Who convenes the field?

Each IWAC program lists the people the conference put on its stages: who chaired, who presented, who responded, and from which institutions. This page counts them, conference by conference, from 2002 to 2025.

These are people listed in the program, not registrants or attendees. The conference ran every two years, 2002 is read from an OCR'd scan, and every year was read from a different program layout. Shaded bands on the chart mark those breaks. How to read these numbers.

1,014sessions

4,099listings of a person in a session

12conferences in the corpus

Measure join the line across the gaps

By year

Each year opens that conference's program. Institutions are matched to ROR; the share outside the US uses people whose institution matched.

Year	City	Sessions	People	First listed	Outside US	Top 10 share
2002	Houston, TX	39	253		0.0%	54%
2004	Bloomington, IN	89	338	93%	17.9%	34%
2006	Clemson, SC	94	311	85%	10.5%	33%
2008	Austin, TX	106	324	78%	14.7%	32%
2010	Bloomington, IN	70	268	78%	5.7%	35%
2012	Savannah, GA	97	229	70%	8.2%	34%
2014	Minneapolis, MN	88	258	69%	6.6%	39%
2016	Ann Arbor, MI	102	358	73%	9.3%	33%
2018	Auburn, AL	84	273	67%	8.5%	36%
2020 virtual	Virtual (Colorado State University)	86	275	67%	14.4%	28%
2023	Clemson, SC	66	203	61%	14.7%	30%
2025	Fort Collins, CO	93	339	67%	8.1%	28%

“First listed” counts people whose first listing in this corpus is that year, so early years run high. Names are joined only on an exact match; no reviewed merges have been made for IWAC yet.