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Update for March 2024: we went through the list and did a semi-annual refresh on the links and venues, and did some re-organization and formatting. Feel free to contact us when we fall behind!
Below you'll find a list of the major conferences and symposia in the microwave and related industries.
ATTENTION EVENT ORGANIZERS! If you are organizing an event that is relevant to microwave engineers, please email us a note and we'll add it to this calendar.
Minor complanint to organizers... why not maintain a permanent URL for your conference, instead of changing it every year, so your links don't go to the lost-and-found bin of the internet?
JANUARY
IEEE Radio & Wireless Week, 19 - 22 January 2025, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
The annual IEEE Radio Wireless Week consists of five co-located topical conferences:
- RWS: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
- PAWR: IEEE Topical Meeting on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications
- SiRF: IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems
- TWIOS: IEEE Topical Workshop on the Internet of Space (IoS)
- WiSNet: IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks
Rather than trying to keep track of five web sites, you can learn about all the conferences on Radio Wireless Week's web page.
Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications IX, 25-30 January 2025, San Francisco, California, USA
This event is part of the much larger Photonics West conference put on by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
http://spie.org/PWO/conferencedetails/thz-rf-mm-submm-wave-technology
FEBRUARY
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, 18-22 February 2024, San Francisco, California, USA
From their web site:
Traditional computing solutions tend to be very vertically oriented. The cloud brings the promise of many benefits such as flexible computing power, shared software applications, and centralized databases. Solutions for bridging the gaps in the cloud will need to evolve from the technologies and systems we have today. New approaches to sharing networks, infrastructure and data storage will be required, as will new approaches to securing these shared resources. These solutions will challenge systems designers to consider new system architectures and will also require advances in circuit and technology.
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)
MARCH
GOMACTech, 17-20 March 2025, Anaheim, California, USA
Possibly the coolest symposium for defense types, the Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technologies Conference audience is restricted to U.S. citizens only. In 2014, Charleston was great, if you don't mind eating barbecue twice a day. In 2015 it was held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2016 it moved to Orlando. GOMACTech is always held at a hotel that can meet government per diem rates, which explains why it has been held at Bally's Casino in Las Vegas several times, and Reno in 2017. The 2024 conference attendance was almost 1500 people with ~140 exhibit booths. The smell of money from the CHIPS program is a strong pheromone! Don't expect it to be held at a waterfront property in Boston!
GOMACTech
IMAPS packaging conference, 18-21 March 2024, Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA
The IMAPS device packaging conference has been going strong for around twenty years. It's held at a resort in Arizona, bring your golf shoes and "go green" and rent some sticks. If you're on government per diem, you'll be purchasing your own meals! The "M" in IMAPS should stand for "marketing", this is not an IEEE-type event. But if you happend to be looking to buy some packaging, they've got you covered! In addition to the requisite supplier exhibition, IMAPS provides processional development courses, the day before the conference starts.
IMAPS Device Packaging Conference
APRIL
ARMMS Microwave conference, 29-30 April 2024, Thame, England
The Automated RF and Microwave Measurement Society has a conference twice a year in the U.K., once in April and once in November. Approximately 15 papers are presented over a two-day period. ARMMS provides past papers on their web site for downloading. Microwaves101 has a page dedicated to ARMMS, and the Unknown Editor attended it in 2022.
From their web site:
The original aims of the society have expanded over the years as instrumentation has become more automated and we now cover diverse topics in Radio and Radar design and test, metrology, medical, materials testing etc.
ARMMS Microwave conference
Components for Military & Space Electronics (CMSE) Conference & Exhibition, 25-29 April 2024
This three-day conference includes over 25 technical presentations and a full day of cutting edge industry tutorials from experts in the field along with keynote talks from technical leaders at NASA and USAF SMC. CMSE is the most comprehensive conference addressing successful practices for the use of both military and COTS components in military and space systems. Personnel working in this field are encouraged to attend this event conveniently hosted at Four Points by Sheraton LAX, CA.
CMSE
MAY
IEEE Radar Conference, 6 -10 May 2024, Denver, Colorado, USA
RadarConf is co-sponsored by IEEE Region 1 (the northeast part of the United States) and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. It was held in New York City for the first time this year.
IEEE RadarConf 2024
CS MANTECH, 20-23 May 2024, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Here's their mission statement (we copied from their website!)
CS MANTECH is a not-for-profit organization whose focus is to provide a forum for members of the compound semiconductor community to exchange and discuss new ideas to better serve the public in general.
CS MANTECH, "CS" meaning compound semi, was once called GaAs MANTECH. This organization posts their material on line for free downloading, so you can learn what your competitors are bragging about by perusing abstracts from prior years.
CS MANTECH
JUNE
IEEE International Microwave Symposium, 16-21 June 2024, Washington DC, USA
New for May 2023: here's a Microwaves101 page dedicated to IMS.
This conference IMS may be the most important annual meeting for microwave types, it runs concurrently with IEEE's RFIC Symposium. It also has the distinction of being the only microwave industry event where Microwaves101 staffs a booth in the exhibit hall and has been known to provide a keg of beer to thirsty attendees. Come on out to see us!
International Microwave Symposium
RFIC Symposium, 16-18 June 2024, Washington DC, USA
This conference runs concurrently with IMS for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If you purchase the "Superpass" for IMS you can attend RFIC and ARFTG talks as well.
RFIC Symposium
ARFTG Symposium, 21 June 2024, Washington DC, USA
Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG) is traditionally held on the Friday after IMS.
ARFTG
JULY
There's not much going on in July 2024. Why not plan your vacation for this month?
AUGUST
IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity (EMC +SIPI), 5-9 August 2024, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Special topic areas for the symposium include Automotive, Intentional EMI and Cybersecurity, Wireless (co-site EMI, 5G), Robotics, and Model Based Engineering. And of course, they'll have technical sessions, interactive workshops/tutorials, standards sessions, experiments and demonstrations, technical exhibition, as well as social events.
https://emc2024.org/
SEPTEMBER
European Solid-State Device Research Conference, European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 9-12 September 2024, Lisbon, Portugal
The aim of ESSCIRC and ESSDERC is to provide an annual European forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in solid-state devices and circuits.
ESSDIRC/ESSCIRC 2024
European Microwave Week 2024, 22-27 September 2024, Paris, France
The best boondoggle is of course EuMW. Get your passport ready, and get away from Starbucks, TGI Friday's, Chipotle, Comfort Inn and all the other crap venues in the New World wasteland! EuMW is actually four conferences on different microwave topics, including wireless, radar, and integrated circuits. The 2021 event got postponed to April of 2022, but they are also hosted an official 2022 event in September 2022. Starting in 2023 eveything is back on track!
European Microwave Week 2024
OCTOBER
EDICON, Quarterly starting in 2023, online
The Electronic Design Innovation Conference and Exhibition (EDI CON), in conjunction with Microwave Journal (MWJ) and Signal Integrity Journal (SIJ), is an online, interactive event for high frequency and high speed design engineers, The interactive technical sessions will occur at no cost to attendees, and sponsors will have the opportunity to present workshops and keynote sessions as part of the daily schedule. The event now quarterly, check the website for details.
EDI CON ONLINE
IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS), 20-24 October 2024, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Starting in 2018, the IEEE Bipolar and BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) and the IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS) have merged under a new name: IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS) pronounced “Be-Six.” That's a lot of initials, but the important thing to know is that this is a personal favorite of Microwaves101's Unknown Editor, who had his real name appear on a paper at the 2013 conference. He's even been known to tweet during the event. The audience is truly international, and because it draws people back each year most of the audience and chair people know each other (but are glad to welcome new attendees). Coverage includes all aspects of the technology: materials, device fabrication, device phenomena, TCAD modeling, compact modeling, integrated circuit design, testing, and system applications. A wide range of integrated circuit technologies are covered, including bipolar, BiCMOS, SiGe, GaAs, GaN, InP, SiC, and CMOS. The latest results in wireless, analog, RF, microwave, high-speed digital, mixed signal, opto-electronic, millimeter wave, and THz integrated circuits are embraced.
Microwaves101 has a dedicated page on BCICTS, including one that summarizes the event history.
This may be the only IEEE symposium that never has to hire a band for its reception, thanks to multi-talented members.
IEEE BCICT Symposium
NOVEMBER
ARMMS Microwave conference, ? November 2024, Wyboston Lakes, Wyboston, England
The Automated RF and Microwave Measurement Society has a conference twice a year in the U.K., once in April and once in November. Approximately 15 papers are presented over a two-day period. ARMMS provides past papers on their web site for downloading. Microwaves101 has a page dedicated to ARMMS, and the Unknown Editor attended it in 2022.
From their web site:
The original aims of the society have expanded over the years as instrumentation has become more automated and we now cover diverse topics in Radio and Radar design and test, metrology, medical, materials testing etc.
ARMMS Microwave conference
Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 17-20 November 2024, Bali, Indonesia
You'd be surprised at what you can learn at this conference, even if you only speak English. Topics of interest, from their website:
- Active Devices and Circuits
- Passive Components
- Systems
- Antennas and Propagation
- Emerging Areas
APMC
DECEMBER
Association of Old Crows Convention, 11-13 December 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, USA
Old Crows are a group of people that are interested in electronic warfare. They hold many conferences on different topics throughout the year, but the main convention is in the Fall.
AOC Convention
IEEE International Electron Device Meeting, 7-11 December 2024, San Francisco, California, USA
From their site:
With a history stretching back nearly 60 years, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling.
IEDM