Opening
Conference Opening
Nayden, Velichka & Rado
Data Stack Conf — 13 October 2026
Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
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About Data Stack Conf
Data Stack Conf is a conference for engineers who build and operate modern data platforms.
It brings together practitioners working on databases, streaming systems, analytics platforms, observability stacks, and AI data infrastructure — the core technologies behind today’s digital systems.
The focus is on how data platforms are actually designed, deployed, and scaled in production:
from cloud-native architectures and distributed systems, to performance tuning, reliability, automation, and cost efficiency.
This is where platform engineers, SREs, and data infrastructure teams share real technical approaches to building systems that handle massive volumes of data, high availability requirements, and continuously evolving workloads.
Built by engineers.
For engineers.
Who design and run data platforms at scale.
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The Team
13 OCTOBER 2026 SOFIA
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Two tracks. One data arena.
Plenary
Conference Opening (Main Stage)
Nayden, Velichka & Rado
Keynote
Databases in the Age of AI: Why Most AI Stacks Will Fail Without Oracle-Grade Foundations
Julian Dontcheff — EY
Plenary
Opening Keynote (Main Stage)
Julian Dontcheff — EY
Shared break15 min
Talk + Q&A
Unlock the Data, Unleash the AI
Paurav Chudasama — AWS
Deep Dive
Postgres on Kubernetes: Choosing an Operator Before It Chooses You
Armin Nesiren — CYBERTEC
Shared break15 min
Talk + Q&A
Professional PostgreSQL Scheduling Made Easy
Pavlo Golub — CYBERTEC
Deep Dive
Resilient by Design: Building Robust Architectures in High-Stakes Financial Systems
Lyubomir Bozhinov — Barnett Studios
Shared break15 min
Talk + Q&A
Know the Less Known About PostgreSQL
Devrim Gündüz — EDB
Coffee Demo
MISSION UNLOCKED: LET AI SAVE PROD!
Ognen Dimov, Petar Valkov & Georgi Alexiev — SAP
Shared lunch break60 min
Talk + Q&A
Zero-Downtime Databases: Designing for Region-Level Failure
Asad Baig — AWS
Deep Dive
Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases
Pavlo Golub — CYBERTEC
Shared break15 min
Talk + Networking
Security Strategies for Postgres Database Backups
Priyanka Chatterjee — Schwarz Digits
Deep Dive
Build an AI-First Medical Practice Using Snowflake Cortex as a Second Brain
Mihail Petrov —ULPIA TECH
Shared coffee break15 min
Talk
From Data to Answers: Where Does Truth Get Lost in RAG?
Aleksandra Georgieva — SAP
Tech Talk
A practitioner’s guide to data for agentic AI
Ranjini Menon — AWS
Shared break / networking15 min
Return to Main Stage15 min
Talk
Data Mart Without ETL: ClickHouse as Your Entire Pipeline
Stefan Angelov — Tradu
Main Stage
Core Track session
Join us at the Main Stage
Shared short break5 min
Talk
Breaking the Divide: How Databricks Unifies Transactions and Analytics
Lachezar Petkov & Jonathan Katz — Databricks
Plenary
Databricks Session (Main Stage)
Lachezar Petkov & Jonathan Katz — Databricks
Closing
Coffee, cocktails, networking, sponsor booths, and group photos
Schedule may be subject to change.
Core Track
Chill Track
