Dina Bitton

Former Advisor of the CTO Office at SAP. She is internationally known expert in the area of high-performance database management, and a successful entrepreneur, known for her start-up, Callixa, which was acquired by SAP in 2005. At present, she is an advisor to start-up CEOs and corporate officers in several enterprise software companies.

Michael Carey

Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, ACM and IEEE Fellow, member of the USA National Academy of Engineering, Recipient of ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award and ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.

Michael Franklin

Liew Family Chair of Computer Science, Senior Advisor to Provost on Computation and Data Science, Chairman of Department of Computer Science at The University of Chicago. He was the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of the AMPLab, Co-PI and Executive Committee member of the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, ACM Fellow, Two-time Winner of the ACM SIGMOD Test of Time award.

H.V.Jagadish

Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Former Director of the Software Systems Research Laboratory, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, ACM Fellow, Board Member of the Computing Research Association (CRA), Founding Editor-in-Chief of PVLDB.

Masaru Kitsuregawa 喜连川优

Director General at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan, Professor and the Executive Director for Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative (EDITORIA) at the University of Tokyo, ACM and IEEE Fellow, Recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award.

Ruqian Lu  陆汝钤

Ruqian Lu, Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Research Professor of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Recipient of the first class Significant Research Achievement Award of CAS in 1983, the first class Research Progress Award in Science and Technology of CAS in 1992, the second class National Research Progress Award in Science and Technology of China in 1993, the sixth Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award in 2003, the CCF Lifetime Achievement Honorary Award in 2014.

Volker Markl

Professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) group at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Director of the Berlin Big Data Center, Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. He was a Team Leader at FORWISS, Germany, and a Research Staff member & Project Leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center, USA.

Ming-Chien Shan

Vice President at Klis INC, Former Vice President at SAP (USA), SAP Fellow, Adjunct Professor at ECNU. He started his career at IBM in 1978 leading the DB2 technology transfer from research lab to product division. He then joined HP in 1985 and took various senior management positions to supervise research programs and product developments.

Vishal Sikka

Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University, Consulting Professor at ECNU, Former CEO of Infosys (2014 to 2017), Former Member of the Executive Board and CTO of SAP SE (prior to 2014). He is credited with creating the breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA. He is also known as the creator of the ‘timeless software’ framework.

Gerhard Weikum

Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Adjunct Professor at Saarland University, Germany, ACM Fellow, Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, Recipient of the VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award and the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.