The International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (ICMASS) is the only scientific-technical conference dedicated to autonomous merchant ship research and development. It invites both scientific papers with a formal peer review before acceptance as well as technical papers and/or presentations on the practical aspects of designing, testing and operating autonomous ships.
ICMASS is normally held once a year in different locations around the world. Every second year it is arranged together with the International Maritime and Port Technology and Development Conference (MTEC), alternating between Trondheim, Norway and Singapore. In between, the conference is moving between different international locations.
From 2025 we will also arrange an additional annual ICMASS Symposium as a more industrial oriented and application targeted event. We expect this to be a more presentiaion/discussion oriented event, but we will also accept reviewed proceeding papers for the symposium. They will be published in the main ICMASS conference proceedings.
The table lists past and planned ICMASS conferences. Click on the flag to open the website where the papers or call for papers are available.
| 2025-05-21 | 7th ICMASS Symposium in Ulsan, South Korea, May 21-23 2025. Deadline for proposals for presentations is March 8th. |
| 2025-10-08 | 8th ICMASS Conference in Hamburg, Germany, October 8 to 9, 2025. Call for abstracts until March 9th. |
| 2024-10-29 | 6th MTEC/ICMASS 2024, Trondheim, Norway. |
| 2023-11-08 | 5th ICMASS 2023, Rotterdam, Netherlands during Europort 2023. |
| 2022-04-06 | 4th MTEC/ICMASS 2022, Singapore Maritime Week, April 6-7. |
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| 2020-11-11 | 3rd ICMASS Conference. Ulsan, South Korea, November 11-12 2020. |
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| 2019-11-13 | 2nd MTEC/ICMASS Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 13-14 November 2019. |
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| 2018-11-08 | 1st ICMASS Conference, Busan, South Korea, November 8-9 2018. |