Conferences / PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany)
PGConf.DE 2026
Apr 21–22, 2026 · Haus der Technik, Essen, Germany
- Conference
- PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany) Database
- Dates
- Apr 21, 2026 – Apr 22, 2026
- Venue
- Haus der Technik
- Place
- Essen, Germany
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2026.pgconf.de
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 61 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 10th annual. Not listed on the postgresql.eu PGConf.DE series page, but has its own site and schedule. Sponsors from the home-page sponsor block. Attendance not published yet. Speakers: all sessions on the postgresql.eu schedule (German and English tracks, keynotes and sponsor sessions); organiser opening/closing omitted. Affiliations: 56 of 61 speaker rows from Wayback snapshots of the event's speaker pages taken closest to the event (snapshots 2026-04 to 2026-06); 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EARLYBIRD (50 tickets) | €245 | Nov 30, 2025 | incl. 19% VAT | 2026.pgconf.de |
| Student | €55 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2026.pgconf.de |
| Standard (Tue-Wed) | €305 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2026.pgconf.de |
| Community Supporter | €510 | — | incl. 19% VAT | 2026.pgconf.de |
Sponsors 19
Speakers and talks 61
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Álvaro Herrera | EDB | Sponsor keynote | The next 10 years of Postgres | — |
| Andreas Karlsson | Percona | Speaker | Everything you need to know about collations | — |
| Andreas Scherbaum | EDB | Sponsored talk | Silver Sponsor Lightning Talks | — |
| Andreas Scherbaum | EDB | Lightning talk | Lightning Talks | — |
| Anton Borisov | Fresha | Speaker | Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room | — |
| Ants Aasma | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Hey, I'm using that! Fixing lock contention in OLTP. | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | What's Missing in Postgres? | — |
| Charly Batista | EDB | Speaker | The Elephant That Learns: How to use Machine Learning to Optimize PostgreSQL | — |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Speaker | PG Tricks | — |
| Chris Engelbert | simplyblock GmbH | Speaker | Async I/O in PostgreSQL 18: Storage Finally Matters Again | — |
| Christoph Moench-Tegeder | Accenture | Speaker | PostgreSQL AIO in der Praxis | — |
| Daria Nikolaenko | Data Egret | Speaker | PostgreSQL Migrations Without Drama | — |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | Solving complex database problems by starting small | — |
| Diego Calvo de No | Proventa AG | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL Adoption in the German Public Sector | — |
| Dirk Aumueller | Proventa AG | Sponsored talk | One Collector to Rule Them All: Unified Observability for PostgreSQL Platforms | — |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Benchmarking - An unexpected Journey | — |
| Divya Sharma | — | Speaker | Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building AI Agents for PostgreSQL database management | — |
| Divya Sharma | Amazon Web Services | Sponsored talk | Divya says smart things about Databases | — |
| Dwarka Rao | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | SQL Injection Is Boring—Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching | — |
| Emma Saroyan | PG Armenia | Speaker | How I built an open source community in Armenia | — |
| Fabiana Scala | Datadog | Speaker | More Datacenters, Less Problems | — |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL digital independence | — |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | Compliant and fully automated PostgreSQL | — |
| Hervé Schweitzer | dbi services | Sponsored talk | Data Migration Is Easy. Data Validation Is Not. | — |
| Ilya Kosmodemiansky | Data Egret | Speaker | Operating Postgres as a data source for your analytics pipelines | — |
| Jan Nidzwetzki | Nile | Speaker | Profiling PostgreSQL: perf, Flame Graphs, and eBPF Tools in Practice | — |
| Jan Wieremjewicz | Percona | Speaker | 20 Years in the Trenches: What Postgres Can Learn from the Proprietary World | — |
| Jay Miller | Aiven | Sponsored talk | I'm Afraid of the Database: How I gained confidence in PostgreSQL as an App Developer | — |
| Jonas Gassenmeyer | DB Systel GmbH | Speaker | Ein Jahr PostgreSQL statt Oracle – Das Leben danach | — |
| Jorge Solorzano | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Speaker | The Secret Handshake: Demystifying PostgreSQL's SCRAM Authentication Protocol | — |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Speaker | Beyond work_mem Myths: A Source‑Code‑Guided Tour Through PostgreSQL Memory | — |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Sponsored talk | Migrating Legacy & Proprietary Databases to PostgreSQL with credativ-pg-migrator | — |
| Julian Markwort | CYBERTEC | Speaker | PostgreSQL Klone mit Reflink-Kopien (und was wir dadurch über Backups lernen können!) | — |
| Kai Wagner | Percona | Speaker | 20 Years in the Trenches: What Postgres Can Learn from the Proprietary World | — |
| Kranthi Kiran Burada | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | SQL Injection Is Boring—Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching | — |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Zeilensperren in PostgreSQL: eine anatomische Betrachtung | — |
| Michael Kubert | Signando | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL Data Diode: Layer 7 Protocol Inspection for NIS-2 and BSI-Grundschutz Compliance | — |
| Mohsin Ejaz | DBtune | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL tuning meets Kubernetes: What breaks and how we automated It | — |
| Mohsin Ejaz | DBtune | Speaker | Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be wrong (and what to do about it) | — |
| Nick Hape | Redgate | Sponsored talk | What Can Redgate Actually Do for Your Postgres Stack? Let's Find Out. | — |
| Orlando Kadaffy Talavera Arauz | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Speaker | Choosing your exporter: Pros and Cons of PostgreSQL exporters for telemetry data. | — |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases | — |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Speaker | Was bedeutet der EU Cyber Resilience Act für PostgreSQL und seine Anwender? | — |
| Priyanka Chatterjee | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Speaker | Vector and VictoriaLogs: Powerhouse combo for Logging Observability in modern database infrastructure | — |
| Radim Marek | boringSQL | Speaker | It works on my database - Regression testing of SQL queries | — |
| Radim Marek | boringSQL | Speaker | Visualizing PostgreSQL Storage Internals | — |
| Rafał Szczap | Reforms21 | Sponsored talk | Your App is Stuck in Ancient Times, While Your Database Dreams of PostgreSQL. It’s Time to Fix the Bridge. | — |
| Raphael Salguero | EDB | Sponsored talk | Der Weg zu PostgreSQL: Strategien, Souveränität und Best Practices | — |
| Richard Siekmann | Schwarz IT( STACKIT) | Sponsored talk | Digital Sovereignty in Europe: STACKIT as a Secure Cloud Alternative | — |
| Roland Stirnimann | Accenture | Sponsored talk | Run PostgreSQL Like a Product: Operational Readiness for Databases | — |
| Sergey Dudoladov | Zalando | Speaker | Into the Woods: Finding Your Way with B-Trees in PostgreSQL | — |
| Shlok Kumar Kyal | Fujitsu | Speaker | The Life of a Tuple in Logical Replication | — |
| Stefan Fercot | Data Egret | Speaker | pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work | — |
| Sudeepta Patra | STACKIT | Speaker | The Need for Speed: Mastering WAL-G for High-Performance Backup & Recovery on Kubernetes | — |
| Takis (Panagiotis) Stathopoulos | Percona | Speaker | When a Postgres Operator decision is not forever: approaches and experiences for migrating between Postgres Operators | — |
| Valeria Kaplan | Data Egret | Speaker | Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer | — |
| Viktoriia Hrechukha | Umka Software | Speaker | Embedding Workloads as a New Stress Test for Postgres | — |
| Vincent O'Dea | Fujitsu | Sponsored talk | Exploring new enhancements and improvements Fujitsu has delivered to PostgreSQL | — |
| Yann Allandit | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Achieving Reliable Application Transactions in Multi-Region PostgreSQL: Real-World Challenges and Solutions | — |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Speaker | Don’t OIDC Yourself in the Foot: Postgres 18’s New Auth Explained | — |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Sponsored talk | Modernising Postgres Community Communication with Hackorum | — |