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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Group picture 📸

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

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

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

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) 🌞

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

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

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 ☀️

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