International Requirements Engineering Conference

The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.^[1]

The RE conference originally started as two alternating biennial conferences.^[2]

• The first of these was the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE), starting in 1993.
• The second was the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), starting in 1994. In 2002, these two conference series merged under the name Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'02).

Also starting in 2002, the conference venue began rotating between three general locations: Europe, North America, and a non-European, non-North American location. Since 2003, the conference series has been known as the International Requirements Engineering Conference.

Past and future RE conferences include:^[2]

Year	Conference	City	Country	Notes
2023	31st RE	Hanover	Germany
2022	30th RE	Melbourne	Australia	Entirely virtual event[3]
2021	29th RE	Notre Dame, South Bend	USA	Entirely virtual event[4]
2020	28th RE	Zurich	Switzerland	Hybrid event[5]
2019	27th RE	Jeju Island	South Korea
2018	26th RE	Banff	Canada
2017	25th RE	Lisbon	Portugal
2016	24th RE	Beijing	China
2015	23rd RE	Ottawa	Canada
2014	22nd RE[permanent dead link‍]	Karlskrona	Sweden
2013	21st RE	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
2012	20th RE	Chicago, Illinois	USA
2011	19th RE[permanent dead link‍]	Trento	Italy
2010	18th RE	Sydney	Australia
2009	17th RE Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine	Atlanta, Georgia	USA
2008	16th RE	Barcelona	Spain
2007	15th RE	Delhi	India
2006	14th RE	Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota	USA
2005	13th RE	Paris	France
2004	12th RE	Kyoto	Japan
2003	11th RE	Monterey, California	USA	First Most Influential Paper Award
2002	10th RE	Essen	Germany	First Joint Conference
2001	5th RE	Toronto	Canada
2000	4th ICRE	Schaumburg, Illinois	USA
1999	4th RE	Limerick	Ireland
1998	3rd ICRE[permanent dead link‍]	Colorado Springs, Colorado	USA	First city to host the conference three times
1997	3rd RE	Annapolis, Maryland	USA
1996	2nd ICRE[permanent dead link‍]	Colorado Springs, Colorado	USA	First city to host the conference twice
1995	2nd RE	York	UK
1994	1st ICRE[permanent dead link‍]	Colorado Springs, Colorado	USA
1993	1st RE	San Diego, California	USA

Beginning with the 11th RE in 2003, an award was given for the paper deemed to be the most influential paper published from the conference held 10 years earlier. The judging for this award is done by the program committee for the current conference. If more than one award is given, the papers receiving the awards are categorized.