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Sunday, 22nd June (TEGEL)
9:00 - 9:40 am Registration
9:40 - 9:45 am Opening Remarks (Avrilia Floratou)
9:45 - 10:30 am Academic Keynote: Self-enhancing video data management in a multimodal database system
Magdalena Balazinska, UW
10:30 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 11:20 am Towards Scalable Schema Mapping using Large Language Models
Bojan Karlas, Harvard University
11:20 - 11:40 am Unveiling Challenges for LLMs in Enterprise Data Engineering
Carsten Binnig, TU Darmstadt (invited talk)
11:40 - 12:25 pm Industry Keynote: System Experiences and Challenges in Building Foundation Models
Jingren Zhou, Alibaba Cloud
12:25 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 1:50 pm Optimizing open-domain question answering with graph-based retrieval augmented generation
Yiwen Zhu, Microsoft - Gray Systems Lab
1:50 - 2:10 pm Semantic Knowledge Graphs for High‑Precision, Low‑Latency NL2SQL
Wangda Tan, Waii (invited talk)
2:10 - 2:30 pm Reimagining Databases in the Age of LLMs
Georgia Koutrika, Athena Research Center, Greece (invited talk)
2:30 - 2:50 pm Advancing Workload Management with Foundational Models: Challenges in Time Series Similarity and Interpretability
Tiemo Bang, Microsoft - Gray Systems Lab and Giannis Roumpos, IMDEA Software Institute
2:50 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm Panel Discussion
Host: Tilmann Rabl, HPI
Panelists:
Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google)
Aditya Parameswaran (UC Berkeley)
Pinar Tözün (ITU Copenhagen)
Markus Weimer (Microsoft)
6:30 - 8:00 pm PODS reception