How do you grow without cost growing faster than you do?
An off-the-record roundtable series for CxOs and senior engineering leaders at scaling technology companies. Small tables, real numbers, and the conversations behind the architecture diagrams, across six cities in Australia and New Zealand.
AI is pushing the data layer harder than anything before it. New workloads arrive faster than infrastructure teams can provision for them, vector search bolts onto warehouses that were never designed for it, and transactional systems get asked to do analytical work at the same time. The result: sprawl, cost overrun, lag, stale data, and eroded trust. The Data Layer ANZ Series is an executive roundtable series hosted by TiDB alongside Innovatus Media, running across Australia and New Zealand. Each session brings a small table of CxOs and senior engineering leaders together for a focused, off-the-record conversation on what is actually happening at the data layer, and how to get ahead of it before it becomes a cost problem, a customer trust problem, or a board level problem.
Sessions are held under Chatham House rules, with a select group of by-invitation-only participants. It's a real opportunity to connect, reduce the noise, and develop tangible takeaways that help your organisation take true advantage of AI technologies.
What we will dig into, on the table and off the record:
Running across Australia and New Zealand. Sydney is locked in; venues and dates for the remaining cities will be confirmed as details are finalised. Register your interest below and we'll be in touch for your city.
Atlassian collapsed hundreds of PostgreSQL clusters into 16 global TiDB clusters, scaling to 3 million tables with zero downtime upgrades.
TiDB, powered by PingCAP, is a distributed SQL database built for the kind of scale most databases were not designed for. MySQL compatible, it handles transactional, analytical, and AI vector workloads in a single engine, removing the sharding logic and operational drag of a fragmented data stack. Open source at its core, TiDB runs some of the largest data workloads in the world, including Atlassian's global plugin platform.
Connecting Innovation. Innovatus Media partners with global technology companies to connect C-Suite leaders around the world with new ideas, ways of working, and technologies. Innovatus' events are built on peer-to-peer collaboration, are private discussions, and are delivered with a lot of humility and informal energy.
Places across all six cities are strictly limited and held by invitation. Complete the form below and the Innovatus Media team will be in touch to confirm your city, venue, and date.
The Innovatus Media team will be in touch to confirm your city, venue, and date. If you have any questions before then, reach out any time.
If you'd prefer to talk it through first, or want more detail on the format before registering, the team is happy to help.
