Conference Sessions - Postgres Summit US 2026

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for Postgres Summit US 2026. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

Session

• 30 Years of PostgreSQL and Zero Obituaries (Gary Evans)
• 500 PostgreSQL Clusters Later: Building a CloudNativePG-Powered DBaaS Platform (Chris Gooch)
• Achieving True Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 : Goodbye, Maintenance Windows (Rajni Baliyan)
• Always Be Repacking: Architecting a Continuous Repacking Orchestrator for High-Throughput PostgreSQL (Ankit Mittal)
• An Overview of Index Prefetching (Peter Geoghegan)
• A PostgreSQL 19 whirlwind tour (Jonathan S. Katz)
• A Secret Decoder Ring for Postgres Replication: A Beginner’s Guide (Claire Giordano)
• Beginner Postgres Workshop 1 - Getting Comfortable with Postgres (Devrim Gündüz, Ryan Booz)
• Beginner Postgres Workshop 2 - Postgres DBA Basics Nobody Told You (Devrim Gündüz, Ryan Booz)
• Beginner Postgres Workshop 3 - Locks, Monitoring & the Config That Matters (Devrim Gündüz, Ryan Booz)
• Bridging Legacy Apps and Modern Data in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to the Chaos (John Sly)
• Building infrastructure on Postgres forks (Tatiana Krupenya)
• Building the next generation of Postgres contributors: what’s working & what’s getting in the way (Claire Giordano)
• CloudNativePG: Rethinking PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes (Gabriele Fedi)
• Comparative Study of PostgreSQL CDC Plugins and Open-Source Consumer Ecosystems (Amit Kapila)
• Deep dive into the PostgreSQL Frontend/Backend protocol (Xavier Fischer)
• Everything to know about Postgres Locks (Brian Brennglass)
• Explaining the Unexplainable: Mastering EXPLAIN ANALYZE for Real-World Query Tuning (Kavach Shah, Nikunj Doshi)
• From Inclusion to Involvement (Stacey Haysler)
• From Oracle to Postgres for 40 Million Users: What a National G2C Migration Actually Looks Like (Hari Kiran)
• From the Ground Up: Building and Growing PostgreSQL Communities in Africa (Benedict Kofi Amofah)
• How Aura Frames Scaled RDS Postgres for Peak Christmas Traffic (#1 in App Store) (Andrew Atkinson)
• Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: Combining Vector and Full-Text for Real-World Applications (Shayon Sanyal)
• I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That! (Robert Treat)
• I Learned About PostgreSQL From That (Shane Borden)
• Index Maintenance in Production: The Ops Nobody Talks About (Ranjan Burman)
• Just enough Postgres compatibility to keep your sanity (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
• 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)
• Navigating the data universe: multi-agent AI sytem for proactive database monitoring and DBA decision support in large astronomy science archives (Joaquim Oliveira)
• Per-Backend Statistics: See What Every Connection Is Actually Doing (Bertrand Drouvot)
• pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? (Robert Haas)
• PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook (Nazneen Jafri, Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi)
• PostgreSQL Performance Mysteries: When Low IOPS Still Means High Latency (Gayathri Paderla)
• PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud (Raluca Constantin)
• Pushing PostgreSQL to the Limit: How to Benchmark Hardware with Postgres (Richard Yen)
• Same Postgres, Moving Ground: How Infrastructure Changes Shape Database Behavior (Divya Bhargov)
• Schema-First PostgreSQL Migrations: Editing the End State (Greg Potter)
• Seamless Major Version Upgrades: Bringing DDL Replication to PostgreSQL (Masahiko Sawada)
• Securing the Data Layer for AI Agents and MCP Servers (Gleb Otochkin)
• Solving Healthcare Claims Bottlenecks with Agentic Postgres Architectures (Anand Rao, Makhoul Cassis)
• So You Want to Maintain a PostgreSQL Driver (Sehrope Sarkuni)
• SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching (Alex Anto Kizhakeyyepunnil Joy, Kranthi Kiran Burada)
• The Pager is the Product: PostgreSQL in Cloud Environments (Stephen Brandon)
• Using PostgreSQL as a Control Plane for Reliable AI Workflows (Payal Singh)
• What's Missing in Postgres? (Bruce Momjian)
• When TOAST Burns — Diagnosing and Surviving OID Exhaustion in PostgreSQL (Mohamed Ali)
• Would you still love me if I was a worm (who needed to learn Postgres)? (Selena Flannery)

Sponsor

• Agentic AI-Powered Oracle/SQL to PostgreSQL Migration: Achieving 4x Faster Modernization (Hari Prasad Bymothaka, Neeta Goel, Venkatnadhan Thirunalai)
• Agentic Engineering, Agentic Operations and Agentic Analytics with Postgres (Phillip Merrick)
• Agent Memory Is Three Postgres Extensions in a Trench Coat (Heather Downing)
• An Optimizer, Not an Agent: Deterministic, Cost-Based Postgres Tuning (Nima Torabi, Vitalii Akimov)
• Become a PG_STAT_* (Star) (Chirag Dave, Sami Imseih)
• Deconstructing Lakebase: Kernel Mechanics for Dynamic Memory, Direct-to-Storage Writes, and Lakehouse Access (David Wein)
• Fast and Safe Performance Optimization Using Production Grounded Synthetic Data (Alex Weisberger)
• From Design to Production: GUI-Driven Workflows Across the PostgreSQL Database Life Cycle (with Navicat) (Matthew Yau)
• Keynote: Google Databases in agentic driven world (Gleb Otochkin, Shane Borden)
• Keynote: Lessons Learned from Developing Agentic AI Tooling for Postgres (Phillip Merrick)
• Keynote: Postgres @ Amazon (Robert Treat)
• Keyword, Semantic, or Both? A Field Guide to Search in Postgres (Erin Mikail Staples)
• Optimizing Postgres Queries with Visualizations and LLMs (Lukas Fittl, Maciek Sakrejda)
• Postgres in da ClickHouse (David Wheeler)
• PostgreSQL in the Age of Gemini: Building Intelligent Database Applications (Cody Fincher)
• The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem (Devrim Gündüz)
• Tour of Postgres on Azure with HorizonDB, Agentic workflows, & VS Code (Abe Omorogbe, Jared Meade)

Breaks

• Postgres Women's and Non-binary Community Lunch (Stacey Haysler)