52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The Westin Boston Seaport District
Aug 31 - Sep 5, 2026
The Westin Boston Seaport District
Boston, United States
Aug 31 - Sep 5, 2026
Boston, United States

About the Conference

The Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) is a premier annual international forum for data management, scalable data science, and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. The forthcoming VLDB 2026 conference is poised to deliver a comprehensive program, featuring an array of research talks, keynote and invited talks, panels, tutorials, demonstrations, industrial tracks, and workshops. It will cover a spectrum of research topics related to all aspects of data management, where systems issues play a significant role, such as data management system technology and information management infrastructures, including their very large scale of experimentation, novel architectures, and demanding applications as well as their underpinning theory. The VLDB 2026 conference will take place from Aug 31st to 4th September, 2026 in Boston, MA, USA.

Subject Areas

Key Areas of Interest

Keynote Speakers

Reynold Xin

Databricks

Jingren Zhou

Alibaba Cloud

Important Dates

2026-01-16 Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline · Workshops track CLOSED
2026-01-30 Workshop Proposal Notification · Workshops track CLOSED
2026-03-02 Submission Deadline · Industrial Track CLOSED
2026-04-27 Author Notification · Industrial Track CLOSED
2026-03-29 Proposal Submission Deadline · Demonstrations track CLOSED
2026-05-31 Notification of Acceptance · Demonstrations track CLOSED
2026-04-15 Submission Deadline · Tutorials track CLOSED
2026-05-30 Notification · Tutorials track CLOSED
2026-05-15 Submission Deadline · Panels track CLOSED
2026-06-08 Notification · Panels track CLOSED
2026-06-01 Submission Deadline · PhD Workshop CLOSED
2026-07-01 Notification of Acceptance · PhD Workshop CLOSED
2026-06-20 Travel Support Application Deadline · Applications due June 20th CLOSED
2026-07-24 Early Bird Registration Deadline · Extended from July 12 to July 24, 2026 CLOSED
2026-08-31 Conference Dates · Aug 31st - Sep 4th, 2026 NEXT

Call For Papers

Key Areas of Interest

data mining and analytics data privacy and security database engines database performance and manageability distributed database systems graph and network data information integration and data quality languages machine learning, ai, and databases novel database architectures provenance and workflows specialized and domain-specific data management text and semi-structured data user interfaces

Publication & Indexing

ProceedingsProceedings of the VLDB (PVLDB)

Conference Organization

Organized by

VLDB Endowment

Supported by

Microsoft National Science Foundation (NSF)

Committee

Research Track Chair

Yanlei Diao

Ecole Polytechnique, Amazon Web Services

Xiaokui Xiao

National University of Singapore

Industrial Track PC Chair

Arnd Christian König

Microsoft Research, USA

Efthymia Tsamoura

Huawei Labs, UK

Hannes Voigt

Neo4j, Germany

Industrial Track PC Member

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

MongoDB

Alekh Jindal

Tursio

Alexander Böhm

SAP SE

Allison Holloway

Oracle

Anderson Chaves Carniel

Huawei Technologies R&D (UK) Ltd

Anisoara Nica

SAP SE, Waterloo, Canada

Bailu Ding

Microsoft Research

Bolin Ding

Data Analytics and Intelligence Lab, Alibaba Group

Boris Motik

University of Oxford

Byungchul Tak

Kyungpook National University

Calisto Zuzarte

IBM

Campbell B Fraser

Google

Chalapathi Koneni

Amazon

Clemens Lutz

NVIDIA

Cong Yan

Snowflake

Danica Porobic

Oracle

Dirk Habich

TU Dresden

Fabian Hueske

Confluent Inc.

Hanuma Kodavalla

Microsoft

Hesam Shahrokhi

RelationalAI

Jia Li

Edinburgh Research Center, Central Software Institute, Huawei

Jie Song

ByteDance

Jiexing Li

Databricks

Jim Webber

Neo4j

Joyal Shah

Otter.ai

Justin Levandoski

Google

Kai Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Lev Novik

Databricks

Marcus Paradies

LMU Munich

Maria Krommyda

Huawei ERC

Matteo Interlandi

Microsoft

Matthaios Olma

MongoDB

Meichun Hsu

Oracle America

Milos Nikolic

University of Edinburgh

Mohammed Al-Kateb

Amazon Web Services

Nicolas Bruno

Microsoft

Norman May

SAP SE

Paris Carbone

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Pavel Klinov

Stardog Union

Petra Selmer

Bloomberg

Prashant Saxena

Snowflake Inc

Raghav Kaushik

Microsoft

Rahul Potharaju

Databricks

Rebecca Taft

Cockroach Labs

Riccardo Tommasini

INSA Lyon - LIRIS

Rong-Hua Li

Beijing Institute of Technology

Sergey Melnik

Amazon

Silu Huang

Bytedance

Stefan Plantikow

Microsoft

Sudipto Das

Amazon Web Services

Sumeet Dash

Microsoft

Supun C Nakandala

Databricks Inc

Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui

Google

Theodoros Rekatsinas

Apple

Tim Gubner

Huawei

Tobias Lindaaker

Relational AI

Todd Lipcon

Google

Uta Störl

University of Hagen

Vladi Vexler

Huawei

Wei Ma

University of Glasgow

Yeounoh Chung

Google

Yiwen Zhu

Microsoft

Yongchao Liu

Ant Group

Zoi Kaoudi

IT University of Copenhagen

Demo Track Chair

Stefania Dumbrava

ENSIIE & INRIA Paris, France

John Paparrizos

The Ohio State University, USA & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Associate Editor

Björn Þ Jónsson

Reykjavik University

Byron Choi

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Curtis Dyreson

Utah State University

Danica Porobic

Oracle

H. V. Jagadish

University of Michigan

Haridimos Kondylakis

FORTH-ICS & Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Jan Hidders

Birkbeck, University of London

K. Selçuk Candan

Arizona State University

Mohamed Mokbel

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Nikos Mamoulis

University of Ioannina

Pierre Senellart

ENS, PSL University

Sebastian Link

University of Auckland

Sebastian Schelter

BIFOLD & TU Berlin

Steffen Zeuch

TU Berlin

Tianzheng Wang

Simon Fraser University

Vagelis Hristidis

UC Riverside

Vassilis J. Tsotras

UC Riverside

Walid G Aref

Purdue

Wolfgang Gatterbauer

Northeastern University

Program Committee (Reviewers)

Ahmed Eldawy

University of California, Riverside

Anastasios Gounaris

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Andra Ionescu

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Andrea Mauri

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Andres Calderon-Romero

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Aneesh Raman

Salesforce

Anna Mazhar

Cornell University

Antoine Gauquier

DI ENS, ENS, CNRS, PSL University & Inria

Apostolos Giannoulidis

ETIS, UMR 8051, CY Cergy Paris Université, ENSEA, CNRS

Arash Termehchy

Oregon State University

Avigdor Gal

Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology

Bo Tang

Southern University of Science and Technology

Bo Zhao

Aalto University

Carlo Sartiani

Universita della Basilica

Changbo Qu

Simon Fraser University

Chao Zhang

University of Waterloo

Chuan Xiao

Nagoya University

Chunwei Liu

MIT CSAIL

Dalsu Choi

SAP

Danrui Qi

Simon Fraser University

Daren Chao

University of Toronto

David Justen

Technische Universität Berlin

Diandre Miguel B Sabale

Northeastern University

Dimitris Tsitsigkos

Archimedes, Athena Research Center

El Kindi Rezig

University of Utah

Enhao Zhang

University of Washington

Enzo Veltri

Università della Basilicata

Fabian Panse

University of Augsburg

Fan Yang

The Ohio State University

Fangzhu Shen

Duke University

Francesco Pugnaloni

Hasso Plattner Institute

Franco Solleza

Brown University

Fuheng Zhao

Snowflake

Gang Liao

Meta

Garima Gaur

Inria Saclay, Ecole Polytechnique

Geoffrey X. Yu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

George Papastefanatos

ATHENA Research Center

Georgia Troullinou

CNRS

Georgios Siachamis

Inria

Guozhong Li

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Haitao Yuan

Nanyang Technological University

Hangdong Zhao

Microsoft

Haonan Wang

Columbia

Haralampos Gavriilidis

BIFOLD & Technische Universität Berlin

Hiroaki Shiokawa

University of Tsukuba

Hui Li

Xidian University

Ibrahim Sabek

University of Southern California

Ilaria Battiston

CWI

Irena Holubova

Charles University

Jens d'Hondt

Barcelona supercomputing center

Jia Zou

Arizona State University

Jiangneng Li

Nanyang Technological University

Jiaxiang Liu

Columbia University

Jiaxin Jiang

National University of Singapore

Jin Wang

Arizona State University

Jingyi Yang

Nanyang Technological University

Junghoon Kim

UNIST

Junyoung Kim

Columbia University

Kaiqiang Yu

Nanjing University

Kanchan Chowdhury

Marquette University

Kishy Kumar

Oracle

Kostas Stefanidis

Tampere University

Kyoungmin Kim

EPFL

Larissa Capobianco Shimomura

Hasselt University

Lawrence Lim

University of California, Santa Barbara

Lihong He

IBM Research

Lisa Ehrlinger

Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

Lisi Chen

UESTC

Loredana Caruccio

University of Salerno

Manisha Luthra

TU Darmstadt

Manos Chatzakis

Université Paris Cité

Maria Luisa Sapino

U. Torino, Italy

Martin Boissier

Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

Mayuresh Kunjir

Amazon AWS

Mehnaz Tabassum Mahin

Amazon Web Services

Michael Jungmair

Technical University of Munich

Mijin An

SAP

Mouhamadou Lamine Ba

UCAD / ESP

Nandish Jayaram

Intuit

Neha Makhija

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Niccolo Meneghetti

University of Michigan - Dearborn

Nikolaos Koutroumanis

Archimedes, Athena RC

Nikolaos Tziavelis

UC Santa Cruz

Nikolay Yakovets

TU Eindhoven

Nikos Bikakis

Hellenic Mediterranean University & ATHENA Research Center

Nils Strassenburg

Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

Oscar Romero

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Panagiotis Liakos

Athens University of Economics and Business

Paul Boniol

Inria, Ecole normale supérieure

Petra Selmer

Bloomberg

Philipp Skavantzos

The University of Auckland

Qiange Wang

Northeastern University

Qinghua Liu

The Ohio State University

Qitong Wang

Harvard University

Ramon Lawrence

University of British Columbia

Renato Marroquín

Oracle Labs

Riccardo Tommasini

INSA Lyon - LIRIS

Rihan Hai

TU Delft

Riki Otaki

University of Chicago

Roberto Stanzione

University of Salerno

Roee Shraga

WPI

Sajjadur Rahman

Adobe

Samira Akili

TU Berlin

Sarah Kleest-Meißner

Hasselt University

Sedir Mohammed

Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

Shiva Jahangiri

Santa Clara University

Sophia Sideri

Université Paris Cité & University of Crete

Stefan Grafberger

BIFOLD & TU Berlin

Stefania Dumbrava

ENSIIE, INRIA, IRIF, Télécom-SudParis

Stefano Cirillo

University of Salerno

Steffen Zeuch

TU Berlin

Subhadeep Sarkar

Brandeis University

Tarikul Islam Papon

University of Massachusetts Boston

Ted Shaowang

University of Chicago

Thanasis Georgiadis

TU Berlin

Toshiyuki Amagasa

University of Tsukuba

Uta Störl

University of Hagen

Verena Kantere

University of Ottawa

Vikram Goyal

IIIT Delhi, India

Vivek Shah

Samsung

Wentao Wu

Microsoft Research

Xiangpeng Hao

University of Wisconsin Madison

Xiao Luo

Ohio State University

Xin Zhang

Amazon AWS

Xinjing Zhou

MIT

Xuanhe Zhou

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yannis Foufoulas

Athena Research Center

Yanwei Yu

Ocean University of China

Yaron Kanza

AT&T Labs-Research

Yichao Yuan

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Yihao Hu

Duke University

Yingxia Shao

BUPT

Yiru Chen

Adobe

Yongjoo Park

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yuval Moskovitch

Ben Gurion University

Yuxi Wang

Hangzhou Dianzi University

Zafeiria Moumoulidou

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Zeyu Wang

Fudan University

Zhengjie Miao

Simon Fraser University

Zhichao Cao

Arizona State University

Zhidan Liu

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Zhiqiang Zhong

Aarhus University

Zhuoyue Zhao

University at Buffalo

Ziyi Yan

Simon Fraser University

PhD Workshop Chair

Mohamed Eltabakh

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Nikos Tziavelis

UC Santa Cruz

Workshop Program Chair

Meihui Zhang

Beijing Institute of Technology

Tilmann Rabl

Hasso Plattner Institute

Tutorial Chair

Oliver A. Kennedy

University at Buffalo

Wenjie Zhang

University of New South Wales

Tutorial Committee

Anna Queralt

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Aoying Zhou

East China Normal University

Chuan Xiao

Nagoya University

Deepak Majeti

IBM

Denis Hirn

Universität Tübingen

Eamonn J. Keogh

UC Riverside

Gerardo Vitagliano

MIT CSAIL

Gokhan Kul

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Jelle Hellings

McMaster University

Jian Pei

Duke University

Jingzhi Fang

HKUST

Pedro Pedreira

Meta Platforms Inc.

Qinghua Liu

The Ohio State University

Ramon Antonio Rodriges Zalipynis

HSE University

Xiaofang Zhou

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yang Cao

University of Edinburgh

Panel Chair

Steven Euijong Whang

Bettina Kemme

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