SIGMOD Berlin, Germany, 2025




SIGMOD/PODS Detailed Program

HILDA - Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 08:30 - 17:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II/III

https://hilda.io/2025/

Workshop Chairs


NOVAS - Novel Optimizations for Visionary AI Systems

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 08:30 - 12:30
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

https://www.novasworkshop.org/

Workshop Organizers


aiDM - Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 08:30 - 17:00
Location: Schöneberg I/II/III

http://www.aidm-conf.org/

Workshop Program Chairs


Tutorial 1: Advances in Designing Scalable Graph Neural Networks: The Perspective of Graph Data Management (part 1)

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 09:00 - 10:30
Location: Bellevue

Ningyi Liao (Nanyang Technological University), Siqiang Luo (Nanyang Technological University), Xiaokui Xiao (National University of Singapore), Reynold Cheng (The University of Hong Kong)


LLM-DPM - Next Gen Data and Process Management: Large Language Models and Beyond

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 09:30 - 17:00
Location: Tiergarten I/II/III

https://dbpmworkshop.github.io/

Organizers


MIDAS - Workshop connecting academia and industry on Modern Integrated Database and AI Systems

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 09:40 - 17:00
Location: Tegel

https://sites.google.com/view/midas2025/home

Workshop Co-Chairs


Tutorial 1: Advances in Designing Scalable Graph Neural Networks: The Perspective of Graph Data Management (part 2)

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Bellevue

Ningyi Liao (Nanyang Technological University), Siqiang Luo (Nanyang Technological University), Xiaokui Xiao (National University of Singapore), Reynold Cheng (The University of Hong Kong)


Tutorial 2: Supporting Human-Centric Data Exploration Through Semantics and Natural Language Interaction

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Location: Bellevue

Vidya Setlur (Tableau Research)


Qdata - Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

https://itrummer.github.io/qdata/

Workshop Chairs


Tutorial 3: Learned Indexes From the One-dimensional to the Multi-dimensional Spaces: Challenges, Techniques, and Opportunities

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Location: Bellevue

Abdullah Al-Mamun (Purdue University), Jianguo Wang (Purdue University), Walid G. Aref (Purdue University)


SIGMOD/PODS Warmup: Query Optimization Unleashed

Time: Sunday, 22.06.2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Location: Charlottenburg I/II/III

What happens when cutting-edge theory meets AI-driven intelligence and real-world database engineering?

Prepare for an electrifying session that will shatter conventional wisdom on query optimization and cardinality estimation. This is not just another academic discussion — this is a battle of ideas where the sharpest minds from theory, machine learning, and database systems go head-to-head to define the future of query performance.

Several domain experts will challenge each other’s methodologies in a high-intensity, cross-disciplinary debate moderated by Dan Suciu (University of Washington) and Volker Markl (BIFOLD & Technical University of Berlin):

This is the session where database theory and systems really meet. Don’t just attend—be part of the revolution.

The event is organized by Floris Geerts, Benny Kimelfeld, and Volker Markl.

See the dedicated page for more details.


PODS Opening and Keynote

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 08:30 - 09:50
Location: Potsdam I/III

Session chair: Benny Kimelfeld


DaMoN - Data Management on New Hardware

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 10:00 - 18:30
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

https://damon-db.org/

Chairs


PODS Research 1: Gems of PODS & Test of Time Award

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Location: Potsdam I/III

Session chair: Nicole Schweikardt


PODS Research 2: Join Evaluation & Maintenance (including the Best Paper Awards)

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Potsdam I/III

Session chair: Andreas Pieris


PODS Research 3: Explanation and Minimization

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Potsdam I/III

Session chair: Wolfgang Gatterbauer


PODS Research 4: Database Queries, beyond Evaluation

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Location: Potsdam I/III

Session chair: Bas Ketsman


PODS Business Meeting

Time: Monday, 23.06.2025, 20:00 - 21:00
Location: Potsdam I

SIGMOD Opening & Keynote 1 & Awards Talks 1

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 08:30 - 10:00
Location: Potsdam I & III

Session chair: NN


Poster Session 1

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Location: Potsdam II and Potsdam Foyer


Demo Session A

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Pavillon


SIGMOD Research 1: Indexing

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Potsdam I

Session chairs: Alfons Kemper, Walid G. Aref


SIGMOD Research 2: Graph Algorithms

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Junhao Gan


PODS Research 5: Tutorial 1 (Albert Atserias) & Other Connections to Quantum Computing

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Cristina Sirangelo


SIGMOD Industry 1: Cloud Database Architecture

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Tiergarten I/II/III

Session chair: Tilmann Rabl


SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Charlottenburg III

Every year, the SIGMOD Conference includes a symposium with advice on starting a career in data management. These symposia are informative and entertaining, geared towards graduate students, junior faculty, and junior industrial researchers but often attract a broader audience. This year's SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium is on "Crafting a Research Identity as a New Data Management Researcher in an AI-dominated Landscape". Our panelists will share their diverse viewpoints and perspectives on this timely topic.

The session will begin with 5-min lightning talks where panelists present their view on how to craft a research identity as a new data management researcher, followed by a moderated Q&A session, then an open forum for the audience to ask questions. The session will be preceded by an informal lunch gathering of participants and panelists.

Panelists:

Carsten Binnig
TU Darmstadt, Germany
Carsten Binnig is a Full Professor in the Computer Science department at TU Darmstadt and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at Brown University. Carsten received his PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2008. Afterwards, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich and at SAP working on in-memory databases. Currently, his research focus is on the design of scalable data management systems, databases and modern hardware as well as machine learning for scalable systems. His work has been awarded with a Google Faculty Award, as well as multiple best paper and best demo awards for his research.


Dan Suciu
University of Washington, USA
Dan Suciu is a Microsoft Endowed Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Suciu is conducting research in data management, on topics such as query optimization, probabilistic data, data pricing, parallel data processing, data security. He is a co-author of two books Data on the Web: from Relations to Semistructured Data and XML, 1999, and Probabilistic Databases, 2011. He received the ACM SIGMOD Codd Innovation Award, received several best paper awards and test of time awards, and is a Fellow of the ACM, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Suciu is currently an associate editor for the Journal of the ACM. Suciu's PhD students Gerome Miklau, Christopher Re and Paris Koutris received the ACM SIGMOD Best Dissertation Award in 2006, 2010, and 2016 respectively; Nilesh Dalvi and Remy Wang were runner ups in 2008 and 2024 respectively.

Alexander Ulrich
Oracle Labs, USA
Alexander Ulrich joined Oracle Labs in 2017 as a researcher specializing in database systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. His research focuses on bridging the gap between database systems, programming languages, and application development. At Oracle Labs, Alexander leads efforts to transform database management systems into highly efficient platforms for modern cloud applications.


Huanchen Zhang
Tsinghua University, China
Huanchen Zhang received the BS degree in computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2013, and the PhD degree in computer science from the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, in 2020. He is an assistant professor in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University. His research interests include database management systems, indexing/filtering data structures, data compression, and cloud databases.


Paolo Papotti
EURECOM, France
Paolo Papotti got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Roma Tre (Italy) in 2007 and is an associate professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM (France) since 2017. Before joining EURECOM, he has been a scientist in the data analytics group at QCRI (Qatar) and an assistant professor at Arizona State University (USA). His research is in the broad areas of scalable data management and NLP, with a focus on data integration and information quality.
Renée J. Miller
The University of Waterloo, Canada
Renée J. Miller is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence at the University of Waterloo. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s National Academy of Science, Engineering and the Humanities. She received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an NSF CAREER Award, the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, an IBM Faculty Award, and the CS Canada Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science. She formerly held the Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems at the University of Toronto and a University Distinguished Professorship at Northeastern University. She is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS. Her work has focused on the long-standing open problem of data integration and has achieved the goal of building practical data integration systems. She and her colleagues received the ICDT Test-of-Time Award and the 2020 Alonzo Church Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their influential work establishing the foundations of data exchange. Professor Miller was an Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal and former president of the non-profit Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Foundation. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from MIT.


Sihem Amer Yahya
CNRS/University of Grenoble, France
Sihem AMER YAHIA a 2020 CNRS Silver Medal Research Director at the University of Grenoble Alpes in France. Throughout her career, she has been focusing on building data-intensive systems that care. She has worked on crafting a new research identity that cross topical boundaries in industry (at&t and Yahoo! labs) and in academia (QCRI and CNRS), in different countries, and as an Algerian Berber woman. She shares some of her experiences in an upcoming SIGMOD Record article on advice to mid-career researchers.

Karima Echihabi
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Remy Wang
University of California – Los Angeles, USA
Madelon Hulsebos
CWI, Netherlands


Demo Session B

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Pavillon


Session chairs: John Paparrizos, Mourad Ouzzani


SIGMOD Research 4: Text-to-SQL & ML-infused Queries

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Essam Mansour, Kexin Rong


PODS Research 6: Randomized Analysis and Data Structures

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Cristian Riveros


SIGMOD Industry 2: Distributed Systems and Hybrid Workloads

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Bellevue

Session chair: El Kindi Rezig


SIGMOD Panel 1: AI for Future Databases: A New Beginning or a Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Potsdam I

AI has opened new directions in database research, from learned components replacing traditional internals to LLMs, enabling a new generation of database systems that allow querying data beyond tables. Yet, adoption in commercial databases has been incremental rather than a fundamental rethinking of modern data system stacks. In this panel, we thus bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss the tension between potential and reality in how AI shapes real-world database products. We will explore questions such as: What should an AI-ready database stack look like—incremental evolution or radical departure? What prevents AI from replacing traditional components like query optimizers, cost models, and indexes? What does it take for LLM-based innovations to move beyond impressive demos? Can we use LLMs for more than Text-to-SQL and LLM-UDFs? By tackling these questions, this panel will challenge assumptions in research, examine AI’s role in future databases, and ask: Is AI the key to overcoming core limitations and will thus enable a new generation of database systems, or maybe AI is just another boulevard of broken (database) dreams?


SIGMOD Business Meeting

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Charlottenburg III

SIGMOD Research 5: Machine Learning for Database Internals

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Fatemeh Nargesian, Andreas Kipf


SIGMOD Research 6: Community and Network Analysis

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Tiergarten I/II/III

Session chairs: Arijit Khan, Donatella Firmani


Session chair: Wolfgang Lehner


PODS Research 7: Private Data Analysis (inc. Best Newcomer Award)

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Dan Suciu


SIGMOD Keynote 2 Awards Talks 2

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 08:30 - 10:30
Location: Potsdam I & III

SIGMOD Research 7: Transactions and Consistency

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Potsdam I

Session chairs: Suyash Gupta, Peter Boncz


SIGMOD Research 8: Streams, Spatial and Modern Hardware

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Nikos Mamoulis, Philippe Bonnet


SIGMOD Industry 3: Query Optimization and Vector Databases

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Bellevue

Session chair: Yannis Chronis


SIGMOD DEI Panel - Towards a Broader Impact: Expanding the Reach of Data Management Research

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Charlottenburg III

Organizer: Donatella Firmani
Panelists:


PODS Research 8: Tutorial 2 & Parallelization Bounds for Queries

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Cristian Riveros


SIGMOD Research 9: Query Optimization

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Potsdam I

Session chairs: Ibrahim Sabek, Jia Zou


SIGMOD Research 10: Privacy in Data Management

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Graham Cormode, Kaustubh Beedkar


SIGMOD Industry 4: Graph Databases and ML

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Bellevue

Session chair: Sainyam Galhotra


PODS Research 9: Sequence-Based Queries

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Jef Wijsen


SIGMOD DEI birds of a feather

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Charlottenburg III

Poster Session 2

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Location: Potsdam II and Potsdam Foyer

PODS Research 10: Infinity and Inconsistency

Time: Wednesday, 25.06.2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Mahmoud Abo Khamis


SIGMOD Keynote 3 & Awards Talks 3

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 08:30 - 10:30
Location: Potsdam I & III

Poster Session 3

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Location: Potsdam II and Potsdam Foyer (incl. refreshments)


Tutorial 5: Autotuning Systems: Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Charlottenburg III

Brian Kroth (Microsoft), Sergiy Matusevych (Microsoft), Yiwen Zhu (Microsoft)


Tutorial 6: Data+AI: LLM4Data and Data4LLM

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Bellevue

Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University), Jiayi Wang (Tsinghua University), Chenyang Zhang (Tsinghua University), Jiannan Wang (Huawei Technologies, Simon Fraser University)


SIGMOD Panel 2: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here?

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Potsdam I


SIGMOD Research 11: Approximate Query Processing and Sequences

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Oliver Kennedy, Zhuoyue Zhao


SIGMOD Research 12: Graph Database Systems

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chairs: Ashraf Aboulnaga, Riccardo Tommasini


Tutorial 4: Privacy and Security in Distributed Data Markets (part 1)

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Charlottenburg III

Daniel Alabi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sainyam Galhotra (Cornell University), Shagufta Mehnaz (The Pennsylvania State University), Zeyu Song (The Pennsylvania State University), Eugene Wu (Columbia University)


Demo Session C

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Pavillon


SIGMOD Research 13: Data Cleaning and Explainability

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Potsdam I

Session chairs: Brit Youngmann, Steven Whang


SIGMOD Research 14: Data Models & Interfaces

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chair: Anna Fariha


SIGMOD Industry 5: Post-Relational Database Systems

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Reynold Cheng


Tutorial 4: Privacy and Security in Distributed Data Markets (part 2)

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Charlottenburg III

Daniel Alabi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sainyam Galhotra (Cornell University), Shagufta Mehnaz (The Pennsylvania State University), Zeyu Song (The Pennsylvania State University), Eugene Wu (Columbia University)


Demo Session D

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Pavillon


SIGMOD Research 15: Cloud-Scale DBMS, Testing and Tuning

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Potsdam I

Session chairs: Tiemo Bang, Norman May


SIGMOD Research 16: Scalable ML, Dataflow and Simulation

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Potsdam III

Session chairs: Hazar Harmouch, Steven Whang


SIGMOD Industry 6: Data Models, Provenance and Governance

Time: Thursday, 26.06.2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

Session chair: Bernhard Mitschang


DEEM - Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 08:30 - 17:00
Location: Charlottenburg I/II

https://deem-workshop.github.io/

Workshop Chairs:


DBPL - International Symposium on Database Programming Languages

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 08:30 - 12:30
Location: Charlottenburg III

https://sites.google.com/view/dbpl2025/home

Workshop Chairs


DataEd - Workshop on Data Systems Education

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 08:30 - 12:30
Location: Bellevue

https://dataedinitiative.github.io/DataEd25/index.html

Workshop Chairs


GRADES-NDA - Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 08:30 - 17:00
Location: Tiergarten I/II/III

https://gradesnda.github.io/

Workshop Organizers


Tutorial 7: Navigating Data Errors in Machine Learning Pipelines: Identify, Debug, and Learn (part 1)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 09:00 - 10:30
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

Bojan Karlaš (Harvard University), Babak Salimi (University of California, San Diego), Sebastian Schelter (BIFOLD & TU Berlin)


Tutorial 10: Transactional Cloud Applications: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportunities (part 1)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 09:00 - 10:30
Location: Schöneberg I/II/III

Rodrigo Laigner (University of Copenhagen), George Christodoulou (Delft University of Technology), Asterios Katsifodimos (Delft University of Technology), Yongluan Zhou (University of Copenhagen)


Tutorial 7: Navigating Data Errors in Machine Learning Pipelines: Identify, Debug, and Learn (part 2)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

Bojan Karlaš (Harvard University), Babak Salimi (University of California, San Diego), Sebastian Schelter (BIFOLD & TU Berlin)


Tutorial 10: Transactional Cloud Applications: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportunities (part 2)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Schöneberg I/II/III

Rodrigo Laigner (University of Copenhagen), George Christodoulou (Delft University of Technology), Asterios Katsifodimos (Delft University of Technology), Yongluan Zhou (University of Copenhagen)


Tutorial 9: Reproducible Prototyping of Query Optimizer Components

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

Rico Bergmann (TUD Dresden University of Technology), Dirk Habich (TUD Dresden University of Technology)


Tutorial 8: OLTP Engines on Modern Storage Architectures (part 1)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Location: Schöneberg I/II/III

Daokun Hu (Ant Group), Quanqing Xu (OceanBase, Ant Group), Chuanghui Yang (OceanBase, Ant Group)


ProvenanceWeek

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Location: Bellevue

https://ucdbg.github.io/ProvenanceWeek2025/

Chairs

Senior Chairs


Tutorial 11: Data Storage and Management for Image AI Pipelines

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Location: Köpenick I/II/III

Utku Sirin (Harvard University), Stratos Idreos (Harvard University)


Tutorial 8: OLTP Engines on Modern Storage Architectures (part 2)

Time: Friday, 27.06.2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Location: Schöneberg I/II/III

Daokun Hu (Ant Group), Quanqing Xu (OceanBase, Ant Group), Chuanghui Yang (OceanBase, Ant Group)


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