# VLDB2020: Messages from Our Sponsors

## Premium Diamond Sponsor

### Cygames


Cygames, Inc. (https://www.cygames.co.jp/en/) is a video game company
pursuing its brand statement of being "The Best in Entertainment."
Cygames has been providing incredible gaming experiences for users in
the world. Cygames Research (https://research.cygames.co.jp) is an
in-house research institution that helps the company to meet the
technical challenges of Cygames’s mission to be the best in
entertainment. The institution cooperates with a variety of public,
private, and academic entities to advance technologies that will
impact the entire games industry and the whole society.

## Diamond Sponsors

### NEC


NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. For more information, visit NEC at [https://www.nec.com](https://www.nec.com).

### Sky


Sky co., LTD. (https://www.skygroup.jp) delivers major software products in some markets in Japan.
'SKYSEA Client View' is IT asset management system for businesses and governments.
'SKYMENU ' is lesson support system for schools.
Also we have virtual desktop system, 'SKYDIV Desktop Client'.
We also have software development division for various systems including multifunctional photocopiers, advanced cars, connected home appliances and so on.
We are working with Tsukuba University to enable SKYSEA Client View deal with larger data faster by utilizing insights of data engineering.

## Platinum Sponsors

### Alibaba


ALIBABA GROUP’S MISSION IS TO MAKE IT EASY TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE.

We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate and improve their efficiencies. We provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way.

### Google


Google tackles the most challenging problems in computer science and related fields. Being bold and taking risks is essential to what we do, and research teams are embedded throughout Google allowing our discoveries to affect billions of users each day. In doing so, we actively collaborate with, and learn from, the broader scientific community, and publish our research in traditional scientific venues, open source software releases, industry standards, data releases and patents.

### Megagon labs


Our mission is to empower people with better information to make their best decisions. Since 2016, [Megagon Labs](https://megagon.ai/) (formerly Recruit Institute of Technology) has conducted top-notch research and built
technologies in Mountain View and Tokyo and has made impacts through the worldwide services and products of the [Recruit Group](https://recruit-holdings.com/what/network/) to achieve our mission. Our research focuses are in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, and Natural Language Processing.

### Oracle


Oracle's goal is to deliver the next generation of enterprise computing with a massive suite of technologies spanning Databases, Applications, Developer Frameworks, Cloud Infrastructure, Servers and Engineered Systems. Oracle Database is the industry-leading database, converging many different data models and data processing algorithms, running on a wide range of systems - from small desktops to massive scale-out clusters of the largest servers available today, on-premises, in private clouds and in the public cloud. Within the Oracle Database team, we are focused on enabling data-driven development via our converged database architecture, now also available as the industry's first Autonomous Database running on Gen 2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

The architecture of Oracle Database is continuously evolving: We consistently leverage modern hardware trends such as Vector Processing, RDMA networking, high capacity DRAM, Persistent Memory, and we are constantly designing new algorithms to support new application requirements such as in-memory processing, machine learning, time series, graph, blockchain etc. For more information on Oracle Database and developing data-driven applications, please visit [https://developer.oracle.com/databases/](https://developer.oracle.com/databases/). For Oracle's always free cloud tier (including the always free tier for Autonomous Database) please visit [https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/). Finally, for exciting career opportunities at Oracle, please visit [https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/students-grads/college/](https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/students-grads/college/).

### Recruit Technologies


Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. was established in October 2012 as an IT and marketing company in the Recruit Group. Our role is to learn, introduce, and constantly improve technology which makes progress every day, thus to improve business values and establish the competitiveness of the group.

Recruit was established more than 50 years ago as an information service company, which was new at that time. The company’s purpose was to solve negative things for people, and it was started out with providing company advertisements on the corner of a university newspaper, for the recruitment of new graduates. Since then, it has provided information necessary for the user’s action and decision making in various fields including housing, schools, cars, weddings, travelling, gourmet, cosmetics, and so forth. During the time, the means of providing information have changed. Now Recruit Technologies is working as the driving force to provide values for the Recruit Group, with our further sophisticated technical capability, expertise, and innovation.

## Gold Sponsors

### Amazon


Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We strive to have a positive impact on customers, employees, small businesses, the economy, and communities. Amazonians are smart, passionate builders with different backgrounds and goals, who share a common desire to always be learning and inventing on behalf of our customers. Explore opportunities at Amazon here (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/).

To learn more about Amazon, join us on September 1 for a Tech Talk (https://vldbtechtalk.splashthat.com/) with Mehul A. Shah (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehulashah/) on "The Evolution of Data Warehousing - Data Lakes with AW Lake Formation". You can also learn more about Amazon at the Women in Technology Coffee Talk (https://vldbwomenintechcoffeetalk.splashthat.com/) on Thursday, September 3.

### Apple


We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as with services, including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices -- strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

[Job Card](https://vldb2020.org/assets/files/Apple-Job-Card-VLDB-2020.pdf)

### Baidu


Baidu is a leading search engine, knowledge and information centered Internet platform and AI company. The Company's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. To know more about us: [http://research.baidu.com/](http://research.baidu.com/)

Video: [Baidu - an AI Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJq2MWRIPBQ&feature=emb_logo )

### Cyber Agent


CyberAgent has been expanding its businesses based on the internet industry. It is enjoying the flexibility to respond changes, engaging in self-driven growth by investing in growing field and developing new businesses in-house. We entered a new investment phase to make "ABEMA" a mass medium in April, 2016. By accumulating the profit from Internet Advertisement and Game business, we aim to invest in Media business to grow a medium to long-term pillar.

### Facebook


Join this session with the Facebook PhD recruiting, academic relations, and research teams to learn more about opportunities to engage at Facebook. www.research.fb.com

[Facebook at the International Conference on Very Large Databases 2020](https://research.fb.com/conferences/international-conferences-on-very-large-databases-vldb-2020/)

### Hitachi


Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is focused on its Social Innovation Business that combines information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and products.

Hitachi drives digital innovation across five sectors - Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy and IT - through Lumada, Hitachi's advanced digital solutions, services, and technologies for turning data into insights to drive digital innovation. Its purpose is to deliver solutions that increase social, environmental and economic value for its customers. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.

Hitachi has been powering a better world for over 110 years. We are creating a safer, smarter society by integrating rich expertise in social infrastructure and digital technology. Our collaborative creation with customers is now accelerating even more with “Lumada” - Hitachi’s advanced digital solutions, services, and technologies for turning data into insights to drive digital innovation.

Learn more about Lumada
http://www.hitachi.com/products/it/lumada/global/en/about/index.html

### IBM


*IBM Research AI*

There is no AI without algorithms. In our pursuit of fluid intelligence, we are continuing to advance our work in deep learning, and are putting significant investment into neurosymbolic AI, which combines the power of neural networks with symbolic methods to help AI reason more effectively.

In parallel, we’re delivering secure, trusted AI with work focused on explainability, fairness, and bias reduction, and empowering AI creators with AI engineering tools and capabilities that simplify and automate key tasks like data preparation, training and lifecycle management.

Finally, we’re developing a new class of AI hardware that is inherently energy-sufficient, increasing compute power by orders of magnitude without the demand for increased energy. To learn more visit: https://www.draco.res.ibm.com/ai

See also: [Residency Program](/assets/files/ibm_residency.pdf), [Recruiting Program](/assets/files/ibm_recruiting.pdf)

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*Intro Video:*
- [IBM Research's 2020 AI Predictions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwZHW1J7TX0)

*Other Videos:*
- [IBM Db2 Graph- Supporting Synergistic and Retrofittable Graph Queries Inside IBM Db2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwT_898Zkzk&feature=youtu.be)
- [The Debater -What happens when AI stops playing games?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSxVEaWEUjk&t=154s)
- [ExBERT: A Visual Tool to Explore BERT](https://youtu.be/Dtw1lcFg3Ss)
- [AutoAI for Time Series](https://youtu.be/okIVc6dlaAM)
- [Explainable Link Prediction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wLjvqGrVc&feature=youtu.be)
- [Partner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zgmZCOs6A&feature=youtu.be)
- [SystemER](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsRAONFU_ak&amp;feature=youtu.be)

*Content links:*
- [Join our Research Career Network](https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5601439/vldb2020)
- [Learn more about IBM AI Residency Program](https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5636060/AIResidency2021RegisterYourInterest)
- [Try our IBM Research Experiments](https://www.draco.res.ibm.com/experiments)
- [Learn more about MIT-IBM Watson AI lab](https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.edu/)
- [Read our blog about the IBM presence at VLDB 2020](https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/08/ibm-research-at-vldb-2020/)
- [Stay up to date with the latest announcements, research, and events from IBM Research through our newsletter](https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=urx-44015)
- [Visit our COVID-19 website to see IBM's response to this global challenge](https://www.ibm.com/impact/covid-19/?lnk=ushpv18l1)
</small>

### Line


LINE was conceived as a mobile messaging service shortly after the massive earthquake that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011. After the tragedy, it became apparent that there was a fundamental need for a global communication tool that could strengthen human relationships. Just a few months later in June, we launched the LINE messaging app. With this approach, LINE has grown into a social platform with hundreds of millions users worldwide, having a particularly strong focus in the rapidly advancing continent of Asia. Rather than settle for globally standardized services based on a generic approach, we believe that it is essential to respect the culture and norm of each individual country in order to engage users on a very deep level and evolve in each region. We call it culturalization and it’s at the heart of everything we do. In the world we strive to create, users will have seamless online and offline access to all the people, information and services they need in their daily lives – LINE is the gateway. Our journey to evolve into a Smart Portal will continue, as we will meet all needs that our users face in a constantly changing mobile universe. LINE is your daily life companion – Engaging the world with you.

[LINE Engineering](https://engineering.linecorp.com/en/), [Job Openings](https://career.linecorp.com/linecorp/career/list)

### Microsoft


Microsoft Research is where leading scientists and engineers have the freedom and support to propel discovery and innovation. Here, they pursue and publish curiosity-driven research in a range of scientific and technical disciplines that can be translated into products. With access to vast computing power, global multi-disciplinary teams tackle complex problems that drive breakthrough technologies and improve lives. aka.ms/vldb-2020

### MongoDB


MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 18,400 customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 110 million times and there have been more than one million MongoDB University registrations. If you're interested in joining MongoDB check out open positions here: [https://www.mongodb.com/careers](https://www.mongodb.com/careers)

### Snowflake


ABOUT SNOWFLAKE

Snowflake’s cloud data platform shatters the barriers that prevent organizations from unleashing the true value from their data. It’s designed with a [patented new architecture](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G56W_7xV1tUIv6y9tlGcytzeKSGREjBq/view) to be the centerpiece for data pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes, data application development, and for building data exchanges to easily and securely share governed data. The result? A platform delivered as a service that’s powerful but simple to use.

We have assembled an amazing team of engineers from diverse backgrounds around the world. All engineers, from the most senior to recent college graduates and interns, work on important and engaging projects that deliver real value and directly impact our customers. We are actively hiring across all locations and would love for you to join us. Visit our [Career Page](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en) to learn more about our current opportunities or [join our Talent Community](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/jointalentcommunity?applyType=JTC) to be notified as new opportunities become available.

SNOWFLAKE AT VLDB

Check out our [VLDB site](https://scottgruner.wixsite.com/vldb2020) to learn how to connect with us at VLDB as well as watch recently recorded engineering talks for a preview into some of the projects our engineers are currently working on.

### Toshiba


[Toshiba Group](http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/index.html) focuses on four main business domains, Energy, Social Infrastructure, Electronic Devices and [Digital Solutions](https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/index.html), and uses reliable technologies to create new value and contribute to a sustainable society. We turn on the promise of a new day by realizing cyber-physical systems that fuse the Group’s long standing experience and knowledge in the physical world of hardware manufacturing with strengths in digital and cyber technologies cultivated through extensive Research and Development.

Toshiba corporation’s corporate research centers – the [Corporate Research & Development Center](http://www.toshiba.co.jp/rdc/index.htm), the [Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center](http://cmc.toshiba.co.jp/cmc/en/index.htm), Digital Innovation Technology Center, and the [Corporate Software Engineering & Technology Center](https://www.toshiba.co.jp/tech/swc/index_j.htm) – promote group-wide R&D.

Along with cutting-edge technologies like IoT, DB and AI, Toshiba create digital solutions that provide our customers with new value and services, and that enriching the wider society. Within the DB community, Toshiba developed [GridDB](https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/griddb/index.htm)™ and [PGSpider](https://github.com/pgspider)™. GridDB™ combines the power of SQL and NoSQL to ensure efficient accumulation of massive volumes of time series data, and to deliver scale-out performance. PGSpider™ is a high-performance SQL cluster engine. PGSpider™ is based on PostgreSQL and can access huge amount of data from various data sources at high speed by using pushdown function and thread parallelization.

### Yahoo! Japan


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