In 1973, the first annual SIGGRAPH conference was held, which has become one of the focuses of the organization.

It has published the yearly proceedings of the annual SIGGRAPH conferences, as well as a variety of papers on a quarterly basis.

The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974.

Since 2008, a second yearly SIGGRAPH conference has been held in Asia.

This effort holds a Birds-of-a-Feather session each year at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.

The short premiered at the annual SIGGRAPH conference in Anaheim in July 1987 and received general enthusiasm from its attendants.

It was first seen by a wide audience at the 2006 SIGGRAPH conference in Boston.

Backed by angel funding, the company announced the new marketplace at the SIGGRAPH conference in August 2000.

It is notable as a feature of one of the earlier SIGGRAPH conferences.

Starting in 2003, all papers accepted for presentation at the annual SIGGRAPH conference are printed in a special summer issue of the journal.