CFP/Call for Proposals
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
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 accepted talks. 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.
What are the important dates & deadlines?
- Nov 12, 2025 – Call for proposals (CFP) opens
- Feb 01, 2026 – CFP closes @ 11:59pm PST (UTC-7)
- Feb 11, 2026 – Speakers notified
- Feb 25, 2026 – Schedule & sessions announced
- Mar 25, 2026 – Virtual Speaker Meet & Greet
- Weeks of Apr 20 & Apr 27, 2026 – Pre-record all talks
- Jun 16-18, 2026 – POSETTE happens! Join the event in chat.
What would make a good topic for a POSETTE talk
proposal?
Here are a few topic ideas for talk proposals to get your creativity going. This list is by no means exhaustive, other Postgres topics are welcome too!
- Open source Postgres user stories
- How you run your workloads on Postgres on Azure
- New capabilities in PostgreSQL
- Postgres community
- Generally interesting Postgres knowledge & tips
- How you use Postgres extensions such as pgvector, PostGIS, Citus, & more
- Data modeling and SQL best practices
- Explaining Postgres internals
- Tips for building applications on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Building AI applications with Postgres
- Security best practices
- How Postgres workflows are changing with LLMs
- Benchmarking & performance tuning
- HA and DR techniques
- Migrating to Postgres on Azure
- Monitoring tools for Postgres
- Building analytics pipelines with data lakes and Postgres
- Case studies & success stories (or interesting failures)
- Developing extensions in Postgres
- Azure ecosystem integrations with Postgres
- Running SaaS applications 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 1st
February will be here before we know it. As a reminder, the CFP will close on Sunday February 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PST (UTC-7).
Speaker
resources
There are lots of resources out there to help you get your talk proposal 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
- Twitter: What are the 3 "must know" things you would tell a first time conference speaker?
- 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 at TEDxLaSierraUniversity
- Repo of Public Speaking Resources on GitHub by Vicky Brasseur et al
- View POSETTE 2025 video playlist of accepted talks to get ideas
- About Talk Selection for 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. Claire, Daniel, Divya, and Melanie each 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
PostgreSQL significant contributor & head of Postgres community efforts at Microsoft. Member of PGCA Board of Directors. Chair of POSETTE Talk Selection.
Daniel Gustafsson
PostgreSQL major contributor & committer working at Microsoft. Longtime PostgreSQL conference organizer. Founder & organizer of Nordic PGDay.
Divya Bhargov
Principal Engineering Manager for the PostgreSQL engine & extensions team for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Formerly Greenplum.
Melanie Plageman
PostgreSQL major contributor and committer working at Microsoft. Focusing on IO, statistics, & vacuum subsystems. Organizer of #PGConfdev.
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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!