VLDB Summer School 2026

Program

Monday, August 10th, IT & Sustainability

9:00 – 9:20Welcome (organizers)
9:20 – 10:30Talk: Tilmann Rabl (HPI)
Increasing Sustainability in Database Servers
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15Talk: Bettina Kemme (McGill University)
Sustainability in Data Science: from Analysis to Action
12:15 – 13:30Lunch + Poster
13:30 – 14:30Talk: Michał Bodziony (IBM)
Unifying Data Access at Scale: Driving Efficiency and Sustainability with Apache Arrow
14:30 – 15:30Coffee break + Poster
15:30 – 16:00Talk: Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden)
Behind the Data Management Community
16:30 – 17:30Panel
18:00Dinner

Tuesday, August 11th, Efficient Systems

9:00 – 10:30Talk: Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden)
Reproducible Query Optimization Research for Data Systems: What can optimizers do for energy-efficiency?
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00Talk: Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo)
Resource-Efficient Data Systems
12:00 – 13:30Lunch + Poster
13:30 – 14:30Talk: Antoine Amarilli (INRIA Lille)
Making database research sustainable
14:30 – 15:30Coffee break + Poster
15:30 – 16:30Panel
Social Event

Wednesday, August 12th, Measuring Sustainability

9:30 – 10:30Talk: Michal Friedmann (ETH Zurich)
Measuring and Understanding the Energy Cost of Database Systems
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00Talk: Srinivasan Keshav (University of Cambridge)
Is there hope for the climate?
12:00 – 13:30Lunch + Poster
13:30 – 14:30Panel
14:30 – 15:30 Coffee break + Poster
15:30 – 17:00Talk: Viktor Leis (TU Munich)
Cost as a Design Principle for Sustainable Cloud Database Systems
18:00Dinner

Thursday, August 13th, Sustainable AI

9:30 – 10:30Talk: Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt)
Towards Resource-Efficient Data Systems with Generative AI
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00Talk: Piotr Ratuszniak (Intel)
From FPGA to What’s Next? The Power of Dataflow Processing.
12:00 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 14:00Closing (organizers)