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| Time | Activity | Location |
| 3:00pm - 6:00pm | Registration begins | Hearst Social Hall |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Dinner | Crocker Dining Hall |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm | Refreshments (Soda, Beer, Wine, Snacks) and Chat | Chapel |
| 9:30pm - Midnight | Night Owls' | Director's Cottage |
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* Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are held in Crocker Dining Hall. All talks are in the Chapel. All Night Owl's events are in Chapel and later transitioning to the Director's Cottage. |
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| Time | Activity/Subject |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am - 8:40am | Opening Remarks - Ippo and Justin |
| 8:40am - 10:00am | Session 1: Keynote and Student Intro Chair: Ippokratis Pandis |
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[1 hour] Keynote: Title TBD - Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) [20mins] Student Intros - Ippokratis Pandis |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break and Snacks |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Session 2: Putting database researchers out of a job Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] The Future Is Bespoke: Synthesizing One-Size-Fits-One DBMSs with LLM Coding Agents - Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt) [20 mins] Towards AI-Generated Database Management Systems - Immanuel Trummer (Cornell) [20 mins] Specification-Driven Synthesis of Query Execution Logic for Novel Storage Systems - Puneet Mehrotra (University of British Columbia) [20 mins] Learned Systems Are Dead; Long Live Learned Systems - Todd Lipcon (Google) |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch and Break |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Session 3: What data stack do our agents need? Chair: TBD |
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[30 mins] Execution LogAct: Enabling Agentic Reliability via Shared Logs - Mahesh Balakrishnan (Meta) [30 mins] The Postgres Trap: Database Incrementalism in the Age of Agents - Ajay Rayasam (Osage University Partners) [30 mins] Commits, Transactions, Durable Execution:Git-for-everything and the self-driving data stack - Jacopo Tagliabue (Bauplan) |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Break and Snacks |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Session 4: Architecture Lessons Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] Ten Years of Magic Pocket: Lessons From Scaling an On-Prem Exabyte-Scale Blob Store - Facundo Agriel (Dropbox) [20 mins] How We Built Spanner Omni - Sebastian Kanthak (Google) [40 mins] Preventing and Mitigating Logical Corruptions in Salesforce Database - Vaibav Arora & Jameison Martin (Salesforce) | |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Break / Walk on Beach |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm | Gong Show Emcee: TBD |
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| 9:00pm - Midnight | Night Owls Session - (Chapel and later transitioning to Director's Cottage) |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am - 10:00am | Session 5: Hardware will save us all Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] The Fastest Way to be the Fastest - Bobbi Yogatama (NVIDIA) [20 mins] The Next Watt Saved Won’t Come from a CPU or a GPU - Devashish Purandare (Microsoft) [20 mins] What Changes When Memory is Disaggregated? Building a Database to Find Out - Chiradip Mandal (Space-RF.ORG) [20 mins] Using SmartNICs for Database Management - Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research) |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break and Snacks |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Session 6: Query Processing Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] CoddSpeed! Hardware Accelerated Analytics in Microsoft Fabric - Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft) [20 mins] Defense in Depth Against Query Plan Regressions in CockroachDB - Rebecca Taft (Cockroach Labs) [20 mins] Privacy Policy of Cloud Data Services is Harmful - Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft) [20 mins] ROII-Guided System Design - Natassa Ailamaki (EPFL) |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch and Break |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Session 7: Object Storage and Open Formats Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] Beyond Disaggregated Storage: The Case for Open Storage in OLTP Systems - Sergey Melnik (Databricks) [20 mins] Ex Falso SQL Quodlibet: Excluding the Middle - Chris Douglas (UC Berkeley) [20 mins] S3 is the Future, S3 is the Past - Viktor Leis (TU Munich) [20 mins] Operational Benefits of Databases Built on Object Storage - Colin Breck (Tesla) |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Break and Snacks |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Session 8: Failures Considered Harmful Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] Real Life is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too! - Reggie Frank (UC Berkeley) [20 mins] Advancing Storage Efficiency in Replicated Databases - Scott Andreas (Apple) [20 mins] Retry is an open problem - Peter Alvaro (UC Santa Cruz and Amazon Web Services) [20 mins] MESSI Reasoning about Performance and Metastability - Aleksey Charapko (University of New Hampshire) |
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Break / Walk on Beach |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Dinner + HPTS Business |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm | Panel followed by Gray-Beard Poster Session - Chair: TBD |
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Panel and poster session details to be announced. |
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| 9:00pm - Midnight | Night Owls Session - (Chapel and later transitioning to Director's Cottage) |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am - 10:00am | Session 9: Distributed Systems Are Hard! Chair: TBD |
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[20 mins] Please Implement A Quorum Database - Alex Miller (Oracle) [20 mins] Til Depth Do Us Part: Commitments and Determination - Joseph Hellerstein (UC Berkeley and Amazon Web Services) [20 mins] Durable Execution: An End Run on the End-to-End Principle? - Johann M. Schleier-Smith (Temporal Technologies) [20 mins] Autoscaling Is Not a Resource Allocation Problem - Sacheendra Talluri (Clickhouse) |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break and Snacks |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Session 10: Lakehouses vs HTAP: The showdown Chair: TBD |
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[40 mins] Lakebases & Lakehouses => LTAP - Ippokratis Pandis (Databricks) [20 mins] Lakehouses don't cut it (yet) - Stefano Stefani (Goldman Sachs) [20 mins] No, HTAP in the Cloud Is Not Solved - The Industry Traded Freshness for Scalability and Called It Innovation - Daniel Ritter (SAP) |
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| 12:00pm | Farewell |
| 12:05pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |