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Schedule
One track, 8 talks, and plenty of coffee — Saturday, October 10, 2026, Cairo. All times in Africa/Cairo local time.
Full agenda
Registration & Check-in
Opening Remarks
The Rise of Postgres in the MENA Region
A look at how PostgreSQL adoption has grown across Egyptian and regional tech companies over the past decade, and what's driving it.
Karim El-Sayed
Indexing Strategies That Actually Matter
A practical walkthrough of the indexing decisions that move the needle in production — and the ones that don't.
Nourhan Adel
Coffee Break
Scaling Postgres Past 100M Transactions a Day
Lessons from running Postgres at the core of a national payments platform, including connection pooling, partitioning, and failover design.
Ahmed Farouk
Logical Replication in Practice
How logical replication works under the hood, and where it fits versus physical replication and third-party tools.
Mariam Hassan
Lunch
PostGIS for Smart City Applications
An introduction to geospatial data modeling with PostGIS, illustrated with real location-based product examples.
Youssef Nabil
From Oracle to Postgres: A Migration War Story
The unglamorous, practical realities of migrating a production system off Oracle onto PostgreSQL.
Salma Mostafa
Coffee Break
Building the Postgres Community in Egypt & MENA
A conversation between local and regional community members on growing user groups, mentorship, and first-time speaking opportunities.
Omar Khaled, Dina Ashraf
Closing Remarks & Networking
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