FAST '27 — 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

FAST '27, the 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, runs 23-25 February 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington in Renton, Washington. USENIX runs it as a single-track, peer-reviewed conference for storage-system researchers and practitioners, and the program committee reads 'storage' broadly: low-level storage devices, file system design, distributed and networked storage, data caching, replication and consistency, erasure coding, database and cloud data management, emerging media including DNA storage, and AI-driven storage systems. It is the venue where the layer underneath large-scale machine-learning training and inference — checkpointing, data loaders, object stores and GPU-attached I/O — gets argued out with reproducible measurements rather than vendor benchmarks. The 2027 edition again uses two submission rounds a year; the fall deadline falls on 15 September 2026 with notifications on 8 December 2026.

• Fall paper submission deadlineSep 15, 2026
• Notification to authorsDec 8, 2026
• Test of Time Award nominations dueDec 14, 2026
• Final paper files dueJan 26, 2027

Date

February 23–25, 2027

Location

Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, Renton

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

USENIX Association

Added

Aug 27, 2026

Updated

Aug 27, 2026

• ✓Storage systems researchers
• ✓Infrastructure and platform engineers
• ✓AI/ML infrastructure leads
• ✓Cloud storage architects
• ✓Site reliability engineers
• ✓VPs of Infrastructure and CTOs running AI training platforms
• ✓Graduate students in computer systems

If your 2027 budget includes a GPU cluster, the storage tier is where that spend quietly succeeds or fails: checkpoint stalls, data-loader throughput and object-store egress decide how much of a training run is actual compute rather than waiting. FAST is the one venue where those trade-offs are published with reproducible measurements before a vendor puts them on a slide, and the single-track format means an infrastructure leader sees all of it in three days. You leave with a defensible read on which storage architectures for AI are real, which are marketing, and which of your own bottlenecks are already solved problems with published numbers attached.

• ✓Single-track peer-reviewed paper sessions across the full storage stack
• ✓Call-for-papers area: AI-driven storage systems
• ✓Call-for-papers area: distributed and networked storage
• ✓Call-for-papers area: data caching, replication and consistency
• ✓Call-for-papers area: erasure coding
• ✓Call-for-papers area: cloud data management and database storage
• ✓Call-for-papers area: emerging storage technologies, including DNA storage
• ✓Test of Time Award recognising influential past FAST papers

• ★Single-track program — every attendee sees every paper, which is unusual for a venue of this standing and makes the three days genuinely comparable across the whole field
• ★Two submission rounds a year (spring and fall) instead of one annual deadline, so results reach the program months earlier than at conferences with a single cycle
• ★USENIX publishes all proceedings open access at no charge, so the entire program is readable before and after the event
• ★25th edition — the longest-running peer-reviewed storage-systems venue, with a Test of Time Award recognising papers that held up in production
• ★The call for papers explicitly names AI-driven storage systems as an area, so the AI infrastructure work is inside the main track rather than in a satellite workshop

Registration rates for FAST '27 have not been published yet. USENIX typically opens registration and posts its tiered rates (member, non-member and student) a few months before the conference, so expect them around December 2026 or January 2027. The dated facts available now are on the author side: the fall paper deadline is 15 September 2026, notifications go out 8 December 2026, and final paper files are due 26 January 2027.

When is FAST '27?

FAST '27 takes place February 23–25, 2027 in Renton, Washington.

Where is FAST '27 held?

FAST '27 is held in Renton, Washington. The event format is in-person.

What is the FAST '27 submission deadline?

The next FAST '27 deadline is fall paper submission deadline on Sep 15, 2026. Remaining dates: Notification to authors — Dec 8, 2026; Test of Time Award nominations due — Dec 14, 2026; Final paper files due — Jan 26, 2027.

How much does FAST '27 cost?

FAST '27 is paid. Registration rates for FAST '27 have not been published yet. USENIX typically opens registration and posts its tiered rates (member, non-member and student) a few months before the conference, so expect them around December 2026 or January 2027. The dated facts available now are on the author side: the fall paper deadline is 15 September 2026, notifications go out 8 December 2026, and final paper files are due 26 January 2027.

Who should attend FAST '27?

FAST '27 is aimed at Storage systems researchers, Infrastructure and platform engineers, AI/ML infrastructure leads, Cloud storage architects, Site reliability engineers, VPs of Infrastructure and CTOs running AI training platforms, Graduate students in computer systems.

What topics does FAST '27 cover?

FAST '27 covers AI-driven storage systems, Storage for machine learning workloads, File system design, Distributed and networked storage, Data caching, replication and consistency, Erasure coding and reliability, Cloud data management and database storage, Emerging storage technologies.

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