Congresses
Triennial Congresses are organized on a worldwide scale, with attendance up to 4000 people. They are held across the globe to represent IFAC’s diverse membership. Location and dates of forthcoming and past congresses are shown below. As a rule, no Symposia or Conferences take place in the year of the Congress, and also the number of Workshops is restricted in order to avoid conflicting dates.
Forthcoming Congresses
- 23rd IFAC World Congress 2026: Busan (KR)
- 24th IFAC World Congress 2029: Amsterdam (NL)
- 25th IFAC World Congress 2032: Honolulu (US)
Past congresses
- 1st Congress, 1960: Moscow (SU)
- 2nd Congress, 1963: Basel (CH)
- 3rd Congress, 1966: London (UK)
- 4th Congress, 1969: Warsaw (PL)
- 5th Congress, 1972: Paris (FR)
- 6th Congress, 1975: Boston/Cambridge (US)
- 7th Congress, 1978: Helsinki (FI)
- 8th Congress, 1981: Kyoto (JP)
- 9th Congress, 1984: Budapest (HU)
- 10th Congress, 1987: Munich (DE)
- 11th Congress, 1990: Tallinn (SU)
- 12th Congress, 1993: Sydney (AU)
- 13th Congress, 1996: San Francisco (US)
- 14th Congress, 1999: Beijing (CN)
- 15th Congress, 2002: Barcelona (ES)
- 16th Congress, 2005: Prague (CZ)
- 17th Congress, 2008: Seoul (KR)
- 18th Congress, 2011: Milan (IT)
- 19th Congress, 2014: Cape Town (ZA)
- 20th Congress, 2017: Toulouse (FR)
- 21st IFAC World Congress, 2020: Berlin (DE)
- 22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023: Yokohama (JP)
