The field of computer systems is witnessing significant advancements in memory systems and conferencing services. Researchers are exploring new memory architectures and optimization techniques to improve performance and reduce costs. One notable direction is the development of specialized memory systems that exploit application-specific access patterns, which has the potential to increase efficiency and scalability. Additionally, there is a growing interest in improving the performance and reliability of conferencing services, with a focus on optimizing resource allocation and reducing costs. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Tetris, which proposes a multi-step framework to optimize call assignments and reduce hot MP usage in large conferencing services. Towards Memory Specialization, which argues for a paradigm shift towards specialized memory architectures and proposes two new memory classes: long-term RAM and short-term RAM. Rhea, which presents a unified framework for designing and validating RTL cache-coherent memory subsystems. OpenYield, which introduces an open-source SRAM yield analysis and optimization benchmark suite to address the reproducibility crisis in SRAM research. ARMS, which designs an adaptive and robust memory tiering system that provides high performance without tunable thresholds.