

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.
Reynold Xin
Databricks
Jingren Zhou
Alibaba Cloud
Key Areas of Interest
Organized by
Supported by
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
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
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
Theodoros Rekatsinas
Apple
Tim Gubner
Huawei
Tobias Lindaaker
Relational AI
Todd Lipcon
Uta Störl
University of Hagen
Vladi Vexler
Huawei
Wei Ma
University of Glasgow
Yeounoh Chung
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
