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Talks from Percona Community speakers in 2026.

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Finally a Postgres Communication Hub for Experts and Newcomers

October 22, 2026 · 09:25 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Kai Wagner

Head of Product & Engineering PostgreSQL, Percona

#PostgreSQL

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Rethinking PostgreSQL Configuration

October 22, 2026 · 14:55 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Zsolt Parragi

#PostgreSQL

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A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation?

October 23, 2026 · 09:00 · Audit 3B · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Floor Drees

Principal Program Manager at EDB

Alastair Turner

PostgreSQL Evangelist, Percona

#PostgreSQL

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Swap or Stop? How a Little Swap Can Keep PostgreSQL Running

October 23, 2026 · Audit 2 · PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit @ PGConf.EU 2026 · Valencia

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Technical Lead @ Percona

#PostgreSQL

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The Anatomy of a PostgreSQL Backup CRD: pgBackRest, Multi-Repo, and Tiered Storage

October 23, 2026 · Audit 2 · PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Summit @ PGConf.EU 2026 · Valencia

George Kechagias

Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering @ Percona

#PostgreSQL

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Running Monitoring and Observability at Scale

October 27, 2026 · 15:00 · Icinga Webinar: Running Monitoring and Observability at Scale · Online

Kris Buytaert

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?

October 30, 2026 · 13:35 · Room 2 · KCD Budapest 2026 · Budapest

Kate Obiidykhata

General Manager, Cloud Native

#Kubernetes #cloud #english

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Avoiding pitfalls with Postgres and go

November 2, 2026 · GoLab 2026 · Bologna

Yoann La Cancellera

Senior support engineer @ Percona

#Golang #PostgreSQL #italian #programming #software-development

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Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+

November 5, 2026 · Heapcon 2026 · Belgrade

Peter Farkas

CEO @ Percona

#english #heap #performance #serbia

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Observability for Vector Search: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying To You

November 18, 2026 · OSMC 2026 · Nuremberg

Radoslaw Szulgo

Sandra Romanchenko

#MongoDB #PMM #Vector-Search #Open-Source #Tech #ai #cloud #monitoring #observability #open-source

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What Databases Reveal About the True Cost of Kubernetes

November 18, 2026 · Nerdearla México 2026 · Mexico City

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

#Kubernetes #Opensource #developer-conference #spanish #web

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The History of Open Source Monitoring

November 19, 2026 · 15:30 · Ballroom 1+2 · OSMC 2026 · Nuremberg

Kris Buytaert

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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10 Open Source Tools for your o11y stack

December 1, 2026 · 14:00 · DevOpsCon Munich 2026 · Munich

Kris Buytaert

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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No, we can't do CD in this 'AI' age

December 1, 2026 · 09:00 · DevOpsCon Munich 2026 · Munich

Kris Buytaert

Practice Lead, Observability at Percona

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Leaving Oracle and SQL Server for PostgreSQL: What Could Go Wrong

October 21, 2026 · 14:35 · SM1-A · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Avi Vallarapu

CEO and Chief of Products at HexaCluster

Michal Nosek

#PostgreSQL

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Networking Observability Essentials - How to Know if the Network is at Fault with eBPF

October 21, 2026 · 01:00 · P99 CONF 2026

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

#Observability #conference #english #software

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Designing a new SQL language feature: Key joins

October 20, 2026 · 11:15 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Andreas Karlsson

Principal Engineer @ Percona

Joel Jacobsson

Postgres Community

#PostgreSQL

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One Platform, Three Engines: Open Source DBaaS Patterns on Kubernetes

October 20, 2026 · 11:55 · KCD UK Edinburgh 2026 · Edinburgh

Kate Obiidykhata

General Manager, Cloud Native

#Kubernetes #cloud #english #uk

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pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work

October 20, 2026 · 16:05 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Stefan Fercot

Senior Software Engineer at Percona

#PostgreSQL

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The Monday We Learned Who Maintains Our Backups

October 20, 2026 · 14:45 · Audit 2 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Jan Wieremjewicz

David Steele

pgBackRest Maintainer

#PostgreSQL

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What Actually Goes Wrong with Postgres on Kubernetes

October 20, 2026 · 15:55 · PGConf Europe 2026 · Valencia

Natalia Marukovich

#Cloud #PostgreSQL #kubernetes

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eBPF for AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis

October 19, 2026 · All Things Open 2026 · Raleigh

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

#Open-Source #eBPF #Observability

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Managing the Postgres Developer Firehose with hackorum.dev

October 19, 2026 · Valencia PostgreSQL User Group · Valencia

Kai Wagner

Head of Product & Engineering PostgreSQL, Percona

#PostgreSQL

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