📅 Awesome Conference Dates

🎯 Your one-stop solution for tracking AI and VLSI conference deadlines in a unified calendar format

A Python tool that aggregates conference deadlines from multiple sources and generates a unified ICS calendar file. Perfect for researchers, academics, and professionals who need to stay on top of important conference submission deadlines.

✨ Sources

Deadlines are fetched, normalised, and deduplicated across four sources:

• 🤖 AI conferences — Hugging Face ai-deadlines (raw YAML)
• 🔬 EDA / architecture venues — ccfddl/ccf-deadlines
• ⚡ VLSI / circuits venues — IEEE CAS conference list (direct data endpoint)
• 📝 Gap venues — WikiCFP (e.g. ISPD, Euromicro DSD)

Each run also prints a coverage report against the tracked VLSI venue list and runs sanity checks (minimum entry/event counts, no duplicate UIDs, ICS round-trip validation), exiting non-zero on failure.

🚀 Quick Start

Requires Python 3.10+ and uv.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/luarss/awesome-conference-dates.git
cd awesome-conference-dates

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Generate the latest conference calendar
uv run python get_deadlines.py

The script generates an output.ics file that you can import into any calendar application.

📱 Live Calendar Feed

🔗 Direct ICS Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luarss/awesome-conference-dates/main/output.ics

Simply add this URL to your calendar application to get automatic daily updates!

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Hugging Face ai-deadlines for AI conference data
• ccfddl/ccf-deadlines, IEEE CAS, and WikiCFP for VLSI conference information