The 18th symposium of "Database systems for Business, Technology and Web" (BTW) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) will take place from 4 to 8 March 2019 at the University of Rostock.

The BTW Conference is the most significant database conference in the German-speaking world. Since 1985, the BTW takes place every second year and offers a central forum for the professional exchange of scientists, practitioners and users. The topics which were discussed come from the fields of database and information system technology. In addition to a scientific conference programme and an industry programme there are various system demonstrations on the 18th BTW Conference. Tutorials, workshops and a student program will also take place within this framework. The BTW conference also addresses open questions such as known approaches to solutions. The current focus here is on the content: New hardware and storage technologies, data integration and extraction, provenance management, data protection, big data analytics, cloud computing, and new application areas and architectural approaches to data management.

For more information, please visit www.btw2019.de.