OPEN for GOV (BE)

Hotel Le Dixseptieme

08/12/2026

09:30 – 13:30

Event address

Rue de la Madeleine 25

1000 Brussels

Belgium

Extra remarks

Please join us the 8th of December 2026 for a new edition of OPEN for GOV, thé Belgian open source event for the Public Sector. During half a day we’ll gather open source experts and public sector IT professionals around the table, to share knowledge, exchange experiences and tackle the challenges you’re actually facing.

This edition focuses on Databases & Data Sovereignty.

Meet your peers at OPEN and save your seat!

genda

When	What
09:30 - 10:00	Welcome coffee
10:00 - 10:15	Kangaroot introduction
10:15 - 11:05	Running PostgreSQL in the public sector, your way Most public sector organisations are sitting on critical data locked in proprietary database systems. Oracle licensing is expensive, vendor lock-in is real, and the pressure to move is growing. In this session, our Senior Open Source DB Architect Guy Gyles will show what a move to PostgreSQL looks like in practice; cloud-native, on a VM or containerised and what it takes to run it properly in a public sector environment. Guy Gyles, Senior Open Source DB Architect, Kangaroot
11:05 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 12:15	AI-driven PostgreSQL tuning with DBtune Managing a PostgreSQL environment at scale is one thing. Keeping it performing at its best is another. In this session, we’ll introduce DBtune, an AI-driven optimizer that continuously tunes your PostgreSQL configuration based on your actual workload. No black-box magic; just smarter configuration, automatically applied and monitored. Farshad Poye, DBtune
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch.