Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2022 Report

Sihem Amer-Yahia, Divyakant Agrawal, Yael Amsterdamer, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez, Barbara Catania, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Carlo Curino, Jérôme Darmont, Gillian Dobbie, Amr El Abbadi, Avrilia Floratou, Juliana Freire, Alekh Jindal, Vana Kalogeraki, Sujaya Maiyya, Alexandra Meliou, Madhulika MohantyBehrooz 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, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Victor Zakhary, Meihui Zhang

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalSIGMOD Rec.
Volume52
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)38-42
Number of pages5
ISSN0163-5808
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Diversity
  • Equity
  • Inclusion
  • Community Engagement
  • Conference Management

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