Twenty-First TUC Meeting

Boston, United States / 04 Sep 2026

GDC is hosting a Technical User Community (TUC) meeting on September 4 (Friday) in Boston.

The topics of the TUC meeting include the latest updates on graph data management, including benchmarks, algorithms, hardware, query languages, schema, and the GDC organization.

Location

The meeting is co-located with the VLDB conference:

  • Venue: Westin Boston Seaport District (425 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210)
  • Room: Paine room. To find the room, locate the Starbucks in the hotel lobby and follow the corridor across it.

Registration

You can attend the TUC meeting in person or follow the event on Zoom.

In both cases, please register on LinkedIn.

Agenda

Start End Title Presenter(s) / Chair
08:30 08:45 Doors open
08:45 09:05 The future of the Graph Data Councilrecording Henry Gabb, Gabor Szarnyas
(Graph Data Council)
09:15 09:30 What’s next for the GQL standard?recording Keith Hare
(SC32 WG3 Convenor and JCC Consulting, Inc.)
09:35 09:50 TinkerGQL: Mixing declarative GQL with imperative Gremlinrecording Cole Greer
(Apache TinkerPop / Improving)
09:55 10:10 FinBench, it is time to evolve to its schema and approach to agent worldrecording Yitae Jeong
(XCENA)
10:15 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 11:00 Can graph sparsification accelerate GNN workloads?recording Vasiliki Kalavri
(Boston University)
11:05 11:20 UpDown: A breakthrough graph analytics accelerator – for streaming, real-time, and scalable graph computingrecording 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 optionrecording 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 normalizationrecording Johannes Schrott
(TU Wien)
14:05 14:20 Compliance-native graph schema designrecording Sriram Boppana
(Holonyx)
14:25 14:40 A SQL OLAP benchmark based on the LDBC Social Network Benchmarkrecording Nuno Faria
(INESCTEC, University of Minho)
14:45 15:00 Running loops around recursive SQL Daan de Graaf
(TU Eindhoven)
15:15 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 17:15 Working session Amy Hodler
(GraphGeeks)
17:15 19:00 Drinks & snacks

Any questions?

Please reach out to Gabor Szarnyas ([email protected]) and Bryce W. Merkl Sasaki ([email protected]).

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