Date: 12 March 2026
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CET
Location: Bolt HQ
Join Bolt and TiDB for an exclusive in-person meetup where we pull back the curtain on scaling massive production workloads. Discover how Bolt leverages TiDB’s distributed power to navigate hyper-growth, and get a first look at how TiDB X is redefining the category with AI-native capabilities.
We’ll dive deep into real-world use cases, debate cloud architecture, and show you why the future of the database isn’t just “distributed” — it’s highly intelligent, scalable, and unified.
What’s on the agenda?
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- The AI-Native Frontier: Get an exclusive look at TiDB X, an AI-native database platform designed to unify OLTP, OLAP, and vector data, auto-tune performance, and simplify the development of LLM-powered applications.
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- The Bolt Blueprint: Find out how Bolt utilizes TiDB in production to sustain high-velocity workloads that maintain “five-nines” of reliability.
Is this meetup for you?
If you’re building, managing, or breaking systems at scale, you belong here:
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- The Builders: Backend, platform, and infrastructure engineers looking for a next-gen data stack.
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- The Architects: Database engineers and SREs tired of manual sharding and “re-sharding” nightmares.
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- The Visionaries: Technical leaders and AI engineers ready to integrate LLMs with enterprise-grade data.
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- The Optimizers: Anyone who believes “runaway costs” shouldn’t be the price of innovation.
If you’re looking to level up your infrastructure or just curious about how AI is fundamentally changing database internals, come grab a seat and join the conversation.
Speaker

Bernard Kavanagh, Senior Solutions Engineer, TiDB
Bernard is a specialist in high-performance distributed data systems, helping organizations bridge the gap between legacy 1990s data stacks and the elastic infrastructure required for the modern agentic driven era. Currently at TiDB, he architects Agent-First memory stores that consolidate Vector, SQL, and Analytics into a unified Distributed-SQL engine allowing companies to eliminate hallucinations and drive machine-speed decision-making at scale.

Andrei Fedorov, DBRE tech lead at Bolt
Staff database reliability engineer at Bolt, DBRE tech lead. Ex MySQL NDB Cluster engineer at Oracle.