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Bruce Momjian
Vice President, EnterpriseDB
Professional Biography
Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, an honorary doctorate, was a high school computer science teacher, and lectures internationally.
Sessions
Databases in the AI Trenches
Since the creation of my presentation, Postgres and the Artificial Intelligence Landscape, artificial intelligence use has exploded, with much anticipation about its future. This talk explores many of the advances that has fueled this explosion, including multi-dimensional vectors, text embeddings, semantic/vector search, transformers, generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Model Context Protocol (MCP). The talk includes semantic/vector search and RAG examples. It finally covers how the valuable data stored in databases can be used to enhance AI usage.
Building an MCP Server Using Postgres
Large language models are good at generating text, but can't easily report discrete, dynamic, and always-accurate results. They also can't take external actions. The model context protocol (MCP) has become the standard way for generative AI models to access external data and take external actions. This talk explains the purpose of MCPs, how they are used, and shows examples of database and non-database MCP servers.