BEADS Summit
October
21,
2026 
09:00
- 17:00
Where Data Management Research Meets Practice
The BEADS Summit brings together leading researchers and practitioners from the international data management community for a day of invited talks on current research and emerging directions in the field.
The event is hosted by BIFOLD at TU Berlin and is open to all, students, researchers, faculty, and practitioners from the Berlin/Potsdam region and beyond.
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 09:00 – 17:00
Location: BIFOLD Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587 Berlin, Room FR 701
Registration: Please register here.
For more information please visit our website: BEADS Summit
Agenda
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration open, coffee and snacks | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Volker Markl | BIFOLD | Welcome |
| 10:15-10:45 | Elisa Bertino | Purdue University | The Persistent Problem of Data Insecurity: Why Data Breaches Never Go Away |
| 10:45-11:15 | Johannes Gehrke (TBC) | Uber | Data Analytics in the Age of Hardware Acceleration |
| 11:15-11:45 | Dan Olteanu | Univ. Zürich / RelationalAI | Cardinality Estimation with Theoretical Guarantees |
| 11:45-12:15 | Ippokratis Pandis | Databricks | The Third Golden Age of Data Engineering |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13:15-13:45 | Torben Bach Pedersen | Aalborg University | Extreme-Scale Time Series Management and Analytics with ModelarDB: A Tale from Denmark |
| 13:45-14:15 | Danica Porobic | Oracle | Explaining Data to AI with Oracle AI Database |
| 14:15-14:45 | Peter Boncz | CWI/ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | DuckDB and DuckLake |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | Thomas Neumann | TU München | The Many Faces of LIKE |
| 15:45-16:15 | Ismail Oukid | Snowflake | Analytics in the Agentic Era: What Changes and What Stays the Same |
| 16:15-16:45 | TBA | ||
| 16:45-17:00 | Volker Markl | TU Berlin/ BIFOLD | Closing Remarks |
| 17:00-20:00 | Dinner Reception at BIFOLD |