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AGENDA: HPTS October 4-7, 2026

Sunday, October 4, 2026

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

* 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.


Monday, October 5, 2026

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

[1 hour] Keynote: Title TBD - Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)

[20mins] Student Intros - Ippokratis Pandis

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 2: Putting database researchers out of a job Chair: TBD

[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)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Session 3: What data stack do our agents need? Chair: TBD

[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)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Session 4: Architecture Lessons Chair: TBD

[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

Gong Show agenda will be posted at later date based on attendee submissions.

9:00pm - Midnight Night Owls Session - (Chapel and later transitioning to Director's Cottage)

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Session 5: Hardware will save us all Chair: TBD

[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)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 6: Query Processing Chair: TBD

[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)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Session 7: Object Storage and Open Formats Chair: TBD

[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)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Session 8: Failures Considered Harmful Chair: TBD

[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)

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

Panel and poster session details to be announced.

9:00pm - Midnight Night Owls Session - (Chapel and later transitioning to Director's Cottage)


Wednesday, October 7, 2026

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Session 9: Distributed Systems Are Hard! Chair: TBD

[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)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 10: Lakehouses vs HTAP: The showdown Chair: TBD

[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)

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