Schedule
Refer to Talks for more details
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration |
| Session 1 (1.5 hours) | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Keynote 1 Guoliang Li |
| 9:45-10:30 | Keynote 2 - Data in the Age of AI Kavitha Srinivas, IBM |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Session 2 (1.5 hours) | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Keynote 3 Aditya Parameswaran |
| 11:45-12:30 | Keynote 4 Dong Deng |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3 (2 hours) | |
| 2:00-2:40 | Invited Talk - Semantic Query Processing over Relations Amine Mhedhbi, École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| 2:40-3:00 | Industry Talk - GaussVector: A Multi-modal Vector Database for the Agentic AI Era Huaxin Zhang, Huawei |
| 3:00-3:20 | Paper Presentation 1 - VecAlign: Efficient Vector Sequence Alignment for Similarity Search in the Embedding Space Zhizhi Wang (Rutgers University), Dong Deng (Rutgers University) |
| 3:20-3:40 | Paper Presentation 2 - Performance of Small Language Model Pretraining on FABRIC: An Empirical Study Praveen Rao (University of Missouri-Columbia) |
| 3:40-4:00 | Paper Presentation 3 - CORE: An LLM-Powered System for Resolution Mining and Retrieval from Conversational Platforms Archan Dutta (Aisera), Vinay Raj Sisodiya (Aisera), Hardik Airen (Aisera), Phani Nivarthi (Aisera) |
| 4:00-4:30 | Break |
| 4:30-6:30 | Tamer Ozsu Event |
| 6:30-7:00 | Free Time |
| 7:00-9:00 | Reception |