Exciting news from VLDB 2026! Our group received two awards:

• Best Demo @ VLDB goes to “Demonstrating Samsara: A Super-Optimizer for Multimodal Stream Processing”
  Congratulations to Alessandro Ferri, Uélison Jean Lopes dos Santos, Szilard Nistor, Pratyush Agnihotri, Manisha Luthra, Carsten Binnig
• Best Paper @ AIDB'26 goes to Bespoke-Card: Why Tune When You Can Generate? Synthesizing Workload-Specific Cardinality Estimators
  Congratulations to Johannes Wehrstein, Anton Winter, Timo Eckmann, Carsten Binnig

Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!