CERN PGDay 2025 builds on the experience of past PostgreSQL events at CERN and a newly established collaboration with SwissPUG. It will create an opportunity for PostgreSQL users and enthusiasts to meet in the French-speaking part of Switzerland in order to network and exchange their experiences.

We plan to turn the CERN PGDay into an annual event under the umbrella of SwissPUG but in line with the international vocation of the area where many international organizations of the public and private sector are based.

The date for 2025 is January 17th, and the event will start at 10:00.

The programme consists of a single track with six sessions in English only. The conference will be followed by a social event for discussion and networking.

If you are passionate about data intensive applications, database technology, open source and building the community, this is an event you should not miss.

Only few days remaining for registering and securing your seat and benefit from:

• attending a quite interesting selection of talks

• enjoying a great networking opportunity

• contributing to this community event making a strong case for a recurring annual event

Registration

Registration is open until 10 January 2025 and operated via the event page directly at CERN. This allows the automatic issuing of the CERN visitor badges that are needed to enter the campus. Members of SwissPUG and CERN staff or alumni are eligible for a discounted rate. Payments can be made by credit card or bank transfer.

Schedule

The schedule consists of the following presentations.
Full programme with times.

• CERN introductory keynote: The role of PostgreSQL at CERN.
  Miroslav Potocky, CERN
• Optimizing time series data storage for CERN industrial control systems using TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL.
  Rafal Kulaga, Antonin Kveton, CERN
• Architecture for Seamless PostgreSQL Upgrades.
  Adrien Obernesser, dbi services
• Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL.
  Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek, xata
• Maximising Microservice Databases with Kubernetes, Postgres, and CloudNativePG.
  Gabriele Bartolini, Leonardo Cecchi, EDB
• Harnessing Postgres and HPC for Petabyte-Scale Variable Star Classification in Astronomy.
  Daniel Krefl, Krzysztof Nienartowicz, Sednai
• From Queries to Pints: Building a Beer Recommendation System with pgvector.
  Andrzej Nowicki, CERN

Sponsors

Partners

Call for Sponsors

We are offering four equal sponsorship opportunities of CHF 900 each  (3 taken, 1 reserved). These are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact the organising team for details.

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