It all started in 1986 with the European Working Session on Learning (EWSL), which became the European Conference on Machine Learning as of 1993. PKDD was initiated in 1997, and both conferences have been successfully jointly organized since 2001.

• ECML-PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, September 20-24, 2010
• ECML-PKDD 2009, Bled, Slovenia, September 7-11, 2009
• ECML-PKDD 2008, Antwerp, Belgium September 15-19, 2008
• ECML-PKDD 2007, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007
• ECML-PKDD 2006, Berlin, Germany, September 18-22, 2006
• ECML-PKDD 2005, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005
• ECML-PKDD 2004, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004
• ECML-PKDD 2003, Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22-26, 2003
• ECML-PKDD 2002, Helsinki, Finland, August 19-23, 2002
• ECML-PKDD 2001, Freiburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2001
• ECML 2000, Barcelona, Spain, May 30-June 2, 2000
• PKDD 2000, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2000
• PKDD 1999, Prague, Czech Republic, September 15-18, 1999
• ECML 1998, Chemnitz, Germany, April 21-24, 1998
• PKDD 1998, Nantes, France, September 23-26, 1998
• ECML 1997, located in Prague, Czech Republic, April 23-26, 1997
• PKDD 1997, Trondheim, Norway, June 24-27, 1997
• ECML 1995, Heraclion, Crete, Greece, April 25-27, 1995
• ECML 1994, Catania, Italy, April 6-8, 1994
• ECML 1993, Vienna, Austria, April 5-7, 1993
• EWSL 1991, Porto, Portugal, March 6-8, 1991
• EWSL 1989, Montpellier, France, December 4-6, 1989
• EWSL 1988, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 3-5, 1988
• EWSL 1987, Bled, Yugoslavia, May 13-15, 1987
• EWSL 1986, Orsay, France, February 3-4, 1986