Percona at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025

We’re proud to announce that Percona is a Platinum Sponsor of PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) 2025, taking place October 21–24, 2025 in Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 at the Radisson Blu Latvija Conference Center. As a Platinum Sponsor, you can find Percona in a prime main exhibit floor location; a chance to connect directly with our PostgreSQL experts from around the world. Visitors stopping by our booth will be able to: Enter raffles and win Percona & PostgreSQL SWAG Watch live demos and learn from expert-led sessions Explore open source PostgreSQL solutions built for scalability, performance, and security

As a leader in open source database management and services, Percona supports innovation, collaboration, and the sharing of knowledge that drives the open source ecosystem forward. By participating in PostgreSQL Conference Europe, Percona connects with developers, contributors, and industry leaders to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and advancements. We look forward to further showcasing Percona’s dedication to empowering organizations with robust, scalable, and secure open source database solutions.

About the event

This year’s conference is the 15th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe. The conference is organised by PostgreSQL Europe, with participation from most of the PostgreSQL user groups around Europe, and is intended to be an important meeting and cooperation point for users both in and out of Europe. PGConf.EU is a unique chance for European PostgreSQL users and developers to catch up, learn, build relationships, get to know each other and consolidate a real network of professionals that use and work with PostgreSQL.

Percona Speaker Agenda

Our experts are taking the stage across multiple tracks to share insights, hands-on experience, and forward-looking innovations:

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• Lessons from two decades of hacking the proprietary value into open source databases

  👤 Michal Nosek (Percona)

  09:25 – 10:15 | Room: Beta | Track: Sponsors

• Kubernetes from the Database Out

  👤 Alastair Turner (Percona)

  10:25 – 10:55 | Room: Omega 2 | Track: DBA (25 minutes)

• TDE as an Extension: A Different Path for PostgreSQL Encryption

  👤 Zsolt Parragi (Percona)

  11:25 – 12:15 | Room: Beta | Track: Sponsors

• What implementing pg_tde taught us about PostgreSQL

  👤 Jan Wieremjewicz (Percona)

  16:05 – 16:55 | Room: Alfa | Track: Community (45 minutes)

See the full agenda here.

Community Leadership – Kai Wagner

We are also proud that Kai Wagner, Senior Engineering Manager for PostgreSQL at Percona, is serving on the PGConf.EU 2025 Selection Committee. Kai is a long-time open source contributor and speaker, actively involved in projects like Ceph, openATTIC, and PostgreSQL. As a community builder and PGConf Germany organizer, he helps shape the PostgreSQL ecosystem and ensure diverse, impactful content is represented at the conference.

Join us in Riga this October to connect, learn, and celebrate PostgreSQL with Percona and the wider open source community! ∎