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 (Part 1) (Devrim Gündüz, Ryan Booz)
• Beginner Postgres Workshop (Part 2) (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)
• 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)
• How small teams maintain production Postgres without a DBA (Steve Yonkeu)
• 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)
• 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)
• Postgres on EC2, RDS, and Aurora Global Database from the Pager's Point of View (Stephen Brandon)
• 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)
• Scaling Postgres Beyond Query Optimization (Alex Yarotsky)
• 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 (AMEY BANARSE, Makhoul Cassis)
• SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching (Alex Anto Kizhakeyyepunnil Joy, Kranthi Kiran Burada)
• 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, Nazneen Jafri)
• WHERE password IS NULL: Granular Workload Identity for Postgres with mTLS (Chelsea Dole)
• Would you still love me if I was a worm (who needed to learn Postgres)? (Selena Flannery)

Breaks

• Postgres Women's Lunch (Stacey Haysler)