SPLASH (conference)

SPLASH is a programming language-related conference held since 2011, sponsored by the SIGPLAN special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Its name is an acronym for Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH is an umbrella conference for two longstanding conferences, OOPSLA and Onward! which are now tracks of SPLASH.

SPLASH conferences held so far have been:

• Sparks, Nevada, October 17–21, 2010^[1]
• Portland, Oregon, October 22–27, 2011
• Tucson, Arizona, October 19–25, 2012
• Indianapolis, Indiana, October 26–31, 2013
• Portland, Oregon, October 20–24, 2014
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25–30, 2015^[2]
• Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 30 - November 4, 2016^[3]
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 22–27, 2017^[4]
• Boston, Massachusetts, November 4–9, 2018^[5]
• Athens, Greece, October 20–25, 2019^[6]
• Virtual, November 15–21, 2020^[7]
• Chicago, Illinois, October 17–25, 2021^[8]
• Auckland, New Zealand, December 5–10, 2022^[9]
• Cascais, Portugal, October 22–27, 2023^[10]
• Pasadena, California, October 20–25, 2024^[11]

Upcoming SPLASH conferences:

• Singapore, October 12–18, 2025^[12]

Onward!

Onward! is a conference sponsored by the SIGPLAN special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Onward! began in 2002 as a track inside of the OOPSLA conference. Starting in 2009, it was considered a conference, but remained co-located with OOPSLA.^[13] When OOPSLA was replaced by SPLASH in 2010, Onward! co-located with SPLASH and one registration fee paid for sessions of either conference.^[14]