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MongoDB .local London Agenda | 11.15.2022

Registration and Breakfast
8 am–9 am

Grab your badge at the MongoDB registration desk before our keynote starts at 9am! Breakfast will be served from 8am for our attendees to enjoy some morning coffee and refreshments whilst networking with other attendees.

MongoDB Atlas Jumpstart
8:30 am - 9:00 am
London Eye Room

Working with data has always been the hardest part of developing applications. With MongoDB Atlas, we are looking at making it the easiest. Among the many topics we’ll cover are: Creating a MongoDB Cloud account. Creating a Free Tier M0 Cluster. Loading in sample data. Setting up database and network access. Connecting to your cluster and accessing data. Atlas Product Ecosystem overview. By the end of the session, you will have access to a free and fully managed and distributed MongoDB deployment that you can use to start building tomorrow’s next best application.

Speaker: Luce Carter
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

From RDBMS to NoSQL at Enterprise Scale
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Big Ben Room

NoSQL isn't just a database. It's a new way of thinking about data. Traditional RDBMS has been baked into software development for decades. Moving development organizations from RDBMS to NoSQL means overcoming technology momentum and the natural bias to use solutions that are already well understood. Prior to joining MongoDB, Rick Houlihan led the NoSQL Blackbelt team for Amazon during their migration from RDBMS to NoSQL. This session is designed to introduce developers, technologists, and technical decision-makers to the NoSQL mindset and explore the design patterns and best practices developed by Rick and his team during that process. Join him for this insightful session that breaks down NoSQL data modeling for real-world workloads and dives deep into the core value of MongoDB for both SDEs and product stakeholders.

Speaker: Rick Houlihan, Director, Developer Relations
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Designing Sustainable Architectures with MongoDB
9:10 am - 9:40 am
London Eye Room

The information and communications technology industries contribute to over 2.8% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the world, on par with the aviation sector. However, it also has the potential to reduce 20% of the global emissions by 2030. While developers have long been driven by metrics such as performance, availability, and cost, it has now become imperative to add sustainability to that list. In this talk, learn how to build sustainable software architectures with MongoDB by shifting workloads to greener infrastructure, optimizing resource provisioning, reducing the compute power required for data access with flexible data models, and start making a difference, today.

Speaker: Snehal Bhatia, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Keynote
10 am – 11 am

MongoDB’s Chief Technology Officer, Mark Porter, and Chief Product Officer, Sahir Azam, will explore why MongoDB is the best choice for modern applications, the future of application development, and how MongoDB is changing the way data-driven experiences are built.

Morning Coffee Break
11 am – 11:30 am

Take a quick break before our general sessions begin! Grab your favorite coffee, visit one of our sponsors or speak with a MongoDB expert at our Ask the Expert booth! Be sure to arrive for your chosen session 5 minutes before the session start time.

Keeping Data in Sync Anywhere with Cluster-to-Cluster Sync
11:30 am - 12 pm
Big Ben Room

Want to move data to a new MongoDB cluster to the cloud? Spin up a new cluster for testing and development? Or copy data to a new cluster for analytics? Cluster-to-cluster synchronization provides you with continuous data sync between two MongoDB clusters in the same or different environments. In this session, you will learn how to use this capability for the following use cases:

• Migrating clusters from on-premises MongoDB deployments to Atlas.
• Setting up a continuous synchronization between two MongoDB clusters to set up a new cluster for analytics.
• Provisioning a new cluster for testing or for upgrading/downgrading to a new version.

Speaker: Alan Zheng, Senior Product Manager
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Driving Customer Value using API Data
11:30 am - 12 pm
Tower Bridge Room

APIs power the experiences we use every day – our shopping apps, food delivery services, digital banks and more. For a long time they’ve played second fiddle to the User Experiences built upon them, confidently and capably working in the background to keep the world moving. That’s changing. APIs more than ever are being delivered and consumed as 1st class products. Companies are using both their own and other companies public, private and partner APIs to embed functionality where the customer is. With that comes a wealth of valuable data that customers can benefit from. This talk looks at how NatWest is looking to surface that data in meaningful ways, where MongoDB fits in the picture and the horizon they are headed toward.

Speaker: Jonathan Haggarty, Head of Bank of APIs Technology
Company: NatWest Group
Level: Beginner
Language: English

The Perils and Joys of Real-Time Vehicle Data
11:30 am - 12 pm
London Eye Room

Jaguar Land Rover’s mission statement is to offer unique customer experiences that re-imagine modern luxury. A key driver in this is the ability to deliver software updates over the air (SOTA) and removing the need for customers to physically have their car updated at a service center. To deliver SOTA updates successfully, an up-to-date digital twin of vehicle data is crucial. The challenges of scaling up to larger, more complex updates, and to more vehicles, has required a rethink in how vehicle data is stored and queried. This session will outline the challenges, successes and lessons learnt from processing large volumes of real-time data using MongoDB.

Speaker: Andreea Ros, Full Stack Software Engineer
Company: Jaguar Land Rover
Language: English

Algorithmic Trading Made Easy with MongoDB Time Series
12:10 pm - 12:40 pm
Big Ben Room

Algorithmic trading accounts for 60-70% of US equity trading, with similar numbers in EMEA and APAC. We can expect these numbers to increase as trading strategies become more refined and trading volumes grow. As a result, analysts need to develop, implement, and test their algorithms faster.

MongoDB Time Series makes it much easier to work with financial data. In this session, you'll learn how to build a simple trading algorithm using two moving averages. When the first one begins to trend greater than the second one, we BUY and when the opposite happens, we SELL. We run the simulator and calculate profit and loss. We adjust both values to show how that affects P&L.

Speaker: Wojciech Witoszynski, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Sometimes It's Not About Being SAFe (Especially When Modernising Mainframes)
12:10 pm - 12:40 pm
Tower Bridge Room

Like most established Financial Service businesses, Legal & General has a legacy IT estate that it has been focused on modernising. However, a big bang approach can be a step too far in a regulated risk averse industry. We started relatively small scale, with MongoDB at the centre of an application to deliver a vastly improved cloud-native product to our largest clients and reduce mainframe reliance.

The success of this has enabled key components to be put at the heart of an Operational Streaming Service that performs the heavy lifting of preparing, transforming and providing data in a customer-specified structure that will enable L&G to scale mission critical processes by reducing workload on legacy technology.

Speaker: Tom Neville, Agile Delivery Manager & John Mills, Product Owner
Company: Legal & General
Level: Beginner
Language: English

12 Patterns for Tuning MongoDB Performance and Scalability
12:10 pm - 12:55 pm
London Eye Room

Designing a high-performance and cost-efficient system requires deep knowledge of MongoDB technologies. As your business grows, so will the demands on your database. If you are wildly successful, you’ll need to scale your minimal-viable-product into a humongous-scalable-product. This scaling journey can have profound impacts on the growth and costs of your business. In this talk, we’ll provide the audience with an overview of 12 patterns and best practices to help diagnose and scale software applications. Starting with requirements and bottlenecks, we'll also address challenges in queries, networking, and storage. These patterns were curated by the authors over a number of years working on real-world performance and scaling projects both internally and with customers. During the time we have available for this session, we’ll provide an overview of the 12 patterns and go into more detail on 2 or 3 patterns based on audience feedback, requests and questions.

Speaker: Ger Hartnett, Lead, Engineering & Xiaochen Wu, Senior Product Manager
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Lunch Break
12:40 pm - 1:40 pm

Lunch will be served for all attendees at midday on the first floor. Grab something to eat and visit the MongoDB product or Ask the Experts booth! Sponsors will also be located on the first floor, visit their booths and see which swag you can find.

The Principles of Data Modeling for MongoDB
1:40 pm - 2:10 pm
Big Ben Room

Creating a schema for a relational database is a straightforward process. Designing a schema for a MongoDB application may seem a little more challenging. However, it doesn't have to be if you follow the main principles that MongoDB has identified for its users. This talk will go over these data modelling principles. We'll also reveal modelling tips to address the constant changes in the data technology world like new features in MongoDB, hardware evolution, data lakes, and the growing impact of analytics.

Speaker: James Miles, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

One Server(less) to Worry About: How to Build a Complete Serverless Back End with MongoDB Atlas
1:40 pm - 2:10 pm
Tower Bridge Room

MongoDB has recently introduced serverless databases as a new deployment option in Atlas. Together with Atlas's serverless application services, you can create a complete back end as a service without having to worry about a single server. In this session, you will learn how to create highly scalable and future-proof serverless solutions based on microservices to power modern applications.

I'll demonstrate how to build the three most common microservices required in any solution—authentication, writes (data input), and reads (data output)—and expose them as HTTPS Endpoints. At the end of this session, you'll be able to take advantage of the serverless capabilities in our developer data platform for modern application development and be left wondering why you would have done it any other way.

Speaker: Carlos Castro, Advisory Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Corporate Intelligence & the Smart Use of Unstructured Data
1:40 pm - 2:10 pm
London Eye Room

The amount of data generated daily is just mind-boggling, but not all companies make use of it. Corporate intelligence allows companies to use data in very smart ways, enabling them to unlock insights for future events, deal with disruption by managing risk and achieve a competitive advantage. Join this session to find out how corporate intelligence achieves this and how MongoDB makes it easier. Speaker: Wael Muhammad, Manager, Database Engineering
Company: MasterCard
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Queryable Encryption - Next-Gen Security for Sensitive Workloads
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
Big Ben Room

Many applications with high-sensitivity workloads require enhanced technical options to control and limit access to confidential and regulated data. In some cases, system requirements or compliance obligations dictate a separation of duties for staff operating the database and those who maintain the application layer. In cloud-hosted environments, certain data are sometimes deemed too sensitive to store on third-party infrastructure. This is a common pain for system architects in the healthcare, finance, and consumer tech sectors — the benefits of managed, easily expanded compute and storage have been considered unavailable because of data confidentiality and privacy concerns.

This session will take a deep dive into Queryable Encryption, in Preview with MongoDB 6.0, that address these scenarios while preserving rich query expressivity. Utilizing groundbreaking technologies developed by our Advanced Crypto Research group, we will review how confidential data can be easily queried without leaking information about the data being queried or the query itself.

Speaker: Cynthia Braund, Senior Product Manager, Data Security and Kenn White, Security Principal
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Client-Side Field Level Encryption with AWS Key Management Service Master Keys and a VPC Endpoint.
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
Tower Bridge Room

By attending this talk, you will learn how to securely integrate your MongoDB Atlas environments with workloads running in your AWS Account. We will walk through the configuration of a private network link between your AWS Account and Atlas on AWS. Then I will show how to securely leverage AWS Key Management Services to manage encryptions keys for Mongo’s Client-Side Field Level Encryption. This talk is hands on, with minimum slides and maximum code. Speaker: Sébastien Stormacq, Principal Developer Advocate
Company: AWS
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

MongoDB Data Mesh: MACH (Microservices, API-First, Cloud-Native, and Headless) Design Applied
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
London Eye Room

The design concepts of MACH (microservices, API-first, cloud-native, and headless) are perfectly suited for MongoDB and mesh perfectly with the architectural concept of the data mesh. The introduction of Atlas Search, Data Lake, and the need for real-time capabilities make these two even more valuable for any architect or solution designer. Learn in this session using the example of payment processes what enrichment and polymorph data really mean for a vertical solution. The presented concept is easily transferable to any vertical or sector and makes the life of architects much easier. Speaker: Boris Bialek
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Client-Side Field Level Encryption in Multi-Cloud Environments
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Big Ben Room

With Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE), applications can encrypt sensitive fields in documents prior to transmitting data to the server in just one or any combination of the three public clouds. Customers with a multi-cloud strategy face the challenge of how to manage encryption keys across cloud environments.

In this session, we will showcase how you can eliminate the sprawl of encryption key management in multiple cloud providers by utilizing a KMIP-enabled key provider in CSFLE. We’ll also show you how easy it is to rotate encryption keys and move between key providers with CSFLE’s new key management capabilities.

Speaker: Pierre Petersson, Advisory Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Marks & Spencer Choose 'Build' Over 'Buy' for New Sparks Loyalty Platform
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Tower Bridge Room

In 2020, Marks & Spencer (M&S) relaunched its digital-first loyalty scheme, promising its seven million customers a more personalised and tailored experience. With an anticipated growth in adoption, the digital & data team made the bold decision to build the platform in-house (a cultural shift from its traditional 'buy' model). Join this session to find out why and how this decision was made, and how the M&S team used technologies like MongoDB to scale the platform to support a 200%+ growth in less than a year.

Speaker: Amit Vij, Head Of Software Engineering
Company: Marks and Spencer PLC
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Afternoon Coffee Break
3:30 pm–3:45 pm

Take a quick break before our final sessions begin! Grab a coffee, visit one of our sponsors or speak with a MongoDB expert at our Ask the Expert booth! Be sure to arrive for your chosen session 5 minutes before the session start time.

Why Atlas Search Today and Where We Are Taking It
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Tower Bridge Room

Are you building apps that rely on providing fast and relevant search to your users? How about apps that have to support complex queries against richly structured JSON documents? Then you can’t afford to miss this session!

Atlas Search integrates the Atlas database, a Lucene-based search index, and sync pipeline into a single, unified, and fully managed platform. By using Atlas Search, developers have been able to build and ship applications 30%-50% faster.

In this session, we will cover:

• Why we built Atlas Search.
• The use cases where it shines.
• Atlas Search in action—taking you on a journey from the search bar to sophisticated application queries for information discovery.
• Our development priorities and future product direction.
• The problems developers have solved with Atlas Search

The session will wrap up with a Q&A, so we encourage you to come along to ask us your questions and share what you want to see from Atlas Search in the future.

Speaker: Marcus Eagan, Staff Product Advisor & Advocate
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Reach PLC: Synchronising personalisation across iOS, Android and Web.
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
London Eye Room

Personalisation has become an expected feature for our readers. Enabling personalisation for over 150 applications across iOS, Android and Web, however, comes with exciting challenges.

Reach has adopted MongoDB and Atlas Sync as a platform for providing real-time sync of our reader’s personalisation options across all of their devices, on all of their platforms, and on all of our publications.

We will discover how we went from an iOS proof of concept to unlocking new ideas within Reach, ultimately giving our readers the personalisation that they wanted.

Speaker: Steven Brown, Lead iOS Developer
Company: Reach PLC
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Working with Time Series Data in MongoDB
4:25 pm - 4:55 pm
Big Ben Room

Join the speaker to learn how you can work with Time Series data in MongoDB.

We will cover Time Series in MDB with a brief overview of Time Series collections (released in MDB 5.0), including all of the exciting new features and support added for 5.x rapid releases, such as sharding, online archive integration, new query expressions and aggregation stages, performance improvements, Time Series collection column compression, and more.

Speaker: Diaba Konate, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Get More $out of Aggregation
4:25 pm - 4:55 pm
Tower Bridge Room

You’ve taken your first steps into the world of MongoDB’s Aggregation Framework. Congratulations! You’ve calculated and added new fields with ‘$set’. You’ve amalgamated documents with ‘$group’. Maybe you’ve even created a Top 10 by combining ‘$sort’ and ‘$limit’. But where do you go from here? In this session, we will dive deeper into the possibilities of the Aggregation Framework. You will learn how to apply advanced expressions to work with arrays and more using real-world examples. Through this, you will be introduced to powerful operators that cut down on custom code and reduce time to data insights, and learn best practices on writing complex stages to maximize developer productivity.

Speaker: Peter Fitch, Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Share the Love! Successfully Introduce MongoDB Across all Teams and Skill Levels
4:25 pm - 4:55 pm London Eye Room

Technology teams come in all shapes, sizes and job roles. One thing is essential for faster delivery: a single view on the data, shared right across the team. You have colleagues skilled in SQL but not in mongosh. You have Product Managers and CTOs needing to query the data their own way. You have DBAs needing to monitor performance. You have experienced and inexperienced engineers. You have new starters! By sharing integrated tools such as table views, SQL query translators and drag-and-drop query construction, your multi-disciplinary team will be delivering confidently, and always right first time.

Speaker: Becky Brown, Business Development Manager & Leigh Cooper, Product Manager
Company: Studio 3T
Language: English

MongoDB Relational Migrator: Bring Your Relational Workloads to MongoDB with Confidence
5:05 pm - 5:35pm
Big Ben Room

Moving that old, slow application off of a relational database and onto MongoDB sounds like a great idea but has historically been a very challenging undertaking. In this session, we'll introduce MongoDB Relational Migrator, a new product from MongoDB that takes the pain away from modernization projects by helping with schema modeling and mapping, as well as replicating and transforming data from Oracle, MySQL, and SQL server databases.

Speaker: Anand Sanghani, Advisory Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Beginner
Language: English

Securing Your Application's Data in the Public Cloud
5:05 pm - 5:35 pm
Tower Bridge Room

The success of an application—and even the organization—depend upon maintaining the security of its data and keeping it out of others’ hands. This presentation highlights the challenges for developers trying to ensure application data is secure and avoid breaches when hosted in the public cloud. Cloud identity and access models are complex and differ between vendors, so retaining the visibility of access to resources within these ever-changing systems is demanding. This can be a make-or-break in the fast-evolving digital landscape. Using MongoDB Atlas to manage your data, utilise industry-leading security, and access technologies may be compelling reasons for you to switch your applications now.

Speaker: Steve Walsh, Senior Solutions Architect
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Connected Products Your Next Level Customer Experience
5:05 pm - 5:35 pm
London Eye Room

The time of disconnected hardware products is over. Real time bi-directional integration is expected as part of a seamingless customer experience. In this session we will explain and demonstrate how you can use Realm, Device Sync and Atlas integrated with AWS Sagemaker to collect telemetry information of a vehicle, analyse it with AWS Sagemaker and provide feedback to the driver via HMI, mobile and webapps.

Speaker: Felix Reichenbach, Principal, Industry Solutions
Company: MongoDB
Level: Intermediate
Language: English

Drinks Reception
5:35 pm – 6:30 pm

It’s happy hour time! We would love for you to join us for some drinks and light bites to celebrate MongoDB.local London 2022! This will be your last opportunity to network with other attendees and visit sponsor booths as well as MongoDB products and Ask the Expert booths.

Designing Sustainable Architectures with MongoDB

The information and communications technology industries contribute to over 2.8% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the world, on par with the aviation sector. However, it also has the potential to reduce 20% of the global emissions by 2030. While developers have long been driven by metrics such as performance, availability, and cost, it has now become imperative to add sustainability to that list. In this talk, learn how to build sustainable software architectures with MongoDB by shifting workloads to greener infrastructure, optimizing resource provisioning, reducing the compute power required for data access with flexible data models, and start making a difference, today.

From RDBMS to NoSQL at Enterprise Scale

NoSQL isn't just a database. It's a new way of thinking about data. Traditional RDBMS has been baked into software development for decades. Moving development organizations from RDBMS to NoSQL means overcoming technology momentum and the natural bias to use solutions that are already well understood. Prior to joining MongoDB, Rick Houlihan led the NoSQL Blackbelt team for Amazon during their migration from RDBMS to NoSQL. This session is designed to introduce developers, technologists, and technical decision-makers to the NoSQL mindset and explore the design patterns and best practices developed by Rick and his team during that process. Join him for this insightful session that breaks down NoSQL data modeling for real-world workloads and dives deep into the core value of MongoDB for both SDEs and product stakeholders.

Securing Your Application's Data in the Public Cloud

The success of an application—and even the organization—depend upon maintaining the security of its data and keeping it out of others’ hands. This presentation highlights the challenges for developers trying to ensure application data is secure and avoid breaches when hosted in the public cloud. Cloud identity and access models are complex and differ between vendors, so retaining the visibility of access to resources within these ever-changing systems is demanding. This can be a make-or-break in the fast-evolving digital landscape. Using MongoDB Atlas to manage your data, utilise industry-leading security, and access technologies may be compelling reasons for you to switch your applications now.