- Conference
- PG Down Under Database
- Dates
- Oct 30, 2026
- Venue
- —
- Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- conf.pgdu.org
- Recorded
- 8 sponsors · 17 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Sixth annual conference, held 30 Oct 2026 in Surry Hills, Sydney (venue not named on the site; rooms match the 2025 Rydges Sydney Central rooms and Rydges is the recommended hotel). Speakers: full schedule from conf.pgdu.org (OSEM); one listed proposal with no time slot (Avinash Vallarapu) omitted. Affiliations from the speaker profiles on the talk pages, checked a week after the event. Joe Conway's opening talk recorded as keynote (slides file named keynote.pdf). Attendance not yet published; ticket prices behind login.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 8
Speakers and talks 17
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Conway | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | PostgreSQL: An Unexpected Journey | Slides |
| Ajin Cherian | Fujitsu | Speaker | New Publication Syntax and Sequence Synchronization in PostgreSQL 19 and Beyond | Slides |
| Craig Ringer | EDB | Speaker | An OpenTelemetry API for PostgreSQL and its extensions | Slides |
| Diksha Sharma | Fujitsu | Speaker | Beyond Alerts: Using PostgreSQL for Operational Log Analysis | — |
| Eugene Bobkov | Blue Crystal Solutions | Speaker | Achieving High Availability for PostgreSQL with Patroni, etcd and Barman | — |
| Evgeny Voropaev | Tantor Labs | Speaker | Delta Frame of Reference Compression | Slides |
| James Blackwood-Sewell | ParadeDB | Speaker | Fearless Extension Development with Rust and PGRX | — |
| James Sadler | CipherStash Pty Ltd | Speaker | Reparsing Postgres | — |
| Manan Gupta | Supabase | Speaker | Making pg_regress the Bar: Getting a Connection Pooler to 100% on PostgreSQL's Own Test Suite | — |
| Nishchay Kothari | Fujitsu | Speaker | 3 A.M. No More: How PostgreSQL 19 Kills Your Worst Maintenance Nightmares | — |
| Peter Smith | Fujitsu | Speaker | New Publication Syntax and Sequence Synchronization in PostgreSQL 19 and Beyond | Slides |
| Rajni Baliyan | Fujitsu | Speaker | Goodbye, Maintenance Windows: Achieving Near Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 | — |
| Ravi Kiran Venkata Bhaskarabhatta | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Postgres for AI: Agentic PostgreSQL Lifecycle Management | — |
| Roneel Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Postgres at Scale: Lessons from Running Multi-Terabyte Clusters | Slides |
| Sameer Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Postgres at Scale: Lessons from Running Multi-Terabyte Clusters | Slides |
| Shadab Mohammad | Oracle Australia | Speaker | PostgreSQL as a Scaffolding for Agentic AI Apps | Slides |
| Toby Hede | CipherStash Pty Ltd | Speaker | Searchable Encryption with Postgres Types | — |