# The easy but harder than I thought road to PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 > The PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 has given me a knew appreciation for the little things. If it wasn't for PDXPUG leader Selena Deckelmann the conference wou… The PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 has given me a knew appreciation for the little things. If it wasn't for [PDXPUG]() leader Selena Deckelmann the conference would not have the complimentary breakfast/social nor would it have the synopsis of the talks on the [conference website.]() The hard work of Selena, myself and the speakers appears to be paying off. We have a strong list of sponsors as well as a very strong list of speakers. See for yourself: # Speakers and Topics * 8:00 - 8:45 - Coffee / Breakfast / Social / Wake up / Go back to hotel for socks (provided by conference) * 8:45 - 9:00 - Joshua Drake - A word from our sponsors * 9:00 - 9:25 - JoshB - Welcome to 8.3 * 9:25 - 10:20 - David Wheeler - Web 2.0 (Rails) applications with PostgreSQL * \-- 10 minute break -- * 10:30 - 11:20 - Robert Hodges - Scaling PostgreSQL Performance with uni/cluster * 11:20 - 12:10 - Neil Conway - Understanding Query Execution in PostgreSQL * 12:10 - 13:15 - Lunch * 13:15 - 13:45 - Mark Wong - PostgreSQL Performance * 13:45 - 14:15 - Joshua Drake - PL/Proxy and Horizontal Scaling * 14:15 - 15:05 - Web Sprague - PostGIS (geographic database) * \-- 10 minute break -- * 15:15 - 16:05 - David Fetter - Babel of procedural languages * 16:05 - 17:00 - Robert Treat - PostgreSQL Partitioning, semantics, pitfalls and implementation * 17:00 - 17:25 - Josh Berkus - Stupid Solaris tricks * 17:25 - 17:30 - Closing Remarks, Thanks, Where's the party? * 17:30 - 18:00 - Get to party/dinner (provided by conference) * 18:00 -- Dinner/Party till they kick us out If you haven't registered for [PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007, you can do so with this link.]() --- [View this page online](https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/the_easy_but_harder_than_i_thought_road_to_postgresql_conference_fall_2007/)