CIDR 2026: Call for Papers

Overview

The annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is a systems-oriented conference, complementary in its mission to the mainstream database conferences like SIGMOD and VLDB, emphasizing the systems architecture perspective. CIDR gathers researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas in the field.

We invite contributions on novel approaches to data management systems, architecture, and usage including cloud based systems for data processing as well as related system issues such as data storage, networking, hardware acceleration, custom processors, memory hierarchies, processor interconnects, etc. in the context of data processing. We also encourage new approaches to data management and system building based on or in support of ML/AI technologies. CIDR encourages contributions about innovative and risky data management system architecture ideas, systems-building experience and insights, resourceful experimental studies, and provocative position statements. CIDR especially values innovation, experience-based insight, and vision.

Contribution Types

CIDR 2026 invites two kinds of contributions:

• Papers (at most 6 pages). We invite both regular research papers and more visionary papers that promote interesting ideas and ongoing work.
• Demos (a video or a description of the demo in at most 6 pages).

To encourage authors to submit only their best work, each person can be an author or co-author of at most one submission of any kind. Authors who feel their work is best captured through a demo should submit a demo proposal. Demos and papers will be interweaved in a single-tracked program.

Important Dates

(all deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific Time)

• August 5th, 2025: submission deadline for all contributions
• October 6th, 2025: author notification for all contributions
• January 18-21, 2026: conference

Submission

• Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to CMT.
• Conference submissions must be formatted using the double-column ACM sigconf style (see the ACM Template), and must not exceed 6 pages in length including all references and appendix.
• Videos can be submitted in HTML or MPEG format.
• Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee, who will select the final program in co-operation with the organizing committee.
• At least one author of an accepted paper or demo will be expected to attend the conference in person to present the paper.

Camera-Ready Guidelines

Camera-ready papers need to follow the formatting instructions above. Additionally, they need to include the following copyright notice at the bottom left of the first page:

This paper is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license. Authors reserve their rights to disseminate the work on their personal and corporate Web sites with the appropriate attribution, provided that you attribute the original work to the authors and CIDR 2026. 16th Annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '26). January 18-21, 2026, Chaminade, USA.

• This LaTeX style file (cidr-2026.cls) and this Word template file (pubform-CIDR2026.docx) include the copyright notice. We recommend that you use them. Both will display the copyright notice.

Diversity and Inclusion

As a large scientific and technical community that has a direct impact on many people from different backgrounds around the world, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are crucial for the data management community. Please refer to D&I in DB for the details of the coordinated D&I efforts across our community. Paper writing can make a material difference. So, we would like to strongly plead with the authors to follow the D&I writing instructions when drafting the paper submissions.