Conferences / Swiss PGDay
Swiss PGDay 2024
Jun 27–28, 2024 · OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil, Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Conference
- Swiss PGDay Database
- Dates
- Jun 27, 2024 – Jun 28, 2024
- Venue
- OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil
- Place
- Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 110credativ blog (Josef Machytka, July 2024): "With approximately 110 attendees, the event had mainly a B2B focus".
- Website
- pgday.ch
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 32 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Two days, two tracks (English / German), poster session, lightning talks, social event. Speakers: full schedule (all talks; keynotes role "keynote"; welcome/closing by the organizer omitted). Affiliations as shown in the talk details on the edition's own page (static snapshot kept online after the event). Lightning-talk speakers (role "lightning talk") listed by name and title only; their affiliation is filled from their main talk that year where they had one, otherwise null; slides_url is the combined LT deck. Sponsor tiers: Sponsor CHF 1,300 (max 6), Supporter CHF 400, Partner (in kind).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGDay Student | CHF 60 | — | web.archive.org | |
| PGDay SwissPUG (member rate) | CHF 120 | — | SwissPUG members; corporate members for up to 4 participants | web.archive.org |
| PGDay Standard | CHF 150 | — | incl. lunch and social event | web.archive.org |
| PGDay Community Supporter | CHF 180 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 11
Community 2
- CH Open · Partners
- OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) · Partners
Other 9
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsors
- Camptocamp · Supporters
- CYBERTEC · Sponsors
- dbi services · Sponsors
- DBtune · Sponsors
- Devart · Supporters
- EDB · Sponsors
- Percona · Supporters
- Yugabyte · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 32
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Keller | OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) | Keynote | PostgreSQL: A Reliable and Extensible Multi-Model SQL Database | Slides |
| Tomas Vondra | EDB | Keynote | The past and the future of the Postgres community | Slides |
| Andreas Geppert | Zürcher Kantonalbank | Speaker | Verwaltung grosser Datenbanklandschaften in Multi-Cloud-DBaaS-Umgebungen | Slides |
| Andreas Gruhler | — | Lightning talk | PostgreSQL in the snow - send the right athletes to the finals | Slides |
| Belma Canik | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Beyond Keywords: AI-powered Text Search with pgvector for PostgreSQL | — |
| Chris Engelbert | simplyblock GmbH | Speaker | PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Dos and Don'ts | Slides |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Speaker | PostgreSQL 17 highlight: In-core inkrementelle Backups, Backup Ketten und einen Haufen Details | Slides |
| Dickson Guedes | — | Lightning talk | Visualizing Postgres buffers | Slides |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Warum sich PostgreSQL-Fans auch für Kafka und Debezium interessieren sollten? | Slides |
| Franck Pachot | Yugabyte | Lightning talk | YUGABYTEDB: A Postgres fork to scale horizontally | Slides |
| Franck Pachot | Yugabyte | Speaker | Indexing Beyond Columns: Expressions, Text Fragments, JSON Attributes, and Top-N Queries | Slides |
| Gabriele Bartolini | EDB | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of PostgreSQL in Kubernetes | Slides |
| Gianni Ciolli | — | Lightning talk | The Well-Tempered Elephant | Slides |
| Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek | EDB | Speaker | Bringing vectors to Postgres with pgvector | Slides |
| Ismael Posada Trobo | CERN | Speaker | Solving PostgreSQL connection scalability issues: Insights from CERN’s GitLab Service | Slides |
| Johannes Graën | — | Lightning talk | Pattern matching in the Unicode space | Slides |
| Josef Machytka | NetApp | Speaker | GIN, BTREE_GIN and BTREE indexes on JSONB data - use cases and performance tests | Slides |
| Josef Machytka | NetApp | Lightning talk | Can PostgreSQL have a more prominent role in AI boom? | Slides |
| Kai Wagner | Percona | Lightning talk | TDE is coming in… | Slides |
| Kai Wagner | Percona | Speaker | Verschlossen und gesichert: PostgreSQL-Verschlüsselung entmystifiziert | — |
| Kanhaiya Lal | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Beyond Keywords: AI-powered Text Search with pgvector for PostgreSQL | — |
| Kranthi Kiran Burada | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Selective Column Replication in PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Sicherheitsattacken auf PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Speaker | Lesson learned from autotuning PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Marion Baumgartner | Camptocamp | Speaker | Geodaten-Management mit PostGIS | Slides |
| Matt Cornillon | Aiven | Speaker | How I found my Pokémon cards thanks to Postgres: an AI journey | — |
| Maurizio De Giorgi | CERN | Speaker | Solving PostgreSQL connection scalability issues: Insights from CERN’s GitLab Service | Slides |
| Nicolas Fränkel | API7 | Speaker | Die API eines armen Mannes mit dem Ökosystem von PostgreSQL | — |
| Patrick Stählin | Aiven | Speaker | Wie wir einen Datenkorruptions-Bug mit der Hilfe der Community gefunden und gefixt haben | — |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | When it all GOes right | Slides |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Lightning talk | A Song of Ice and Fire | Slides |
| Vik Fearing | EDB | Speaker | Window Functions Are Easier and More Powerful Than You Think | Slides |