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.

2026
5 May

Haasrode
Belgium

120
Tickets

Quality
Speakers

Speakers to be confirmed

Jan Karremans

Netherlands

Cybertec

Boriss Mejias

Belgium

EDB

Dwarka Rao

Netherlands

Adyen

Emrah Becer

Netherlands

EPO

Robert Treat

VS

Amazon

Suraj Kharage

India

EDB

Mohsin Ejaz

Sweden

DBTune

Afdroditi Loukidou

Greece

EDB

Gianni Ciolli

UK

EDB

Bruce Momijan

VS

EDB

Matt Cornillon

France

Google

Xavier Fisher

France

EDB

Vik Fearing

France

EDB

Registrations are open

Register here

We ask you to register April 28th the latest, otherwise you will have to provide your own food.

The registration is handled by https://www.ucll.be with a different look and feel. Depending on settings of the receiving mail server you should receive a notification mail of the submitted values within a day. This notification mail is the proof that you registered. Attendance is free, but you have to register, the number attendants is limited to 120.

If you did register, but are unable to come to the conference, please unregister in time (sustainable catering..). You can do this by replying to the notification mail by preference or let us know with literally the subject 'Elephant lost in space'.

If you don't receive a notification mail within 24hours after registering, contact us with literally the subject 'Where is the Elephant' for confirmation. You are most likely registered as shown after submitting with the registration form, but the email just didn't get through or was filtered out by a spamfilter.

Preliminary Schedule, some broken links, awaiting speaker confirmation

9u00 Reception desk open
9u30 Opening
9u40 Opening Keynote:
10u10 PostgreSQL Partitioning:
What Works and What Breaks 		Securing Postgres with streaming replication
11u00 Short break
11u20 Creating a “Dungeon Master”
with Postgres and MCP 		Deep dive into the PostgreSQL
FrontEnd/BackEnd protocol
12u10 Deadly Sins
when Running CloudNativePG		 Unboxing Postgres 18: Features,
Performance, and the Future of Scaling
13u00 Lunch
13u50 How to reproduce production environments,
and Why 		When Collations Corrupt
a PostgreSQL Database
14u40 Vacuuming Large Tables Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be
wrong (and what to do about it)
15u30 Short break
15u50 The Wonderful World of WAL The SQL Standard and Why It's Important
16u40 Closing keynote:
17u10 Closing
17u20
-18u 		Reception

Sponsorship

We offer 2 levels of sponsorship, this means gold(1000), platinum(2000). You are qfree to hand out what you want; but keep climatechange in mind, we don't want to create more uneccessary waste, so think from a sustainable perspective. The logo of the sponsor will appear on the website in the appropiate category. Sponsorship is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Gold(max 4): logo on the website + stand. Platinum(max 2): logo on the website + stand + keynote speaker.

> Platinum

EnterpriseDB

> Gold

Zebanza

Event FAQs

Pricing

Free for speakers, helping hands and students. There is no attendance fee as such for participants, but you are required to register.

Parking, attendance, small lunch and reception
This is a description of the campus where the conference takes place.
The schedule can change due to several circumstances. But in general we don't expect it change much.
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.
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