Search Conference Calendar

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

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  • Haystack US

    Violet Crown 200 West Main St, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

    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.… Read More »Haystack US

    $250

  • OpenSearchCon India

    Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway 26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road Malleswaram, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    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,… Read More »OpenSearchCon India

    $175

  • Community over Code Asia

    Beijing Beijing, China

    * 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… Read More »Community over Code Asia

  • OpenSearchCon North America

    Signia by Hilton San Jose 170 S Market Street San Jose, CA 95113, San Jose, California, United States

    *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… Read More »OpenSearchCon North America

    $99 – $399

  • 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… Read More »CLEF

    €150 – €700

  • 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… 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… 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… 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,… Read More »Search Solutions

  • 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… 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… Read More »OpenSearchCon China

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.