Conferences & Calendar

The premier conference for recommender systems research is the yearly ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems. However, there are plenty of conferences in the fields of information retrieval, machine learning, user modeling, HCI, and other fields that publish research on recommender systems.

On this page, you find a list of relevant conferences (Google Sheet) and a calendar with the important dates (Google Calendar).

Conference/Event Calendar

The calendar shows all the conferences we consider relevant for the RecSys community. For selected conferences, we also include submission deadlines.

To see a list of all events, switch to the “Agenda” tab and select “Look for more”. Open the calendar in a new browser window for a better overview.

Click the “+” at the bottom of the calendar to add the calendar to your own Google account.

If you want to help us maintain the calendar, please contact us.

List of Recommender-Systems Conferences

Please let us know, if some key conference is missing, or if you want to help us maintain the list. For a better overview, we suggest opening the Google Sheet in a new browser window.

News From Our Blog About Recommender-Systems Events

The ‘ACM TORS’ journal had a successful first-year

ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) had a successful first year. Since March 2023 four issues have been published.

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“Recommender Systems – Frontiers in Big Data” has published 18 articles since its launch

We regularly report about the ACM TORS journal, but there is another journal for recommender systems research: The “Recommender Systems” journal that is part of the “Frontiers in Big Data” series. The Recommender Systems journal even was launched a few months before ACM TORS was announced. While the Frontiers Media publisher is subject to criticism, […]

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2023 ACM RecSys Conference with the lowest number of industry sponsors since 2015

The 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys) in Singapore has ended some weeks ago. Like every year, there were many amazing presentations, and many well-known IT companies sponsored the conference, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Netflix. However, the number of sponsors of the ACM RecSys conference took a sharp fall this year. Only […]

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The first Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Recommender Systems

I have been advocating more ‘local’ initiatives to connect the regional recommender-systems communities for a long time (e.g. I am still hoping for a European RecSys Conference). As such, I am very glad to see the announcement of the “DBWRS“. The DBWRS is the first Dutch-Belgian Recommender Systems Workshop, taking place 14-15 December 2023 in […]

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Stats on Submitted & Accepted Papers and Acceptance Rate at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference until 2023

Update 13-11-2023: I added the numbers for 2023 The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems regularly releases numbers relating to its acceptance rate. We visualized the numbers as shown below and it’s good to see that the number of submitted papers slowly but steadily increases over time. From just above 100 papers in the first years […]

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Big Update of our RecSys Conference Calendar

We updated our conference calendar with the latest dates and locations for all major conferences relating to recommender systems, including SIGIR, UMAP, CIKM, SIGCHI, and machine learning conferences like NeurIPS and ICML. The map below shows the locations of a few selected conferences.

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CfP for ACM TORS Special Issue: Knowledge Transferring for Recommender Systems (KT4Rec)

The ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS) published a call for papers for its special issue Knowledge Transferring for Recommender Systems (KT4Rec). Guest Editors: The prosperity of online contents populates the widespread usage of recommender systems, including news recommendation, Ads recommendation, E-commerce recommendation, etc. However, the data scarcity problems severely degrade the recommendation ability of […]

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3 RecSys Workshops and RecSys KDD Cup at the 2023 KDD conference

KDD is a premier conference and KDD 2023 is also interesting for recommender-systems researchers as it features 3 recommender-systems workshops. Namely, EvalRS2023, A Well-Rounded Evaluation of Recommender Systems. The Second Edition of the workshop on well-rounding the evaluation of recommender systems, covering fairness, robustness and trustworthiness. OARS 2023, the workshop on online and adaptive recommender […]

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List of 18 Workshops at ACM RecSys 2023 published

ACM RecSys released the list of 18 accepted workshops. That’s quite a number, and as high as in 2021. Looking at time, the number of workshops constantly increased from 3 workshops in 2009 to 10 in 2015 and, as mentioned, 18 workshops in 2021 and 2023. For a full list and details, visit the ACM […]

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The Web Conference 2023 requires at least one full non-student registration for accepted papers, even for students.

The Web Conference 2023 (formerly WWW) is a notable conference in the field of recommender-systems. This year, the conference chairs decided that authors of accepted papers must register at least for one full on-site non-student 3-day ticket, starting at $900, even if the presenting, or all, author(s) are students. That is quite uncommon to my […]

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2023 ACM RecSys Conference with the lowest number of industry sponsors since 2015

The 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys) in Singapore has ended some weeks ago. Like every year, there were many amazing presentations, and many well-known IT companies sponsored the conference, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Netflix. However, the number of sponsors of the ACM RecSys conference took a sharp fall this year. Only […]

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The first Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Recommender Systems

I have been advocating more ‘local’ initiatives to connect the regional recommender-systems communities for a long time (e.g. I am still hoping for a European RecSys Conference). As such, I am very glad to see the announcement of the “DBWRS“. The DBWRS is the first Dutch-Belgian Recommender Systems Workshop, taking place 14-15 December 2023 in […]

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Stats on Submitted & Accepted Papers and Acceptance Rate at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference until 2023

Update 13-11-2023: I added the numbers for 2023 The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems regularly releases numbers relating to its acceptance rate. We visualized the numbers as shown below and it’s good to see that the number of submitted papers slowly but steadily increases over time. From just above 100 papers in the first years […]

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Big Update of our RecSys Conference Calendar

We updated our conference calendar with the latest dates and locations for all major conferences relating to recommender systems, including SIGIR, UMAP, CIKM, SIGCHI, and machine learning conferences like NeurIPS and ICML. The map below shows the locations of a few selected conferences.

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List of 18 Workshops at ACM RecSys 2023 published

ACM RecSys released the list of 18 accepted workshops. That’s quite a number, and as high as in 2021. Looking at time, the number of workshops constantly increased from 3 workshops in 2009 to 10 in 2015 and, as mentioned, 18 workshops in 2021 and 2023. For a full list and details, visit the ACM […]

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The Web Conference 2023 requires at least one full non-student registration for accepted papers, even for students.

The Web Conference 2023 (formerly WWW) is a notable conference in the field of recommender-systems. This year, the conference chairs decided that authors of accepted papers must register at least for one full on-site non-student 3-day ticket, starting at $900, even if the presenting, or all, author(s) are students. That is quite uncommon to my […]

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Public Photo/Video Drop & View for the ACM RecSys Conference 2022

Update 2022-09-26: View all our 158 photos from ACM RecSys 2022 here: http://view.recsys22.recommender-systems.com (Link valid for a few weeks, after that the photos will be removed). A few ‘best of’ photos are here: The ACM RecSys Conference in Seattle is coming up, and, surely, participants will take hundreds of awesome photos and videos (especially during […]

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CfP: 16th ACM International WSDM Conference

The 16th ACM WSDM Conference will take place in Singapore, from 27 February until 3 March 2023. Recommender-Systems submissions are welcome. Submissions are due 12th August 2022. As always, we added the dates to our RS_c conference calendar. WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. […]

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115 Recommender-Systems Papers accepted at SIGIR 2022

The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022) released the list of accepted papers. It contains a total of 115 papers incl. posters etc. related to recommender-systems. I assessed the papers based on the title, so chances are, I missed a few and the actual number is even […]

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Accepted RecSys Papers & RecSys Bias Workshop at the ECIR2022 Conference

The 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is starting in a few days, and there will be lots of interesting presentations relating to recommender systems. Recommendation of Compatible Outfits Conditioned on Style. Debopriyo Banerjee, Lucky Dhakad, Harsh Maheshwari, Muthusamy Chelliah, Niloy Ganguly and Arnab Bhattacharya Influence-based Deep Network for Next POIs Prediction. Sayda Elmi […]

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