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Postgres Conference Orlando 2025 was a success, thanks in no small part to the incredible support of our sponsors and partners. These organizations not only helped make the event possible, but they’re also dedicated champions of the Postgres community. We’re truly grateful for their participation.

We’d like to give a special shout-out to each of our Orlando sponsors and partners. Every one of them plays a unique and important role in the Postgres ecosystem. We encourage our community to learn more about the work they do:

Our Conference Sponsors:

Amazon Web Services (AWS):
AWS delivers fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database services. These services help organizations run secure, scalable, and high-performing workloads in the cloud. Their continued support of the open source ecosystem empowers developers and users around the world.

Google Cloud:
Google Cloud offers powerful, fully managed PostgreSQL solutions through Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. With a focus on scalability, performance, and integrated AI capabilities, Google empowers teams to build modern applications backed by enterprise-grade Postgres.

Our Conference Partners:

Command Prompt, Inc:
Command Prompt is one of the oldest PostgreSQL service providers. They offer consulting, managed services, and training for mission-critical environments. Their deep experience and ongoing advocacy have made them a trusted pillar of the Postgres community.

Fujitsu:
Fujitsu is a global technology leader that provides enterprise-grade PostgreSQL solutions backed by robust support. Their long-term contributions to PostgreSQL development show their commitment to open source and scalable, high-performance deployments.

PgEdge:
PgEdge makes globally distributed PostgreSQL possible with a platform designed for edge and multi-region deployments. By bringing data closer to users, they enhance performance, resilience, and compliance for modern applications.

Quest:
Quest offers proven tools for PostgreSQL monitoring, management, and performance optimization. Their solutions help teams simplify operations, boost efficiency, and manage complex database environments with confidence.

Tacnode:
Tacnode helps organizations power AI and analytics workflows with PostgreSQL at the core. By integrating data platforms and pipelines, they enable smarter and faster data applications across industries.

Redgate:
Redgate is a long-time leader in database tooling and now brings its expertise to PostgreSQL. Their tools, focused on DevOps, automation, and version control, help teams collaborate and deliver changes with speed and safety.

Unlimited with Exceptions:
Unlimited with Exceptions offers integrative health and wellness coaching focused on the whole person, including mind, body, and spirit. Through personalized guidance, they help individuals achieve balance, resilience, and sustainable well-being in daily life.

The Postgres Conference 2025 is set to take place in Orlando, Florida, from March 18 to 21, 2025. This year's conference features an expanded lineup of tracks, including the Dev Track, which is tailored for developers seeking to deepen their expertise in PostgreSQL. This track offers sessions to enhance your development skills, explore new tools, and provide practical insights into PostgreSQL's capabilities.

What to Expect

The Dev Track is curated to address the diverse needs of developers working with PostgreSQL. Attendees can look forward to:

• In-Depth Tutorials: Hands-on sessions that delve into advanced PostgreSQL features and development practices.
• Expert-Led Workshops: Opportunities to learn from seasoned professionals about optimizing performance, implementing machine learning, and more.
• Cutting-Edge Topics: Discussions on the latest tools, extensions, and methodologies in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.

Session Highlights

Here are some standout sessions in the Dev Track:

• A Practical Guide to Set-Based Queries (paid training)

  • Speaker: Aaron Cutshall
  • Date & Time: March 18, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  • Description: This workshop addresses performance issues arising from procedural code in PostgreSQL. Aaron will guide participants through transforming procedural logic into efficient set-based queries, enhancing database performance.
    
    

• Machine Learning using PostgreSQL (paid training)

  • Speaker: Abbas Butt
  • Date & Time: March 18, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Description: Abbas will introduce participants to implementing machine learning algorithms directly within PostgreSQL 15.x using Apache MADlib 2.1.0 installed on Ubuntu 22.04. The session covers practical applications of predictive analytics, enabling developers to harness the power of ML in their databases.
    
    
• From MongoDB to Postgres: Building an Open Source Standard for Document Databases
  
  • Speaker: Peter Farkas
  • Date & Time: March 19, 2025, 4:00 - 4:20 PM
  • Description: This session reviews the current state of document databases, and demonstrates how Postgres handles MongoDB workloads with ease.

For a comprehensive view of all sessions and to plan your itinerary, visit the official conference schedule.

Why Attend?

Participating in the Dev Track at Postgres Conference 2025 offers numerous benefits:

• Skill Enhancement: Gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience with PostgreSQL's advanced features.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow developers, industry experts, and thought leaders.
• Stay Current: Keep abreast of the latest developments, tools, and best practices in the PostgreSQL community.

Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your PostgreSQL development skills. Register now and join us in Orlando for an enriching experience.

Attention PostgresConf US 2018 registered (and potential) attendees -- our discounted room block at the Westin Jersey City Newport has sold out! We have arranged to add an additional small block, lasting until Monday, March 26th or until it sells out.

HOWEVER, these rooms are selling fast so make your reservation ASAP if interested in staying at the Westin with the special conference rate of $260/night plus applicable taxes for attendees who make their reservations via the dedicated Westin webpage or via telephone (888) 627-7148.

If booking via telephone please mention "PostgresConf US 2018" to receive the group rate. Guest room wifi is included in the room rate.

The Westin Jersey City Newport is the best place to stay and enjoy all conference activities. Attendees will mingle at the Westin bar and hallways throughout the afternoon and long into the evening.

Additional Lodging Options

The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Suites Jersey City and the Courtyard Jersey City Newport  are two conveniently located hotels just a short walk from the conference. Rooms may be booked via their respective websites.

PostgresConf US Attendee Poll - Action Needed!

Our PostgresConf US 2018 poll is now open -- your input is valued!

Please take two minutes to provide feedback so we can ensure that the conference is a great experience. Registered attendees should have received an email this week with the poll link. Contact us at organizers@postgresconf.org if you did not receive the poll link.

The purpose of this quick poll is to note any dietary restrictions and gauge interest in the Greenplum and RIS Summits, as well as some of our popular sessions so that we can assign room spaces accordingly

Sponsors

During PostgresConf, you will have plenty of opportunity to meet our great sponsors, including:

• Diamond: Amazon Web Services, Pivotal
• Platinum: Compose, OpenSCG, 2ndQuadrant, Microsoft
• Many more!

For more information, please visit our website https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2018.

Need further assistance? Contact us at organizers@postgresconf.org.

We look forward to seeing you in April in Jersey City!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Whether you're a seasoned technology professional or just stepping in, the Professional Development track at Postgres Conference 2025 is your gateway to success.

This year, the Professional Development track offers a curated lineup of sessions designed to equip you with the skills, strategies, and insights to thrive in an evolving tech landscape. The conference takes place from March 18 - 21, 2025, and will be hosted at the beautiful DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel At The Entrance To Universal in Orlando, Florida.

What to Expect

The Professional Development track goes beyond the technical deep dives of other tracks—it’s all about empowering you to grow as a professional. Some key highlights include:

• Leadership and Team Building: Learn how to lead high-performing teams in the fast-paced world of database management.
• Career Growth Strategies: Gain actionable insights into advancing your career, from presentation tips to navigating complex workplace dynamics.
• Soft Skills for Tech Professionals: Enhance critical skills like communication, conflict resolution, and cross-team collaboration.
• Navigating Change in Tech: Hear from industry leaders about how to adapt to the shifting demands of the tech industry while staying ahead of the curve.

Whether you're a database administrator, developer, team leader, or someone looking to transition into Postgres-focused roles, this track is tailored to your professional growth.

Who Should Attend?

The Professional Development track is ideal for:

• Emerging Professionals: If you're new to the tech industry or transitioning into a Postgres-related role, you'll find valuable guidance to kickstart your journey.
• Seasoned Experts: Even the most experienced professionals can refresh their skills and stay ahead of trends.
• Leaders and Managers: Gain new tools for leading teams, managing stress, and fostering innovation in your organization.
• Tech Enthusiasts: If you're looking to grow personally and professionally within the tech industry, this track is for you.

Why You Should Register Now

Don’t miss this opportunity to invest in yourself and your future. The skills and insights you’ll gain at Postgres Conference 2025 could make the difference in your next career move or project success. Secure your spot and begin planning your schedule for the event.

Ready to take the next step? Register now for Postgres Conference 2025 and reserve your place in the Professional Development track. Early bird discounts are available, but only for a limited time—don’t wait!

Transform your career. Grow your network. Build your future. Join us at Postgres Conference 2025 and make this your year of professional development.

As part of the countdown to Postgres Conference 2024, learn more about the engaging content and our speakers for this year in our Speaker Spotlight Series.

Robert Bernier is senior PostgreSQL consultant at Percona.

Robert will present Working With The Citus Extension. Read what Robert has to say about Postgres and why to attend their session:

Why should attendees come to your talk at Postgres Conference 2024? What would you like for them to take away from your session?
For people who have heard about Citus but know nothing about it.
What is your favorite aspect of Postgres Conference?
Meeting my peers
What advice would you have for a Computer Science graduate or entry level developer who are interested in learning and engaging with Postgres and other open source technologies?
Data eats the world. Focus on learning about your data and how it's used.
How do you see the use of open source technologies evolving over the next five years?
PostgreSQL is a General Purpose Management System. It will come to dominate the DBMS world.
What considerations should be taken for the adoption and use of Postgres and related open source technologies?
Three talents:
- know your SQL
- know your OS (linux)
- know a programming language

Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2024. Learn more about our conference here and buy your tickets soon!

We are thrilled to invite you to partner with us for Postgres Conference 2025, taking place in sunny Orlando, Florida, from March 18th to 21st! 

For 2025, we have expanded our conference offerings to provide even greater value to our attendees and partners. We’ve added an extra day dedicated to Professional Training, introduced a Professional Development track, and are excited to offer a unique Wellness Sponsorship that supports attendee well-being. 

Why Sponsor Postgres Conference 2025? Our conference is renowned for its diverse programming, including Talks, Keynotes, Conference Keynotes, Half Day and Full Day Trainings, Tutorials, and Presentations. Each session fits into one of five specialized tracks: Dev, Ops, Essentials, Professional Development, and Cloud. This variety creates extensive opportunities for you to engage directly with your target audience, whether they're developers, operators, or leaders focused on professional growth.

A partnership with Postgres Conference 2025 offers:

• Increased visibility within the PostgreSQL community
• Direct networking with key decision-makers and influencers
• Opportunities to showcase your brand through custom sponsorship packages

Whether you are interested in a general sponsorship or would like to discuss custom opportunities tailored to your brand, we would love to connect. Explore the best options for you on our Sponsorships page. 

If you would like to schedule a call or need further information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to 2025-sponsors@postgresconf.org. We look forward to discussing how we can make your sponsorship experience at Postgres Conference 2025 truly impactful.

Sincerely,

Postgres Conference 2025 Sponsorship Team

As part of the countdown to Postgres Conference 2024, learn more about the engaging content and our speakers for this year in our Speaker Spotlight Series.

Relevant Logic President/CEO Guyren Howe is a web developer, trainer, database expert, technical writer, and more specializing in PostgreSQL, Flutter, and Rails. Guyren will present “Postgres’s Type System” at Postgres Conference 2024. Read what Guyren has to say about Postgres and why to attend his session:

Why should attendees come to your talk at Postgres Conference 2024?

What would you like for them to take away from your session? Learn the important details of Postgres's type system: the built-in types, extension types, domains, arrays and custom types.

What is your favorite aspect of Postgres Conference?

My talk :)

What advice would you have for a Computer Science graduate or entry level developer who are interested in learning and engaging with Postgres and other open source technologies?

Follow the pgsql-general list. Learn relational theory. Don't listen to the database haters.

How do you see the use of open source technologies evolving over the next five years?

I foresee an open source boom as AI technologies can work with open source much better than closed.

Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2024. Learn more about our conference here and buy your tickets soon!

As part of the countdown to PostgresConf US 2018, learn more about about featured Platinum Sponsor 2ndQuadrant, including their commitment to partnering with and contributing to the Postgres community, from Simon Riggs, Chief Technology Officer, of 2ndQuadrant and PostgreSQL Major Developer/Committer:

Tell us about your commitment to the PostgreSQL Community.

The 2ndQuadrant vision is to be the bridge between the database needs of enterprise users and open source contributions to PostgreSQL. We have pursued a joint strategy of providing both working code (available now) and later submitting the features into core PostgreSQL. Over the past 15+ years, our team has widely contributed to the growth and development of the PostgreSQL project; partnering with customers to identify bottlenecks and then contribute towards enterprise features that address them in PostgreSQL, benefiting everyone that uses it. Besides contributing code, all members of the 2ndQuadrant team are very active in the community on an individual and local level, often helping to organize PUG events, conferences, and meetups.

Are there any rising stars in the community you’d like to give props to? 

Marco Nenciarini - located in Prato, Italy - has been a long time supporter and contributor of PostgreSQL. He is an active maintainer of PGDG’s APT repository, maintaining builds and binaries for PostgreSQL and associated tools & extensions, while contributing towards process improvement for sane builds. Marco is the lead developer for Barman, a backup manager and disaster recovery tool for enterprises with high business continuity requirements.  He is the current president of IT.PUG in Italy and a part of the organizing committee for PGDay.IT.

What features would you like to see in v11 and v12?

As PostgreSQL matures, so do the features that come with each release. In the next two release we’re most looking forward to improved Partitioning performance, the implementation of the MERGE SQL command, and procedures that allow server-side transactions.

Are there any features in development from 2ndQuadrant that the community should be looking forward to?

2ndQuadrant is working hard on the development of Bi-Directional Replication (BDR3), containing new architectural features and a wide and deep set of features.

In addition, we continuously work on features for scalability, performance, security and robustness.

What is the number one barrier you see to contributing to the Postgres community?

The Postgres community is one of the easiest communities to become a part of. With an open mindset all around and a common goal of growing open source PostgreSQL, the community is very accepting to anyone looking to learn, contribute, and better the Postgres ecosystem as a whole. Between the helpful tools on postgresql.org and the growing community, comprised of seasoned veterans and fresh faces, there is always helpful information to guide you.

What is the best thing about working with the Postgres community?

PostgreSQL is the most popular database when it comes to new adoption. Even existing users of other databases are flocking towards PostgreSQL - and it’s not just to save money. PostgreSQL has been growing year on year and we’re attracting interest from the largest enterprises, as it is fully capable of securely supporting enterprise database systems. 

There is still competition out there, especially with the current fad of developer-focused NoSQL databases. But the community is big enough and strong enough to quickly adapt to changing times and push forwards. The members of the PostgreSQL community are passionate about their work and the growth of the project.

Tell us why you believe people should attend PostgresConf 2018 in April.

Community conferences expand your knowledge in different areas of the technology, describe practical use cases as well as give sneak previews into cutting edge technologies for future versions of PostgreSQL. 

Simon along with Tom Kincaid, General Manager of 2ndQuadrant, presents "Internet of Things with PostgreSQL - Performance & Security" on Friday, April 20, at 8:50 am. Tom also presents "Postgres -- Past, Present and Future" and will discuss the challenges that may be faced by Postgres in the next 5 years on Thursday, April 19, at 3:20 pm. 

Visit the 2ndQuadrant team in the Exhibit Hall in the Newport Grand Ballroom on Wednesday, April 18, and Thursday, April 19.  

Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2018, and buy your tickets soon!

Pavan Deolasse is a PostgreSQL consultant for 2ndQuadrant, one of our Platinum Sponsors for PostgresConf US 2018. Learn more about Pavan in this Community Profile:

Pavan Deolasee is a contributor to the development of PostgreSQL and related technologies. He holds a Masters of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and has several publications to his credit.

Pavan was introduced to PostgreSQL in the year 2006 when he started working for a PostgreSQL company. Hacking PostgreSQL was a completely new experience, but by accepting help from the community -- especially Simon Riggs, his mentor -- he began working through the code and was soon working on a very important project (Heap-Only-Tuple aka HOT). It was a very complicated piece of work, yet one of the landmark features in PostgreSQL and to this day remains one of his most important contributions to the project. Pavan has since contributed several patches to PostgreSQL. 

HOT was committed to PostgreSQL in 2008 and Pavan has continued to stay fully engaged with the project. In 2009/2010, alongside other colleagues, Pavan started work on Postgres-XC, a distributed, shared-nothing, clustering solution based on PostgreSQL. He was involved in designing the high-level architecture of the solution, and later wrote many important pieces of the code such as the GTM, the GTM Proxy, the 2PC transaction controller at the coordinator, changes required to guarantee global consistency of the data, and many distributed planner and executor pieces.

When Postgres-XL, a fork of Postgres-XC, was released to the public in 2014, Pavan once again became involved with the project and has been leading the development of Postgres-XL ever since. 

Pavan joined 2ndQuadrant not long after in April 2015, and once again started working with long time colleagues and friends; he and 2ndQuadrant have continued to actively work on the development of Postgres-XL. The focus area of development has been stability and performance of the product while keeping the fork as close to open source PostgreSQL as possible. The most recent release (Postgres-XL 10) supports intra-datanode query parallelism, thus taking distributed query processing to the next level.

In 2013, Pavan and two of his colleagues started the India PostgreSQL User Group. They started conducting small meet-ups, in order to promote the technology in India and bring the local community together. These small gatherings have now expanded with a membership of over 600 members, and into a full scale conference: PGConf India, Asia's largest PostgreSQL conference with more than 250 people in attendance each day in 2018. 

As part of the 2ndQuadrant team of PostgreSQL developers, Pavan continues to work on many interesting new features. He is an active part of the production support team and also has the opportunity to investigate interesting customer problems, often leading to important and critical bug fixes to the open source project.

Pavan had this to say about his involvement with the project:

“I love PostgreSQL and the PostgreSQL community, so you will continue to see me around.”

As part of the countdown to Postgres Conference 2024, learn more about the engaging content and our speakers for this year in our Speaker Spotlight Series.

Dave Stokes is author of "MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide," and serves as a Technology Evangelist for Percona, advocating for MySQL innovation and best practices.

Dave will present “MERGE() - A Quick Introduction”. Read what Dave has to say about Postgres and why to attend their session:

Why should attendees come to your talk at Postgres Conference 2024? What would you like for them to take away from your session?
I like to show attendees new facets on old tools and help beginners master the very steep learning curves of today's world.

What is your favorite aspect of Postgres Conference?
The hallway track.

What advice would you have for a Computer Science graduate or entry level developer who is interested in learning and engaging with Postgres and other open source technologies?
You learn by breaking and repairing. After awhile you can learn to minimize the breakage but never the repairing.
And when you go to a show like Postgres Conference 2024 and have an open slot in the schedule, go attend a session on a subject you know absolutely nothing about. You will either learn that you do not like the subject and have only spent an hour of your life on something that does not interest you, or you will find another rabbit hole to explore.

How do you see the use of open source technologies evolving over the next five years?
PostgreSQL will be the dominant database. Sadly license changes may push us back to a pre-open source era when you had minimal or no choices in software.
What considerations should be taken for the adoption and use of Postgres and related open source technologies?
It needs to be more robust. Better replication that is easier to set up, no XID wrap-around, and easy upgrades.

Additional comments?
This is a great show - make the most of your opportunities.

Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2024. Learn more about our conference here and buy your tickets soon!