Conferences / Swiss PGDay
Swiss PGDay 2025
Jun 26–27, 2025 · OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil, Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Conference
- Swiss PGDay Database
- Dates
- Jun 26, 2025 – Jun 27, 2025
- Venue
- OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil
- Place
- Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 125CYBERTEC blog "Swiss PGDay 2025 - New experiences, Postgres and Karl!" (July 2025): "There were about 125 attendees in total".
- Website
- 2025.pgday.ch
- Recorded
- 13 sponsors · 34 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Two days, two tracks (English / German), poster session, lightning talks, networking 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). Bruce Momjian's keynote links two slide decks (Part 1 recorded; Part 2: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/democratization.pdf). Lightning-talk speakers (role "lightning talk") listed by name and title only; affiliation filled from their main talk that year where available; slides_url is the combined LT deck. Poster authors not recorded. Sponsor tiers: Sponsor CHF 1,500 (max 6), Supporter CHF 600, Partner (in kind).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGDay Discounted (students / on request) | CHF 65 | — | web.archive.org | |
| PGDay SwissPUG (member rate) | CHF 130 | — | SwissPUG members; corporate members for up to 4 participants | web.archive.org |
| PGDay Standard | CHF 165 | — | incl. lunch and networking event | web.archive.org |
| PGDay Community Support | CHF 200 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 13
Community 2
- CH Open · Partners
- OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) · Partners
Other 11
- Accenture · Supporters
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsors
- Bedag Solutions AG · Supporters
- Camptocamp · Supporters
- credativ · Supporters
- CYBERTEC · Sponsors
- dbi services · Sponsors
- EDB · Sponsors
- Navicat · Supporters
- PostFinance · Sponsors
- Redgate · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 34
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Keynote | How Open Source and Democracy Drive Postgres | Slides |
| Aarno Aukia | VSHN AG | Speaker | Operating PostgreSQL at Scale: Lessons from Hundreds of Instances in Regulated Private Clouds | Slides |
| Alessandro Cerioni | Etat de Genève | Speaker | Making sense of Waze traffic data with Python, TimescaleDB-PostGIS and JavaScript | Slides |
| Andreas Geppert | Zürcher Kantonalbank | Speaker | Tabellen vs Objekte: warum nicht einfach beides (in Postgres)? | Slides |
| Andrew Farries | Xata | Speaker | Postgres schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern | — |
| Audrius Meškauskas | — | Lightning talk | Efficient Web Development with SeaORM and PostgreSQL. | Slides |
| Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon | HUG | Speaker | pgAssistant | — |
| Daniel Krefl | Sednai | Speaker | Hacking pgvector for performance | Slides |
| Devrim Gunduz | EDB | Speaker | Know the less known about PostgreSQL | — |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Benchmarking – Eine unerwartete Reise | Slides |
| Dominik Frey | Camtocamp SA | Speaker | Ein Ansatz zur Optimierung von raumbezogenen Datenbankabfragen mit PostGIS | Slides |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Lightning talk | NULL is unknown (yet) | Slides |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Speaker | Normalize or De-normalize? Relational SQL Columns or JSON Document Attributes? | Slides |
| Gianni Ciolli | EDB | Speaker | The Why and What of WAL | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Query Performance Monitoring For The Absolute Beginner | — |
| Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek | Xata | Speaker | Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Johannes Graën | — | Lightning talk | Travel Romania efficiently - Graph search with CTEs | Slides |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Lightning talk | Boldly Migrate to PostgreSQL with credativ-pg-migrator | Slides |
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Speaker | Building a Data Lakehouse with PostgreSQL: Dive into Formats, Tools, Techniques, and Strategies | Slides |
| Kaarel Moppel | Freelance PostgreSQL Consultant | Speaker | Das 1x1 der Testdatengenerierung mit Postgres | Slides |
| Kaarel Moppel | Freelance PostgreSQL Consultant | Lightning talk | Postgres on spot VMs? | Slides |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Mach das nicht! | Slides |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Lightning talk | The tower of Babel | Slides |
| Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Lightning talk | ML for Systems and Systems for ML | Slides |
| Luigi Nardi | DBtune | Speaker | A benchmark study on the impact of PostgreSQL server parameter tuning | Slides |
| Marlene Retterer | — | Lightning talk | Postgres and Web3 | Slides |
| Matthias Grömmer | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Graphdatenbanken für alle – Warum PostgreSQL mit Apache AGE eine echte Alternative zu Neo4j ist | Slides |
| Michael Hegyi | — | Lightning talk | PG patching with GitLab pipelines | Slides |
| Patrick Lauer | credativ | Speaker | Postgres with many data: To MAXINT and beyond | — |
| Patrick Stählin | Aiven | Speaker | Using logical replication for fun and profit | Slides |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Customizing the Wordle Game Experience with PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Lightning talk | Kudos for the rest of us | Slides |
| Raphael Debinski | — | Lightning talk | pgstat_snap – a (very) poor man’s ASH for PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Renzo Dani | LogObject AG | Speaker | From Oracle to PostgreSQL: A HARD Journey and an Open-Source Awakening | Slides |
Sources
- https://2025.pgday.ch/
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/event/swiss-pgday-2025-2534
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/swiss-pgday-2025-schedule-published-3071/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250430063909/https://www.pgday.ch/common/registration.php
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250909033747/https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/swiss-pgday-2025-new-experiences-postgres-and-karl/