Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2022 Report
Sihem Amer-Yahia
(1)
,
Divyakant Agrawal
(2)
,
Yael Amsterdamer
(3)
,
Sourav Bhowmick
,
Angela Bonifati
(4, 5, 6)
,
Renata Borovica-Gajic
(7)
,
Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez
(8)
,
Barbara Catania
(9)
,
Panos Chrysanthis
(10)
,
Carlo Curino
(11)
,
Jérôme Darmont
(12)
,
Gillian Dobbie
,
Amr El Abbadi
(13)
,
Avrilia Floratou
(11)
,
Juliana Freire
(14)
,
Alekh Jindal
,
Vana Kalogeraki
(15)
,
Sujaya Maiyya
(13)
,
Alexandra Meliou
(16)
,
Madhulika Mohanty
(17)
,
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani
,
Fatma Özcan
,
Liat Peterfreund
,
Wenny Rahayu
,
Shazia Sadiq
,
Sana Sellami
,
Utku Sirin
,
Wang-Chiew Tan
,
Bhavani Thuraisingham
,
Yuanyuan Tian
,
Pinar Tözün
,
Genoveva Vargas-Solar
(5)
,
Neeraja Yadwadkar
,
Victor Zakhary
,
Meihui Zhang
1
LIG -
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
2 CS-UCSB - Department of Computer Science [Santa Barbara]
3 Bar-Ilan University [Israël]
4 UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
5 BD - Base de Données
6 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information
7 University of Melbourne
8 Hortonworks Inc.
9 UniGe - Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa
10 PITT - University of Pittsburgh
11 Microsoft Corporation [Redmond, Wash.]
12 ERIC - Entrepôts, Représentation et Ingénierie des Connaissances
13 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
14 NYU - New York University [New York]
15 AUEB - Athens University of Economics and Business
16 UMass Amherst - University of Massachusetts [Amherst]
17 CEDAR - Analyse et traitement de données complexes à grande échelle
2 CS-UCSB - Department of Computer Science [Santa Barbara]
3 Bar-Ilan University [Israël]
4 UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
5 BD - Base de Données
6 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information
7 University of Melbourne
8 Hortonworks Inc.
9 UniGe - Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa
10 PITT - University of Pittsburgh
11 Microsoft Corporation [Redmond, Wash.]
12 ERIC - Entrepôts, Représentation et Ingénierie des Connaissances
13 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
14 NYU - New York University [New York]
15 AUEB - Athens University of Economics and Business
16 UMass Amherst - University of Massachusetts [Amherst]
17 CEDAR - Analyse et traitement de données complexes à grande échelle
Sourav Bhowmick
- Function : Author
Gillian Dobbie
- Function : Author
Alekh Jindal
- Function : Author
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani
- Function : Author
Fatma Özcan
- Function : Author
Liat Peterfreund
- Function : Author
Wenny Rahayu
- Function : Author
Shazia Sadiq
- Function : Author
Sana Sellami
- Function : Author
Utku Sirin
- Function : Author
Wang-Chiew Tan
- Function : Author
Bhavani Thuraisingham
- Function : Author
Yuanyuan Tian
- Function : Author
Pinar Tözün
- Function : Author
Genoveva Vargas-Solar
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 7250
- IdHAL : genoveva-vargas-solar
- ORCID : 0000-0001-9545-1821
- IdRef : 113038569
Neeraja Yadwadkar
- Function : Author
Victor Zakhary
- Function : Author
Meihui Zhang
- Function : Author
Abstract
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative started as the Diversity/Inclusion initiative in 2020 [4]. The current report summarizes our activities in 2022. Our responsibility as a community is to ensure that attendees of DB conferences feel included, irrespective of their scientific perspective and personal background. One of the first steps was to establish the role of the DEI chairs at DB Conferences, with the DEI team dedicated to providing leadership to help our community achieve this goal. In this leadership role, the DEI team is advising DEI chairs at DB conferences, serving as a memory of DEI events at conferences, building an agreed-upon vision, and committing to working together to devise a set of measures for achieving DEI. That is pursued via actions led by our core members (Figure 1) and liaisons of individual executive bodies (Figure 2): REACH OUT collects data and experiences from our community. INCLUDE monitors and recommends inclusion efforts. ORGANIZE focuses on in-conference organization efforts, such as adopting a code of conduct. INFORM communicates through various channels. SUPPORT coordinates DEI support from executive bodies and sponsors. SCOUT collates DEI efforts from other communities. COORDINATE manages all actions. Two new actions: MEDIA preserves and disseminates the digital media produced by DEI@DB events. ETHICS establishes and promotes ethics guidelines for publications in our community.
