The FOSSASIA Summit 2026, held in Bangkok from 8–10 March, once again brought together a diverse and passionate global open source community. Engineers, contributors, architects, and technology leaders came together to share experiences across databases, AI, cloud, and community driven innovation.
As part of the summit, FOSSASIA PGDay 2026 offered a dedicated space for the PostgreSQL community to explore how open source values, enterprise realities, and long term technology stewardship intersect in practice.
This year was particularly special for us, with Fujitsu again participating as a proud Platinum Sponsor of PGDay, reinforcing our ongoing commitment to PostgreSQL and the wider open source ecosystem.
If you weren’t able to attend the event in person, I am making my presentations available at the end of this post 
Community Day
The conference journey began on Community Day, with my session Community at core – Enterprise at scale.
This talk focused on a simple but powerful idea: PostgreSQL’s enterprise success is inseparable from its community foundations. We explored how:
- Open governance and transparent contribution models create trust
- Collaboration across individuals and organizations strengthens the ecosystem
- Enterprises benefit most when they actively participate, not just consume
The discussion resonated with attendees navigating large scale PostgreSQL deployments while remaining aligned with open source values. It set the tone for the days that followed grounding technical discussions in the people, practices, and culture that sustain PostgreSQL over time.
FOSSASIA PGDay
FOSSASIA PGDay officially opened with Gary Evans’ keynote, What 30 years of PostgreSQL teaches us about software longevity. Rather than focusing on features or release cycles, the keynote stepped back to answer a deeper question: why has PostgreSQL lasted while many other technologies have not?
The day progressed with many interesting talks and Gary’s second session, When databases disagree: Smarter conflict management in PostgreSQL, took a more hands on, technical turn. This talk explored the realities of replication, distributed systems, and conflicting data changes, an increasingly common challenge in modern architectures with a live demo.
The session sparked strong engagement from attendees operating PostgreSQL in complex, distributed, and hybrid environments, bridging theory with real world operational experience.
I wrapped up PGDay as the final speaker with my second session, PostgreSQL support in the age of AI: Don’t forget the basics. As the closing session, I brought the focus back to everyday operational realities and challenges. As we all know that PostgreSQL is evolving rapidly to support AI workloads, vector search, and increasingly complex enterprise use cases, and the reality of supporting Postgres in production has never been more demanding.
When smarter databases make operations harder
In this talk we did a reality check how the rise of AI driven workloads, massive scale, and near zero downtime expectations have fundamentally changed the day to day life of PostgreSQL support teams and why strong fundamentals matter more than ever. This talk was also special to me as I come from the Operations background and can very well understand the stress support engineers go through in day-to-day basis to keep the business up and running.
In this session , I shared how despite rapid innovation, fragmented troubleshooting has created a progress paradox: a smarter database with harder and slower day to day operations, and also how strong, effective support now directly shapes MTTR, customer trust, and long term confidence in PostgreSQL at scale
And the talk was wrapped up with the idea to have a unified support experience with interoperable support tool that brings existing PostgreSQL insights together without replacing trusted tools. Ending the day on this topic helped ground the conference in practical, real world operational impact and left a thought to the developers on how this operational issues can be resolved. This might open up a future discussion to have a unified support experience to keep up the vision of PostgreSQL as a database of choice for mission-critical environments.
Fujitsu at PGDay: From sponsorship to meaningful community engagement
Being part of PGDay as both speakers and a Platinum Sponsor was particularly meaningful for Fujitsu. Our involvement extended beyond the sessions themselves, with valuable conversations at the booth, discussions between talks, and ongoing engagement with community members throughout the event.
Supporting PGDay reflects Fujitsu’s continued commitment to open source collaboration, long-term technology stewardship, and active participation in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.
PGDay remains an important forum where community members, enterprises, and contributors come together as peers, and we are proud to support and contribute to that environment.
Talk 1 - Community at the core, enterprise at scale: How does PostgreSQL thrive through collaboration?
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Talk 2 - PostgreSQL support in the age of AI: Don't forget the basics
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FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was about community, collaboration, and PostgreSQL’s future
FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was a strong reminder that PostgreSQL’s success is built not only on technical excellence, but on community, shared responsibility, and sustained investment over time. From community driven discussions on day 1 to deep, technical exploration during PGDay, the conference reinforced why PostgreSQL remains trusted at enterprise scale and why events like FOSSASIA continue to matter.
A big thank you to FOSSASIA, the PGDay organisers, fellow speakers, sponsors, and everyone who engaged in discussions throughout the event. The conversations started in Bangkok will continue to shape how we build, support, and scale PostgreSQL going forward.
Watch the videos
Session recordings are available on the links below.
- Community at the core, enterprise at scale: How does PostgreSQL thrive through collaboration?
- PostgreSQL support in the age of AI: Don't forget the basics
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