CFP/Call for Proposals
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Call for Proposals (CFP) is open!
Every great event starts with great speakers. Whether you’re new to public speaking or as experienced as it gets, we’d love to hear your stories about Postgres and its extensions & tools too—like Citus, Patroni, PgBouncer & more.
Whether you’re a first-time speaker or a regular at conferences, we’d love to consider your talk proposal(s) about Postgres and the rich tooling and extensions in the Postgres ecosystem. To make things easy, we’ll take care of the pre-recording and video production of your talk. You’ll just need to show up virtually when your video is livestreamed to answer questions in the online chat—with your favorite cup of tea (or coffee) in hand. Talks are 25 minutes long and in English.
Some important dates
- Nov 14, 2024 – Call for proposals (CFP) opens
- Feb 09, 2025 – CFP closes @ 11:59pm PST
- Feb 19, 2025 – Speakers notified
- Mar 05, 2025 – Schedule & sessions announced
- Apr 02, 2025 – Virtual Speaker Meet & Greet
- Weeks of Apr 28 & May 5, 2025 – Pre-record all talks
- Jun 10-12, 2025 – POSETTE happens! Join the event in chat, and on screen too if you so choose.
Topics we’d like to see in this
CFP
Here are some of the topics we would like to see at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. This list is not exhaustive, other Postgres topics are welcome too!
- How you run your workloads on Postgres on Azure
- New capabilities in PostgreSQL
- Open source Postgres user stories
- Postgres community
- Generally interesting Postgres knowledge & tips
- How you use Postgres extensions such as PostGIS, Citus, pgvector, & more
- Data modeling and SQL best practices
- Explaining Postgres internals
- Tips for building your application on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Building AI applications with Postgres
- Benchmarking & performance tuning
- High availability techniques (including Patroni)
- Migrating to Postgres on Azure
- Monitoring tools for Postgres
- Optimizing for data-intensive analytics and time series workloads
- Case studies & success stories for HA and DR (or interesting failures)
- Ideas for new features in Postgres
- Azure ecosystem integrations with Postgres
- Running SaaS apps built with Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, or .NET—and running on Postgres
How to submit talk proposals for POSETTE
We’d love to hear your story and we thank you for considering our CFP! For our call for speakers, you can submit a proposal on Sessionize.
The submission form will ask for things like:
- Session title & description
- Bio details
- Permission to share your photos, bio info & video of your talk online
- Timezone in April & May, including UTC offset (for scheduling)
- Bit of background on you, your qualifications, your speaking experience, links to other talks/videos, if they exist
Do you still have questions?
You’ll find lots more info on the POSETTE FAQ or you can reach out for advice on the #posetteconf channel on the Microsoft Open Source Discord. Be sure to check out the Code of Conduct for the event, too.
CFP will close Sun Feb 9th
February will be here before we know it. As a reminder, the CFP will close on Sunday February 9, 2025 at 11:59pm PST (UTC-7).
Speaker
resources
There are lots of resources out there to help you get your talk proposed accepted, create an interesting talk, and deliver a presentation in a way that delights your audience.
Here are some of our favorite resources:
- Tips on how to get your conference talk selected by Claire Giordano
- Get Your Conference Proposal Accepted by Richard Schneeman
- What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing by Sarah Mei
- 13 tips for getting your talk accepted at a tech conference, by Todd Lewis at All Things Open
- The Art of Delivering Information by Mike Johnston
- Public Speaking Resources by Vicky Brasseur
- View POSETTE 2024 video playlist of accepted talks to get ideas
- About Talk Selection for last year’s POSETTE 2024 by Claire Giordano
Talk selection
team
Many thanks to our talk selection team members who will be reviewing your talk proposals for POSETTE. Each of Claire, Daniel, KK, and Melanie bring different types of experience and expertise to the table, derived from their Postgres work in the open source & cloud database ecosystems—and in their community building work, too. What they have in common: they all love Postgres.
Claire Giordano
Head of Postgres open source community initiatives at Microsoft. Member of PGCA Board of Directors. Chair of POSETTE Talk Selection Team.
Daniel Gustafsson
PostgreSQL major contributor & committer working at Microsoft. Frequent PostgreSQL conference organizer. Founder & organizer of Nordic PGDay.
Krishnakumar “KK” Ravi
Principal Group Engineering Manager leading the Postgres engine group at Microsoft, working on both open source & Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Melanie Plageman
PostgreSQL major contributor and committer working at Microsoft. Focusing on IO, statistics, & vacuum subsystems. Organizer of PGConf.dev.
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Brought to you by the Postgres team at Microsoft
Members of the Postgres team at Microsoft—including Postgres committers & contributors, the people who work on Azure Database for PostgreSQL up in the cloud, the Citus open source database engine, and across the Postgres ecosystem—are all proud to host POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. We hope you enjoy it!