Conferences / PGDay Chicago
PGDay Chicago 2025
Apr 25, 2025 · Madison 540 Conference Center, 540 W Madison Street, Chicago, IL, United States
- Conference
- PGDay Chicago Database
- Dates
- Apr 25, 2025
- Venue
- Madison 540 Conference Center, 540 W Madison Street
- Place
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2025.pgdaychicago.org
- Recorded
- 12 sponsors · 15 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Sponsors from the still-live 2025 site sponsors page. Two tracks. Prairie Postgres ran a student-focused PG DATA Day the day before at the same venue. No official attendance figure; a Redgate Simple Talk roundup says 'around 150 people registered'. Speakers: full session list from the event's pgeu-system schedule/sessions pages (talk titles, slides links where posted). Affiliations: 9 of 15 speaker rows from Wayback snapshots of the event's speaker pages taken closest to the event (snapshots 2025-03 to 2025-04); 6 from the current live speaker profile (may postdate the event); 0 with no company given. source_url points at the page the affiliation came from.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Bird | $120 | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025.pgdaychicago.org | |
| Regular | $150 | — | 2025.pgdaychicago.org |
Sponsors 12
Speakers and talks 15
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAOVOLA Marie Anna | Foiben-Taosarintanin'i Madagasikara | Speaker | The Power of Feedback: Building a Thriving PostgreSQL Community in Madagascar | Slides |
| Chelsea Dole | Citadel | Speaker | Table Bloat: Managing Your Tuple Graveyard | Slides |
| David George Andrew Pitts | Adyen | Speaker | Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker | — |
| Doğaç Eldenk | Carbon Health Technologies | Speaker | Start with a Clean Slate: Setting Up Integration Tests with PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Gabriele Quaresima | EDB | Speaker | CloudNativePG 101 | Slides |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek | Xata | Speaker | Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | DRW | Speaker | Protecting your PostgreSQL data assets: one size does not fit all | Slides |
| Jay Miller | Aiven | Speaker | Getting advice from Myself using PGVector, RAG, Flat Files and JSON_TABLEs | Slides |
| Jimmy Zelinskie | AuthZed | Speaker | Implementing Strict Serializability with pg_xact | Slides |
| Keiko Oda | pganalyze | Speaker | Practical Query Tuning in PostgreSQL: From Diagnosis to Optimization | Slides |
| Melih Mutlu | Microsoft | Speaker | The Journey of Your Query | — |
| Paul Whalen | PEAK6 | Speaker | Who Needs Kafka? PubSub Patterns Beyond Message Queues Using Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY | Slides |
| Ryan Booz | Redgate | Speaker | 1 Billion Row Challenge: Comparing Postgres, DuckDB, and Extensions | Slides |
| Shaun Thomas | pgEdge | Speaker | Living on the Edge - Distributed Postgres and You | Slides |
| Teresa Lopes | Adyen | Speaker | Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker | — |
Sources
- https://2025.pgdaychicago.org/
- https://2025.pgdaychicago.org/venue/
- https://2025.pgdaychicago.org/tickets/
- https://2025.pgdaychicago.org/sponsors/
- https://postgresql.us/events/pgdaychicago2025/schedule/
- https://postgresql.us/events/pgdaychicago2025/sessions/
- https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/resources/conferences/pgday-chicago-2025-roundup/
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/event/pgday-chicago-2025-2526/