Share your PostgreSQL knowledge at PGConf.Asia 2026.
Every talk at PGConf.Asia starts as a submission to the Call for Proposals. This page explains how proposals are reviewed and selected, and what to keep in mind before you submit.
📅 Call for Proposals closes: 11:59 PM (China Standard Time UTC+08:00) on August 31, 2026
Share your knowledge, experiences, and innovations with the PostgreSQL community at PGConf.Asia 2026.
We welcome presentations from developers, DBAs, researchers, contributors, users, educators, students, and anyone passionate about PostgreSQL and its ecosystem. Whether you're presenting a new feature, sharing lessons learned from production deployments, contributing to PostgreSQL core, or exploring the future of databases and AI, we encourage you to submit a talk.
The following topics are intended as inspiration rather than limitations:
Presentations are offered in two durations:
Ideal for focused presentations that introduce a specific idea, demonstrate a tool or extension, showcase a project, present early research, or share concise technical insights and practical experiences.
Designed for more in-depth technical sessions, allowing speakers to explore a topic thoroughly, walk through implementation details, present research, deliver comprehensive case studies, or share extensive lessons learned from real-world deployments.
We look forward to receiving your submission and seeing you at PGConf.Asia 2026!
Responsible for CFP review, talk selection, schedule quality, and speaker communication.
We are often asked how presentations are selected from the submitted proposals for the PGConf.Asia programme.
Every submission is carefully reviewed by the PGConf.Asia Program Committee, consisting of the Program Co-Chairs and committee members. Each proposal is evaluated based on its title, abstract, intended audience, technical depth, originality, practical value, and relevance to the PostgreSQL community.
Each committee member independently reviews every proposal and assigns a 1–5 star rating, along with written comments and feedback. Committee members are encouraged to abstain from reviewing proposals where a conflict of interest exists, such as submissions from colleagues or collaborators.
After the initial review period, the Program Co-Chairs and Program Committee meet to discuss the highest-rated proposals as well as submissions that generated differing opinions. Ratings, reviewer comments, topic balance, audience diversity, speaker diversity, and the overall conference programme are all considered during the final selection process.
A strong proposal makes the reviewers' job easy. Keep these points in mind while you write and submit.
Your abstract is what reviewers and attendees see first, so make it specific and self-contained. Explain the problem you're solving, what the audience will learn, and why it matters — a vague or generic abstract is hard to rate highly, no matter how good the talk turns out to be.
Choose Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced honestly, and match it to the depth of your content rather than your own seniority. This helps the committee balance the programme across skill levels and helps attendees pick the right sessions.
Use the private note-to-reviewers field to share context that shouldn't go in the public abstract — for example, that the talk builds on a previous PGConf session, that a demo or data set is still being finalized, or background that helps reviewers judge originality and depth.
A session can have at most two speakers. Add any co-speaker when you submit or update your proposal so the committee can evaluate the full team, and make sure every listed co-speaker has a complete profile and has agreed to present.
PGConf.Asia is a PostgreSQL community conference, so reviewers look for a clear, direct connection to PostgreSQL — even for adjacent topics like AI, cloud, or developer tooling. State plainly where PostgreSQL fits into your talk rather than leaving the committee to infer it.
Complete your speaker profile with a current bio, photo, and affiliation before you submit. Reviewers consider whether a speaker has the background and experience to deliver the proposed talk, and an incomplete profile makes that harder to assess.
If you need an official invitation letter or help with visa requirements to attend, please send us a message at contact@pgconf.asia and we'll be glad to help.
Let the organizers know about anything you need on site — reliable Wi-Fi for a live demo, a whiteboard, extra display adapters, or accessibility accommodations — so the team has time to prepare before the conference.