@@ -314,6 +314,12 @@
   .person-meta-value { color: #0f172a; }
   .person-meta-link { color: #0272a5; }
 
+  .person-events { border-top-color: #dde3ed; }
+  .person-events-title { color: #94a3b8; }
+  .person-event-name, .person-event-detail { color: #0f172a; }
+  .person-event-date, .person-event-role { color: #64748b; }
+  .person-event-role { border-color: #dde3ed; }
+
   .resource-visit-btn {
     &:hover {
       color: #0272a5;
 
@@ -1252,6 +1252,64 @@ body.sheet-open {
   border-top: 1px solid $dark-border;
 }
 
+// Event participation list on a People profile
+.person-events {
+  margin-top: 1.5rem;
+  padding-top: 1.5rem;
+  border-top: 1px solid $dark-border;
+}
+
+.person-events-title {
+  margin: 0 0 0.875rem;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  letter-spacing: 0.06em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  color: $muted;
+}
+
+.person-events-list {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  margin: 0;
+  padding: 0;
+  list-style: none;
+}
+
+.person-event {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: baseline;
+  column-gap: 0.625rem;
+  row-gap: 0.125rem;
+  font-size: 0.9375rem;
+  line-height: 1.5;
+}
+
+.person-event-name {
+  font-weight: 600;
+  color: $off-white;
+}
+
+.person-event-date,
+.person-event-role {
+  font-size: 0.8125rem;
+  color: $muted;
+}
+
+.person-event-role {
+  padding: 0 0.5rem;
+  border: 1px solid $dark-border;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+}
+
+.person-event-detail {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
+  color: $off-white;
+  opacity: 0.8;
+}
+
 .resource-back-link {
   display: inline-flex;
   align-items: center;
 
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ roles:
 - Contributor
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "International conferences"
+    role: "Frequent speaker"
 ---
 
-Alkin Tezuysal is Chief Strategy Officer at ProxySQL and an open source database leader with more than 30 years of experience in database architecture, operations, services, and community development. He has led global teams supporting MySQL and ClickHouse users across a wide range of industries. Alkin is an Oracle ACE Pro, a frequent international speaker, and co-author of *MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition*. He was also recognized among the Redgate 100's most influential people in the database community.
+Alkin Tezuysal is Chief Strategy Officer at ProxySQL and an open source database leader with more than 30 years of experience in database architecture, operations, services, and community development. He has led global teams supporting MySQL and ClickHouse users across a wide range of industries. Alkin is an Oracle ACE Pro and co-author of *MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition*. He was also recognized among the Redgate 100's most influential people in the database community.
 
 **Connect:** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/askdba/) · [Oracle ACE](https://ace.oracle.com/)
@@ -13,10 +13,15 @@ roles:
 - Contributor
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "USENIX LISA"
+    role: "Speaker"
+  - name: "SREcon"
+    role: "Speaker"
 ---
 
 Baron Schwartz is a database performance and scalability expert, known online as Xaprb. He is a co-author of *High Performance MySQL* (see the [3rd edition](/resources/books/high-performance-mysql-3rd/)) and the original author of [innotop](/resources/software/innotop/), the terminal monitor for MySQL. He also created Maatkit and Aspersa, the two toolkits that Percona forked in 2011 to become [Percona Toolkit](/resources/software/percona-toolkit/).
 
-He joined Percona in 2008 and later founded VividCortex, a database performance monitoring company that SolarWinds acquired in 2019. He has spoken at conferences including USENIX LISA and SREcon, and has focused his career on learning and teaching about the performance and observability of systems in general, and of databases in particular.
+He joined Percona in 2008 and later founded VividCortex, a database performance monitoring company that SolarWinds acquired in 2019. He has focused his career on learning and teaching about the performance and observability of systems in general, and of databases in particular.
 
 **Connect:** [X](https://x.com/xaprb) · [GitHub](https://github.com/xaprb)
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@ roles:
 - Speaker
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "Conferences"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Listed as a conference speaker in the O'Reilly author note"
 ---
 
-Daniel Nichter is a DBA and software engineer who started optimizing MySQL performance in 2004 and soon created [hackmysql.com](https://hackmysql.com/) to share information and tools about MySQL. He spent eight years at Percona working on [Percona Toolkit](/resources/software/percona-toolkit/), and worked on Percona Monitoring and Management during his final year there. His earlier tools, among them mysqlreport, mysqlsla, and mysqlsniffer, were for several years a de facto standard. The O'Reilly author note also lists him as a MySQL Community Award winner and conference speaker.
+Daniel Nichter is a DBA and software engineer who started optimizing MySQL performance in 2004 and soon created [hackmysql.com](https://hackmysql.com/) to share information and tools about MySQL. He spent eight years at Percona working on [Percona Toolkit](/resources/software/percona-toolkit/), and worked on Percona Monitoring and Management during his final year there. His earlier tools, among them mysqlreport, mysqlsla, and mysqlsniffer, were for several years a de facto standard. The O'Reilly author note also lists him as a MySQL Community Award winner.
 
 He is the author of [*Efficient MySQL Performance*](/resources/books/efficient-mysql-performance/) (O'Reilly, 2021), written for software engineers who use MySQL rather than for DBAs, and of Finch, an open source MySQL benchmarking tool. According to his site, he spent nine years at Block (formerly Square), where he was a principal engineer, and left in 2025.
 
 
@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@ roles:
 - Speaker
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "devopsdays Dallas"
+    date: "2025"
+    role: "Speaker"
 ---
 
-David (Dave) Stokes is a Community Manager at [DBeaver](/resources/software/dbeaver/) and a recognized expert in open source databases. He is the author of [*MySQL and JSON: A Practical Programming Guide*](/resources/books/mysql-and-json/) (McGraw-Hill, 2018), a step-by-step guide to using JSON with MySQL that covers the MySQL Document Store and GeoJSON. He spoke at devopsdays Dallas 2025.
+David (Dave) Stokes is a Community Manager at [DBeaver](/resources/software/dbeaver/) and a recognized expert in open source databases. He is the author of [*MySQL and JSON: A Practical Programming Guide*](/resources/books/mysql-and-json/) (McGraw-Hill, 2018), a step-by-step guide to using JSON with MySQL that covers the MySQL Document Store and GeoJSON.
 
 **Connect:** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmstokes/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/davestokes)
@@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ roles:
 - Speaker
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "DuckDB × MySQL Day"
+    url: "/events/duckdb-mysql-day/"
+    date: "November 17, 2026"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Implementing DuckDB inside MySQL as a VillageSQL extension"
 ---
 
 Dominic Preuss is the founder of [VillageSQL](/resources/software/villagesql/), where he is Village Steward — the CEO. VillageSQL is an open source, drop-in replacement tracking fork of MySQL that adds an extension framework for custom data types and functions. According to the company's team page, Dominic spent the last decade building databases for developers at Google and Amazon.
 
-At [DuckDB × MySQL Day](/events/duckdb-mysql-day/) he presents *Implementing DuckDB inside MySQL as a VillageSQL extension*.
-
 **Connect:** [VillageSQL team](https://www.villagesql.com/about)
@@ -12,10 +12,14 @@ roles:
 - Author
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "DuckDB × MySQL Day"
+    url: "/events/duckdb-mysql-day/"
+    date: "November 17, 2026"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Duck Hunt: An Independent Benchmark of DuckDB-Powered MySQL"
 ---
 
 Evgeniy Patlan is a build and release engineer at Percona, where he has worked since April 2016. Before Percona he spent more than eight years at PortaOne, moving from support engineer to build/release engineer. On the Percona blog he writes about package repositories and builds, Valkey packages, and benchmarks, including [running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine](https://www.percona.com/blog/running-duckdb-as-a-mysql-9-7-storage-engine/) and [the DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB](https://www.percona.com/blog/the-duckdb-mysql-engine-at-500-gb/).
 
-At [DuckDB × MySQL Day](/events/duckdb-mysql-day/) he presents *Duck Hunt: An Independent Benchmark of DuckDB-Powered MySQL*.
-
 **Connect:** [Percona blog](https://www.percona.com/blog/author/evgeniy-patlan/)
@@ -11,10 +11,21 @@ roles:
 - Speaker
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "DuckDB × MySQL Day"
+    url: "/events/duckdb-mysql-day/"
+    date: "November 17, 2026"
+    role: "Speaker"
+  - name: "Percona Live 2026, Amsterdam"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "An update on moving MySQL development, planning, and governance into the open, including that developers outside Oracle can now become committers, and a roadmap agreed in two contributor summits"
+  - name: "MySQL contributor summits"
+    role: "Organizer"
+    detail: "Helps run the summits"
 ---
 
-Henrik Ingo is MySQL Community Architect at Oracle. He has been active in the open source database community for about 20 years: he has worked at MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, MongoDB, and DataStax, and recently returned to the Oracle MySQL team. At Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam he gave an update on moving MySQL development, planning, and governance into the open — including that developers outside Oracle can now become committers, and a roadmap agreed in two contributor summits — and he helps run the MySQL contributor summits.
+Henrik Ingo is MySQL Community Architect at Oracle. He has been active in the open source database community for about 20 years: he has worked at MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, MongoDB, and DataStax, and recently returned to the Oracle MySQL team.
 
-He is also the author of *Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source*. He is a speaker at [DuckDB × MySQL Day](/events/duckdb-mysql-day/).
+He is also the author of *Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source*.
 
 **Connect:** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heingo/) · [openlife.cc](https://www.openlife.cc/)
@@ -10,6 +10,22 @@ roles:
 - Speaker
 images:
 - photo.jpg
+events:
+  - name: "MySQL Users Conference"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Sessions on performance tuning, as of 2005"
+  - name: "RedHat Summit"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Sessions on performance tuning, as of 2005"
+  - name: "NY PHP Conference"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Sessions on performance tuning, as of 2005"
+  - name: "OSCON"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Sessions on performance tuning, as of 2005"
+  - name: "Ohio LinuxFest"
+    role: "Speaker"
+    detail: "Sessions on performance tuning, as of 2005"
 ---
 
-Jay Pipes is the co-author, with Michael Kruckenberg, of [*Pro MySQL*](/resources/books/pro-mysql/) (Apress, 2005). At the time of the book he was the North American community relations manager at MySQL. He had written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly helped software developers make effective use of MySQL, and he had given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, among others.
+Jay Pipes is the co-author, with Michael Kruckenberg, of [*Pro MySQL*](/resources/books/pro-mysql/) (Apress, 2005). At the time of the book he was the North American community relations manager at MySQL. He had written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly helped software developers make effective use of MySQL.