This page tracks conferences that are relevant to research software engineering (RSE), scientific computing, and HPC.

General RSE and research computing

US-RSE

  • Website: https://us-rse.org/usrse26/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: San Jose, CA
  • Notes: A strong venue for RSE and HPC topics, with many attendees from academia and research organizations.

RSECon (Society of Research Software Engineering)

  • Website: https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: Sheffield, UK
  • Notes: Often described as one of the original RSE-focused conferences; UK-centered but connected to the broader international RSE community.

UCAR SEA ISS (Improving Scientific Software)

  • Website: https://sea.ucar.edu/iss/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • Typical location: Boulder, CO (including this year)
  • Notes: Hosted by the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly (SEA), with focus on scientific software and HPC practices; useful for both virtual and in-person participation.

PEARC (Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing)

  • Website: https://pearc.acm.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: July 26-30, 2026, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Scope: Advanced research computing practice across infrastructure, operations, software, and user support
  • Notes: Broad, practitioner-friendly conference with strong relevance for research computing operations and software-enabled science. PEARC26 includes an RSE special track.

Science Gateways Annual Conference (Gateways)

  • Website: https://sciencegateways.org/
  • Conference site: https://indico.global/event/16924/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: September 23-25, 2026, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, Washington, DC
  • Scope: Research gateways and cyberinfrastructure spanning software platforms, workflows, user enablement, and sustainability
  • Notes: Strong overlap with RSE, research computing enablement, and community-driven infrastructure.

IEEE eScience

  • Website: https://www.escience-conference.org/2026/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: September 28-October 2, 2026, Naples, Italy
  • Scope: Computationally and data-intensive science across disciplines, including HPC, cloud, and distributed infrastructure
  • Notes: Good cross-disciplinary venue for workflows, reproducibility, and research platform engineering.

Language-specific meetings

SciPy

  • Website: https://conference.scipy.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 location: Minneapolis, MN
  • Notes: A highly active Python scientific-computing community event with strong talks, tutorials, and broad RSE participation.

useR! (The R User Conference)

  • Website: https://user2026.r-project.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: July 7-9, 2026, Warsaw, Poland
  • Scope: R language, packages, reproducible analysis workflows, and community-led open-source development
  • Notes: Flagship community conference for R users and developers; highly relevant for RSE teams supporting statistical computing and reproducible research.

HPC and distributed systems

SC (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis)

  • Website: https://supercomputing.org/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: November 15-20, 2026, Chicago, IL
  • Scope: Flagship HPC conference across systems, software, networking, storage, and large-scale applications
  • Notes: One of the primary annual venues for the global supercomputing community.

ISC High Performance

  • Website: https://isc-hpc.com/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • 2026 timing/location: June 22-26, 2026, Hamburg, Germany
  • Scope: HPC, AI, and quantum computing with a large technical program and exhibition
  • Notes: Major international HPC event with strong participation from research labs, universities, and vendors.

HPDC (ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing)

  • Website: https://hpdc.sci.utah.edu/
  • Cadence: Annual
  • Scope: High-performance parallel and distributed computing research and systems
  • Notes: A good fit for teams working at the intersection of distributed systems, performance engineering, and scientific/HPC workloads.

Domain-specific and community conferences

BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)

  • Website: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/about/
  • Cadence: Annual (running since 2000)
  • 2026 timing/location: July 14-15, 2026, in Washington, DC and online (as part of ISMB 2026)
  • Scope: Open source bioinformatics and open science, including tooling, standards/ontologies, reproducibility, and community sustainability
  • Notes: Organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF); typically connected with ISMB and often accompanied by CollaborationFest (CoFest), a collaborative working session.

OME Community Meeting (Open Microscopy Environment)

  • Website: https://www.openmicroscopy.org/events/ome-community-meeting-2026.html
  • Cadence: Annual community meeting (conference-style)
  • 2026 timing/location: April 28-30, 2026, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Scope: Microscopy image data management, standards (including OME-NGFF), and open-source tooling around OMERO/OME
  • Notes: Domain-specific event with conference-like talks and community exchange; relevant for RSE teams supporting imaging and microscopy data workflows.