ACM India has been organizing this annual flagship event to discuss trends in science and technology, and to celebrate ACM’s spirit and India’s accomplishments in computing. This event is attended by ACM Turing Award laureates, winners of ACM Computing Prize and other prestigious awards, ACM Officers and executives, researchers and IT professionals.

Pingala Interactions in Computing (PIC) is ACM India’s flagship research networking event. PIC will bring together some of the best minds in Computing over four days annually to network in an interactive and immersive atmosphere, and promote scientific exchange of the highest quality.

Co-located with the ACM India Annual Event, ARCS is a premier ACM India conference spanning two days.

The program features

• research scholars including the winner(s) of ACM India best doctoral dissertation award talking about their published work,
• keynote by the winner of ACM India Early Career Researcher award
• eminent early career researchers from academia and industry sharing their experiences, perceptions and ground realities of PhD, and the professional life thereafter,
• selected organizations and institutions demonstrating their research credentials and recruitment, career development strategies.

The audience comprises students, faculty and industry leaders from across India coming together in an interactive environment, such as panel discussions, informal “Ask me Anything” sessions with the ARCS speakers as well as Annual Event invitees like Turing Award laureates.

Co-located with ACM India Annual Event, this workshop creates a platform for the sharing of knowledge, ideas and experiences, thereby facilitating the career growth of women in computing. It provides an opportunity for the participants to interact with experienced researchers from academia and industry across the globe, apart from getting to listen to distinguished speakers. It includes a keynote address by the winner of ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCE) Award.

Compute is an annual feature of ACM India and its objective is to bring together academicians, researchers and scholars in computer science & engineering domain and provide them a platform for knowledge sharing in the latest key areas of computing. Recent focus of Compute has been on improving the quality of computer science engineering education (including curriculum, pedagogy and assessment) in Indian undergraduate programs.

CRA-W, an international computing body, has been organising the Grad Cohort workshop since 2004 in the US for women in computing. Over the last 15 years, the workshop has helped many women students through their graduate years and beyond.

Starting 2018, ACM-W India has decided to adapt the model of this workshop to the Indian setting. Previous editions of the workshop have been held at IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.

CODS-COMAD combines two conferences. For over two decades, the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), modelled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been the premier international database conference hosted in India by Division II of Computer Society of India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then (except for a few breaks such as in the years when VLDB and ICDE were held in India). COMAD has always had a significant international participation, with about 30% of the papers being from outside India, including Europe, USA and East/South-East Asia. The Conference on Data Science (CoDS) encompasses the areas of data analytics, machine learning and managing big data. IKDD shall work with ACM to ensure co-sponsorship and publication of the proceedings of CoDS in the ACM digital library. These two conferences came together for the first time in 2018.

Innovations in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC (Formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference) is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT under the umbrella of ACM India. ISEC brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share the results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering.

The CTiS (Computational Thinking in Schools) conference is an annual event organised by the ACM, India and the CSpathshala community. It aims to bring together teachers, educators and researchers to discuss issues of curriculum, pedagogy, policy and implementation, related to bringing computational thinking to schools. CTiS2022 will be held on 8th and 9th July, 2022 at IISER, Pune in hybrid format.

BMS College of Engineering in collaboration with RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, is delighted to host the ACM India Chapter Summit 2024, bringing together ACM student chapters from across the country.

The event will take place in-person at BMSCE and RVCE, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 20 and 21 December 2024. This year, the summit aims to celebrate the theme of “Sustainable Computing”, fostering collaboration, sharing experiences, and exploring innovative ideas to advance the field of computing.