Conferences / Swiss PGDay
Swiss PGDay 2026 (9th Swiss PGDay)
Jun 25–26, 2026 · OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil, Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Conference
- Swiss PGDay Database
- Dates
- Jun 25, 2026 – Jun 26, 2026
- Venue
- OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil
- Place
- Rapperswil, SG, Switzerland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2026.pgday.ch
- Recorded
- 14 sponsors · 35 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 9th Swiss PGDay per the official About page. Two days, two tracks (mainly English, some German), lightning talks, posters, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (role "birds of a feather"), networking event. Site moved to the pgeu-system conference template. Speakers: full schedule; name + company as shown on the /schedule/ page; slides_url from each session page. Registration page said the conference was close to selling out (waitlist activated). Lightning talk speakers from the LT session page (company only where shown elsewhere in that year's schedule).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discounted (students / on request) | CHF 65 | — | 2026.pgday.ch | |
| SwissPUG (member rate) | CHF 140 | — | SwissPUG members; corporate members for up to four participants | 2026.pgday.ch |
| Regular | CHF 165 | — | no VAT; incl. lunch and networking event | 2026.pgday.ch |
| Community Supporter | CHF 220 | — | 2026.pgday.ch |
Sponsors 14
Community 2
- CH Open · Our Partners
- OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) · Our Partners
Other 12
- Aiven · Our Sponsors
- Amazon Web Services · Our Sponsors
- Bedag Solutions AG · Our Supporters
- Camptocamp · Our Supporters
- credativ · Our Sponsors
- CYBERTEC · Our Sponsors
- dbi services · Our Sponsors
- DBtune · Our Supporters
- Microsoft · Our Supporters
- Navicat · Our Supporters
- PostFinance · Our Sponsors
- Sensational AG · Our Supporters
Speakers and talks 35
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josef Machytka | credativ | Keynote | The Next Generation Story of PostgreSQL: From Systems Mechanics to Experience Builders | — |
| Adrien Obernesser | dbi services | Speaker | The cost of security debt in PostgreSQL when implementing AI workflows | Slides |
| Alberto Piai | — | Lightning talk | Contributing (code) to postgres | Slides |
| Andrea Minetti | WSL / wavein.ch | Speaker | PGLite - Bring PostgreSQL to the Browser | — |
| Andreas Geppert | Zürcher Kantonalbank | Speaker | Plattformübergreifende Resilienz in agilen Umgebungen durch Logische Replikation | — |
| Barbora Linhartová | Baremon | Speaker | Teaching the Elephant to Swim: In-Place Analytics with Kafka and pg_duckdb | — |
| Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon | HUG | Speaker | Bad Prompts, Bad Plans: Teaching AI to Understand PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Daniel Westermann | dbi services | Speaker | Was wir schon über PostgreSQL 19 wissen | Slides |
| Devrim Gunduz | EDB | Speaker | Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions | Slides |
| Dimitris Sideris | TigerData | Speaker | Zooming in on OOM: A Deep Dive into Postgres and Linux Memory | Slides |
| Dirk Krautschick | Aiven | Speaker | Nachhaltiges Datenbank Performance Profiling in PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Divya Sharma | Supabase | Speaker | Decoding postgresql.conf – which parameters to tweak and when? | Slides |
| Domenico di Salvia | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching | Slides |
| Emrah Becer | European Patent Office (EPO) | Speaker | Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Is It a Blessing or a Curse? | Slides |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Fun With Radios: Using PostGIS and PostgreSQL in Amateur Radio | — |
| Hannu Krosig | — | Lightning talk | PL/<any> - Write your own PL in JS | Slides |
| Harmeet Singh | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching | Slides |
| Hervé Schweitzer | dbi services | Birds of a feather | 'Birds of a Feather'-Session: Data Migration Is Easy. Data Validation Is Not | — |
| Jan Suchánek | Baremon | Speaker | Teaching the Elephant to Swim: In-Place Analytics with Kafka and pg_duckdb | — |
| Laurenz Albe | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Zeilensperren in PostgreSQL: eine anatomische Betrachtung | Slides |
| Luigi Nardi | — | Lightning talk | Guessing application owner desires | Slides |
| Marion Baumgartner | Camptocamp | Speaker | Geodaten-Management mit PostGIS | Slides |
| Michael Banck | credativ | Speaker | Optimizer Hints in PostgreSQL | Slides |
| Miguel Toscano | Speaker | Surviving pgvector in Production: A Reality Check | Slides | |
| Nikolay Kuznetsov | — | Lightning talk | SQL-first application development with sqlc | Slides |
| Oleksii Kliukin | TigerData | Speaker | Zooming in on OOM: A Deep Dive into Postgres and Linux Memory | Slides |
| Pavlo Golub | CYBERTEC | Speaker | Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases | Slides |
| Raphael Debinski | — | Lightning talk | pgclonedb | Slides |
| Stefan Keller | OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) | Speaker | Suche gefunden: Text-Suche ohne Overengineering | Slides |
| Stefan Keller | OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (IFS Institute for Software) | Lightning talk | PostPASS: The OpenStreetMap World in a Table (or Two) | Slides |
| Sudeepta Patra | Schwarz IT | Speaker | The Need for Speed: Mastering WAL-G for High-Performance Backup & Recovery on Kubernetes | — |
| Suraj Kharage | EDB | Speaker | Beginner's guide to PostgreSQL Hacking | Slides |
| Vik Fearing | SQL StdDev | Lightning talk | What is NULL? | — |
| Xavier Fischer | EDB | Birds of a feather | 'Birds of a Feather'-Session: How about being a speaker? | — |
| Xavier Fischer | EDB | Speaker | Deep dive into the PostgreSQL FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol | Slides |