Workshops (Monday, May 4, 2026)

# Title/Topic and Organizers Length
1 HardBD&Active'26 (New Hardware for Data Systems)

Organizers:
  • Shimin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA
  • Qizhen Zhang, U. Toronto, Canada
Workshop Website: https://hardbd-active.github.io/2026/index.html
Full
2 Data science for equality, inclusion and well-being challenges (DS4EIW 2026)

Organizers:
  • Genoveva Vargas-Solar, CNRS, France
  • Tania Cerquitelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Salvatore Greco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Moreno Laquatra, Kore Uni. of Enna, Italy
Workshop Website: https://ds4eiw.github.io/2026/index.html
Full
3 Sustainable Data Systems Meet Data Science (DSDS 2026)

Organizers:
  • Natalie Enright Jerger, U. Toronto, Canada
  • Bettina Kemme, McGill, Canada
  • Essam Mansour, Concordia, Canada
Full
- Tamer Özsu Celebration Workshop

A special session celebrating the career and contributions of Prof. M. Tamer Özsu.
Full
4 LLM+Vector Data: Agentic RAG Edition

Organizers:
  • Arijit Khan, Bowling Green State University, USA
  • Yuyu Luo, HKUST, Hong Kong
  • M. Tamer Ozsu, UWaterloo, Canada
  • Danrui Qi, SFU, Canada
  • Jiannan Wang, Tsinghua Uni., China
Workshop Website: https://llmvdb2.github.io/
Full
5 Beyond SQL: AI for Complex Data Management

Organizers:
  • Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM Research, US
  • Liane Vogel, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  • Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research, US
  • Sola Shirai, IBM Research, US
  • Liana Patel, Stanford University, US
Workshop Website: https://beyond-sql.github.io/
Half

Workshops (Friday, May 8, 2026)

# Title/Topic and Organizers Length
1 HTAPSys: Workshop on Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing Systems

Organizers:
  • Tianzheng Wang, SFU, Canada
  • Xun Xue, Huawei, Canada
Workshop Website: https://sfu-dis.github.io/htapsys/
Full
2 Trends and Challenges in Industrial Data Systems Research(IDSR)

Organizers:
  • Minos Garofalakis, ATHENA Research Center & TU Crete, Greece
  • Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China
  • Holger Pirk, Imperial College London,UK
  • Kai Zeng, Huawei, China
Full
3 Knowledge and Data Engineering Meets Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities

Organizers:
  • Jianzhong Qi, The University of Melbourne
  • Wenqi Fan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Qing Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Jilin Hu, East China Normal University, China
Workshop Website: https://kde-meets-llm.github.io/KDExLLM-ICDE2026/
Half
4 Databases and Machine Learning (DBML)

Organizers:
  • Fatemeh Nargesian, URochester, USA
  • Guillaume Lachaud, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Workshop Website: https://dataintelligencecrew.github.io/dbml26/
Half
5 Data-Driven Smart Cities

Organizers:
  • Ekaterina Gilman, U. of Oulu, Finland
  • Xiang Su, U of Helsinki, Finland
  • Francesca Bugiotti, U. Paris, France
Workshop Website: https://dasc2026.wordpress.com/
Full
6 GraphAI for Future Intelligent Systems

Organizers:
  • Wissem Inoubli, CRIL- CNRS & Univ. Artois, France
  • Haithem Mezni, Taibah University, KSA, Saudi Arabia
  • Sabeur Aridhi, LORIA (Inria - CNRS), University of Lorraine, France
Workshop Website: https://agai-research.github.io/graphai4fis/
Full