PGDay UK2026

PostgreSQL helps our customers by giving them an enterprise-grade database without enterprise-grade licence fees, lock-in, or proprietary black boxes. Stock Postgres handles OLTP, analytical and increasingly AI workloads at scale, backed by 25 years of community hardening CYBERTEC.

For our customers specifically, the decisive factor is often sovereignty. PostgreSQL runs anywhere - on-premises, in any cloud, in Kubernetes, behind their own firewall, so they own their data destiny rather than depending on a hyperscaler contract or a vendor's roadmap.

That choice is amplified by our 24/7 global support, our migration tooling for Oracle and SQL Server estates, and our PGEE distribution that adds transparent data encryption, encrypted stored procedures, advanced auditing, anomaly detection and data masking on top of community Postgres.

Several of our team members will be on the booth all day, ready for technical conversations rather than sales pitches.

We'll be doing live demos of the Patroni suitcase (as always), and showcasing PGEE (transparent data encryption and encrypted stored procedures on stock Postgres), the CYBERTEC Migrator moving an Oracle schema live, and Scalefield, our managed PostgreSQL platform, including the Scalefield Secure compliance dashboard.

If you have a production headache, a slow query, a replication slot problem, a Patroni topology question, an awkward migration, even - please bring the details. The fastest way to get help is to corner someone wearing a CYBERTEC shirt and explain what is keeping you up at night.

Our team is international and remote-friendly, with flexible hours, and a flat structure. We are proud that many of our colleagues have been with us for a decade or more.

CYBERTEC people tend to value working alongside recognised core contributors on real production problems, not abstracted ticket queues. Senior engineers stay hands-on here, and that is deliberate.

We invest heavily in continuous learning: certified training programmes, conference attendance, internal knowledge sharing, and the freedom to publish open-source work under your own name. Several of our staff are active speakers at PGConf.eu, FOSDEM and regional PGDay events.

PGDay UK has built a reputation as one of the most welcoming, technically serious single-track events in the European Postgres calendar, and that combination is rare. We are happy to support it.

The UK also has a deep Postgres community including large financial services, the public sector, fast-growing SaaS running serious production workloads on Postgres every day. That is exactly the audience we serve, and we want to spend a day with them in person rather than via another webinar.

Finally, a regional event of this calibre often goes under-supported by bigger vendors. As a fundamentally independently operated company that has been a community contributor for 25 years, that is precisely the kind of event we want to back.

We contribute hundreds of accepted patches to PostgreSQL core, with major contributors including Laurenz Albe, Hans-Jürgen Schönig, Pavlo Golub, Bernd Helmle, Christoph Berg, Antonin Houska, Amit Khandekar, Ants Aasma and Andreas Seltenreich, Polina Bungina, and contributors - Rafia Sabih.

We also publish and maintain more than a dozen open-source extensions and tools through github.com/cybertec-postgresql, including pgwatch, pg_show_plans, pg_squeeze, pg_timetable, walbouncer, vip-manager, pg_configurator and the Patroni Windows setup tool.

What we get back is just as real: a database our customers can trust, an ecosystem of consultants and contributors we can hire from, and a community of users who push us to keep our software and our support genuinely excellent.

PostgreSQL is continuing to expand beyond traditional relational workloads while keeping its core strengths. Features such as SQL/PGQ, improved I/O, logical replication, and ongoing performance improvements show a database that is adapting to new workloads without losing the stability and flexibility that made it successful.

The database world is consolidating around fewer, more capable general-purpose engines, and Postgres is the clearest beneficiary of that trend. Specialised systems will keep their niches, but the default is increasingly stock PostgreSQL plus a small set of high-quality extensions.

PostgreSQL itself will keep getting faster, asynchronous I/O is the headline, but parallel execution, partitioning and replication are all still gaining ground and will keep absorbing workloads that previously required separate systems: queues, search, time-series, geospatial, vector.

The biggest strategic shift is sovereignty and everyone at CYBERTEC is very passionate about this topic. As AI workloads move into production, organisations want embeddings, retrieval and agent state held in a database they control, under their audit regime, on infrastructure they own. Postgres is the obvious answer to that question, and we intend to keep building on it