Everything ANA checked
Every conference ANA has looked at, listed or not. If one you know isn't in the catalog, it's either still being checked, outside ANA's scope, or it didn't pass the checks. The reasons below are the facts ANA found, not a verdict on anyone.
Houston, United States · 10-02-2027
Brisbane, Australia · 03-02-2027
Newcastle, Australia · 01-12-2026
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 26-06-2027
Vienna, Austria · 30-07-2027
Checked 2026-10-04. AOM ended its specialized conference programme in August 2022. The AOM Annual Meeting is listed separately.
Heraklion, Greece · 22-09-2027
Athens, Greece · 12-04-2027
Checked 2026-10-04. The 14th edition was June 2026 (Ho Chi Minh City); no 2027 edition announced yet. Watching.
Venue TBA · 2027, dates TBA
Ghent, Belgium · 09-11-2026
Coventry, United Kingdom · 06-09-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. Legitimate faculty conference (Osijek) with a WoS track record, but purely logistics and supply chain: no HRM/OB track.
Checked 2026-10-03. Discontinued after January 2023 and folded into the CIPD annual expo (not a research conference).
Checked 2026-10-03. No edition since 2021; appears absorbed into VILNIUS TECH's annual 'Business and Management' conference (listed separately).
Kragujevac, Serbia · 16-12-2026
Checked 2026-10-03. Biennial (Split); held June 2026, next edition 2028.
Dubrovnik, Croatia · 13-05-2027
Lyon, France · 26-05-2027
Liverpool, United Kingdom · 08-07-2027
Croatia · 2027, dates TBA
Arlington, United States · 18-05-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. Active, but rural and regional economics with no HRM/OB track.
Checked 2026-10-03. Biennial (June 2026); no 2027 date found for the other EFRI conference series.
Skopje, North Macedonia · 12-11-2026
Cairo, Egypt · 13-01-2027
Amsterdam, Netherlands · 22-06-2027
Poznań, Poland · 09-09-2027
Porto, Portugal · 05-11-2026
Dubrovnik, Croatia · 05-05-2027
Split, Croatia · 19-05-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. Biennial; held October 2026, next edition 2028.
Checked 2026-10-04. Irregular and aimed at postgraduate students; no 2027 date.
Checked 2026-10-04. The 2027 conference is still looking for a host; no dates yet. Watching.
Rajecké Teplice, Slovakia · 2027, dates TBA
Bolzano, Italy · 23-09-2027
Hradec Králové, Czechia · 2027, dates TBA
Checked 2026-10-03. A journal (University of Žilina), not a conference. The related 'Human Potential Development' conference was last held in 2019.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · 02-06-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. No 2027 edition found; the last was Durham 2025. The ILERA World Congress 2027 is listed separately.
Sydney, Australia · 31-08-2027
Osijek, Croatia · 2027, dates TBA
Some checks failed, so ANA is holding it back until they're confirmed.
Checked 2026-10-03. Biennial; held October 2026, next edition 2028 (outside the current window).
Bucharest, Romania · 25-03-2027
Didn't pass ANA's checks. Rejected as mill-like, kept so ANA learns the pattern. Organiser is EuroMid Academy of Business & Technology, a company founded in 2020 in Istanbul (office in Cyprus) that sells conference organisation and 'Host Our ICBT Conference' services. ICBT runs about three times a year in rotating cities (Istanbul, Doha, Manama, Amman, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London) under per-city brands (ICBTIstanbul'2026, ICBTLondon'2026), alongside sister events (ICABER, ICSPBT, ICDTI). Topic scope is very broad: AI, 5G/6G, GIS, renewable energy, finance, marketing and management in one call. Fees are flat bundles: 'Virtual Attend + Publication USD 300' and 'Physical Attend + Publication USD 500', each listing 'Scopus-indexed publication' as an item. The history page says 'all accepted research being published in Scopus'. Review window: full paper 2026-09-03, acceptance 2026-10-10. The Springer route is genuine: ICBT volumes appear in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Scopus-indexed), e.g. 'Navigating the Digital Frontier' (ICBT 2025, Vol 1). That is what makes it attractive, and also why the volume-production pattern matters. Flip to candidate only if a human decides LNNS volumes outweigh the commercial multi-event model.
- ✕Known mill — Multiple events/year, very broad scope, 'publication' sold as part of fee bundle
- ✕Organizer reputable — Commercial conference-organising company
- !Domain age — euromidabt.com registered 2024-12-30, icbtsummit.com 2026-05-24 (whois); per-event domains
- !Double blind — Review Process page claims double-blind, 2+ reviewers, similarity/AI screening; 5-week window from full paper to acceptance, publication sold in fee bundle
- !Past editions — Real editions 2020-2025 (31 Springer volumes on link.springer.com/conference/icbt), but 2-3 events/year in rotating cities
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · 15-06-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. No current conference series found.
Didn't pass ANA's checks. Domain created 2026-01-10, no committee, vague 'prestigious indexed journals', copies the name of the legitimate ACI ICMLG series.
Budapest, Hungary · 2027, dates TBA
Checked 2026-10-03. Merged by Academic Conferences International into ECMLG (listed separately). Not to be confused with icmlg.org.
Didn't pass ANA's checks. Rejected: WASET (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology) event. WASET lists thousands of single-topic 'International Conference on X' events per year, and runs the same ICOBHRM title in several cities in the same year. Listings: Jeddah Nov 2025 and Singapore Sep 2027, all 2027 editions sharing one 26 Aug 2026 submission deadline. The Singapore 2027 listing is billed as the '21st' edition. The submission deadline is more than a year before the event, and the camera-ready/early-bird deadline is 2027-05-10. WASET is widely documented in research-integrity literature for minimal review and for running many conferences as parallel sessions in one hotel. The official page is behind bot protection and was not read directly; facts come from search snippets and conferenceindex.org listings.
- ✕Double blind — Listing claims 'blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers' (search snippet), WASET boilerplate; WASET documented accepting nonsense papers
- ✕Indexing verified — No verifiable indexing
- ✕Known mill — WASET
- ✕Organizer reputable — Commercial multi-conference organiser
- ✕Past editions — '21st' edition counts parallel same-title events in many cities
- !Archive history — Many same-title listings per year
Portorož, Slovenia · 17-03-2027
Didn't pass ANA's checks. Rejected as mill-like, kept so ANA learns the pattern. No named organising institution or society: the site has only an email and a Lithuanian phone number, and the site template matches the generic multi-conference event pattern (page code references 'acavent'). History lists 9 editions in 8 years, including two 'rounds' in Vienna in 2025 and two in 2024 (Copenhagen, Milan). Abstract acceptance 'within 7 to 14 days'; the full paper is optional and requested only after the conference. Publication promise is vague: proceedings with ISSN/DOI 'submitted to Google Scholar', and journals 'indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ' with no names. The scientific committee is a scattered list (IN, TR, PT, NG, DZ, XK, ES, IT, GR, BO and others) with no HRM society behind it. Marketing copy ('The Human Resource Management Conference of the Year').
- ✕Double blind — Claimed, yet submission FAQ says review takes 7-10 days and abstracts are accepted in 7-14 days; full paper optional and post-conference
- ✕Indexing specific — No named journals; proceedings only 'submitted to Google Scholar'
- ✕Indexing verified — Nothing verifiable
- ✕Known mill — Generic event-company pattern
- ✕Organizer reputable — No legal entity named
- !Archive history — History page only lists round number + city; no programmes or abstract books archived
- !Committee international — 11 countries (PT 5, IN 3, TR 3, ES 2, NG, DZ, XK, NL, IT, GR, BO) but no coherent research community
- !Committee listed — 20 named members with affiliations, but open 'Apply to Join' form for any PhD holder; no HRM society or host institution
- !Past editions — History page: 8 'rounds' since London 2019 (two each in 2024 and 2025), 9th in 2027; city names only
Prague, Czechia · 2027, dates TBA
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain · 31-03-2027
San Diego, United States · 27-10-2027
Dubrovnik, Croatia · 2027, dates TBA
Vilnius, Lithuania · 2027, dates TBA
Didn't pass ANA's checks. Rejected as mill-like, and kept so ANA learns the pattern. Owned by VADEA (Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency, a private agency) and co-organised with University North, Uni Warsaw Faculty of Management, Aveiro GOVCOPP, Mohammed V Rabat, ENCGT Tangier and others. About 8-10 editions a year in rotating cities (108th Aveiro Mar 2024, 125th Cakovec 2025; 2026 editions in Lisbon, Split and Zagreb). Zagreb 2026 timeline: full paper due 2026-12-15, acceptance 2026-12-17, conference 2026-12-18. That is a two-day review. A 'publishing without attending' fee (EUR 300) is offered. Indexing is worded vaguely: 'Our past Books are indexed and abstracted by ProQuest, EconBIZ, CPCI (Web of Science) and EconLit'. Older volumes (roughly mid-2010s) were reportedly in CPCI-SSH, which is why Croatian authors used it for a1. No volume-level evidence for current editions was found, and no proceedings Scopus claim exists. Partner Scopus journals are a 'potential' route only. Flip to candidate only if WoS shows CPCI records for recent volumes.
- ✕Double blind — Claims 'double-blind peer reviewed', 2+ reviewers (publishing page), but full paper 15 Dec to acceptance 17 Dec
- ✕Indexing verified — No evidence of current CPCI coverage; no Scopus for proceedings
- ✕Known mill — Many editions a year, 2-day review, pay-to-publish without attending
- !Indexing specific — Only 'past Books'; no volume list
- !Organizer reputable — Private agency fronting university co-organisers
Rome, Italy · 17-03-2027
Checked 2026-10-03. Last edition June–July 2026 (Olomouc); no 2027 edition announced yet. Watching.
Checked 2026-10-03. Biennial (FON Belgrade); held June 2026, next edition 2028.
Checked 2026-10-04. The 14th edition is October 2026, before the current window; next date unknown. Watching.
Ireland · 2027, dates TBA
Liberec, Czechia · 2027, dates TBA
Florence, Italy · 20-05-2027
Venue TBA · 2027, dates TBA
Checked 2026-10-04. The 2026 conference was in October; 2027 not announced yet. Watching.
Checked 2026-10-03. Last held 2023; the faculty has since been reorganised.
Checked 2026-10-04. Biennial: 2026 Aarhus, next 2028 (Inland Norway). Nothing in the current window.
Checked 2026-10-04. Run irregularly by a private for-profit institute; no 2027 date.
Osijek, Croatia · 22-04-2027
National Harbor, United States · 14-04-2027
Checked 2026-10-04. 2027 location and dates not announced, and CSR rather than an HRM/OB track.
Bucharest, Romania · 2027, dates TBA
Louisville, United States · 02-11-2027
Richardson, United States · 10-03-2027
Subotica, Serbia · 2027, dates TBA
Lisbon, Portugal · 2027, dates TBA
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · 09-06-2027
Lihue, United States · 10-03-2027
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