| Year | Date | Location | | Title | Chairs |
| 2009 | May 31 to June 3, 2009 | Ottawa | | Value in Evaluation  | Geraldine Cooney, Simon Roy  |
| 2008 | May 11 to 14, 2008 | Québec |  | Sharing Heritages  | Félix Meisels  |
| 2007 | June 3 to 6 | Winnipeg |  | Culture, Community and Social Justice in Evaluation — Do the Pieces Fit?  | Denise Belanger  Linda E. Lee  |
| 2006 | June 4 to 7 | Charlottetown | | Improving the human condition: critiquing the past, confronting the future  | Micheline Charest  Stephanie Mowry |
| 2005 | October 26 to 29 | Toronto |  | Crossing borders, crossing boundaries  | Arnold Love  |
| 2004 | May 17-19 | Saskatoon |  | Evaluation, a co-operative enterprise  | Alan Ryan  |
| 2003 | June 2-4 | Vancouver |  | In the Public's Best Interest: Evaluation, Accountability and Transparency  | Karen Stierhoff  |
| 2002 | May 5-8 | Halifax |  | Evidence for Better Decision-Making  | Tracy Fiander-Trask  Heather Perkins  |
| 2001 | May 20-23 | Banff |  | The Odyssey Continues: Powering Up for Evaluation in the New Millennium  | Gail Barrington  Penny Mosmann  |
| 2000 | May 14-17 | Montréal | | Evaluation and the New Governance: The Challenge of Reconciling Humanism and Technology  | Natalie Kishchuk  Jim Cullen  |
| 1999 | May 16-19 | Toronto | | Evaluation: An Essential Contribution  | Arnold Love  |
| 1998 | June 3-7 | St.John's | | Hard Times: Evaluation Works | Abe Ross |
| 1997 | May 4-7 | Ottawa | | Evaluation in Partnership  | Shelley Borys  Heather Hopwood  |
| 1996 | May 29-31 | Winnipeg | | Communities in Transition: The Evaluation Perspective | Eileen Shewchuk |
| 1995 | November 15 | Vancouver | | International Evaluation - Evaluation for a New Century: A Global Perspective (co-hosted with the American Evaluation Association) | Karen Stierhoff  |
| 1994 | May 24-26 | Québec | | Diversity in Practice and Culture | Cherif Ferah |
| 1993 | May 25-28 | Banff | | The Changing Face of Evaluation | Sandra Woodhead-Lyons  |
| 1992 | May 10-13 | Ottawa | | Program Evaluation and the Service Culture | Nancy Staisey |
| 1991 | May 5-8 | Vancouver | | The Politics of Evaluation: A Challenge to Ethics, Issues & Skills | Kathleen Bigsby  |
| 1990 | May 14-16 | Toronto | | New Perspectives on Evaluation for the 90's (co-hosted with the American Evaluation Association) | |
| 1989 | May 28-31 | Fredericton | | Evaluation Towards Accountability | |
| 1988 | May 16-18 | Montréal | | Evaluation with Limited Resources | |
| 1987 | May 25-27 | Ottawa | | Evaluation: An Integral Part of Management | |
| 1986 | April 28-30 | Banff | | Making Evaluation Work: Threat, Challenge or Value in Evaluation? | |
| 1985 | October 16-19 | Toronto | | Exploring the Uses and Contributions of Evaluation (co-hosted with the Evaluation Research Society and the Evaluation Network) | |
| 1984 | | Ottawa | | Linking Program Evaluation to Decision-Making | |
| 1983 | May 5-6 | Victoria | | Competing Perspectives in Evaluation | |
| 1982 | May 6-7 | Toronto | | The Bottom Line: Utilization of What, By Whom? | |
| 1981 | | Toronto | | The Conduct of Evaluation - Planning, Implementing and Utilizing Evaluations | |
| 1980 | May 8-9 | Toronto | | Evaluation: The Canadian Challenge | |