The Organizing Committee is glad to announce that the Prime Minister of the federal state of Lower Saxony  David McAllister has kindly accepted the invitation to be the Patron of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.

The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL), Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University) and Georg Gottlob (Oxford University) will be keynote speakers at ICDE 2011.

The Program Committee Chairs are glad to announce that the paper submission site is now open.

All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format. Research and industrial paper submissions are limited to 12 pages. A paper submitted to ICDE 2011 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2011, and it must be substantially different from any previously published work (other than posters or short papers with a length of up to 4 pages when converted into the IEEE format).