Hi all, It turns out that what is considered to be the largest conference for those interested in the MySQL world, nowadays called the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, is requiring the community to vote on submissions that they would like to hear. Only after voting, will those with a certain threshold (not published) be sent to the next level for the program committee to vote on. Its clear that you *do not* have to be attending the event, but you do need to register to vote. I’m sure all of us would appreciate your votes. The people below offering talks are Sergei Golubchik, Sergei Petrunia, Michael “Monty” Widenius, Gerry Narvaja, Serge Frezefond, Anders Karlsson, and me, Colin Charles. Thanking you all in advance! cheers, -colin Using and Managing MariaDB https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/compl... MariaDB 10.1 - What's New? (*** includes Monty himself! ***) https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/maria... Databases in the Hosted Cloud https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/datab... Best Practices for MySQL High Availability https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/best-... Choosing a MySQL HA solution today https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/choos... MariaDB/MySQL security essentials https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/maria... The MySQL Server Ecosystem in 2016 https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/mysql... MariaDB Connectors: Fast and Smart with the new protocol optimizations https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/maria... MariaDB 10.1 Security: Validation, Authentication, Encryption https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/maria... Window functions in MariaDB https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/windo... Exploring MariaDB Query Optimizer with ANALYZE for statements https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/explo... Window functions in MariaDB https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/windo... Exploring MariaDB Query Optimizer with ANALYZE for statements https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/explo... The MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine to simplify heterogeneous data access https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/maria... Low Impact Monitoring https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/low-i... MariaDB on Power8: https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/ibm-p... The good and bad on datatypes in different database systems: https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/migra... Character sets and Collations explained: https://www.percona.com/live/data-performance-conference-2016/sessions/chara... -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi