27 September 2026 · In person
Robotics field systems day
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Field deployment, teleoperation and reliability data from working robot fleets.
Alongside IROS 2026
Autonomy & Robotics group →Events and conference days
ACS specialist groups convene single-day programmes alongside the major computing, semiconductor and space conferences — same city, same venue, opening day. Members attend free.
Upcoming
26 October 2026 · In person
Austin Tech Week opening day
Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX
Portfolio clinics, employer introductions and the professional-review pathway for new members.
Alongside Austin Tech Week 2026
Early Careers Network group →27 October 2026 · In person
Progression and sponsorship day
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA
Mentoring circles, promotion evidence and national retention research.
Alongside Grace Hopper Celebration 2026
Women in Computing group →7 November 2026 · In person
Biomedical informatics day
AMIA Symposium venue, Dallas, Dallas, TX
Clinical NLP, genomic pipelines and evidence standards for health AI.
Alongside AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium
Health Informatics group →9 November 2026 · In person
Platform engineering day
KubeCon venue, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT
Inference platforms, agentic workloads and the operational cost of running them.
Alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Software Engineering Practice group →30 November 2026 · In person
Grid, cooling and capacity day
re:Invent venues, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Carbon-aware placement, water reporting and the economics of AI capacity.
Alongside AWS re:Invent 2026
Green Computing group →6 December 2026 · Hybrid
Frontier model evaluation day
NeurIPS venue, Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The annual ACS evaluation day, streamed to US members from the NeurIPS main site.
Alongside NeurIPS 2026
Artificial Intelligence group →6 January 2027 · In person
Consumer autonomy and devices day
CES venues, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Driver assistance, home robotics and the assurance gap in consumer autonomy.
Alongside CES 2027
Autonomy & Robotics group →11 January 2027 · In person
Commercial space software day
SpaceCom venue, Orlando, Orlando, FL
Ground systems, launch cadence tooling and commercial mission assurance.
Alongside SpaceCom 2027
Space Systems group →14 February 2027 · In person
Silicon day: circuits and memory
San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA
Circuit-level advances and the verification burden they create, on the ISSCC opening day.
Alongside ISSCC 2027
Semiconductors & Hardware group →13 March 2027 · In person
Austin computing day
Downtown Austin venues, Austin, TX
The Austin chapter's flagship day at national HQ's home festival.
Alongside SXSW 2027
Software Engineering Practice group →14 March 2027 · Hybrid
Accelerated computing day
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA
Next-generation accelerators, memory pressure and inference planning.
Alongside NVIDIA GTC 2027
Artificial Intelligence group →30 March 2027 · In person
Fab workforce day
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ
Yield analytics and the technician-to-engineer pipeline across the US fab build-out.
Alongside SEMICON West 2027
Semiconductors & Hardware group →5 April 2027 · In person
Security leadership day
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Board reporting, AI system security and national infrastructure resilience.
Alongside RSA Conference 2027
Cybersecurity group →5 April 2027 · In person
Clinical systems assurance day
HIMSS27 venue, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Safety cases for clinical AI, interoperability and consent.
Alongside HIMSS27
Health Informatics group →12 April 2027 · In person
Mission software day
The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO
Flight software, ground segment and mission assurance with operators and primes.
Alongside 42nd Space Symposium
Space Systems group →25 April 2027 · Hybrid
Engineering practice day
The Convention Centre Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Architecture, testing strategy and professional evidence, streamed for US members.
Alongside ICSE 2027
Software Engineering Practice group →24 May 2027 · In person
Autonomy validation day
Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea
Safety cases, simulation coverage and international regulatory divergence.
Alongside ICRA 2027
Autonomy & Robotics group →7 June 2027 · In person
Data platform architecture day
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Governance, lineage and the operating model for analytical platforms.
Alongside Snowflake Summit 2027
Data & Analytics group →20 June 2027 · In person
Computer vision in production day
Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Perception evaluation, drift monitoring and incident review.
Alongside CVPR 2027
Artificial Intelligence group →21 June 2027 · In person
Analytics engineering day
Data + AI Summit venue, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Streaming systems, feature platforms and measurement discipline.
Alongside Databricks Data + AI Summit 2027
Data & Analytics group →11 July 2027 · In person
Design automation day
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA
EDA, verification and the machine learning now embedded in design flows.
Alongside 64th Design Automation Conference
Semiconductors & Hardware group →31 July 2027 · In person
Offensive security day
Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Disclosure practice, model attack surfaces and professional conduct.
Alongside Black Hat USA 2027
Cybersecurity group →15 August 2027 · In person
Small satellite computing day
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Onboard autonomy, edge processing in orbit and constellation operations.
Alongside 41st Annual Small Satellite Conference
Space Systems group →27 September 2027 · In person
Space software international day
IAC 2027 venue, Poznań, Poznań, Poland
Standards and mission assurance with international agencies and operators.
Alongside 78th International Astronautical Congress
Space Systems group →Event archive
Every ACS day since the specialist-group programme began, with the conference it was co-located with.
2026
- 1 June 2026Autonomy validation day — Conference venue, Vienna, Vienna, Austria (alongside ICRA 2026)
- 13 April 2026Mission software day — The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO (alongside 41st Space Symposium)
- 12 March 2026Austin computing day: forty years of SXSW — Downtown Austin venues, Austin, TX (alongside SXSW 2026)
2025
- 2 December 2025Frontier model evaluation day — San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA (alongside NeurIPS 2025)
- 1 December 2025Grid, cooling and capacity day — Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV (alongside AWS re:Invent 2025)
- 10 November 2025Platform engineering day — Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA (alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025)
- 4 November 2025Technical leadership day — McCormick Place, Chicago, IL (alongside Grace Hopper Celebration 2025)
- 29 September 2025Space software international day — ICC Sydney, Sydney, Australia (alongside 76th International Astronautical Congress)
- 23 September 2025Texas cyber day — Residence Inn Austin Downtown/Convention Center, Austin, TX (alongside Texas Cyber Summit 2025)
- 24 August 2025Accelerator architecture day — Stanford Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, CA (alongside Hot Chips 2025)
- 10 August 2025Small satellite computing day — Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT (alongside 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference)
- 2 August 2025Offensive security day — Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV (alongside Black Hat USA 2025)
- 22 June 2025Design automation day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside 62nd Design Automation Conference)
- 9 June 2025Analytics engineering day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025)
- 2 June 2025Data governance day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside Snowflake Summit 2025)
- 19 May 2025Autonomy validation day — Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA (alongside ICRA 2025)
- 28 April 2025Security leadership day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside RSA Conference 2025)
- 26 April 2025Engineering practice day — Rogers Centre Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (alongside ICSE 2025)
- 7 April 2025Mission software day — The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO (alongside 40th Space Symposium)
- 17 March 2025Inference at scale day — San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA (alongside NVIDIA GTC 2025)
- 7 March 2025Austin computing day: capital of the build-out — Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX (alongside SXSW 2025)
- 3 March 2025Health data interoperability day — The Venetian Convention & Expo Center, Las Vegas, NV (alongside HIMSS25)
- 16 February 2025Silicon day: chiplets and advanced packaging — San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA (alongside ISSCC 2025)
2024
- 10 December 2024Frontier model evaluation day — Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada (alongside NeurIPS 2024)
- 2 December 2024Cloud economics and carbon day — The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, NV (alongside AWS re:Invent 2024)
- 12 November 2024Platform engineering day — Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT (alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024)
- 9 November 2024Biomedical informatics day — Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA (alongside AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium)
- 28 October 2024Austin Tech Week opening day — Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX (alongside Austin Tech Week 2024)
- 27 October 2024Federal technology day — Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA (alongside ACT-IAC Imagine Nation ELC 2024)
- 14 October 2024Space software international day — MICO Convention Centre, Milan, Italy (alongside 75th International Astronautical Congress)
- 14 October 2024Autonomy field systems day — ADNEC, Abu Dhabi, UAE (alongside IROS 2024)
- 8 October 2024Progression and sponsorship day — Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA (alongside Grace Hopper Celebration 2024)
- 25 August 2024Accelerator architecture day — Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (alongside Hot Chips 2024)
- 3 August 2024Small satellite computing day — Utah State University, Logan, UT (alongside 38th Annual Small Satellite Conference)
- 3 August 2024Offensive security day — Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV (alongside Black Hat USA 2024)
- 21 July 2024Machine learning research day — Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria (alongside ICML 2024)
- 9 July 2024Fab workforce day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside SEMICON West 2024)
- 23 June 2024Design automation day — Moscone West, San Francisco, CA (alongside 61st Design Automation Conference)
- 17 June 2024Computer vision in production day — Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA (alongside CVPR 2024)
- 3 June 2024Data platform architecture day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside Snowflake Summit 2024)
- 28 May 2024Public service delivery day — Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA (alongside Code for America Summit 2024)
- 13 May 2024Robotics safety case day — PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan (alongside ICRA 2024)
- 7 May 2024Representation learning day — Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria (alongside ICLR 2024)
- 6 May 2024Security leadership day — Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA (alongside RSA Conference 2024)
- 14 April 2024Engineering practice day — Lisbon Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal (alongside ICSE 2024)
- 8 April 2024Mission software day — The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO (alongside 39th Space Symposium)
- 18 March 2024Accelerated computing day — San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA (alongside NVIDIA GTC 2024)
- 11 March 2024Clinical systems assurance day — Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL (alongside HIMSS24)
- 8 March 2024Austin computing day: the Texas technology corridor — Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX (alongside SXSW 2024)
- 18 February 2024Silicon day: circuits, memory and the accelerator stack — San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA (alongside ISSCC 2024)