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: will open soon
Confirmed speakers:
- Peter Boncz, CWI, Netherlands, DuckDB and DuckLake
- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA, tba
- Johannes Gehrke, Uber, USA, tba
- Dan Olteanu, University of Zurich / RelationalAI, tba
- Ippokratis Pandis, Databricks, USA, tba
- Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark, tba
- Danica Porobic, Oracle, Switzerland, tba
- Thomas Neumann, TU München, The Many Faces of LIKE
- Martin Grund, Databricks, AI Governance