Your Guide to the Best
Data Visualization Conferences in 2024 & 2025
The Data Visualization Conferences 2024-2025 Guide is showing more live and in-person events, but something in the data visualization conference landscape has changed. Covid-19 ripped through travel and conference attendance and we’re still seeing the effects. Some of the most notable conferences featured on past lists have died or have gone quiet for a year. Most notably the Eyeo Festival. Others have merged with other festivals and summits, incorporating other topics into their conference names and agendas. Artificial intelligence has embedded itself alongside data visualization and visual analytics in a few of the conferences I like below. This year, AI is embedding itself in everything along the data analytics-to-data-visualization-visual-communications pipeline. Exciting.
I’ve curated data visualization conferences from North America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Use this year’s conference guide as a travel planner. So get out, travel, meet new people, and learn more about what makes data visualization such a creative and interesting area to work in.
July 2024
Electronic Visualisation & the Arts Conference, London
July 8th to the 12th — London, England (onsite and virtual)
Oh, I love EVA London’s focus this year. Looking at visualization technologies in the arts and the sciences, again the 2024 version of EVA London promises to showcase such cool stuff. Held every year since 1990, this conference always ranks in my Top 3. One, because it’s in London in the summer. Two, because I want to know more about the “fringes” of visualization. I’d be looking at the following areas for EVA London this year:
- Museums and Collections
- Data, Scientific, and Creative Visualisation
- 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing
And of course, if you are into merged technologies, look at these two adjacent topics at the 2024 EVA London conference :
- Artificial Intelligence
- and the Metaverse
If you check out one conference on this list, I’d go with this one.
October 2024
IEEE VIS 2024
October 13th to the 18th — St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, U.S.A. (onsite and virtual)
Moving on from IEEE VIS 2023‘s host city of Melbourne, Australia, my home city — the 2024 conference lands in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida. Very nice. Billed as the “premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics”, IEEE VIS 2024 promises to convene pretty much everybody (researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry) to talk about design and the use of visualization tools. Last year, Apple, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, & Tableau sent their best.
This year’s 2024 conference has some great topics including the Visualization for Explainable AI workshop! So get some sun in Florida, pet a manatee while you’re there, and attend another great data visualization conference, one of the top 3 on this 2024 list!
February 2025
International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications 2025
February 26th to the 28th, 2025 — Porto, Portugal (in-person & virtual)
The International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) is for people who are interested in three main areas: information visualization, scientific visualization, & visualization techniques.
This conference is very much an academic conference, as opposed to the deceased, art-focused Eyeo Festival and some of the more tech-centric programs found in other conferences on this list. But don’t let that hold you back. There’s something for each curious visualizer. My particular interest lies in the visualization technique areas — in particular, this year’s 15th annual IVAPP lists three awesome topics that piqued my interest.
- Information Visualization
- Scientific Visualization
- Visualization Techniques
So if you’re in southern Europe in February, attend this reliable stalwart on the data viz calendar.
March 2025
DATA festival 2024
March 26th & 27th, 2025 — Munich, Germany (onsite and virtual)
This year’s DATA festival is back live and in-person, with a new slate of speakers primarily from Germany and Central Europe. Past speakers came from the who’s who of European business: Siemens, Merck, IKEA, Lufthansa, and Zeiss. As with other data visualization conferences on this list, artificial intelligence as a topic is top of mind in this year’s conference program.
I especially want to see the Opening Keynote for 2025 conference: “GenAI – what is hype and what is real?”
About the Best Data Visualization Conferences of 2024 & 2025
Some annual summits, professional events, and conferences that I eagerly want to attend are yet to finalize their dates for 2025. Several prominent data visualization conferences have also chosen to remain virtual for another year, prioritizing the safety of attendees or perhaps saving on costs.
However, there is also good news, as the roster of conferences in 2024 & 2025 dedicated to exploring and drawing inspiration from data visualization has expanded. The compilation below includes a mix of popular data visualization conferences and those with a more academic focus.
If you don’t see a conference in your country listed, please reach out, and I’ll make it a priority to update this 2024 & 2025 data visualization conference list throughout the year.
In 2024 & 2025, What Other Data Visualization Conferences Are You Interested In?
Are we missing a conference near you? Contact us and we’ll look to update the 2023/2024 data visualization conference list throughout the year.
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