PGDay Lowlands 2026

Save the date: September 10, 2026

PGDay Lowlands 2024 and 2025 were a great success! A growing number of participants, sponsors, and volunteers. In fact, after PGConfEU, PGDay Lowlands is the best PostgreSQL event in Europe.

This year we’re heading to… Utrecht! Specifically Tivoli.

About PGDay Lowlands

PGDay Lowlands is a unique opportunity for European PostgreSQL users and developers to catch up, learn, build relationships, get to know each other better, and strengthen a close-knit network of PostgreSQL professionals.

OptimaData Partner Sponsor

Just like the previous two years, we are again a Partner Sponsor of PGDay Lowlands! And just like the last two editions, we will also organize the PGDay Warm-Up Meetup the evening before PGDay Lowlands.

We’ll be there with part of our team and will once again set up a great stand/booth. Our swag was definitely the “catch of the day”…

Session by OptimaData

At 10:10 – 10:35 in The Pit Gerard Zuidweg and Henk van der Valk will take you on a deepdive into cloudcosts: “PostgreSQL: Your Hidden Cloudcost Enabler”

Program

Joint program

• 08:18 – 09:00: Registration
• 10:35 – 11:00: Coffebreak
• 11:00 – 11:30: Debat “PostgreSQL for everything” – Floor Drees (EDB), Marc Linster (DBtune), Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar (Veeam), Olena Kutsenko (Confluent), Sebastiaan Alexander Mannem (Nibble-IT)
• 12:20 – 13:20: Lunch (Dutch)
• 13:20 – 13:25: Lightning talk “My Lightning Talk Disaster” – Cornelia Biacsics (Microsoft)
• 13:25 – 13:30: Lightning talk “When partitioning has a side-effect” – Ellert van Koperen (Database.one)
• 13:30 – 13:35: Lightning talk “TDE status update” – Jan Wieremjewicz (Percona)
• 13:35 – 13:40: Lightning talk “Analytics Without Leaving Postgres” – Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek (Clickhouse)
• 13:40 – 13:45: Lightning talk “Behind the Soundtrack of the PGDay Lowlands Trilogy” – Dave Pitts (Adyen Spain)
• 15:10 – 15:35: Teabreak

TRACK 1 – ROOM CLOUD NINE

• 09:15 – 10:00: “A look at the Elephants Trunk – PostgreSQL 19” – Magnus Hagander (Redpill Linpro AB)
• 10:10 – 10:35: “Is PostgreSQL On My Raspberry Pi Faster Than Your Cloud PostgreSQL Instance” – Chris Ellis (Nexteam)
• 11:35 – 12:20: “Optimizer Hints in PostgreSQL” – Michael Banck (credativ GmbH)
• 13:50 – 14:35: “Surviving pgvector in Production: A Reality Check” – Miguel Toscano (Google)
• 14:45 – 15:10: “Handling hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin” – Yoann La Cancellera (Percona)
• 15:35 – 16:00: “Three Paths to Analytics: Native ELT Patterns in Postgres” – Marc Linster (DBtune)
• 16:05 – 16:30: “What does the EU Cyber Resilience Act mean for PostgreSQL and its community?” – Peter Eisentraut (EDB)

TRACK 2 – ROOM THE PIT

• 09:15 – 09:40: “PostgreSQL: Digital Sovereignty for Your Data” – Patrick Lauer (credativ)
• 10:10 – 10:35: “PostgreSQL: Your Hidden Cloudcost Enabler” – Gerard Zuidweg & Henk van der Valk (OptimaData BV)
• 11:35 – 12:20: “Your Database Has No Idea Who’s Asking” – Bilge Ince (EDB)
• 13:50 – 14:15: “The Best Things About PostgreSQL 19” – Christoph Berg (CYBERTEC)
• 14:15 – 14:40: “Stop Rebuilding the Same Thing” – Ayodeji Ogundare (Adyen)
• 14:45 – 15:10: “From data model to impressive application, in record time with Pulsar” – Rob Sijmons (Nibble IT)
• 15:35 – 16:00: “Discover your contribution-magic” – Cornelia Biacsics (Microsoft)
• 16:05 – 16:30: “Scaling GetYourGuide’s Reviews System to Serve 400M+ Requests/Day” – Primanshu Choudhary (GetYourGuide)

Tickets

Early Bird registration for PGDay Lowlands is now open:

Grab one of 20 reserved tickets for just €100 before the price increases on July 1. The programme will be announced at the end of May, but Early Bird tickets may already be sold out by then, so don’t wait too long!