SIGMOD / PODS 2026 Program Overview
Conference Days:
Sunday
31st May |
Monday
1st June |
Tuesday
2nd June |
Wednesday
3rd June |
Thursday
4th June |
Friday
5th June
Sunday, 31st May
Workshops:
- aiDM - Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management
- FORMATS - Workshop on Data Formats for Modern Architectures and Workloads
- SeQureDB - Workshop on Data Management, Privacy, and Security
- Q-Data - Workshop on Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications
- FinDS - Workshop on Data Management for the Modern Financial Systems
| Sunday | Track 1 Scarlet 1 |
Track 2 Scarlet 2 |
Track 3 Scarlet 3 |
Track 4 Amaryllis |
Track 5 Petunia |
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | SeQureDB | Q-Data | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | aiDM | FORMATS | FinDS | ||
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |||||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | aiDM | FORMATS | SeQureDB | Q-Data | FinDS |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | |||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | |||||
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | |||||
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | aiDM | FORMATS | SeQureDB | Q-Data | FinDS |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | |||||
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | |||||
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | aiDM | FORMATS | SeQureDB | Q-Data | FinDS |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | |||||
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | |||||
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||||
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | SIGMOD/PODS Joint Special Event: VectorDB | ||||
| 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | |||||
| 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | |||||
| 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM | PODS Reception [Scarlet 1 and Foyer] | ||||
| 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | |||||
| 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | |||||
Monday, 1st June
| Monday | Track 1 Scarlet 1 |
Track 2 Scarlet 2 |
Track 3 Scarlet 3 |
Track 4 Amaryllis |
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | PODS Opening and Keynote
Jan Van den Bussche (Hasselt University) Models are data too: Towards expressive querying of machine-learning models |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | ||||
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Break | |||
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | DaMoN - Workshop on Data Management on Modern Hardware | Gems of PODS: Enumeration Theory through the Lens of Database Challenges | ||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | ||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | DaMoN Workshop | PODS 2: ToT & Best Newcomer Award, & Algorithms | ||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | ||||
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | ||||
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | DaMoN Workshop | PODS 3: Query Languages | ||
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | ||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | DaMoN Workshop | PODS 4: Streaming Algorithms (including Best Paper Award) | ||
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | ||||
| 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM | ||||
| 6:15 PM - 6:30PM | Break | |||
| 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | SIGMOD Reception (6:30pm-8:00pm) Scarlet 1 & 2 & Foyer | |||
| 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM | New Researcher Symposium Panel (7-8:30) |
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| 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | ||||
| 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | PODS Business Meeting | |||
| 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | ||||
Tuesday, 2nd June
Wednesday, 3rd June
Thursday, 4th June
| Thursday | Track 1 Scarlet 2 |
Track 2 Scarlet 3 |
Track 3 Poinsettia 1 |
Track 4 Poinsettia 2 |
Track 5 Petunia |
Track 6 Amaryllis |
Track 7 Scarlet 1 |
Track 8 Zinnia |
Track 9 Heliconia 1+2 |
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Plenary - Demo awards, ToT talk, Codd Innovation talk
(Convention Center) Session Chair: Angela Bonifati |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | |||||||||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Plenary
Keynote - Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
A New Golden Era for Data Management (Convention Center) Session Chair: S. Sudarshan |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |||||||||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break-1 | ||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SIGMOD Research-31 Systems for ML |
SIGMOD Research-32 Storage & Query Processing |
SIGMOD Research-33 Graph Search & Query |
SIGMOD Research-34 Temporal, Spatial, & Streaming Data |
SIGMOD Research-35 ML for Data Management |
Tutorial: Relational DB on Quantum Platforms | SIGMOD
Industry-6 Cloud-Native Distributed Databases & Scalability Architectures |
SIGMOD DEI-1 Human–AI Partnership in Data Systems: Inclusion by Design or Bias at Scale? |
SIGMOD Research-36 Optimizations, Index, GPUs, & Learning |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | |||||||||
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | |||||||||
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Plenary Special Invited Talk - Jayant Haritsa (IISc,
Bangalore)
Indian Database Research: The Journey to SIGMOD 2026 (Convention Center) Session Chair: Carsten Binnig |
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| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | |||||||||
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Plenary SIGMOD business meeting (Convention Center)
Chair: Angela Bonifati |
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| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | |||||||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break-2 | ||||||||
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | SIGMOD Research-37 Graph Mining & Graph ML |
SIGMOD Research-38 Human-Centric AI & NL Queries |
SIGMOD Research-39 Accelerating Data & ML Systems |
SIGMOD Research-40 ML for Data Management |
SIGMOD Research-41 Secure & Scalable Data & ML Systems |
Tutorial: Relational DB on Quantum Platforms | SIGMOD DEI-2 Birds of a Feather |
SIGMOD Research-42 Potpourri |
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| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | |||||||||
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Plenary Poster -
3 SIGMOD Research-31 to Research-42 + Selected papers from ACM TODS Journal |
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| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | |||||||||
| 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | |||||||||
| 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Break | ||||||||
| 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
Sit down Banana Leaf Dinner (Convention Center) (Dinner will be in two batches) |
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| 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | |||||||||
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| 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | |||||||||
Friday, 5th June
Workshops:
- SynthAI - Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation and Management for Building AI Systems
- DEEM - Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning
- GRADES-NDA - Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems and Network Data Analytics
- DBTest - Workshop on Testing Database Systems
- HILDA - Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Data Analytics
| Friday | Track 1 Scarlet 1 |
Track 2 Scarlet 2 |
Track 3 Scarlet 3 |
Track 4 Amaryllis + Petunia |
Track 5 Zinnia |
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| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | GRADES-NDA | DBTest | HILDA | ||
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | SynthAI | DEEM | |||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | |||||
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |||||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SynthAI | DEEM | GRADES-NDA | DBTest | HILDA |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | |||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | |||||
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | |||||
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | SynthAI | DEEM | GRADES-NDA | DBTest | HILDA |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | |||||
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | |||||
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | SynthAI | DEEM | GRADES-NDA | DBTest | HILDA |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | |||||
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | |||||