PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2026
Overview
Japan's largest comprehensive PostgreSQL conference, held annually by the Japan PostgreSQL Users Group (JPUG). Developers and DBAs gather for a full day of two morning talks and fourteen sessions across three afternoon tracks, spanning new core features, cloud, extensions, and operations. The 2025 edition drew 226 attendees, the most in eight years, with committers and vendor engineers from Japan and abroad on stage.
Program
- Two morning keynotes by Nasiullha Chaudhari (Yugabyte) and Bertrand Drouvot (AWS), in English with interpretation
- Afternoon: 12 talks of 50 minutes across 3 tracks (two general tracks and one tutorial track)
- Closing session including lightning talks
- After-party from 18:30 (separate ticket)
Speakers from past editions
- Kohei KaiGai (HeteroDB, 2025 speaker)
- Joe Conway (Amazon Web Services, 2025 speaker)
- Atsushi Torikoshi (SRA OSS, 2025 speaker)
Foundation
- Founded
- 1999
- Founder
- Japan PostgreSQL Users Group (JPUG)
An annual conference run by JPUG (founded 1999) to promote PostgreSQL adoption and technical exchange in Japan. Talks are primarily in Japanese, with some English sessions accepted.
Transition
- 1999 Japan PostgreSQL Users Group (JPUG) founded, holding the conference annually thereafter
- 2025 Held at AP Nihonbashi with 226 attendees, the highest in eight years
- 2026 At AP Tokyo Yaesu, with two morning talks and 14 sessions across three afternoon tracks
Voices
A travel-tech company that sponsored at silver tier shares a four-member attendance report on standout sessions (from Forcia's report, in Japanese)
A Wantedly infrastructure engineer, attending for the second straight year, reports the largest turnout in eight years (from the Wantedly story, in Japanese)
An engineer's Zenn write-up summarizes takeaways from new-feature sessions such as pg_lake (from tomatommy's report, in Japanese)
Sponsors
プラチナスポンサー
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Amazon Web Services
ゴールドスポンサー
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株式会社SRA OSS -
YugabyteDB,Inc. -
株式会社アシスト
シルバースポンサー
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株式会社インサイト -
pganalyze -
Navicat -
Google Cloud Japan -
ヘテロＤＢ株式会社 -
フォルシア株式会社
Source: official sponsor list (as of October 9, 2026)
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