Call for Tutorials
We solicit proposals for tutorial presentations of general interest to the database research and development community. All topics relevant to the ICDE conference will be considered. We encourage tutorial proposals that address an emerging research area of interest or that address an established but relevant research area. Proposals must provide an insightful overview of the chosen area, covering related literature – in particular, while presenters have the option of describing exemplar pieces of work in detail, they should not focus exclusively on their own contributions.
Proposals should indicate the tutorial length – 1.5 or 3 hours; if the tutorial can be of either length, the material included for each case should be clearly identified. Further, the proposal should identify any prior venues in which all or part of the tutorial has been presented, and explain how the current proposal differs from these previous editions. Finally, tutorial proposals must clearly identify the intended audience, prerequisite knowledge expected from the attendees, and the expected benefits to the participants.
Important Dates
Important dates are listed as follows:
- Tutorial submission due: November 11, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2025
- Camera-ready copy due: March 1, 2026
We are pleased to announce the list of accepted tutorials!
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Accepted Tutorials
| ID | Title | Authors | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Evolution of LSM-Tree Key-Value Stores: A Tutorial on State-of-the-Art and Future Directions | Yina Lv (Xiamen University, China) Qiao Li (MBZUAI, UAE) Quanqing Xu (OceanBase, Ant Group, China) Chun Jason Xue (MBZUAI, UAE) | 1.5 hours |
| 2 | Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries | Mohamed Hemdan (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA) Youssef Hussein (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA) Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA) | 1.5 hours |
| 3 | Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems | Ziawasch Abedjan (TU Berlin & BIFOLD Berlin, Germany) Mahdi Esmailoghli (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany) Sainyam Galhotra (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) | 3 hours |
| 4 | The Virtuous Cycle: AI-Powered Vector Search and Vector Search-Augmented AI | Jiuqi Wei (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Beijing, China) Quanqing Xu (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Hangzhou, China) Chuanhui Yang (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Beijing, China) | 1.5 hours |
| 5 | Query Rewrite in the Learning Age: From Rules to ML-Based and LLM-Driven Techniques | Shengchen Liu (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada) Verena Kantere (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada) Nicholas Ostan (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada) Farhana Haider (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada) Calisto Zuzarte (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada) | 1.5 hours |
| 6 | Data-Centric Foundations of Agentic AI | Yuxin Jin (University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia) Ying Zhang (Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China) Hanchen Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia) Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) | 1.5 hours |
| 7 | Model Slicing: A Data Engineering Perspective | Parke Godfrey (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada) Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada) Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Chief Data Office, Bedminster, NJ, USA) Jarek Szlichta (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada) | 1.5 hours |
Submission Guidelines
Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email to all three chairs (see below for addresses). Submissions should be at most 4 (four) pages, excluding references, with the same format as ICDE 2026 research papers.
Each submission should include the following information:
- Tutorial Title
- Tutorial Presenters: (name, affiliation, email, address, phone number, short bio highlighting expertise in tutorial domain)
- Length: 1.5 or 3 hours; if you propose both 1.5 and 3 hours, please specify which parts would be added/removed.
- Abstract
- Outline detailing the scope and depth of coverage of the targeted topics. If available, providing a URL to the slides will aid in the proposal evaluation.
- Hands-on Tutorial: Indicate whether the tutorial will be hands-on, operating system/software/tools required and equipment attendees should bring.
- Target Audience: Intended audience, prerequisites, relevance to ICDE, and expected benefits.
- Prior Offerings: If some part of the tutorial has been presented elsewhere, enumerate those events with dates and locations and provide URLs of the associated slides/notes. Further, highlight how the current proposal differs from these previous offerings.
- References: A list of the primary references that will be covered in the tutorial.