MONDAY January 8	7:15 – 9:30	Gong Show (Chair: Anastassia Ailamaki)
		20 people had 5 minutes each to present: their most outrageous idea, or a challenge they would like to see the community work on, or any other thoughts to get the attention of the audience. There were prizes for the best presentations in different categories.
		Anastassia Ailamaki: CIDR 2007 Gong Show Jim Gray David Maier Yi Chen Stavros Harizopoulos Michael Stonebraker Witold Litwin Alon Halevy Kevin Chang Jose Enrique Armendariz-Inigo Eugene Agichtein Johannes Gehrke Jignesh Patel Qiong Luo Arnaud Sahuguet Pat Helland David Karger Hamid Pirahesh Matthias Bender Martin Kersten Prof. Short and Dr. Tall