Conferences / PGConf.BE
PGConf.BE 2026
May 5, 2026 · UCLL Campus Proximus, Haasrode (Leuven), Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Conference
- PGConf.BE Database
- Dates
- May 5, 2026
- Venue
- UCLL Campus Proximus
- Place
- Haasrode (Leuven), Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure published; registration capped at 120.
- Website
- pgconf.be
- Recorded
- 4 sponsors · 15 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Branded PGConf Belgium 2026 on the site (first use of the PGConf name). Data from the live site, which still shows the 2026 edition (event year). Speakers: full schedule. Affiliations from the speaker cards on the event-year copy of the conference site that pgconf.be keeps online at pgconf.be/<year>/ (these show the company at the time; checked against a Wayback snapshot for 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220514053821/https://pgconf.be/, which matches). Free attendance with mandatory registration; capacity 120 tickets per the site.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General admission (registration required; free for speakers, helpers and students) | €0 | — | 'There is no attendance fee as such for participants, but you are required to register.' Includes parking, lunch and reception. | pgconf.be |
Sponsors 4
Platinum 2
Speakers and talks 15
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Keynote | Challenges and possibilities of Active-Active Databases | — |
| Robert Treat | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Postgres @ Amazon | — |
| Afroditi Loukidou | EDB | Speaker | How to reproduce production environments, and Why | — |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | Deadly Sins when Running CloudNativePG | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | The Wonderful World of WAL | Slides |
| Dwarka Rao | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Partitioning: What Works and What Breaks | — |
| Emrah Becer | EPO | Speaker | When Collations Corrupt a PostgreSQL Database | — |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Speaker | Domain‑Driven Design, ORMs, and Developer Experience with PostgreSQL | — |
| Gianni Ciolli | EDB | Speaker | How to reproduce production environments, and Why | — |
| Jan Karremans | JK-Consult | Speaker | Securing Postgres with streaming replication | — |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Speaker | Migrating Legacy & Proprietary Databases to PostgreSQL | — |
| Matt Cornillon | Speaker | Creating a “Dungeon Master” with Postgres and MCP | — | |
| Mohsin Ejaz | DBtune | Speaker | Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be wrong (and what to do about it) | — |
| Thijs Lemmens | XeniT | Speaker | Scaling Semantic Models: Bespoke PostgreSQL Schemas at SaaS Scale | — |
| Xavier Fischer | EDB | Speaker | Deep dive into the PostgreSQL FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol | — |