BEADS Summit 2026 — Where Data Management Research Meets Practice

A full day of invited talks from the international data management community, hosted by BIFOLD at TU Berlin: research on data systems put in front of the engineers who run them. The agenda runs 10:00 to 17:00 after a 09:00 registration and coffee, chaired by Volker Markl. Speakers include Elisa Bertino of Purdue on why data breaches persist, Johannes Gehrke of Uber on analytics under hardware acceleration, Dan Olteanu of Zurich and RelationalAI on cardinality estimation, Ippokratis Pandis of Databricks, Torben Bach Pedersen of Aalborg on extreme-scale time series, Peter Boncz of CWI and VU Amsterdam on DuckDB and DuckLake, Thomas Neumann of TU Munich, Ismail Oukid of Snowflake on analytics in the agentic era, and Tim Kraska of MIT. A dinner reception follows from 17:00. Free; registration required. Venue: BIFOLD Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, Room FR 701. Why go: this is the strongest database line-up Berlin will see this year, and it is free. Best for data and backend engineers, and anyone who reads the systems papers and wants to argue with the authors.