Special Track Evangelist C> Mohan    

Updated 13 March 2023


Special Track at ICDE 2023

At the 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2023), which will be held in Anaheim (USA) during 3-7 April 2023, the organizers have introduced an innovation called Special Track which is different from the usual Research Track, and Industry and Applications Track. I, C. Mohan, have been tasked with evangelizing this novel track. Hence the creation of this web page.

The page Special Track Call for Papers, gives a detailed explanation of the rationale behind the introduction of this track and the types of papers that the track is targeted for. The organizers managed to line up a Program Committee with numerous eminent people, as can be seen in the list below. One indication of the PC's eminence is the fact that out of the 21 members, 10 of us (bold faced in the list below) are winners of the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, with 2 of the 10 also being Turing Award winners!  



ICDE2023 Special Track Program Committee

9 papers were selected for presentation in this track and they will be presented in 2 plenary sessions.The details of those 2 sessions are shown below.


In each session, after the papers are presented, there will be a panel discussion involving the authors of the corresponding papers. The first session will be moderated by Sharad Mehrotra and the second session will be moderated by me. The panelists might not necessarily be the presenters. The first session's panel is also being held, in the context of his upcoming retirement, as a celebration of Mike Carey's contributions to database research and the community. Stay tuned for more details to be posted.

I would like to invite all the attendees of ICDE2023 to be present in the audience for the above two plenary sessions. You can contribute to making the special track a successful one by engaging actively with the speakers and the panelists of the track. Collectively, if we make the 2023 Special Track a successful one, it might become a permanent feature of future ICDE conferences. The overarching goal is to improve the stature/prestige of the ICDE conference series as a whole!