PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2026

Tuesday 09:10

09:10 – 09:55

Room: Saal A1 Track: Internals

Zeilensperren in PostgreSQL: eine anatomische Betrachtung

• Laurenz Albe Cybertec

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09:10 – 09:55

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work

• Stefan Fercot Data Egret

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09:10 – 09:55

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Achieving Reliable Application Transactions in Multi-Region PostgreSQL: Real-World Challenges and Solutions

• Yann Allandit AWS

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Tuesday 10:25

10:25 – 11:10

Room: Saal A1 Track: Developer

Ein Jahr PostgreSQL statt Oracle – Das Leben danach

• Jonas Gassenmeyer DB Systel

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10:25 – 11:10

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

SQL Injection Is Boring—Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching

• Dwarka Rao AWS

• Kranthi Kiran Burada Amazon Web Services

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10:25 – 11:10

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

PG Tricks

• Chris Ellis Nexteam

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10:25 – 11:10

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

What Can Redgate Actually Do for Your Postgres Stack? Let's Find Out.

• Nick Hape Redgate

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Tuesday 11:20

11:20 – 12:05

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

PostgreSQL Klone mit Reflink-Kopien (und was wir dadurch über Backups lernen können!)

• Julian Markwort CYBERTEC

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11:20 – 12:05

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

Choosing your exporter: Pros and Cons of PostgreSQL exporters for telemetry data.

• Orlando Kadaffy Talavera Arauz Schwarz IT

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11:20 – 12:05

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Visualizing PostgreSQL Storage Internals

• Radim Marek boringSQL

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11:20 – 12:05

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Migrating Legacy & Proprietary Databases to PostgreSQL with credativ-pg-migrator

• Josef Machytka credativ

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Tuesday 12:15

12:15 – 13:00

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

Benchmarking - An unexpected Journey

• Dirk Krautschick Aiven

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12:15 – 13:00

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

Vector and VictoriaLogs: Powerhouse combo for Logging Observability in modern database infrastructure

• Priyanka Chatterjee Schwarz IT( STACKIT)

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12:15 – 13:00

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Everything you need to know about collations

• Andreas Karlsson Percona

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12:15 – 13:00

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Compliant and fully automated PostgreSQL

• Hans-Jürgen Schönig CYBERTEC

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Tuesday 13:55

13:55 – 14:40

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

Was bedeutet der EU Cyber Resilience Act für PostgreSQL und seine Anwender?

• Peter Eisentraut EDB

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13:55 – 14:40

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be wrong (and what to do about it)

• Mohsin Ejaz DBtune

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13:55 – 14:40

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

More Datacenters, Less Problems

• Fabiana Scala Datadog

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13:55 – 14:40

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

I'm Afraid of the Database: How I gained confidence in PostgreSQL as an App Developer

• Jay Miller Aiven

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Tuesday 14:50

14:50 – 15:35

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

PostgreSQL AIO in der Praxis

• Christoph Moench-Tegeder Accenture

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14:50 – 15:35

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

The Elephant That Learns: How to use Machine Learning to Optimize PostgreSQL

• Charly Batista EDB

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14:50 – 15:35

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Hey, I'm using that! Fixing lock contention in OLTP.

• Ants Aasma CYBERTEC

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14:50 – 15:35

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Data Migration Is Easy. Data Validation Is Not.

• Hervé Schweitzer dbi services

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Tuesday 15:45

15:45 – 16:30

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

20 Years in the Trenches: What Postgres Can Learn from the Proprietary World

• Jan Wieremjewicz Percona

• Kai Percona

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15:45 – 16:30

Room: Saal A2 Track: DBA

Async I/O in PostgreSQL 18: Storage Finally Matters Again

• Chris Engelbert simplyblock GmbH

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15:45 – 16:30

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

PostgreSQL Migrations Without Drama

• Daria Nikolaenko Data Egret

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15:45 – 16:30

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Silver Sponsor Lightning Talks

• Andreas Scherbaum EDB

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Tuesday 17:00

17:00 – 17:15

Room: Saal A1 Track: Platinum Sponsor Keynotes

PostgreSQL digital independence

• Hans-Jürgen Schönig CYBERTEC

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Tuesday 17:15

17:15 – 17:30

Room: Saal A1 Track: Platinum Sponsor Keynotes

Iceberg Ahead! Why PostgreSQL is the Lifeboat (and the Captain) of the Modern Data Lake

• Jay Miller, Dirk Krautschick Aiven

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Tuesday 17:30

17:30 – 17:45

Room: Saal A1 Track: Platinum Sponsor Keynotes

The next 10 years of Postgres

• Álvaro Herrera EDB

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Wednesday 09:00

09:00 – 09:45

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room

• Anton Borisov Fresha

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09:00 – 09:45

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

Beyond work_mem Myths: A Source‑Code‑Guided Tour Through PostgreSQL Memory

• Josef Machytka credativ GmbH

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09:00 – 09:45

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Into the Woods: Finding Your Way with B-Trees in PostgreSQL

• Sergey Dudoladov Zalando SE

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Wednesday 10:15

10:15 – 11:00

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

When a Postgres Operator decision is not forever: approaches and experiences for migrating between Postgres Operators

• Takis (Panagiotis) Stathopoulos Percona

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10:15 – 11:00

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

Profiling PostgreSQL: perf, Flame Graphs, and eBPF Tools in Practice

• Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki Nile (thenile.dev)

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10:15 – 11:00

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building AI Agents for PostgreSQL database management

• Divya Sharma

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10:15 – 11:00

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Exploring new enhancements and improvements Fujitsu has delivered to PostgreSQL

• Vincent O'Dea Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres

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Wednesday 11:10

11:10 – 11:55

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

The Need for Speed: Mastering WAL-G for High-Performance Backup & Recovery on Kubernetes

• Sudeepta Patra STACKIT

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11:10 – 11:55

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

The Life of a Tuple in Logical Replication

• Shlok Kumar Kyal Fujitsu

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11:10 – 11:55

Room: Saal B Track: DBA

Embedding Workloads as a New Stress Test for Postgres

• Viktoriia Hrechukha Umka Software

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11:10 – 11:55

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

One Collector to Rule Them All: Unified Observability for PostgreSQL Platforms

• Dirk Aumueller Proventa

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Wednesday 12:40

12:40 – 13:25

Room: Saal A1 Track: General

Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer

• Valeria Kaplan Data Egret GmbH

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12:40 – 13:25

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

Solving complex database problems by starting small

• Derk van Veen Adyen

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12:40 – 13:25

Room: Saal B Track: General

What's Missing in Postgres?

• Bruce Momjian EDB

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12:40 – 13:25

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Digital Sovereignty in Europe: STACKIT as a Secure Cloud Alternative

• Richard Siekmann Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG

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Wednesday 13:35

13:35 – 14:20

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

Operating Postgres as a data source for your analytics pipelines

• Ilya Kosmodemiansky Data Egret

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13:35 – 14:20

Room: Saal A2 Track: Internals

The Secret Handshake: Demystifying PostgreSQL's SCRAM Authentication Protocol

• Jorge Solorzano Schwarz IT

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13:35 – 14:20

Room: Saal B Track: Developer

It works on my database - Regression testing of SQL queries

• Radim Marek boringSQL

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13:35 – 14:20

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Der Weg zu PostgreSQL: Strategien, Souveränität und Best Practices

• Raphael Salguero EDB

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Wednesday 14:40

14:40 – 15:40

Room: Saal A1 Track: DBA

Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases

• Pavlo Golub CYBERTEC

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14:40 – 15:40

Room: Saal A2 Track: General

How I built an open source community in Armenia

• Emma Saroyan PG Armenia

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14:40 – 15:40

Room: Saal B Track: DBA

Don’t OIDC Yourself in the Foot: Postgres 18’s New Auth Explained

• Zsolt Parragi Percona

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14:40 – 15:40

Room: 360° Nord Track: Sponsors

Run PostgreSQL Like a Product: Operational Readiness for Databases

• Roland Stirnimann Accenture

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