* 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
The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in Information Retrieval (IR). Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts, ECIR provides a platform for sharing new, unpublished, and innovative research shaping the future of IR.
Since its inception in 1989, the World Wide Web has transformed the way we live, work, and connect. The Web Conference (formerly known as the International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated WWW) has been the premier annual forum for presenting and discussing advances in research, development, standards, and applications shaping the future of the Web.… Read More »The ACM Web Conference
"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
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.