2021 UPCOMING AI/DS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Topics: Speech, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Robotics, NLP, Computer Vision, Speech and Signal Processing

2021 continues to be the year of virtual international conferences, so take advantage of it! If you would like to add more conferences to this list, please add a comment below 😃

Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM) (03/08–03/12)

Pronounced “wisdom”, WSDM is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Event type: Virtual

European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) (03/28–04/01)

The ECIR conference is a European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval (IR), and has a strong focus on the active participation of early-career researchers. Event type: Virtual

Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) (04/04–04/09)

The Conference on Machine Learning and Systems targets research at the intersection of machine learning and systems. The conference aims to elicit new connections amongst these fields, including identifying best practices and design principles for learning systems, as well as developing novel learning methods and theory tailored to practical machine learning workflows. Event type: Virtual

The Web Conference (Web Conf) (04/19–04/23)

The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW conference) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the World Wide Web. The Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (05/04–05/08)

ICLR is the gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. ICLR is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, gaming, and robotics. Event type: Virtual

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (05/30–06/05)

The 2021 ICRA conference promises to be a great event with excellent technical and social programs. Paper manuscripts reporting original research results on all aspects of robotics and automation are welcome. Proposals for tutorials and workshops, and organized sessions, on new topics or innovative applications are invited. Video clips illustrating new and exciting results are invited for video sessions. Exhibits from both industries and research laboratories are welcome. Event type: Hybrid; Location: Xi’an, China

Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT) (06/06–06/11)

NAACL-HLT 2021 aims to bring together researchers interested in the design and study of natural language processing technology as well as its applications to new problem areas. NAACL-HLT 2021 has a goal of a diverse technical program–in addition to traditional research results, papers may present negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. Location: Mexico City, Mexico

The international Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) (06/06–06/11)

ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. The program will include keynotes by pre-eminent international speakers, cutting-edge tutorial topics, and forward-looking special sessions. Location: Toronto, Canada

CVPR (06/19–06/25)

CVPR is an annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers. Event type: Virtual

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (07/18–07/24)

ICML is a gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics. Event type: Virtual

SIGIR (07/11–07/15)

SIGIR is an international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. The conference consists of five days of full papers, short papers, resource papers, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops, doctoral consortium papers, and perspectives papers focused on research and development in the area of information retrieval, as well as an industry track and social events. Event type: Virtual

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP) (08/01–08/06)

This year’s event will be jointly organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). As in previous years, the program of the conference includes a poster session, tutorials, workshops and demonstrations in addition to the main conference. Location: Bangkok. Thailand

Knowledge Data and Discovery (KDD) (08/14–08/19)

KDD is a premier Data Science conference. It is a dual track conference hosting both a Research and an Applied Data Science track. They invite original technical research contributions in all aspects of the data science lifecycle including but not limited to: data cleaning and preparation, data transformation, mining, inference, learning, explainability, data privacy, and dissemination of results. Technical data science contributions that advance United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are encouraged. Event type: Virtual

Interspeech (08/30–09/03)

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. The 2021 theme is “Speech everywhere”. Location: Brno, Czechia

The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) (09/13–09/17)

ECML is a European machine learning and data mining conference and builds upon over 19 years of successful events and conferences held across Europe. Event type: Virtual

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (09/25–10/01)

The forthcoming IROS 2021 conference aims at creating opportunities to meet, discuss, and become familiar with the most recent advances in the field of robotics, autonomous and intelligent systems, human-compliant robots, medical robotics, and many more. IROS 2021, as ever before, will include a large robotic exhibition as an essential part of the event. Location: Prague, Czech Republic

The ACM conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) (09/27–10/01)

RecSys is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. RecSys brings together the major international research groups working on recommender systems, along with many of the world’s leading companies active in e-commerce and other adjacent domains. In recognition of the role of the conference in bringing the recommender systems community together, the theme of RecSys 2021 will be “A place to meet and exchange”. Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

ICCV (10/11–10/17)

ICCV is an international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers. Location: Montreal, Canada

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (11/07–11/11)

The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Location: Dominican Republics/Virtual

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (12/06–12/12)

The purpose of the Neural Information Processing Systems annual meeting is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. The core focus is peer-reviewed novel research which is presented and discussed in the general session, along with invited talks by leaders in their field. Location: Virtual

IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) (12/13–12/17)

The ASRU Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. Location: Cartagena, Colombia

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