Welcome to the LWDA 2016 conference hosted by Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam, September 12-14, 2016! The acronym LWDA expands to “Lernen, Wissen, Daten, Analysen” (“Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analytics”). Recent research in the field is presented and discussed from the viewpoint of machine learning, data mining, knowledge extraction, knowledge management, information retrieval, personalization, database management, information systems, big data management and big data analytics to name a few.