SIGMOD / PODS 2026 Program Overview

Conference Days: Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Abbreviations:
Ind = Industry
Ment = Mentoring
R = Research
Spons = Sponsor
Tut = Tutorial



Sunday, 31st May

Sunday Track 1Track 2Track 3Track 4Track 5
8:30-10:30 Q-Data aiDM FinDS SeQureDB FORMATS
10:30-11Coffee Break
11-12:30 Q-Data aiDM FinDS SeQureDB FORMATS
12:30-1:30Lunch
1:30-3 Q-Data aiDM FinDS SeQureDB FORMATS
3-3:30Coffee Break
3:30-5 Q-Data aiDM FinDS SeQureDB FORMATS
5-5:30Coffee Break
5:30-7SIGMOD/PODS Joint Special Event: VectorDB
7-8:30PODS Reception

Monday, 1st June

Monday Track 1 Track 2
8:30-9:45 PODS Opening and Keynote
Jan Van den Bussche
(Hasselt University)
9:45-10Break
10-11PODS 1: Gems of PODSDaMoN
11-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-1PODS 2: ToT & Best Paper AwardDaMoN
1-2:30Lunch
2:30-4PODS 3DaMoN
4-4:30Coffee Break
4:30-6:15PODS 4DaMoN
6:15-6:30 Break
6:30-7:00 SIGMOD Reception
7:00-8:00 New
Researcher
Symposium
(7-8:30)
8:00-8:30 PODS Business Meeting
8:30-9:00

Tuesday, 2nd June

Tuesday Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7 Track 8 Track 9
8:30-9:30 Plenary - Welcome by General Chairs and Program Chairs, Contribution award, Dissertation award talk
9:30-10:30 Plenary keynote - Prabhakar Raghavan (Google)
10:30-11 Coffee Break-1
11-12:30 PODS 5 R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4 Panel: Quantum Tut-1 Ind-1 Spons-1
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 PODS 6 R-5 R-6 R-7 R-8 Demo-1 Tut-2 Ind-2 Spons-2
3-3:30 Coffee Break-2
3:30-5 PODS 7 R-9 R-10 R-11 R-12 Demo-2 Tut-3 Ind-3 Ment-1
5-6:30 Plenary Poster - 1

Wednesday, 3rd June

Wednesday Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7 Track 8 Track 9
8:30-9:30 Plenary - Award distribution session
9:30-10:30 Plenary keynote - Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
10:30-11 Coffee Break-1
11-12:30 PODS 8 R-13 R-14 R-15 R-16 Panel: Security Tut-4 Ind-4 Spons-3
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 PODS 9 R-17 R-18 R-19 R-20 Demo-3 Tut-5 Ind-5 Spons-4
3-3:30 Coffee Break-2
3:30-5 PODS 10 R-21 R-22 R-23 R-24 Demo-4 Tut-6 Panel: Funding Ment-2
5-6:30 Plenary Poster - 2
6:30-10 Banquet and Cultural Program

Thursday, 4th June

Thursday Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7
8:30-9:30 Plenary - Demo awards, ToT talk, Codd Innovation talk
9:30-10:30 Plenary keynote - Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
10:30-11 Coffee Break-1
11-12:30 R-25 R-26 R-27 R-28 Tut-7 DEI-1
Human-AI
Interaction in DB
Ind-6
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Plenary Special Invited Talk: Jayant Haritsa (IISc, Bangalore)
2:30-3:30 Plenary SIGMOD business meeting
3:30-4 Coffee Break-2
4-5 (1 hour) R-29 R-30 R-31 R-32 Tut-8 DEI-2
Birds of a Feather
5-6:30 Plenary Poster - 3

Friday, 5th June

Friday Track 1Track 2Track 3Track 4Track 5
8:30-10:30 HILDA DBTest SynthAI DEEM GRADES-NDA
10:30-11Coffee Break
11-12:30 HILDA DBTest SynthAI DEEM GRADES-NDA
12:30-1:30Lunch
1:30-3 HILDA DBTest SynthAI DEEM GRADES-NDA
3-3:30Coffee Break
3:30-5 HILDA DBTest SynthAI DEEM GRADES-NDA