2025 IEEE Big Data Cup
https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2025/
Dec 8-11, 2025, Macau, China
We invite industrial, government, and academic organizations to submit proposals to organize a Data Challenge
for the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2025,
https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2025/index.html). Data Challenges are analytics and
programming contests based
on datasets released by the organizations sponsoring the competitions. These contests will run for several
months, with winners announced in the IEEE BigData 2025 in December 8-11, 2025 at Macau, China
The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference
in Big Data.
Strong proposals will release interesting and novel datasets to the participants and propose tasks that are
challenging, yet achievable within the expected timeline. To encourage broad participation in the challenge
competition, tasks and data should be made publicly accessible where possible.
We will consider topics from (but not limited to) the following big data application domains:
The Challenges involve a released dataset and a well-defined problem with clear evaluation metrics. The challenges run on a data competition platform (e.g., Kaggle) that maintains a leaderboard for the participants. Final winners are selected based on their standing on the leaderboard, and a 6-page report describing their algorithms and results. There will be a workshop in the IEEE BigData 2025 conference in which the invited teams will be able to present their solution.
Tentative Competition Timeline
Step 1 - Solicitation of big data problems/topics, June 1, 2025
Step 2 - Proposal evaluation and selection of topics/problems, June 15, 2025
Step 3 - Data Release, Platform setup and solicitation of challenge participants, July 1, 2025
Step 4 - Deadline for contest teams to submit letter of intent, July 25, 2025
Step 5 - Deadline for contest teams to submit final report and solutions, November 15, 2025
Step 6 - Announcement of winning teams, Nov 25, 2025
Data Challenge Proposal Format
Proposals should answer the following questions:
Deadline for proposal Submission: to be announced
Please submit the proposal: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/bigdata25/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProC