Recent conference topics and scientific organizers have included the following:

• 2021 – Solveathon (virtual conference). In partnership with MIT Solve – Conference program 2021
• 2019 – 30th Anniversary Conference (Terrie Moffitt and Michael Frank) – Conference program 2019
• 2018 – Reconciling Genes and Contexts (Tom Boyce and Marla Sokolowski) – Conference program 2018
• 2017 – Education in Times of Increasing Cultural and Linguistic Heterogeneity (Hanna Dumont, Johanna Fleckenstein, Dominique Rauch, Aileen Edele, Débora B. Maehler, Janna Teltemann) – Conference program 2017
• 2016 – Economizing Education Policy: Tradeoffs, Incentives, and Generalizing from Evidence (Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann) – Conference program 2016
• 2015 – Technologies for Research and Intervention with Children and Youth (Carol Worthman, Mary Jane Rotheram Borus, Antonio Krüger) – Conference program 2015
• 2014 – Men as Fathers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fatherhood in the Context of the Family (Liselotte Ahnert and Michael E. Lamb) – Conference program2014
• 2013 – Genetic Moderation of Intervention Effects (Marinus von Ijzendoorn and Jay Belsky) – Conference program 2013
• 2012 – Sleep, Learning and Brain Development (Ron Dahl and Oskar Jenni) – Conference program 2012