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* 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

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  • CLEF

    UNED C. de Bravo Murillo, 38, Chamberí, Madrid, Spain

    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

    €150 – €700

  • Community over Code North America

    Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

    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 EU 2025

    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

  • SISAP

    Reykjavik , Iceland

    *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

  • CIKM

    COEX 513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

    *CFP closes May 16th* The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information… Read More »CIKM

  • TREC

  • Enterprise Search & Discovery

    JW Marriott, Washington DC Washington, District of Columbia, United States

    Join us in Washington, DC this November 17 - 20 for KMWorld 2025 where you’ll get practical advice, hear inspiring thought leadership, and have access to in-depth training and workshops on how KM and related disciplines can provide enormous value for your organization. This year's conference theme — Enterprise Intelligence: Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing for… Read More »Enterprise Search & Discovery

    $1995 – $2195

  • Search Solutions

    BCS 25 Copthall Ave, London, United Kingdom

    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.

  • OpenSearchCon Japan

    OpenSearchCon Japan is a one-day, in-person event designed to bring the OpenSearch community together—right to you. Whether you’re a user, administrator, or developer, the roadshow offers a focused opportunity to learn from real-world use cases, connect with local peers, and collaborate with experts. Join us to explore the latest in search, observability, and security applications,… Read More »OpenSearchCon Japan

    $25

  • OpenSearchCon China

    Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao 1116 Hongsong Rd (E), Minhang District, Shanghai, China

    OpenSearchCon is the annual conference designed to bring the OpenSearch community together – right to you. Whether you are a user, administrator, or developer, this event offers a focused opportunity to learn from real-world use cases, connect with local peers, and collaborate with experts. Join us to explore the latest in search, observability, and security… Read More »OpenSearchCon China

  • NLPA

    2026 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICNLP 2026) will be held in Xi'an, China from March 20 to 22, 2026. ICNLP 2026 is mainly Co-Sponsored by Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications and IEEE, hosted by School of Communications and Information Engineering, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, and jointly supported by many… Read More »NLPA

  • CHIIR

    Seattle Seattle, United States

    ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalCHIIR is a multi-disciplinary research meeting. In addition to studies of interactive systems, information interaction, and retrieval, we encourage submissions on related topics, including human-human information interaction, novel interaction paradigms, new evaluation methods, and related research in a range of communities such as sociology, education, ethnography, psychology,… Read More »CHIIR

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.