Thread: PgDay Argentina 2013 final speaker line-up and call for lightning talks proposals

The 4th national one-day PostgreSQL conference is taking place on
November 14th at the building of the Cabinet Office, Buenos Aires, in
the context of the Argentina's Digital Agenda Forum.

Mariano Greco, the Undersecretary of Management Technologies at the
Chief Cabinet Office, will be delivering the opening keynote about a
look on the status and future of Free Software and Open Source at the
National government.

PostgreSQL adoption in the Public Administration will be then analyzed
in a panel with María de Luján Gurmendi (General Coordinator of the
University Information System at the Ministry of Education) and
Horacio Arroyo (Coordinator of Services, Technology and Infrastructure
at the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses).

In addition, other luminaries of the latin american PostgreSQL
community and the business and public sectors including Alvaro
Herrera, Jaime Casanova, Emanuel Calvo and speakers from Bolivia, Peru
and Argentina will address topics ranging from database internals to
end-user case studies for companies and government organizations.
The conference offers two parallel tracks and sessions in Spanish and English.

The broad range of technical topics continues the PostgreSQL tradition
of creating a conference that attracts a diverse attendance, from DBAs
already using PostgreSQL or considering doing so to PostgreSQL
contributors, application developers, teachers, and decision makers
seeking to evaluate alternatives to proprietary databases.
Topics this year include performance tuning, replication and
scalability, cloud deployments, management of geospatial information
and public data processing.

Closing address keynote will be delivered by Simon Riggs, CTO of
2ndQuadrant, talking about "PostgreSQL Futures", followed by a
lightning talk session with short & dynamic presentations on several
topics, including education, communities and products/offerings
related to PostgreSQL.

Speakers interested on presenting a 5-minute lightning talk please
send the proposal to ar@postgresql.org (pre-recorded videos can be
sent if speaker cannot attend), pre-accepted ones will have a reserved
slot on the schedule.
Lightning Talk proposals will also be accepted on site, so the slots
are limited.

For more information, please visit the conference website at
http://www.postgresql.org.ar/pgday2013/?lang=en or go directly to the
schedule at http://www.postgresql.org.ar/pgday2013/schedule/?lang=en.

Best regards,

Mariano Reingart
PostgreSQL Argentina RC
http://www.postgresql.org.ar/