Conferences / PG Down Under
PG Down Under 2025
Oct 17, 2025 · Rydges Sydney Central, 28 Albion Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Conference
- PG Down Under Database
- Dates
- Oct 17, 2025
- Venue
- Rydges Sydney Central, 28 Albion Street, Surry Hills
- Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 75Fujitsu (Platinum sponsor) recap blog: 'With 75 attendees, sixteen sessions and 6 sponsors'.
- Website
- conf.pgdu.org
- Recorded
- 6 sponsors · 17 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Billed as the fifth annual conference; first edition since 2019. Three tracks (Ops and Administration, Development, Essentials), 16 talks plus panel. Speakers: full schedule from conf.pgdu.org (OSEM). Affiliations are the company field on each talk page's speaker profile as live in Nov 2026 (OSEM profiles are global, so may postdate the event; the Oct 2025 Wayback homepage shows the same speaker line-up except one pre-event change, Nikhil Bayawat's talk replaced by Malcolm McLean's). Tarun Chatterjee's company taken from his bio (Google Cloud). Ticket prices not published outside the login-gated ticket page.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 6
Speakers and talks 17
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alena Rybakina | Postgres Professional | Speaker | Pull-up Optimization in the Postgres Planner | Slides |
| Arpitha Vasudeva | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Demystifying PostgreSQL High Availability in the Cloud | Slides |
| Arul Arulappan | Atlassian | Speaker | Building SaaS scale Data store using PostgreSQL | — |
| Dylan Griffith | GitLab | Speaker | Technical Deep Dive Into GitLab’s Database Load Balancer Architecture | Slides |
| Emma Fitzgerald | Atlassian | Speaker | Building SaaS scale Data store using PostgreSQL | — |
| Lloyd Albin | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Speaker | AutoVacuum - Tuning and Monitoring | — |
| Malcolm McLean | Evermed | Speaker | From smallint to bigint and char to varchar, it's time to demystify the data types | Slides |
| Mark Wong | EDB | Speaker | An Adventure with the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) data model | Slides |
| Nishchay Kothari | Fujitsu | Speaker | PostgreSQL pgroll – Zero-Downtime, Reversible Schema Migrations | Slides |
| Peter Smith | Fujitsu | Speaker | Tailoring CREATE PUBLICATION command for Targeted Data Replication | Slides |
| Rajesh Kandasamy | Fujitsu | Speaker | Evolution of PostgreSQL Job Schedulers — pgAgent, pg_cron, and pg_timetable | Slides |
| Ravi Kiran Venkata Bhaskarabhatta | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL 18: The Ideal Foundation for Distributed, Scalable, and Analytical Applications | Slides |
| Roneel Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Overcoming Challenges in SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migrations: Mapping Backups, Collations, and Case Sensitivity | — |
| Sameer Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Overcoming Challenges in SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migrations: Mapping Backups, Collations, and Case Sensitivity | — |
| Tarun Chatterjee | Speaker | Scaling AI Frontiers: Building Production-Ready RAG Applications with PG Vector on PostgreSQL | Slides | |
| Thomas Munro | Microsoft | Speaker | Half a dozen exciting new features in PostgreSQL 16, 17 and 18 | — |
| Vigneshwaran C | Fujitsu | Speaker | PostgreSQL Internals Uncovered: Enhancing Logical Replication and Introducing Columnar Indexing | Slides |
Sources
- https://conf.pgdu.org/conferences/2025
- https://conf.pgdu.org/conferences/2025/schedule
- https://conf.pgdu.org/conferences/2025/schedule/events
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251012075228/https://conf.pgdu.org/conferences/2025
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/event/pg-down-under-2025-2547/
- https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/postgresql-down-under-pgdu-was-back-in-sydney