PG DATA 2026 was a two-day, community-driven PostgreSQL and data conference held in downtown Chicago. The event brought together developers, database administrators, data engineers, architects, researchers, and open-source professionals for practical technical sessions, expert insights, and community networking. The conference featured presentations on PostgreSQL, database administration, performance optimization, data engineering, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, analytics, and modern data architectures. Attendees had opportunities to learn from experienced speakers, discuss real-world challenges, and connect with members of the PostgreSQL and broader data community. Event Details Date: June 4–5, 2026 Time: Full-day conference Location: Loyola University Water Tower Campus, Chicago, Illinois Venue: Kasbeer…

Prairie Postgres NFP is excited to announce an upcoming community meetup featuring Elizabeth Christensen from Snowflake. In this session, “pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres,” we’ll explore how PostgreSQL is evolving beyond traditional transactional workloads into a unified platform for analytics and modern data lake architectures. Elizabeth will introduce the newly released pg_lake extension series, which connects PostgreSQL to object storage and open table formats including Parquet and Iceberg. Through live demos and practical examples, attendees will see how to build streamlined data pipelines with little to no ETL while leveraging the power of open source technologies like…

The Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group (PUG) is pleased to announce the Second Developers’ Summit, scheduled for April 14 during our regular meetup time. Following the success of last year’s event, this summit will bring together application developers, PostgreSQL DBAs, database architects, and database developers for an interactive discussion. The goal is to better understand the challenges of using PostgreSQL as an application backend and to collaboratively explore ways to improve this interaction. What to Expect To help us organize the sessions effectively, participants are encouraged to complete the Google Form in advance. While filling out the form is optional,…