CIKM 2027 — 36th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

CIKM 2027, the 36th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, is scheduled for 25-29 October 2027 in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Macquarie University's School of Computing and its Frontier AI Research Centre. The dates were announced as tentative at the CIKM business meeting and the venue has not yet been named. CIKM is a premier international forum for the presentation and discussion of research in information retrieval, knowledge management, data mining and database systems, sponsored jointly by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB and running since 1992. Recent editions have centred on AI for information access, knowledge representation, data integration, personalisation and evaluation — the research that underpins enterprise retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs and search ranking.

Date

October 25–29, 2027

Location

Sydney, Australia

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB, hosted by Macquarie University School of Computing (Frontier AI Research Centre)

Added

Aug 26, 2026

Updated

Aug 26, 2026

• ✓Information retrieval and search researchers
• ✓Applied scientists building RAG and enterprise search
• ✓Knowledge graph and data platform engineers
• ✓Recommender systems teams
• ✓Heads of AI research and applied science leads
• ✓PhD students and academics in IR and data mining

If your roadmap includes enterprise search, retrieval-augmented generation or a knowledge graph, CIKM is where the evaluation methodology you will be arguing about two years from now is being written today. A head of AI or applied-science lead leaves with the current state of retrieval quality measurement, hybrid dense and sparse ranking, and knowledge-grounded generation, plus a recruiting pipeline into a research community that is small and highly specific. The Applied Research track and Industry Day are explicitly for deployed systems, so the takeaways land closer to production than at a purely theoretical venue.

• ✓Full and short research paper tracks
• ✓Applied Research track for industrial-scale deployed systems
• ✓Resource papers track for datasets, benchmarks and reusable artifacts
• ✓Industry Day, aimed at practitioners rather than academics
• ✓Demonstration papers and the AnalytiCup data-science competition
• ✓Tutorials and a large workshop programme
• ✓PhD Symposium for doctoral researchers

• ★Sits at the junction of three fields — information retrieval, knowledge management and databases — which is exactly where retrieval-augmented generation actually lives
• ★Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB, giving it reach across both the search and web-research communities
• ★Runs an explicit Applied Research track and an Industry Day, so deployed-system papers are first-class rather than an afterthought
• ★The AnalytiCup competition sets a shared benchmark task alongside the paper tracks, so results are directly comparable

Registration is not yet open and no rates are published; the 2027 dates themselves are still listed as tentative and the venue is unannounced. ACM conferences of this size normally post ACM/SIG member, non-member and student tiers with an early-bird cut-off roughly two months before the conference.

When is CIKM 2027?

CIKM 2027 takes place October 25–29, 2027 in Sydney, Australia.

Where is CIKM 2027 held?

CIKM 2027 is held in Sydney, Australia. The event format is in-person.

How much does CIKM 2027 cost?

CIKM 2027 is paid. Registration is not yet open and no rates are published; the 2027 dates themselves are still listed as tentative and the venue is unannounced. ACM conferences of this size normally post ACM/SIG member, non-member and student tiers with an early-bird cut-off roughly two months before the conference.

Who should attend CIKM 2027?

CIKM 2027 is aimed at Information retrieval and search researchers, Applied scientists building RAG and enterprise search, Knowledge graph and data platform engineers, Recommender systems teams, Heads of AI research and applied science leads, PhD students and academics in IR and data mining.

What topics does CIKM 2027 cover?

CIKM 2027 covers Information retrieval, Knowledge management, Data mining, Retrieval-augmented generation, Knowledge graphs, Recommender systems, Enterprise search, Large language models for information access, Database systems, Evaluation and benchmarking.

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