The goal of this year's symposium it to give graduate students and everyone else in the community a taste of different career opportunities in the field of data management. Speakers organized in five panels will give short overviews of what life is like in their respective organizations. The symposium is highly informal. So we hope you come with any questions you have been afraid to ask, and we promise to give you an answer. Everyone is welcome!
| 7:00pm-7:15pm | Symposium Introduction Organizers: Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University) and Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington) |
| 7:15pm-7:30pm | Panel 1: Life in a Startup Panelist: Alon Halevy (University of Washington and Google) Panelist: Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin and Yahoo! Research) |
| 7:30pm-7:45pm | Panel 2: Life in a Research Lab Panelist: Venkatesh Ganti (Microsoft Research) Panelist: Hamid Pirahesh (IBM Almaden Research Center) |
| 7:45pm:8:00pm | Panel 3: Life as Faculty in a Medium-to-Large Department Panelist: Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland) Panelist: Jun Yang (Duke University) |
| 8:00pm-8:15pm | Panel 4: Life as Faculty in a Small Department Panelist: Silvia Nittel (University of Maine) Panelist: Peter Tucker (Whitworth College) |
| 8:15pm-8:30pm |
Panel 5: Life as Faculty in a non-American Department Panelist: Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo) Panelist: Donald Kossman (ETH Zurich) |