IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE) is one of the leading international research conferences in the field of data management and data engineering. It is organized annually by IEEE and brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to present and discuss advances in the design, implementation, and use of data-intensive systems.
ICDE focuses on the technologies and principles needed to manage, process, and analyze data at scale. Typical research areas include:
- Database systems and architectures
- Query processing and optimization
- Transaction processing and concurrency control
- Distributed and cloud data management
- Data integration and data quality
- Knowledge graphs and graph databases
- Data mining and analytics
- Machine learning for data management
- AI-assisted database systems and retrieval
- Data privacy, security, and governance
- Stream processing and real-time analytics
- Storage systems and indexing
- Benchmarking and performance evaluation
- Data management for scientific, enterprise, and web applications
The conference typically includes:
- Peer-reviewed research paper presentations.
- Industrial papers describing real-world systems and deployments.
- Demonstrations of new data management technologies.
- Tutorials on emerging topics.
- Workshops focused on specialized research areas.
- Keynote talks from leading researchers and industry experts.
- Panels discussing future directions of data engineering.
ICDE is widely regarded as one of the top-tier conferences in data management, alongside conferences such as ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data and International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. Publications accepted to ICDE undergo a highly competitive peer-review process and are considered influential in both academia and industry.
The conference attracts participants from universities, research institutes, and companies developing database technologies, cloud platforms, AI systems, and large-scale data infrastructure, making it an important venue for sharing advances that shape the future of data engineering.
Past Conferences
ICDE has been held annually since its inception, with the first edition taking place in Los Angeles in 1984. The table below lists every edition, most recent first.
Note on links: Each edition links to its official conference website where that site is still online. Where the original site is no longer available, the link points to the archived proceedings record maintained by the DBLP computer science bibliography (dblp.org). Full proceedings for every edition are also available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.