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HOW2026: PostgreSQL & IvorySQL Ecosystem Conference
Apr 26–28, 2026 · Jinan Shandong Hotel, Jinan, China
- Conference
- HOW: PostgreSQL & IvorySQL Ecosystem Conference Database
- Dates
- Apr 26, 2026 – Apr 28, 2026
- Venue
- Jinan Shandong Hotel
- Place
- Jinan, China
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- ivorysql.io
- Recorded
- 2 sponsors · 78 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Day 1 (Apr 26) workshops/training; main forum in the Golden Hall on Apr 27 (also branded 'HOW2026 中国数据库开源发展峰会暨 PostgreSQL 高峰论坛', where the 数据库开源发展联盟 / COSDA was launched); four parallel sub-forums Apr 27-28. Slides and recordings published after the event (ivorysql.io highlights post, YouTube @ivorysql). Format marked hybrid because recordings/streams were offered as in 2025 (stream not explicitly confirmed). Speakers: full Sessionize programme (ceremonies and breaks omitted); affiliations from Sessionize taglines where they name an organisation, else null.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free ticket (community access to sessions) | CN¥0 | — | ivorysql.io | |
| Early Bird | CN¥99 | — | limited early registration offer | ivorysql.io |
| General Admission | CN¥199 | — | standard full conference ticket | ivorysql.io |
Sponsors 2
Title / headline 1
- Highgo Software · Sponsors
Community 1
- PostgreSQL China (PostgreSQL中文社区) · Community supporters
Speakers and talks 78
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvaro Hernandez | OnGres | Keynote | Make Postgres Yours Again | — |
| Aoying Zhou | — | Keynote | The Development Trends of Databases in the Era of Data Intelligence/数据智能时代的数据库发展方向 | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Keynote | Databases in the AI Trenches | — |
| Mark Wong | — | Keynote | PostgreSQL Community Exhibitions | — |
| Robert Treat | — | Keynote | PostgreSQL Community Exhibitions | — |
| Xinjie Lv | Highgo Software | Keynote | Open-source foundation, boundless intelligence connection/基座开源，智联无界 | — |
| Zhongyi Tan | — | Keynote | Opportunities and Strategies for China's PostgreSQL Industry/一体两翼：看中国PostgreSQL产业的机遇和战略 | — |
| Abhilekh Verma | Abhilekh Verma Consultancy (OPC) Private Limited | Talk | From Data to Dialogue: How PostgreSQL Powers My Non‑Coder Journey into AI and LLMs | — |
| Alena Rybakina | Yandex Cloud | Talk | Tracking Vacuum Resource Consumption: From Idea to Patch | — |
| Alvaro Hernandez | OnGres | Talk | OnDB: Your Own Postgres Cloud | — |
| Bo Wei | — | Talk | The Integrated Evolution of PG and AI/ PG与AI的融合演进 | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Talk | The Wonderful World of WAL | — |
| Cary Huang | Hornetlabs | Workshop | PostgreSQL Internals Training “Skewer” / PostgreSQL 内核培训串串烧 | — |
| Cary Huang | Hornetlabs | Talk | Logical Replication from Other databases to PostgreSQL - Made possible with SynchDB | — |
| Cédric Villemain | Data Bene | Talk | CREATE TRIGGER (without function) | — |
| Chao Fu | — | Talk | Using JSONB and JSON_TABLE in PostgreSQL / PostgreSQL 中 JSONB 与 JSON_TABLE 的使用 | — |
| Chao Li | — | Talk | PostgreSQL Hacker: My Experience and Lessons / PostgreSQL Hacker：我的经验与教训 | — |
| Charis Charalampidi | — | Talk | PostgreSQL Beyond Code: How Communities Sustain a Global System | — |
| Charly Batista | — | Talk | Reducing Costs and Improving Performance With Data Modeling in Postgres | — |
| Chen Zhang | — | Talk | No Backup Needed: How PDU Redefines Data Recovery in PostgreSQL / 无需备份：PDU如何重新定义Postgresql数据恢复 | — |
| Cheng Tang | CSUDATA | Talk | Practice of PostgreSQL and IvorySQL in Private Cloud Environments / PostgreSQL和IvorySQL在私有云中的实践 | — |
| Chong Peng | — | Talk | Analysis of New Features in the Latest PostgreSQL Version /瀚海拾贝：PostgreSQL新版本特性解析 | — |
| Chris Travers | — | Talk | The Future of PostgreSQL in a Changing World | — |
| Chris Travers | — | Talk | Building Petabyte-Scale Postgres Clusters | — |
| Chuancheng Li | — | Talk | WalMiner embarks on the journey of PostgreSQL asynchronous CDC / WalMiner开启PG异步CDC之旅 | — |
| Dan Li | — | Talk | China Mobile Hebei O-Domain Database Localization Solution/河北移动O域数据库国产化解决方案 | — |
| Dingding Wang | — | Talk | Applications and Practices of PostgreSQL in AI / PostgreSQL在AI的应用及实践 | — |
| Fachuan Bai | xiaomananda | Talk | From Data to Intelligence: Core PG Practices for Healthcare AI/从数据到智能：PG在医疗垂类智能体与AI开发平台中的核心实践 | — |
| Florents Tselai | — | Talk | PostgreSQL in AI Applications: Reality Is More Complex Than Similarity Search | — |
| Haibo Lv | — | Talk | The "Predicaments" and "Challenges" of Adding Incremental Checkpoints to PG/为PG增加增量检查点的“困”与“难” | — |
| Haiwen Yin | — | Talk | How to Embrace Open Source in the AI Era/AI时代如何拥抱开源 | — |
| Haiwen Yin | — | Talk | Exploration of PG in the Memory of Agents / PG在智能体记忆体中的探索 | — |
| Hongliang Huang | — | Talk | The Silver Age: IvorySQL as a Sustainable, Trusted Database / 银发时代，IvorySQL继续成为可持续，可信任的的数据库 | — |
| Huayang Liu | — | Talk | How to accelerate the implementation of enterprise large model applications/怎么加速企业大模型应用落地 | — |
| Jeevan D C | — | Talk | Inside pgvector: How PostgreSQL Stores, Indexes & Manages High-Dimensional Data | — |
| Jian Miao | Highgo Software | Talk | On Open Source: Reshaping the Education System in the PG Era/开源之上：PG 时代的教育体系重塑 | — |
| Jinfang Du | — | Talk | Applications and Innovative Practices of PG in the Communications Industry/PG在通信行业的应用和创新实践 | — |
| Jinjing Zhou | TensorChord | Talk | VectorChord: Implementing Billion-Scale Vector Search in Postgre/VectorChord：在 PostgreSQL 中实现十亿级向量搜索 | — |
| Jonah H. Harris | NEXTGRES | Talk | Making Postgres the Universal Database Lessons Learned at the Edge of Postgres Extensibility | — |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Talk | Linux and PostgreSQL in the Multiverse of Connections | — |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Workshop | 共享缓冲区的炼金术：平衡并发与性能 (The Alchemy of Shared Buffers) | — |
| Lisong Liu | — | Talk | Practical Application of TimescaleDB / TimescaleDB应用实践：从POC测试到落地思考 | — |
| Mark Wong | — | Talk | An Adventure in Data Modeling: The Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) Data Model | — |
| Oreo Yang | — | Talk | Exploration and Practice of the Intelligent System of IvorySQL Agent / IvorySQL Agent 智能化体系探索与实践 | — |
| Peng Cui | — | Talk | AI-Driven Query Optimization: Tree Transformer Breakthrough / AI驱动查询优化：Tree Transformer突破瓶颈 | — |
| Qian Zhao | — | Talk | PG-based Enterprise Data Intelligence: Visual Analysis, Smart Query & AI Agents | — |
| Robert Treat | — | Talk | PG 18 new features | — |
| Rui Zhao | — | Talk | The Evolution of RDS PG, a Cloud-Native Database for AI/云原生数据库RDS PG面向AI的内核技术演进 | — |
| Ruohang Feng | Pigsty | Talk | PIG Runtime & CLI: Empowering the DBA Agent with Substance / PIG Runtime & CLI：给 DBA Agent 以身体 | — |
| Shan Bai | — | Talk | AI Performance Analysis of the PostgreSQL Database / PostgreSQL数据库的AI性能分析 | — |
| Shaocong Xiao | — | Talk | PG has become the preferred match for VibeCoding / PG成为VibeCoding的首选搭配 | — |
| Shawn Yan | — | Talk | AI Breakout Year: What Can IvorySQL Do? / AI应用爆发元年，IvorySQL有哪些玩法 | — |
| Shuli Yan | — | Talk | The Beauty of Simplicity: PG O&M and Governance at Scale/大道至简：大规模复杂业务下的PostgreSQL运维减法与治理哲学 | — |
| Shuntian Jiao | — | Talk | Evolution of IvorySQL's Oracle Compatibility System / IvorySQL 的 Oracle 兼容体系演进 | — |
| Suraj Kharage | — | Talk | PostgreSQL Catalogs Explained: Metadata, Introspection, and Insights | — |
| Tao LI | EDB | Talk | Introduction for cloud native postgres (cnpg) and demo | — |
| Tiecheng Guo | — | Talk | Nonlinear Regression Based on the PostgreSQL: Principles and Applications/基于 PostgreSQL 的非线性回归原理与应用 | — |
| Umar Hayat | Inzent | Talk | Billion-Node Graph Neural Networks in PostgreSQL | — |
| Wei Wang | East China Normal University | Talk | Open-Source Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence/人工智能时代的开源教育 | — |
| Weibo Han | — | Talk | PostgreSQL Meets MySQL: Protocol Compatibility Design / 当PostgreSQL“听懂”MySQL：协议兼容层的设计与实战 | — |
| Wenlin Su | Shandong University | Talk | Dongshan Program — Talent Training Program for RISC-V/东山计划——面向RISC-V的人才培养计划 | — |
| Wensong He | — | Talk | Exploration and Practice of the "Computation for IO" Architecture in the Field of Vector Retrieval | — |
| Xiang Zheng | — | Talk | AI-native PG diagnosis / AI原生PG诊断，从人找问题到问题找人的运维变革 | — |
| Xiangbo Yang | — | Talk | postgres_fdw Optimization: GUC Control for Join Pushdown / postgres_fdw优化实战: GUC控制join pushdown | — |
| Xiangbo Yang | — | Talk | Transformation of Cost Comparison: Enhancement of Execution Plan Intervention/代价比较的变革: 执行计划干预增强 | — |
| Xiaofei Li | — | Talk | Role of pgvector in Text2SQL / pgvector 在 text2sql 领域中的作用 | — |
| Xiaogang Xue | — | Talk | Applications of AI in Database Tools / AI 在数据库工具上的应用 | — |
| Xuneng Zhou | — | Talk | Stop Polling, Start Waiting: Use WAIT FOR LSN in Postgres | — |
| Yan Liu | — | Talk | Achieving Memory-Level Database Performance with SSDs/AI时代的存储重构：用SSD实现内存级数据库性能 | — |
| Yanliang Lei | — | Talk | From Zero Coding to a PostgreSQL Contributor / 从不敲代码到PostgreSQL贡献者之路 | — |
| Yanni Hu | EDB | Talk | Introduction for cloud native postgres (cnpg) and demo | — |
| Yong Ren | — | Talk | Zabbix 7.0 PostgreSQL Monitoring Configuration / Zabbix 7.0 PostgreSQL数据库监控配置 | — |
| Yu Yang | — | Talk | A Comprehensive Analysis of PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions / 筑牢数据基石——PostgreSQL高可用解决方案全解析 | — |
| Yunhao Jia | SuperMap | Talk | SuperMap × Highgo: Spatial Intelligence Accelerates Industrial Digital & Intelligent Transformation | — |
| Zheng Tao | — | Talk | IvorySQL Real-Time Lakehouse Access Engine / IvorySQL 实时湖仓接入引擎 | — |
| Zhengzhong Zhou | — | Talk | PG 18: Sharing Users' Favorite New Features / PG 18 用户最喜爱的新特性分享 | — |
| Zhijie Hou | — | Talk | The Future of PostgreSQL Logical Replication / PostgreSQL逻辑复制的未来 | — |
| Zhilong Liu | — | Talk | CG Management of PostgreSQL in Cloud Environments / pg在云环境下的cg管理 | — |
Sources
- https://ivorysql.io/
- https://ivorysql.io/venue/
- https://ivorysql.io/sponsors/
- https://ivorysql.io/register/
- https://ivorysql.io/schedule/
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/hdim6lqs/view/Sessions
- https://ivorysql.io/2026/06/05/how-2026-conference-highlights/
- https://postgresql.org/about/event/how2026-postgresql-ivorysql-ecosystem-conference-2575/
- https://gitcode.csdn.net/6a2be23a10ee7a33f27bdc8d.html
- https://www.credativ.de/en/blog/events-en/the-postgresql-conference-how2026-in-jinan-china/