The 5th annual POSETTE: An Event for Postgres will take place on Jun 16-18, 2026 and the Call for Speakers is now open—until Feb 1, 2026! POSETTE is a free & virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft. The name POSETTE stands for Postgres Open Source Ecosystem Talks Training & Education. First time & experienced speakers are welcome! Whether you’re a first-time speaker or a regular speaker at conferences, we’d love to consider your talk proposal(s) about Postgres and the rich tooling and extensions (like PostGIS, Citus, & Patroni) in the Postgres ecosystem—both open source and for Postgres in the cloud on Azure.
There will be 4 unique livestreams: 2 in Americas workday timezones (PDT), and 2 in EMEA workday timezones (CEST). Each livestream will have its own keynote and set of talks—no repeats among the livestreams.
• Nov 12, 2025 – Call for proposals (CFP) opens
• Feb 01, 2026 – CFP closes @ 11:59 pm PST
• Feb 11, 2026 – Speakers notified
• Feb 25, 2026 – Schedule & sessions announced
• Mar 25, 2026 – Virtual Speaker Meet & Greet
• Apr 20-24 and Apr 27-May 1, 2026 – Pre-record all talks
• Jun 16-18, 2026 – POSETTE happens! Join the livestream virtually to chat with attendees and other speakers.
Even more information on the POSETTE CFP page
• Format: Four 6-hour livestreams at different times of day
• CFP closes: Feb 1, 2026
• Length: 25 mins / talk
• Virtual & free: no travel (or funding) required
• Video recording & production: All talks will be pre-recorded by the POSETTE team at Microsoft—all speakers need is a good microphone & a decent webcam. We’ll take care of the rest—including all editing, caption QA, and caption translation.
• Speaker resources: on our CFP page
• Submit your proposal: on Sessionize
Here are some of the topics we would like to see at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. This list is not exhaustive, other Postgres topics are welcome too!
• Open source user stories
• How you run your workloads on Postgres on Azure
• New capabilities in PostgreSQL
• Postgres community
• Generally interesting Postgres knowledge & tips
• How you use Postgres extensions such as pgvector, PostGIS, Citus, & more
• Data modeling and SQL best practices
• Explaining Postgres internals
• Tips for building your application on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Building AI applications with Postgres
• Security Best Practices
• How Postgres workflows are changing with LLMs
• Benchmarking & performance tuning
• HA and DR techniques
• Migrating to Postgres on Azure
• Monitoring tools for Postgres
• Building data analytics pipelines with data lakes and Postgres
• Case studies & success stories (or interesting failures)
• Developing extensions in Postgres
• Azure ecosystem integrations with Postgres
• Running SaaS applications built with Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, or .NET—and running on Postgres