Given below are some of the well-known international conferences and associations working in the field of Database and Information Retrieval Systems (IRS):

ACM SIGMOD		VLDB Foundation
IEEE Computer Society		World Wide Web Consortium
DBLP		XML Database (Ronald Bourret)
IEEE Technical Commitee on Data Engineering		ACM SIGKDD
Lecture Note in Computer science		Extending Database Technology
China Computer Federation Database Society (CCF DBS)		Database Event