Gwen Shapira
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026Nile7 talks
- 2024Nile Platform Inc2 talks
- 2023Stealth1 talk
- 2019Confluent3 talks
Upcoming appearances
Who’s booked ahead? →Event dates shown; only events starting today or later count. 1 upcoming event.
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QCon San Francisco 2026 – · San Francisco, United States
- When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from a Distributed Postgres Platform speaker Program source ↗
No upcoming appearances are currently recorded.
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
- QCon
- Data Day Texas
- PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon)
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
- AI By the Bay
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2026 | QCon San Francisco 2026 | QCon | speaker | When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from a Distributed Postgres Platform as Nile Distributed systems are built around assumptions about workload behavior: connections have reasonable lifetimes, retries eventually stop, traffic spikes have…Show lessDistributed systems are built around assumptions about workload behavior: connections have reasonable lifetimes, retries eventually stop, traffic spikes have recognizable causes, and application code produces somewhat predictable query patterns. | |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Postgres Conference 2026 | Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | speaker | Beyond vectors: Postgres for Production AI Agents as Nile AI agents are all the hype now and the key to building a production-grade agent is to make sure the model is backed by production-grade data. | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | QCon AI New York 2025 | QCon | speaker | Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI as Nile Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is now a fundamental pillar of enterprise AI, moving beyond initial adoption to production-grade applications. | |
| May 13, 2025 | PGConf.dev 2025 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants as Nile Date: 2025-05-15 Time: 15:30–16:20 Room: Cartier A Level: Intermediate | |
| May 28, 2024 | PGConf.dev 2024 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | Distributed DDL Replication at Global Scale as Nile Date: 2024-05-30 Time: 13:30–14:20 Room: Fletcher(1900) Level: Intermediate | Video |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Postgres Conference 2024 | Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | speaker | Schema Evolution - The Hard Parts as Nile Platform Inc Schema evolution, also known as “schema migrations” is a core part of application development and is considered one of the riskiest - with the potential to…Show lessSchema evolution, also known as “schema migrations” is a core part of application development and is considered one of the riskiest - with the potential to bring down entire production systems with one innocent mistake. | |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Postgres Conference 2024 | Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | speaker | Transaction Isolation in Postgres as Nile Platform Inc Transactions are a key part to many modern databases, relational and non-relational systems alike. At a basic level, transactions allow us to treat a series of…Show lessTransactions are a key part to many modern databases, relational and non-relational systems alike. At a basic level, transactions allow us to treat a series of operations as a single unit. | |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Scale By the Bay 2023 | AI By the Bay | keynote | Keynote: Things Databases Don't Do (but should). as Nile | Video |
| Jun 13, 2023 | QCon New York 2023 | QCon | speaker | The Rise of the Serverless Data Architectures as Nile For a while, it looked like Serverless was just a convenient way to run stateless functions in the cloud. But in the last year we’ve seen the rapid rise in…Show lessFor a while, it looked like Serverless was just a convenient way to run stateless functions in the cloud. But in the last year we’ve seen the rapid rise in serverless data stores. | |
| Jan 28, 2023 | Data Day Texas 2023 | Data Day Texas | keynote | Things databases don’t do - but should! as Stealth Relational databases have been around for 40+ years, so you’d think that by now, they do everything an engineer could possibly need. Surprisingly, this isn’t…Show lessRelational databases have been around for 40+ years, so you’d think that by now, they do everything an engineer could possibly need. Surprisingly, this isn’t quite the case. | |
| Nov 11, 2019 | QCon San Francisco 2019 | QCon | speaker | Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability as Confluent | SlidesVideo |
| Mar 4, 2019 | QCon London 2019 | QCon | speaker | Cloud Native Data Pipelines With Apache Kafka as Confluent | Video |
| Jan 26, 2019 | Data Day Texas 2019 | Data Day Texas | keynote | Lies Enterprise Architects Tell as Confluent Lets face it - we are all liars. We often lie unintentionally and most of all - we lie to ourselves. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holden Karau | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Alvaro Hernandez | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Yurii Rashkovskii | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Tim Berglund | 3 | — | 2023 |
| BAJI SHAIK | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Kelly | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Clay Jackson | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dave Stokes | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dr. Ibrar Ahmed | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Greg Dostatni | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jonah Harris | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Liz Fong-Jones | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mallika Rao | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mason Sharp | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Michael Meskes | 2 | — | 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.