Karim El-Sayed
Principal Database Engineer · Fawry
[talk] The Rise of Postgres in the MENA Region
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PG Day Egypt 2026
Egypt's first PostgreSQL community conference. One day, one track, eight talks from people who run PostgreSQL in production.
Saturday, October 10, 2026Cairo, Egypt · Venue TBA
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1 day
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8 talks
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Cairo, Egypt
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Free to attend
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A conference for people who build on Postgres
PG Day Egypt is a community-run, one-day conference for everyone who builds on PostgreSQL — backend engineers, DBAs, data engineers, and curious developers across Egypt and the wider MENA region.
Expect a single track of talks from local and regional practitioners, real production war stories, hallway conversations that matter, and a genuinely warm, welcoming room for first-time speakers and first-time conference-goers alike.
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Featured speakers
Local and regional engineers sharing real production experience — no vendor pitches, just Postgres.
Nourhan Adel
Senior Backend Engineer · Instabug
[talk] Indexing Strategies That Actually Matter
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Ahmed Farouk
Staff Engineer, Data Infrastructure · Trella
[talk] Scaling Postgres Past 100M Transactions a Day
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Mariam Hassan
Database Reliability Engineer · MaxAB
[talk] Logical Replication in Practice
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A day of Postgres, start to finish
Single track on Saturday, October 10, 2026. Sessions run from 09:00 to 17:00, with coffee and lunch in between.
09:45 — 10:30
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
10:30 — 11:15
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
11:30 — 12:15
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
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Free to attend. Registration required.
Seats are limited by the venue — register now and we'll confirm your attendance closer to the event.