Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Bruce Momjian
Vice President, Postgres Evangelist, EnterpriseDB
Co-founder, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley.
Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, an honorary doctorate, was a high school computer science teacher, and lectures internationally.
Making Postgres Central in Your Data Center
Postgres has the unique ability to act as a powerful data aggregator in many data centers. This talk shows how Postgres's extensibility, access to foreign data sources, and ability handle NoSQL-like and data warehousing workloads gives it unmatched capabilities to function in this role.
Christopher Travers
PostgreSQL and Infrastructure Professional
Chris Travers has 25 years of experience with PostgreSQL in many roles from DBA to developer and is active on commitfiests. He also actively presents at conferences around the world. He is deeply committed to helping expand Postgres worldwide. He has been involved in leading other open source software projects through the years, including LedgerSMB which he helped found. He currently lives in Indonesia for family reasons and believes in helping ensure that the PostgreSQL community and we can come together across diverse cultural and other backgrounds in our community to build the economic commons that economically support so many of us.
The Future of Postgres in a Changing World
Open source software programs, including PostgreSQL, first arose to prominence in the 1990s. This was a product in part of geopolitical and economic changes of the time, particularly the role that globalization played in the development of open source software. Today the world is changing again and we are seeing an effort to disconnect economies. What does this mean for the future of open source software in general and PostgreSQL in particular?
Recently we have seen a lot of warning signs from the US including the failed RESTRICT Act, the purges of certain Russian Linux kernel maintainers, and more, and there are reasons to think that open source software may be in the crosshairs of some governments from a geopolitical perspective. What does this mean for the future of PostgreSQL? How should people evaluate open source projects in terms of geopolitical risks? And what can we do to help ensure the community is geopolitically resilient?
Oleg Bartunov
Co-founder and CEO of Postgres Professional
Oleg Bartunov is a professional astronomer turned leading PostgreSQL developer, with over 30 years of experience in the PostgreSQL community. He is a co-founder and CEO of Postgres Professional, a company dedicated to advancing PostgreSQL development and support. Oleg’s expertise lies in non-atomic data types (arrays, hstore, jsonb), full-text search, and advanced indexing techniques (GiST, GIN, SP-GiST, KNN). His first major contribution to PostgreSQL was implementing locale support, a breakthrough that opened the database to a global audience and paved the way for its internationalization. A passionate advocate for PostgreSQL, Oleg has been promoting the database globally, speaking at numerous conferences, and building a strong professional PostgreSQL community in Russia. Since 2009, he has also actively advocated for PostgreSQL in Nepal, including regular lectures at Kathmandu University. Outside databases, Oleg is an avid trail runner and mountaineer, having completed the Great Himalayan Trail (GHT).
PostgreSQL: The Perfect Database for Nepal – Building a Community for the Future
PostgreSQL, a mature and powerful open-source database, has a proven track record of success across industries and countries. With its rich ecosystem of tutorials, books, and a vibrant global community known for collaboration and mutual support, PostgreSQL is an ideal choice for Nepal’s technological growth.
This talk highlights why PostgreSQL’s open model and independence make it perfect for education, enabling universities to train developers and grow local expertise. We’ll also explore practical steps to build a thriving PostgreSQL community in Nepal, from organizing meetups to contributing to the global ecosystem.