Conferences / PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
PGConf.EU 2023 (13th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)
Dec 12–15, 2023 · Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Prague, Czechia
- Conference
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) Database
- Dates
- Dec 12, 2023 – Dec 15, 2023
- Venue
- Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
- Place
- Prague, Czechia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 722PostgreSQL Europe 2024 GA activities report: 'set another new record with 722 attendees!'
- Website
- 2023.pgconf.eu
- Recorded
- 34 sponsors · 88 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Held in December (training day Dec 12, main conference Dec 13-15). Speakers: all scheduled sessions from the official schedule (one row per speaker per session; roles: keynote, sponsor keynote, sponsored talk, training, lightning talk, host = organiser sessions, community day). Affiliations: from archived (Wayback, Dec 2023) speaker profile pages where available, otherwise the current postgresql.eu speaker profile, which may postdate the event.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early bird (EARLYBIRD code, Wed-Fri) | €300 | Sep 23, 2023 | 75 tickets available until September 23, 2023; incl. 21% VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Student | €120 | — | valid student ID required; incl. 21% VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Training add-on (half day) | €230 | — | incl. VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Training Attendee (conference ticket with training add-on) | €300 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Standard | €400 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Training add-on (full day) | €460 | — | incl. VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
| Community Supporter | €600 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2023.pgconf.eu |
Sponsors 34
Speakers and talks 88
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Riggs | EDB | Keynote | The Next 20 Years | Video |
| Adam Hendel | Tembo | Sponsored talk | Supercharge Your Postgres with the Help of Extensions | Slides |
| Adam Hendel | Tembo | Speaker | Blazingly Fast Message Queue on Postgres with Rust | SlidesVideo |
| Adam Wolk | Microsoft | Speaker | Tame the growth of your database | SlidesVideo |
| Akshat Jaimini | — | Speaker | Making pgweb rock-solid: Using the Testing Harness to ensure the quality of pgweb | Video |
| Alexander Sosna | GitLab | Speaker | How we execute PostgreSQL major upgrades at GitLab, with zero downtime. | SlidesVideo |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Microsoft | Speaker | Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads | Slides |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Microsoft | Speaker | Leveraging pgBadger for Effective PostgreSQL Troubleshooting | SlidesVideo |
| Andreas Scherbaum | Adjust GmbH | Speaker | Add geocoordinates to your addresses in PostgreSQL | Video |
| Andres Freund | Microsoft | Speaker | The path to using AIO in postgres | Video |
| Ants Aasma | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Counting things at the speed of light with roaring bitmaps | SlidesVideo |
| Arda Aytekin | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Building awesome AI applications faster on PostgreSQL | — |
| Bernd Helmle | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | The Migration Puzzle | — |
| Bertrand Drouvot | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Postgres 16 highlight: Logical decoding on standby | SlidesVideo |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | Should I use JSON in PostgreSQL? | SlidesVideo |
| Borys Neselovskyi | EDB | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL in Kubernetes: Mission Impossible? | — |
| Burak Yucesoy | Ubicloud | Sponsored talk | Behind the covers of managed PostgreSQL service | — |
| Charles Feddersen | Microsoft | Sponsor keynote | All the Postgres Things at Microsoft | — |
| Chelsea Dole | Brex | Speaker | It's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up with Massive Tables via Partitioning | SlidesVideo |
| Chris Ellis | Intrbiz | Speaker | IoT with PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Christophe Pettus | PostgreSQL Experts, Inc | Speaker | Why is PostgreSQL Terrible? | — |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Speaker | Beginner's Guide to Partitioning vs. Sharding in Postgres | Video |
| Co-Presenters Craig Kerstiens and Marco Slot | Crunchy Data | Sponsored talk | "Best practices for building extensions" | — |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Speaker | Getting the most out of pg_stat_io | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Training | From scratch to a three node Patroni cluster | — |
| Dave Page | EDB | Lightning talk | Lightning Talks | — |
| Dave Page | EDB | Host | So long, and thanks for all the fish | — |
| Denis Lussier | pgEdge | Sponsored talk | USE CASES FOR MULTI-MASTER DISTRIBUTED POSTGRES | — |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | Explaining the PostgreSQL concurrency control mechanisms using rollercoasters | SlidesVideo |
| Devrim Gündüz | EDB | Speaker | Know the less known about PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Francesco Tisiot | Aiven | Sponsored talk | Finding PostgreSQL’s fit in the AI space | — |
| Gianni Ciolli | EDB | Sponsored talk | Postgres Risk Mitigation with Transparent Data Encryption | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Training | Migrating to Postgres: Practical Tips and Examples | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Training | PostgreSQL Performance Problems: Monitoring and Alerting | — |
| Greg Vernon | — | Speaker | Don't Do High Availability, Do Right Availability | SlidesVideo |
| Hamid Akhtar | — | Speaker | PostgreSQL Write-Ahead Logging (WAL): The Internals of Reliability and Recovery | Slides |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Performance tricks you have never seen before 2.0 | SlidesVideo |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsor keynote | Why using Open Source PostgreSQL matters | Slides |
| Heikki Linnakangas | Neon | Speaker | Multi-threaded PostgreSQL? | SlidesVideo |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | DRW | Speaker | So you want a PGDay in your city | SlidesVideo |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | DRW | Speaker | Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads | Slides |
| Hervé Schweitzer | dbi services | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL IaaS vs PaaS, that is the question | — |
| Ilya Kosmodemiansky | Data Egret | Training | How to become a PostgreSQL DBA in a day | — |
| Ilya Kosmodemiansky | Data Egret | Speaker | Linux IO internals for PostgreSQL administrators in 2023 | Video |
| Jimmy Angelakos | — | Speaker | Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads | Slides |
| Jonathan S. Katz | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads | Slides |
| Jonathan S. Katz | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Vectors are the new JSON | SlidesVideo |
| Jonathan S. Katz | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | The journey towards active-active replication in PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| José Neves | Toggl / Strange Skills | Speaker | A journey into postgresql logical replication | SlidesVideo |
| Julia Gugel | dbi services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Security: The defense line for your data | Slides |
| Julian Markwort | CYBERTEC | Speaker | PostgreSQL Replication: 20 Pitfalls and Solutions | SlidesVideo |
| Julian Markwort | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Use Ansible to herd your Elephants! | SlidesVideo |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Speaker | Tuning PostgreSQL to work even better | Video |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Speaker | Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House | Video |
| Kevin Dallas | EDB | Sponsor keynote | Building for the Future and Betting Big on Postgres | — |
| Lætitia AVROT | EDB | Speaker | Learning advanced SQL the weird (and hard) way | Video |
| Lætitia AVROT | EDB | Speaker | Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House | Video |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | How to corrupt your database (and how to deal with data corruption) | SlidesVideo |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | So long, and thanks for all the fish | — |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | Welcome and Opening | — |
| Marco Slot | — | Speaker | PostgreSQL Distributed: Architectures & Best practices | SlidesVideo |
| Marion Baumgartner | Camptocamp | Speaker | PostGIS and pgRouting: Extensions for spatial data in PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| Matt Cornillon | Aiven | Speaker | How I found my Pokémon cards thanks to Postgres: an AI journey | Video |
| Matthias Grömmer | CYBERTEC | Training | Using the PostgreSQL operator on Kubernetes | — |
| Matthias Grömmer | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | PostgreSQL & Kubernetes - Setting up and operating your own DBaaS | — |
| Melanie Plageman | Microsoft | Speaker | Making your patch more committable | Video |
| Michael Meskes | Instaclustr | Sponsored talk | Open Source in the Age of Cloud and Microservices | — |
| Michael Paquier | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL hacker tips | SlidesVideo |
| Muhammad Usama | Percona | Speaker | Pgpool - What, Why, and Where? | Slides |
| Ophir Lojkine | https://hyxos.com/ | Speaker | SQLPage — Building a full web application with nothing but Postgres and SQL queries | Video |
| Ozgun Erdogan | Ubicloud | Sponsored talk | How to build an open and portable cloud | — |
| Ozgun Erdogan | Ubicloud | Sponsor keynote | Towards an open, portable, and managed PostgreSQL | — |
| Paul Meyer | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Building a managed cloud service with PostgreSQL core – benefits, challenges, and lessons learned | — |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Professional PostgreSQL monitoring made easy | SlidesVideo |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Speaker | pg_failover_slots: The missing piece | Video |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Speaker | The SQL standard: Where does it come from? Where does it go? | Video |
| Rajiv Harlalka | GSoC'23 Contributor | Speaker | Charting My Path: Journey of a GSoC 2023 Contributor to PostgreSQL with pg_statviz | Video |
| Robert Haas | EDB | Speaker | Understanding and Fixing Autovacuum | SlidesVideo |
| Ryan Booz | Redgate | Sponsored talk | Database DevOps: Accelerating Changes from Dev to Production with Flyway | — |
| Ryan Booz | Redgate | Training | Migrating to Postgres: Practical Tips and Examples | — |
| Ryan Booz | Redgate | Training | PostgreSQL Performance Problems: Monitoring and Alerting | — |
| Stefan Fercot | — | Speaker | What can't pgBackRest do for you? | SlidesVideo |
| Stephen Frost | Crunchy Data | Speaker | Advanced Authentication and Encrypted Connections | Video |
| Stephen Frost | Crunchy Data | Speaker | Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads | Slides |
| Taras Kloba | SoftServe | Speaker | From Map to Reality: Using PostGIS in Warfare | — |
| Teresa Giacomini | Microsoft | Speaker | So you want a PGDay in your city | SlidesVideo |
| Tomas Vondra | EDB | Speaker | Postgres vs. Linux filesystems | SlidesVideo |
| Valeria Kaplan | Data Egret | Speaker | Elephant in a nutshell - Navigating the Postgres community 101 | SlidesVideo |