SIGMOD Opening was fully packed. Joe Hellerstein and Azza Abouzied welcomed the audience. Christos H. Papadimitriou gave an inspiring talk on "How to Build a Brain". Followed by honoring Carlo Zaniolo with the Codd Innovation Award. photos: HPI Fotoklub/Raphael Kunert

SIGMOD/PODS Impressions of Monday June 22nd. The day took off with an amazing keynote by Virginia Vassilevska Williams and continued with PODS Awards talks, research sessions, and the DaMoN workshop. It concluded with a lovely SIGMOD reception Copyright: HPI Fotoklub/Raphael Kunert

SIGMOD Pre-Conference day started with several focused group workshops and tutorials as well as a combined warm-up session on query optimization.

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📣 Call for Registration - SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium Register now(!) to join us for lunch at the NRS lunch tables and a panel discussion. Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Program: 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_nrs.s...

⚠️ 📣 Registration will close shortly! Over 1,200 participants have already registered for the conference! The capacity is nearly full, and only a limited number of places remain. We encourage all remaining prospective attendees to complete their registration. 2025.sigmod.org/registration...

The 2025 SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium's topic is "Crafting a Research Identity as a New Data Management Researcher in an AI-dominated Landscape" 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_nrs.s... We invite early career researchers and graduate students to attend this traditional symposium.

This year's SIGMOD offers two excursions for spouses and partners of conference attendees to experience the historical sites of Berlin. 🕍 🏰 For more details checkout the conference website: 2025.sigmod.org/partner_prog...

📣 🏆 These PODS'25 PC members have provided outstanding service to the committee. The selection was made by the Associate Editors and the PODS PC Chair. Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Omri Ben-Eliezer, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Peter Lindner, Sebastian Skritek.

📣 Don't forget to register for SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference and workshops. The early bird deadline is within 10 days: 2025.sigmod.org/registration... Hope to see many colleagues in Berlin!

📣 📣 📣 Reproducibility News The artifact evaluation for SIGMOD 2024 is completed and the results are out at reproducibility.sigmod.org Holger Pirk, Natacha Crooks, and Manos Athanassoulis were chairs for SIGMOD 2024 ARI.

🏆 🏆 🏆 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 🏆 🏆 🏆 goes to Carlo Zaniolo "For groundbreaking contributions to database languages and query optimization on complex database models with long-lasting impact on research and industrial applications"

🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Systems Award 2025 goes to Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database "for reimagining relational data management to enable serializability with external consistency at global scale" 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

🏆 The 2025 SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to Hector Munoz-Avila and Sylvia Spengler Citation: "For outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation."

🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Test of time award (2025) goes to K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series John Paparrizos, Luis Gravano 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

📣 📣 📣 We are happy to announce the SIGMOD 2025 keynotes: 1. Margo Seltzer (UBC) "The Case for Collaboration (Everything a Database Person really needs to know about Machine Learning)" 2. Christos H. Papadimitriou (Columbia) "How to Build a Brain?" 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_keyno...

Check out the entire list of SIGMOD Awards including the distinguished AEs and Reviewers: 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

📣 📣 📣 📣 SIGMOD Industrial Paper Award 📣 📣 📣 📣 Congrats to the authors! 🏆 Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases Xinjun Yang (Alibaba), Yingqiang Zhang (Alibaba), Hao Chen (Alibaba), Feifei Li (Alibaba), Gerry Fan (XConn), Yang Kong (Alibaba)...

📣 📣 📣 📣 SIGMOD Best Paper Awards 📣 📣 📣 📣 Congratulations to all authors! 🏆 LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using Lp-Norms of Degree Sequences Haozhe Zhang (UZ); Christoph Mayer (UZ); Mahmoud Abo Khamis (RelationalAI); Dan Olteanu (UZ)*; Dan Suciu (UW)

SIGMOD BEST PAPER Honorable Mentions 🥇 CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views Nuno Faria (INESCTEC & U. Minho)*; José Pereira (U. Minho & INESCTEC) 🥇 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering Mihail Stoian (UTN)*; Andreas Kipf (UTN)

📣 📣 📣 Next to the Best Paper Award and the Newcomer Award, PODS has also curated a list of Distinguished Paper Awards: Congratulations to the authors of the following papers: 2025.sigmod.org/pods_awards....

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📯One paper was selected for the best new comer category: Differentially Private Substring and Document Counting Giulia Bernardini, Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz and Teresa Anna Steiner 2025.sigmod.org/pods_awards....

📣 Two Papers were selected for the best paper category: 🏆 Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation Shaleen Deep, Hangdong Zhao, Austen Fan and Paraschos Koutris 🏆 Output-Optimal Algorithms for Join-Aggregate Queries Xiao Hu Congratulations to all authors! 2025.sigmod.org/pods_awards....

📣 📣 📣 PODS news: All accepted papers from Round 2 are now available on the website. 31 papers were accepted. Congratulations to all authors and hope to see you in Berlin 2025.sigmod.org/pods_papers....

❗ Due to many requests, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for GRADES-NDA@SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social to March 24 AoE & the paper submission deadline to March 31 AoE. Looking forward to your contributions! ☀️ cc: @akhilarora.bsky.social @sdumbrava.bsky.social

More notifications: 36 industry papers have been accepted for the industrial track. Congratulations to all authors! Thanks to the industry track chairs Ihab Ilyas and Mary Roth and the program committee members for reviewing and curating the list. 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_indus...

A record number of 69 Demos have been accepted for presentation at SIGMOD 2025! Congratulations to all authors! Thanks to the chairs @ryanmarcus.bsky.social and Daniel Kang and the review committee. 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_demo_...

📢 Deadline extension for DEEM 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social! Following requests, we're extending the submission deadline to April 1, 5pm Pacific Time. More info at: deem-workshop.github.io

All accepted SIGMOD papers (including round 4) are now listed on the website: Also note that the PACMMOD proceeding volumes of round 1 and round 2 papers are out as well. Congratulations to all authors and hope to see you in Berlin! 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_paper...

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📣 🏆 The winner of the PODS 2025 Test of Time Award is: "Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond" by Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Hung Ngo, Christopher Ré, and Atri Rudr Link to paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

PODS hosts 2 invited Tutorials in 2025: - Albert Asterias (UPC) will give a tutorial on " Local-vs-Global Consistency of Annotated Relations" - Stay tuned for Stefan Mengel's (French National Centre for Scientific Research) topic announcement. 2025.sigmod.org/pods_tutoria...

My very first paper got accepted to @sigmod2025.bsky.social! Yay! Means I'll be playing a home game in Berlin

Take note of the Gems of PODS and its two distinguished speakers! - Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth) "Querying Graph Data: Where We Are and Where To Go" - Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT) "A fine-grained approach to algorithms and complexity" 2025.sigmod.org/pods_invited...

MIDAS - The 1st workshop connecting academia and industry on Modern Integrated Database and AI Systems invites submissions. The deadline is March 30th. Find more details on the workshop website. sites.google.com/view/midas20...

Student travel grants - SIGMOD and its sponsors provide scholarship awards to selected students attending the SIGMOD/PODS conference! The scholarships will include financial support for traveling and conference registrations. See the link for more details. 2025.sigmod.org/travel_award...

📯SIGMOD Panel Announcement: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? Panel members: - Dan Suciu, UW - Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS - Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens - Anastasia Ailamaki, ÉPFL - Ippokratis Pandis, AWS - Jens Dittrich, Saarland University

🚀 Join us at the SIGMOD/PODS 2025 Warmup Session: Query Optimization Unleashed — Bridging Theory, AI, and Systems for the Future of Databases. 📅 Sunday, June 22, 2025 🕔 17:00-18:30 (Starts 17:15) 2025.sigmod.org/warmup.shtml

LLM-DPM - The Workshop on Large Language Models for Data Process Management invites submissions by April 1st! dbpmworkshop.github.io

SIGMOD 2025 is inviting nominations to honor exceptional individuals and outstanding contributions in the data management community. Edgar Codd Innovations Award Systems Award Test-of-Time-Award Please check out the website for more details! 2025.sigmod.org/call-for-nom...

🎺🎺🎺SIGMOD accepted 12 tutorials this year covering various topics in data management and AI by researchers from industry and academia. 2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_tutor...

SIGMOD 2025 is inviting nominations to honor exceptional individuals and outstanding contributions in the data management community. Edgar Codd Innovations Award Systems Award Test-of-Time-Award Please check out the website for more details! 2025.sigmod.org/call-for-nom...

We are thrilled to announce that this SIGMOD/PODS's banquet will take place at the iconic Colosseum Berlin! 🏛✨ Join us for an unforgettable evening of elegance, entertainment, and celebration in one of Berlin’s most historic venues. 2025.sigmod.org/banquet.shtml

HILDA - The Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics is co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. Submission deadline is April 7th. more details can be found on the workshop website: hilda.io/2025/ organized by Remco Chang, Kexin Rong and Roee Shraga

DataEd - The DataEd Initiative workshop on Data systems education will be held at SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The workshop invites submissions until March 21st. dataedinitiative.github.io/DataEd25/ind... The workshop is organized by Abdussalam Alawini, Sourav Bhowmick, and Michael Liut

ProvenanceWeek - The workshop on provenance will be held in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. Abstract Submissions are due March 8th. For more information you can now visit the website. ucdbg.github.io/ProvenanceWe... organized by Tanja Auge and Seokki Lee

DEEM - The 9th Workshop on End-to-End Data Management is also co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The deadline for papers is March 21st. For more details checkout the website deem-workshop.github.io

NOVAS - The Novel Optimizations for Visionary AI Systems is co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. Submission deadline is 28th of March. Find more information on the workshop and submission instructions on the website. www.novasworkshop.org