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NorCal DB Day 2025
at Oracle Redwood Shores Campus
NorCalDB 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. In 2025, NorCalDB Day will be held at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood shores, on Friday October 3rd, 2025.
Previous meetings: Earlier NorCalDB 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), Amazon (2017), Oracle (2018), LinkedIn (2019) and Microsoft (2023).
Hashtag: Please use the event hashtag for social media posts: #NorCalDBDay
If you have any questions, please contact norcaldb2025_mb@oracle.com
Registration
Registration
Although there is no registration fee, you must register to attend. Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks will be provided by Oracle.
We've reached the max capacity of the event, please email us at norcaldb2025_mb@oracle.com if you'd like to be on the waiting list. Thanks for your interest!
Agenda - October 3rd, Friday
Agenda - October 3rd, Friday
08:00–09:00 Registration and Breakfast
09:00–09:15 Welcome
09:15–10:00 Keynote: Intention is All We Need To Make Databases Great for App Dev [slides]
Juan Loaiza, EVP, Oracle Database Technologies, Oracle
Tirthankar Lahiri, SVP, Mission-Critical Data and AI Engine, Oracle
10:00–10:30 Velox and the Frontiers of Data Management [slides]
Orri Erling, Software Engineer, Meta
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break and Posters
11:00–12:00 Gong Show
Hydro, Datathink and General Purpose Programming - Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley and AWS) [slides]
SagaLLM: Context Management, Validation, and Transaction Guarantees for Multi-Agent LLM Planning - Edward Chang (Stanford University) [slides]
LLM-powered Data Tooling: the Next Frontier - Aditya Parameswaran (UC Berkeley) [slides]
Scalable Secure-Oblivious Computation for Next Generation Private Systems, Databases, and AI - Ioannis Demertzis (UC Santa Cruz) [slides]
12:00–13:00 Lunch and Posters
13:00–13:30 From Microservices to Analytics and GenAI, Data Streaming Unlocks Everything [slides]
Jun Rao, Co-founder, Confluent
13:30–14:15. Keynote: Bringing the Operational and Analytical Worlds Together with Lakebase [slides]
Matei Zaharia, CTO, Databricks, Associate professor, UC Berkeley
14:15-14:45 Coffee Break and Posters
14:45-15:15 Generative Development (Gen Dev) for Enterprise Apps [slides]
Tirthankar Lahiri, SVP, Mission-Critical Data and AI Engine, Oracle
Ajit Mylavarapu, VP, Development, Transactions, and App-Dev Technologies, Oracle
15:15-16:30 Panel Discussion: AIxDB: When Data met Intelligence [slides]
C. Mohan (Moderator, DPS, HKBU & DVP, retired IBM Fellow)
Dhruba Borthakur (Open AI)
Shasank Chavan (Oracle)
Avrilia Floratou (Microsoft)
Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google)
Matei Zaharia (Databricks & UC Berkeley)
16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
EVP, Oracle Database Technologies
SVP, Mission-Critical Data and AI Engine, Oracle
CTO, Databricks
Associate professor, UC Berkeley
Directions
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 details here.
Event Photos
Event Photos
Organizing Committee
Organizing Committee
Chinmayi Krishnappa, Oracle
Malu Castellanos, Oracle
Meichun Hsu, Oracle
Tirthankar Lahiri, Oracle
Viktor Sanca, Oracle
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