Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
One Day Events
Search Solutions 2020. This two day event will be held in November, with a tutorial day on the 24th together with the main event the day before on the 25th. The event will be online. https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2020/sse2020.php
Conferences/Workshops
ISWC 2020: 19th International Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working on semantic search applications and services. Athens, Greece, 2-6 November 2020. http://iswc2020.semanticweb.org
EMNLP 2020: The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working with NLP technologies to support search.. Barceló Bávaro Convention Centre, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. 8-12 November 2020. https://2020.emnlp.org/
HAI 2020: The 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of conversational search. Sydney, Australia. 10-13 November 2020. http://hai-conference.net/hai2020/
ADMA 2020: The 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications. A general conference with various themes relevant to the search community. Foshan, China. 12-15 November 2020. https://adma2020.nuit.edu.cn/index.htm
ICDM 2020: 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. A general conference with various themes relevant to the search community. 17-20 November 2020, Sorrento, Italy. http://icdm2020.bigke.org/
MUM 2020: 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. A conference of interest to members working in the area of mobile multimedia search. 22-25 November 2020Essen, Germany. http://www.mum-conf.org/2020/
ICHI 2020: IEEE International Conference on Healtcare Informatics. Of interest to members working in the area of search in support of Healthcare. Oldenburg, Germany. 30 November to 3 December 2020. https://ichi2020.de/
ICADL 2020: 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Online. 30 November 2020 – 1 December 2020. https://icadl.net/icadl2020/
OzCHI 2020: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of HCI and search. Virtual Conference. 2-4 December 2020. http://www.ozchi.org/2020/
COLING 2020: The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Barcelona, Spain. 8-13 December 2020. https://coling2020.org/ 2020
ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Regional Virtual Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of information behaviour/HCI and search. Online. 12-13 December 2020. https://www.asist.org/chapters/asiapac/events/2020-regional-meeting/
MMM 2021: International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Prague, Czech Republic. 25-27 January 2021. https://mmm2021.cz/
IRCDL 2021: 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Padua, Italy. 18-19 February 2021. http://ircdl2021.dei.unipd.it/
ISIC 2021: International Semantic Intelligence Conference. Of interest to members working in such areas as semantic web, machine learning or AI and search. New Delhi, India/Online. 25-27 February 2021. https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/
CHIIR 2021: 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of human behavior and search. Canberra, Australia, 15-19 March, 2021. https://acm-chiir.github.io/chiir2021/
ACM IUI 2021: Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on intellgient interfaces for search. College Station, TX, USA. 18-21 March 2021. http://iui.acm.org/2021/ PerCom 2021: The 19th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Of interest to members working in the area of mobile search. Kassel, Germany. 22-26 March 2021. http://www.percom.org
SAC 2021: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing – Web Technologies Track. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Gwangju, Korea. 22 – 26 March 2021. http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/
MIPR 2021: IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia Search. Tokyo, Japan. 22-24 March 2021. https://mipr2021.org/
DCC 2021: Data Compression conference. Of interest to members working in the area of compression problems and search. Snowbird, Utah. 23-26 March 2021. https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/
iConference 2021: The annual Information Schools iConference. Of interest to members who’s focus is more on the information science aspects of search. Beijing, China (Online). 28-31 March 2021. https://ischools.org/iConference
ECIR 2021: 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. Lucca, Italy. 29 March – 2 April 2021. https://www.ecir2021.eu/
ACM IUI 2021: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on search interfaces. College Station, TX, USA.
13 – 17 April 2021. http://iui.acm.org/
ACM SIGIR 2021: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The big IR conference with many themes on different aspects examining the search domain. Montréal, Québec, Canada. 11-15 July 2021. http://sigir.org/sigir2021/
DESIRES 2021:2nd International Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems. For all members interested in experimental search technologies and how to design them. Venice, Italy. tbc September 2021. Postponed from 2020. http://desires.dei.unipd.it/
Winter and Autumn Schools
DeepLearn 2021 Winter: 4th International School on Deep Learning. Of interest to members working in the area of Deep Learning and search. Milan, Italy. 11-15 January 2021. https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/
BigDat 2020 Autumn: 7th International School on Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Beersheba, Israel, 18-22 April 2021. https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a