About Us
This day is all about PostgreSQL - the world's most advanced open source database. Take the opportunity to meet with other people interested in PostgreSQL in Belgium. Beside the talks we offer the chance to network during the day. The event is suitable for everybody, from first-time users, students, to experts and from clerks to decision-makers. Within the description of each talk the target audience will be mentioned. The organisational team consists of W. Bertels (UCLL), A. Vercammen(Groep IDEWE) and G. Gioffredi (enosac). The information from the past conference is available for 2025
Financial Disclosure
The sponsorship is used to organize the conference, host the website or other to support PostgreSQL in Belgium. No staff receives any payment for their work, except for free attendance and a staff dinner. We will keep an overview of transactions with descriptions on the pgconf-be wiki Expenses of pgconf.be are covered with the income from our sponsors and from the registration fees. We aim at keeping costs for both parties as low as possible and include free entries for students in order to enable as many interested people as possible to attend. Profits are reinvested in the next year's edition of pgconf.be or Belgian PostgreSQL user community activities related to PostgreSQL.
Rationale
The idea is to create a conference with a focus on high quality talks in a open environment. "PGConf", "PGDay", "Postgres Conference" and "PostgreSQL Conference" are registered trademarks of PostgreSQL Europe.
Code of conduct
The PostgreSQL community is an open community but should any situation or question arise, the Code of Conduct for this conference is described here. You can contact a unaffected member of the staff in case of a complaint.
Venue and partner
UCLL is the host that accomodates and facilitates the conference.
Speakers
Registrations are closed
The presentations of most of the sessions are available here.
A couple of the sessions were recorded, they are available here.
A few pictures of the conference are available here.
We hope to announce the date for next year in due time on this website.
Schedule
| 9u00 | Reception desk open |
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| 9u30 | Opening |
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| 9u40 |
Opening Keynote: Postgres @ Amazon |
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| 10u10 |
PostgreSQL Partitioning: What Works and What Breaks |
Securing Postgres with streaming replication |
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| 11u00 | Short break |
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| 11u20 |
Creating a “Dungeon Master” with Postgres and MCP |
Deep dive into the PostgreSQL FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol |
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| 12u10 | Deadly Sins when Running CloudNativePG |
When Collations Corrupt a PostgreSQL Database |
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| 13u00 | Lunch |
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| 13u50 |
How to reproduce production environments, and Why |
Domain‑Driven Design, ORMs, and Developer Experience with PostgreSQL |
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| 14u40 |
Migrating Legacy & Proprietary Databases to PostgreSQL |
Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be wrong (and what to do about it) |
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| 15u30 | Short break |
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| 15u50 | The Wonderful World of WAL |
Scaling Semantic Models: Bespoke PostgreSQL Schemas at SaaS Scale |
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| 16u40 |
Closing keynote: Challenges and possibilities of Active-Active Databases |
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| 17u10 | Closing |
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17u20 -18u |
Reception |
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Event FAQs
What is the price of the ticket?
Pricing
Free for speakers, helping hands and students. There is no attendance fee as such for participants, but you are required to register.
Schedule status?
The schedule can change due to several circumstances. But in general we don't expect it change much.
How should I dress ?
Like a dba, or optionally, only if you have to, like a developer. No seriously, there is no dress code. Clean and non-offensive clothing in which you feel comfortable is fine.
I have specific questions that are not addressed here. Who can help me ?
Feel free to contact us, the response might take some time though
Call for Speakers is closed
The talk selection committee and program committee consists of W. Bertels (UCLL), A. Vercammen(Groep IDEWE) and G. Gioffredi (enosac).
The deadline for proposals is closed, the deadline was March 5th.
Event Location
Leuven - Haasrode
Campus Proximus - UCLL
Geldenaaksebaan 335
3001 Heverlee
General Phone: +32 16 375 300
Directions