Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous DATA conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012
2020
Process Mining as the Superglue between Data and Process Management 
Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, Germany From Data to the Press: Data Management for Journalism and Fact-Checking Ioana Manolescu, Inria, France
2019
Overcoming the Drawbacks of Traditional Process Management Software Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany Blockchains and Enterprise Modeling: Opportunities and Challenges Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2018
Towards Interactive Data Exploration Carsten Binnig, TU Darmstadt, Germany Data-Driven Crowdsourcing Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2017
Managing Big Multidimensional Data - A Journey From Acquisition to Prescriptive Analytics Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark On Information Propagation, Social Influence, and Communities Francesco Bonchi, ISI Foundation, Italy Data-Driven Genomic Computing: Making Sense of the Signals from the Genome Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Advances and Future Challenges in Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
2016
Schema Evolution for Relational Databases Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Data Lakes: A Solution or a new Challenge for Big Data Integration? Christoph Quix, Hochschule Niederrhein, University of Applied Sciences and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
2015
Collaborative Algorithm Platforms Michele Sebag, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS, France Connecting Services to the Web of Data John Domingue, The Open University, United Kingdom The Provenance of Consumer and Social Media Data Paul Longley, University College London, United Kingdom
2014
Resource-Aware Data Analysis Katharina Morik, TU Dortmund University, Germany Social Business Intelligence - OLAP Applied to User Generated Contents Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna, Italy Model-driven Development of Multi-View Modelling Tools - The MUVIEMOT Approach Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
2013
Main-Memory Centric Data Management – Open Problems and Some Solutions Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Context-Aware Decision Support in Dynamic Environments - Theoretical & Technological Foundations Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russian Federation
2012
On Knowledge Discovery and Interactive Intelligent Visualization of Biomedical Data - Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction & Biomedical Informatics Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel Issues in Combined Static and Dynamic Data Management Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany