Call for Proposals is open for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025!

# The CFP is now open & will close on Feb 9, 2025!
The 4th annual event called **POSETTE: An Event for Postgres** will happen Jun 10-12, 2025 and the [Call for Speakers](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/) is now open—**until Feb 9, 2025**! POSETTE is a free & virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft. The name POSETTE stands for **P**ostgres **O**pen **S**ource **E**cosystem **T**alks **T**raining & **E**ducation.
**First time & experienced speakers both 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.
## 4 Unique Livestreams
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.
## Important Dates & Deadlines
• **Nov 14, 2024** – Call for proposals (CFP) opens

• **Feb 09, 2025** – CFP closes @ 11:59 pm PST

• **Feb 19, 2025** – Speakers notified

• **Mar 05, 2025** – Schedule & sessions announced

• **Apr 02, 2025** – Virtual Speaker Meet & Greet

• **Apr 28-May 2 and May 5-9, 2025** – Pre-record all talks

• **Jun 10-12, 2025** – POSETTE happens! Join the livestream virtually to chat with attendees and other speakers.

## Key things to know
Even more information on the **[POSETTE CFP page](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/)**

• **Format**: Four 6-hour livestreams at different times of day

• **CFP closes**: Feb 9, 2025

• **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](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#speaker-resources)**

• **Submit your proposal**: **[on Sessionize]( https://sessionize.com/posette2025/)**
## Topics
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!

* How you run your workloads on Postgres on Azure
* New capabilities in PostgreSQL
* Open source Postgres user stories
* Postgres community
* Generally interesting Postgres knowledge & tips
* How you use Postgres extensions such as PostGIS, Citus, pgvector, & more
* Data modeling and SQL best practices
* Explaining Postgres internals
* Tips for building your application on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
* Building AI applications with Postgres
* Benchmarking & performance tuning
* High availability techniques (including Patroni)
* Migrating to Postgres on Azure
* Monitoring tools for Postgres
* Optimizing for data-intensive analytics and time series workloads
* Case studies & success stories for HA and DR (or interesting failures)
* Ideas for new features in Postgres
* Azure ecosystem integrations with Postgres
* Running SaaS apps built with Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, or .NET—and running on Postgres
## Other useful links
• **[Code of conduct](https://posetteconf.com/2025/conduct/)****[Code of conduct](https://posetteconf.com/2025/conduct/)**

• **[Talk selection team](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#talk-selection-team)****[Talk selection team](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#talk-selection-team)**