Name: PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf EU)
Start: 2026-10-20
End: 2026-10-23

Oct 20, 2026 - Oct 23, 2026

Valencia, Spain

In-Person

PostgreSQL Europe organizes the 16th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain, on October 20–22, 2026. With a day of Community Events on October 23. EDB is joining as a Platinum-level sponsor.

Andreas Scherbaum and Martin Marques are part or the organizing team, Floor Drees joins the Talk Selection Committee.

Speakers & sessions:

Can We Skip Recovery? The Architecture of On-Demand WAL Replay - Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem - Devrim Gündüz
What does the EU Cyber Resilience Act mean for PostgreSQL and its community? - Peter Eisentraut
Postgres for Everything, Until It Isn't - Petr Jelinek, with Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek (ClickHouse) (slides)
JSON in PostgreSQL: evil data type or just needs to be tamed? - Boriss Mejias
(Sponsor keynote) Standing on the Shoulders of an Elephant: 30 Years of PostgreSQL and beyond - Tom Kincaid
(Sponsor talk) Agent ready Postgres - Bilge Ince, Jigar Mody
(Sponsor talk) When zero-downtime saves lives: the reality of Active-Active Postgres - Adam Wright, Boriss Mejias

Community Events Day organizers & sessions:

Andreas Scherbaum, with Cornelia Biacsics (Microsoft) run the New PostgreSQL Community Members Summit
Andreas Scherbaum, with Pat Wright (Redgate), Mark Wong (PgUS), Hettie Dombrovskaya (DRW, Prairie Postgres / PG DATA) organize Organizing and Growing Community Events
Boriss Mejias, with Divya Sharma (Supabase), Teresa Lopes (Adyen), Derk van Veen (Adyen) organize Storytelling for Technical Communication
Floor Drees, with Gülçin Jelínek (Xata) organize PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit
- PostgreSQL(OAuth) + Keycloak = Kubernetes native authentication - Jonathan Gonzalez
- Unified Observability for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Gabriele Rossini
Floor Drees, with Alastair Turner (Percona) organize A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation?
Loreta Ozolina, with Valeria Kaplan (Data Egret) and Chris Ellis (Nexteam) look forward to exchanging ideas on how PostgreSQL can better engage beyond its core audience in the PG Outreach Unconference
Vibhor Kumar, with Marc Linster (DBTune), Ryan Booz (pgAnalyze) organize Autonomous Postgres: From Scripts to Self-Driving Database
- Your Database Has No Idea Who's Asking - Bilge Ince
- Postgres Needs an Agent Loop: What Autonomous Database Operations Actually Require - Matt Yonkovit
- Autonomous Postgres: From Self-Managed Operations to AI-Ready Data Platform - Rajesh Nagpal