PODS is run by the Executive Committee, which consists of the current and past two General Chairs and the current and past two Program Committee Chairs. The Executive Committee appoints the Program Committee Chair (two years in advance) and the General Chair. It also chooses the invited keynote speaker for the following conference. The General Chair is appointed for two years.
PODS Executive Committee: Floris Geerts (chair), Pablo Barcelo, Leonid Libkin, Hung Q. Ngo, Reinhard Pichler, Dan Suciu.
The PODS Advisory Board comprises members of the database community who advise the PODS Executive Committee on strategic directions the conference should follow.
PODS Advisory Board: Molham Aref, Wim Martens, Dan Olteanu, Liat Peterfreund, Cristian Riveros, Sudeepa Roy.
| YEAR | LOCATION, DATE | GENERAL CHAIR | PROGRAM CHAIR |
| 2025 | Berlin, Germany, June 22-27 | Floris Geerts | Benny Kimelfeld |
| 2024 | Santiago, Chile, June 9-15 | Floris Geerts | Wim Martens | 2023 | Seattle, Washington, June 18-23 | Floris Geerts | Hung Ngo |
| 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 12-17 | L. Libkin | Pablo Barceló |
| 2021 | Xi’an, China, June 20-25 | L. Libkin | R. Pichler |
| 2020 | Portland, Oregon, June 14-19 | D. Suciu | Y. Tao |
| 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 30 – July 5 | D. Suciu | C. Koch |
| 2018 | Houston, Texas, June 10 – June 15 | J. Van den Bussche | M. Arenas |
| 2017 | Chicago, Illinois, May 14 – May 19 | J. Van den Bussche | F. Geerts |
| 2016 | San Francisco, California, June 26 – July 1 | T. Milo | W. C. Tan |
| 2015 | Melbourne, Australia, May 31 – June 4 | T. Milo | D. Calvanese |
| 2014 | Snowbird, Utah, June 22-27 | R. Hull | M. Grohe |
| 2013 | New York, June 22-27 | R. Hull | W. Fan |
| 2012 | Scottsdale, Arizona, May 20-25 | M. Lenzerini | M. Benedikt |
| 2011 | Athens, Greece, June 13-15 | M. Lenzerini | T. Schwentick |
| 2010 | Indianapolis, IN, June 6-11 | J. Paredaens | D. Van Gucht |
| 2009 | Providence, RI, June 29 – July 2 | J. Paredaens | J. Su |
| 2008 | Vancouver, Canada, June 9-11 | P. Kolaitis | M. Lenzerini |
| 2007 | Beijing, China, June 11-13 | P. Kolaitis | L. Libkin |
| 2006 | Chicago, IL, June 26-29 | G. Gottlob | J. Van den Bussche |
| 2005 | Baltimore, MA, June 13-15 | G. Gottlob | F. Afrati |
| 2004 | Paris, France, June 14-16 | C. Beeri | D. Suciu |
| 2003 | San Diego, CA, June 9-12 | C. Beeri | T. Milo |
| 2002 | Madison, WI, June 2-4 | S. Abiteboul | P. G. Kolaitis |
| 2001 | Santa Barbara, CA, May 21-23 | S. Abiteboul | P. Buneman |
| 2000 | Dallas, TX, May 14-16 | V. Vianu | G. Gottlob |
| 1999 | Philadelphia, PA, May 31-June 2 | V. Vianu | C. Papadimitriou |
| 1998 | Seattle, WA, June 1-3 | A. Mendelzon | J. Paredaens |
| 1997 | Tucson, AZ, May 12-14 | A. Mendelzon | Z. M. Ozsoyoglu |
| 1996 | Montreal, Canada, June 3-5 | P.C. Kanellakis (M. Yannakakis, acting) |
R. Hull |
| 1995 | San Jose, CA, May 22-25 | M. Yannakakis | S. Abiteboul |
| 1994 | Minneapolis, MN, May 24-26 | M. Yannakakis | V. Vianu |
| 1993 | Washington, DC, May 25-28 | M.Y. Vardi | C. Beeri |
| 1992 | San Diego, CA | M. Y. Vardi | P.C. Kanellakis |
| 1991 | Denver, CO, May 29-31 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | A. Mendelzon |
| 1990 | Nashville, TN, April 2-4 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | Y. Sagiv |
| 1989 | Philadelphia. PA, March 29-31 | A. Silberschatz | A.K. Chandra |
| 1988 | Austin, TX, March 21-23 | A. Silberschatz | M. Yannakakis |
| 1987 | San Diego, CA, March 23-25 | A.K. Chandra | M.Y. Vardi |
| 1986 | Cambridge, MA, March 24-26 | A.K. Chandra | A. Silberschatz |
| 1985 | Portland, OR, March 25-27 | S. Ginsburg | J.D. Ullman |
| 1984 | Waterloo, Canada, April 2-4 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | R. Fagin |
| 1983 | Atlanta, GA, March 21-23 | R. Fagin | P. A. Bernstein |
| 1982 | Los Angeles, CA,March 29-31 | J.D. Ullman | A.V. Aho |
Program Committee Statistics
- A total of 292 people served on PODS PCs from 1982 to 2020.
- On average, someone who served on a PODS PC served on 2.22 committees.
- The smallest PODS PC had 8 members (1982) and the largest 25 members (2020).
- Most people have served in one PC (153) or two PCs (50).
The people that have served most often in a PODS PC are:
| 9 | times: | Dan Suciu, Jan Van den Bussche. |
| 8 | times: | Alin Deutsch, Moshe Y. Vardi. |
| 7 | times: | Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Jianwen Su, Victor Vianu, Marcelo Arenas, Mihalis Yannakakis. |
| 6 | times: | Catriel Beeri, Diego Calvanese, Frank Neven, Graham Cormode, Leonid Libkin, Luc Segoufin, Martin Grohe, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Thomas Schwentick, Wenfei Fan. |
| 5 | times: | Alberto O. Mendelzon, Christos Faloutsos, Dirk Van Gucht, Foto N. Afrati, Heikki Mannila, Jeff Naughton, Limsoon Wong, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Ronald Fagin, Sudipto Guha, Thomas Eiter, Tova Milo, Yufei Tao, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu. |
Program Committees
2025
Benny Kimelfeld (chair), Andreas Pieris, Balder Ten Cate, Bas Ketsman, Batya Kenig, Brecht Vandevoort, Carsten Lutz, Cristian Riveros, Cristina Sirangelo, Dan Suciu, David Woodruff, Giuseppe Persiano, Jef Wijsen, Mahmoud Abo-Khamis, Marcelo Arenas, Mikaël Monet, Nicole Schweikardt, Nikolaos Tziavelis, Omri Ben-Eliezer, Peter Lindner, Pierre Bourhis, Sara Cohen, Sebastian Skritek, Szymon Toruńczyk, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Zhewei Wei
2024
Wim Martens (chair), Christoph Berkholz, Marco Calautti, Nofar Carmeli, Victor Dalmau, Paolo Guagliardo, Xiao Hu, Rajesh Jayaram, Ester Livshits, Kuldeep S. Meel, Victor Marsault, Filip Murlak, Jelani Nelson, Liat Peterfreund, Juan Reutter, Sebastian Rudolph, Atri Rudra, Emanuel Sallinger, Francesco Silvestri, Yufei Tao, Uri Stemmer, Stijn Vansummeren, Victor Vianu, Ke Yi, Thomas Zeume
2023
Hung Ngo (chair), Meghyn Bienvenu, Nofar Carmeli, Hubie Chen, Marco Console, Xiao Hu, Bas Ketsman, Benny Kimelfeld, Phokion Kolaitis, Paris Koutris, Andrew McGregor, Stefan Mengel, Dan Olteanu, Reinhard Pichler, Andreas Pieris, Miao Qiao, Cristian Riveros, Miguel Romero Orth, Atri Rudra, Domagoj Vrgoc, Jef Wijsen, David Woodruff, Qin Zhang
2022
Pablo Barcelo (chair), Hubert Chan, Marco Console, Wojciech Czerwiński, Cristina Feier, Floris Geerts, Ismail Ilkan Ceylan, Aidan Hogan, Xi He, Xiao Hu, Rajesh Jayaram, Batya Kenig, Roman Kontchakov, Paolo Guagliardo, Ester Livshits, Stefan Mengel, Mikael Monet, Miguel Romero, Atri Rudra, Babak Salimi, Thomas Schwentick, Yufei Tao, Ali Vakilian, Victor Vianu, Thomas Zeume
2021
Reinhard Pichler (chair), Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Marcelo Arenas, Sepehr Assadi, Marco Calautti, Hubie Chen, Edith Cohen, Claire David, Alin Deutsch, Diego Figueira, Martin Grohe, Yazmin Angélica Ibáñez-García, Batya Kenig, Daniel Kifer, Jerzy Marcinkowski, Frank Neven, Matthias Niewerth, Rasmus Pagh, Liat Peterfreund, Juan Reutter, Thomas Schwentick, Pierre Senellart, Srikanta Tirthapura, Martín Ugarte
2020
Yufei Tao (chair), Foto N. Afrati, Pablo Barcelo, Pierre Bourhis, Vladimir Braverman, Jan Van den Bussche, Graham Cormode, Ronald Fagin, Diego Figueira, Floris Geerts, Bas Ketsman, Benny Kimelfeld, Paris Koutris, Kasper Green Larsen, Wim Martens, Filip Murlak, Hung Q. Ngo, Magdalena Ortiz, Andreas Pieris, Cristian Riveros, Sudeepa Roy, Nicole Schweikardt, Dan Suciu, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
2019
Cristoph Koch (chair), Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Pablo Barcelo, Michael Bender, Angela Bonifati, Pierre Bourhis, Diego Calvanese, Rada Chirkova, Alin Deutsch, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Minos Garofalakis, Daniel Kifer, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Michael Kapralov, Frank Neven, Hung Q. Ngo, Dan Olteanu, Emanuel Sallinger, Francesco Scarcello, Pierre Senellart, Jianwen Su, Yufei Tao, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht
2018
Marcelo Arenas (chair), Edith Cohen, Sara Cohen, Graham Cormode, Arnaud Durand, Ronald Fagin, Francois Goasdoue, Sudipto Guha, Daniel Kifer, Paris Koutris, Domenico Lembo, Nicola Leone, Carsten Lutz, Wim Martens, Marco Montali, Hung Q. Ngo, Magdalena Ortiz, Rasmus Pagh, Andreas Pieris, Sudeepa Roy, Francesco Scarcello, Srikanta Tirthapura, Domagoj Vrgoc, Ke Yi
2017
Floris Geerts (chair), Leopoldo Bertossi, Meghyn Bienvenu, Angela Bonifati, Andrea Calì, Rada Chirkova, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Ting Deng, Diego Figueira, Georg Gottlob, Paris Koutris, Andrew McGregor, Gerome Miklau, Jeff M. Phillips, Andreas Pieris, Juan L. Reutter, Thomas Schwentick, Francesco Silvestri, Yufei Tao, Stijn Vansummeren, Jef Wijsen, Qin Zhang
2016
Wang-Chiew Tan (chair), Pankaj Agarwal, Marcelo Arenas, Michael Benedikt, Graham Cormode, Claire David, Daniel Deutch, Alin Deutsch, Wenfei Fan, Enrico Franconi, André Hernich, Kobbi Nissim, Christopher Ré, Sudeepa Roy, Pierre Senellart, Cristina Sirangelo, Slawek Staworko, Dan Suciu, Kunal Talwar, Yufei Tao, Jan Van den Bussche, David Woodruff
2015
Diego Calvanese (chair), Peyman Afshani, Edith Cohen, Cynthia Dwork, Minos Garofalakis, Lukasz Golab, Gianluigi Greco, Benny Kimelfeld, Leonid Libkin, Carsten Lutz, Ioana Manolescu, Yakov Nekrich, Dan Olteanu, Jeff M. Philips, Reinhard Pichler, Riccardo Rosati, Mantas Simkus, Cristina Sirangelo, Jianwen Su, Yannis Theodoridis, Stijn Vansummeren, Rossano Venturini, Limsoon Wong
2014
Martin Grohe (chair), Serge Abiteboul, Pablo Barcelo, Andrea Cali, Sara Cohen, Dario Colazzo, Clair David, Daniel Deutch, Thomas Eiter, Alexendre Evfimievski, Roberto Grossi, Sudipto Guha, André Hernich, David Karger, Kristian Kersting, Jure Leskovec, Sebastian Maneth, Gabriele Puppis, Dan Suciu, Tony Tan, Wang-Chiew Tan, Yufei Tao, Jan Van den Bussche, Ke Yi
2013
Wenfei Fan (chair), Marcelo Arenas, Leo Bertossi, Diego Calvanese, Alin Deutsch, Daniel Deutch, Floris Geerts, Benny Kimelfeld, Maurizio Lenzerini, Wim Martens, Andrew McGregor, Frank McSherry, Frank Neven, Jorge Perez, Reinhard Pichler, Francesco Scarcello, Nicole Schweikardt, Thomas Schwentick, Peter Widmayer, Ryan Williams, David Woodruff
2012
Michael Benedikt (chair), Mikhail Atallah, Toon Calders, Diego Calvanese, James Cheney, Graham Cormode, Alin Deutsch, Gianluigi Greco, Todd J. Green, Martin Grohe, Marc Gyssens, T.S. Jayram, Daniel Kifer, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Rasmus Pagh, Luc Segoufin, Pierre Senellart, Sophie Tison, Victor Vianu, David Woodruff
2011
Thomas Schwentick (chair), Sara Cohen, Alin Deutsch, Thomas Eiter, Wenfei Fan, Sudipto Guha, Claudio Gutierez, Peter Haas, Ravi Kumar, Domenico Lembo, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Filip Murlak, Dan Olteanu, Rafail Ostrovsky, Cristina Sirangelo, Stijn Vansummeren, Gerhard Weikum, Peter Widmayer, Ke Yi
2010
Dirk Van Gucht (chair), Pankaj K. Agarwal, Marcelo Arenas, Mikhail Atallah, Henrik Björklund, Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Rada Chirkova, Graham Cormode, Jan Hidders, Benny Kimelfeld, Tova Milo, Jeffrey Naughton, Lucian Popa, Riccardo Rosati, Dan Suciu, Val Tannen, Jan Van den Bussche, Stijn Vansummeren, Limsoon Wong
2009
Jianwen Su (chair), Gustavo Alonso, Pablo Barcelo, Toon Calders, Andrea Cali, Anirban Dasgupta, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Michael Kifer, Wim Martens, Frank McSherry, Nina Mishra, Sunil Prabhakar, Nicole Schweikardt, Luc Segoufin, V. S. Subrahmanian, Subhash Suri, Wang-Chiew Tan, Balder ten Cate, Dirk Van Gucht, Victor Vianu
2008
Maurizio Lenzerini (chair), Serge Abiteboul, Foto Afrati, Divyakant Agrawal, Marcelo Arenas, Jan Chomicki, Graham Cormode, Alin Deutsch, Minos Garofalakis, Giorgio Ghelli, Martin Grohe, Sudipto Guha, Carsten Lutz, Maarten Marx, Anca Muscholl, Rajeev Rastogi, Riccardo Rosati, Thomas Schwentick, Jianwen Su, Dan Suciu, Val Tannen, T.S. Jayram, Yannis Theodoridis
2007
Leonid Libkin (chair), Martin Abadi, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Jose Balcazar, Yuri Breitbart, Rada Chirkova, Sara Cohen, Mariano Consens, Wenfei Fan, Martin Grohe, Sudipto Guha, Christoph Koch, Maurizio Lenzerini, Alan Nash, Jan Paredaens, Lucian Popa, Francesco Scarcello, Luc Segoufin, Peter Widmayer, Peter Wood, Limsoon Wong, Mihalis Yannakakis
2006
Jan Van den Bussche (chair), Pankaj K. Agarwal, Marcelo Arenas, Mike Atallah, Leo Bertossi, Gautam Das, Alin Deutsch, Alan Fekete, Samir Khuller, Michael Kifer, Nicola Leone, Mark Levene, Maarten Marx, Gerome Miklau, Chung Keung Poon, Yehoshua Sagiv, Michael Schwartzbach, Nicole Schweikardt, Wang-Chiew Tan, David Toman, Dirk Van Gucht, Limsoon Wong, Carlo Zaniolo
2005
Foto N. Afrati (chair), Chen Li, Christoph Koch, Diego Calvanese, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Divesh Srivastava, Frank Neven, Heikki Mannila, Jianwen Su, Jan Chomicki, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Luc Segoufin, Marie-Christine Rousset, Michel de Rougemont, Mihalis Yannakakis, Minos Garofalakis, Piotr Indyk, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Timos Sellis, Val Tannen, Yannis Papakonstantinou
2004
Dan Suciu (chair), Christos Faloutsos, Divyakant Agrawal, Frank Neven, Gottfried Vossen, Jennifer Widom, Johannes Gehrke, Jeff Naughton, Ken Ross, Luc Segoufin, Lucian Popa, Martin Grohe, Michael Benedikt, Moshe Y. Vardi, S. Muthukrishnan, Sanjeev Khanna, Thomas Eiter, Wenfei Fan, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Yossi Matias, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
2003
Tova Milo (chair), Dan Suciu, Diego Calvanese, Foto N. Afrati, Gerhard Weikum, Jan Van den Bussche, Mihalis Yannakakis, Marie-Christine Rousset, Michael Benedikt, Nick Koudas, Rajeev Motwani, Richard Hull, Surajit Chaudhuri, Timos K. Sellis, Rajeev Rastogi, Victor Vianu
2002
Phokion G. Kolaitis (chair), Catriel Beeri, Dimitrios Gunopoulos, Dan Suciu, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jeff Naughton, Ken Ross, Leonid Libkin, Nicole Bidoit, Ronald Fagin, Stéphane Grumbach, Surajit Chaudhuri, Thomas Eiter, Thomas Schwentick, Walid G. Aref
2001
Peter Buneman (chair), Amr El Abbadi, Foto N. Afrati, Frank Neven, Guillermo Alonso, Gösta Grahne, Heikki Mannila, Jianwen Su, Jennifer Widom, Luc Segoufin, Luca Cardelli, Manoj Franklin, Neil Immerman, Paolo Atzeni, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Rajeev Motwani, Richard Hull
2000
Georg Gottlob (chair), Domenico Saccà, Georg Lausen, Hans-Jörg Schek, Jan Van den Bussche, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Leonid Libkin, Maurizio Lenzerini, Moshe Y. Vardi, Richard Hull, Serge Abiteboul, Stuart Davidson, Thomas Eiter, Tova Milo, Yuri Breitbart, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
1999
Christos H. Papadimitriou (chair), Alon Y. Levy, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Catriel Beeri, Gösta Grahne, Heikki Mannila, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Joseph Hellerstein, Limsoon Wong, Mihalis Yannakakis, Prabhakar Raghavan, Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Udi Manber, Yannis E. Ioannidis
1998
Jan Paredaens (chair), Christos Faloutsos, Dan Suciu, Georg Gottlob, Gerhard Weikum, Heikki Mannila, Ken Ross, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Leonid Libkin, Moshe Y. Vardi, Rajeev Motwani
1997
Z. Meral Özsoyoglu (chair), David B. Lomet, Jan Van den Bussche, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Leonid Libkin, Peter Z. Revesz, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Raymond Ng, Tova Milo, V. S. Subrahmanian, Victor Vianu
1996
Richard Hull (chair), Allen Van Gelder, Christos Faloutsos, Divyakant Agrawal, Gabriel M. Kuper, Guozhu Dong, Heikki Mannila, Rakesh Agrawal, Tova Milo, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Yehoshua Sagiv
1995
Serge Abiteboul (chair), Alberto O. Mendelzon, Amr El Abbadi, Catriel Beeri, Christos Faloutsos, Jan Chomicki, Jennifer Widom, Jeff Naughton, Neil Immerman, Paolo Atzeni, Val Tannen
1994
Victor Vianu (chair), Dennis Shasha, Dirk Van Gucht, Georg Gottlob, Jianwen Su, Moshe Y. Vardi, Nicole Bidoit, Peter Buneman, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Richard Hull, Vassos Hadzilacos
1993
Catriel Beeri (chair), Allen Van Gelder, Edward P. F. Chan, Gerhard Weikum, Jan Paredaens, Miron Livny, Ouri Wolfson, Stavros S. Cosmadakis, Stéphane Grumbach, Walter A. Burkhard, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
1992
Paris C. Kanellakis (chair), Foto N. Afrati, Gabriel M. Kuper, Hanan Samet, Jeff Naughton, Nicole Bidoit, Rakesh Agrawal, Seymour Ginsburg, Tomasz Imielinski, Vassos Hadzilacos, William E. Weihl
1991
Alberto O. Mendelzon (chair), Amr El Abbadi, Christos Faloutsos, David Maier, Henry F. Korth, Jean-Louis Lassez, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Serge Abiteboul
1990
Yehoshua Sagiv (chair), Allen Van Gelder, C. Mohan, Doron Rotem, Michael Kifer, Paris C. Kanellakis, Richard Hull, Shamim A. Naqvi, Vassos Hadzilacos, Yannis E. Ioannidis
1989
Ashok K. Chandra (chair), Carlo Zaniolo, Catriel Beeri, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Hector Garcia-Molina, Michael Kifer, Oded Shmueli, Teodor C. Przymusinski, Victor Vianu, William E. Weihl
1988
M. Yannakakis (chair), Alberto O. Mendelzon, Dale Skeen, David Maier, Krzysztof R. Apt, Paris C. Kanellakis, Philip A. Bernstein, Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu
1987
Moshe Y. Vardi (chair), Henry F. Korth, Kari-Jouko Räihä, Mihalis Yannakakis, Paris C. Kanellakis, Per-Åke Larson, Tomasz Imielinski, Umeshwar Dayal, Yehoshua Sagiv
1986
Abraham Silberschatz (chair), Alberto O. Mendelzon, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Edward Sciore, François Bancilhon, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jim Gray, Moshe Y. Vardi, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
1985
Jeffrey D. Ullman (chair), Abraham Silberschatz, Frank Manola, H. Wong, Jim Gray, Moshe Y. Vardi, Peter J. Weinberger, Richard Hull, Steven Parker
1984
Ronald Fagin (chair), Christos H. Papadimitriou, David Maier, Jim Gray, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Moshe Y. Vardi, Nathan Goodman, Raymond Reiter
1983
Philip A. Bernstein (chair), Ashok K. Chandra, Catriel Beeri, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, J. M. Smith, Jack Minker, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Mihalis Yannakakis
1982
Alfred V. Aho (chair), C. Yu, D. J. McCleod, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, David P. Dobkin, Peter Selinger, Philip A. Bernstein, Ronald Fagin