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6 sessions of 11 · May 12 – 14, 2026 · All times PDT

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Tue, May 12

Scaling Vector Search Past the First Million Documents

Sofia Marques Hall A10:00 AM–10:30 AM PDT
  • Format: Talk (30 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall A
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Tue, May 12, 10:00 AM–10:30 AM PDT
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Hall A
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Deep Dives
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Multi-Region Postgres Without the 3 a.m. Pager

Alex Nguyen Hall B11:00 AM–11:30 AM PDT
  • Format: Talk (30 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall B
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Tue, May 12, 11:00 AM–11:30 AM PDT
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Hall B
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Deep Dives
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Evaluating LLM Output Without a Human in the Loop

Mei Petrov Hall A3:00 PM–3:45 PM PDT
  • Format: Deep Dive (45 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall A
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Tue, May 12, 3:00 PM–3:45 PM PDT
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Hall A
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Deep Dive (45 min)
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Deep Dives
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Mei Petrov
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Wed, May 13

Rethinking Event-Driven Systems After Two Outages

Noah Dubois Hall B9:00 AM–9:45 AM PDT
  • Format: Deep Dive (45 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall B
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Wed, May 13, 9:00 AM–9:45 AM PDT
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Hall B
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Deep Dive (45 min)
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Deep Dives
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Retrieval That Survives Contact With Real Documents

Aisha Haddad Hall A1:00 PM–2:30 PM PDT
  • Format: Workshop (90 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall A
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Wed, May 13, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM PDT
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Hall A
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Deep Dives
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Thu, May 14

Lessons from Rebuilding Our Realtime Pipeline

Kenji Bauer Hall B1:00 PM–2:30 PM PDT
  • Format: Workshop (90 min)
  • Track: Deep Dives
  • Room: Hall B
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Thu, May 14, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM PDT
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Hall B
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Deep Dives
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