* 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.
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* A list of Call for Papers dates for mainly Academic conferences can be found at WikiCFP
OpenSearchCon is the annual conference that brings the OpenSearch community together to learn, connect, and collaborate. Users, administrators, and developers attend to explore solutions to real-world problems, network with peers, and explore the future of search, observability, and security applications.
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
Berlin Buzzwords is Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning and is focused on open source software projects.
*CFP closes 4th May* 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 initiate discussions about their topics of interest… Read More »MICES
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
* CFP Closes 21st April * Community Over Code (formly known as ApacheCon) is the official global conference series of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Since 1998 – before the ASF’s incorporation – ApacheCon has been drawing participants at all levels to explore ”Tomorrow’s Technology Today” across 350+ Apache projects and their diverse communities. Community… Read More »Community over Code Asia
*CFP Open until April 12th* 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Applications (NLPA 2025) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Computing and its applications. The Conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the Natural Language processing in… Read More »NLPA
*CFP Closes May 11* OpenSearchCon is the annual conference that brings the OpenSearch community together to learn, connect, and collaborate. Users, administrators, and developers attend to explore solutions to real-world problems, network with peers, and explore the future of search, observability, and security applications.
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation ForumInformation Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization*CFP Open until 6th May* CLEF 2025 is the 16th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. Building on the format first… Read More »CLEF
Community Over Code will feature four in-person days of sessions at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 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 also features Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, where communities… Read More »Community over Code North America
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. If you're like us, you work to understand the shiny new tools or dense academic papers out there that promise the moon. Then you puzzle how to apply those insights to your search problem, in your search stack. But the path isn't always easy, and the promised… Read More »Haystack EU 2025
*CFP Open until May 11th* 18th International Conference onSimilarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2025 The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval,… Read More »SISAP
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.