• Self-Managed Elasticity for OLTP and Analytics - Aaron Elmore (UCSB)
• The Case for Always-On Self-Learning Monitoring/Profiling of High Performance Transaction Processing Apps in Production - Pranta Das (AppDynamics)
• A Two-Phase Commit Optimization: Alleviating the Need for TM Logs - Paul Parkinson (Oracle)
• HPTS on Islands - Danica Porobic (EPFL)
• Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores - Akon Dey (U. of Sydney)
• Tang: Scalable Configuration Management - Russell Sears (Microsoft)
• Excuse Me, But Is Your Data Dead? - Toby Lehman (Aerospike)
• Is Your NOSQL DB Grown up YET? - Srini V. Srinivasan (Aerospike)
• Non - Duality of Program and Behavior - Mahendra Kutare (Georgia Tech/Skyhigh Networks)
• DBMS Conferences/Publications are Broken - Mike Stonebraker (MIT)
• Touch, Crack and Explore - Stratos Idreos (CWI/EPFL, joining Harvard)
• The Database Machines Strike Back - Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft)
• Revolution through Evolution - Ippokratis Pandis (IBM)
• Cassandra at Scale: Benchmarking to Retire Risk - Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix)
• The Real World is Analog, and we'll have a TRILLION Sensors to monitor it - Wayne Duquaine (Grandview Systems)
• The Case for Evolutionary Analytics - Hakan Hacigumus (NEC)
• De-indirection in Computer Systems - Yiying Zhang (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
• Data-Driven Decision Making: It's Not Just For Experts - Jennie Duggan (MIT)
• Mutable Multilevel CSR Representation for Graph Databases - Peter Macko (Harvard and Oracle)
• Aggressive Performance Improvements via Formal Methods - Chris Newcombe (Amazon)