Call for Papers - PGConf.ASIA 2018

Hi,

PGconf.ASIA 2018 will be held on December 10 to 12 in Tokyo and we are
now accepting proposals for talks.

Join us and other users and developers from around the world at the
home of the oldest and largest user group; Japan!

(See http://www.pgconf.asia/EN/2017/program/ for last year's
conference program).

- About the conference:
Location: Akihabara convention hall (Tokyo) http://www.akibahall.jp/data/outline_eng.html
Targeted number of attendees: 700 in total
http://www.pgconf.asia/EN/2018/

- About the call for papers:

- To submit a paper, please include the following details and send to:
pgconf-asia-2018-submission(at)pgconf(dot)asia

Title
Abstract
Description
Language spoken during the talk: Japanese or English
Language of the talk material: Japanese and/or English

- Submission deadline is midnight, 31st July, 2018 (Japan time).

- Submissions should be sent in English, Japanese, or both.
Japanese-only submissions will be translated into English for
discussion within the program committee.

- Presentation materials will be released the day after the conference
and will be made available to the public. The copyright of the
material will be retained by the author.

We ask that you share your materials under a Creative Commons
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

If your presentation material cannot be shared, please let us know.

- Talks may be recorded or photographed. In both cases, the content
may be made public under a Creative Commons license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The copyright
of the material is retained by the speaker.

- Speakers will be informed of the result of the selection by the end
of August. Speakers will be requested to submit brief biographies and
photos to be published in the conference program.

- The exact length of each session is not decided yet (Last year it
was 40 minutes and we expect no big change for this year).

Suggested topic areas include but not limited to:

- Large-scale PostgreSQL deployments.
- Migrations from other databases to PostgreSQL
- Operations and administration
- Performance and feature implementation
- Replication, clustering, HA, sharding.
- Tools and utilities for PostgreSQL
- Benchmarking and hardware, tuning.
- PostgreSQL community and hacking.
- Studies, surveys on PostgreSQL ecosystem
- Asian PostgreSQL community & user groups
- Data warehousing
- Location-aware and mapping software with PostGIS
- Research and teaching with PostgreSQL
- Case studies, including but not limited to: IoT/Cloud, Healthcare,
Education and Academy

- If you have any questions regarding the event, feel free to contact
the organization committee at pgconf-asia-2018-submission(at)pgconf(dot)asia(dot)

See you in Tokyo :)

PGConf.ASIA 2018 Steering Committee
http://www.pgconf.asia/EN/2018/
[Please feel free to redistribute this CFP]