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Volunteer commitment and coordination is the foundation that makes an ACM conference successful. ACM provides a comprehensive planning guide with instructions and best practices to help create the best possible event.

PLDI 2026, June 15 - 19

The SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation is the premier forum in the field of programming languages and programming systems research, covering the areas of design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance. Tutorials and workshops include "Implementing an Integrated Development Environment: a Quick Start Guide for PL Researchers," "Mechanized Specifications for Real-World Programming Languages," and more. Keynote speakers are Saman Amarasinghe (MIT), Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Miryung Kim (UCLA). The event will be held in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

MobiSys 2026, June 21 - 25

The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. Workshops include "Mobile Agents and Personal AI Systems," "Communication Systems and Spectrum," RF Perception and Large-Scale Signal Sensing," "GlucOS: Security, correctness, and simplicity for automated insulin delivery," and more. Keynotes speakers are Dina Katabi (MIT) and Vili Lehdonvirta (Aalto University). The event is being held in Cambridge, UK.

ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

ACM FAccT 2026, June 25 - 28

The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Keynote speakers include Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Charlton McIlwain (New York University). Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University), and Jutta Treviranus (OCAD University). Plenary Panelists include Tamara Kneese (Partnership on AI), Sasha Luccioni (Hugging Face), Anne Pasek (Trent University), Michael Karlin (Service Canada), Cynthia Khoo (University of Toronto), Joelle Pineau (McGill University), and more. This event is being held in Montréal, Canada.

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

ISCA 2026, June 27 - July 1

The International Symposium on Computer Architecture is the premier forum for new ideas and research results in computer architecture. Workshops and tutorials include "Quantum Computer Architecture Security," "Beethoven: Tutorial for An Open-Source Accelerator Composer," "Quantum Classical Cooperative Computing," "The Next-Generation Championship in Branch Prediction," "Hot Topics in System Infrastructure," "Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure," "Strategies for Productively Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research," and more. The event will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

International Symposium on Computer Architecture

FSE 2026, July 5 - 9

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Keynote speakers are Benoit Baudry (Université de Montréal), Dickson Tsai (Anthropic), Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto), and Mary Shaw (Carnegie Mellon University). This event is being held in-person in Montreal, Canada.

ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

EC 2026, July 6 - 10

The Conference on Economics and Computation is the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation. Workshops and tutorials include "Game Theory and Mechanism Design with Large Language Models," "From Theory to Practice: Behind the Scenes on Research Deployments," "AI-Driven Research in EconCS," "Costly Information Models for Online Selection," " Information Design Perspective on Calibration," Algorithmic Contract Design for Teams," and more. The conference is being held at Roma, Italy.

EC 2026

ITiCSE 2026 July 13 - 15

The Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education is the premier and largest computing/informatics education conference in Europe. Sessions this year include "Quantifying Student Mistakes and Misconceptions of the Run-Time Memory Layout of Java Programs," "Impacts of Stress During CS Learning: Physiological Insights for Adaptive Education," "Teaching Data Science without the Programming Barrier: Design and Evaluation of an Integrated Learning Platform," and more. Keynote speakers are Lilian Cassel (Villanova University), Carlos Delgado Kloos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). The event is being held in Madrid, Spain.

Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

GECCO 2026, July 13 - 17

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference presents the latest high-quality results in genetic and evolutionary computation. Tutorials and workshops include "Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms," Evolutionary Rule-based Machine Learning," "Decomposition Techniques in Evolutionary Optimization," "Evolutionary Computation meets Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimisation" and more. Keynote speakers are Antonio Lazcano Araujo (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna), and Wolfgang Banzhaf (Michigan State University). The conference is a hybrid event being held in San José, Costa Rica.

GECCO 2026

SIGGRAPH 2026, July 19 - 23

The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is the premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Conference content, whether submitted or invited, is building upon a 53-year legacy in technological advancement to enhance computer graphics’ reach, value, and impact together. Keynote speakers are Lanny Smoot (Disney), and Darwesh Singh (Bolt Graphics) . The event will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA.

SIGGRAPH

SIGIR 2026, July 20 - 24

The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. Workshops and tutorials include "AgentSearch: Indexing, Retrieval, and Ranking of AI Agents," "Vulnerabilities in Generative Systems for Information Retrieval ," "LLM Personalization: Foundations, Breakthroughs, and Frontiers," and more. Keynote speakers are Bhaskar Mitra (Independent Researcher), Cécile Paris (CSIRO), and Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China) . The event is being held in Melbourne, Australia.

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IUI 2026, July 13 - 16

The 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is the annual premiere venue where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. Keynote speakers are Antonio Krüger (Saarland University), and Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab). The event will take place in Limassol, Cyprus

NOTE: the IUI 2026 conference was originally scheduled to take place March 23-26 in Paphos, Cyprus.

IUI 2026

DAC 2026, June 23 - 30

The Design Automation Conference is the premier destination for the entire ecosystem devoted to the design and design automation of electronic circuits and systems. DAC offers outstanding education, training, exhibits and networking opportunities for a worldwide community of chip and system designers, researchers, academics, executives, and electronic design tool vendors. Keynote speakers are John Martinis (2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Baaziz Achour (Qualcomm Technologies), Jan M. Rabaey U(niversity of California, Berkeley). The conference will be held in Long Beach, California, USA.

Design Automation Conference

ACM AI 2026, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2

The ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026 will bring together leading researchers, educators, policymakers, and practitioners to examine foundational technical challenges and emerging opportunities in artificial intelligence. Through keynotes, panels, and interactive sessions, the Summit will explore frontier AI models, AI-powered scientific discovery, the future of work, and approaches for responsible, transparent, and human-centered innovation across diverse application domains. Speakers include ACM Turing Award laureates Yann LeCun and Andrew Barto, and ACM Prize in Computing recipient Amanda Randles. The event will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026

Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education
By Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Best Paper at ITiCSE '24: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Mining Domain-Based Policies
By Si Zhang, Philip W. L. Fong
Best Paper Award at CODASPY '24: 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations
By Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, Apu Kapadia
Best paper award at CUI '24: ACM Conversational User Interfaces

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Take our Peer Reviewer Training course to become an ACM Certified Reviewer today.

Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.

The report, available here, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.

On March 3, 2022, ACM’s Executive Committee decided not to hold any conferences in Russia while the conflict in the Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis in Europe continue. This decision applies to ACM sponsored conferences and workshops as well as in-cooperation events.