The 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26) will take place on February 24–26, 2026, in Santa Clara, CA, USA, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. FAST will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

Test of Time Award Nominations
Submit a nomination for the FAST Test of Time Award! The award honors FAST papers published 10+ years ago that have had a significant impact within our community of storage-system researchers and practitioners and beyond. Nominations received by December 13, 2025, will be considered for the 2026 award. Any nominations received after that date will be considered for future years.

SREcon26 Americas is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation.

The 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26) will be held on May 4–6, 2026, in Renton, WA, USA. NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community to foster a broad approach to addressing overlapping research challenges.

Submit a nomination for the NSDI Test of Time Award! The award honors NSDI papers published 10+ years ago that have had a significant impact within our community of networked systems researchers and practitioners and beyond. Nominations received by January 5, 2026, will be considered for the 2026 award. Any nominations received after that date will be considered for 2027.

The 2026 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR '26) will take place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, in Santa Clara, CA, USA, on June 1–2, 2026.

PEPR is focused on designing and building products and systems with privacy and respect for their users and the societies in which they operate. Our goal is to improve the state of the art and practice of building for privacy and respect and to foster a deeply knowledgeable community of both privacy practitioners and researchers who collaborate towards that goal.

The Call for Participation will be available soon.

The 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '26) will take place on July 13–15, 2026, at The Westin Seattle in Seattle, WA, USA.

OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.

The 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) will take place on August 10–11, 2026, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD, USA.

The USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies brings together both academics and practitioners in the field of offensive security research. Occurring annually since 2007, when it was first founded as the Workshop on Offensive Technologies, WOOT has become the top venue for collaboration between academia, independent hackers, and industry participants on offensive research. As offensive security has changed over the years to become a large-scale operation managed by well-capitalized actors, WOOT has consistently attracted a range of high-quality, peer-reviewed work from academia and industry on novel attacks, state-of-the-art tools, and offensive techniques.

The 4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec '26) will take place on August 10–11, 2026, in conjunction with the 35th USENIX Security Symposium in Baltimore, MD, USA.

VehicleSec aims to bring together an audience of university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, and government representatives to contribute new theories, technologies, and systems on any security/privacy issues related to vehicles (e.g., ground, aerial, in/on water, space), their sub-systems (e.g., in-vehicle networks, autonomy, connectivity, human-machine interfaces), supporting infrastructures (e.g., transportation infrastructure, charging station, ground control station), and related fundamental technologies (e.g., sensing, control, AI/ML/DNN/LLM, wireless communication, real-time computing, edge computing, location service, simulation, digital twin, multi-agent protocol/system design, and human-machine interaction).

The Call for Papers will be available soon.

The 35th USENIX Security Symposium will take place on August 12–14, 2026, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD, USA. The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

The 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '27) will take place on February 23–25, 2027, in Renton, WA, USA. FAST will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.