PGConf India 2017Closing Note

Organising Committee

Journey• First two meet-ups - 2013, Pune

• Small gathering, half day event, no fees, couple of sponsors

Journey• Third meet-up - March 2014, Hyderabad

• Formed legal entity “India PostgreSQL User Group”

• First PGDay - April 2015, Bengaluru

• First time in Bengaluru, full-day event

Journey• Second PGDay - February 2016, Bengaluru

• Professional venue, large gathering, t-shirts, event recordings, multiple sponsors, media coverage :-)

Growth

0

75

150

225

300

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Delegates

0

10

20

30

40

1st meetup 1st PGDay PGConf

Talks Talks Submitted

Growth

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

1st meetup 1st PGDay PGConf

Duration (days)

0

20

40

60

80

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Companies

• Preparations started about 6 months back

• A brand new website

• Integrated ticketing system

• First ever dedicated trainings day - extremely good response, tickets were sold out (multiple times ;-))

• First ever multi-track event

• First time over 250 delegates

• Representatives from over 80 different companies

PGConf India 2017

PGConf India 2017

0

22.5

45

67.5

90

Week1 Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9

Registrations

PGConf India 2017

1%1%1%3%3%3%4%

4%

15%

22%

39%

PGConf India 2017

1%1%1%3%3%3%4%

4%

15%

22%

39%

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PGConf India 2017

13%

87%

PGConf India 2017

13%

87%

Male Female

PGConf India 2017

3%4%13%

40%

40%

PGConf India 2017

3%4%13%

40%

40%

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Our Sponsors

Past Sponsors

Thank you• Simon Riggs - Keynote

• Robert Haas - Invited Lecture

• Our Speakers/Trainers

• Ms Larisa, Support Staff - Park Plaza

• Srinivasan and team - Audio Video, Booths, Banners

Thank you

• Our Employers - 2ndQuadrant, EnterpriseDB for allowing, encouraging and supporting us for organising this conference

• Each one of you - thank you for attending and spreading the word

Your Organisers• Ashish Mehra

• Pavan Deolasee

• Nikhil Sontakke

• Rushabh, Rajeev - Our Program Committee

• Aditya, Ranjeet, Surinder - Our Volunteers

Next Year?• Training day?

• Workshops?

• More talks?

• Multi-day event?

• Some other city?

• Even bigger and better

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