Ippokratis Pandis is a VP/Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, currently working on Analytics and Relational services. Ippokratis spends a lot of his time in Amazon Redshift. Redshift is Amazon’s enterprise cloud data warehouse service. Previously, Ippokratis has held positions as software engineer at Cloudera, where he worked on the Impala SQL-on-Hadoop query engine, and as member of the research staff at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he worked on IBM DB2 BLU.

Ippokratis received his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of Best Demonstration and Test-of-Time awards at SIGMOD, ICDE and EDBT. He has served as PC chair of DaMoN, HPTS, ICDE and SIGMOD, as well as General Chair of SIGMOD 2023 and the president of HPTS.