NorCal DB Day 2018
NorCal DB Day is a single-day, workshop-style event where participants from academia and industry in Northern California meet to present ideas and discuss their research and experiences. Earlier NorCal DB Day events have taken place at UC Davis (2011), UC Berkeley (2012), Stanford University (2013), IBM Almaden Research Center (2014), UC Santa Cruz (2015), Google (2016), and Amazon (2017).
The 2018 edition of NorCal DB Day will take place at Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, on Friday May 4, 2018.
Registration
Please fill out the registration form if you wish you attend this event. The deadline for registration is April 16th.
If you have questions, feel free to contact Danica Porobic or Weiwei Gong.
Program
08:15-09:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:15 Introduction and Logistics
Tirthankar Lahiri, Weiwei Gong & Danica Porobic, Oracle
09:15-10:00 Keynote: Data Infrastructure for the DAWN of Widespread ML
Peter Bailis, Stanford
10:00-10:30 Ground/Flor of the RISELab: Experiment Management for the Era of Empirical Machine Learning
Joseph Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and Posters
11:00-12:00 Research Group Updates
12:00-13:15 Lunch and Posters
13:15-13:45 Oracle Multilingual Engine
Matthias Brantner, Oracle Labs
13:45-14:15 YugaByte DB - a transactional, high-performance database for planet-scale cloud applications
Kannan Muthukkaruppan & Mikhail Bautin , Yugabyte
14:15-14:45 Automatic Data Clustering in Snowflake
Marcin Zukowski, Snowflake Computing
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break and Posters
15:15-16:00 Industry Keynote: Transformational Changes in Data Management
Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Oracle
16:05-16:50 Panel: Challenges in Managing Database Services in The Cloud
Moderator: Meichun Hsu, Oracle
Panelists: Andrew Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President, Oracle
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Fellow, IBM
Marcin Zukowski, Co-founder, Snowflake Computing
Ori Herrnstadt, Apple iCloud
16:50-17:00 Closing Remark
Andrew Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President, Oracle
Directions
Oracle Conference Center is located at 350 Oracle Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065. Ample parking is available on-site with dedicated parking spots on 1st floor of the 420 garage across the street. No parking permits are needed and if conference center spots are not available, please park in any unmarked spots in garages 420 or 320.
Please find more information here and if you're coming by Caltrain, consider catching Oracle Shuttle.