Conferences / CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)
CIDR 2026
Jan 18–21, 2026 · Chaminade Resort & Spa, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
- Conference
- CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research) Academic
- Dates
- Jan 18, 2026 – Jan 21, 2026
- Venue
- Chaminade Resort & Spa
- Place
- Santa Cruz, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- cidrdb.org
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 40 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: every paper in the program, with the first listed author as speaker (presenting authors are not identified; CIDR tradition is that senior authors present). paper_url holds the paper PDF on cidrdb.org; slides_url only where the program links real slides. Talk titles as in the program (two differ slightly from the accepted-papers list). Conference fee paid on Eventbrite, amount not stated; Chaminade room rates (incl. meals) $1357.35 single, $929.94 shared.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 9
Other 9
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Databricks · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Google · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Meta · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Microsoft · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Oracle · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Salesforce · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- SAP · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
- Snowflake · Sponsor (CIDR Foundation multi-year sponsor)
Speakers and talks 40
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Patterson | Keynote | How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint | — | |
| Rebecca Isaacs | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Analyzing Metastable Failures | — |
| Alexander Baumstark | TU Ilmenau | Paper | Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS | Paper |
| Altan Birler | TUM | Paper | On the Vexing Difficulty of Evaluating IN Predicates | SlidesPaper |
| Amir Shaikhha | University of Edinburgh | Paper | Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries | SlidesPaper |
| Andreas Kipf | University of Technology Nuremberg | Paper | Waiting to Decompress: The Economics of LLM-Based Compression | SlidesPaper |
| Bobbi Yogatama | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Paper | Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era | SlidesPaper |
| Charlie Summers | Columbia University | Paper | Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control | Paper |
| El Kindi Rezig | University of Utah | Paper | Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation | SlidesPaper |
| Emil Houlborg | IT University of Copenhagen | Paper | Flexible I/O for Database Management Systems with xNVMe | Paper |
| Fabian Wenz | TUM | Paper | BenchPress: A Human-in-the-Loop Annotation System for Rapid Text-to-SQL Benchmark Curation | SlidesPaper |
| Guorui Xiao | University of Washington | Paper | KathDB: Explainable Multimodal Database Management System with Human-AI Collaboration | SlidesPaper |
| Hangdong Zhao | Microsoft | Paper | I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server | SlidesPaper |
| Harish Doraiswamy | Microsoft | Paper | Raster is Faster: Rethinking Ray Tracing in Database Indexing | SlidesPaper |
| Ioannis Zarkadas | Columbia | Paper | Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases | SlidesPaper |
| Jeff Shute | Paper | Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last? | Paper | |
| Jeronimo Castrillon | Technische Universität Dresden | Paper | Declarative Memory Services | SlidesPaper |
| Jiayi Liu | Purdue University | Paper | Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach | Paper |
| Jonathan Arns | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Paper | Event Horizon: Asymmetric Dependencies for Fast Geo-Distributed Operations | SlidesPaper |
| Lianggui Weng | Alibaba Cloud | Paper | BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and Databases | SlidesPaper |
| Matthew Russo | MIT | Paper | Deep Research is the New Analytics System: Towards Building the Runtime for AI-Driven Analytics | SlidesPaper |
| Michael Stonebraker | MIT | Paper | Consistency and Correctness in Data-Oriented Workflow Systems | SlidesPaper |
| Mohammad Javad Amiri | Stony Brook University | Paper | Privacy Meets Regulations: Shaping the Future of Work | SlidesPaper |
| Muhammad Imam Luthfi Balaka | University of Chicago | Paper | The Pneuma Project: Reifying Information Needs as Relational Schemas to Automate Discovery, Guide Preparation, and Align Data with Intent | SlidesPaper |
| Nat Wyatt | Salesforce | Sponsored talk | Database Engines at Salesforce | — |
| Nikita Shamgunov | Databricks | Sponsored talk | — | — |
| Pinghe Li | ETH Zurich | Paper | End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure | SlidesPaper |
| Ryan Marcus | University of Pennsylvania | Paper | Survivorship Bias in Industrial Database Workloads | SlidesPaper |
| Shu Liu | UC Berkeley | Paper | Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First | SlidesPaper |
| Tengjun Jin | UIUC | Paper | Text-to-SQL Benchmarks are Broken: An In-Depth Analysis of Annotation Errors | SlidesPaper |
| Thomas Bodner | SAP | Sponsored talk | From Tables to Data Products | — |
| Till Steinert | TUM | Paper | Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass | SlidesPaper |
| Timo Eckmann | Technical University of Darmstadt | Paper | A Vision for Autonomous Data Agent Collaboration: From Query-by-Integration to Query-by-Collaboration | SlidesPaper |
| Ugur Cetintemel | Brown University | Paper | Making Prompts First-Class Citizens for Adaptive LLM Pipelines | Paper |
| Vaibhav Arora | Salesforce | Paper | A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce | Paper |
| Victor Sanca | Oracle | Sponsored talk | The Future of Data and AI | — |
| Vivek Narasayya | Microsoft | Paper | Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More | SlidesPaper |
| Wentao Huang | National University of Singapore | Paper | Hash Joins Meet CXL: A Fresh Look | SlidesPaper |
| Wolfgang Gatterbauer | Northeastern University | Paper | Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language | SlidesPaper |
| Yi Jiang | EPFL | Paper | Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems | SlidesPaper |