Conferences / PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
PGConf.EU 2025 (15th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)
Oct 21–24, 2025 · Radisson Blu Latvija, Riga, Latvia
- Conference
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) Database
- Dates
- Oct 21, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025
- Venue
- Radisson Blu Latvija
- Place
- Riga, Latvia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2025.pgconf.eu
- Recorded
- 29 sponsors · 86 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Community Events Day Oct 21 (replacing the training day), main conference Oct 22-24. 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 the Wayback snapshot of the schedule taken 2025-12-11, falling back to the live schedule. Community-day sessions are listed on the schedule without speakers. No attendance figure found for 2025 (PostgreSQL Europe GA activities report covering it not yet published as of 2026-11-09).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Events Day (add-on) | €75 | — | Tuesday Oct 21; incl. 21% VAT | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Student | €120 | — | valid student ID required; incl. 21% VAT | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Early bird (EARLYBIRD code, Wed-Fri) | €300 | — | sold out; incl. 21% VAT | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Standard | €400 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Community Supporter | €600 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Bronze | €750 | — | Excl. VAT. Website logo, 1 attendee voucher. | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Silver | €4,000 | — | Excl. VAT. No desk; 2 attendee vouchers. | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Gold | €11,000 | — | Excl. VAT; sold out. Exhibitor-area desk, 3 attendee vouchers, one 45-min sponsor track session. | 2025.pgconf.eu |
| Platinum | €18,000 | — | Excl. VAT; sold out. Premium-location desk, 4 attendee vouchers, up to two 45-min sponsor track sessions, one 15-min keynote. | 2025.pgconf.eu |
Sponsors 29
Speakers and talks 86
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Sandler | Software Freedom Conservancy | Keynote | The Foundation of Open Source: Why Software Freedom? | Video |
| Adam Wolk | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Pushing Postgres Forward: From Open Source Contributions to Intelligent Tuning | Video |
| Ahmet Gedemenli | Xata | Speaker | Anonymizing Data in Postgres Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Schema) | SlidesVideo |
| Ahsan Hadi | pgEdge | Sponsored talk | Delivering High Availability, Reliability, Scalability, and Low Latency for PostgreSQL Deployments of Any Size | — |
| Aivars Kalvāns | Ebury | Speaker | EXPLAIN: make it make sense | Video |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Speaker | Kubernetes from the Database Out | SlidesVideo |
| Álvaro Herrera | 2ndQuadrant | Speaker | Table repacking, done right | Slides |
| Andreas Geppert | ZKB | Speaker | Implementing strong cross-platform resiliency in agile environments with logical replication | Video |
| Andres Freund | Microsoft | Speaker | AIO in PG 18 and beyond | Video |
| Antonin Houska | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Table repacking, done right | Slides |
| Ants Aasma | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Waiting for Commit | SlidesVideo |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | Data modeling with PostgreSQL at the core of Software Development | SlidesVideo |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | We have multiple concurrent versions of this title trying to understand MVCC | SlidesVideo |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | Panel Discussion: How to Work with Other Postgres People | Video |
| Burak Yucesoy | Ubicloud | Sponsored talk | Unlock PostgreSQL’s True Performance with Local SSDs | Video |
| Cameron Murdoch | University of Washington | Speaker | Patroni: what the blog posts don't tell you... | SlidesVideo |
| Celeste Horgan | Snowflake | Speaker | Flavors of PostgreSQL® and you: how to choose a Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Speaker | PostgreSQL Tips & Tricks For App Devs | SlidesVideo |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Speaker | Behind Postgres 18: The People, the Code, & the Invisible Work | Video |
| Cornelia Biacsics | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Discover your contribution-magic | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Krefl | Sednai | Speaker | Hacking pgvector for performance | SlidesVideo |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Speaker | Breaking PostgreSQL - Learning by doing it wrong | Slides |
| Dave Page | pgEdge | Host | So long, and thanks for all the fish | — |
| Dave Pitts | Adyen | Speaker | An Introduction to B-trees and LSM-trees for DEVs and DevOps | SlidesVideo |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | Beyond the How: Why Table Partitioning Truly Matters | SlidesVideo |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Why PostgreSQL people should really care about Kafka and Debezium? | Slides |
| Divya Sharma | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | MultiXacts in PostgreSQL: usage, side effects, and monitoring | SlidesVideo |
| Dmitry Fomin | Adyen | Speaker | The SyncRep Detective Story: Chasing Ghosts in PostgreSQL, Finding Demons in Storage | Slides |
| Dr. Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Sponsored talk | DBtune: AI-driven performance tuning for all PostgreSQL flavors | SlidesVideo |
| Esther Miñano Sanz | Xata | Speaker | Anonymizing Data in Postgres Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Schema) | SlidesVideo |
| Floor Drees | EDB | Speaker | They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation | SlidesVideo |
| Floor Drees | EDB | Speaker | Panel Discussion: How to Work with Other Postgres People | Video |
| Florents Tselai | TselAI | Speaker | Diofanti.org: A Civic Tech Journey Powered by PostgreSQL | Video |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Speaker | Normalize or De-normalize? Relational SQL Columns or JSON Document Attributes? | Slides |
| Gabriele Bartolini | EDB | Speaker | They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation | SlidesVideo |
| Giulio Calacoci | EDB | Speaker | Barman, past, present, and future of a pioneer community project | SlidesVideo |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | Vector data in Postgres: Size, TOAST, Filters and Performance | SlidesVideo | |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek | Xata | Speaker | What You Should Know About Constraints in PostgreSQL (and What’s New in 18) | SlidesVideo |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | What we built with Open Source | SlidesVideo |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL in ever more critical environments | Video |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | DRW | Speaker | Long Queries and the Art of Full Scan | Slides |
| Jan Wieremjewicz | Percona | Speaker | What implementing pg_tde taught us about PostgreSQL | — |
| Jay MIller | Aiven | Speaker | Don't leak user data to AI - Strategies for protecting PII from LLMs and MCP | Video |
| Jérémie Grauer | NeoX-IT | Speaker | The Good, The Bad, and The Bloated: An Autovacuum Story | Video |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Speaker | Panel Discussion: How to Work with Other Postgres People | Video |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Host | Day 2 Welcome | — |
| Joaquim Oliveira | European Space Agency | Speaker | From Stars to Storage Engines: Migrating Big Science Workloads Beyond Greenplum | Video |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Speaker | Database in Distress: Testing and Repairing Different Types of Database Corruption | SlidesVideo |
| Kaarel Moppel | Freelance PostgreSQL Consultant | Speaker | Parsing Postgres logs the non-pgBadger way | Slides |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Speaker | Panel Discussion: How to Work with Other Postgres People | Video |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Host | Day 3 Welcome | — |
| Lætitia AVROT | — | Speaker | Can PostgreSQL Compete with Analytics Specialists? | Video |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Don't do that! | SlidesVideo |
| Lukas Fittl | pganalyze | Speaker | Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs and the new pg_stat_plans | Video |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | Welcome and Opening | — |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | So long, and thanks for all the fish | — |
| Marc Linster | Independent | Speaker | Implementing Slowly Changing Dimensions in Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Martín Marqués | EDB | Speaker | Barman, past, present, and future of a pioneer community project | SlidesVideo |
| Maxim Sobolevskiy | JetBrains | Sponsored talk | DataGrip: A Powerful IDE for PostgreSQL | Video |
| Maximilian Stefanac | SAP | Speaker | Have you ever wondered, how a cloud platform works? | Video |
| Melanie Plageman | Microsoft | Speaker | Improved Freezing in Postgres Vacuum: From Idea to Commit | SlidesVideo |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Sponsored talk | Lessons from two decades of hacking the proprietary value into open source databases | SlidesVideo |
| Naisila Puka | Microsoft | Speaker | How to explain PostgreSQL to kids | SlidesVideo |
| Nelson Calero | Pythian | Speaker | Practical Guide to Migrating +100 Large PostgreSQL to the Cloud | SlidesVideo |
| Nicholas Meyer | Academia.edu | Speaker | Transform your development workflow with thin cloning | SlidesVideo |
| Nuno Faria | INESCTEC, University of Minho | Speaker | Building Tetris in a SQL Query! | Video |
| Ozgun Erdogan | Ubicloud | Sponsor keynote | Postgres on AWS: Run 5X faster on metal, migrate anywhere | Video |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona | Sponsor keynote | Why PostgreSQL took the crown from MySQL and what lies ahead | SlidesVideo |
| Philipp Thun | SAP | Speaker | Have you ever wondered, how a cloud platform works? | Video |
| Polina Bungina | Zalando | Speaker | Hazards of logical decoding in PostgreSQL | — |
| Priyanka Chatterjee | Schwarz IT | Speaker | All about Common Vulnerabilities and exposures in PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| Rafia Sabih | CYBERTEC | Speaker | All in a context! | SlidesVideo |
| Raj Verma | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | From Chaos to Compliance: How PostgreSQL Makes Regulations Work for You | Slides |
| Raphael Salguero | EDB | Speaker | Migrating to PostgreSQL: Strategies, Sovereignty, and Success | SlidesVideo |
| Roberto Mello | Snowflake | Speaker | Boosting Typical Query Patterns: PostgreSQL 18's Performance Enhancements | SlidesVideo |
| Sakshi Nasha | Cohesity | Speaker | CTRL+Z for your Database : Mastering Backup and Recovery in PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| Sergey Dudoladov | Zalando | Speaker | The Lifecycle of a SELECT: A Glimpse into the Depths of PostgreSQL Internals | — |
| Shikhar Bhardwaj | Ubicloud | Sponsored talk | Monitoring Managed Postgres, the OSS Way | — |
| Stefan Fercot | Data Egret | Speaker | Patroni and pgBackRest: better together | — |
| Taras Kloba | Microsoft | Speaker | PostgreSQL as a Graph Database: Who Grabbed a Beer Together? | Video |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB | Slides |
| Tomas Vondra | Microsoft | Speaker | Fast-path locking improvements in PG18 | SlidesVideo |
| Torsten Steinbach | EDB | Sponsored talk | From Transactions to Intelligence: Postgres for Open AI & Analytics | Video |
| Vincent O'Dea | Fujitsu | Sponsored talk | Exploring new enhancements and improvements Fujitsu has delivered to PostgreSQL | Video |
| Yogesh Jain | EDB | Speaker | Unified Observability: Monitoring Postgres Anywhere with OpenTelemetry | SlidesVideo |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Sponsored talk | TDE as an Extension: A Different Path for PostgreSQL Encryption | SlidesVideo |