Diversity and Inclusion in Database Conference Venues
The Data Management community is committed to the promotion of diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our professional activities. We celebrate the diversity in our community and welcome everyone regardless of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, and work experience. We also welcome people and opinions of all political persuasions, as long as they abide by the ACM policy against harassment. Our initiative coordinates D&I efforts across the data management community and includes this year’s D&I chairs of SIGMOD, VLDB, SoCC, EDBT, and ICDE.
Our Mission
Make diversity and inclusion a first class citizen in our conferences. Establish a feedback loop to better understand our standing with respect to all underrepresented groups. Ultimately, guide our community to adopt a more inclusive mindset in general toward different individuals regardless of their age, gender, gender identity, race, cultural background, religion, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, parental and marital status, etc. Discourage discriminatory behavior during events that cause certain groups to feel unwelcome. This initiative is in collaboration with VLDB DBCares following the ACM policy against harassment and processes for reporting unacceptable behavior. Our code of conduct can be found here.
Our Actions
COORDINATE This action is in charge of coordinating between core members. liaisons, and the current year's D&I chairs.
REACH OUT This action is in charge of collecting data and experiences from our community.
INCLUDE This action is in charge of monitoring and recommending all inclusion efforts.
ORGANIZE This action is in charge of in-conference organization such as code of conduct.
INFORM This action is in charge of informing our community.
SUPPORT this action if in charge of coordinating D&I support from executive bodies and sponsors.
We welcome suggestions for events, formats, changes in procedures, outreach, and other activities that promote our goals in enhancing diversity, amplifying underrepresented voices, and creating a more inclusive data management community.
Our Meetings
Meeting 4 March 19. 2021: Pre-EDBT/ICDT and ICDE: Questionnaire launch.
Meeting 3 Feb 19, 2021: Questionnaire and reach out to individual conferences.
Meeting 2 Jan 29, 2021: Webpage setup and advertisement.
Meeting 1 Dec 11, 2020: definition of ACTIONS.
People
Jump to Core Members, Liaisons, Current D&I Chairs of DB Conferences.Core Members
Sihem Amer-Yahia
Sihem is a Silver Medal CNRS Research Director at the University Grenoble Alpes. She leads the COORDINATE action at D&I in DM
Juliana Freire
Juliana is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University, and the Elected Chair of the ACM SIGMOD. She leads the SUPPORT action at D&I in DM
Arun Kumar
Arun is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He co-leads the INCLUDE action at D&I in DB
Victor Zakhary
Victor is Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, Bay Area. He co-leads the INCLUDE action at D&I in DB
Alexandra Meliou
Alexandra is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She co-leads the ORGANIZE action at D&I in DB
Wang-Chiew Tan
Wang-Chiew is a research scientist at Facebook AI. She co-leads the INFORM and ORGANIZE actions at D&I in DB
Avrilia Floratou
Avrilia is a research scientist at Microsoft, She co-leads the REACH OUT action at D&I in DB
Fatma Ozcan
Fatma is a principal research engineer at Google, She co-leads the REACH OUT action at D&I in DB
Liaisons
Juliana Freire
Juliana is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University, and the Elected Chair of the ACM SIGMOD. She serves as liaison for the SIGMOD EC
