In 2025, both top-tier database conferences will be in Europe: SIGMOD in Berlin (June 22–27) and VLDB in London (September 1–5). There are quite a few papers and satellite events I am looking forward to – I listed them below.

SIGMOD 2025

The papers presented at SIGMOD are listed on the website: research track, industry track.

Update: the detailed programme is out!

Keynotes:

  • How to Build a Brain by Christos H. Papadimitriou
  • The Case for Collaboration (Everything a Database Person really needs to know about Machine Learning) by Margo Seltzer
  • Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research by Phil Bernstein

Graphs

Benchmarks

Misc

VLDB 2025

Satellite events

Papers

The papers presented will be published in PVLDB’s Volume 18, which is being filled up on a rolling basis: