Conferences / FOSDEM PGDay
FOSDEM PGDay 2026
Jan 30, 2026 · Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place, Brussels, Belgium
- Conference
- FOSDEM PGDay Database
- Dates
- Jan 30, 2026
- Venue
- Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place
- Place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2026.fosdempgday.org
- Recorded
- 0 sponsors · 17 speaker appearances
- Notes
- No FOSDEM devroom was run by PGE in 2026 (only a stand), so all listed sessions are PGDay sessions; includes lightning talks. Attendance not published yet. No sponsor page for this edition. Speakers: all PGDay (Friday) sessions from the postgresql.eu schedule; the Sunday FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom talks listed in the same schedule are excluded; organiser welcome/closing omitted. Affiliations: 11 of 17 speaker rows from Wayback snapshots of the event's speaker pages taken closest to the event (snapshots 2026-01 to 2026-02); 5 from the current live speaker profile (may postdate the event); 1 with no company given. source_url points at the page the affiliation came from.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | €50 | — | incl. VAT; valid student ID required | 2026.fosdempgday.org |
| Standard | €75 | — | incl. VAT | 2026.fosdempgday.org |
Sponsors 0
No sponsors recorded
Speakers and talks 17
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Sosna | GitLab | Speaker | Zero-Downtime Upgrades: PostgreSQL and OS/glibc at Global Scale | Slides |
| Amit Langote | Microsoft | Speaker | Batching in Executor | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | What's Missing in Postgres? | — |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Speaker | Behind the Postgres 18 major release: An analysis of contributions | Slides |
| Daniel Gustafsson | Microsoft | Speaker | The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before | — |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | From Crisis to Control: Detect and Fix Corruptions | — |
| Devrim Gündüz | EDB | Lightning talk | The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem | Slides |
| Floor Drees | EDB | Lightning talk | Reading out AI generated Pull Requests ~~for fun and profit~~ | — |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Lightning talk | LISTEN carefully: how NOTIFY can trip up your database (LT version) | — |
| Jonathan Battiato | EDB | Speaker | Storage Performance Matters: Benchmarking PostgreSQL on Kubernetes | — |
| Jonathan Gonzalez V. | EDB | Lightning talk | Reading out AI generated Pull Requests ~~for fun and profit~~ | — |
| Matt Cornillon | Speaker | Vibe-coding with Postgres: really? | — | |
| Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar | Veeam | Lightning talk | PostgreSQL Compatibility Index | — |
| Pierre Ducroquet | — | Speaker | JIT in PostgreSQL: what it is, what it can and what it could do for you | — |
| Stefan Fercot | Data Egret | Speaker | pgBackRest magic you'll wish you knew sooner | Slides |
| Thomas Munro | Microsoft | Speaker | How fast can we make pgvector if we're allowed to hack on PostgreSQL too? | — |
| Tomas Vondra | Microsoft | Speaker | Efficiently approximating/estimating percentiles and histograms | Slides |