ISOBM Conferences have been organized starting in 1973. Since then, the ISOBM community has visited almost all continents for helding their scientific meetings:
| 1st | ISOBM | 1973 Sapporo, Japan |
| 2nd | ISOBM | 1974 Nice, France |
| 3rd | ISOBM | 1975 Tokyo, Japan |
| 4th | ISOBM | 1976 San Diego, USA |
| 5th | ISOBM | 1977 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 6th | ISOBM | 1978 Marburg, Germany |
| 7th | ISOBM | 1979 London, UK |
| 8th | ISOBM | 1980 Tallinn, former USSR, Currently Estonia |
| 9th | ISOBM | 1981 Banff, Alberta, Canada |
| 10th | ISOBM | 1982 Sapporo, Japan |
| 11th | ISOBM | 1983 Stockholm, Sweden |
| 12th | ISOBM | 1984 Houston, USA |
| 13th | ISOBM | 1985 Paris, France |
| 14th | ISOBM | 1986 Helsinki, Finland |
| 15th | ISOBM | 1987 Québec, Canada |
| 16th | ISOBM | 1988 Barcelona, Spain |
| 17th | ISOBM | 1989 Freiburg, Germany |
| 18th | ISOBM | 1990 Moscow, Russia |
| 19th | ISOBM | 1991 Siena, Italy |
| 20th | ISOBM | 1992 Sapporo, Japan |
| 21st | ISOBM | 1993 Jerusalem, Israel |
| 22nd | ISOBM | 1994 Groningen, Holland |
| 23rd | ISOBM | 1995 Montreal, Canada |
| 24th | ISOBM | 1996 San Diego, USA |
| 25th | ISOBM | 1997 Montreaux, Switzerland |
| 26th | ISOBM | 1998 Umeå, Sweden |
| 27th | ISOBM | 1999 Kyoto, Japan |
| 28th | ISOBM | 2000 Munich, Germany |
| 29th | ISOBM | 2001 Barcelona, Spain |
| 30th | ISOBM | 2002 Boston, USA |
| 31st | ISOBM | 2003 Edinborough, Scotland |
| 32nd | ISOBM | 2004 Helsinki, Finland |
| 33rd | ISOBM | 2005 Rhodes, Greece |
| 34th | ISOBM | 2006 Pasadena, USA |
| 35th | ISOBM | 2007 Prague, Czech Republic |
| 36th | ISOBM | 2008 Tokyo, Japan |
| 37th | ISOBM | 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 38th | ISOBM | 2010 München, Germany |
| 39th | ISOBM | 2011 Firenze, Italy |
| 40th | ISOBM | 2012 Jerusalem, Israel |
| 41st | ISOBM | 2014 Barcelona, Spain |
| 42nd | ISOBM | 2015 Zakopane, Poland |
| 43rd | ISOBM | 2016 Chicago, USA |
| 44th | ISOBM | 2017 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 45th | ISOBM | 2018 Hamburg, Germany |