P99 CONF 2026 is approaching faster than you think! Although P99 CONF 2025 seems like just yesterday, we’re already gearing up for this year’s conference. If you care about low latency, it’s time for some immediate action. 😉
Register now (it’s free + virtual)
Never heard of P99 CONF? It’s a highly technical virtual conference for technologists who obsess over low latency and all things performance. In the open source spirit, the conference is community-oriented, collaborative, and free.
Register for P99 CONF, October 21-22
Why wait? Sign up before you forget, and we’ll ping you in October with all the details. We just shared a batch of early speaker announcements. As you can see, the event is shaping up quite nicely…
By popular demand, we’re bringing back many favorites from P99 CONFs past. For example:
- Chip Huyen [LLM Inference Optimization, 2025]
- Gwen Shapira [High Performance on a Low Budget. 2024]
- Gunnar Morling [1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community, 2024]
- Tanel Poder [Efficient, Always-On Thread Level Observability with eBPF, 2025]
- Almog Gavra [8x Better Than Protobuf: Rethinking Serialization for Data Pipelines, 2025]
- Cristian Velazquez [Memory Optimization Techniques That Kept Uber’s P99 <1ms, 2025]
- Dominik Tornow [Distributed Async Await, 2024]
- Ragnar Groot Koerkamp [40x Faster Binary Search, 2025]
And we’re eager to introduce many new experts to the P99 CONF community. Here’s a taste:
- Daniel Lemire and Francisco Geiman Thiesen (Microsoft)
- Thorsten Ball (Amp)
- Sam Rose (ngrok)
- Dylan Martin (PostHog)
- Catherine Jue (Kernel)
- Peter Mbanugo (Engineer & Consultant)
- Francesco Nigro (IBM)
- Piotr Gankiewicz (LaserData & Apache Iggy)
- Georg Kreuzmayr (TigerBeetle)
- Adrien Grand and Nathan VanBenschoten (Turbopuffer)
Stay tuned for more speaker announcements soon!
Add “P99 CONF Speaker” to your Bio
Speaking of speakers…maybe you would like to become one? You could:
- Tell your colleagues that you spoke at the same conference as industry giants like Michael Stonebraker, Bryan Cantrill, Jarred Sumner, Charity Majors, Gil Tene…
- Share your performance accomplishments/experiment with thousands of like-minded engineers
- Become the proud owner of a P99 CONF speaker swag pack
P99 CONF 2025 speaker swag pack, photo by Qian Li
We’re looking for talks that fall into the following categories:
- Use cases: Your experiences tackling tricky performance challenges, especially those related to real-time applications and AI/ML
- Databases: Advances in performance-oriented databases, caches, sharding, tuning, data models, migrations, and algorithmic optimizations
- Data: Real-time streaming, ETL & batch processing at scale, workload optimizations and relevant tools oriented for performance
- Languages & frameworks: Building low-latency apps with Rust, Zig, Mojo, Go, Elixir, C++, Wasm, Bun, maybe even…Java
- Compute/infrastructure: The latest developments with performance-oriented servers, processors, networking, and storage
- Measurement: Interesting applications of performance measurement tools & techniques, tracing, benchmarking, observability
- What’s next in performance: Bring us your most intriguing thoughts, tools, and techniques
Interesting optimizations, algorithms, tooling, and other low-latency engineering strategies – it’s all fair game.
If you’re selected to speak, you’ll be in amazing company.
Browse the library of past talks
Speaking slots are just 18-20 minutes*, so consider it your TED Talk debut. 🙂 We welcome a broad range of speakers, including first-time speakers. It’s a great opportunity to share your insights and achievements with ~30K of your peers – no travel required!
The conference is designed to be fully virtual and highly interactive. All sessions will be pre-recorded at your convenience; during the live conference, speakers can focus on chatting with attendees, conference hosts, and fellow speakers. The deadline for submissions is May 30. The event is October 21 and 22 (two half days).
* BUT… if you have something else in mind, let us know and we’ll try to make it work!
FAQs
What type of content are you looking for? Is there a theme?
P99 CONF is designed to highlight the engineering challenges and creative solutions required for low-latency, high performance distributed computing applications. We’re looking for strategies geared toward a highly technical engineer or developer. No vendor pitches will be accepted.
Where can I see examples of successful P99 CONF sessions?
Want inspiration for your submission? We just opened up access to the complete library of past P99 CONF sessions – no registration required. Just go to https://www.p99conf.io/ and binge-watch to your heart’s content. This should give you a good idea of the topics and technical depth that resonates with the P99 CONF community.
Does my presentation have to include P99s?
Not at all. In fact, some of the most popular sessions in past conferences questioned the value of P99s. For example, Gil Tene talked about “percent-lies”, Alex Hidalgo explored whether we should “throw away our nines,” and Charity Majors declared that “averages are BS, 99th percentiles are BS, and 99.999%s are BS.”
Bring us your most intriguing ideas, including potentially provocative ones. If they’re grounded in technical experience, we’d love to feature them.
If I’m selected, what is the time commitment?
Based on feedback from past presenters, we expect the total time commitment to be 5-10 hours. We’ll get you all set up with timelines and templates, then schedule a recording appointment with our professional production crew so we can ensure the final video looks amazing. Additionally, we ask that all speakers log onto the virtual conference platform for live Q&A during their session.
