Adam Wolk
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026Microsoft6 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
- PGDay UK
- Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2)
- SQLBits
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | PGConf.EU 2026 (16th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | sponsored talk | Scaling Beyond Traditional Postgres Architectures with Azure HorizonDB as Microsoft Get an introduction to Azure HorizonDB, Microsoft's new PostgreSQL service built on a shared-storage architecture. In this session, you'll see how separating…Show lessGet an introduction to Azure HorizonDB, Microsoft's new PostgreSQL service built on a shared-storage architecture. In this session, you'll see how separating compute and storage changes the way PostgreSQL systems can scale and enables capabilities such as rapid failover, elastic read scaling, and independent compute growth. | |
| Sep 8, 2026 | PGDay UK 2026 | PGDay UK | sponsored talk | Scalable PostgreSQL architecture with Azure HorizonDB as Microsoft | |
| Sep 8, 2026 | PGDay UK 2026 | PGDay UK | sponsored talk | Scalable PostgreSQL architecture with Azure HorizonDB as Microsoft | |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2026 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2) | speaker | Knocking at the Door: Fuzzing libpq and PgBouncer as Microsoft Fuzzing is a simple but powerful technique for discovering edge-case bugs in large, stateful systems like PostgreSQL. | |
| Oct 21, 2025 | PGConf.EU 2025 (15th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | sponsored talk | Pushing Postgres Forward: From Open Source Contributions to Intelligent Tuning as Microsoft Microsoft’s contributions to PostgreSQL continue to grow, from upstream performance improvements to innovations in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This talk will…Show lessMicrosoft’s contributions to PostgreSQL continue to grow, from upstream performance improvements to innovations in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This talk will focus on our open source work, with a deep dive into automated index tuning—how it works, what it enables, and where it’s going. | Video |
| Mar 19, 2024 | SQLBits 2024 | SQLBits | speaker | Extendable by Design: Building Generative AI Apps with Postgres and Vector Storage and Azure AIExplore the power and extendability of PostgreSQL in this hands-on session. Learn how PostgreSQL’s extensibility enables the adoption of innovative features…Show lessExplore the power and extendability of PostgreSQL in this hands-on session. Learn how PostgreSQL’s extensibility enables the adoption of innovative features like vector storage through the pgvector extension and seamless integration with Azure OpenAI. Witness a live demonstration of building a... | Video |
| Dec 12, 2023 | PGConf.EU 2023 (13th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | speaker | Tame the growth of your database as Microsoft Learn how to tame the growth of your database by understanding copy-on-write and HOT updates. PostgreSQL MVCC model is based on copy-on-write semantics. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ants Aasma | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Jimmy Angelakos | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Magnus Hagander | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Teresa Lopes | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Tomas Vondra | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Andres Freund | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Boriss Mejias | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Ellis | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Claire Giordano | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Dave Page | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Derk van Veen | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Divya Sharma | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Grant Fritchey | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek | 3 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.