51st International Conference on
Very Large Data Bases London, United Kingdom - September 1-5, 2025

VLDB 2025: Program Structure

Program last updated on 2 September 2025.

NOTE: All lunch is included in the conference/workshop registration.

Day 1 : Monday, Sept 1
Room Albert Moore Westminster St James Abbey Rutherford Wesley Registration
Floor 2F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F GF
7:30 - 8:30 Welcome Refreshments
Room: Whittle		 Registration Desk

7:30-18:30
Ground Floor
8:30 - 10:00 PHD
Workshop 1		 ADMS
Workshop 1		 AIDB  Workshop
(start at 10:15)		 LLM + Graph
Workshop 1		 QDB
Workshop 1		 TPCTC
Workshop 1		 IDSR
Workshop 1
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Room: Whittle
10:30 -12:00 PHD
Workshop 2		 ADMS
Workshop 2		 AIDB
Workshop 1		 LLM + Graph
Workshop 2		 QDB
Workshop 2		 TPCTC
Workshop 2		 IDSR
Workshop 2
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Room: Whittle
13:30 - 15:00 PHD
Workshop 3		 ADMS
Workshop 3		 AIDB
Workshop 2		 LLM + Graph
Workshop 3		 QDB
Workshop 3		 TPCTC
Workshop 3		 IDSR
Workshop 3
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Room: Whittle
15:30 - 17:00 PHD
Workshop 4		 ADMS
Workshop 4		 AIDB
Workshop 3		 LLM + Graph
Workshop 4		 QDB
Workshop 4		 TPCTC
Workshop 4		 IDSR
Workshop 4
17:00 - 19:00 Welcome Reception
Room: Britten


Day 2 : Tuesday, Sept 2
 Room Albert Victoria Fleming Burton and
Redgrave		 Moore Westminster St James Abbey Rutherford Gielgud  Olivier Wordsworth Registration
Floor 2F 2F 3F 2F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F 2F 2F 4F GF
7:30 - 8:30 Welcome Refreshments & Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten		 Registration Desk
7:30 - 16:00
Ground Floor
8:30 - 9:15 Opening Session: Welcome by VLDB 2025 General Chairs, Remarks by Program Chairs, Best Meta/Reviewer Awards, Best Paper Awards
Room: Fleming & Whittle
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote 1 (by Stratos Idreos, Harvard University) : Alphabets, Grammars, Calculators, and the End of Hand-Crafted Systems
Room: Fleming & Whittle
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
10:45 -12:15 D&I Speed-mentoring Sponsor
Talks 1		 Panel 1: Neural Relational Data: Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs... or both? Tutorial 1: Property Graph Standards: State of the Art & Open Challenges Industry 1: Distributed Systems Research 1: Cloud Data Management Research 2: Applied ML and AI for Data Management I Research 3: Vector Data Management I Research 4: Analytics over Different Data Types I Research 5: Data Cleaning and Preparation I Research 6: Graph Data Management I Research 7: Natural Language Interfaces to Data
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch
Room: Britten
13:45 - 15:15 D&I Resume Review Sponsor
Talks 2		 Panel 2: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? Tutorial 2: Filtered Vector Search: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges Industry 2: Data Platforms for Analytics Research 8: Database Engines for OLAP Research 9: Query Processing and Optimization I Research 10: Data Mining and Analytics Research 11: Graph Data Privacy, Text and Semi-Structured Data Management Research 12: Time Series Data I Research 13: Graph Data Management II Research 14: User Interfaces for Data Exploration and Explainable AI
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
15:45 - 17:15   Sponsor
Talks 3		 Poster
 Setup		 Tutorial 3: Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems Industry 3: Document, Graph, and Vector Databases Research 15: Views, Indexing, and Search I Research 16: Query Processing and Optimization II Research 17: Applied ML and AI for Data Management II Research 18: Data Privacy and Security I Research 19: Time Series Data II Research 20: Road Networks, Social Networks Research 21: Specialized and Domain-Specific Data Management
17:15 - 18:30 Poster Session
Room: Whittle, Fleming & Britten


Day 3 : Wednesday, Sept 3
 Room Albert Victoria Fleming Burton and
Redgrave		 St James Westminster Moore Abbey Rutherford Gielgud  Olivier Wordsworth Registration
Floor 2F 2F 3F 2F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F 2F 2F 4F GF
7:30 - 8:30 Welcome Refreshments & Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten		 Registration Desk
7:30 - 16:00
Ground Floor
8:30 - 9:15 VLDB Endowment Awards and Talks: Test of Time, Early Career, Women in DB Research
Room: Fleming & Whittle
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote 2 (by Juliana Freire, NYU) : Bridging Disciplines in Data Management Research to Solve Complex Data Problems
Room: Fleming & Whittle
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
10:45 -12:15 Demo
A1		 Demo
A2		 Panel 3: Beyond Incrementalism: How to Change the World Through Data Systems Research Tutorial 4: When Entity-Relationship Models Meet Graph Databases Industry 4: Machine Learning, AI, and Databases Research 22: Views, Indexing, and Search II Research 23: Applied ML and AI for Data Management III Research 24: Database Engines I Research 25: Time Series Data III Research 26: Distributed Transactions I Research 27: Graph Data Management III Research 28: Social Networks
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch
Room: Britten
13:45 - 15:15 Demo
B1		 Demo
B2		 Tutorial 5: Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries Tutorial 6: Systems for Scalable Graph Analytics and Machine Learning: Trends and Methods Industry 5: Transactions and Concurrency Control Research 29: Learned Database Systems Research 30: Information Integration and Data Quality I Research 31: Vector Data Management II Research 32: Data-centric Machine Learning Research 33: Data Stream Mining Research 34: Graph Data Management IV Research 35: Database Engines for Graphs
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
15:45 - 17:15 Demo
C1		 Demo
C2		 Poster
 Setup		 Tutorial 7: Machine Learning for Graph Data Management and Query Processing Industry 6: Database Engines Research 36: Data Cleaning and Preparation II Research 37: Applied ML and AI for Graph, Temporal, and Trajectory Data Research 38: Data Management on Novel Hardware Research 39: Analytics over Different Data Types II Research 40: Time Series and Vector Data Research 41: Graph Data Management V Research 42: Data Models and Query Languages
17:15 - 18:30 Poster Session
Room: Whittle, Fleming & Britten
19:30 - 23:00 Social Evening (Ticketed Event)
National Gallery


Day 4 : Thursday, Sept 4
 Room Albert Victoria Fleming Burton and
Redgrave		 Moore Westminster St James Abbey Rutherford Gielgud  Olivier Wordsworth Registration
Floor 2F 2F 3F 2F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F 2F 2F 4F GF
7:30 - 8:30 Welcome Refreshments & Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten		 Registration Desk
7:30 - 16:00
Ground Floor
8:30 - 9:15 VLDB Endowment Report, Best Demo Award, VLDB26 General Chair Presentation
Room: Fleming & Whittle
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote 3 (by Matei Zaharia, UC Berkeley) : Bringing the Operational and Analytical Worlds Together with Lakebase
Room: Fleming & Whittle
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
10:45 -12:15 Tutorial 8: Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization: From Batch to Streaming Systems Sponsor
Talks 4		 Panel 4: Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle Tutorial 9: Natural Language to SQL: State of the Art and Open Problems Research 43: Information Integration and Data Quality II Research 44: Database Engine Performance and Manageability I Research 45: Graph Data Learning Research 46: Vector Data Management III Research 47: Provenance and Workflows Research 48: Distributed Transactions II Research 49: Graph Data Management VI Research 50: Access Control and Privacy, Blockchain
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch
Room: Britten
13:45 - 15:15 Tutorial 10: ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization Sponsor
Talks 5		   Tutorial 11: Synthetic Tabular Data: Methods, Attacks and Defenses Research 51: Information Integration and Data Quality III Research 52: Transaction Management Research 53: Applied ML and AI for Data Management IV Research 54: Database Engines II Research 55: Spatial and Temporal Databases Research 56: Analytics over Different Data Types III Research 57: Graph Data Management VII Research 58: User Interfaces for Data Exploration and Recommender Systems
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break &  Sponsor Booths
Room: Britten
15:45 - 17:15 Tutorial 12: New Trends in Data Forgetting for Sustainable Data Management Poster
 Setup		 Tutorial 13: Database Perspective on LLM Inference Systems Research 59: Distributed and Streaming Data Processing Research 60: Database Engine Performance and Manageability II Research 61: Learned Query Optimization Research 62: Information Integration and Data Quality IV Research 63: Knowledge Graph Management Research 64: Database Engines and Architectures Research 65: Graph Data Management VIII Research 66: Access Control and Privacy II
17:15 - 18:30 Poster Session
Room: Whittle, Fleming & Britten


Day 5 : Friday, Sept 5
Room Gielgud St James Westminster Rutherford Abbey Moore
Floor 2F 4F 4F 4F 4F 4F
7:30 - 8:30 Welcome Refreshments
Room: Whittle
8:30 - 10:00 TaDA
Workshop 1		 DaSH
Workshop 1		 GuideAI
 Workshop 1		 DEC
Workshop 1		 LSGDA
Workshop 1		 CDMS
Workshop 1
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Room: Whittle
10:30 -12:00 TaDA
Workshop 2		 DaSH
Workshop 2		 GuideAI
 Workshop 2		 DEC
Workshop 2		 LSGDA
Workshop 2		 CDMS
Workshop 2
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Room: Whittle
13:30 - 15:00 LLM + Spatial Workshop 1 DaSH
Workshop 3		 DataAI
Workshop 1		 LS-NSL
Workshop 1		 LSGDA
Workshop 3		 CDMS
Workshop 3
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Room: Whittle
15:30 - 17:00 LLM + Spatial Workshop 2 DaSH
Workshop 4		 DataAI
Workshop 2		 LS-NSL
Workshop 2		 LSGDA
Workshop 4		 CDMS
Workshop 4