VLDB 2026: Panels

Title	Participants
Data Agents: Rethinking Data Systems in the AI Agent Era	Moderators: Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University); Yuyu Luo (HKUST (Guangzhou)) Panelists: Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt); Samuel Madden (MIT); Fatma Özcan (Google); Aditya Parameswaran (UC Berkeley); Nan Tang (HKUST (Guangzhou)); Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University); Eugene Wu (Columbia University)
HW-SW Co-Design for Databases in the Age of AI-for-Systems	Moderator: Monica Chiosa (MIT) Panelists: Jana Giceva (TU Munich); Tae Jun Ham (Google); Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab); Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri (Boston University); Clemens Lutz (NVIDIA)
Publish or Ship? The Research-to-Production Gap in Data Systems	Moderator: Subarna Chatterjee (IBM WatsonX) Panelists: Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley); Carlo Curino (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab); Sudipto Das (Databricks); Andreas Kipf (University of Technology Nuremberg); Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania); Yuanyuan Tian (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab)