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📅 Events & Conferences

Curated calendar of conferences, workshops, competitions, and summer schools relevant to decision optimisation. Expired items drop automatically. Updated Monday, April 20, 2026.

EventTypeDatesLocationTopicsNotes
EURO/ROADEF Challenge ⚠
EURO/ROADEF Challenge
COMPETITION1 Jan – 31 Dec 2026OnlineApplied ORIndustryCompetitionIndustry-sponsored OR challenges (past: SNCF, Renault, Air Liquide) → site
MOPTA 2026 Optimization Competition ⚠
MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition
COMPETITION1 Feb – 21 Aug 2026Online + finals at MOPTAModellingStudentsIndustryAnnual industry-sponsored modelling competition for student teams → site
ICLR 2026
3 days away
Intl. Conf. on Learning Representations
CONFERENCE23–27 Apr 2026Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMLCOVRPRLLLM+ORML for combinatorial optimisation, neural VRP, DRL scheduling, LLM+OR → site
IFORS 2026
Deadline in 5d
21st Triennial Conf. of the Intl. Federation of OR Societies
CONFERENCE12–17 Jul 2026Vienna, AustriaORAnalyticsSustainabilityDecision support for a sustainable world → site
APPROX/RANDOM 2026
Deadline in 16d
29th Intl. Conf. on Approximation Algorithms + 30th Intl. Conf. on Randomization and Computation
CONFERENCE19–21 Aug 2026Boston, USAApproximationRandomisedTheoryApproximation algorithms and randomised methods → site
MIP 2026 Workshop
28 days away
Mixed Integer Programming Workshop
WORKSHOP18–21 May 2026Stamford, CT, USAMIPIPSingle-track workshop on latest MIP research; Land-Doig Competition → site
SIAM Conference on Optimization 2026 ⚠
34 days away
SIAM Conference on Optimization
CONFERENCE24–28 May 2026TBCContinuousNonconvexStochasticPDEContinuous and nonconvex optimisation; stochastic/PDE-constrained optimisation → site
CPAIOR 2026
36 days away
23rd Intl. Conf. on Integration of Constraint Programming, AI, and Operations Research
CONFERENCE26–29 May 2026Rabat, MoroccoCPAIORHybridIntegration of Constraint Programming (CP), AI, and OR. First edition on the African continent. → site
ICAPS 2026 ⚠
42 days away
36th Intl. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling
CONFERENCE1–5 Jun 2026TBCPlanningSchedulingPDDLRLAutomated planning, scheduling, PDDL, hybrid planning+RL → site
CORS/OPTIMIZATION Summer School ⚠
56 days away
Summer School on Optimisation (rotating host)
SUMMER SCHOOL15–26 Jun 2026TBCOptimisationTeachingStudentsEURO-sponsored summer school on optimisation topics → site
IPCO 2026
58 days away
27th Conf. on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
CONFERENCE17–19 Jun 2026Padova, ItalyIPCOInteger Programming and Combinatorial Optimisation → site
VeRoLog 2026
10th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization
CONFERENCE6–9 Jul 2026Bath, UKVRPColumn GenMetaheuristicsVehicle routing, column generation, metaheuristics → site
ICML 2026 ⚠
Intl. Conf. on Machine Learning
CONFERENCE13–19 Jul 2026TBCMLLTODifferentiable OptLearning-to-optimise, differentiable optimisation, ML+OR workshops → site
FLoC 2026 (CP & SAT)
Federated Logic Conference — CP 2026, SAT 2026, CAV, IJCAR, LICS
CONFERENCE18–25 Jul 2026Lisbon, PortugalCPSATSMTLogicPremier venue for CP and SAT/SMT research this year → site
KDD 2026 ⚠
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
CONFERENCE9–13 Aug 2026TBCMLData MiningAppliedApplied ML on decision data; deployed-systems track often has OR case studies → site
MOPTA 2026 ⚠
Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications
CONFERENCE19–21 Aug 2026Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USAOROptimisationIndustryAnnual industry/academic OR + optimisation conference; MOPTA Competition → site
INFORMS Annual Meeting 2026 ⚠
INFORMS Annual Meeting
CONFERENCE25–28 Oct 2026TBCORAnalyticsML+ORIndustryFlagship US OR venue — industry + academic tracks, analytics, ML+OR → site
NeurIPS 2026
40th Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems
CONFERENCE6–12 Dec 2026Sydney, AustraliaMLRLNCOCOML+OR, reinforcement learning for optimisation, neural combinatorial optimisation → site