VLDB Summer School

Applications are now open until 21st of April for the 2025 edition, 28-31 July, University of Wroclaw 🇵🇱! ☀️ 👉 vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl/registration/

Off to a great start at @uniwroc ! 🚀 7 expert keynotes, 46 outstanding students from 14 countries, & 4 days of lectures, poster presentations, & social events 🤓 👉 vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl

We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️

Can you guess where VLDB Summer School will be hosted in 2025? (without looking it up🙃)

Already excited for the 2025 edition! 🙃 (stay tuned) 🔜

Call for volunteers! The SIGMOD 2024 Reproducibility Iniative needs *you*. Do you like available, easy to reproduce experiments to fend off Reviewer 2? You can help make that happen! Sign up to volunteer to be on the ARI committee and review submissions! reproducibility.sigmod.org/2024/index.html

The school closed with a panel on work/life balance 🧘‍♀️ We hope everyone has a safe trip back, a restful summer & a great start of the academic year in fall! Looking forward to welcoming many of you again next year in a new location (stay tuned) 🌞

Anca Hangan's great lecture on Data Processing at the Edge closed the lecture series 👏 (@AncaHangan)

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou's great talk on Spatial Data Management started the first half of the lecture block on Modern Data Processing & Applications (cc @eltziritazachar)

An energising start of the last day with Felix Naumann's lecture on data profiling 🔎

Group picture 📸

Philippe Bonnet starts the day with an insightful talk on Hardware/Software Co-Design for Near-Data Processing in the Cloud

Viktor Leis ending the day with a 💥 & starting the lecture block on Cloud Storage and Co-Design with an engaging talk on SSD-Optimized Storage Engines/Cost-Driven System Design in the Cloud.

Natacha Crooks delivered an insightful lecture on the 🔥 topics sparking heated debates over consistency guarantees in databases. (cc @siobhcroo)

Asterios Katsifodimos' engaging talk on Stream and Cloud Applications ended the morning block of lectures on Modern Data Processing 🌞 (cc @kAsterios)

An excellent start of the day with Andreas Kipf speaking about Data Warehouses and Workload-driven Indexing ⭐️

The end of the first poster session of the school & it's a wrap for the first day! 💪🌞

Ending the first day of lectures with Angela Bonifati's great keynote on schema compliance & transformations for property graphs 👏 (cc @ang3ela)

Stefania Dumbrava's introduction to property graph processing opened the lecture block on Data Preparation/Structuring (cc @sdumbrav)

Carsten Binnig's insightful presentation on Co-Designing Cloud Databases & Modern Networks (cc @cbinnig)