upgrade” – Tang Yan, Tencent Cloud_Database Expert Engineer
          • 17:10 – 17:50 “TiDB Agile Edition: Accelerating Small – scale Clusters” – Yao Wei, PingCAP_Domestic R & D Head
        • May 24, 2025 
          • 13:00 – 13:40 “The Self – R&D Path of Huawei Cloud MySQL” – Yu Wenlong, Huawei Cloud Database MySQL R & D Director
          • 13:40 – 14:10 “Selection and Key Technologies of MySQL – based Trusted – computing Database” – Wei Xinghua, Wotong Technology_CTO
          • 14:10 – 14:50 “OceanBase: Practice and Implementation Cases in AI Scenarios” – Zhou Yueyue, OceanBase_Solution Architect
          • 15:00 – 15:30 “Domestication of MySQL – based Systems” – Liu Qirong, JD Cloud_Technology Director
          • 15:30 – 16:10 “The Innovation Journey of Key Technologies in GoldenDB” – Lu Tianwei, Kingbase Information Technology_GoldenDB Senior Architect
          • 16:10 – 16:50 “Intelligentization and Cloud – native Architecture Practice of Volcano Engine VeDB – MySQL” – Cao Lixun, Volcano Engine_Head of Cloud – native Database vedb
          • 16:50 – 17:20 “Database Operation, Maintenance, Development and Governance Practice” – Feng Hao, Chengdu Shushenglanglang_Senior Database Engineer
          • 17:20 – 18:00 “A Cup of Wine in the Spring Breeze of Peach and Plum Trees, Ten – year – long Lights in the Night Rain of the Jianghu —— Me and My MySQL”
      • More details and Registration
  • ALREADY HAPPENED: MySQL 30 Years Celebration with Chennai MySQL User Group, India, June 17, 2025
    • We are happy to pre-announce another MySQL meetup with 30th Anniversary of MySQL celebration. We are pleased to announce another meeting with MySQL on the occasion of MySQL’s 30th anniversary. This time in Chennai, India. Please book your calendar and watch further announcements/updates on the registration page.
      • Date: June 17, 2025
      • Time: 4-8pm IST
      • Place: Oracle office, Greens i-tech #5 Muthiah Mudali Street Off Cathedral Road, Chennai, TAMIL NADU, India
      • Agenda:
        • 4pm-4:30pm Registration
        • 4:30-5:20pm – “Innovations in HeatWave and MySQL – The Present and the Future” – Srinivasan Asoori, MySQL, Oracle & Harikrishnan Prabakaran, the Principal Members of Technical Staff, Oracle/MySQL
        • 5:20-6:10pm – 30th Anniversary of MySQL – A R Rahman, MySQL Chennai User Group Leader
        • 6:10-7:00pm – TBD, technical talk on-prem to Cloud – Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, the MySQL Senior Solution Engineer, Oracle/MySQL
        • 7:00pm – MySQL 30 years celebration
      • NEW!: More details and Registration
  • ALREADY HAPPENED: MySQL 30 Years Celebration, Seoul, South Korea, June 26, 2025
    • We are delighted to invite everyone to join us in celebrating a 30 years of MySQL! This time in the lovely Seoul, South Korea. Come to celebrate this milestone with us!
      • Date: June 26, 2025
      • Time: 2-5pm KST
      • Place: Oracle office – 15th Floor, Rm. 15002 & 15004, 36 ASEM Tower, 517 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06164, KR
      • Agenda: 
        • “Deep Dive into MySQL EXPLAIN Filtered” to be delivered by MySQL Community
        • “What’s new in MySQL 8.4” – Sumi Ryu, the MySQL Principal Solution Engineer, Oracle/MySQL
      • More details and Registration

External (3rd party) Events with MySQL, HeatWave & MySQL Celebration:

EMEA:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: AI Summit London, UK, June 11-12, 2025
    • We are happy to announce that MySQL HeatWave & MySQL team are part of the AI Summit London. You might find our team at our booth no. 318 as well as attend the panel discussion with Matt Quinn, the VP & Head of AI as one of the panelists.
    • Come to visit our booth to see MySQL demos, get in touch with our team and win a MySQL 30 years branded swag.
      • Date: June 11-12, 2025
      • Place: Tobacco Dock, Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, London, E1W 2SF, UK
      • Panel Discussion: June 11th at 4:45–5:25pm on “Shattering Silos: Driving Collaboration for Smarter Decisions”
  • ALREADY HAPPENED: AOUG – Austria Oracle User Group Annual Conference, Vienna Austria, June 16-17, 2025
    • Find MySQL at the Oracle booth with MySQL 30 years branded items and MySQL talk in the agenda as follows:
      •  “How Oracle HeatWave Powers Real-Time Analytics and AI” by Adi Hochmann, the HeatWave MySQL Solution Engineer. His talk is scheduled for Jun 16 fron 4:10pm.
  • POUG Poland Annual Conference, Warsava, Poland, September 5-6, 2025
    • You can find our MySQL reps at the Oracle booth as well as find MySQL talk in the agenda. It has not been announced yet. Please watch organizer’s website for further updates.
  • NEW!!  Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, October 6-10, 2025
    • This year again MySQL is planning to join the Java&GraalVM team at Devoxx Belgium’s Oracle booth. We have submitted a MySQL for an approval and hope it will be accepted. More details on this event will come soon.
  • NEW!!  Zabbix Summit 2025, Riga, Latvia, October 8-10, 2025
    • After some time, MySQL is planning to participate in this Zabbix event again. The evaluation of submitted presentation is currently underway and we expect confirmation of acceptance soon. We will keep you updated on the status of our participation in the Zabbix event!
  • Gitex Global, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, October 13-17, 2025
    • MySQL plans to be part of Oracle’s big booth at this year’s Gitex Global. We are happy to announce that this year we will focus on the 30th anniversary of MySQL, you can look forward to interesting events at our booth and other events during Gitex Global.
  • ConTech (RoOUG) 2025, Bucharest, Romania, November 3-4, 2025 
    • MySQL plan to be part of this Romania Oracle User group event at the beginning of November. We are going to co-staff the Oracle booth and have MySQL sessions as part of the official agenda. Please watch organizer’s website for further updates.

JAPAC:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: OpenSource Conference 2025 Nagoya, Japan, May 31, 2025
    • Come to talk to our team to Nagoya, you can find us at the booth and MySQL talk in the agenda.
      • Date: May 31, 2025
      • Place: Nagoya, Japan
      • MySQL session: “Recommendation for database engineers interested in LLM! Introducing HeatWave GenAI, which allows you to use LLM with just SQL” by Yamasaki Yoshiaki, the MySQL HeatWave Data Architect. His talk is scheduled for 3:15-4:00pm on May 31.
  • Geo-ten, Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 2025
    • You are invited to come to talk to our team at the MySQL booth in the expo area. The exhibition is open from 10:00am-5pm.
      • Date: July 2, 2025
      • Place: Otemachi Mitsui Hall, Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Otemachi One 3F 1-2-1, Japan
  • NEW!! Open Source Conference Hokkaido, Japan, July 5, 2025
    • MySQL Community & MySQL local Sales team is going to be part of the OpenSource Conference Hokkaido on July 5. You can find our speaking slot on “Introduction to HeatWave MySQL which can speed up MySQL search processing, etc.” in the agenda as well as our team at the MySQL booth/table
  • Yatra Tour India, several cities accross India from July 19 to July 27 as follows:
    • Bengaluru, Jul 19, 2025
    • Hyderabad, Jul 20, 2025
    • Pune, Jul 22, 2025
    • Mumbai, Jul 24, 2025
    • Gurugram, Jul 26, 2025
    • Chennai, Jul 27, 2025
      • Join us on an exciting journey through the world of Oracle on the Oracle Community Yatra Tour 2025, which includes MySQL too! Check the agendas and don’t miss the MySQL talk in every city on:
        • “HeatWave AutoML, GenAI, and Log Anomaly Detection Using Vectorization, Unsupervised Learning, LLMs”, by Abhinav Agarwal, the Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle. Talk is scheduled for 11:00-11:45am.
      • Come celebrate MySQL’s 30th anniversary with us in each city during the Yatra Tour! 
  • NEW!! OpenSource Conference Kyoto, Japan, August 3, 2025
    • We are happy to announce MySQL participation at the OS Conference Kyoto this year again! As usual you can find our staff at the MySQL booth and MySQL talk in the agenda (TB announced). We are looking forward to talkint to you there!
  • FOSS4G KYUSHU, Japan, August 8–9, 2025
    • MySQL team is part of the FOSS4G this year again. You can meet our team at the expo table and in the agenda. Watch organizer’s website for further details.
  • NEW!! Open Devellpers Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 6, 2025
    • We are happy to inform you that MySQL is again part of the ODC in Tokyo! Please find out team at the MySQL booth and watch organizers’ website on the MySQL session as part of the agenda.
  • NEW!! JCConf, Taipei, Taiwan, September 19, 2025
    • We are planning to be, again part of JCConf TW. Please book the time and come to JCConf to talk to us at MySQL booth!
  • NEW!! PyCon HK 2025, Hong Kong, October 11, 2025
    • We are planning to become a sponsor of PyCon HK this year again. You can look forward to MySQL talk and our staff in the expo area! Please watch organizers’ website for futher updates.
  • NEW!! OpenSource Tokoy Fall – ONLINE, Japan, October 17-18, 2025
    • We invite you to join us online for the 2 full days of OS talks during OS Tokyo Fall – ONLINE!. MySQL is going to be part of this event with MySQL session. Please watch organizers’ website for further updates.
  • NEW!! OpenSource Conference Tokyo Fall, Japan, October 25, 2025
    • Come to visit MySQL booth and talk to our staff at the OSC Tokyo Fall! This event is “booths – only” with MySQL stand as part of it. 

LAD:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: DevopsDays Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, May 22 – 23, 2025
    • MySQL team is part of the DevopsDays Medellin together with Oracle team. Please find the MySQL talk in the agenda and find us at the Oracle booth where you can also get some 30 years anniversary branded swags.
      • Date: May 22-23, 2025
      • Place: Medellin, Colombia
      • MySQL session: “30 years of MySQL: The Present and the Future”, by Juliano Falcao, the Director, MySQL Heatwave Cloud Sales. His talk is scheduled for May 22 at 10:00-10:25am.
  • LAD Tour (OraMex), Mexico City, Mexico, August 8, 2025
    • MySQL, along with Oracle DB and the ACE team, are part of the LAD Tour 2025, this time in one city only. You can find us at the Oracle booth and also attend the MySQL presentation, focusing on the 30th anniversary of MySQL and on building AI Apps with JavaScript on HeatWave GenAI.
      • Date: August 8, 2025
      • Place: Mexico City, Mexico
      • MySQL session: “MySQL Turns 30 Years Old, and You Got the Gift! Learn How to Rapidly Build AI Applications Running JavaScript on HeatWave GenAI” by Manuel Contreras, the HeatWave Solution Specialist. The talk is preliminary scheduled for 2:00-2:45pm.
  • NEW!! DevopsDays Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 16, 2025
    • Come to meet and talk to our staff at MySQL booth with MySQL 30 years anniversary branding and swags. You can also find a MySQL speaking slot in the official agenda with Narciso Junior, the MySQL HeatWave GTM & Evangelist on “Learn How to Rapidly Build AI Applications Running JavaScript on HeatWave GenAI”. His talk is scheduled at 10:00am GMT-3.
  • NEW!! RogaDX, Marceio-AL, Brazil, September 12-13, 2025
    • For a second time MySQL is going to be part of RogaDX! Same as last year, you can find our staff at the MySQL booth as well as MySQL session in the agenda. More details will be announced soon. 
  • NEW!! The Developer’s Conference (TDC), Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 17-19, 2025
    • Please find out MySQL staff at the Oracle booth in the expo area. MySQL will join the local Oracle team for this event. Please watch organizer’s website for further updates. 
  • MySQL Brazil Conference 2025, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 4, 2025
    • Come to celebrate the 30th anniversary of MySQL with the local MySQL User Group! It will be a unique opportunity to remember achievements, discuss the present and look to the future of MySQL together with those who live and build this history on a daily basis.
      • Date: October 4, 2025
      • Place: FIAP – Av. Lins de Vasconcelos, 1264 – Aclimação, São Paulo – SP
      • Agenda (under construction)

NA:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Berkeley, CA, US, June 5, 2025
    • We cordially invite you to TechCrunch Session AI in Berkeley this year! You can look forward to the exciting events we have planned at our booth, participate in the planned MySQL sessions, valuable discussions with our MySQL experts, and get some gifts from the special 30th anniversary edition of MySQL!
      • Date: June 5, 2025
      • Place: Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley, 101 Zellerbach Hall, #4800, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
      • MySQL session: “Building richer and more scalable GenAI applications for startups and developers” has been approved for the Main Agenda. Please watch the organizer’s website for further details.
  • NEW!! All Things Open 2025, Raleigh NC, US, October 12-14, 2025
    • We are more than happy to announce that MySQL is again part of the ATO 2025! You can look forward to listening a MySQL session on “Hidden Gems in MySQL Shell” given by Scott Stroz, the MySQL Developer Advocate and talk to our team at the booth in expo area!
  • NEW!! TEDAI 2025, San Francisco, US, October 21-22, 2025
    • We are happy to pre-announce MySQL presence at TEDAI in SFO this year. More details will be announced soon. 

More Upcoming Events with MySQL & HeatWave

NA:

  • ALREADY HAPPENED: GenAI Meetup, San Francisco, USA, June 9, 2025
    • Join us for the GenAI meetup for “MySQL & GenAI: Powering Tomorrow’s Startups” given by Sandeep Agrawal, the HeatWave Consulting Principal Member of Technical Staff. You’ll discover practical strategies for architecting robust databases that support rich, real-time data interactions. Our expert will walk through real-world use cases, showing you how to seamlessly integrate MySQL with Gen AI frameworks. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to optimize existing systems, this session will provide actionable insights to elevate your startup’s AI capabilities.
  • NYOUG Virtual Meetup, Jun 24, 2025
    • You are welcome to attend this unique online meetup focused on “Accelrating GenAI Journey with HeatWave”, with Sanjay Jinturkar, the HeatWave Senior Director as a speaker. Sanjay will discuss how you can derive insights from your documents in PDFs, TXT, DOC etc. by using the Generative AI capabilities of HeatWave. HeatWave Generative AI enables users to store the contents of their documents in a vector store and then search them to get relevant answers to their questions, in combination with Large Language model (LLMs). We showcase real-world use cases of generative AI and machine learning with HeatWave, including predictive maintenance, fraud detection, and personalized recommendations. We will demonstrate:
      • Seamless integration with no AI/ML expertise required
      • In-database LLMs and automated vector stores to rapidly build GenAI apps
      • Scalable solutions that ensure data privacy and security
    • HeatWave is helping fast-growing companies innovate with GenAI and Machine Learning—faster, smarter, and more securely. Come join us for the session!

Stay tuned for more events to be announced soon!