The New Database Estate | RoachFest London 2026

Description

For eleven years, CockroachDB has made the impossible possible, surviving regional outages with full consistency, transacting across continents, scaling elastically without re-architecture. Possible, but never easy. This year, that changes. Each year at RoachFest, Spencer previews the work ahead. This year's preview is the most consequential of CockroachDB's history: the new database estate with a unified architecture operated by a continuous AI team for every cluster. He will show why the database that already runs your most critical workloads is becoming the database that runs every workload at a cost basis no other database can match and why the agents that build, fill, and operate the modern enterprise need a database they themselves can run on, and run. The agentic database cloud begins this year, built on the database you already trust. Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder & CEO