NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 13, 2015) - MongoDB today announced its all-star lineup for MongoDB World, the world's largest global gathering of the MongoDB database community. This year's conference will build on the success of the inaugural 2014 event, which drew nearly 2,000 attendees. Registration is now open.
"The MongoDB community continues to grow rapidly," said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, MongoDB. "MongoDB World brings together the brightest minds, from independent developers to IT professionals from startups to Fortune 100 companies. There is no better opportunity for these forward thinkers to network, collaborate, and share their experience building the world's most innovative, modern applications."
Taking place from June 1-2 at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City, attendees will be able to network with developers, IT professionals and executives who are building unprecedented applications, speak to the engineers who build MongoDB, and learn about how to take advantage of the latest enhancements to products in the MongoDB ecosystem.
Keynotes Announced
Pioneers from across the tech industry will deliver keynote presentations at the conference, including:
- Mark Callaghan, Member of Technical Staff of Facebook
- Ben Golub, CEO of Docker
- Hilary Mason, Data Scientist and Founder of Fast Forward Labs
- Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage
- R "Ray" Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman of Constellation Research, Inc.
- Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB
- Eliot Horowitz, Co-Founder and CTO of MongoDB
2015 MongoDB World Sponsors include Teradata, Rackspace, Intel, Pentaho, Attunity, CA Technologies, CIGNEX Datamatics, DBS-H, EMC, Infusion, Jaspersoft, jSonar, Modulus, MongoLab, Neo4j, Progress DataDirect, Pure Storage, Redis Labs, SlamData, Vormetric and others. Sponsorship opportunities are still available: mongodbworld.com/sponsors
This year's conference also includes technical deep dives from MongoDB engineers; enterprise and business-focused sessions featuring MongoDB customers, such as Salesforce, Bosch and ADP; developer-focused sessions with talks from Cisco, Viacom, Rakuten, and others.
Registration Now Open
Until May 1, registrants can access the Early Bird ticket price for more than a 30 percent discount off the on-site registration price. Groups of three or more can get an additional 25 percent off tickets.
To register, please visit mongodbworld.com/register.
MongoDB Innovation Awards
MongoDB is now accepting nominations for its annual Innovation Awards, acknowledging users pushing the boundaries on everything from Big Data to the Internet of Things and attaining a level of scale and agility previously thought impossible with any database. All award winners win free registration to this year's MongoDB World in addition to recognition at the awards ceremony at the conference. Winners last year included Adobe, EA, eBay, Genentech, LinkedIn, Lockheed Martin, among others.
The deadline for submission is April 17, 2015. To apply, visit mongodbworld.com/community/awards.
After Party Details Announced
After Day 1 of the conference, MongoDB will celebrate its customers, partners and growing user community in Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
To register, and for regular updates on the agenda, tracks, speakers, sponsorships and other conference details, please visit mongodbworld.com/register.
The world's fastest growing database, MongoDB, has a thriving global community with more than 9 million downloads of its open-source database, 2,000 customers, 750 partners, 250,000 MongoDB University students, 35,000 MongoDB user group (MUG) members and 30,000 MongoDB Days attendees.
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About MongoDB
MongoDB is the next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. The world's most sophisticated organizations, from cutting-edge startups to the largest companies, use MongoDB to create applications never before possible at a fraction of the cost of legacy databases. MongoDB is the fastest-growing database ecosystem, with over 9 million downloads, thousands of customers, and over 750 technology and service partners. Learn more at www.mongodb.com.
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