The PostgreSQL Developer Conference.

PGConf.dev is four days of design discussion, patch review, and community organizing, to plan for what PostgreSQL does next.

It's run by and for PostgreSQL contributors. A third of the schedule is unconference or working groups, where contributors plan the next year of development, settle technical decisions, work through architectural disagreements, and take up what the ecosystem and the community need next.

Talks are technical. They draw on what the project has already tried, and they're where new ideas start.

The people who come are the ones you'll work with all year on the mailing lists. For most of them, this is the one week that you'll all be in the same room.

And if you run a community event or are trying to start one, this is the conference where you'll find people doing the same.

If you do something that makes PostgreSQL great, this is the conference for you. And if you'd like to but don't know how to start, ask anyone here.

Core contributors

Committers, patch authors and reviewers, translators, infrastructure administrators, and regulars on -hackers.

Extension authors

People building PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB, Citus, and the hundreds more on PGXN.

Ecosystem maintainers

Maintainers of drivers, ORMs, utilities (pooling, backup, monitoring, administration), distributions, and packages.

Platform engineers

Everyone whose product is Postgres, or started as it: hyperscalers, startups, and forks.

Operators

DBAs, SREs, and consultants: anyone who carries the pager for a production cluster.

Application developers

Application, data, and AI engineers who chose Postgres for a reason.

Community organizers

People running a local user group, a conference, or the nonprofit behind one.

Writers and educators

Bloggers, trainers, and advocates, who explain Postgres to everyone else.

Academics and researchers

Researchers and students studying database internals.

A decision that's been open since last autumn gets settled at a table over lunch.

In 2026, attendees travelled from 29 countries across six continents, from New Zealand to Kenya to Japan. The project runs asynchronously across every timezone all year. This is the one week it doesn't.

When the long-running PGCon wound down, the contributor community rebooted the format under a new name in Vancouver. Each spring, the conference moves between coasts to remain accessible to the global community.