SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 23, 2015) - Citus Data, creators of solutions to scale out and extend the analytics capabilities of PostgreSQL, today announced the full schedule of speakers and events for the first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference. Citus Data also announced the addition of two new major conference sponsors, Pivotal at the Platinum level and Amazon Web Services at the Silver level. The conference will take place November 17-18, 2015 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. Organized by Citus Data in cooperation with the San Francisco PostgreSQL Users Group, PGConf Silicon Valley is a technical conference aimed at the Silicon Valley PostgreSQL community and beyond. Early Bird registration for PGConf Silicon Valley is available through Oct. 4, 2015.
PGConf Silicon Valley, the first Silicon Valley conference focused solely on PostgreSQL, is an opportunity for leading industry experts and the local community to discuss and learn about the major new capabilities of PostgreSQL and how to optimize a PostgreSQL environment. Breakout session tracks include DevOps, New Features, PostGIS, Tales from the Trenches, Hacking Postgres, and Data at Scale.
The full speaker schedule includes:
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Matthew Kelly, In-House Postgres Expert at TripAdvisor, on "At the Heart of a Giant: Postgres at TripAdvisor"
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Ryan Lowe, Production Engineer & John Cesario, Platform Engineer at Square, on "Postgres for MySQL DBAs"
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Magnus Hagander, Database Architect, Systems Administrator & Developer at Redpill Linpro, on "What's New in PostgreSQL 9.5"
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Paul Ramsey, Solutions Engineer at Cartodb, on "This is PostGIS"
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Peter Geoghegan, Database Engineer at Heroku, on "UPSERT use cases"
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Grant McAlister, Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon.com, on "Cloud Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - What's New and Lessons Learned"
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Gavin McQuillan, Senior Data Engineer at Urban Airship, on "Data of Future Past: Postgres as Distributed Online Processing Analytics Engine"
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Samantha Billington, Database Manager at Turnitin, on "...Lag - What's wrong with my slave?"
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Andreas Scherbaum, Advisory Consultant at EMC Deutschland GmbH, on "Enrich your data with geocoordinates from OpenStreetMap or ArcGIS"
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Dan Robinson, Lead Engineer at Heap, on "Powering Heap With PostgreSQL and CitusDB"
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Kenny Gorman, Chief Technologist; Data at Rackspace, on "Cloud PostgreSQL Automation Management with Ansible"
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AJ Welch, Data Engineer at Chartio, on "Using the PostgresSQL extension ecosystem to perform advanced analytics"
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Joseph Conway, PostgreSQL Engineering at Crunchy Data, on "Where's Waldo? - text search and pattern matching in PostgreSQL"
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Sadayuki Furuhashi, Founder & Software Architect at Treasure Data, Inc., "Prestogres: Hacking PostgreSQL Internals to Solve Data Access Problems"
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Konstantin Gredeskoul, CTO of Wanelo, Inc., on "From obvious to ingenious: how to incrementally scale web applications on PostgreSQL"
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Scott Milliken, Founder of MixRank, on "Survival Guide to Terabyte PostgreSQL"
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Jason Petersen, Software Engineer at Citus Data, on "Sharding and Scaling PostgreSQL with pg_shard"
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Christophe Pettus, Director at PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., on "The PCI-Compliant Database"
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Baron Schwartz, CEO of VividCortex, on "Analyzing PostgreSQL Network Traffic with vc-pgsql-sniffer"
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Derek Nelson, CEO of PipelineDB, on "PipelineDB: The Streaming SQL Database"
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Ãlvaro Hernandez, CTO of 8Kdata, on "ToroDB internals: how to create a NoSQL database on top of SQL"
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David Pacheco, Software Engineer at Joyent, on "Automating PostgreSQL failover for high availability"
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Greg Beruk, Engineer at Heroku, on "How Heroku Postgres Works"