# The CFP is now open & will close on Feb 9, 2025! The 4th annual event called **POSETTE: An Event for Postgres** will happen Jun 10-12, 2025 and the [Call for Speakers](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/) is now open—**until Feb 9, 2025**! POSETTE is a free & virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft. The name POSETTE stands for **P**ostgres **O**pen **S**ource **E**cosystem **T**alks **T**raining & **E**ducation. **First time & experienced speakers both welcome!** Whether you’re a first-time speaker or a regular speaker at conferences, we’d love to consider your talk proposal(s) about Postgres and the rich tooling and extensions (like PostGIS, Citus, & Patroni) in the Postgres ecosystem—both open source and for Postgres in the cloud on Azure. ## 4 Unique Livestreams There will be 4 unique livestreams: 2 in Americas workday timezones (PDT), and 2 in EMEA workday timezones (CEST). Each livestream will have its own keynote and set of talks—no repeats among the livestreams. ## Important Dates & Deadlines • **Nov 14, 2024** – Call for proposals (CFP) opens
• **Feb 09, 2025** – CFP closes @ 11:59 pm PST • **Feb 19, 2025** – Speakers notified • **Mar 05, 2025** – Schedule & sessions announced • **Apr 02, 2025** – Virtual Speaker Meet & Greet • **Apr 28-May 2 and May 5-9, 2025** – Pre-record all talks • **Jun 10-12, 2025** – POSETTE happens! Join the livestream virtually to chat with attendees and other speakers. ## Key things to know Even more information on the **[POSETTE CFP page](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/)** • **Format**: Four 6-hour livestreams at different times of day • **CFP closes**: Feb 9, 2025 • **Length**: 25 mins / talk • **Virtual & free**: no travel (or funding) required • **Video recording & production**: All talks will be pre-recorded by the POSETTE team at Microsoft—all speakers need is a good microphone & a decent webcam. We’ll take care of the rest—including all editing, caption QA, and caption translation. • **Speaker resources**: on our **[CFP page](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#speaker-resources)** • **Submit your proposal**: **[on Sessionize]( https://sessionize.com/posette2025/)** ## Topics 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 ## Other useful links • **[Code of conduct](https://posetteconf.com/2025/conduct/)****[Code of conduct](https://posetteconf.com/2025/conduct/)** • **[Talk selection team](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#talk-selection-team)****[Talk selection team](https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/#talk-selection-team)**
