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Swiss PGDay 2026

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wiss PGDay 2026 is the ninth annual conference for PostgreSQL enthusiasts, held in Rapperswil, Switzerland. The two-day event features talks, Birds of a Feather sessions, posters, and lightning talks in English and German. It provides practitioners across the PostgreSQL community with opportunities to learn, network, and share best practices. Organized by t…

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30Speakers
14Sponsors
28On the bill · sessions
27Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Swiss, in alphabetical order.
Adrien Obernesser
dbi services · dbi services
All interested
Andrea Minetti
WSL · WSL
Andreas Geppert
Zürcher Kantonalbank · Zürcher Kantonalbank
Barbora Linhartová
Baremon · Baremon
Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon
HUG · HUG
Could be You!
Daniel Westermann
dbi services · dbi services
Devrim Gunduz
EDB · EDB
Dimitris Sideris
Tiger Data · Tiger Data
Dirk Krautschick
Aiven · Aiven
Divya Sharma
Supabase · Supabase
Domenico di Salvia
Amazon Web Services · Amazon Web Services
Emrah Becer
European Patent Office (EPO) · European Patent Office (EPO)
Grant Fritchey
Redgate Software · Redgate Software
Harmeet Singh
Amazon Web Services · Amazon Web Services
Hervé Schweitzer
dbi services · dbi services
Jan Suchánek
Baremon · Baremon
Josef Machytka
credativ GmbH · credativ GmbH
Laurenz Albe
CYBERTEC · CYBERTEC
Marion Baumgartner
Camptocamp SA · Camptocamp SA
Michael Banck
credativ GmbH · credativ GmbH
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Aiven
Amazon Web Services
bedagSupporter
camptocampSupporter
CH OpenPartner
credativ
CYBERTEC
dbi services
DBtuneSupporter
MicrosoftSupporter
NavicatSupporter
OSTPartner
PostFinance
Sensational AGSupporter
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Agenda

Selected from 28 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00 – 09:15

    Welcome

    English
  • 09:00 – 09:50

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

    English
  • 09:00 – 09:50

    Was wir schon über PostgreSQL 19 wissen

    German
  • 09:15 – 10:00

    The Next Generation Story of PostgreSQL: From Systems Mechanics to Experience Builders

    English
  • 10:00 – 10:50

    Deep dive into the PostgreSQL FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol

    English
  • 10:00 – 10:50

    Suche gefunden: Text-Suche ohne Overengineering

    German
  • 10:20 – 11:10

    Beginner's guide to PostgreSQL Hacking

    English
  • 10:20 – 11:10

    Nachhaltiges Datenbank Performance Profiling in PostgreSQL

    German
  • 11:00 – 11:50

    Plattformübergreifende Resilienz in agilen Umgebungen durch Logische Replikation

    German
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 27 companies show up — and 6 bet on three roles at once?

27 companies. six 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
6All threespeak · spons · exh
8Sponsoringsponsor only
13Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

dbi services·AWS·credativ GmbH·CYBERTEC·Aiven·Camptocamp SA

02Fig. 02 — Speakers, by Seniority
  • Other roles30100%

Of 30 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01dbi servicesSp3V
  2. 02AWSSp2V
  3. 03credativ GmbHSp2V
  4. 04CYBERTECSp2V
  5. 05AivenSp1V
  6. 06Camptocamp SASp·S1V
  7. 07BedagSp·S
  8. 08CH OpenSp·P
  9. 09DBtuneSp·S
  10. 10EDB3V
  11. 11MicrosoftSp·S
  12. 12NavicatSp·S
  13. 13OSTSp·P
  14. 14PostFinanceSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
partner2
14% of 14
supporter6
43% of 14
unspecified6
43% of 14
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions