Postgres Summit US2026

Talk submissions must be related to Postgres or the Postgres community.

Postgres Summit US has a strong technical and industry focus, so we particularly welcome submissions focused on practical use cases, real-world experiences, and technical deep-dives. Relevant topics may include:

• Administering high scale, highly available Postgres clusters
• Application developer-focused Postgres "best practices"
• Case studies and/or success stories of Postgres deployments (or interesting failures)
• Experiences contributing to Postgres or building extensions
• Getting started with Postgres as a beginner
• Tuning and performance improvements
• Migrations from other database systems
• Recovery and backup strategies
• Benchmarking and hardware

…of course, we're happy to receive proposals for talks on other Postgres related topics as well.

• Write an abstract which is clear and concise. This abstract is the primary medium through which the CFP committee will evaluate your submission. Clarity of abstract suggests an understandable thought process, and by extension a well-received presentation.
• The CFP committee reserves the right to reject submissions that are overly commercial in nature (i.e. "product pitches"). If your submission involves your place of employment or a commercial product, be explicit about how it is relevant to the Postgres community. Sales-focused submissions are not accepted.
• Don't keep secrets or surprises from the CFP committee. If your abstract teases research or a new project to be revealed during the talk, include specifics in the submission notes, where they will be visible to the committee only. Details are required to evaluate your submission.
• If your submission covers yet-to-be-released features, indicate the current status of the work (e.g. "in a CommitFest", "in ideation", etc.).
• Include a detailed speaker profile, ideally including relevant experience and why you are the best person to deliver this talk. Note that your speaker profile will be made public if your talk is accepted.

All submissions are carefully reviewed by the program committee following a structured evaluation process:

1. All submissions are independently reviewed by each committee member and ranked on a scale of 1 through 9 based on abstract quality and relevancy to the conference.
2. The committee meets via video conference to discuss submissions. Submissions receiving low average scores are first reconsidered to ensure no strong candidates are overlooked. The committee then discusses higher-ranked submissions, eventually forming a preliminary list of selected talks.
3. In a second video conference session, the committee further evaluates remaining submissions and forms a final list of selected talks based on available slots. Overrepresented topics and repeat speakers are avoided to ensure a balanced schedule. Tie breaking votes are performed by the committee chair.
4. The committee forms a draft schedule.
5. Selected speakers are notified before June 14, 2026.

Committee members abstain from voting on submissions where there may be a professional conflict of interest, such as submissions by coworkers. Program committee members — like every other position in the Postgres Summit US organization — serve as unpaid volunteers.