Conferences / Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
Postgres Conference 2024
Apr 17–19, 2024 · Hilton San Jose, San Jose, CA, United States
- Conference
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) Database
- Dates
- Apr 17, 2024 – Apr 19, 2024
- Venue
- Hilton San Jose
- Place
- San Jose, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No reported attendance found; the sponsor prospectus projected '300+ participants'.
- Website
- postgresconf.org
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 90 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Main North American event, moved to San Jose. Tracks: Ops, Dev, Essentials, Google Cloud. Speakers: all sessions on the official schedule (one row per speaker per session; organizer-run breaks/lunches/receptions omitted), affiliations as shown on each session page. role=keynote where the session title or URL says keynote. Slides = PDF uploaded to the session page; video = YouTube embed on the session page.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General admission (early) | $299 | — | As listed December 2023 | web.archive.org |
| General admission | $599 | — | As listed February 2024 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 19
Title / headline 3
- Amazon Web Services · Conference
- Google · Conference
- Hyperparam · Conference
Other 16
- Baffle, Inc · Partner
- Command Prompt · Partner
- CrystalDB · Partner
- Datasparc · Partner
- EDB · Partner
- Fujitsu · Partner
- KloudDB · Partner
- Materialize · Operational Data Sponsor
- Microsoft · Partner
- NEXTGRES · Partner
- Omnigres · Partner
- OpenPie · Virtual
- Percona · Partner
- pgEdge · Partner
- Quest · Partner
- Redgate · Partner
Speakers and talks 90
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curt Kolovson | — | Keynote | I implemented the first Vacuum Cleaner Daemon (the most "hated" thing about Postgres) | Slides |
| Frank McSherry | Materialize | Keynote | Enabling New Operational Use Cases with PostgreSQL | — |
| Jignesh Shah | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Innovating for all with PostgreSQL at AWS | — |
| Ravi Murthy | Keynote | The future of databases and Generative AI | — | |
| Zak Tedder | Command Prompt | Keynote | Conference Launch + Keynote | Slides |
| Alan Li | Speaker | Vector Search in PostgreSQL using Different ANN Algorithms | — | |
| Alvaro Hernandez | OnGres | Speaker | Postgres in the Containers Era | Slides |
| Amit Chauhan | Yugabyte | Speaker | pg_hint_plan – get the right plan without surprises | Slides |
| Avinash Dalvi | Eagleview India | Speaker | Harnessing the power of Postgres for GIS | — |
| BAJI SHAIK | — | Speaker | Beyond Boundaries: Mastering 2-Level Encryption Migration in PostgreSQL | — |
| Billy VanCannon | Baffle, Inc | Speaker | PCI-DSS on Postgres Encryption and Database access | Slides |
| Biren Shah | GitLab | Speaker | Zero-downtime Postgres Major Version Upgrades | Slides |
| Bjoern Rost | Speaker | Making PostgreSQL your strategic database for AI | — | |
| Bohan Zhang | OtterTune | Speaker | Everything you want to know about Postgres autovacuum | Slides |
| Chandra Pathivada | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | "Behind the Scenes: Demystifying Transaction Isolation in App Development" | — |
| Chandra Pathivada | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Why PostgreSQL Isn't Utilizing Indexes: Diagnosing and Solving Performance Issues" | — |
| Charly Batista | EDB | Speaker | Monitoring PostgreSQL: Navigating the Landscape of Metrics, OS and Hardware Relationships, and Toolsets | Slides |
| Charly Batista | EDB | Speaker | Reducing Costs and Improving Performance With Data Modeling in Postgres | Slides |
| Chirag Dave | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Becoming a PG_STAT_* (star) | — |
| Chirag Dave | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Partitioning: Beyond the obvious | — |
| Clay Jackson | Quest | Speaker | Model your data before you move it | — |
| Clay Jackson | Quest | Speaker | The Accidental DBA | — |
| Conrad Hofmeyr | JourneyApps | Speaker | Local-first application architecture using Postgres logical replication | Slides |
| Dane Falkner | RiskRecon (a Mastercard Cyber and Intelligence Company) | Speaker | Optimizing for Excellence: Advanced Performance Tuning Techniques for Aurora Postgres | Slides |
| Dave Stokes | DBeaver | Speaker | MERGE() - A Quick Introduction | Slides |
| Dave Stokes | DBeaver | Speaker | Do You Know A CID From An OID Or An XID? A beginners guide to the alphabet soup found in and around PostgreSQL touples. | Slides |
| David Wein | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Deep Dive into Amazon Aurora Limitless Database and its innovations | — |
| Denis Magda | Yugabyte | Speaker | PgCompute: Creating Stored Procedures the Developer Way | — |
| Denis Magda | Yugabyte | Speaker | PostgreSQL with OpenAI: Building and Monetizing Generative AI Plugins | — |
| Dr. Ibrar Ahmed | pgEdge | Speaker | Scaling PostgreSQL: Navigating Horizontal and Vertical Scalability Pathways | Slides |
| Dr. Ibrar Ahmed | pgEdge | Speaker | Unraveling Multi-Master Replication in PostgreSQL: Architectures and Solutions | Slides |
| Dr. Ibrar Ahmed | pgEdge | Speaker | Achieving High Availability (HA) in PostgreSQL: Strategies, Tools, and Best Practices | Slides |
| Drew Stevens | Speaker | How can you measure PostgreSQL portability? | — | |
| Frank McSherry | Materialize | Speaker | Better materialized views in 1 million LOC: Inside Materialize's PostgreSQL source | Slides |
| Frits Hoogland | ServiceNow | Speaker | Exploring Linux memory usage and IO performance with PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | Building GenAI applications on PostgreSQL | — | |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | Building GenAI applications on PostgreSQL (continued) | — | |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | JSON and analytics in Postgres using index and columnar. | — | |
| Gleb Otochkin | Speaker | Vector Search in PostgreSQL using Different ANN Algorithms | — | |
| Greg Dostatni | Command Prompt | Speaker | Advanced strategies for PostgreSQL Lock Management | Slides |
| Guyren Howe | Relevant Logic LLC | Speaker | Postgres’s Type System | Slides |
| Gwen Shapira | Nile Platform Inc | Speaker | Transaction Isolation in Postgres | — |
| Gwen Shapira | Nile Platform Inc | Speaker | Schema Evolution - The Hard Parts | — |
| Jan Wieck | pgEdge.com | Speaker | Good bye sequences, hello Snowflakes | Slides |
| Janis Griffin | Quest | Speaker | Top 5 PostgreSQL Query Tuning Tips | Slides |
| Jignesh Shah | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Managing at scale Postgres version upgrades with minimum downtime | — |
| Johann Schleier-Smith | CrystalDB | Speaker | Self-Managing Databases—If Not Now Then When? | Slides |
| Jonah Harris | NEXTGRES | Speaker | The Future of MySQL is Postgres | — |
| Kobus Wolvaardt | GoodX Software | Speaker | Postgres in Dockers on ZFS | Slides |
| Manish Shah | — | Speaker | Zero Trust database access with DBHawk | Slides |
| Mason Sharp | NEXTGRES | Speaker | The Future of MySQL is Postgres | — |
| Michael Meskes | Meskes | Speaker | Open Source At A Crossroads | Slides |
| Min-Hank Ho | Baffle, Inc | Speaker | Securing Postgres for use with GenAI | Slides |
| Mohamed Ali | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Elevate your DBA toolset with pg collector | Slides |
| Montana Low | PostgresML | Speaker | Why We Put GPUs in the Database | Slides |
| Nikita Shamgunov | Zenith Labs | Speaker | Postgres in the 21st Century | — |
| Nikolay Sivko | Coroot | Speaker | Cloud-native Postgres observability: from client apps to underlying cloud resources | Slides |
| Nilesh Junnarkar | Speaker | Database operations in the AI era | Slides | |
| Nimesh Bhagat | Speaker | Database operations in the AI era | Slides | |
| Patrick Mottram | EDB | Speaker | The Postgres Advantage in AI Enterprise Workloads | — |
| Perren Walker | Tessell | Speaker | Discover the Power of PostgreSQL's Modularity and Extensibility | Slides |
| Peter Celentano | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL architecture considerations for application developers | — |
| Peter Farkas | FerretDB | Speaker | Moving MongoDB Workloads to Postgres | — |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona, Coroot | Speaker | Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes | Slides |
| Phillip Merrick | pgEdge | Speaker | Use Cases for Multi-Master Distributed Postgres | Slides |
| Rajan Palanivel | Baffle, Inc | Speaker | Transparent Application-level Encryption with Postgres Trusted Language Extensions | Slides |
| Richard Guo | OpenPie | Speaker | A high-level introduction to the query planner in PostgreSQL | — |
| Robert Bernier | Percona | Speaker | Working With The Citus Extension | — |
| Ryan Booz | pganalyze | Speaker | Mastering PostgreSQL Partitioning: Supercharge Performance and Simplify Maintenance | — |
| Ryan Booz | pganalyze | Speaker | Database DevOps: Options for Test Data and Database Change Management | — |
| Sai Srirampur | ClickHouse | Speaker | How can we make pg_dump and pg_restore 10 times faster? | — |
| Sai Srirampur | ClickHouse | Speaker | What does it take to build a first class data movement tool for Postgres? | — |
| Sameer Malik | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Accelerate Oracle to PostgreSQL migration journey - top 10 challenges and mitigation | — |
| Sami Imseih | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Becoming a PG_STAT_* (star) | — |
| Sami Imseih | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL Partitioning: Beyond the obvious | — |
| Samuel Hu | RisingWave | Speaker | Bounded and Unbounded Data for RAG Systems: Postgres Is All You Need | Slides |
| Shayon Sanyal | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Enhancing OLTP Systems with pgvector: Best Practices in Database Design | — |
| Silas Marvin | PostgresML | Speaker | RAG Masterclass: Simplify your data infrastructure with in-database NLP using pgml and pgvector for Retrieval Augmented Generation | Slides |
| Sridhar Ranganathan | Speaker | Building data-driven apps in the cloud | — | |
| Srinivasa Inaganti | KloudDB | Speaker | Improve Postgres Security Posture with KloudDB Shield- Postgres and RDS Postgres | — |
| Sundar Raghavan | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Enhancing OLTP Systems with pgvector: Best Practices in Database Design | — |
| Tatiana Krupenya | DBeaver | Speaker | Looking for the differences in your data. | — |
| Thuymy Tran | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Troubleshoot PostgreSQL performance | Slides |
| Tim Steward | Fujitsu | Speaker | We like to Move it, Move it!: Migrating production systems between databases | — |
| Tracy Jenkins | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | PostgreSQL architecture considerations for application developers | — |
| Varun Dhawan | Microsoft | Speaker | Elevate Your PostgreSQL Experience in the Cloud with Azure Database for PostgreSQL | — |
| Varun Dhawan | Microsoft | Speaker | Building GENAI Applications with OpenAI and PostgreSQL | — |
| Wanda He | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Troubleshoot PostgreSQL performance | Slides |
| Yurii Rashkovskii | Omnigres | Speaker | Pushing boundaries with extensions, for extensions | — |
| Yurii Rashkovskii | Omnigres | Speaker | Omnigres: Postgres can do WHAT? | — |
Sources
- https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2024
- https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2024/schedule/events
- https://web.archive.org/web/20231209020721/https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2024/tickets
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240225053547/https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2024/tickets
- https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2024/prospectus