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PG DATA 2026
Jun 4–5, 2026 · Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, Chicago, IL, United States
- Conference
- PG DATA Database
- Dates
- Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 5, 2026
- Venue
- Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus
- Place
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Organizers aimed for 'an affordable, in-person event for about 200 attendees' (postgresql.org/LPI listings); no actual headcount published.
- Website
- 2026.pg-data.org
- Recorded
- 21 sponsors · 42 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First edition. Day 1 morning: three parallel training tracks (DBA in a Box, Database Design, Rails/ActiveRecord); keynote by Robert Haas; then talks in three rooms over both days. Speakers: every session from the Sessionize sessions/speakers embeds (all sessions under 150). Affiliations from the Sessionize speaker taglines where they name an employer; organizers/committee members' companies from the About page (Dombrovskaya: DRW, Wright: Redgate Software, Fay: Beacon Biosignals); taglines without an employer left null (e.g. Andrew Atkinson, Chirag Dave, Jimmy Angelakos, Kellyn Gorman, Radim Marek). Sponsors and tiers from the sponsors page; Bronze sponsors appear only as logos/links and are named from their link targets (stormatics.tech, caktusgroup.com, pgedge.com, commandprompt.com). Fujitsu appears at both Gold ('Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres') and Silver ('Fujitsu'); both kept as listed. Prices from a Chicago ACM mailing-list post (regular $50, full-time student $20, half-day training included); early-bird price not found.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-time student | $20 | — | groups.google.com | |
| Regular | $50 | — | Half-day training included | groups.google.com |
Sponsors 21
Platinum 2
Community 8
- Chicago AWS User Group · Community & Academic Sponsor
- ChiPy · Community & Academic Sponsor
- Code & Coffee · Community & Academic Sponsor
- Data in the D · Community & Academic Sponsor
- Linux Professional Institute · Community & Academic Sponsor
- Open Alliance · Community & Academic Sponsor
- United States PostgreSQL Association · Community & Academic Sponsor
- Women in Data · Community & Academic Sponsor
Speakers and talks 42
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Haas | EDB | Keynote | Keynote: PostgreSQL Hacking For Today and Tomorrow | — |
| Alfredo Rodriguez (DrakoRod) | Wolfgres | Speaker | How to understand EXPLAIN without dying in the attempt | — |
| Andrew Atkinson | — | Training | Training: Scaling with Multiple Databases | — |
| Andrew Atkinson | — | Training | Training: ActiveRecord ORM and Schema Evolution | — |
| Andrew Atkinson | — | Training | Training: SQL Performance Basics | — |
| Apoorv Garg | Wells Fargo | Speaker | Electric SQL: Local first Architecture | — |
| Chirag Dave | — | Speaker | Become a PG_STAT_* (Star) | — |
| Denis Magda | — | Speaker | Using modern Postgres capabilities for hybrid search | — |
| Devrim Gunduz | EDB | Speaker | The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem | — |
| Dian Fay | Beacon Biosignals | Speaker | Comparing Apples to Oranges with Postgres' Type System | — |
| Egor Tarasenko | Ponder | Speaker | Streamlining Data Ingestion and Transformation with Trino + dbt | — |
| Ellyne Phneah | DBtune | Speaker | More Than Just a VIEW: Operational Insights from M-PUG's First Year | — |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | Vector data in Postgres: Size, TOAST, Filters and Performance | — | |
| Greg Potter | — | Speaker | Schema-First PostgreSQL Migrations Without a DSL | — |
| Hajira Sultana | — | Speaker | What I Learned Using PostgreSQL In Real Products | — |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | DRW | Speaker | Making Access Control Management Easy: Introducing pg_acm | — |
| Jimmy Angelakos | — | Speaker | LISTEN Carefully: How NOTIFY Can Trip Up Your Database | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | — | Speaker | Bridging Oracle’s Diagnostics Power with PostgreSQL’s Native Performance Views | — |
| Lætitia Avrot | EDB | Training | Training: Database Design. Design fundamentals | — |
| Lætitia Avrot | EDB | Training | Training: Database Design. Conceptual Data Models | — |
| Lætitia Avrot | EDB | Training | Training: Database Design. Hands-on practice | — |
| Lukas Fittl | pganalyze | Speaker | Postgres plan monitoring and management in practice | — |
| Naresh Reddy Regalla | — | Speaker | Index Skip Scans in Postgres 18: Optimizing Composite Index Performance | — |
| Nazneen Jafri | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook | — |
| Nida Fatima | — | Speaker | Graph-Like Analytics in PostgreSQL for Payer Behavior and Underpayment Detection | — |
| Pat Wright | Redgate | Speaker | Master Upgrading PostgreSQL, Using Real World stories and examples | — |
| Paul Jungwirth | Illuminated Computing | Speaker | Migrating to a Temporal Schema | — |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Professional PostgreSQL monitoring made easy | — |
| Radim Marek | — | Speaker | Visualizing PostgreSQL Storage Internals | — |
| Ryan Booz | pganalyze | Speaker | Logging with Purpose: A Framework for Finding and Fixing Slow Queries in Postgres | — |
| Sam Wilson | Fly.io | Speaker | Building and scaling Managed Postgres from 0 to 1000s | — |
| Sami Imseih | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Become a PG_STAT_* (Star) | — |
| Shaun Thomas | pgEdge | Training | Training: DBA in a Box. Welcome to Postgres | — |
| Shaun Thomas | pgEdge | Training | Training: DBA in a Box. Cluster Management | — |
| Shaun Thomas | pgEdge | Training | Training: DBA in a Box. System Operation | — |
| Shaun Thomas | pgEdge | Speaker | Let’s Build a Postgres Extension! | — |
| Sneha Patil | — | Speaker | Think Like Postgres: Smart SQL Tips | — |
| Steve Zelaznik | The Gnar Company | Speaker | The Multi-Terabyte Trust Exercise: Validating Massive Postgres Migrations | — |
| Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook | — |
| Umair Shahid | Stormatics | Speaker | Securing Multi‑Tenant Databases with Row‑Level Security & Open‑Source Auditing | — |
| Varun Dhawan | Microsoft | Speaker | Using Postgres to locate the best coffee near you! | — |
| Wagner Bianchi | — | Speaker | PostgreSQL Security | — |
Sources
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/event/pg-data-2026-2551/
- https://2026.pg-data.org/
- https://2026.pg-data.org/about/
- https://2026.pg-data.org/sponsors/
- https://2026.pg-data.org/schedule/
- https://2026.pg-data.org/sessions/
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/4n795ey3/view/Sessions
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/4n795ey3/view/Speakers
- https://groups.google.com/g/chicago-chapter-acm/c/R7P05ny9_jw
- https://www.lpi.org/de/event/pg-data-26/