The award is given to a HiPEAC member who presents a full paper in one of the following list of conferences (decision of the HiPEAC Steering Committee):
- ASPLOS, Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
- DAC, Design Automation Conference
- HPCA, International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
- ISCA, International Symposium on Computer Architecture
- ISSCC, International Solid-State Circuits Conference
- MICRO, Symposium on Microarchitecture
- PLDI, Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
- POPL, Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages