Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Due to a lapse in annual appropriations for the Department of Commerce, NIST conferences have been paused; registration is not available at this time. Please be advised that, due to logistical planning and arrangements, any conference scheduled to occur less than five business days after NIST reopens may be canceled. If the conference is scheduled to occur during the period when normal government operations are paused, the event will not take place. Registrants will receive an update when operations resume. We thank you for your patience and cooperation and apologize for the inconvenience.
The TREC Workshop is open to individual participants and teams. Each year, the TREC committee invites teams to register in the Spring and present results at the conference in November. In person slots are limited and will be hosted at the NIST Gaithersburg campus this year.
TREC is an annual evaluation workshop series hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The workshop's goal is to encourage research in information retrieval by providing large test collections, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their results. This year, TREC tracks included Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS), Biomedical Generative Retrieval (BioGen), Change Detection, Detection, Retrieval, and Augmented Generation for Understanding News (DRAGUN), Interactive Knowledge Assistance (iKAT), Million LLM, Product Search and Recommendation , Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), RAG TREC Instrument for Multilingual Evaluation (RAGTIME) , Tip-of-the-Tongue, and Video Question Answering (VQA).
Who should attend the conference?
Workshop participants are highly encouraged to those who took part in TREC 2025 tracks. More information about the TREC program can be found on the TREC project page, https://trec.nist.gov/
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Agenda coming soon
Courtyard Gaithersburg Washingtonian Center
Dates Available: November 16-21, 2025
Rate: 195.00 USD per night (includes daily breakfast & transportation to/from NIST Gaithersburg)
Last Day to Book : Friday, October 17, 2025
Visitor Access Requirement:
- For Non-US Citizens: Please have your valid passport for photo identification.*
- For US Permanent Residents: Please have your green card for photo identification.*
For US Citizens: Please have your state-issued driver's license. Regarding Real-ID requirements, all states are in compliance.
NIST also accepts other forms of federally issued identification in lieu of a state-issued driver's license, such as a valid passport, passport card, DOD's Common Access Card (CAC), Veterans ID, Federal Agency HSPD-12 IDs, and Military Dependents ID.
*Use of apps, physical photocopies, and/or digital screenshots of your ID, Passport or Green card will not be accepted.