A relaxed discussion and Q&A with GraphQL TSC member Benjie Gillam. There is excitement in the air as Benjie celebrates the 10th anniversary of his open source project PostGraphile. This is your chance to ask Benjie about GraphQL, what are his preferred workflows, PostGraphile V5, the new GraphQL Golden Path or anything at all including his favourite colour or what he had for breakfast!

The session will be conducted by Taz Singh with participation from the audience.

Even ten years in, GraphQL continues to evolve—not just in code, but in connection. This year the Foundation has doubled down on transparency, support, and shared leadership: board minutes are now public, Subject Matter Experts have helped shape the conference agenda, and we'll be launching a new program live on stage! There are also updates on our existing initiatives including community grants and GraphQL Locals.

This talk is a thank you to the people behind the progress and a celebration of our growing constellation of contributors. It's also an invitation to step forward and get involved—one of the best ways to do that is by joining our new Community Working Group, giving passionate community members a voice in shaping the Foundation's directions and initiatives for the next ten years of GraphQL.

GraphQL has exploded in popularity since its public launch in 2015, and PostgreSQL is still going strong after almost 30 years of development, gaining market share and impressive features at an ever increasing rate.

These tools can pair beautifully, in particular because they're both strongly typed and declarative. In this talk, we'll learn how combining these two technologies can lead to massively increased software development and delivery speed, faster APIs, fewer bugs, and ultimately enable you to focus on delivering value on the frontend rather than maintaining three different layers of data models and associated logic on the backend (DB, application, API).

This ad-hoc talk is just Benjie (and Michael Staib from ChilliCream!) riffing about some of the work that's going on in the GraphQL Working Groups currently. Topics covered include:

GraphQL Spec Freeze July 2025 - a new spec cut is coming! Incremental Delivery Schema Coordinates Fragment Arguments Nullability Operation Descriptions Service Capabilities GraphQL-over-HTTP Partial Success Status Code Composite Schemas GraphQL.js v17 GraphiQL v5 OpenTelemetry Documentation Overhaul Community Working Group Website Redesign GET INVOLVED!