Outreach initiative

Starting in 2021, the Data Management community begins an integrated effort to promote broadening participation of our professional activities. MDM 2026 participates in this effort (alongside SIGMOD, VLDB, SoCC, ICDE, and EDBT/ICDT), which celebrates the diversity in our community and welcomes everyone regardless of age, sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, work experience, etc. It also welcomes people and opinions of all political persuasions, as long as they abide by the ACM policy against hate speech and harassment. Specific information can be found on the following dedicated website: https://dbdni.github.io/

As part of these activities, we host a keynote speech by Dr. Georgia Koutrika, Research Director at the Athena Research Center.

We will also support the participation of selected students and young researchers in the conference: Please apply to the Call for Outreach grants here

Outreach Keynote

Georgia Koutrika

Title to be announced

Short Bio: Dr. Georgia Koutrika is Research Director at the Athena Research Center in Greece. Prior to that, she had more than 15 years of experience in multiple roles at HP Labs, IBM Almaden, and Stanford. Her work focuses on interactive and intelligent data exploration and data management systems and combines advanced data analysis, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques. Her work has been incorporated into commercial products, described in 14 granted patents and 26 patent applications in the US and worldwide, and published in more than 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals.

Georgia is an ACM Senior Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. She is a member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees and a member of the ACM-RAISE Working Group. She is co-EiC for the VLDB Journal, PC co-chair for VLDB 2023, and co-EiC of the Proceedings of the VLDB (PVLDB). She has served or serves as associate editor for top conferences (such as ACM SIGMOD and VLDB) and journals (TKDE and VLDB Journal), as well as in various organization roles, including EDBT 2023 and ICDE 2021 sponsorship chair and general chair for ACM SIGMOD 2016.