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UID:sigir-2026-acm-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information-retrieval@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260720T000000Z
DTEND:20260724T235900Z
SUMMARY:SIGIR 2026 — ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
DESCRIPTION:Top search and information-retrieval conference\, increasingly central to RAG and LLM search systems. https://aiwhatson.com/event/sigir-2026-acm-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information-retrieval
LOCATION:Melbourne / Naarm\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/sigir-2026-acm-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information-retrieval
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:agentsearch-2026-first-workshop-on-agents-for-information-retrieval-and-search@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:AgentSearch 2026: First Workshop on Agents for Information Retrieval and Search
DESCRIPTION:AgentSearch 2026: First Workshop on Agents for Information Retrieval and Search is built for Search researchers\, LLM-agent builders\, IR engineers\, PhD students and product teams exploring agentic search systems. https://aiwhatson.com/event/agentsearch-2026-first-workshop-on-agents-for-information-retrieval-and-search
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/agentsearch-2026-first-workshop-on-agents-for-information-retrieval-and-search
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:wexir-2026-workshop-on-explainability-for-information-retrieval@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:WExIR 2026: Workshop on Explainability for Information Retrieval
DESCRIPTION:WExIR 2026: Workshop on Explainability for Information Retrieval is built for IR researchers\, explainable-AI researchers\, search engineers\, UX researchers and trust/evaluation specialists. https://aiwhatson.com/event/wexir-2026-workshop-on-explainability-for-information-retrieval
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/wexir-2026-workshop-on-explainability-for-information-retrieval
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:scai-2026-workshop-on-search-oriented-conversational-ai@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:SCAI 2026: Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI
DESCRIPTION:SCAI 2026: Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI is built for Conversational search researchers\, dialogue-system builders\, retrieval engineers and LLM interface designers. https://aiwhatson.com/event/scai-2026-workshop-on-search-oriented-conversational-ai
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/scai-2026-workshop-on-search-oriented-conversational-ai
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:evalmg-2026-first-workshop-on-evaluation-of-multi-modal-generation@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:EvalMG 2026: First Workshop on Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation
DESCRIPTION:EvalMG 2026: First Workshop on Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation is built for Researchers evaluating multimodal models\, benchmark designers\, applied ML teams and IR researchers working with generated text-image or cross-moda… https://aiwhatson.com/event/evalmg-2026-first-workshop-on-evaluation-of-multi-modal-generation
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/evalmg-2026-first-workshop-on-evaluation-of-multi-modal-generation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:reneuir-2026-resource-efficient-neural-information-retrieval-workshop@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:ReNeuIR 2026: Resource-Efficient Neural Information Retrieval Workshop
DESCRIPTION:ReNeuIR 2026: Resource-Efficient Neural Information Retrieval Workshop is built for Neural IR researchers\, search infrastructure engineers\, efficient-ML researchers and teams concerned with compute\, cost and sustainability. https://aiwhatson.com/event/reneuir-2026-resource-efficient-neural-information-retrieval-workshop
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/reneuir-2026-resource-efficient-neural-information-retrieval-workshop
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:llm-up-2026-llm-agents-for-user-modelling-personalization-and-recommendation@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:LLM-UP 2026: LLM Agents for User Modelling\, Personalization and Recommendation
DESCRIPTION:LLM-UP 2026: LLM Agents for User Modelling\, Personalization and Recommendation is built for Recommender-system researchers\, LLM-agent builders\, personalisation teams and user-modelling specialists. https://aiwhatson.com/event/llm-up-2026-llm-agents-for-user-modelling-personalization-and-recommendation
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/llm-up-2026-llm-agents-for-user-modelling-personalization-and-recommendation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:sigir-ecom-2026-workshop-on-ecommerce-and-generative-ai@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:SIGIR eCom 2026: Workshop on eCommerce and Generative AI
DESCRIPTION:SIGIR eCom 2026: Workshop on eCommerce and Generative AI is built for E-commerce search researchers\, recommender-system engineers\, marketplace AI teams and applied retrieval researchers. https://aiwhatson.com/event/sigir-ecom-2026-workshop-on-ecommerce-and-generative-ai
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/sigir-ecom-2026-workshop-on-ecommerce-and-generative-ai
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:jedi-2026-second-workshop-on-evaluation-and-design-of-generative-ai-information-access-sys@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:JEDI 2026: Second Workshop on Evaluation and Design of Generative AI Information Access Systems
DESCRIPTION:JEDI 2026: Second Workshop on Evaluation and Design of Generative AI Information Access Systems is built for Researchers and practitioners designing generative search\, answer engines\, conversational access tools and evaluation … https://aiwhatson.com/event/jedi-2026-second-workshop-on-evaluation-and-design-of-generative-ai-information-access-sys
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/jedi-2026-second-workshop-on-evaluation-and-design-of-generative-ai-information-access-sys
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:synthir-2026-first-workshop-on-synthetic-data-for-information-retrieval@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260724T120000Z
DTEND:20260724T120000Z
SUMMARY:SynthIR 2026: First Workshop on Synthetic Data for Information Retrieval
DESCRIPTION:SynthIR 2026: First Workshop on Synthetic Data for Information Retrieval is built for IR researchers\, benchmark designers\, synthetic-data researchers and teams building retrieval datasets for model training or evaluation. https://aiwhatson.com/event/synthir-2026-first-workshop-on-synthetic-data-for-information-retrieval
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/synthir-2026-first-workshop-on-synthetic-data-for-information-retrieval
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:caitg-ai-winter-school-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260727T090000Z
DTEND:20260730T135900Z
SUMMARY:CAITG AI Winter School 2026
DESCRIPTION:An Australian AI winter school with intensive AI and machine-learning training. https://aiwhatson.com/event/caitg-ai-winter-school-2026
LOCATION:Sydney\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/caitg-ai-winter-school-2026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:generative-ai-in-software-development-training-course-fj@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260731T090000Z
DTEND:20260731T170000Z
SUMMARY:Generative AI in Software Development Training Course
DESCRIPTION:One-day generative-AI course for software development professionals\, covering AI-generated code/software\, NLP\, model strategies and ethical AI. https://aiwhatson.com/event/generative-ai-in-software-development-training-course-fj
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/generative-ai-in-software-development-training-course-fj
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:ai-data-governance-summit-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260820T120000Z
DTEND:20260820T120000Z
SUMMARY:AI & Data Governance Summit 2026
DESCRIPTION:A focused summit on AI and data governance — the policies\, controls and accountability structures organizations need as AI scales. https://aiwhatson.com/event/ai-data-governance-summit-2026
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/ai-data-governance-summit-2026
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:ncit-2026-fiji-national-university@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260827T000000Z
DTEND:20260828T000000Z
SUMMARY:NCIT 2026 — National Conference on Information Technology (Fiji National University)
DESCRIPTION:A Pacific academic IT conference hosted by Fiji National University in Suva\, covering machine learning\, data and digital transformation across the islands. https://aiwhatson.com/event/ncit-2026-fiji-national-university
LOCATION:Suva\, Fiji
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/ncit-2026-fiji-national-university
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:usp-ai-data-webinar-series@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260901T000000Z
DTEND:20260901T000000Z
SUMMARY:USP AI & Data Webinar Series (incl. "Language Matters in the Pacific")
DESCRIPTION:University of the South Pacific online talks on AI and data — including data-sovereignty sessions — reaching USP's 12 Pacific member countries. Recurring/rolling\; dates estimated. https://aiwhatson.com/event/usp-ai-data-webinar-series
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/usp-ai-data-webinar-series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:irai-2026-call-for-papers@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260903T000000Z
DTEND:20260905T000000Z
SUMMARY:IEEE Responsible AI Conference 2026 (Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:The IEEE International Conference on Responsible Artificial Intelligence convenes at La Trobe University's Melbourne city campus to debate the design\, deployment and governance of trustworthy AI. Tracks span AI safety and security\, physical AI and robotics\, AI ethics and regulation\, and neuro-symbolic AI\, with papers published in IEEE Xplore. https://aiwhatson.com/event/irai-2026-call-for-papers
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/irai-2026-call-for-papers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:aotearoa-ai-summit-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260908T080000Z
DTEND:20260909T170000Z
SUMMARY:Aotearoa AI Summit 2026
DESCRIPTION:Aotearoa AI Summit 2026 is New Zealand's national AI gathering\, 8–9 September at Tākina\, Wellington — keynotes\, panels and workshops. https://aiwhatson.com/event/aotearoa-ai-summit-2026
LOCATION:Wellington\, New Zealand
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/aotearoa-ai-summit-2026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:interspeech-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20260927T000000Z
DTEND:20261001T235900Z
SUMMARY:INTERSPEECH 2026
DESCRIPTION:Major speech/language technology conference relevant to speech AI and multimodal systems. https://aiwhatson.com/event/interspeech-2026
LOCATION:Sydney\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/interspeech-2026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:cloud-native-ai-summit-melbourne-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261028T120000Z
DTEND:20261028T120000Z
SUMMARY:Cloud Native AI Summit - Melbourne 2026
DESCRIPTION:A two-day flagship conference in Melbourne focusing on cloud native\, platform engineering\, AI infrastructure\, and developer experience in the Asia-Pacific region. https://aiwhatson.com/event/cloud-native-ai-summit-melbourne-2026
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/cloud-native-ai-summit-melbourne-2026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:aiph-2026-call-for-papers@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261110T000000Z
DTEND:20261111T000000Z
SUMMARY:AI & Public Health Conference 2026 (Brisbane)
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural AI & Public Health Conference\, run by the Public Health Association of Australia\, is held in Brisbane on the theme 'maximising benefits\, minimising harms'. It focuses on AI's current and future benefits and risks for public health in Australia. https://aiwhatson.com/event/aiph-2026-call-for-papers
LOCATION:Brisbane\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/aiph-2026-call-for-papers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:fiji-tech-summit-2026@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261112T000000Z
DTEND:20261113T000000Z
SUMMARY:Fiji Tech Summit 2026
DESCRIPTION:Fiji's flagship technology summit in Suva\, with AI and digital transformation a central theme for the Pacific tech community. https://aiwhatson.com/event/fiji-tech-summit-2026
LOCATION:Suva\, Fiji
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/fiji-tech-summit-2026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:iconip-2026-call-for-papers@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261123T000000Z
DTEND:20261127T000000Z
SUMMARY:ICONIP 2026 - Neural Information Processing (Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Neural Information Processing\, the flagship annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society\, is held in Melbourne. ICONIP is a major venue for neural networks\, deep learning and computational intelligence\, with associated workshops\, special sessions and tutorials. https://aiwhatson.com/event/iconip-2026-call-for-papers
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/iconip-2026-call-for-papers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:ajcai-2026-call-for-papers@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261126T000000Z
DTEND:20261130T000000Z
SUMMARY:AJCAI 2026 - Australasian Joint Conference on AI (Auckland)
DESCRIPTION:The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence is held at the University of Auckland Business School in New Zealand. It is the region's principal annual AI research conference\, drawing academics and students from across Australasia and beyond. https://aiwhatson.com/event/ajcai-2026-call-for-papers
LOCATION:Auckland\, New Zealand
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/ajcai-2026-call-for-papers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:acra-2026-australasian-conference-robotics-automation-watchlist@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261130T000000Z
DTEND:20261202T235900Z
SUMMARY:ACRA 2026 — Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (watchlist)
DESCRIPTION:Annual Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA)\, the peer-reviewed regional robotics venue for Australia and New Zealand. CORE-ranked "Australasian." Typically late November / early December. Organised by the Australasian Robotics and Automation Association. 2026 dates and venue not yet announced. Complements RSS 2026 (Sydney\, July) as the second Oceania robotics anchor. https://aiwhatson.com/event/acra-2026-australasian-conference-robotics-automation-watchlist
LOCATION:Ann Harding Conference Centre\, University of Canberra\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/acra-2026-australasian-conference-robotics-automation-watchlist
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:acml-2026-asian-conference-on-machine-learning@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261201T000000Z
DTEND:20261204T235900Z
SUMMARY:ACML 2026 — Asian Conference on Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:Regional flagship ML research conference in Asia-Pacific. https://aiwhatson.com/event/acml-2026-asian-conference-on-machine-learning
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/acml-2026-asian-conference-on-machine-learning
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:wi-iat-2026-web-intelligence-brisbane@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261203T000000Z
DTEND:20261206T000000Z
SUMMARY:WI-IAT 2026: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology\, Brisbane
DESCRIPTION:WI-IAT frames itself as AI in the connected world\, covering intelligent agents\, data science\, knowledge management and AI across the Web of people\, data\, things and agents. The 25th edition is in Brisbane in December 2026\, with a full-paper deadline of 15 June 2026 and a special track on FAccT\, LLMs and AIGC. https://aiwhatson.com/event/wi-iat-2026-web-intelligence-brisbane
LOCATION:Brisbane\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/wi-iat-2026-web-intelligence-brisbane
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:neurips-2026-sydney@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20261206T000000Z
DTEND:20261212T235900Z
SUMMARY:NeurIPS 2026 — Sydney
DESCRIPTION:NeurIPS 2026 runs 6–12 December at ICC Sydney\, with official satellites in Atlanta and Paris — the world's top machine-learning research conference. https://aiwhatson.com/event/neurips-2026-sydney
LOCATION:Sydney\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/neurips-2026-sydney
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:ieee-ssci-2027-computational-intelligence@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20270214T000000Z
DTEND:20270217T090000Z
SUMMARY:IEEE SSCI 2027 — Computational Intelligence\, Gold Coast
DESCRIPTION:The biennial IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - 10+ co-located CI symposia - on the Gold Coast (Feb 14-17\, 2027). https://aiwhatson.com/event/ieee-ssci-2027-computational-intelligence
LOCATION:Gold Coast\, Australia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/ieee-ssci-2027-computational-intelligence
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:samoa-digital-week-ai-cybersecurity@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20270401T000000Z
DTEND:20270401T000000Z
SUMMARY:Samoa Digital Week — AI & Cybersecurity strand
DESCRIPTION:Samoa's annual government digital festival\, which includes a dedicated AI & Cybersecurity strand. Recurring (2026 edition April)\; next dates to be confirmed. https://aiwhatson.com/event/samoa-digital-week-ai-cybersecurity
LOCATION:Apia\, Samoa
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/samoa-digital-week-ai-cybersecurity
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:tahiti-data-ia-initiative@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20270401T000000Z
DTEND:20270401T000000Z
SUMMARY:Tahiti DATA / IA Initiative
DESCRIPTION:A French Polynesia initiative on data and AI for sustainable island development\, held in Papeete. Recurring\; 2026 edition April\; next dates to be confirmed. https://aiwhatson.com/event/tahiti-data-ia-initiative
LOCATION:Papeete\, Tahiti\, French Polynesia
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/tahiti-data-ia-initiative
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:pacific-voices-in-ai-fnu@aiwhatson.com
DTSTAMP:20260717T152858Z
DTSTART:20270401T000000Z
DTEND:20270401T000000Z
SUMMARY:Pacific Voices in AI: Designing for Equity (FNU)
DESCRIPTION:A Fiji National University symposium on ethical\, Pacific-centred AI. Recurring\; 2026 edition April\; next dates to be confirmed. https://aiwhatson.com/event/pacific-voices-in-ai-fnu
LOCATION:Suva\, Fiji
URL:https://aiwhatson.com/event/pacific-voices-in-ai-fnu
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