| 2023 | Seattle, WA, USA | K. Selcuk Candan and Sihem Amer-Yahia |
| 2022 | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Angela Bonifati and Amr El Abbadi |
| 2021 | Xi’an, Shaanxi, China | Stratos Idreos and Divesh Srivastava |
| 2020 | Portland, OR, USA | AnHai Doan and Wang-Chiew Tan |
| 2019 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Anastassia Ailamaki |
| 2018 | Houston, TX, USA | Phillip A. Bernstein |
| 2017 | Chicago, IL, USA | Dan Suciu |
| 2016 | San Francisco, CA, USA | Sam Madden |
| 2015 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Susan B. Davidson |
| 2014 | Snowbird, UT, USA | M. Tamer Özsu |
| 2013 | New York, NY, USA | Dimitris Papadias |
| 2012 | Scottsdale, AZ, USA | Luis Gravano |
| 2011 | Athens, Greece | Renée J. Miller |
| 2010 | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | Divyakant Agrawal |
| 2009 | Providence, Rhode Island, USA | Donald Kossmann |
| 2008 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Dennis Shasha |
| 2007 | Beijing, China | Beng Chin Ooi |
| 2006 | Chicago, Illinois, USA | Surajit Chaudhuri |
| 2005 | Baltimore, Maryland | Jennifer Widom |
| 2004 | Paris, France | Gerhard Weikum |
| 2003 | San Diego, CA | Alon Y. Halevy |
| 2002 | Madison, WI | Michael J. Franklin |
| 2001 | Santa Barbara, CA | Timos K. Sellis, Divyakant Agrawal (Associate Chair) |
| 2000 | Dallas, TX | Jeffrey F. Naughton |
| 1999 | Philadelphia, PA | Christos Faloutsos, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (Associate Chair) |
| 1998 | Seattle, WA | Laura M. Haas |
| 1997 | Tucson, AZ | Patrick Valduriez, Henry F. Korth (Associate Chair) |
| 1996 | Montreal, Canada | H. V. Jagadish |
| 1995 | San Jose, CA | Michael J. Carey |
| 1994 | Minneapolis, MN | Richard T. Snodgrass |
| 1993 | Washington, DC | Peter Buneman |
| 1992 | San Diego, CA | Michael Stonebraker |
| 1991 | Denver, CO | Roger King |
| 1990 | Atlantic City, NJ | Hector Garcia-Molina |
| 1989 | Portland, OR | Bruce G. Lindsay (Systems and Applications), David Maier (Concepts and Algorithms) |
| 1988 | Chicago, IL | Haran Boral (Applications and Implementations), Per-Åke Larson (Concepts and Techniques) |
| 1987 | San Francisco, CA | Umeshwar Dayal (Systems and Algorithms), Irving L. Traiger (Architectures and Applications) |
| 1986 | Washington, DC | Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1985 | Austin, TX | Shamkant B. Navathe |
| 1984 | Boston, MA | Bea Yormark |
| 1983 | San Jose, CA | David J. DeWitt (U.S.), Georges Gardarin (European) |
| 1982 | Orlando, FL | Mario Schkolnick |
| 1981 | Ann Arbor, MI | Y. Edmund Lien |
| 1980 | Santa Monica, CA | Peter P. Chen |
| 1979 | Boston, MA | Philip A. Bernstein |
| 1978 | Austin, TX | Eugene I. Lowenthal |
| 1977 | Toronto, Canada | Diane C. P. Smith |
| 1976 | Washington, DC | James B. Rothnie |
| 1975 | San Jose, CA | W. Frank King |