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Postgres Sydney #4 Meetup
About the event
After three fantastic meetups, the Sydney Postgres community is back for round four. Each event keeps growing, and we're looking forward to another evening of great conversations and knowledge sharing. This will be our last meetup before the PGDU Conference in October'26 so don't miss it.
Whether you're deep in PostgreSQL production workloads, evaluating it for your next project, mid-migration, or simply curious about what Postgres can do, come along and meet others who share the interest. The format is informal, technical talks, hands-on insights, open discussion, and plenty of time to chat with fellow attendees over drinks.
What to expect • Technical talks from people working with PostgreSQL day-to-day • Real-world war stories and lessons learned • Open Q&A and community discussion • Networking with Sydney's growing Postgres community
Who should attend Everyone's welcome, whether you're a: • Database administrator • Developer or application engineer • Platform or DevOps engineer • Solution architect • Student or anyone curious about PostgreSQL
Talk 1: PostgreSQL as a Scaffolding for Agentic AI Apps (Shadab Mohammad from Oracle) 30-mins *Abstract:* Agentic AI applications need more than an LLM, they need reliable data, memory, security, and guardrails. In this session Shadab will show how PostgreSQL pgvector, full-text search, JSONB, row-level security, constraints, transactions, and MCP provide the scaffolding for an autonomous agent.
He will explore how PostgreSQL retrieves trusted facts, records every step, and safely controls business actions for autonomous AI agents. A live demo will follow the request, “Find the refund policy for this order and open a support case,” while exposing the PostgreSQL features and SQL executed at each stage.
Talk2: PostGIS: An Extension for Spatial Data (Rajesh Kandasamy from Fujitsu) 20 mins *Abstract:* PostGIS is an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that adds advanced spatial data types, functions, and indexing capabilities to a relational database system. It enables users to store, manage, query, and analyze geographic information alongside conventional relational data. PostGIS supports widely used spatial data formats, including points, lines, polygons, and raster data, and provides functions for spatial relationships, geometric operations, coordinate transformations, and distance calculations. Its integration with PostgreSQL allows spatial and non-spatial information to be combined efficiently within a single database environment.
Venue Sponsor: Oracle Australia Pty Ltd.
Meetup Location:- Tank Stream Labs International Tower 3, Level 17/300 Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo NSW 2000
