PGDay Boston 2026, June 9th

You *must* register here for this event:

https://2026.pgdayboston.org/registration/

We will have Michael Stonebraker, the creator of Postgres; Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the Postgres Global Development Group; and Robert Haas, author of many recent additions to Postgres including Parallel Query, Incremental Backup, and his most recent commit to the Postgres 19 branch: pg_plan_advice.
Regina Obe, founder and president of Boston-based Paragon Corporation, will be our Master of Ceremonies.
This conference is designed to provide a balance of great technical content and networking opportunities. We have a great list of sponsors attending, most of whom are hiring for positions of all kinds.
Hope to see you there!

• 8:15 - 9:00 Registration (45 minutes)
• 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome: announcements: Regina Obe (30 minutes)
• 9:30 - 10:15 Keynote: “Where did Postgres come from?”: Michael Stonebraker (45 minutes)
• 10:15 : 10:35 Morning Coffee Break (20 minutes)
• 10:35 - 11:20 Disaster Recovery — A Process, Not a tool: Richard Yen (45 minutes)
• 11:25 - 12:10 Managing and Observing Locks : Brian Brennglass (45 minutes)
• 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (60 minutes)
• 1:15- 2:00 What's Missing in Postgres? Bruce Momjian(45 minutes)
• 2:05 - 2:50 pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? Robert Haas (45 minutes)
• 2:50 - 3:10 Afternoon Coffee (20 minutes)
• 3:15 - 3:55 Leveraging Patroni's synchronous replication feature to achieve high availability while running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes -- Shree Vidhya Sampath (45 minutes)
• 4:00: - 4:45 Ryan Booz – Mastering PostgreSQL Partitioning: Supercharge Performance and Simplify Maintenance
• 4:50 - 5:10 closing and giveaways: Regina Obre / Tom Kincaid (20 minutes)
• 5:10 - 6:10 Social Hour

Hope to see you there. Please contact pgdayboston@postgresql.us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Parking for this event is free!!

Tom