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The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research CIDR was started in 2002 by Michael Stonebraker Jim Gray and David DeWitt to provide the database community with a venue for presenting innovative data systems architectures as well as a prestigious publication opportunity. CIDR is complementary in its mission to the mainstream database conferences like SIGMOD and VLDB emphasizing the systems architecture perspective. CIDR gathers researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas in the field. CIDR mainly encourages papers about innovative and risky data management system architecture ideas systemsbuilding experience and insight resourceful experimental studies provocative position statements.