The Department of Computer Science is organizing the 16th North East Database (NEDB) Day on our beautiful campus of UMass Boston on January 16, 2026! Our Assistant Professor, Tarikul Islam Papon, is the lead organizer. NEDB Day is an all-day conference-style event where participants from the research community and industry in the northeast region of North America can come together to present ideas and discuss their research and experiences. This includes talks throughout the day, keynotes, as well as a poster session in the afternoon. NEDB Day is the largest regional database-focused event of its kind and typically attracts 150–170 participants, including faculty members, graduate students, and industry researchers. While many attendees come from Massachusetts institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and BU, the event also draws participants from nearly all major universities in the region—including Yale, Brown, Columbia, NYU, Rochester, Stony Brook, Penn State, and UPenn—as well as top industry organizations such as Google, Microsoft Research, Intel, Meta, Oracle, InfluxDB, and CockroachDB. If you plan to attend, you can register anytime here. Registration fee is $25 for students and $100 for others.

Time: January 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM Eastern Time

Location: UMass Boston – Campus Center Ballroom

Website: https://nedbday.github.io/2026/

Keynote Speakers: Ippokratis Pandis (Databricks), Nesime Tatbul (Intel, MIT) and Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania)

Registration: https://commerce.cashnet.com/COMPSCIpay