Below is the schedule for the event:
8.00 am - 8.45 am: Registration, Breakfast, and Poster Setup
8.45 am - 9.00 am: Opening Remarks (by Shahram Ghandeharizadeh and Ibrahim Sabek)
Speaker: Nenad Medvidović (Chair of USC's Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science)
9.00 am - 10.15 am: Industry Talks - Part 1 (Session Chair: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh)
9.00 am - 9.25 am: "Building a Unified Database Infrastructure at eBay: A Foundation Platform for Diverse Data Stores" by Jung-Sang Ahn and Hieu Nguyen (eBay)
9.25 am - 9.50 am: "Metastable Failures in Database Services" by Doug Terry
9.50 am - 10.15 am: "AI-powered analytics with Amazon Redshift Serverless and Data Sharing" by Mohammed Alkateb (Amazon)
10.15 am - 10.45 am: Coffee Break and Poster Session
10.45 am - 12.00 pm: SoCal Academic DB Groups (Session Chair: Vassilis Tsotras)
10.45 am - 11.00 am: "Toward a Simple Semantics (Formal & Operational) for Recursive Queries with Aggregates" by Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award)
11.00 am - 11.15 am: UC Irvine Updates by Sharad Mehotra
11.15 am - 11.30 am: UC Riverside Updates by Vagelis Hristidis
11.30 am - 11.45 am: UC Santa Barbara Updates by Amr El Abbadi
11.45 am - 12.00 pm: USC Updates by Cyrus Shahabi
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch, Poster Session, and Group Photo
1.00 pm - 1.50 pm: Industry Talks - Part 2 (Session Chair: Jay Pujara)
1.00 pm - 1.25 pm: "Capella Columnar: Cloud-Native Analytics for JSON Data at Scale" by Peeyush Gupta (Couchbase)
1.25 pm - 1.50 pm: "AI & DBs at Google Cloud" by Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google)
1.50 pm - 2.00 pm: Coffee Break and Poster Session
2.00 pm - 3.15 pm: Academic Talks (Session Chair: Craig Knoblock)
2.00 pm - 2.25 pm: "Towards Robust and Verifiable Learned Database Systems: Query Optimization Case Study" by Ibrahim Sabek (USC)
2.25 pm - 2.50 pm: "Learning Reliable ML Models from Uncertain and Incomplete Data" by Babak Salimi (UCSD)
2.50 pm - 3.15 pm: "Zero-overhead Optimal Algorithms for Acyclic Joins" by Remy Wang (UCLA)
3.15 pm - 3.30 pm: Coffee Break and Poster Session
3.30 pm - 4:00 pm: Panel: SoCal Industry and Academia Collaboration
Panelists: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (Moderator), Michael J. Carey (UC Irvine), Jun Li (eBay), Doug Terry
4.00 pm - 4.15 pm: Coffee Break and Poster Session
4.15 pm - 5.15 pm: Lightning Talks (Session Chair: Ibrahim Sabek)
5.15 pm - 5.30 pm: Closing Remarks
5.30 pm - 8:00 pm: Happy Hour, Dinner, and Poster Session