Tuesday August 30: Opening, Keynote Address, Sessions and Demos
Today the VLDB'2005 conference was opened. We have gathered some photos from the Opening Ceremony and the Keynote Address, as well as photos illustrating various activities at the conference venue.
Click on the photos to see bigger versions. All photos: Roger Midtstraum and Heri Ramampiaro.
Kjell Bratbergsengen, Mads Nygård, Christian S. Jensen and Arne Sølvberg just before the start of the Opening Ceremony.
An expectant audience.
General Chair Kjell Bratbergsengen.
Professor Arne Sølvberg, Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Technical Program Chair Christian S. Jensen.
Organization Committee Chair Mads Nygård.
Laura M. Haas introduces the Keynote Address speaker Bjørn Olstad.
Keynote speaker Bjørn Olstad, FAST.
Question from the audience.
Location CO-Manager Kai Torgeir Dragland – one of the true VLDB 2005 heroes – is working hard to make presentation slides available on the web pages.
Quite crowdy during the coffee break.
A lot of people attended the Oracle Reception.
Eugene Chong and George Eadon – hosts from Oracle.