Every year, one researcher is invited to give the keynote talk at PODS, as a recognition of his/her outstanding contribution to database theory. Here we provide a list of the PODS keynote speakers since 1992.
- 2024
- Marcelo Arenas : A Data Management Approach to Explainable AI
- 2023
- Jure Leskovec : Databases as Graphs: Predictive Queries for Declarative Machine Learning
- 2022
- Frank Neven: Robustness Against Read Committed: a Free Transactional Lunch
- 2021
- Rajeev Alur: Synchronization Schemas [video]
- 2020
- Martin Grohe: Towards a Theory of Vector Embeddings of Structured Data
- 2019
- Cynthia Dwork: Differential Privacy and the US Census
- 2018
- Michael Benedikt: How Can Reasoners Simplify Database Querying (And Why Haven’t They Done It Yet)?
- 2017
- Susan Davidson: Data Citation: a Computational Challenge
- 2016
- Moshe Y. Vardi: A Theory of Regular Queries
- 2015
- Michael I. Jordan: Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and “Big Data”
- 2014
- Leonid Libkin: Incomplete Data: What Went Wrong, and How to Fix It
- 2013
- Diego Calvanese: Foundations of data-aware process analysis: a database theory perspective
- 2012
- Surajit Chaudhuri: What Next? A Half-Dozen Data Management Research Goals for Big Data and Cloud
- 2011
- Tova Milo: A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)
- 2010
- Joe Hellerstein: Datalog Redux: Experience and Conjecture
- 2009
- Raghu Ramakrishnan: A Web of Concepts
- 2008
- Peter Buneman: Curated Databases
- 2007
- Dan Suciu: Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges
- 2006
- Alon Y. Halevy: Principles of Dataspace Systems
- 2005
- Phokion G. Kolaitis: Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management
- 2004
- Georg Gottlob: The Lixto Data Extraction Project – Back and Forth between Theory and Practice
- 2003
- Richard Hull: E-services: A Look Behind the Curtain
- 2002
- Rajeev Motwani: Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
- 2001
- Victor Vianu: A Web Odyssey: From Codd to XML
- 2000
- Prabhakar Raghavan: The Web as a Graph
- 1999
- Serge Abiteboul: On Views and XML
- 1998
- Ronald Fagin: Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems
- 1997
- Abraham Silberschatz: Multimedia Support for Databases
- 1996
- Alfred V. Aho: Accessing Information from Globally Distributed Knowledge Repositories
- 1995
- Christos H. Papadimitriou: Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries
- 1994
- David Harel: Will I be Pretty, Will I be Rich? Some Thoughts on Theory vs. Practice in Systems Engineering
- 1993
- David Maier: A Call to Order
- 1992
- Catriel Beeri: New Data Models and Languages – the Challenge