Conference Sessions
Take a look at the list of great talks.
The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for Swiss PGDay 2026.
Keynote
General
- Beginner's guide to PostgreSQL Hacking EN (Suraj Kharage)
- Decoding postgresql.conf - which parameters to tweak and when? EN (Divya Sharma)
- Deep dive into the PostgreSQL FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol EN (Xavier Fischer)
- Fun With Radios: Using PostGIS and PostgreSQL in Amateur Radio EN (Grant Fritchey)
- Geodaten-Management mit PostGIS DE (Marion Baumgartner)
- Implementing strong cross-platform resiliency in agile environments with logical replication EN/DE (Andreas Geppert)
- Nachhaltiges Datenbank Performance Profiling in PostgreSQL DE (Dirk Krautschick)
- PgLite - Bring PostgreSQL to the Browser EN (Andrea Minetti)
- SQL Injection Is Boring-Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching EN (Domenico di Salvia, Harmeet Singh)
- Teaching the Elephant to Swim: In-Place Analytics with Kafka and pg_duckdb EN (Jan Suchánek, Barbora Linhartová)
- Was wir schon über PostgreSQL 19 wissen DE (Daniel Westermann)
- Zeilensperren in PostgreSQL: eine anatomische Betrachtung DE (Laurenz Albe)
- Zooming in on OOM: A Deep Dive into Postgres and Linux Memory EN (Oleksii Kliukin, Dimitris Sideris)
Developer
- Bad Prompts, Bad Plans: Teaching AI to Understand PostgreSQL EN (Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon)
- Optimizer Hints in PostgreSQL DE (Michael Banck)
- SQL-first application development with sqlc EN (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- Suche gefunden: Text-Suche ohne Overengineering DE (Stefan Keller)
DBA
- Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions EN (Devrim Gunduz)
- Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases EN (Pavlo Golub)
- Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Is It a Blessing or a Curse? EN (Emrah Becer)
- Surviving pgvector in Production: A Reality Check EN (Miguel Toscano)
- The cost of security debt in PostgreSQL when implementing AI workflows EN (Adrien Obernesser)
- The Need for Speed: Mastering WAL-G for High-Performance Backup & Recovery on Kubernetes EN (Sudeepta Patra)
