Conferences / FOSDEM
FOSDEM 2020
Feb 1–2, 2020 · Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch campus, Brussels, Belgium
- Conference
- FOSDEM Database
- Dates
- Feb 1, 2020 – Feb 2, 2020
- Venue
- Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch campus
- Place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 5,000Archived 2020 about page: 'Every year, we host more than 5000 developers at the ULB Solbosch campus'. Generic boilerplate, not a counted headcount for this edition.
- Website
- archive.fosdem.org
- Recorded
- 15 sponsors · 64 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Talks: data-related developer rooms only (FOSDEM has ~872 schedule entries this year). Included rooms: Databases (main track); PostgreSQL; MySQL, MariaDB and Friends; HPC, Big Data, and Data Science; Graph Systems and Algorithms. Plus lightning talks "DuckDB" (Hannes Mühleisen) and "Apache DataSketches". Devroom welcome sessions and speaker-less discussion slots omitted. Affiliations come from the FOSDEM speaker bio on the archived schedule (null when the bio is empty or names no employer; some bios carry over from earlier editions). 59 talks, 64 speaker rows, 47 with affiliation. Videos are video.fosdem.org recordings and slides are the attachments/links on each event page, taken from the schedule XML. The PostgreSQL devroom is listed here; the separate paid FOSDEM PGDay (Friday) is tracked as fosdem-pgday.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free admission (no registration) | €0 | — | About page: 'Participation and attendance is totally free' | archive.fosdem.org |
Sponsors 15
Other 13
- Amazon Web Services · Main sponsor
- Arm · Main sponsor
- Back Market · Main sponsor
- Cisco · Main sponsor
- Codethink · Main sponsor
- Colt · Main sponsor
- draw.io · Main sponsor
- GitHub · Main sponsor
- Infomaniak · Main sponsor
- Meta · Main sponsor
- OpenTAP · Main sponsor
- The Linux Foundation & Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Main sponsor
- Université Libre de Bruxelles · Main sponsor
Speakers and talks 64
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Woodhead | Expedia Group | Speaker | Building an open source data lake at scale in the cloud | SlidesVideo |
| Aleksander J. Dubas | UK Atomic Energy Authority | Speaker | Selecting a Finite Element Analysis Backend for Exascale Fusion Reactor Simulations | SlidesVideo |
| Alexander Kukushkin | — | Speaker | PostgreSQL on K8S at Zalando: Two years in production | SlidesVideo |
| Alkin Tezuysal | — | Speaker | MyRocks in the Wild Wild West! | Video |
| Andy Georges | Ghent University | Speaker | Facilitating HPC job debugging through job scripts archival | SlidesVideo |
| Aninda Manocha | Princeton University | Speaker | Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient Graph Application Computations on Emerging Architectures | SlidesVideo |
| Ben Steer | Queen Mary University of London | Speaker | Raphtory: Streaming analysis of distributed temporal graphs | SlidesVideo |
| Bob van Luijt | SeMI Technologies | Speaker | Weaviate OSS Smart Graph | SlidesVideo |
| Christopher Rost | Leipzig University | Speaker | Temporal Graph Analytics with GRADOOP | SlidesVideo |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Speaker | Fibonacci Spirals and 21 Ways to Contribute to Postgres—Beyond Code | SlidesVideo |
| Claude Warren | Wipro | Speaker | Apache DataSketches | SlidesVideo |
| Colin Sauze | Aberystwyth University | Speaker | Introducing HPC with a Raspberry Pi cluster | SlidesVideo |
| Corvin Jaedicke | Deutsche Bahn | Speaker | Predictive Maintenance | Video |
| Dan Shearer | — | Speaker | LumoSQL - Experiments with SQLite, LMDB and more | SlidesVideo |
| Efraim Flashner | — | Speaker | Sharing Reproducible Results in a Container | Video |
| Erich Birngruber | Vienna BioCenter | Speaker | Interactive applications on HPC systems | SlidesVideo |
| Erik Frøseth | Oracle | Speaker | Hash Join in MySQL 8 | Video |
| Federico Campoli | Freelance | Speaker | RTFM | SlidesVideo |
| Felix Bert | Deutsche Bahn | Speaker | Predictive Maintenance | Video |
| Félix-Antoine Fortin | Calcul Québec / Compute Canada | Speaker | Magic Castle: Terraforming the Cloud for HPC | SlidesVideo |
| Frank McQuillan | Pivotal | Speaker | Efficient Model Selection for Deep Neural Networks on Massively Parallel Processing Databases | SlidesVideo |
| Frédéric Descamps | Oracle | Speaker | 20 mins to write a MySQL Shell Plugin | Video |
| Free Ekanayaka | Canonical | Speaker | dqlite: High-availability SQLite | SlidesVideo |
| Gabor Szarnyas | Hungarian Academy of Sciences / Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Speaker | GraphBLAS: A linear algebraic approach for high-performance graph algorithms | SlidesVideo |
| Geir Høydalsvik | Oracle | Speaker | MySQL Goes to 8! | SlidesVideo |
| Hannes Mühleisen | CWI | Speaker | DuckDB | Video |
| Hrvoje Matijakovic | — | Speaker | Overview of encryption features | Video |
| Ibrar Ahmed | — | Speaker | A Deep Dive into PostgreSQL Indexing | Video |
| Ilya Kosmodemiansky | Data Egret | Speaker | An ultimate guide to upgrading your PostgreSQL installation | Video |
| Ivan Groenewold | Pythian | Speaker | SELinux fun with MySQL and friends | SlidesVideo |
| Jean-François Gagné | MessageBird | Speaker | The consequences of sync_binlog != 1 | SlidesVideo |
| Jimmy Angelakos | 2ndQuadrant | Speaker | The State of (Full) Text Search in PostgreSQL 12 | SlidesVideo |
| Joe Conway | Crunchy Data | Speaker | SECCOMP your PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| John Hanley | ECMWF | Speaker | Building cloud-based data services to enable earth-science workflows across HPC centres | SlidesVideo |
| Kevin Gomez | Leipzig University | Speaker | Temporal Graph Analytics with GRADOOP | SlidesVideo |
| Ludovic Courtès | Inria | Speaker | Towards reproducible Jupyter notebooks | SlidesVideo |
| Marco Tusa (the Grinch) | — | Speaker | Comparing Hash Join solution, the good, the bad and the worse. | Video |
| Margaret Martonosi | — | Speaker | Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient Graph Application Computations on Emerging Architectures | SlidesVideo |
| Marko Mäkelä | MariaDB | Speaker | ALTER TABLE improvements in MariaDB Server | SlidesVideo |
| Matthias C | Pythian | Speaker | SELinux fun with MySQL and friends | SlidesVideo |
| Max Kießling | — | Speaker | The Neo4j Graph Algorithms Library: An Overview | SlidesVideo |
| Moritz Meister | Logical Clocks | Speaker | Maggy: Asynchronous distributed hyperparameter optimization based on Apache Spark | SlidesVideo |
| Muhammad Osama | University of California, Davis | Speaker | Gunrock: High-Performance Graph Analytics for the GPU | SlidesVideo |
| Nick Vyzas | ProxySQL | Speaker | Whats new in ProxySQL 2.0? | Video |
| Pedro Figueiredo | Oracle | Speaker | MySQL 8.0: Secure your MySQL Replication Deployment | Video |
| Peter Zaitsev | — | Speaker | MySQL 8 vs MariaDB 10.4 | Video |
| Petr Janouch | Neo4j | Speaker | Cypher enhancements for sharded and federated graph databases | Video |
| Sami Ahlroos | Percona | Speaker | Running MySQL in Kubernetes in real life | SlidesVideo |
| Sergei Golubchik | — | Speaker | Rewinding time with System Versioned Tables | Video |
| Shahzeb Siddiqui | — | Speaker | Buildtest: HPC Software Stack Testing Framework | SlidesVideo |
| Shlomi Noach | GitHub | Speaker | Automating schema migration flow with GitHub Actions, skeema & gh-ost | SlidesVideo |
| Stephen Frost | — | Speaker | Find your slow queries, and fix them! | SlidesVideo |
| Stijn Eyerman | Intel | Speaker | Programmable Unified Memory Architecture (PUMA) | SlidesVideo |
| Suneel Marthi | — | Speaker | Snorkel Beambell - Real-time Weak Supervision on Apache Flink | Video |
| Sveta Smirnova | — | Speaker | How Safe is Asynchronous Master-Master Setup? | Video |
| Sylvain Baubeau | — | Speaker | Graffiti | SlidesVideo |
| Tobias Johansson | Neo4j | Speaker | Cypher enhancements for sharded and federated graph databases | Video |
| Todd Gamblin | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Speaker | Build for your microarchitecture: experiences with Spack and archspec | Video |
| Ümit Seren | Vienna BioCenter | Speaker | HPC on OpenStack | SlidesVideo |
| Varun Gupta | MariaDB | Speaker | Knocking down the barriers of ORDER BY LIMIT queries with MariaDB 10.5 | SlidesVideo |
| Vincent Cave | — | Speaker | Designing a performant and scalable graph processing python package | SlidesVideo |
| Vincent Lequertier | Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 | Speaker | Putting Artificial Intelligence back into people's hands | SlidesVideo |
| Vinicius Grippa | Percona | Speaker | CPU performance analysis for MySQL using Hot/Cold Flame Graph | Video |
| Vladislav Shpilevoy | Tarantool | Speaker | SWIM - Protocol to Build a Cluster | SlidesVideo |