Conferences / CERN PGDay
CERN PGDay 2026
Feb 6, 2026 · CERN Council Chamber (Main Building 500/503), Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland
- Conference
- CERN PGDay Database
- Dates
- Feb 6, 2026
- Venue
- CERN Council Chamber (Main Building 500/503)
- Place
- Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 100credativ recap: 'With around 100 participants'
- Website
- swisspug.org
- Recorded
- 7 sponsors · 9 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second edition; live webcast on live.cern. Single track of seven talks; opening/closing and an unscheduled reserve talk omitted. Affiliations from the swisspug.org schedule. Sponsorship: five equal slots of CHF 1,000, all sold.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERN Alumni Network member | CHF 30 | — | web.archive.org | |
| CERN personnel | CHF 30 | — | web.archive.org | |
| SwissPUG member | CHF 30 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Regular participant | CHF 60 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Community Supporter | CHF 80 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 7
Other 5
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsor
- Data Bene · Sponsor
- dbi services · Sponsor
- Redgate · Sponsor
- Tiger Analytics · Sponsor
Speakers and talks 9
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Álvaro Hernández | OnGres | Speaker | The (very practical) Postgres Sharding Landscape | Video |
| Dimitrios Matakias | CERN | Speaker | DCS Data Tools - PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB Implementation for ATLAS DCS Time-Series Data | SlidesVideo |
| Jaroslav Guenther | CERN | Speaker | A new PostgreSQL backend for CERN Tape Archive scheduling for LHC Run 4 | SlidesVideo |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Speaker | The Alchemy of Shared Buffers: Balancing Concurrency and Performance | SlidesVideo |
| Konstantina Skovola | CERN | Speaker | A new PostgreSQL backend for CERN Tape Archive scheduling for LHC Run 4 | SlidesVideo |
| Marion Baumgartner | Camptocamp | Speaker | Incremental Backup with PostgreSQL 17 | SlidesVideo |
| Paris Moschovakos | CERN | Speaker | DCS Data Tools - PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB Implementation for ATLAS DCS Time-Series Data | SlidesVideo |
| Robert Treat | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Vacuuming Large Tables: How Recent Postgres Changes Further Enable Mission Critical Workloads | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB | SlidesVideo |
Sources
- https://www.swisspug.org/cern-pgday-2026.html
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/overview
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/timetable/
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/contributions/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260123064838/https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/registrations/114102/
- https://www.credativ.de/en/blog/postgresql-en/cern-pgday-2026-an-extraordinary-postgresql-event/