42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Montréal, Canada - May 4-8, 2026

ICDE 2026: Program Overview

Registration Desk, Mezzanine, open:

  • Sun May 3: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Mon. May 4: 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
  • Tues. May 5: 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
  • Wed. May 6: 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
  • Thurs. May 7: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Fri. May 8: 7:00 am – 2:00 pm

Program last updated on March 23, 2026.

Day 1: Monday, May 4
Time Av. Duluth Rue McGill Rue Sherbrooke Rue Mansfield Rue Crescent Rue Saint-Denis Av. Van-Horne Rue Notre-Dame Av. Laurier Av. Viger
8:30 - 9:00 Morning Coffee
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
9:00 - 10:30 HardBD & Active DS4EIW DSDS LLM+Vector Data PhD Symposium IDSR Beyond SQL
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
11:00 - 12:30 HardBD & Active DS4EIW DSDS LLM+Vector Data PhD Symposium IDSR Beyond SQL
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Square Dorchester, Parc Mont-Royal A-C
14:00 - 16:00 HardBD & Active DS4EIW DSDS LLM+Vector Data PhD Symposium IDSR
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
16:30 - 18:30 Tamer Özsu Celebration Workshop
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception
Square Dorchester
Day 2: Tuesday, May 5
Time Av. Duluth Rue McGill Rue Sherbrooke Rue Mansfield Rue Crescent Rue Saint-Denis Av. Van-Horne Rue Notre-Dame Av. Laurier Av. Viger
7:30 - 8:00 Morning Coffee
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
8:00 - 8:30 Opening & Welcome Address
Place du Canada
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 1
Place du Canada
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
10:00 - 12:00 Research 1Indexing Structures and Physical Database Design Research 2Spatiotemporal Prediction and Urban Computing Research 3Benchmarking, Testing and Evaluation of DB Systems Research 4Data Quality, Repair and Outlier Detection Research 5Blockchain Protocols, Storage and Smart Contracts Tutorial-1 Industry and Applications 1LLMs and AI for Database Operations Demo A TKDE A + Posters 15:30-17:00
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Square Dorchester, Parc Mont-Royal A-C
13:30 - 15:00 Research 6LLMs for Database Optimization and Administration Research 7Approximate, Vector and Pub-Sub Query Processing Research 8Table Integration, Schema Matching and Data Markets Research 9Edge Computing, IoT and Streaming Applications Research 10Memory-Efficient Storage and In-Memory Data Systems Tutorial-3(part I) Industry and Applications 2Recommendation Systems and CTR Prediction DEI Invited Talks Demo B TKDE B + Posters 10:00-12:00
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
15:30 - 17:00 PanelWhat can agentic AI do for databases?
(Moderator: Fatma Ozcan)		 Research 11Graph Indexing and Optimization Research 12Query Optimization and Rewriting Research 13Federated and Distributed Learning Systems Research 14Stream Processing Engines and Architectures Tutorial-3(part II) Industry and Applications 3E-commerce, Search and Feature Engineering Sponsor Talk 1 Demo A TKDE A + Posters 13:30-15:00
Day 3: Wednesday, May 6
Time Av. Duluth Rue McGill Rue Sherbrooke Rue Mansfield Rue Crescent Rue Saint-Denis Av. Van-Horne Rue Notre-Dame Av. Laurier Av. Viger
8:00 - 8:30 Morning Coffee
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 2
Place du Canada
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
10:00 - 12:00 Research 15NL2SQL: Methods and Architectures Research 16Spatial Queries, Road Networks and Indexing Research 17Learned Models for Query Optimization... Research 18Log Analytics, Anomaly Detection... Research 19Graph Neural Networks, Knowledge Graph... Tutorial-2 Industry and Applications 4Scalable Data Systems and Infrastructure Lightning Talks Demo B TKDE B + Posters 15:30-17:00
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Square Dorchester, Parc Mont-Royal A-C
13:30 - 15:00 Executive & Awards Session
Place du Canada
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
15:30 - 17:00 DEI PanelNow What? Building Your Research Career After the PhD
(Moderator: Sujaya Maiyya)		 Research 20Dense Subgraph and Core Decomposition Research 21LLM-Assisted and AI-Augmented Query Processing Research 22Time Series Cleaning and Imputation Research 23Differential Privacy and Local Privacy Mechanisms Tutorial-4 Industry and Applications 5Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Sponsor Talk 2 10:00-12:00 Posters + PhD Symposium Posters
19:00 - 22:00 Banquet
Place du Canada and AV. Laurier
Day 4: Thursday, May 7
Time Av. Duluth Rue McGill Rue Sherbrooke Rue Mansfield Rue Crescent Rue Saint-Denis Av. Van-Horne Rue Notre-Dame Av. Laurier Av. Viger
8:00 - 8:30 Morning Coffee
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 3
Place du Canada
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
10:00 - 12:00 Research 24Vector Databases, Embeddings and ML Data Infrastructure Research 25Community Search on Diverse Graph Types Research 26Tabular Data, Community Search and Knowledge Discovery Research 27Sketches, Approximate Queries and Data Streams Research 28Transaction Management, Distributed Storage and Serverless Tutorial-5 Data Engineering Future Technologies (DEFT) 15:30-17:00 Posters
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Square Dorchester, Parc Mont-Royal A-C
13:30 - 15:00 Research 29GPU-Accelerated and Hardware-Optimized Query Processing Research 30NL2SQL: Systems, Evaluation and Benchmarking Research 31Graph Pattern Matching, Hypergraphs and Subgraph Queries Research 32Graph-Based RAG, Queries and Entity Tasks Research 33Explainability, Fairness and Trust in Data Systems Tutorial-6 Industry and Applications 6Large-Scale ML Systems and Data Science Applications 10:00-12:00 Posters
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
15:30 - 17:00 PanelHow should databases be taught in the future?
(Moderator: Andy Pavlo)		 Research 34Dynamic Graphs and Temporal Graph Processing Research 35Learned Data Systems and AI-Driven Analysis Research 36Time Series and Temporal Data Analysis Research 37Secure Query Processing and Access Control Tutorial-7 Industry and Applications 7Hardware-Accelerated Search, Compression and Data Integration 13:30-15:00 Posters
Day 5: Friday, May 8
Time Av. Duluth Rue McGill Rue Sherbrooke Rue Mansfield Rue Crescent Rue Saint-Denis Av. Van-Horne Rue Notre-Dame Av. Laurier Av. Viger
8:00 - 8:30 Morning Coffee
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 4
Place du Canada
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
10:00 - 12:00 Research 38Storage Management and LSM-tree Systems Research 39Trajectory, POI Recommendation and Spatial Crowdsourcing Research 40Spatiotemporal Forecasting, Urban Analytics and Recommendations Research 41Table Question Answering and Discovery HTAPS KDE + LLM Data-Driven Smart Cities DBML 13:30-15:00 Posters
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Square Dorchester, Parc Mont-Royal A-C
13:30 - 15:00 Research 42AI-Powered Querying and RAG Systems Research 43Spatial Graphs and Road Network Analytics Research 44Distributed Storage, Consensus and Infrastructure Research 45Knowledge Graph Completion and Reasoning HTAPS KDE + LLM Data-Driven Smart Cities DBML 10:00-12:00 Posters
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Convention Level Foyer and Parc Mont-Royal A-C
15:30 - 17:00 HTAPS Data-Driven Smart Cities