[FOSDEM] Call for Participation: Databases devroom at FOSDEM 2026

[Raymond Paik]

Hi everyone,

We're excited to announce the Databases devroom at FOSDEM 2026. The purpose
of this devroom is to discuss developing databases that are designed to
take advantage of the cloud native architecture in order to meet the
demands of modern applications.

Instead of focusing on a single technology or community, our goal is to
bring open source database communities and developers together to share
their experience, learn from their work, and foster collaboration on
challenges ahead.

Suggested Topics
- Evolution of new database architecture for cloud native environments
(e.g., to address scalability, elasticity, reliability)
- Integrating AI/ML workloads with distributed databases
- How to ease/streamline database migration (especially from legacy
databases)
- Achieving database upgrades without downtime
- How to benchmark and tune distributed databases
- Query optimization for cloud native databases
- Tools/methodologies for monitoring, observability, optimizations,
testing, etc.
- Working with streaming data
- Stories from end-users (both successes and failures)
- Security and compliance for cloud native databases
- State of open-source licenses and database communities
- Emerging trends/use cases

These are just suggestions and we encourage you to be creative with your
proposals! You can also view accepted talks from the 2025 devroom at
https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/databases/.

A Few Notes
- You must be available in person to present your talk at FOSDEM.
- Speaking slots are 25 minutes in length (including Q&A) with 5 minutes
between sessions. Note that due to time constraints, number of submissions,
etc., we may end up offering a slot duration different than 25 minutes.
- FOSDEM is a FLOSS (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) community
event, so please ensure your topic is appropriate (i.e., no sales pitches).

Important Dates
- CFP submission deadline: 3 December, 2025 (at ~23:55 Brussels time)
- Devroom schedule announced: 15 December, 2025
- Devroom takes place: 31 January, 2026

To Make a Submission
- Go to the FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx website (
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp) to submit your talks and select
"Databases" in the track dropdown.

Regards,

Edith Puccla/Matthias Crauwels/Ray Paik
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