22-25 April 2026

Tom Harper

Tom Harper is the EMEA NoSQL & OpenSearch SA Manager at Amazon Web Services, leading a data specialist team covering DynamoDB, in-memory databases (ElastiCache/Valkey), and OpenSearch across enterprise and public sector customers. He previously built and led AWS's EMEA Relational Database SA team for Amazon RDS. Before AWS, Tom spent 17 years at BP — from senior Oracle DBA leading global operations across 1,200 databases in energy trading, to architecting the migration of thousands of heterogeneous databases to AWS with zero-downtime patterns.

Sessions for 2026

Beyond Caching: Building Low-Latency Data Layers for Modern Apps with Open Source In-Memory Database
 

Improving database performance using in-memory caching Open-source innovation: Valkey, a high performance key-value datastore How Valkey solves challenges for AI developers

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