SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-- March 23, 2023 -- Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, today announced the speaker lineup for the upcoming third annual Distributed SQL Summit (DSS) Asia.

This year’s virtual summit, taking place on Tuesday, March 28, includes speakers from companies including Tokopedia, Airwallex, Novopay, Red Hat, Mindgate, Yugabyte, and more.

DSS Asia brings together Yugabyte’s Asian community of executives, developers, partners, customers, and industry experts to share use cases and best practices for building cloud-native applications and driving database modernization with distributed SQL.

“This is our third DSS Asia event, and it’s been inspiring to watch as every year attendance gets bigger, use cases become more innovative, and the general buzz increases as the adoption of distributed SQL accelerates,” said Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and CTO of Yugabyte. “This year, the event features speakers that are using distributed SQL in incredibly exciting ways - from solving global banking challenges to overcoming roadblocks in database modernization strategy - it’s going to be a great event.”

DSS Asia features three tailored talk tracks—Technology, Japan, and Customers & Partners - with each session offering something for every level of interest, from technical expertise to general business value. Yugabyte CTO and co-founder, Karthik Ranganathan, will also give the keynote presentation, titled “Embrace, Extend, Evolve - Making PostgreSQL work for a Cloud Native World.”

Additional speakers at DSS Asia 2023 include:

· Ahilan Ponnusamy, GTM Specialist, Red Hat
· Lalit Chowdhary, Senior Vice President, Mindgate
· Feixiang Zhao, Database Architect, Airwallex
· Felix Christian Jonathan, Technical Architect, Tokopedia
· Vish Phaneedra, Head of Solutions Engineering, Yugabyte
· Manoj Mathew, Chief Architect, Novopay

Participants of DSS Asia will have the opportunity to join free YugabyteDB University training courses and certification testing on the topics of YCQL Development, YSQL Development, and YugabyteDB Administration.