Schedule

September 30 - October 2 2026

Wednesday, September 30

Rossi
Letterpress
Type
Cover (Sponsor)
Workshop
08:0009:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:3009:40
Welcoming Remarks
09:4010:00
Keynote: Lessons Learned from Developing Agentic AI Tooling for Postgres
Phillip Merrick
10:0010:30
Coffee Break
10:3011:20
A PostgreSQL 19 whirlwind tour
Jonathan S. Katz
Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: Combining Vector and Full-Text for Real-World Applications
Shayon Sanyal
Just enough Postgres compatibility to keep your sanity
Jelte Fennema-Nio
Beginner Postgres Workshop 1 - Getting Comfortable with Postgres
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
11:3012:20
Killing the Cron Job: Rescuing a Production Odoo Workload on PostgreSQL
Umair Shahid
Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes: A Practical Guide for Database Administrators
Gabriele Bartolini
Achieving True Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 : Goodbye, Maintenance Windows
Rajni Baliyan
Postgres in da ClickHouse
David Wheeler
Beginner Postgres Workshop 2 - Postgres DBA Basics Nobody Told You
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
12:2013:30
Lunch
13:3014:20
pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
Robert Haas
Same Postgres, Moving Ground: How Infrastructure Changes Shape Database Behavior
Divya Bhargov
Using PostgreSQL as a Control Plane for Reliable AI Workflows
Payal Singh
Beginner Postgres Workshop 3 - Locks, Monitoring & the Config That Matters
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
14:3015:20
What's Missing in Postgres?
Bruce Momjian
How small teams maintain production Postgres without a DBA
Steve Yonkeu
An Overview of Index Prefetching
Peter Geoghegan
Tour of Postgres on Azure with HorizonDB, Agentic workflows, & VS Code
Abe Omorogbe · Jared Meade
15:2016:00
Coffee Break
16:0016:50
Everything to know about Postgres Locks
Brian Brennglass
Comparative Study of PostgreSQL CDC Plugins and Open-Source Consumer Ecosystems
Amit Kapila
From Inclusion to Involvement
Stacey Haysler
The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem
Devrim Gündüz
16:5018:00
Reception
08:00–09:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:30–09:40
Rossi
Welcoming Remarks
09:40–10:00
Rossi
Keynote: Lessons Learned from Developing Agentic AI Tooling for Postgres
Phillip Merrick
10:00–10:30
Coffee Break
10:30–11:20
Rossi
A PostgreSQL 19 whirlwind tour
Jonathan S. Katz
Letterpress
Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: Combining Vector and Full-Text for Real-World Applications
Shayon Sanyal
Type
Just enough Postgres compatibility to keep your sanity
Jelte Fennema-Nio
Workshop
Beginner Postgres Workshop 1 - Getting Comfortable with Postgres
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
11:30–12:20
Rossi
Killing the Cron Job: Rescuing a Production Odoo Workload on PostgreSQL
Umair Shahid
Letterpress
Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes: A Practical Guide for Database Administrators
Gabriele Bartolini
Type
Achieving True Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 : Goodbye, Maintenance Windows
Rajni Baliyan
Cover (Sponsor)
Postgres in da ClickHouse
David Wheeler
Workshop
Beginner Postgres Workshop 2 - Postgres DBA Basics Nobody Told You
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
12:20–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:20
Rossi
pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
Robert Haas
Letterpress
Same Postgres, Moving Ground: How Infrastructure Changes Shape Database Behavior
Divya Bhargov
Type
Using PostgreSQL as a Control Plane for Reliable AI Workflows
Payal Singh
Workshop
Beginner Postgres Workshop 3 - Locks, Monitoring & the Config That Matters
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
14:30–15:20
Rossi
What's Missing in Postgres?
Bruce Momjian
Letterpress
How small teams maintain production Postgres without a DBA
Steve Yonkeu
Type
An Overview of Index Prefetching
Peter Geoghegan
Cover (Sponsor)
Tour of Postgres on Azure with HorizonDB, Agentic workflows, & VS Code
Abe Omorogbe · Jared Meade
15:20–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–16:50
Rossi
Everything to know about Postgres Locks
Brian Brennglass
Letterpress
Comparative Study of PostgreSQL CDC Plugins and Open-Source Consumer Ecosystems
Amit Kapila
Type
From Inclusion to Involvement
Stacey Haysler
Cover (Sponsor)
The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem
Devrim Gündüz
16:50–18:00
Reception

Thursday, October 01

Rossi
Letterpress
Type
Cover (Sponsor)
08:3009:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:4010:00
Keynote: Postgres @ Amazon
Robert Treat
10:0010:30
Coffee Break
10:3011:20
How Aura Frames Scaled RDS Postgres for Peak Christmas Traffic (#1 in App Store)
Andrew Atkinson
Solving Healthcare Claims Bottlenecks with Agentic Postgres Architectures
AMEY BANARSE · Makhoul Cassis
Deep dive into the PostgreSQL Frontend/Backend protocol
Xavier Fischer
Agentic Engineering, Agentic Operations and Agentic Analytics with Postgres
Phillip Merrick
11:3012:20
PostgreSQL Performance Mysteries: When Low IOPS Still Means High Latency
Gayathri Paderla
Would you still love me if I was a worm (who needed to learn Postgres)?
Selena Flannery
Schema-First PostgreSQL Migrations: Editing the End State
Greg Potter
Agent Memory Is Three Postgres Extensions in a Trench Coat
Heather Downing
12:2013:30
Lunch
Postgres Women's Lunch
Stacey Haysler
13:3014:20
Explaining the Unexplainable: Mastering EXPLAIN ANALYZE for Real-World Query Tuning
Kavach Shah · Nikunj Doshi
Navigating the data universe: multi-agent AI sytem for proactive database monitoring and DBA decision support in large astronomy science archives
Joaquim Oliveira
30 Years of PostgreSQL and Zero Obituaries
Gary Evans
Fast and Safe Performance Optimization Using Production Grounded Synthetic Data
Alex Weisberger
14:3015:20
500 PostgreSQL Clusters Later: Building a CloudNativePG-Powered DBaaS Platform
Chris Gooch
A Secret Decoder Ring for Postgres Replication: A Beginner’s Guide
Claire Giordano
Pushing PostgreSQL to the Limit: How to Benchmark Hardware with Postgres
Richard Yen
Aurora PostgreSQL: Reimagined Architecture For Modern Applications
ANITA SINGH · Kanishka Chaturvedi
15:2016:00
Coffee Break
16:0016:50
From Oracle to Postgres for 40 Million Users: What a National G2C Migration Actually Looks Like
Hari Kiran
Always Be Repacking: Architecting a Continuous Repacking Orchestrator for High-Throughput PostgreSQL
Ankit Mittal
From the Ground Up: Building and Growing PostgreSQL Communities in Africa
Benedict Kofi Amofah
How Resilient Is Your Postgres?
Jesse Wang
08:30–09:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:40–10:00
Rossi
Keynote: Postgres @ Amazon
Robert Treat
10:00–10:30
Coffee Break
10:30–11:20
Rossi
How Aura Frames Scaled RDS Postgres for Peak Christmas Traffic (#1 in App Store)
Andrew Atkinson
Letterpress
Solving Healthcare Claims Bottlenecks with Agentic Postgres Architectures
AMEY BANARSE · Makhoul Cassis
Type
Deep dive into the PostgreSQL Frontend/Backend protocol
Xavier Fischer
Cover (Sponsor)
Agentic Engineering, Agentic Operations and Agentic Analytics with Postgres
Phillip Merrick
11:30–12:20
Rossi
PostgreSQL Performance Mysteries: When Low IOPS Still Means High Latency
Gayathri Paderla
Letterpress
Would you still love me if I was a worm (who needed to learn Postgres)?
Selena Flannery
Type
Schema-First PostgreSQL Migrations: Editing the End State
Greg Potter
Cover (Sponsor)
Agent Memory Is Three Postgres Extensions in a Trench Coat
Heather Downing
12:20–13:30
Lunch
Letterpress
Postgres Women's Lunch
Stacey Haysler
13:30–14:20
Rossi
Explaining the Unexplainable: Mastering EXPLAIN ANALYZE for Real-World Query Tuning
Kavach Shah · Nikunj Doshi
Letterpress
Navigating the data universe: multi-agent AI sytem for proactive database monitoring and DBA decision support in large astronomy science archives
Joaquim Oliveira
Type
30 Years of PostgreSQL and Zero Obituaries
Gary Evans
Cover (Sponsor)
Fast and Safe Performance Optimization Using Production Grounded Synthetic Data
Alex Weisberger
14:30–15:20
Rossi
500 PostgreSQL Clusters Later: Building a CloudNativePG-Powered DBaaS Platform
Chris Gooch
Letterpress
A Secret Decoder Ring for Postgres Replication: A Beginner’s Guide
Claire Giordano
Type
Pushing PostgreSQL to the Limit: How to Benchmark Hardware with Postgres
Richard Yen
Cover (Sponsor)
Aurora PostgreSQL: Reimagined Architecture For Modern Applications
ANITA SINGH · Kanishka Chaturvedi
15:20–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–16:50
Rossi
From Oracle to Postgres for 40 Million Users: What a National G2C Migration Actually Looks Like
Hari Kiran
Letterpress
Always Be Repacking: Architecting a Continuous Repacking Orchestrator for High-Throughput PostgreSQL
Ankit Mittal
Type
From the Ground Up: Building and Growing PostgreSQL Communities in Africa
Benedict Kofi Amofah
Cover (Sponsor)
How Resilient Is Your Postgres?
Jesse Wang

Friday, October 02

Rossi
Letterpress
Type
Cover (Sponsor)
08:3009:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:4010:00
Keynote
10:0010:30
Coffee Break
10:3011:20
Securing the Data Layer for AI Agents and MCP Servers
Gleb Otochkin
CloudNativePG: Rethinking PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes
Gabriele Fedi
Building infrastructure on Postgres forks
Tatiana Krupenya
Deconstructing Lakebase: Kernel Mechanics for Dynamic Memory, Direct-to-Storage Writes, and Lakehouse Access
David Wein
11:3012:20
I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
Robert Treat
PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook
Nazneen Jafri · Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi
Seamless Major Version Upgrades: Bringing DDL Replication to PostgreSQL
Masahiko Sawada
An Optimizer, Not an Agent: Deterministic, Cost-Based Postgres Tuning
Nima Torabi · Vitalii Akimov
12:2013:30
Lunch
13:3014:20
Postgres on EC2, RDS, and Aurora Global Database from the Pager's Point of View
Stephen Brandon
Per-Backend Statistics: See What Every Connection Is Actually Doing
Bertrand Drouvot
SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching
Alex Anto Kizhakeyyepunnil Joy · Kranthi Kiran Burada
Optimizing Postgres Queries with Visualizations and LLMs
Lukas Fittl · Maciek Sakrejda
14:3015:20
When TOAST Burns — Diagnosing and Surviving OID Exhaustion in PostgreSQL
Mohamed Ali
Scaling Postgres Beyond Query Optimization
Alex Yarotsky
Bridging Legacy Apps and Modern Data in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to the Chaos
John Sly
Agentic AI-Powered Oracle/SQL to PostgreSQL Migration: Achieving 4x Faster Modernization
Hari Prasad Bymothaka · Neeta Goel · Venkatnadhan Thirunalai
15:2016:00
Coffee Break
16:0016:50
I Learned About PostgreSQL From That
Shane Borden
Index Maintenance in Production: The Ops Nobody Talks About
Ranjan Burman
PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
Raluca Constantin
From Design to Production: GUI-Driven Workflows Across the PostgreSQL Database Life Cycle (with Navicat)
Matthew Yau
17:0017:15
Closing Remarks
08:30–09:30
Registration & Breakfast
09:40–10:00
Rossi
Keynote
10:00–10:30
Coffee Break
10:30–11:20
Rossi
Securing the Data Layer for AI Agents and MCP Servers
Gleb Otochkin
Letterpress
CloudNativePG: Rethinking PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes
Gabriele Fedi
Type
Building infrastructure on Postgres forks
Tatiana Krupenya
Cover (Sponsor)
Deconstructing Lakebase: Kernel Mechanics for Dynamic Memory, Direct-to-Storage Writes, and Lakehouse Access
David Wein
11:30–12:20
Rossi
I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
Robert Treat
Letterpress
PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook
Nazneen Jafri · Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi
Type
Seamless Major Version Upgrades: Bringing DDL Replication to PostgreSQL
Masahiko Sawada
Cover (Sponsor)
An Optimizer, Not an Agent: Deterministic, Cost-Based Postgres Tuning
Nima Torabi · Vitalii Akimov
12:20–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:20
Rossi
Postgres on EC2, RDS, and Aurora Global Database from the Pager's Point of View
Stephen Brandon
Letterpress
Per-Backend Statistics: See What Every Connection Is Actually Doing
Bertrand Drouvot
Type
SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching
Alex Anto Kizhakeyyepunnil Joy · Kranthi Kiran Burada
Cover (Sponsor)
Optimizing Postgres Queries with Visualizations and LLMs
Lukas Fittl · Maciek Sakrejda
14:30–15:20
Rossi
When TOAST Burns — Diagnosing and Surviving OID Exhaustion in PostgreSQL
Mohamed Ali
Letterpress
Scaling Postgres Beyond Query Optimization
Alex Yarotsky
Type
Bridging Legacy Apps and Modern Data in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to the Chaos
John Sly
Cover (Sponsor)
Agentic AI-Powered Oracle/SQL to PostgreSQL Migration: Achieving 4x Faster Modernization
Hari Prasad Bymothaka · Neeta Goel · Venkatnadhan Thirunalai
15:20–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–16:50
Rossi
I Learned About PostgreSQL From That
Shane Borden
Letterpress
Index Maintenance in Production: The Ops Nobody Talks About
Ranjan Burman
Type
PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
Raluca Constantin
Cover (Sponsor)
From Design to Production: GUI-Driven Workflows Across the PostgreSQL Database Life Cycle (with Navicat)
Matthew Yau
17:00–17:15
Rossi
Closing Remarks