Calendar

January 2026

4–8 January | 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) | Phoenix, USA

6–9 January | Consumer Electronics Show 2026 (CES) | Las Vegas, USA

17–22 January | SPIE Photonics West | San Francisco, USA

19–23 January | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting | Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

20–27 January | 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Singapore

February 2026

9–12 February | World Health Expo Dubai (formerly Arab Health) | Dubai, UAE

12–14 February | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting | Phoenix, USA

19–20 February | AI Impact Summit | New Delhi, India

22–27 February | Ocean Sciences Meeting | Glasgow, UK

23–26 February | Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) General Meeting | Orlando, USA

23 February–2 April | 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council | Geneva, Switzerland

24–27 February | World Sustainable Energy Days | Wels, Austria

March 2026

2–5 March | Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain

16–20 March | American Physical Society (APS) Global Physics Summit 2026 | Denver, USA

April 2026

7–9 April | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium Series | California, USA

13–17 April | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

13–17 April | The Web Conference 2026 (WWW) | Dubai, UAE

17–21 April | Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Global 2026) | Munich, Germany

17–22 April | American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026 | San Diego, USA

21 April | WIPO Assemblies of the Member States — Extraordinary Session (67th Series) | Geneva, Switzerland

26 April–1 May | 2026 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit | Honolulu, USA

May 2026

3–8 May | European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026 | Vienna, Austria (hybrid)

6–7 May | United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) | New York, USA

18–23 May | World Health Assembly | Geneva, Switzerland

29 May–2 June | American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2026 | Chicago, USA

31 May–5 June | International Conference on Management of Data & Principles of Database Systems (ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026) | Bengaluru, India

June 2026

1–5 June | IEEE International Conference in Robotics & Automation 2026 | Vienna, Austria

1–12 June | 114th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) | Geneva, Switzerland

4–7 June | American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2026 | Washington, DC, USA

8–18 June | UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) First Sessional Period 2026 | Bonn, Germany

16–18 June | Our Ocean Conference (World Resources Institute) | Mombasa, Kenya

14–18 June | 248th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society | Pasadena, USA

28 June–3 July | 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | Lindau, Germany

July 2026

6–10 July | WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland (TBC)

6–11 July | 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 | Seoul, South Korea

6–15 July | United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) | New York, USA

7–10 July | AI for Good Global Summit 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland

7–15 July | WIPO Assemblies of the Member States — Extraordinary Session (68th Series) | Geneva, Switzerland

12–16 July | Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2026 | Washington, DC, USA

13–17 July | Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026 | Sydney, Australia

19–23 July | ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 (Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) | Los Angeles, USA

23–30 July | International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026 | Philadelphia, USA

26–31 July | Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting 2026 | Salt Lake City, USA

28–31 July | IUPAC 51st World Polymer Conference (MACRO 2026) | Kuching, Malaysia

30 July–5 August | 43rd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2026) | Natal, Brazil

August 2026

9–13 August | 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | Jeju, South Korea

11–18 August | 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography | Calgary, Canada

15–21 August | 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026 | Bremen, Germany

23–27 August | American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2026 Meeting | Chicago, USA

28–31 August | European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2026 | Munich, Germany

September 2026

8–13 September | 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 | Malmö, Sweden

8–25 September | Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly | New York, USA

22 September | United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81) — High-Level General Debate Opens | New York, USA

27 September–1 October | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026 | Pittsburgh, USA

28–29 September | Singapore Conference on Mirror Life | Singapore

October 2026

4–6 October | Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum | Kyoto, Japan

5–9 October | International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2026 | Antalya, Türkiye

12–15 October | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland

14–16 October | Geneva Science & Diplomacy Anticipation (GESDA) Summit | Geneva, Switzerland

20–24 October | American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2026 | Montréal, Canada

23–27 October | European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2026 | Madrid, Spain

November 2026

7–9 November | Falling Walls Science Summit 2026 | Berlin, Germany

9–20 November | United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP31) | Antalya, Türkiye

14–18 November | SfN Neuroscience 2026 | Washington, DC, USA

29 November–3 December | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2026 | Chicago, USA

December 2026

2–4 December | United Nations Water Conference 2026 | United Arab Emirates

12–15 December | American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting 2026 | New Orleans, USA