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Academic and industry events constitute the principal in-person-and-virtual gatherings where research is presented, professional networks form, hiring happens, and disciplinary communities organise themselves. The events landscape spans academic conferences (the prestige-publication venues for many disciplines especially CS, plus the professional-society annual meetings), trade shows and exhibitions (the major industry-vertical-specific gatherings), executive summits and roundtables, hackathons-and-developer-events, festivals and creative-industry gatherings, plus the substantial post-2020 expansion of hybrid-and-virtual event formats.\n\nThe major academic-conference circuits: computer science (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGGRAPH, OSDI, SOSP, plus 100+ other major CS conferences each with 1,000-15,000+ annual attendees); biomedical sciences (the substantial annual meetings of major biomedical societies — ASCO Annual Meeting for oncology, AHA Scientific Sessions for cardiology, AAN Annual Meeting for neurology, RSNA for radiology, plus major research conferences); economics (NBER Summer Institute, AEA Annual Meeting, EEA Annual Meeting, the substantial sub-disciplinary-specific economics conferences); engineering (IEEE conferences, ACM conferences, the major industry-and-academic engineering conferences); social sciences (APSA Annual Meeting for political science, ASA Annual Meeting for sociology, AAA Annual Meeting for anthropology). The post-2020 substantial expansion of hybrid-and-virtual conference formats has been mixed across disciplines — some disciplines (economics, math, theoretical CS) have retained in-person primacy while others (NLP, applied CS) have substantially expanded virtual-and-hybrid participation.\n\nThe major industry-and-trade events globally: CES (Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas, ~140,000 attendees pre-pandemic, the principal global consumer-tech industry gathering), MWC (Mobile World Congress Barcelona, ~110,000 attendees, the principal global mobile-and-telecom industry gathering), Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (~3,000 invitation-only attendees, the most-prestigious global elite-policy-and-business gathering), TED conferences and TEDx network, SXSW (South by Southwest Austin, ~280,000 across music-film-and-tech sub-festivals), Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Biennale, Documenta Kassel (the major contemporary-art world events), Frankfurt Book Fair (the principal global book-publishing trade event), the substantial industry-vertical-specific shows (NRF Big Show for retail, Money 20/20 for fintech, RSA Conference and Black Hat for security, Web Summit Lisbon, Slush Helsinki, Collision Toronto for tech-and-startup events).\n\nIndia's academic-and-industry-events landscape includes major Indian academic conferences (IIT Bombay Techfest, IIT Madras Shaastra, IISc science-and-engineering events), major industry events (FICCI Frames, NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum, India Mobile Congress, Bengaluru Tech Summit, the substantial Vibrant Gujarat Global Summits, Davos-style India Economic Summit, Raisina Dialogue Delhi for foreign-policy gatherings), film festivals (International Film Festival of India IFFI Goa, Mumbai International Film Festival MAMI Mumbai, plus the major regional-language Indian film festivals), the substantial post-2020 Indian event-economy expansion through CES India and the broader Indian convention-and-exhibition industry. The Hyderabad-Bangalore-Mumbai-Delhi event-hosting infrastructure has expanded substantially.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional, conference-and-event participation is uniformly cross-jurisdictionally accessible (subject to visa frameworks). The post-2020 hybrid-and-virtual event formats have substantially reduced cross-border-attendance friction for many event categories.\n\nCross-references: schol-root-events intersects with schol-root-journals (conference-publication overlap), schol-root-papers, work-root-career-paths, lifestyle-culture, all the cert-roots and academy-roots ecosystems.