| No | Year | Venue | Conference Chair | 
| 1 | 1978 | Paris, France | Alfred Y. Cho | 
| 2 | 1982 | Tokyo, Japan | Ryuzo Ueda | 
| 3 | 1984 | San Francisco, USA | Alfred Y. Cho | 
| 4 | 1986 | York, UK | Bruce Joyce | 
| 5 | 1988 | Sapporo, Japan | Kiyoshi Takahashi | 
| 6 | 1990 | La Jolla, USA | Leroy L. Chang | 
| 7 | 1992 | Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Germany | Klaus Ploog | 
| 8 | 1994 | Osaka, Japan | Shun-ichi Gonda | 
| 9 | 1996 | Malibu, USA | Kang. L. Wang | 
| 10 | 1998 | Cannes, France | Jean-Pierre Faurie | 
| 11 | 2000 | Beijing, China | Lanying Lin, Junming Zhou | 
| 12 | 2002 | San Francisco, USA | James S. Harris | 
| 13 | 2004 | Edinburgh, UK | Charles Thomas Foxon | 
| 14 | 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | Yoshiji Horikoshi | 
| 15 | 2008 | Vancouver, Canada | Tom Tiedje, Charles W. Tu | 
| 16 | 2010 | Berlin, Germany | Henning Riechert | 
| 17 | 2012 | Nara, Japan | Hajime Asahi | 
| 18 | 2014 | Flagstaff, USA | Yong-Hang Zhang | 
| 19 | 2016 | Montpellier, France | Eric Tournie | 
| 20 | 2018 | Shanghai, China | Li He | 
| 21 | 2020/2021 | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | Isaac Hernández-Calderón | 
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