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TENTATIVE AGENDA: HPTS September 15-18, 2024

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Time Activity Location
3:00pm - 6:00pm Registration begins Hearst Social Hall
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall
7:30pm - 9:30pm Beer, Wine, and Chat Chapel
9:30pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer Director's Cottage

* Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are held in Crocker Dining Hall. All talks are in the Chapel. All Night Owl's events are in the Director's Cottage.


Monday, September 16, 2024

Time Activity/Subject
7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 8:40am

Opening Remarks - Justin and Pat

8:40am - 10:00am Session 1: Keynote and Student Intro Chair: Justin Levandoski

[20mins] Student Intros - Ippokratis Pandis

[1 hour] Keynote: Title TBD - Srinivas Narayanan (OpenAI)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 2: Evolution of the Cloud and Databases Chair: Rebecca Taft

The "Hyper-model" Database - Chris Taylor (Google)

Teaching Elephants to Tell Time - David Wein (AWS)

Through the OLTP Looking Glass - 16 Years Later - Michael Stonebraker (MIT)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Session 3: DBOS Chair: Viktor Leis

Virtual Memory: a Huge Step Backwards- Daniel Bittman (Elephance)

Portable Compiler-Centric SIMD Code in Databases - Lawrence Benson (TU Munich)

Making Peace Between Mortal Enemies: Running a Database Management System in the Linux Kernel - Matt Butrovich (Carnegie Mellon University)

DBOS 2.0: Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Process Virtualization - Xinjing Zhou (MIT)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Session 4: Testing, Faults, and Privacy Chair: Danica Porobic

FoundationDB Testing? Not Very Good, Actually!- Ben Collins (Antithesis)

When Bad Hardware Happens to Good Databases- Scott Andreas (Apple)

Hyper-reliability for Hyper-scale Databases - David Bacon (Google)

Privacy-Preserving Databases: What will you favour? Serializability or scalability? (Cuz you aren’t getting both) - Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley)

5:00pm - 6:00pm Break / Walk on Beach
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm Gong Show Emcee: Shel Finkelstein
9:00pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer - (Director's Cottage)

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Session 5: Hardware Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki/Christos Kozyrakis

[40 mins] In Computer Architecture, We Don’t Change the Questions, We Change the Answers - Mark Hill (University of Wisconsin-Madison and Microsoft)

[25 mins] We really move YOUR tail for you - David Lucey (Salesforce)

[25 mins] GPU Databases -- The New Modality of Data Analytics - Bobbi Yogatama (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 6: Hardware (cont’d) and Embedded DBs and the Edge Chair: Marc Brooker

Smart memories for vectorized data analytics - Helena Caminal (Google)

Object Storage and In-Process Databases are Changing Distributed Systems - Colin Breck (Tesla)

60 Frames Per Second Cloud Databases - Peter Boncz (MotherDuck)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Session 7: HTAP and Streaming Chair: Sudipto Das

Who cares about HTAP? - Tianyu Li (MIT)

Amazon Zero-ETL - Gopal Paliwal (AWS)

The Future of Data Processing: Unifying Streaming, OLTP, and OLAP through Apache Flink, Kafka, and Iceberg - Eugene Koblov (Confluent)

Consistency in Motion - Chris Douglas (UC Berkeley)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Session 8: Caching Chair: Dan Ports

Stateful services: low latency, efficiency, scalability - pick three - Atul Adya (Databricks)

Caches Replicate Everything Around Me - Michael Abebe (Salesforce)

Building bridges in the cloud: More co-design for efficient and robust disaggregated architectures - Tiemo Bang (Berkeley)

Caching & Reuse of Subresults across Queries - Alex Hall (Firebolt)

5:00pm - 6:00pm Break / Walk on Beach
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner + HPTS Business
7:30pm - 8:30pm LLM + AI + DB Panel - Chair: Mehul Shah

Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)

Fatma Ozcan (Google)

Carsten Binning (TU-Darmstadt)

Others - TBD

8:30pm - 9:00pm Beer, Wine, and Chat
8:30pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer - (Director's Cottage)


Wednesday, September 18, 2024

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Session 9: ML + DB Chair: Sailesh Krishnamurthy

Running a Query Optimizer in Production: What we Learned (and What the Model didn’t) - Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft)

The Impact of Machine Learning and Generative AI on Data Management Systems - Tim Kraska (MIT/AWS)

The Case for Simpler Models - Margo Seltzer (UBC)

Data Management By Machines For Machines - Michael Cahill (University of Sydney)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 10: Closing Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki

[25 mins] Title TBD - Pat Helland (Salesforce)

[1 hour] When More Data Becomes Too Much Data - Alexander Szalay (JHU)

12:00pm Farewell
12:05pm - 1:30pm Lunch