It can be quite challenging to keep an overview of the multitude of different AI Expert gatherings across the globe, ranging from small-scale meetups to international conferences with thousands of attendees. Therefore, we have gathered the most important conferences below, based on scientific relevance. The relevance is indicated by the h5-index which Google Scholar computes for the publications of each conference, based on the authors H-indices.

Below you will find introductions to the following segments:

1. Top Computer Vision Conferences
2. Top General Machine Learning Conferences
3. Top AI Conferences on Specific Topics

Top Computer Vision Conferences 2023

CVPR · IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

18.-22. June 2023   Location: Vancouver, Canada   h5-index: 389   Website: cvpr2023.thecvf.com   Focus: Computer Vision

"The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, which is regarded as one of the most important conferences in its field."

Pricing: $850 regular / $590 students

CVPR Paper Submission Deadline: 11. November 2022

ICCV · IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

2.-6. October 2023   Location: Paris, France   h5-index: 239   Website: iccv2023.thecvf.com

"The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is a research conference sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) held every other year. It is considered to be one of the top conferences in computer vision, alongside CVPR and ECCV, and it is held on years in which ECCV is not."

Pricing: $~125 regular / $~75 students (from previous years)

ICCV Paper Submission Deadline: 8. March 2023

Top Machine Learning Conferences 2023

ICLR · International Conference on Learning Representations

1.-5. May 2023   Location: Kigali, Rwanda   h5-index: 286   Website: iclr.cc   Focus: Deep Learning

"ICLR is one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences in the world. The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier 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."

The conference is presided by "Godfathers of AI" Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.

Pricing: $~100 regular / $~50 students (from previous years)

ICLR Paper Submission Deadline: 28. September 2022

NeurIPS · Neural Information Processing Systems

10.-16. December 2023   Location: New Orleans, USA   h5-index: 278   Website: nips.cc

"The conference was founded in 1987 and is now a multi-track interdisciplinary annual meeting that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Along with the conference is a professional exposition focusing on machine learning in practice, a series of tutorials, and topical workshops that provide a less formal setting for the exchange of ideas."

Landmark publications in the past include object detector Faster R-CNN and the Attention Is All You Need paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.

Pricing: $~475 regular / $~225 students (from previous years)

NeurIPS Paper Submission Deadline: TBD

ICML · International Conference on Machine Learning

23.-29. July 2023   Location: Honolulu, USA   h5-index: 237   Website: icml.cc

"The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier 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.

ICML is one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences in the world. Participants at ICML span a wide range of backgrounds, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs and engineers, to graduate students and postdocs."

Pricing: $~100 regular / $~25 students (from previous years)

ICML Paper Submission Deadline: 26. January 2023

AAAI · AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

7.-14. February 2023   Location: Washington DC, USA   h5-index: 180   Website: aaai.org

"The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-23 is the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of this conference is to create collaborative bridges within and beyond AI. Like previous AAAI conferences, AAAI-23 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and two new activities: a Bridge Program and a Lab Program."

Pricing: $750 regular / $350 students

AAAI Paper Submission Deadline: 15. August 2022

IJCAI · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

19.-25. August 2023   Location: Cape Town, South Aftrica   h5-index: 120   Website: ijcai-23.org

"The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The conference series has been organized by the nonprofit IJCAI Organization since 1969, making it the oldest premier AI conference series in the world. It was held biennially in odd-numbered years from 1969 to 2015 and annually starting from 2016."

Pricing: $~750 regular / $~350 students (from previous years)

IJCAI Paper Submission Deadline: 18. January 2023

Top AI Conferences on Specific Topics in 2023

CHI · ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

23.-28. April 2023   Location: Hamburg, Germany   h5-index: 113   Website: chi2023.acm.org   Focus: Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

The ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI – pronounced ‘kai’ – is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. CHI is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of HCI and attracts thousands of international attendees annually.

Pricing: $238 regular / $119 students

CHI Paper Submission Deadline: 15. September 2022

ACL · Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

9.-14. July 2023   Location: Toronto, Canda   h5-index: 169   Website: 2023.aclweb.org   Focus: Language Processing

ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

Pricing: $~725 regular / $~250 students (from previous years)

ACL Paper Submission Deadline: 20. January 2023

EMNLP · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

6.-10. December 2023   Location: Singapore   h5-index: 154   Website: TBA   Focus: Language Processing

"Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a leading conference in the area of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Along with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), it is one of the two primary high impact conferences for natural language processing research. EMNLP is organized by the ACL special interest group on linguistic data (SIGDAT) and was started in 1996, based on an earlier conference series called Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC)"

Pricing: $~850 regular / $~325 students (from previous years)

EMNLP Paper Submission Deadline: TBD

SIGKDD · ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

6.-10. August 2023   Location: Long Beach, USA   h5-index: 114   Website: kdd.org/kdd2023   Focus: Data Mining

"The Special Interest Group for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining of the Association for Computing Machinery hosts the annual premier forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share ideas, research results and experiences."

Pricing: $~1090 regular / $~490 students (from previous years)

SIGKDD Paper Submission Deadline: 2. February 2023

What Now

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