SIGIR 2026: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
📅 Monday, 20 July 2026 → Friday, 24 July 2026 in 48 days
SIGIR is the world's top information-retrieval conference — the research foundation under every search engine and, increasingly, under RAG and AI answer-engines.
SIGIR 2026: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Held 20–24 July 2026 in Melbourne (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre). In-person conference.
SIGIR is the world's top information-retrieval conference — the research foundation under every search engine and, increasingly, under RAG and AI answer-engines.
The shift from 'ten blue links' to generative answers is the biggest disruption IR has seen; SIGIR is where the field is rethinking relevance, evaluation and trust for a world where the search result is a generated paragraph.
