GDC is hosting a Technical User Community meeting on September 4 (Friday) in Boston co-located with the VLDB conference.
Attendance
Attending the TUC meeting (in-person or online) is free. In both cases, please register on LinkedIn.
Venue
The TUC meeting is co-located with VLDB 2026 in The Westin Boston Seaport District.
Agenda
| Start | End | Title | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | 08:45 | Doors open | |
| 08:45 | 09:05 | The future of GDC | Henry Gabb, Gabor Szarnyas (Graph Data Council) |
| 09:15 | 09:30 | What’s next for the GQL standard? | Keith Hare (SC32 WG3 Convenor and JCC Consulting, Inc.) |
| 09:35 | 09:50 | Cross-model efficiency: From GQL inexpressibility to fast pattern matching for constrained paths | Hadar Rotschield (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| 09:55 | 10:10 | TinkerGQL: Mixing declarative GQL with imperative Gremlin | Cole Greer (Apache TinkerPop / Improving) |
| 10:15 | 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Can graph sparsification accelerate GNN workloads? | Vasiliki Kalavri (Boston University) |
| 11:05 | 11:20 | UpDown: A breakthrough graph analytics accelerator – for streaming, real-time, and scalable graph computing | Andrew A Chien (Chicago UpDown Computing, and Univ of Chicago) |
| 11:25 | 11:40 | Graphs in the real world: When graph-only isn’t an option | Melliyal Annamalai (Oracle) |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | Decoupled graph compute: Analyzing petabyte-scale data without migration | Weimo Liu (PuppyGraph) |
| 12:15 | 13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 | 14:00 | A graph-native approach to normalization | Johannes Schrott (TU Wien) |
| 14:05 | 14:20 | Compliance-native graph schema design | Sriram Boppana (Holonyx) |
| 14:25 | 14:40 | FinBench, it is time to evolve to its schema and approach to agent world | Yitae Jeong (XCENA) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | TBA | TBA |
| 15:15 | 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 | 17:00 | TBA | TBA |
| 17:00 | 19:00 | Drinks & snacks |
Any questions?
Please reach out to Gabor Szarnyas ([email protected]) and Bryce W. Merkl Sasaki ([email protected]).