PGConf 2018 - Announcing CFP and Dates

Postgres Conference (PGConf) is seeking dynamic, engaging, and
knowledgeable speakers for the 2018 Postgres Conference. Submit your
presentation or training here: https://pgconf.org/conferences/2018

Thanks to the support of our attendees, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors,
we are hosting the 7th annual PGConf in the New York City area. With over
700 hundred attendees representing the most diverse class of professionals
and companies from around the world, the Postgres Conference conveys the
preeminent “People, Postgres and Data” experience.

Pivotal is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of the premiere Postgres
> Conference, PGConf. Greenplum is the only massively parallel, open source,
> Postgres based platform to bring Machine Learning, Graph, AI, and Spatial
> analytics that scales horizontally from gigabytes to petabytes of data.
> Join us for the Greenplum Summit at PGConf 2018!

Jacque Istok, Head of Data at Pivotal

*Important Dates*
Call for Presenters opens: October 18, 2017
Call for Presenters ends: January 22, 2018
Speaker notification: January 31, 2018

PGConf 2018 would not be possible without support from our sponsors:
Diamond: Amazon Web Services and Pivotal
Platinum: Compose, OpenSCG, 2ndQuadrant and Microsoft

*Event Details*
Monday, April 16 and Tuesday, April 17, 2018, are dedicated to immersive
training. Instructors are encouraged to submit half and full day material
for consideration. The preferred topics are centered around Postgres but
anything data related will be considered.

Wednesday, April 18th through Friday, April 20th, 2018 are dedicated to
break-out sessions, and the Regulated Industry Summit, as well as our
inaugural Open Source and Greenplum Summits.

The Annual Regulated Industry Summit: “Finance, Government, Healthcare, and
Postgres" for discussion on the challenges and solutions in utilizing
Postgres in regulated environments.

The Open Source Summit is for local Open Source communities with data
related technologies such as Python, R and Ruby.

The inaugural GreenPlum Summit is a one day summit bringing together the
best in Big Data, Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), Machine Learning,
Graph, AI and Spatial Analytics centered around the Open Source, Postgres
derived Greenplum database.

To submit your proposal for presentation please go to this link -
https://pgconf.org/conferences/2018#callforpapers