Research on database and information technologies has been rapidly evolving over the last few years. Advances concern several dimensions: data types, new management issues, new deployment platforms and new storage layouts. The 19 East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2015), held on September 8-11, 2015, at Futuroscope, Poitiers, France, and associated satellite events aimed at covering some emerging issues concerning new trends in database and information system research. The aim of this paper is to present such events, their motivations and topics of interest, as well as briefly outline the papers selected for presentations. The selected papers will then be included in the remainder of this volume.