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POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026

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POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 ran Jun 16–18, 2026 in Virtual. It is an Open Source conference. ConferenceGrid lists 50 speakers, 2 sponsors and 44 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified Jun 15, 2026

Now in its 5th year, POSETTE is a virtual event on PostgreSQL organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft. It gathers Postgres experts, developers, users, and contributors from around the world to share and present on all things Postgres. The event features unique livestreams, speaker sessions, and opportunities to engage with the global PostgreSQL community…

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50Speakers
2Sponsors
44Sessions
17Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at POSETTE:, in alphabetical order.

Abe Omorogbe
Senior PM, PostgreSQL AI · Microsoft
Adam Wolk
Principal PM for Postgres · Microsoft
Adithya Kumaranchath
Engineering Architect · Microsoft
Affan Dar
VP Engineering for Postgres · Microsoft
Alexander Kukushkin
Principal Software Engineer · Microsoft
Álvaro Herrera
PostgreSQL hacker · EDB
Andrew Ruffin
Senior Product Manager · AMD
Ashutosh Bapat
Principal SDE, community contributors team · Microsoft
Boriss Mejias
PostgreSQL Solution Architect · EDB
Bruce Momjian
EDB
Charles Feddersen
Director of Product for Postgres · Microsoft
Chris Ellis
Nexteam
Christian Miles
Head of Product · gdotv
Chun Lin Goh
.NET Foundation Member | Cloud Architect
Derk van Veen
Database Specialist · Adyen
Diaa Radwan
Open Source Databases in the Cloud · Microsoft
Dingding Lu
Principal Product Manager · Microsoft
Divya Bhargov
Engineering Leader · Microsoft
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
Technical Product Manager · Xata
Hamid Akhtar
Senior Software Engineer · Microsoft
Hari Kiran
Postgres Expert, Founder · OpenSource DB
Heikki Linnakangas
PostgreSQL hacker & committer, co-founder · Neon

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AMD
Microsoft

Agenda

Selected from 44 sessions.

  • Thu, June 18 - 10:00 AM CEST

    Modelling Postgres Performance Degradation on Burstable Cloud Instances

    Many developers run Postgres on "burstable" cloud instances (like Azure B-series or AWS T-series) to optimise costs. While cost-effective, these instances operate on a CPU credit m…

  • Thu, June 18 - 1:00 PM CEST

    Where Does My INSERT Go? A Logical Replication Story

    What really happens to a single INSERT in PostgreSQL once it enters the system? In this talk, we trace the complete lifecycle of one tuple as it travels through PostgreSQL’s logica…

  • Thu, June 18 - 10:30 AM CEST

    Past, Present, and Future: Logical Decoding and Replication in PostgreSQL

    Logical replication has evolved into a foundational capability for modern PostgreSQL deployments, enabling real-time data synchronization, partial replication. What began as a low-…

  • Thu, June 18 - 11:00 AM CEST

    From Dev to Prod: Securing Postgres the Right Way

    Is your Postgres database really secure, or just “working”? Why do security issues keep showing up after launch? Many teams rely on defaults until an incident proves otherwise. Thi…

  • Thu, June 18 - 11:30 AM CEST

    Vacuuming Enhancements in PostgreSQL 18: Faster, Smarter, More Predictable

    PostgreSQL 18 delivers one of the most significant sets of VACUUM and ANALYZE improvements in years, making maintenance faster, more predictable, and easier to tune. This session h…

  • Thu, June 18 - 12:00 PM CEST

    Move Less, Move Faster: Speeding Up Citus Cluster Scaling

    Scaling a distributed Postgres cluster often isn’t limited by “adding a VM”, it’s limited by how long it takes to rebalance data safely. In this talk, I’ll give a minimal mental mo…

  • Thu, June 18 - 12:30 PM CEST

    LISTEN Carefully: How NOTIFY Can Trip Up Your Database

    LISTEN/NOTIFY is a powerful and elegant PostgreSQL feature for asynchronous communication between backend components. It allows lightweight data transfer and instant notification u…

  • Thu, June 18 - 8:00 AM CEST

    My Postgres partitioning cookbook

    Over the last three years, I have tried every single thing I could think of with Postgres partitions, and I made many mistakes. Most of them on my laptop; some lessons were a bit m…

  • Thu, June 18 - 8:30 AM CEST

    Exploring property graphs with SQL/PGQ in PostgreSQL

    Using relational databases, how do you efficiently determine an optimal path covering all your tickets in the game of Ticket to Ride? Traditionally, solutions to graph-like problem…

Quick answers

When is POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026?
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 ran Jun 16–18, 2026 in Virtual.
Where is POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 held?
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 was held in Virtual.
Who is speaking at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 50 speakers, including Abe Omorogbe (Senior PM, PostgreSQL AI, Microsoft), Adam Wolk (Principal PM for Postgres, Microsoft) and Adithya Kumaranchath (Engineering Architect, Microsoft).
Who sponsors POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 2 sponsors: AMD and Microsoft.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 17 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Seventeen companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
15Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Microsoft·AMD

Speakers by seniority

14% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner24%
  • VP-level24%
  • Director / Head of36%
  • Manager / Lead714%
  • Product510%
  • Engineer · IC1632%
  • Other roles1530%

Of 50 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1MicrosoftSponsor23
2AMDSponsor1
3EDB4
4Serenity Star2
5Adyen1
6ClickHouse1
7credativ GmbH1
8CYBERTEC1
9DBtune1
10gdotv1
11GEICO1
12Microsoft, Pgpool-II1
13Neon1
14Nexteam1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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