Call for Contributions - Demonstrations Track
The Demonstrations Track of ICDE 2026 invites exciting and highly interactive demonstrations on data engineering research. We solicit demo proposals in all areas of data and knowledge engineering, including but not limited to, database systems, data management and processing techniques, and data-intensive applications. We also encourage submissions from related areas such as DB + X, where X is ML/AI, health, education, visualization, systems, privacy, etc. All demonstration submissions must:
- Motivate the demonstrated concept(s).
- Describe the presented system and underlying technology.
- Explain what features and scenarios will be demonstrated.
- Justify the novelty and significance of the contribution of the work.
Demonstration Track Highlights
Demonstrations will be presented at the ICDE 2026 conference and the accompanying manuscripts will be published in the ICDE 2026 proceedings. We encourage submissions to include a demonstration video and to creatively apply the demonstrated system to several scenarios, datasets and use cases Submissions are limited to 4 pages, including references.
Video Submission
We highly encourage the submission of a demonstration video (of up to 5 minutes, 50MB max. file size). The purpose of the video is to convey an impression of what will be demonstrated. Both the demonstration proposal and the video will be accessible by the reviewers and both will be used to rate the submission. Your video could summarize your demonstration and also audio-visually highlight its most important aspects, such as the user interface, options for user interactions, the system setup, etc. The video should be submitted in MPEG/AVI/MP4 format and be playable by common media players. Please note that you will need to first finish your demo proposal submission, and then edit it to add the video as a supplementary file.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PT).
- Demo submission due: November 01, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2025
- Camera-ready due: February 01, 2026
Selection Criteria
Demonstration proposals will be selected based on several criteria, including (i) relevance, (ii) novelty, (iii) depth, (iv) and the “wow” factor of the proposed demonstration. The proposal must clearly describe the functionality that will be demonstrated, and how the audience will be able to interact with the proposed system. Reviewers will be encouraged to take the video submissions into account when rating a demonstration proposal.
Submission
Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the IEEE format available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
The length of demo papers is 4 pages, including references. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Please upload your submission to the ICDE 2026 Demos Track through the CMT submission site prior to the deadline: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDEDEMO2026/
Please refer to the COI, use of GenAI, Diversity and Inclusion in writing instructions as detailed in https://icde2026.github.io/cf-research-papers.html