Conferences / PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany)
PGConf.DE 2025
May 8–9, 2025 · Berlin Marriott Hotel, Berlin, Germany
- Conference
- PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany) Database
- Dates
- May 8, 2025 – May 9, 2025
- Venue
- Berlin Marriott Hotel
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2025.pgconf.de
- Recorded
- 22 sponsors · 55 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 9th annual; first two-day PGConf.DE. Attendance not yet published (2026 GA report not online when checked). Speakers: all sessions on the postgresql.eu schedule (German and English tracks, keynotes and sponsor sessions); organiser opening/closing omitted. Affiliations: 54 of 55 speaker rows from Wayback snapshots of the event's speaker pages taken closest to the event (snapshots 2025-03 to 2026-03); 0 from the current live speaker profile (may postdate the event); 1 with no company given. source_url points at the page the affiliation came from.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | €50 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2025.pgconf.de |
| EARLYBIRD | €240 | — | incl. 19% VAT; sold out | 2025.pgconf.de |
| Standard (Thu-Fri) | €300 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2025.pgconf.de |
| Community Supporter | €500 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2025.pgconf.de |
Sponsors 22
Speakers and talks 55
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Kukushkin | Microsoft | Speaker | Myths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL | — |
| Álvaro Herrera | 2ndQuadrant | Speaker | What is an SLRU anyway? | — |
| András Váczi | Zalando | Speaker | András in Windowsland - a DBA's (mis)adventures | — |
| Andreas Scherbaum | Andreas Scherbaum IT-Services | Lightning talk | Lightning Talks | — |
| Bernd Patolla | In & Out AG | Speaker | Einführung von PostgreSQL in einer Oracle-"Bude" | — |
| Bilge Ince | EDB | Speaker | From Distance to Intelligence: Evolving Your Vector Search | — |
| Björn Sammet | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Sponsored talk | Your LowCode Launchpad: STACKIT's Secure, Sovereign & Scalable Setup | — |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | From Distance to Intelligence: Evolving Your Vector Search | — |
| Caspar Moritz Klein | — | Speaker | Building a Discord-Game with PostgreSQL | — |
| Chris Ellis | Intrbiz | Speaker | Fun With UUIDs | — |
| Christoph Berg | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Modern VACUUM | — |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Speaker | Riding the daemon - PostgreSQL on FreeBSD | — |
| Daria Nikolaenko | Data Egret | Speaker | Data Archiving and Retention in PostgreSQL: Best Practices for Large Datasets | — |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker | — |
| Devrim Gündüz | EDB | Speaker | Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions | — |
| Diego Calvo de Nó | Proventa AG | Sponsor keynote | Successful integration of PostgreSQL at Finanz Informatik | — |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Warum sich PostgreSQL-Fans auch für Kafka und Debezium interessieren sollten? | — |
| Divya Sharma | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Explain Explained - Understanding the PostgreSQL planner better | — |
| Ellyne Phneah | DBtune | Speaker | Adjusting work_mem: Scaling PostgreSQL events without overloading | — |
| Emre Baransel | Stradata | Speaker | Overcoming the Crisis - Recovery Guide for the PostgreSQL DBA | — |
| Evan Hunter Stanton | Data Bene | Speaker | Postgres and Life Science: From Cells to Stars | — |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Speaker | Normalize or De-normalize? Relational SQL Columns or JSON Document Attributes? | — |
| Gianni Ciolli | EDB | Speaker | The Well-Tempered Elephant | — |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | Xata | Speaker | Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL | — |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL als Open Source | — |
| Haralampos Gavriilidis | Technische Universität Berlin | Speaker | Unleashing the Elephant Herd: Decentralized Query Processing Across PostgreSQL Instances | — |
| Hervé Schweitzer | dbi services | Sponsored talk | YaK Core – The Holy Grail for Deploying Ansible Code Everywhere | — |
| Jakob Shimony (CTO, Talon.One), Dirk Krautschick (Aiven) | Aiven | Sponsored talk | From Ground to Cloud: PostgreSQL with Aiven and Talon.One | — |
| Jakob Shimony (CTO, Talon.One), Dirk Krautschick (Aiven) | Aiven | Sponsor keynote | Scaling Open Source for Real-World Impact: The PostgreSQL Cloud Journey | — |
| Josef Machytka | NetApp | Speaker | PostgreSQL Connections Memory Usage: How Much, Why and When? | — |
| Josef Machytka | NetApp | Speaker | Building a Data Lakehouse with PostgreSQL: Dive into Formats, Tools, Techniques, and Strategies | — |
| Josef Machytka, Alexander Wirt | credativ | Sponsored talk | Your Data Deserves the Best: Migration to PostgreSQL | — |
| Lætitia AVROT | EDB | Speaker | PostgreSQL Configuration File: Less is More | — |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Comparing the Oracle and PostgreSQL transaction systems | — |
| Maik Sandmann | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | ATROPOSS – The Browser-Based Crystal Ball for Your Database Future | — |
| Michael Banck | NetApp | Speaker | PostgreSQL Performance Tuning | — |
| Monica Sarbu | Xata | Speaker | Best practices for creating Ephemeral Environments with PII for Postgres | — |
| Patrick Stählin | Aiven | Speaker | What is MVCC and why should I care about it? | — |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Speaker | Modernes SSL ideal einsetzen | — |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Sponsor keynote | EDB and PostgreSQL - Today and Tomorrow | — |
| Polina Bungina | Zalando | Speaker | What is Patroni, really? | — |
| Priyanka Chatterjee | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Speaker | All about common vulnerabilities and exposures(CVE) in Postgres | — |
| Raoul Illyés | Nutanix | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL on Autopilot: Self-Service & Automation for DBAs | — |
| Richard Siekmann | STACKIT | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL: A Cornerstone for Sovereignty and Independence in the European Cloud | — |
| Sergey Dudoladov | Zalando | Speaker | The Lifecycle of a SELECT: A Glimpse into the Depths of PostgreSQL Internals | — |
| Stefan Fercot | Data Egret | Sponsored talk | pgBackRest Advanced Archiving and Recovery Magic You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner | — |
| Stefanie Janine Stölting | ProOpenSource OÜ | Speaker | PostgreSQL Als Daten-Integrations-Werkzeug Mit Foreign Data Wrappern | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB | — |
| Theodor Herlo | Proventa AG | Sponsored talk | CloudNativePG with GitOps | — |
| Torsten Steinbach | EDB | Sponsored talk | Postgres as an AI Knowledge Base | — |
| Tudor Golubenco | Xata | Sponsored talk | The AI DBA agent: Would you trust it to tune your PostgreSQL? | — |
| Utku Demir | Stradata | Speaker | Overcoming the Crisis - Recovery Guide for the PostgreSQL DBA | — |
| Valeria Kaplan | Data Egret | Speaker | Elephant in a nutshell 2.0 - PostgreSQL community, people, and processes. | — |
| Xenia Kukushkina | Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft | Speaker | Building a Discord-Game with PostgreSQL | — |