Conferences / PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
PGConf.EU 2026 (16th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)
Oct 20–23, 2026 · Palacio de Congresos de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Conference
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) Database
- Dates
- Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026
- Venue
- Palacio de Congresos de Valencia
- Place
- Valencia, Spain
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure published yet; registration page showed Standard, Supporter and Student tickets as waitlist only (sold out).
- Website
- 2026.pgconf.eu
- Recorded
- 31 sponsors · 157 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Main conference Tue-Thu Oct 20-22, Community Events Day Fri Oct 23. 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 live schedule (Nov 2026). Videos not yet linked at time of research. No 2027 edition announced as of 2026-11-08.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student Community Events Day (add-on) | €50 | — | for student ticket holders; incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Community Events Day (add-on) | €110 | — | Friday Oct 23; incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Community Events Day only | €120 | — | single-day ticket; incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Student | €175 | — | valid student ID required; incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Early bird (EARLYBIRD code) | €320 | — | sold out; incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Standard | €420 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Community Supporter | €725 | — | incl. 21% VAT | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Bronze | €750 | — | Excl. VAT; unlimited. Website logo, 1 attendee voucher, 1 job listing (click-through agreement). | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Silver | €4,000 | — | Excl. VAT; max 10. No desk; 2 attendee vouchers, one 5-min lightning talk, 2 job listings, two pages of promo material. | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Gold | €12,000 | — | Excl. VAT; max 10, sold out. Exhibitor desk, logo on T-shirts, 3 attendee vouchers, one sponsor track session, opt-in attendee contact data, 3 job listings. | 2026.pgconf.eu |
| Platinum | €20,000 | — | Excl. VAT (20% VAT applies); max 5, sold out. Premium exhibitor desk, logo on T-shirts, 4 attendee vouchers, up to 2 sponsor track sessions, one 15-min keynote, opt-in attendee contact data, 3 job listings. | 2026.pgconf.eu |
Sponsors 31
Speakers and talks 157
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Wolk | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Scaling Beyond Traditional Postgres Architectures with Azure HorizonDB | — |
| Adam Wright | EDB | Sponsored talk | When zero-downtime saves lives: the reality of Active-Active Postgres | Slides |
| Adrien Obernesser | dbi services | Community day | PostgreSQL Observability Summit | Slides |
| Ahmad Adel | Sponsored talk | Vibe Coding Modern AI Apps: Fast-Tracking Development with Built-in Postgres AI | — | |
| Alastair Turner | Percona | Community day | A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation? | — |
| Alexander Korotkov | Supabase | Speaker | WAIT FOR the Feature for Almost 10 Years | Slides |
| Alexander Kukushkin | Microsoft | Speaker | What is Patroni, really? | Slides |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Guardioz.com | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - Meetup | — |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Guardioz.com | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Guardioz.com | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Alicja Kucharczyk | Guardioz.com | Speaker | PostgreSQL Logging in Practice | Slides |
| Andreas Karlsson | Percona | Speaker | Designing a new SQL language feature: Key joins | Slides |
| Andreas Scherbaum | EDB | Community day | New PostgreSQL Community Members - Summit | — |
| Andreas Scherbaum | EDB | Community day | Organizing and Growing Community Events | — |
| Andrei Lepikhov | pgEdge | Speaker | Finding the invisible: spotting query planner issues before they appear | Slides |
| Andres Freund | Microsoft | Speaker | Identifying bottlenecks in Postgres workloads | — |
| Ants Aasma | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Relational or graphs? Why not both? | Slides |
| Ants Aasma | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Ashutosh Bapat | Microsoft | Speaker | Rethinking PostgreSQL Shared Memory for Flexibility and Elasticity | — |
| Avi Vallarapu | Percona | Sponsored talk | Leaving Oracle and SQL Server for PostgreSQL: What Could Go Wrong | — |
| Ayoub Kazar | Data Bene | Speaker | Graph Queries: Reverted, Distributed, and Beyond | — |
| Bertrand Drouvot | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Per-Backend Statistics: See What Every Connection Is Actually Doing | Slides |
| Bilge Ince | EDB | Sponsored talk | Agent ready Postgres | Slides |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Sponsored talk | When zero-downtime saves lives: the reality of Active-Active Postgres | Slides |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Community day | Storytelling for Technical Communication | Slides |
| Boriss Mejias | EDB | Speaker | JSON in PostgreSQL - evil data type or just needs to be tamed? | Slides |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Host | Welcome - Day 2 | — |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Speaker | Is PostgreSQL On My Raspberry Pi Faster Than Your Cloud Instance | Slides |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Host | Welcome - Day 3 | — |
| Chris Ellis | Nexteam | Community day | PG Outreach Unconference | — |
| Christoph Berg | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Acknowledging PostgreSQL Contributors: The Contributor Badges Project | Slides |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL at Microsoft: Open Source, AI, and Cloud | — |
| Cornelia Biacsics | Microsoft | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Cornelia Biacsics | Microsoft | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - Meetup | — |
| Cornelia Biacsics | Microsoft | Community day | New PostgreSQL Community Members - Summit | — |
| Cornelia Biacsics | Microsoft | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Daniel Gustafsson | Microsoft | Speaker | The current state of JIT in PostgreSQL | — |
| Daniel Phiri | ClickHouse | Speaker | Off the WAL: Postgres to ClickHouse Without Logical Replication | — |
| Dave Page | pgEdge | Host | Closing Remarks | — |
| David E. Wheeler | ClickHouse | Speaker | How to Contribute to the PostgreSQL Documentation | Slides |
| David E. Wheeler | ClickHouse | Speaker | The Pushdown: Building a Foreign Data Wrapper | Slides |
| David Roberts | Yugabyte | Speaker | Distributed SQL as the storage layer for agentic, multi-tenant Postgres | — |
| David Steele | pgBackRest | Speaker | The Monday We Learned Who Maintains Our Backups | — |
| David Wein | Databricks | Sponsored talk | Deconstructing Lakebase: Kernel Mechanics for Dynamic Memory, Direct-to-Storage Writes, and Lakehouse Access | — |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | How to detect and fix corruptions | Slides |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Community day | Storytelling for Technical Communication | Slides |
| Derk van Veen | Adyen | Speaker | The things you can do with partitions you never dreamed of | — |
| Devrim Gündüz | EDB | Speaker | The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem | Slides |
| Dimitris Sideris | TigerData | Speaker | Zooming in on OOM: A Deep Dive into Postgres and Linux Memory | — |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Sponsored talk | Stop Torturing PostgreSQL - Why Your PostgreSQL Database Needs a ClickHouse Sidekick | Slides |
| Divya Sharma | — | Community day | Storytelling for Technical Communication | Slides |
| Dmitry Dolgov | Red Hat | Speaker | Post Quantum Cryptography in PostgreSQL: why, how and when? | Slides |
| Dmitry Fomin | Adyen | Speaker | Stop Guessing: Unlocking Wait Events at Scale with Existing and New Tools | Slides |
| Ebru Aydin Gol | Microsoft | Speaker | Safe Upgrades for PostgreSQL Extensions: Managing Backward Compatibility | — |
| Ellert van Koperen | Database.one | Speaker | A composition of short items (or: a talk for the tiktok generation) | Slides |
| Ellyne Phneah | Independent | Speaker | Postgres Before PostgreSQL: Stories from Inside the Original Berkeley Lab | Slides |
| Floor Drees | EDB | Community day | PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit | — |
| Floor Drees | EDB | Community day | A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation? | — |
| Franck Pachot | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Postgres 19, 20, & Beyond: Live Demos of New Features & Tools | Slides |
| Furkan Sahin | Ubicloud | Sponsored talk | The Primary Is Down. Are You Sure? | Slides |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | ClickHouse | Speaker | Postgres for Everything, Until It Isn't | Slides |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | ClickHouse | Speaker | What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19 | Slides |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | ClickHouse | Community day | PostgreSQL Observability Summit | Slides |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | ClickHouse | Community day | PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit | — |
| Hannu Krosing | Speaker | User-Defined Database Functions (UDFs) as Microservices + creating a whole microservice cluster with pl/proxy | — | |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsor keynote | PostgreSQL for AI systems | Slides |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | CPO: Multi Data Center Kubernetes on steroids | Slides |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | CYBERTEC | Sponsored talk | pg_hardstorage: Modern backups for PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Hari Kiran | OpenSource DB | Speaker | From Oracle to Postgres for 40 Million Users: What a National G2C Migration Actually Looks Like | Slides |
| Heikki Linnakangas | Databricks | Speaker | Signals, Latches, and Interrupts | Slides |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | Prairie Postgres NFP | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | Prairie Postgres NFP | Community day | PostgreSQL Training Materials Working Group | — |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | Prairie Postgres NFP | Speaker | Making Access Control Management Manageable: Introducing pg_acm | Slides |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | Prairie Postgres NFP | Community day | Organizing and Growing Community Events | — |
| Hervé Schweitzer | dbi services | Speaker | OMrun the Data Quality Platform That Keeps Your Data Trustworthy ! | — |
| Ilya Kosmodemiansky | Data Egret | Speaker | The "default" postgresql.conf, step by step | — |
| Jack Bonatakis | Robin AI | Speaker | Finally a Postgres Communication Hub for Experts and Newcomers | — |
| Jan Karremans | JK-Consult | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - Meetup | — |
| Jan Karremans | JK-Consult | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Jan Karremans | JK-Consult | Community day | Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education - PostgreSQL DBA Exam | — |
| Jan Karremans | JK-Consult | Speaker | Selling PostgreSQL? | Slides |
| Jan Wieremjewicz | Percona | Speaker | The Monday We Learned Who Maintains Our Backups | — |
| Jigar Mody | EDB | Sponsored talk | Agent ready Postgres | Slides |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Community day | PostgreSQL Observability Summit | Slides |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Community day | PostgreSQL Training Materials Working Group | — |
| Jimmy Angelakos | pgEdge | Speaker | radar + radar-analyst: Agentless Diagnostic Snapshots for PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Joel Jacobson | SQL StdDev | Speaker | Designing a new SQL language feature: Key joins | Slides |
| Jonathan S. Katz | Databricks | Speaker | A PostgreSQL 19 whirlwind tour | Slides |
| José Neves | Toggl / Strange Skills | Speaker | workspace_id % N: War stories on building resilience through application-level sharding | Slides |
| Joshua Steinmann | Lufthansa Group Business Services | Speaker | Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter | Slides |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Host | Welcome - Day 2 | — |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Speaker | Tuning Postgres for Analytics | — |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | Snowflake | Host | Welcome - Day 3 | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Sponsored talk | Finding the small queries that cause big problems in your system | Slides |
| Lætitia AVROT | Docker | Speaker | You Shall Not YOLO: Model Your Damn Data | — |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | The anatomy of PostgreSQL row locks | Slides |
| Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Sponsored talk | Autonomous PostgreSQL optimization: End-to-end tuning for parameters, indexes, and autovacuum | — |
| Lukas Fittl | pganalyze | Community day | PostgreSQL Observability Summit | Slides |
| Lukas Fittl | pganalyze | Sponsored talk | The Future of Plan Management and Feedback Loops | Slides |
| Lukas Fittl | pganalyze | Sponsor keynote | Evolving How We Tune Postgres | Slides |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | Welcome | — |
| Magnus Hagander | Redpill Linpro | Host | Closing Remarks | — |
| Marc Linster | DBtune | Community day | Autonomous Postgres: From Scripts to Self-Driving Database | Slides |
| Mark Wong | pgEdge | Community day | Organizing and Growing Community Events | — |
| Matt Cornillon | Speaker | Creating a “Dungeon Master” with Postgres and MCP | — | |
| Maxim Sobolevsky | JetBrains | Sponsored talk | DataGrip: PostgreSQL IDE from JetBrains | — |
| Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar | Veeam | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Mehmet Ince | PRODAFT | Speaker | Nobody Gets to Be Superuser (Until I Broke In) | — |
| Melanie Plageman | Microsoft | Speaker | Exercising PostgreSQL Performance Enhancing Patches | — |
| Melanie Plageman | Microsoft | Speaker | Acknowledging PostgreSQL Contributors: The Contributor Badges Project | Slides |
| Michal Nosek | Percona | Sponsored talk | Leaving Oracle and SQL Server for PostgreSQL: What Could Go Wrong | — |
| Mose Tronci | Sponsor keynote | Google and PostgreSQL: open source contributions and Building Agentic Applications with AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | — | |
| Nacho Alonso Portillo | Microsoft | Sponsored talk | Scaling Beyond Traditional Postgres Architectures with Azure HorizonDB | — |
| Natalia Marukovich | Percona | Speaker | What Actually Goes Wrong with Postgres on Kubernetes | — |
| Noémi Ványi | Xata | Speaker | One Postgres WAL slot, four destinations: lightweight CDC fan-out with pgstream | Slides |
| Oleksii Kliukin | TigerData | Speaker | Zooming in on OOM: A Deep Dive into Postgres and Linux Memory | — |
| Pat Wright | Red Gate Software | Community day | Organizing and Growing Community Events | — |
| Pat Wright | Redgate | Sponsored talk | Finding the small queries that cause big problems in your system | Slides |
| Paula Berenguel | Microsoft | Speaker | The PostgreSQL translation guide I wish somebody wrote | Slides |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Community day | PostgreSQL Observability Summit | Slides |
| Peter Eisentraut | EDB | Speaker | What does the EU Cyber Resilience Act mean for PostgreSQL and its community? | Slides |
| Peter Geoghegan | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | An Overview of Index Prefetching | Slides |
| Petr Jelinek | EDB | Speaker | Postgres for Everything, Until It Isn't | Slides |
| Phillip Merrick | pgEdge | Sponsored talk | Agentic Engineering, Agentic Operations and Agentic Analytics with Postgres | Slides |
| Polina Bungina | Zalando | Speaker | What is Patroni, really? | Slides |
| Priyanka Chatterjee | Schwarz IT | Speaker | Security Strategies for your database backups | — |
| Radim Marek | boringSQL | Speaker | It Works on My Database | Slides |
| Radim Marek | boringSQL | Speaker | Visualizing PostgreSQL Storage Internals | Slides |
| Rafia Sabih | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Unlocking Parallel Query in postgres_fdw | Slides |
| Rajni Baliyan | Fujitsu | Speaker | Achieving True Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 : Goodbye, Maintenance Windows | — |
| Robert Haas | Databricks | Speaker | pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Robert Treat | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | REPACK in Core | — |
| Ryan Booz | pganalyze | Community day | Autonomous Postgres: From Scripts to Self-Driving Database | Slides |
| Ryan Booz | pganalyze | Sponsored talk | Postgres Tuning in the Age of AI: Context Is Everything | Slides |
| Shayon Sanyal | Amazon Web Services | Sponsored talk | Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: Combining Vector and Full-Text for Real-World Applications | Slides |
| Silvano Coriani | Microsoft | Speaker | Same Problems, Different Defaults: What 25+ Years of SQL Server Taught Me When I Switched to PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Somdyuti Paul | Sponsored talk | Scaling Mission-Critical PostgreSQL: From High-Performance OLTP to Lakehouse Federation | — | |
| Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla | EDB | Speaker | Can We Skip Recovery? The Architecture of On-Demand WAL Replay. | Slides |
| Stefan Fercot | Percona | Speaker | pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work | — |
| Stefanie Janine Stölting | ProOpenSource OÜ | Speaker | Time Traveling PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Stephan Festl | Fujitsu | Sponsored talk | Beyond Data Residency: Building Sovereign Control from Infrastructure to Data | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices 101 | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Autovacuum Is Running. Is It Actually Working? | — |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Community day | Storytelling for Technical Communication | Slides |
| Thomas Munro | Microsoft | Speaker | Where next for parallel query execution? | — |
| Tim Steward | Fujitsu | Sponsored talk | Beyond Data Residency: Building Sovereign Control from Infrastructure to Data | — |
| Tino Engelbrecht | Lufthansa Group Business Services | Speaker | Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter | Slides |
| Tom Kincaid | EDB | Sponsor keynote | Standing on the Shoulders of an Elephant: 30 Years of PostgreSQL and (a little less for) EDB | — |
| Tomas Vondra | Microsoft | Speaker | AIO performance - now and in the future | Slides |
| Valeria Kaplan | Data Egret | Speaker | Community Moments That Shaped 30 Years of PostgreSQL | — |
| Valeria Kaplan | Data Egret | Community day | PG Outreach Unconference | — |
| Vibhor Kumar | EDB | Community day | Autonomous Postgres: From Scripts to Self-Driving Database | Slides |
| Vik Fearing | SQL StdDev | Speaker | What is NULL? | — |
| Yugo Nagata | SRA OSS, Inc. Japan | Speaker | pg_ivm: Recent Improvements and Future Directions in Incremental View Maintenance | Slides |
| Zsolt Parragi | Percona | Speaker | Rethinking PostgreSQL Configuration | Slides |