FAST '27
FAST '27 — 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
USENIX's annual research conference on file and storage technologies, now in its 25th edition.
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The fall paper deadline is September 15, 2026. USENIX ATC was permanently discontinued after its 2025 edition.
About FAST '27
FAST '27, the 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, takes place February 23–25 at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington in Renton, Washington. It is a compact conference of roughly 400 attendees devoted to file and storage systems research.
Who should attend
The audience is storage systems researchers and engineers from academia, national laboratories, hyperscalers and storage companies.
Why it matters
FAST is the leading peer-reviewed venue for file and storage systems work, and results presented there often reach production systems years later. For anyone working on data infrastructure for AI and HPC, it is the field's central technical conference.