COLM ICLR NAACL Conferences All Set for San Francisco

Sarah Wiegreffe posted that COLM will take place in San Francisco in 2026, with ICLR and NAACL following in 2027. Replies from other researchers included Nathan Lambert welcoming the location while noting visa issues for attendees, Xin Eric Wang calling the choice boring, Tuhin Chakrabarty joking about the food, Andrew Drozdov adding that SIGIR 2027 is planned for Silicon Valley, Tal Linzen making a joke about Rio, Graham Neubig stating he proposed San Francisco for NAACL to connect with industry, and Greg Durrett explaining COLM chose the west coast to balance prior east coast events.