* This is a list of conferences that focus on search, categorised as follows (click to filter):
Vendor • Academic • Evaluation • Executive • Composite • Practioner
(based on my blog How To Get The Best From a Search Conference).
* Here’s the events I’m attending – if you’d like to meet up, let me know.
* Planning an event? Submit it here and I’ll add it to the list.
* Want to run a search event? I’ve run many events including Haystack – let me help!.
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* A list of Call for Papers dates for mainly Academic conferences can be found at WikiCFP
"We are delighted to invite you to the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, to be held from 20–24 July 2026 in Melbourne | Naarm, Australia (and with ICTIR the day after, on July 25). Now, we could repeat all the things you already know: that Melbourne | Naarm… Read More »SIGIR
Expect a full day of: 📅 Save the date: September 10, 2026. In London. The full agenda will be announced in May. 🎟️Tickets: Early bird tickets are available here, starting from £99. Watch this space for updates! 🎓 Pre-Event Training (September 9th): Join us the day before for hands-on Vespa training sessions: Vespa.ai Live is your… Read More »Vespa.ai Live
Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 features four in-person days of sessions at the Hilton Glasgow for ASF members, committers, and open source developers from around the world, focusing on Search, Big Data, Internet of Things, Community, Geospatial, Financial Tech, and many other topics. Each evening will also feature Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions and… Read More »Community over Code (was ApacheCon)
Join us for three days of practical advice, thought leadership, and interaction with colleagues and peers at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2026 this November 17 - 19 in Washington, DC. Discover how to design, build, and manage better search and discovery to help extract critical knowledge and business value from your organizational data. Just as… Read More »Enterprise Search & Discovery
Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice.CFP open until 5th… Read More »Search Solutions
Since 1997, the NTCIR project has promoted research efforts for enhancing Information Access (IA) technologies such as Information Retrieval (IR), Text Summarization, Information Extraction (IE), and Question Answering (QA) techniques. Its general purposes are to: Collaborative works in the NTCIR allow us to create large-scale test collections that are indispensable for checking the effectiveness of… Read More »NTCIR
As a well-known figure in the search community, an experienced and popular conference speaker and the organiser and host of many events including 5 years of Haystack, I can help you create and run events to inform, educate and inspire. I’m also available as a keynote or track speaker – watch some of my past talks. To discuss your event, get in touch.