Schedule

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You can find the full conference information at the conference website. This schedule is subject to changes and will be updated when any changes occur.

Tuesday, September 13

Ft. Worth 1

09:00 - 12:00
#1 - Introduction to PostGIS
 Regina Obe, Regina Obe and Leo Hsu
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:30 - 16:30
#3 - Linux tuning to improve PostgreSQL performance: from hardware to postgresql.conf
 Ilya Kosmodemiansky

Ft. Worth 2

09:00 - 12:00
#2 - Seamless failover with pgBouncer and Consul
 Scott Mead
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:30 - 16:30
#4 - Adv. SQL + Functions
 Joe Conway, Stephen Frost

Amarillo

09:00 - 12:00
#5 - Autoscaling PostgreSQL with Kubernetes and OpenShift Part 1 (Free)
 Jeff McCormick, Steven Pousty
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:30 - 16:30
#6 - Autoscaling PostgreSQL with Kubernetes and OpenShift Part 2 (Free)
 Jeff McCormick, Steven Pousty

Wednesday, September 14

Dallas 1 & 2

08:00 - 08:45 - Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00
Opening Remarks
 Stephen Frost
09:00 - 09:20
Diamond Keynote
 Simon Riggs
09:25 - 10:00
Keynote, Digital Service Expert at the United States Digital Service, @USDS
 Marianne Bellotti
10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
A Look at the Elephant's Tail
 Greg Stark
11:30 - 12:20
A look at the Elephants trunk - PostgreSQL 9.6
 Magnus Hagander
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Flexible Indexing with Postgres
 Bruce Momjian
14:30 - 15:20
CREATE INDEX ... USING RUM. RUM index and its applications to FTS.
Oleg Bartunov
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Locked Up: Advances in Postgres Data Encryption
 Vibhor Kumar
17:00 - 17:45 - LIGHTNING TALKS!
18:00 - 20:00 - Conference Reception

Ft. Worth 1

08:00 - 08:45 - Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00
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09:00 - 09:20
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09:20 - 10:00
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10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
Assume database credentials have leaked: Dynamic credentials...
 Sean Chittenden
11:30 - 12:20
Efficiently Backing up Terabytes of Data with pgBackRest
 David Steele
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
The Elephant Meets the Whale - Bringing PostgreSQL to Production on Docker
 Phil Vacca
14:30 - 15:20
Reviewing PostgreSQL Patches for Fun and Profit
 David Steele
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Identifying Slow Queries and Fixing Them!
 Stephen Frost
17:00 - 17:45 - LIGHTNING TALKS!
18:00 - 20:00 - Conference Reception

Ft. Worth 2

08:00 - 08:45 - Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00
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09:00 - 09:20
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09:20 - 10:00
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10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
PGLogical - the logical replication for PostgreSQL
 Petr Jelinek
11:30 - 12:20
Shall We Play a Game? (with CTEs)
 James Coleman
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Performance Improvements in PostgreSQL 9.5, 9.6 and beyond
 Tomas Vondra
14:30 - 15:20
All the Big Data Sciency stuff you never knew Postgres could do
 Jim Nasby
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Using PostGIS to Handle Geospatial Data as Vectors and Rasters
 Dylan Herron
17:00 - 17:45 - LIGHTNING TALKS!
18:00 - 20:00 - Conference Reception

Thursday, September 15

Dallas 1 & 2

08:00 - 08:50 - Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50
Advanced Postgres Monitoring
 Denish Patel
10:00 - 10:20 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
An opinionated guide to PostgreSQL replication
 Peter Eisentraut
11:30 - 12:20
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: New Features and Lessons Learned
 Grant McAlister
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
PostgreSQL Backups the modern ways
 Magnus Hagander
14:30 - 15:20
Big Data with PostgreSQL
 Simon Riggs
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
PostgreSQL worst practices
 Ilya Kosmodemiansky
17:00 - 17:30 - Closing Session

Ft. Worth 1

08:00 - 08:50 - Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50
Using PostgreSQL in a Small Business
 Preston Hagar
10:00 - 10:20 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
Administering Postgres using Docker and Openshift
 Jeff McCormick
11:30 - 12:20
Permissions in Postgres
 Nathan Wagner
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Elephant Herd as a Service: Managing Hundreds of Postgres Instances
 Shaun Thomas
14:30 - 15:20
Managing OS Provided PostgreSQL Packages
 Keith Fiske
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Data Architecture with PostgreSQL
Kevin Kempter
17:00 - 17:30 - Closing Session

Ft. Worth 2

08:00 - 08:50 - Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50
Bitemporal Data Model: making it happened in Postgres
 Chad Slaughter, Henrietta Dombrovskaya
10:00 - 10:20 - Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:20
Understanding Durability in Postgres
Andres Freund
11:30 - 12:20
PostgreSQL with Chef & Puppet
 Scott Mead
12:30 - 13:20 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Data Analysis with PL/Python
 Keith Robertson
14:30 - 15:20
JDBC performance from the inside
 Dave Cramer
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:50
Non-Relational Postgres
 Bruce Momjian
17:00 - 17:30 - Closing Session

Friday, September 16

Golf Course!

08:00 - 13:00
PostgresOpen 2016 Charity Golf Tournament!
 Stephen Frost