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Search Conference Calendar

* This is a list of conferences that focus on search, categorised as follows (click to filter):
     VendorAcademicEvaluationExecutiveCompositePractioner
    (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. I can also help you plan and run search events.

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* A list of Call for Papers dates for mainly Academic conferences can be found at WikiCFP


  • ECIR

    IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Piazza S. Francesco, 19,, Lucca, Italy

    The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the annual premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval.

    €100 – €860
  • The ACM Web Conference

    ICC Sydney 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989, The Web Conference (formerly known as the International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated as WWW) is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. This conference has been the premier venue to present and discuss progress… Read More »The ACM Web Conference

    A$180 – A$2350
  • NTCIR

    National Institute of Informatics (NII) 2 Chome-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

    The Eighteenth NTCIR conference (NTCIR-18) would like to welcome all of you who are interested in and/or working on information access research. This sesquiannual event was first held in 1999, and has grown steadily ever since. About 303 people from 35 different countries attended NTCIR-16 and we are hoping that the event will be even… Read More »NTCIR

  • SIGIR

    Padova Congress Centre Via N. Tommaseo 59, Padova, Italy

    SIGIR is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. The conference consists of five days of full papers, short papers, resource & reproducibility papers, perspectives papers, system demonstrations, doctoral consortium, tutorials, and workshops focused on research and development in… Read More »SIGIR


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.