• 1993 1st International Congress: Lugano, Switzerland | Chair Claudio Galli
• 1995 2nd International Congress: Washington D.C. | Chair, Norman Salem
• 1998 3rd International Congress: Lyon, France | Chair, Michel Lagarde
• 2000 4th International Congress: Tsukuba, Japan | Chair, Tomohito Hamazaki
• 2002 5th International Congress: Montreal, Canada | Chair, Stephen Cunnane
• 2004 6th International Congress: Brighton, UK | Chair, Philip Calder
• 2006 7th International Congress: Cairns, Australia |Co-Chairs, Bob Gibson, Maria Makrides and Andy Sinclair
• 2008 8th International Congress: Kansas City, USA |Co-Chairs, Susan Carlson, Bill Harris and Jay Whelan
• 2010 9th International Congress: Maastricht, Netherlands | Chair, Jan Glatz
• 2012 10th International Congress: Vancouver, Canada | Chair, Tom Clandidin
• 2014 11th International Congress: Stockholm, Sweden | Chair, Birgitta Strandvik
• 2016 12th International Congress: Stellenbosch, South Africa | Chair, Marius Smuts
• 2018 13th International Congress: Las Vegas, USA | Chair, Hee-Yong Kim (program pdf)
• The 14th planned for Qingdao, China in 2020 was cancelled due to the global pandemic.
• A Virtual Congress was held in May 2021 in collaboration with AOCS.
• 2023 15th International Congress: Nantes, France | Chair, Bernadette Delplanque
