* 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
Join us in Charlottesville, VA, for Haystack US 2026 – an immersive experience featuring workshops, training sessions, and other exciting events tailored for search and AI professionals. Stay tuned for more details coming soon! Haystack US 2026 Call for Papers is now open! Closes February 22nd. Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. If… Read More »Haystack US 2026
Berlin Buzzwords is Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning and is focused on open source software projects. CFP open until 15th February 2026.
Date TBC - but it's usually the day after Berlin Buzzwords! MICES brings together participants from a variety of backgrounds, all sharing a common interest in e-commerce search. In order to stimulate and facilitate discussion, we will start with scheduled talks in the morning. This will be followed by self-organising sessions: participants are encouraged to… Read More »MICES
"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 pricing will be available soon, 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… 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)
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.