====== EPIC Retreat Spring 2023 ======


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===== April 17th, 2023 - Monday =====
==== Morning - Day 1 ====

  * 9:15am //Depart Soda Hall//
  * 10:30am //Arrive in Napa//
  * 10:30am- 12:00pm Introduction Session
     * Introduction Talk with Aditya Parameswaran and Sarah Chasins 
     * Show It or Tell It? Text, Visualization, and Their Combination, Marti Hearst {{ :retreats:2023spring:hearst_vis2022_keynote_slides.pdf |slides}}
     * A Need-Finding Study with Users of Geospatial Data, Parker Ziegler {{ :retreats:2023spring:a-need-finding-study-with-users-of-geospatial-data.pdf |slides}}
     * Building Next-Generation Machine Learning Applications, Shreya Shankar {{ :retreats:2023spring:epicspring2023shreyaslides.pdf |slides}}

  * 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

  
==== Afternoon - Day 1 ====

  * 1:30pm- 3:30pm  Afternoon Session
     * Integrating Unstructured Data into a Cloud Data Warehouse, Justin Levandoski, Google {{ :retreats:2023spring:bigquery_unstructured_data_uc_berkeley_epic_offiste.pdf |slides}}
     * Moving Past “A Prompt and A Prayer”: Supporting Users in Prompt-Forward Tools, J.D. Zamfirescu
     * Building Version Control Tools for Creative Coders: Quickpose, Eric Rawn
     * Transactional Panorama: A Conceptual Framework for User Perception in Analytical Visual Interfaces, Dixin Tang {{ :retreats:2023spring:tp_uc_berkeley_epic_offiste.pptx |slides}}
  * 3:00pm - 5:00pm Activity (Hiking)
  * 5:00pm - 6:00pm Break/ Check into room
  * 6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner
  * 7:30pm - 9:00pm Poster Session

===== April 18th, 2023 - Tuesday =====
==== Morning - Day 2 ====
  * 8:00am Breakfast
  * 9:00am Morning Session I
     * Data Analysis & ML Workflow Experiences, Barbara Stanley, Google {{ :retreats:2023spring:epic_lab_presentation.pdf |slides}}
     * Usable Programming Tools for Experimental Biologists, Justin Lubin {{ :retreats:2023spring:lubin-sp23-slides.pdf | slides }}
     * Towards Natural Interactions with Data, Haotian Li {{ :retreats:2023spring:haotian-epic-retreat-2023spring.pdf | slides }}
     * Retroactive Query Evaluation for Iterative AI/ML, Rolando Garcia {{:retreats:2023spring:EpicNapa23_Demo.pdf | slides}} [[https://github.com/ucbrise/flor/blob/main/presentations/EpicNapa23_Demo.ipynb|IPYNB]]

  * 10:25 am - 10:50am: Break
  * 10:50am - 12:00pm: Morning Session II
     * Parametric API Summarization : Template Distillation from LLMs, Naman Jain {{ :retreats:2023spring:parametrictemplates_epic.pdf |slides}}
     * Representation Learning for Cloud Data Analytics Systems, Çağatay Demiralp from Sigma Computing {{ :retreats:2023spring:sigmacomputing-epicdatalab-spring2023.pdf |slides}}
     * Collaborative Development of NLP Models, Fereshte Khani, Microsoft {{ :retreats:2023spring:codev_2023_presentation_20_min.pdf |slides}} {{ :retreats:2023spring:codev_2023_paper.pdf |paper}}

  * 12:00pm - 2:00pm: Group Photo, Lunch, and Walk
  
==== Afternoon - Day 2 ====
 * 2:00pm - 3:30pm: Afternoon Session
     * Natural Language Meets Query Processing, Matei Zaharia {{ :retreats:2023spring:epic-retreat-nlp.pdf |slides}}
     * LLMs Panel 

  * 3:30pm - 4:00pm Load Bus
  * 4:00pm: Depart