FCRC 2027 in Atlanta: Travel Guide

The Federated Computing Research Conference runs from 5 to 11 June 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, and it is worth understanding why that single line matters more than a normal conference announcement.

FCRC happens roughly once every four years. When it does, the ACM co-locates a set of conferences that normally have nothing to do with each other into one building for one week. For 2027 that means PLDI, ISCA, STOC and SIGMETRICS, all CORE A*, plus SPAA and PADS. e-Energy is also expected but has not published dates.

Programming languages, computer architecture, theory, performance measurement and parallel algorithms. In any other year those are five separate trips.

What FCRC actually is, and what it is not

It is not six conferences you attend in sequence. They run concurrently across the same week, sharing plenary sessions and a single registration, with each conference holding its own technical programme on its own subset of days.

That distinction matters for planning. The per-conference day breakdown for 2027 has not been published yet, which is why every FCRC conference on this site currently shows the full 5 to 11 June window. When the schedule lands, some of these will turn out to occupy three days rather than seven, and you may be able to arrive later or leave earlier than the full week suggests. We will update the individual conference pages as that is confirmed.

What you can rely on now: the week, the city and the building.

The thing that makes this trip unusual

Most conference travel advice is about geography. This one is not. Atlanta’s conference district is compact, every hotel below is within 2.5 km of the venue, and two of them are essentially at the door. There is no wrong neighbourhood to warn you about.

The problem is capacity. FCRC draws several thousand attendees from communities that do not normally overlap, and it puts them all in one hotel in one week. The Hyatt Regency has 1,264 rooms, which sounds enormous until you remember it is hosting six conferences simultaneously. The rooms that go first are the ones in the building where the sessions are.

Nine months out is not too early to book this one. That is not a line every guide should use, and we do not use it often.

Where to stay

Distances are from the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

The venue itself. Hyatt Regency Atlanta (details) is where FCRC happens. Zero commute, and during a week with six overlapping programmes the ability to drop back to your room between sessions is worth more than usual.

Effectively next door. Hyatt Place Atlanta/Downtown (details) is 11 metres away, includes hot breakfast, and is the obvious student and postdoc option. The Westin Peachtree Plaza (details) is 257 metres down Peachtree Street with 1,073 rooms of its own, which makes it the realistic overflow when the Hyatt fills.

A short walk. Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park (details) at 996 m sits beside Centennial Olympic Park and the aquarium. Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown (details) at 1.2 km is the boutique option opposite the Fox Theatre.

Midtown. Loews Atlanta Hotel (details) at 2.3 km and Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta (details) at 2.5 km are the upscale picks, both walkable to Georgia Tech and the arts district. MARTA connects Midtown to Peachtree Center in a few minutes.

The full list is on the Atlanta city page, and the conference-rate question is covered here.

The building is worth knowing about

This is a rare case where the venue is genuinely interesting to the audience attending it.

The Hyatt Regency Atlanta opened in 1967 to a design by John Portman, and its 22-storey atrium is the reason atrium hotels exist. Before it, hotel interiors were corridors. Portman cut the middle out of the building, ran glass elevators up the void, and the format was copied worldwide for the next fifty years. The Polaris revolving dome still sits on the roof.

There is something quietly appropriate about ISCA, the computer architecture conference, meeting in the building that changed building architecture. And 257 metres away, the Westin Peachtree Plaza was the tallest hotel in the world when it topped out in 1976 at 73 storeys, also by Portman. Two landmark buildings, one street, both hosting your week.

Getting in

Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) is the busiest airport in the world and, for once, that works in your favour: almost everywhere has a direct flight. It sits 13 km south of downtown.

The important detail is that MARTA rail runs straight from the airport to Peachtree Center, which is the station attached to the conference district. Red and Gold lines, roughly 20 minutes, a few dollars, no transfer. For a US conference city this is unusually good, and it is worth resisting the instinct to take a rideshare out of habit.

Beyond that corridor, Atlanta is a car city and MARTA coverage thins quickly. For this trip you will not need it: the venue, the hotels and the walkable downtown attractions are all inside the same few blocks.

June in Atlanta is hot

Set expectations. Atlanta’s pleasant windows are April to May and September to October. FCRC lands in June, which is the start of the southern summer: high twenties to low thirties Celsius, high humidity, and afternoon thunderstorms that arrive quickly and pass quickly.

The practical consequence is that the walk from a Midtown hotel that looks pleasant on a map in February is a different proposition in June. If you are heat-sensitive, the case for staying inside the Peachtree Center cluster gets stronger.

Between sessions

Almost everything worth seeing downtown is within walking distance of the venue, which is convenient in a week where your free time will come in ninety-minute gaps.

The Georgia Aquarium at Centennial Olympic Park is one of the largest in the world and the city’s signature attraction. The World of Coca-Cola is next door and is exactly what it sounds like, which is either a recommendation or a warning.

The Center for Civil and Human Rights, also at Centennial Park, is the one to make time for. It is a serious museum and Atlanta is the right city to see it in. Related and a short MARTA ride east, the Martin Luther King Jr National Historical Park covers his birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church.

For an evening, the Atlanta BeltLine is a former railway corridor converted into a walking and cycling loop lined with restaurants and breweries, and the Eastside Trail is the developed stretch. Ponce City Market, a converted Sears building on the BeltLine, is the easiest single destination for a group dinner.

If you work across two of these fields

The strongest argument for going is the one FCRC exists to make. If your work sits between theory and systems, or between languages and architecture, this is the one week in four years where both communities are in the same building and you can walk between them.

That is genuinely hard to arrange otherwise, and it is why the host hotel fills early. Whatever else you take from this guide: book before the schedule is announced, not after.