KEYNOTE: Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026

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Hear about Microsoft's commitment to Postgres directly from two Microsoft leaders. Affan Dar (Microsoft) and Charles Feddersen (Microsoft) share their vision in their keynote talk “Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft” at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026. Abstract: Microsoft is deeply invested in Postgres. Both in the upstream open source project and as a premier cloud database offering. In this keynote, Charles Feddersen and Affan Dar, who lead PostgreSQL engineering at Azure, will share how Microsoft is driving Postgres forward today: not just as a database to run in the cloud, but as an open source project we’re investing in for the long run. They’ll talk about what that looks like in practice, including Microsoft’s work in the Postgres community, recent contributions into core Postgres, and how those efforts shape the Azure Database for PostgreSQL managed service. The session will also touch on database migrations, developer tools, and why we created Azure HorizonDB. This is a technical, inside look at why Postgres matters to Microsoft, what the team has been focused on recently, and how that work connects back to the broader Postgres ecosystem. Affan Dar is the VP of Engineering for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Microsoft. These teams build and operate Azure's relational open source database services and also make upstream contributions to PostgreSQL. Charles Feddersen is the Partner Director of Product Management for Postgres and MySQL on Azure, which includes the

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