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Catch the best moments from MongoDB.local Bangkok, from inspiring keynotes to real-world customer success stories. Explore how organisations are building modern applications, driving innovation, and scaling with MongoDB.
Discover how MongoDB Atlas empowers developers and organisations to build modern, AI-powered applications faster and more efficiently. Learn how its flexible data foundation simplifies development, reduces costs, and supports evolving application needs — all while exploring the latest product innovations and future roadmap.
8:00Â onwards
Registration and Coffee
Check-in, grab some coffee, and peruse the booths before the sessions begin!
8:45 - 9:15 AM
Methodology and Foundations of Data Modeling for MongoDB
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 does not have to be if you follow a simple methodology and the main principles MongoDB has identified for its users. This talk will go over the fundamentals of data modeling for MongoDB and reveal additional modeling tips from countless data modelling design reviews done for our customers over the last few years.
9:00Â - 9:45 AM
Methodology and Foundations of Data Modeling for MongoDB
Designing schemas in MongoDB can be simple with the right approach. This session covers core data modeling principles and shares proven tips from years of customer design reviews.
Speaker: Sweta Dwivedi, Solutions Architect, MongoDB
10:00 - 11:00 AM
MongoDB Keynote
Join MongoDB executives and product specialists to learn how MongoDB Atlas is uniquely positioned to give developers and organisations a competitive edge in building modern applications, including those powered by AI. Attendees will discover how MongoDB'd data foundation enables teams to move faster, simplify development, and reduce costs—even as application requirements grow more complex. See the latest product innovations, hear what’s coming next, and explore how MongoDB can accelerate development, power AI applications, and drive modernisation efforts.
Speakers:
Celine Zuberek, Regional Vice President, MongoDB
Christopher Shum, Director, Product Management, MongoDB
Genevieve Broadhead, Global Lead, Retail, Industry Solutions, MongoDB
11:30 - 12:00 PM
Trade Fast, Design Smart: Powering Millions of Crypto Trades at Bitkub with MongoDB Modeling
Powering a real-time crypto exchange requires more than fast code—it demands smart data design. In this keynote, K. Arm Adisorn, CTO at Bitkub Online, shares how MongoDB supports the rapid growth of Thailand’s top crypto trading platform. Learn how Bitkub leverages workload-driven schema design, embedded models, and atomic update strategies to achieve high-throughput performance while maintaining system integrity. Explore the key design choices—and anti-patterns to avoid—that empower Bitkub to scale with confidence while staying agile in a fast-moving financial market.
Speaker: Adisorn Chockaumnuai, Chief Technology Officer, Bitkub
Adisorn Chockaumnuai is the Chief Technology Officer at Bitkub Online, Thailand’s leading cryptocurrency exchange platform. A seasoned technology leader with deep expertise in fintech and blockchain, Adisorn drives the company’s innovation strategy—focusing on security, scalability, and performance to support millions of users accessing digital assets. At Bitkub Online, he leads cutting-edge initiatives such as zero-trust architecture, blue/green and canary deployments, and a culture of agile development. Adisorn is passionate about aligning technology with business goals to enhance customer experience, ensure operational excellence, and fuel long-term growth.
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Building Agentic Apps on AWS with MongoDB Atlas
Turn generative AI into business results by building intelligent agentic applications using AWS and MongoDB Atlas. We’ll show you how to combine AI services from AWS with MongoDB Atlas to power context-aware, autonomous agents. Explore serverless architectures, agent frameworks, and real-world examples that demonstrate how to move from experimentation to production—fast.
Speaker: Warot Asawakowitkorn, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Warot Asawakowitkorn is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Bangkok, Thailand, where he leverages his extensive technical consulting experience to address customer business requirements through innovative cloud solutions, continuously updating his knowledge of emerging technologies.
1:30 - 2:00 PM
Integrating MongoDB Atlas Into Your Internal Developer Platform
Learn how platform teams can enable self-service MongoDB Atlas at scale. This session demos a GitOps-driven landing zone with CI/CD, IaC, automation, and security — boosting productivity while maintaining control.
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Speakers:
Paul Cheong, Solutions Architect, MongoDB
2:00Â - 2:30 PM
A Fireside Chat: How MyOrder Scaled Securely and Seamlessly with MongoDB Atlas
In this fireside chat, K.Nut, Platform Engineer at MyOrder—a leading SaaS platform empowering online sellers in Thailand—as he shares the journey of transforming a mission-critical backend from instability to high availability. Facing rapid data growth, frequent outages, and operational challenges from a self-hosted MongoDB Community setup, MyOrder made a strategic decision to migrate to MongoDB Atlas.
He recounts the architecture evolution, critical decisions, and practical lessons from this migration—highlighting how Atlas enabled them to scale securely, automate key developer workflows, and reduce operational overhead. Learn how MyOrder integrated MongoDB into its developer experience, leveraged native tooling like Performance Advisor, Role-Based Access, and Prometheus integrations, and what’s next as they continue to build a future-ready internal platform.
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Vorapat Nicklamai, Solutions Architect, MongoDB
Supanut Laddayam, Platform Engineer, MyOrder
At MyOrder Intelligence, Supanut Laddayam plays a key role as Platform Engineer, focused on strengthening backend systems and ensuring operational stability. With 5+ years in software engineering, he is passionate about cloud infrastructure and the evolving landscape of modern DevOps.
Solving the Mystery of Index Use
Slow application performance often points to index issues — but what are indexes, and how do you use them effectively? In this practical session with real-world examples, you’ll explore MongoDB’s regular, compound, wildcard, and partial indexes, learn how they work, and when to apply them. Plus, discover key indexing best practices — and when to break the rules.
2:30 - 3:15 PM
Embedding the Future: How Modern Databases Are Eating Search
Text Search and Vector Search can seem intimidating due to their perceived complexity. In this session, we’ll demystify both by walking through how you can build your own text and vector search functionality using MongoDB. We'll also explain what vector search is, how it works, and introduce new features recently added to MongoDB's vector search capabilities. By the end of this session, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how to implement powerful, efficient search experiences in your applications.
Speaker: Ekkasit Takoungsakdakul, Sr. Solutions Architect, MongoDB
3:30 - 4:00 PM
Solving the Mystery of Index Use
Slow application performance often points to index issues. This session explains how MongoDB’s regular, compound, wildcard, and partial indexes work, when to use each, and common pitfalls. Through practical examples, you'll learn indexing best practices — and when exceptions apply — to optimise performance.
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Speaker: Hendri Tjipto, Sr. Solutions Architect, MongoDB
Powering Event-Driven Applications with Kafka, MongoDB, and Atlas Stream ProcessingÂ
Learn how to build and manage event-driven applications with MongoDB Atlas. This session covers creating native stream processors, advanced techniques like data validation, windowed processing, stream joins, and integrating with Apache Kafka. You’ll gain the skills to process real-time data from Kafka and MongoDB using the aggregation framework and discover how to incorporate AI for sentiment analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics.
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Scan, Pay, Scale: Powering Thai QR Payments with KBTG and MongoDB – From Code to Cash
Behind every seamless scan-and-pay experience is a powerful infrastructure built for speed, scale, and reliability. In this session, Varangkanang Thaisonthi, Head of Delivery Management at KBTG, shares how MongoDB supports the rapid evolution of Thailand’s QR payment ecosystem—from early code to nationwide adoption. Discover how KBTG approaches performance optimization, including thoughtful indexing strategies, to ensure every transaction is fast and frictionless. Gain insights into how KBTG bridges business goals and technical execution to deliver innovations that scale with demand and redefine customer experience.
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Speaker: Varangkanang Thaisonthi, Head of Delivery Management, Merchant & Payment, KBTG
Varangkanang Thaisonthi is Head of Delivery Management at KASIKORN Business-Technology Group (KBTG), the technology arm of Kasikornbank (KBank). With over a decade of experience in technology and project management, she plays a key role in delivering innovative digital solutions that elevate customer experience and accelerate the bank’s digital transformation.
At the heart of her work is a passion for bridging the gap between business and technology. Varangkanang has participated in several high-impact initiatives, including the development of Thailand’s pioneering QR payment infrastructure, and continues to drive collaboration across teams to turn complex challenges into meaningful innovation.
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Powering Event-Driven Applications with Kafka, MongoDB, and Atlas Stream ProcessingÂ
Learn to build event-driven applications with MongoDB Atlas. This session covers native stream processors, advanced techniques, Kafka integration, and using AI for sentiment analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive insights.
Speaker: Kevin See, Solution Architect, MongoDB
From Local to Cloud: An Integrated Developer Tool Suite for Every Stage of Development
MongoDB offers a unified suite of developer tools that streamline every stage of development. From the Atlas CLI for efficient database management to IntelliJ and VS Code extensions with GitHub Copilot for smarter queries, MongoDB fits into your workflow. Docker support enables local testing in CI environments, while Compass and Atlas Data Explorer provide visual data insights across desktop and cloud. This session will show how MongoDB accelerates development and empowers you to build future-ready applications today.
1:30 - 2:00 PM
Managing Your Population: Security Integration of Atlas with Cloud Providers
High availability doesn’t happen by default — it requires thoughtful design. This session explores how MongoDB achieves up to "six nines" availability, compares it to traditional relational databases, and shares best practices and strategies to build a resilient, reliable data infrastructure.
Speaker: Jicong Tan, Sr. Solutions Architect, MongoDB
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Building Highly Available Data Infrastructure: Beyond Redundancy
High availability is often assumed to be a given—but in reality, it requires careful planning and design. Beyond redundancy, several factors impact system availability. In this session, we’ll explore MongoDB’s approach to achieving up to "six nines" availability and compare it to common relational database concepts. Gain insights into best practices, potential pitfalls, and strategies to ensure your data infrastructure remains resilient and highly available.
Speaker: Tze Hon Tan, Sr. Solutions Architect, MongoDB
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Evolving with Scale: BAAC’s Mobile Journey with MongoDB
Since launching its journey with MongoDB in 2018, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has been modernizing its infrastructure to better serve customers across Thailand. In this session, learn how BAAC Mobile was built to deliver reliable, scalable digital services to millions—empowered by a robust data architecture designed for high availability. Discover how BAAC’s engineering team evolved their infrastructure, navigated challenges at scale, and embraced MongoDB to drive greater resilience and accessibility in financial services.
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Speaker: Pongthep Promsiri, Senior Vice President, Data Management, BAAC
Pongthep Promsiri is a seasoned executive at the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), where he plays a pivotal role in driving digital transformation and sustainable financial inclusion for Thailand’s rural economy. With over 30 years of experience in banking and public sector finance, Pongthep brings deep expertise in agricultural development finance, risk management, and policy-driven innovation.
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As a key leader at BAAC, he focuses on modernizing financial services to better serve farmers and agricultural cooperatives, leveraging digital tools to promote financial literacy, enhance service delivery, and align with national development strategies. Pongthep is known for his strategic vision, collaborative leadership, and commitment to inclusive growth that benefits grassroots communities across Thailand.
3:15Â - 3:45 PM
Accelerate Enterprise Search: How Hybrid Vector and Text Search Unlocks Insights Across Enterprises
Learn how combining text and AI-powered semantic search on MongoDB enables faster, smarter search. See real-world examples and tips to enhance customer experiences and streamline data discovery.
Speaker: Jasmine Lim, Sr. Solutions Architect, MongoDB
3:45 - 4:15 PM
Building Secure Applications: Practical Coding Examples with Queryable Encryption
Learn to implement MongoDB Queryable Encryption with real-world examples, covering key management, data encryption, querying encrypted fields, and practical usage considerations.
Speaker: Vorapat Nicklamai, Solutions Architect, MongoDB
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Data Modelling for MongoDB
Join us to learn how to optimize your MongoDB schema and make the most of your computational resources. In this workshop, we’ll guide you through MongoDB’s approach to data modeling, including how to identify entities, access patterns, and relationships.
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You’ll get hands-on experience applying this methodology through real-world exercises—covering key decisions like when to embed or reference data, and how to use common schema design patterns effectively. Bring your laptop and get ready to dive in! At the end of the workshop, you’ll have a chance to test your knowledge and earn a Schema Pattern and Antipattern MongoDB Skills Badge to share with your network.
3:15Â -Â 5:15Â PM
Vector Search: Beginner to Pro
Join us to discover how to enrich your application and power AI capabilities with semantic search using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search. In this workshop, you will learn the core concepts of vector search and how it works in MongoDB.
You will also gain hands-on experience in performing vector search queries against MongoDB collections and learn how to tune and optimize these queries to improve query performance. So, be sure to bring a laptop to get the most out of this session. At the end of the workshop, you will also be able to check your learning and earn a skills badge to share with your network!
David Seow is the Chief Information and Security Officer at Affyn. With a background in handling homeland security projects, he brings extensive experience in cybersecurity strategy and IT operations. Having served as a Security Consultant, he has successfully safeguarded projects up to national security compliance levels.Â
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Hejun Wong is Affyn's Technical Lead for the Marketplace Team. With a wealth of experience in managing large projects and building bespoke applications, he played a pivotal role in architecting and developing Affyn's Marketplace and NEXUS World Viewer. Hejun's passion for software development and cybersecurity stems from his background in mission-critical homeland security systems development for 7 years.
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