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 2021. This two day event will be held in November, with a tutorial day.
Conferences/Workshops
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 202126th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on search interfaces. Includes the Fourth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics. (ESIDA). College Station, TX, USA. 13 – 17 April 2021. http://iui.acm.org/
The Web Conference 2021. The premier conference on web search with a track on search. W4A’21 – The 18th International Web for All Conference is co-located with the web conference 2021, and is of interest to members working on accessibility and web search. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. https://www2021.thewebconf.org/
CHI 2021: CM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier HCI conference of interest to members working in the area of user interaction and search. Online, 8-13 May 2021. https://chi2021.acm.org/
RCIS 2021: 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science. Of interest to members working on research methods in information retrieval. Limassol, Cyprus, 12-14 May 2021. http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/
ICWE 2021: 21st International Conference on Web Engineering. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Biarritz, France, 18-21 May 2021, https://icwe2021.webengineering.org/
QQML2021: 13th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference. Of interest to members working on methodological issues in search in the context of libraries. Online and Athens, Greece, 25-28 May, 2021. http://qqml.org/
LDK 2021: The Third Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic web and NLP. Zaragoza, Spain. 14-16 June 2021. http://2021.ldk-conf.org/
EuroVis 2021. Of interest to members working in the area of visualization and search. Zürich, Switzerland, 14-16 June 2021. https://www.eurovis.org/
IMX 2021: The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search particularly in the context of entertainment. Online and New York City, USA, 21-23 June 2021. http://imx.acm.org/2021/
ISKO UK 2021: Knowledge Organization in Exceptional Times: How KO Helps People, Organizations and Societies to Adapt to Change”, Of interest to members working in the area of Knowledge Organisation and Search. Online, 12-16 July 2021. https://www.iskouk.org/Conference-2021
ACM UMAP 2021: 29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: “Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research”. Of interest to members working in the area of personalization and search. Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online, 21-25 June 2021 (tentative). https://www.um.org/umap2021/
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/
GoodIT 2021: ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Of interest to members working in the area of ethics and search e.g. privacy and accessibility. Rome, Italy, 9-11 September 2021. http://www.grc.upv.es/goodit2021/
TPDL 2021: 25th Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of Digital Libraries and search. Online. 13-17 September 2021. http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2021
FQAS 2021: 14 th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of query answering systems and search. Bratislava, Slovakia, 19–24 September 2021. http://ifsa-eusflat2021.eu/fqas_conf.html
ISKO 2021 LISBON – 5th ISKO Conference Spain-Portugal (15th ISKO Spain). Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge organization and search. Lisbon, Portugal, 25-26 November 2021. https://www.isko2021.letras.ulisboa.pt/
Winter and Autumn Schools
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
ACDL 2021, An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence without Borders. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Tuscany, Italy, 19-23 July 2021. https://acdl2021.icas.cc
DeepLearn 2021 Summer. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain,
26-30 July 2021. https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/