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Every conference registration email asks the same thing. There is a “hotel block” at a few partner hotels, the conference is pushing you to book it...
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What Your Advisor Expects You to Get Out of a Conference
Most advisors never spell this out, so here it is plainly. Sending you to a conference costs real money from a grant, and that money has an opportu...
CVPR and SIGCOMM 2026 Denver: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
Two A* conferences. Same venue. Acceptances for both just dropped. CVPR 2026 runs June 3-7 at the Colorado Convention Center - computer vision and...
Best Hotels Near COEX for ICML 2026 Seoul
ICML 2026 acceptance notifications have just gone out, and if you’re heading to Seoul for the conference, the next thing on the list is booking acc...
Best Hotels Near Moscone Center San Francisco
Moscone Center is one of the busiest convention centers in North America, hosting everything from CVPR and CHI to RSA Conference and Salesforce Dre...
The First-Time Academic Conference Attendee Guide
Academic conferences can feel disorienting the first time. The program is dense, the venue is large, the attendees all seem to know each other, and...
Pittsburgh Conference Travel Guide: IROS 2026 and CHI 2027
Pittsburgh is having a significant moment on the academic conference calendar. The city hosts IROS 2026 — the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on ...
CVPR 2026 Denver: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition returns to Denver for 2026, running June 3-7 at the Colorado Convention Center i...
EMNLP 2026 Budapest: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing comes to Central Europe for 2026, with EMNLP 2026 taking place at Hungexpo Budap...
ICLR 2026 Rio de Janeiro: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The International Conference on Learning Representations heads to South America for 2026, with ICLR taking place at Riocentro Convention and Event ...
AAAI 2027 Montreal: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to Montreal in February 2027, running February 16-23 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal (...
ICML 2026 Seoul: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The International Conference on Machine Learning returns to Asia in 2026, landing at COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea,...
What CORE Rankings Actually Mean (and How to Use Them)
If you’re a researcher deciding where to submit, where to attend, or how to explain your CV to a hiring committee, you’ve probably encountered the ...
SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles: Where to Stay and How to Plan Your Trip
SIGGRAPH is one of those conferences that feels different from the rest. More than 15,000 researchers, artists, engineers, and developers descend o...
Research Trends to Watch in 2026
As the new year arrives, many fields are experiencing noticeable shifts in how research is conducted, funded, shared, and discussed. Conference cal...
November Conference Guide: Where AI, Data and Innovation Meet
November is one of the busiest months on the technology‑conference calendar. As the year winds down, some of the biggest events in artificial inte...
Where AI Meets the World: Upcoming Machine Learning Conferences (Nov 2025‑2026)
From large language models to generative AI and data‑mining systems, the pace of machine‑learning research continues to accelerate. If you are plan...
Understanding Acceptance Rates in Cybersecurity Conferences
Acceptance rates are often used as a rough barometer of how selective a conference is. For researchers in computer security and privacy, knowing t...
Deep Dive: CCS 2025 Cybersecurity Preview – Taipei, Taiwan (Oct 13-17)
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is the premier venue for cutting-edge research in cybersecurity and privacy. In 2...
Deep Dive: Singapore’s Programming Conference Trio – ICFP, OOPSLA & SPLASH 2025
The ICFP, OOPSLA and SPLASH conferences are co-located this year in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands from October 12-18, 2025. That means one trip can...
October 2025 Tech Conferences & Travel Insights
October is a packed month for Computer Science conferences. Several flagship events will take place across Asia and Europe, covering topics from f...
Why Workshops Matter: Insights from ICDM 2025
Every big conference has a heart - a space where ideas are tested, networks are built and new research directions take shape. At the IEEE Internati...
AWS re:Invent on a Budget: Tips for Saving Money in Las Vegas
AWS re:Invent is one of those conferences that everybody in the cloud space wants to attend at least once. It is huge, exciting, and full of opport...
A Cybersecurity Student’s Guide to Choosing the Right Conference
If you are studying data science or cybersecurity you have probably wondered at some point whether it is better to spend your time at a big industr...
Best Hotels Near Suzhou International Expo Centre
Headed to EMNLP 2025 at the Suzhou International Expo Centre? Start with the venue overview here: Suzhou International Expo Centre and the conferen...
ACL vs EMNLP vs LREC: Which to attend?
ACL vs EMNLP vs LREC: Which NLP Conference Should You Attend? In the natural language processing community, three names consistently dominate the ...
RSA vs Black Hat vs DEF CON: What’s the Difference?
RSA vs Black Hat vs DEF CON: What’s the Difference? When people talk about cybersecurity conferences the three names that come up most often are R...
Welcome to Work + Wander
We started out as students hauling posters to academic conferences, stretching our budgets just to see a little more of the world. Now we’re at ind...