* 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
*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
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
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 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
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
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… Read More »NLPA
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… Read More »CHIIR
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… Read More »ECIR
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,… Read More »The ACM Web Conference
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 Europe
Berlin Buzzwords is Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search and machine learning and is focused on open source software projects. CFP open until 15th February 2026.
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.